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Tuesday, 22 May 2007 |
Last night's air strike on Gaza by the Israeli air force, killing eight people, is the latest in a series of air strikes carried out over the past week which have killed over 30 civilians. It constitutes yet another outrage by a state founded on the premise of the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people and which continues to exist at their negation.
Meanwhile, the abandonment of the Palestinians by the international community in the face of this ongoing catalogue of atrocities is an obscenity. The Palestinians of Gaza, the most densely populated and one of the most poverty stricken areas of the world, have suffered enough, and Solidarity joins all those around the world who call for an end to the occupation and to efforts to destabilise the democratically elected Palestinian government.
Once again, Solidarity states clearly and unequivocally that we support the Palestinian people in their struggle for self determination and human rights.
Successive Israeli governments have demonstrated through their actions and policies that peace to them is a word from another language. Whilst we support the recent ceasefire called by warring factions in the occupied territories, we remain clear that the cause of the internal strife amongst the Palestinians is Israel's occupation and the resulting poverty and chaos which has blighted their communities.
We are Solidarity and we believe in taking sides.
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