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PLEASE READ THE APPEAL TO END THE SIEGE ON GAZA
This is your chance to end Israel's catastrophic siege of Gaza which is
cruelly punishing 1.5 million Palestinians by cutting their access to the
outside world and denying them food, fuel supplies, medicines, medical
treatment and every other freedom that we accept as given. Israel's siege
is demolishing the physical, social and economic infrastructure of
Palestinian society and is literally reducing the people to a stone age
existence with no possibility of a future with dignity. None of this could
have happened without the collusion of the Western world and every single
person's silence contributes to the agonising oppression of a people whom
Israel intends to ethnically cleanse from the land in which they have roots
sown long before Israel ever existed
A group of courageous citizens from all over the world will attempt to sail
to Gaza next month to bring some much needed supplies and to sealift those
desperately in need of medical attention out of Gaza. It is an initiative
they hope will wake people up to the horrors being committed by a state that
has lost any claim to civilised standards. Worse still, Western leaders
have lost their own moral compass by supporting it - and fawningly so.
How many people need to die, how many children need to be brutalised, how
many lives need to be destroyed before we say ENOUGH? Please contribute to
the Free Gaza initiative http://freegaza. org and tell as many people as
possible about it. You can make a difference. - SK
PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE http://www.australi ansforpalestine. com for more
news on Israel's daily assaults on 5 million plus Palestinians in occupied
Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. You owe it to yourselves to learn
about the political causes in the Middle East which more than ever
threaten world peace.
"Free Gaza" initiative to try and
enter Gaza by sea and open port
Ship sponsored in part by Carter Center to
challenge Israeli blockade of Gaza Port
Ma'an News
19 July 2008
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Getty Images – Israeli gunboat in Gazan waters
Bethlehem - Ma'an - A small shipping vessel will set sail for Gaza from
Cyprus on 5 August expecting to be illegally detained as it enters Gazan
waters.
The waters off the Gaza Strip are patrolled by Israeli naval vessels, and
Israel enforces a "Fishing Limit" that is 6 nautical miles (11.1 km) from
the Gaza shore. These restrictions on access and borders are enforced
despite the 2005 Israeli "disengagement" from the Gaza Strip.
There will be 60 people aboard the "Free Gaza" vessel including a Holocaust
survivor, a survivor of the Palestinian Nakba, and members of the
international Palestinian diaspora.
The crew intends to travel into the Gaza strip, past the international
waters boundary, the 1996 Oslo accords boundary (20 nautical miles from the
Gaza coast), the 2002 Bertini agreement boundary (12 nautical miles and 22.2
km from the Gaza coast) and the current "Fishing Limit" imposed by the
Israeli navy since October 2006.
Legally, the group says there should be no problem passing each of these
lines since Israel disengaged from the Gaza strip in 2005 and should no
longer its control airspace and territorial waters.
The initiative hopes to draw attention to the continued de facto occupation
of Gaza. In an interview with Ma'an on Saturday, a spokesperson for the
group in Israel said that the crew expects to be stopped by the Israeli navy
shortly after they cross from international waters into Gazan territorial
waters, which according to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the
Sea, extend 12 nautical miles (22.2 km) from an area's shoreline.
While Israel has not signed the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, they
did sign the Bertini Agreement in August 2002 with the UN, which stated that
Gazan territory extended the full 12 nautical miles from the shore.
In June 2005, Israel unilaterally "disengaged" from Gaza and withdrew all
troops to the 1967 borders. In theory, Gazans control the entire Strip,
excluding approximately 650 meters along the eastern border which is called
a buffer and "no go" zone.
The trip organizers think one of four things will happen to the ship:
1. it may be stopped as it crosses or approaches the barrier marking the
international waters boundary, in which case the crew is prepared to stay on
board for at least two weeks in protest of the illegal halt of passage.
2. The second possibility envisioned by the organizers is that the ship will be
allowed to pass into the area, and will be stopped in the territorial
waters. In this eventuality the crew expects to be arrested, and the ship
dragged to shore.
3. A third possibility is that the ship will be sunk by the navy.
4. The final option is that the ship actually makes it through to the Gaza port
near Gaza City in the north of the Strip.
According to Holocaust survivor and crew member Hedy Epstein, in the event
that they can get through to Gaza they will "open the port, fish with the
fishermen, help in the clinics, and work in the schools."
What Epstein hopes to do on this journey is to "remind the world that we
will not stand by and watch 1.5 million people suffer death by starvation
and disease."
Coordinator of the Popular Committee Against the Siege, Palestinian
Legislative Council member and lawyer Jamal Al-Khudari said that he hopes
the arrival of the ship in Gaza will mean an end to the siege. He emphasized
that the ship has a right to enter the local waters and Gazans have the
right to host their guests without Israeli intervention.
Opening a port in Gaza would allow residents to export agricultural
products, and gain control over the goods and material brought into the
region. Currently, all crossing points are controlled by Israel and Egypt.
The truce between Hamas and Israel was supposed to see the blockade and
restriction on essential goods lifted, but food, medical supplies, cement
and fuel are still only trickling in.
