EUROPEAN DELEGATION VISITS GAZA

Gaza, 6 Muharram 1435/10 November 2013 (MINA) – Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) received a European delegation that arrived in Gaza Strip to check on the humanitarian situation in the besieged enclave especially after the power crisis and the tightening of the siege.

PCHR President, Raji Surani, received on Thursday the European delegates in the center headquarters and briefed them on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, calling on them to pressure their countries to lift Gaza siege, AL-QASSAM reported as monitored by Mi’raj News Agency (MINA), Sunday (12/11)

The delegation included General Consul of Italy to the Palestinian Authority Davide La Cecilia and his deputy, head of the German representative office Barbara Wolf, and head of cultural affairs in the German office Claudia Bosch, in addition to French Consul Herve Magro.

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Surani briefed the Consuls and European countries’ representatives on the serious consequences of the Israeli illegal siege on Gaza Strip.

During the meeting, Surani pointed to the international silence towards Gaza siege, while freedom of movement of 2 million people in the strip remains restricted in violation to international humanitarian laws and Oslo agreement under which West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza Strip would be treated as a “single territorial unit”.

Head of PCHR also briefed the delegation on the power and fuel crisis and its implication on transportation and all life services in the Strip.

He held the Israeli occupation political and legal responsibilities for Gaza suffering, adding that there is a tremendous effort being made in order to facilitate the besieged people’s lives.

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He pointed out that although 20 years have passed since the Oslo Accords, peace has not been achieved, by contrast violations to the humanitarian and international law have escalated.

The human rights lawyer and founder of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Raji Sourani, who won recently the Right Livelihood Award, commonly known as the Alternative Nobel Prize, pointed to the implications of Israeli policy against Palestinians, including settlement construction, Judaization, ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem, Apartheid Wall, unfair siege, and confiscation and demolition orders. (T/P012/E1)

Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)