Hundreds Of Houses Being Demolished At Rafah
The recent killing of five Israeli soldiers nearby is the pretetxt, but in fact it is the implement ation of plans which the army formulated already in 2001, under then Southern Command General Yom Tov Samiya, and which were carried out piecemeal over the past three years. (American peace activist Rachel Corrie was killed when trying to block bulldozers
carrying out such demolitions).
While a mass protest rally is being prepared for tomorrow evening in Tel-Aviv, Gush Shalom calls up on supporters of peace and justice worldwide to mobilize their governments and civic organizations to act immediately and come out against this war crime while it is not yet fully perpetuated - the premeditated massive destruction of homes, making hundreds of families homeless - most of them refugee families already uprooted once. Now is the last minute to act against the Sharon government's Grand Design (to create an Israeli-controlled buffer zone - "Philadelphi Route" so as to permanently cut off the Gaza Strip from all access to the outside world - in effect turning Gaza into a huge prison camp).
To remain updated look from time to time into: http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/427462.html
LETTER OF PROTEST SAMPLE LETTER
Dear Sir,
I call upon you to immediately stop the demolition of dozens of Palestinian homes going on at this moment at Rafah in the Gaza Strip.The authorization for the IDF to destroy hundreds of houses is an authorization by the government of Israel to commit a war crime. For this premeditated crime nobody in the hierarchy will be able to shrug off responsibility.The killing of Israeli soldiers in this vicinity offers no justification for such an act, nor can it stop further bloodshed. Peace and quiet can only beachieved by withdrwal of the occupation forces, when the the Gaza Strip like the other parts of the occupied territories become part of an independedent Palestinian state, which like all sovereign states must have free access to the outsdie world.
Yours,
Israeli Embassies:
http://www.embassyworld.com/embassy/israel1.htm
Prime Minster Ariel Sharon - email
6705475
Defence Minster Saul Mofaz - email
Foreign Minster Silvan Shalom - email
6916940
President George W. Bush
Fax: +1-202-456-2461
Secretary of State Colin Powell
Fax: +1-202-261-8577
Spokesperson of the Prime Minister
Spokesperson Defense Ministry
Spokesperson Foreign Ministry
UN Special Coordinator
State Departement
European Union
and with a blind copy to:
Gush Shalom
The combined email addresses:
to:
pm_eng@pmo.gov.il, sar@mod.gov.il, sar@mofa.gov.il
cc to:
president@whitehouse.gov, secretaryofstate@USA.gov, dover@pmo.gov.il,
info@mail.idf.il, dover@mfa.gov.il, unsco@palnet.com,
secretary@state.gov, mailto@delwbg.cec.eu.int,
+ bcc to:
info@gush-shalom.org ]
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