Israel taking action against international solidarity with Gaza Strip

Tel Aviv, 17 May - Referring to the Free-Gaza international solidarity campaign, that is preparing two convoys of cargo ships, to bring much needed rebuilding and humanitarian supplies to the enclosed Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli government decided to take action. The head of the Foreign Ministry's European affairs department met separately with embassy officials from Turkey, Greece, Ireland and Sweden to inform them that any of their citizens attempting to participate in the international Free-Gaza campaign or in the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation's campaign, would be intercepted and stopped before reaching the shores of the imprisoned Gaza Strip.

In a separate development the Israeli authorities closed down the building hosting the Palestinian Authority Municipal Inspectors in the Old City of Hebron, which is practically dominated by a colony of extremist Zionist settlers, tightly guarded by Israeli armed forces tripling their number. The encroachment of the Zionist colony in the heart of Hebron has already resulted in the shutting down of the historic Hebron farmers' market and its surrounding quarters. Hebron's mayor Khalid al-Oseili complained that the shutting down of the PA Municipal Inspectors' building in the Old City was illegal and in violation of the Hebron Protocol and Agreement, signed by late Yasser Arafat in 1997. Al-Oseili forgot that it was precisely this agreement that formally “legalized” the presence of the Zionist colony in the first place, and with it the Israeli armed forces inside the heart of the West Bank city.

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