The ship was invited to Gaza by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in the
Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Medical Relief Society, the Palestinian Centre
for Human Rights and the Gaza Community Mental Health Program, and
support for the initiative was provided in part from Carter Center in the US and
Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Source: http://www.maannews .net/en/index. php?opr=ShowDeta ils&ID=30657
This is your chance to end Israel's catastrophic siege of Gaza which is
cruelly punishing 1.5 million Palestinians by cutting their access to the
outside world and denying them food, fuel supplies, medicines, medical
treatment and every other freedom that we accept as given. Israel's siege
is demolishing the physical, social and economic infrastructure of
Palestinian society and is literally reducing the people to a stone age
existence with no possibility of a future with dignity. None of this could
have happened without the collusion of the Western world and every single
person's silence contributes to the agonising oppression of a people whom
Israel intends to ethnically cleanse from the land in which they have roots
sown long before Israel ever existed
A group of courageous citizens from all over the world will attempt to sail
to Gaza next month to bring some much needed supplies and to sealift those
desperately in need of medical attention out of Gaza. It is an initiative
they hope will wake people up to the horrors being committed by a state that
has lost any claim to civilised standards. Worse still, Western leaders
have lost their own moral compass by supporting it - and fawningly so.
How many people need to die, how many children need to be brutalised, how
many lives need to be destroyed before we say ENOUGH? Please contribute to
the Free Gaza initiative http://freegaza. org and tell as many people as
possible about it. You can make a difference. - SK
PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE http://www.australi ansforpalestine. com for more
news on Israel's daily assaults on 5 million plus Palestinians in occupied
Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. You owe it to yourselves to learn
about the political causes in the Middle East which more than ever
threaten world peace.
"Free Gaza" initiative to try and
enter Gaza by sea and open port
Ship sponsored in part by Carter Center to
challenge Israeli blockade of Gaza Port
Ma'an News
19 July 2008
Getty Images – Israeli gunboat in Gazan waters
Bethlehem - Ma'an - A small shipping vessel will set sail for Gaza from
Cyprus on 5 August expecting to be illegally detained as it enters Gazan
waters.
The waters off the Gaza Strip are patrolled by Israeli naval vessels, and
Israel enforces a "Fishing Limit" that is 6 nautical miles (11.1 km) from
the Gaza shore. These restrictions on access and borders are enforced
despite the 2005 Israeli "disengagement" from the Gaza Strip.
There will be 60 people aboard the "Free Gaza" vessel including a Holocaust
survivor, a survivor of the Palestinian Nakba, and members of the
international Palestinian diaspora.
The crew intends to travel into the Gaza strip, past the international
waters boundary, the 1996 Oslo accords boundary (20 nautical miles from the
Gaza coast), the 2002 Bertini agreement boundary (12 nautical miles and 22.2
km from the Gaza coast) and the current "Fishing Limit" imposed by the
Israeli navy since October 2006.
Legally, the group says there should be no problem passing each of these
lines since Israel disengaged from the Gaza strip in 2005 and should no
longer its control airspace and territorial waters.
The initiative hopes to draw attention to the continued de facto occupation
of Gaza. In an interview with Ma'an on Saturday, a spokesperson for the
group in Israel said that the crew expects to be stopped by the Israeli navy
shortly after they cross from international waters into Gazan territorial
waters, which according to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the
Sea, extend 12 nautical miles (22.2 km) from an area's shoreline.
While Israel has not signed the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, they
did sign the Bertini Agreement in August 2002 with the UN, which stated that
Gazan territory extended the full 12 nautical miles from the shore.
In June 2005, Israel unilaterally "disengaged" from Gaza and withdrew all
troops to the 1967 borders. In theory, Gazans control the entire Strip,
excluding approximately 650 meters along the eastern border which is called
a buffer and "no go" zone.
The trip organizers think one of four things will happen to the ship:
1. it may be stopped as it crosses or approaches the barrier marking the
international waters boundary, in which case the crew is prepared to stay on
board for at least two weeks in protest of the illegal halt of passage.
2. The second possibility envisioned by the organizers is that the ship will be
allowed to pass into the area, and will be stopped in the territorial
waters. In this eventuality the crew expects to be arrested, and the ship
dragged to shore.
3. A third possibility is that the ship will be sunk by the navy.
4. The final option is that the ship actually makes it through to the Gaza port
near Gaza City in the north of the Strip.
According to Holocaust survivor and crew member Hedy Epstein, in the event
that they can get through to Gaza they will "open the port, fish with the
fishermen, help in the clinics, and work in the schools."
What Epstein hopes to do on this journey is to "remind the world that we
will not stand by and watch 1.5 million people suffer death by starvation
and disease."
Coordinator of the Popular Committee Against the Siege, Palestinian
Legislative Council member and lawyer Jamal Al-Khudari said that he hopes
the arrival of the ship in Gaza will mean an end to the siege. He emphasized
that the ship has a right to enter the local waters and Gazans have the
right to host their guests without Israeli intervention.
Opening a port in Gaza would allow residents to export agricultural
products, and gain control over the goods and material brought into the
region. Currently, all crossing points are controlled by Israel and Egypt.
The truce between Hamas and Israel was supposed to see the blockade and
restriction on essential goods lifted, but food, medical supplies, cement
and fuel are still only trickling in.
The ship was invited to Gaza by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in the
Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Medical Relief Society, the Palestinian Centre
for Human Rights and the Gaza Community Mental Health Program, and
support for the initiative was provided in part from Carter Center in the US and
Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Source: http://www.maannews .net/en/index. php?opr=ShowDeta ils&ID=30657
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