MULTINATIONAL DOCTORS CONDEMN ISRAELI WAR ON GAZA
Gaza City, 1 Syawwal 1435/28 July 2014 (MINA) – A multinational group of doctors have written an open letter denouncing the Israeli war and crippling siege on the Gaza Strip.
The doctors have voiced their opposition to the relentless onslaught in the blockaded enclave, decrying “the perversity of [Israel’s] propaganda that justifies the creation of an emergency to masquerade a massacre.”
They have described the war on Gaza “a ruthless assault of unlimited duration, extent and intensity,” Press TV quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA) as reporting, Monday.
The group says the Israeli war on Gaza has a direct implication on ordinary civilians who are losing their lives and bearing the brunt.
“The massacre in Gaza spares no one,” they said in the letter.
According to the doctors, the Israeli war on Gaza terrifies people and wounds the soul, mind, and body of the young generation.
The group also says that the Israelis are also “demolishing their homes”.
They also condemned the Israeli siege on Gaza, saying it has added to the suffering of ordinary civilians who are living under dire circumstances without being able to receive external help.
Israel unleashed its offensive on the Gaza Strip on July 8. Over the past 20 days, Israeli warplanes have been hitting numerous sites in the besieged Gaza Strip, demolishing houses and burying families in the rubble.
Israel also began a ground offensive against the impoverished enclave on July 17.
The Palestinian death toll from 20 days of aerial and ground assaults on Gaza now stands 1,062, with more than 6,000 people injured.
The Tel Aviv regime confirms that 43 Israeli soldiers have been killed in the Gaza war. However, Al-Qassam Brigades, which is the military wing of Hamas, says Palestinian resistance fighters have killed at least 90 Israeli soldiers.
Gaza has been blockaded by the Israeli regime since June 2007, a situation that has caused a decline in the standards of living, unprecedented levels of unemployment, and unrelenting poverty.
The apartheid regime of Israel denies about 1.7 million people in Gaza their basic rights. (T/E01/IR)
Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)
