No hate. No violence
Races? Only one Human race
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
Radio Islam
Know Your enemy!
No time to waste. Act now!
Tomorrow it will be too late

English

Franç.

Deutsch

عربي

Sven.

Español

Portug.

Italiano

Русск.

бълг.

Hrvat.

Češt.

Dansk

Suomi

Magyar

Neder.

Norsk

Polski

Rom.

Srpski

Slov.

Indon.

فارسی

Türkçe

日本語

汉语
http://www3.haaretz.co.il/eng/scripts/article.asp?mador=5&datee=3/13/01&id=113144
 

Starvation at the Palestinian door

Prolonged closure is having a devastating effect on the territories, charges the Red Cross.

By Joseph Algazy


The roadblocks, prolonged encirclements and restrictions on movement that the IDF is currently imposing in the Palestinian territories is having a seriously adverse effect on the general population, in three areas in particular: economy, health and education, Rene Kosirnik, the head of the Red Cross delegation to Israel, has told Ha'aretz. He noted that until now the traditional family solidarity and the Palestinian welfare services had prevented actual starvation, "But if the current situation persists, this could happen to the most destitute families.".The International Red Cross has recently voiced its concerns about the situation in the territories publicly, more so than in the past. Its representatives in Tel Aviv and Geneva are pointing an accusatory finger at the Israeli authorities, especially the Israel Defense Forces. They have defined the manner in which the IDF has dealt with the Intifada as "restrictive, physical, administrative and systematic steps, and collective punishment which severely violates international humanitarian law, which requires that the occupying power ensure that the occupied population continue to live, as far as possible, in a normal manner, as during peacetime."

The head of the Red Cross delegation told Ha'aretz that the Red Cross representatives visiting last week in the area of the Sudra village near Ramallah discovered that blocking off the only road in the area caused many villages to be cut off. Already last Wednesday, there was a problem in providing medical assistance when a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance was unable to drive through. While the residents succeeded in providing the ambulance with a temporary road, the IDF later dug that road up too.

Another area suffering from being cut off and from the prolonged closure is the coastal strip in Al-Mouazi in Gaza, which is surrounded by the sea, the Egyptian border and a group of settlements. According to Kosirnik, the IDF will not allow a single Palestinian car out of there. There was a time when even the Red Cross was only able to reach the area on foot.

Discussing the negative economic impact on the population, Kosirnik noted that people have difficulty or are unable to reach their places of work. There is no way of knowing if a particular road will be open or closed to Palestinian traffic. A one-way trip from Nablus to Ramallah that took 45 minutes before the current Intifada now takes two or three hours, if it is at all possible.

Farmers are unable to work remote fields or market their produce, and sometimes they are forced to walk to market, carrying their produce on their backs. The Israel market is closed to them and the internal Palestinian market is very weak because of the general lack of income. People have been forced to use up their reserves. The situation is growing increasingly worse, and could even lead to starvation.

The small amount of material assistance recently extended by the Red Cross to besieged villages has three goals: to help those in need, to remain in contact with the suffering population, and to send a message to the Israeli authorities concerning the existence of a serious problem. Ambulances encounter difficulties at roadblocks when transferring patients, doctors, nurses and medical equipment. Teachers are unable to reach schools located outside their own towns or villages. High school and university students miss school days. The roads have become dangerous because of acts of violence from both sides.

Kosirnik noted that according to international law, as the occupying force, Israel may restrict the movement of the civilian population on condition that the restriction is required for military reasons for a very limited period, that it does not adversely affect the day-to-day lives of the civilian population and does not represent collective punishment. The military and policing steps must be adapted to the circumstances.

The high number and continuing casualties indicate a dramatic escalation in the use of force by the IDF towards the civilian Palestinian population. Assassinations are absolutely forbidden. If it is necessary from a military or police aspect to take someone prisoner, it is only permitted to arrest him.

"It is clear that some of the reasons of violence cannot be explained or justified as a military necessity, for example a person killed in his bed, at the entrance to his home, in his field or car."

Already in the second month of the Intifada, last November, the Red Cross determined that the presence of the Israeli settlements in the territories was impacting harshly on the general Palestinian population and is contrary to the fourth Geneva Conference.

The Red Cross has so far been cautious not to define certain actions by the IDF and Israel as "war crimes" because it does not consider itself a judging agency. Human rights organizations and international media, on the other hand, have accused the IDF of committing war crimes. The killing of a civilian or the transfer of a civilian population by the occupying force to the occupied territory - in other words the settlements - are defined as war crimes. In their view, a considerable proportion of the steps taken by the IDF in the territories - such as the confiscation of Palestinian land, the paving of bypass roads, restrictions of Palestinian traffic in the areas near the settlements - are not being carried out by the IDF to protect itself, but rather to protect the settlements. The settlements and the settlers are a political problem that the Israeli authorities are trying to solve by using military means, they say.

The head of the Red Cross delegation noted that his organization condemns all attacks against civilians in Israel, such as the recent terror bombing in Netanya, considering them "terrorist actions which are absolutely and unconditionally forbidden," just as it condemns indiscriminate collective punishment of the Palestinian population.

Kosirnik also complained about the problem of visits by relatives of prisoners that live on the West Bank (not Gaza) in Israeli prisons, which were stopped at the beginning of the Intifada. After they were renewed three weeks ago, they were again halted by the Red Cross because in Kosirnik's view "the conditions of passage were unbearable." Today negotiations are being conducted to find a solution to this humanitarian problem.

Last week Kosirnik met with the families of the Israeli soldiers being held by the Hezbollah. "The families expressed their concern, suffering, frustration and hopes," he related, "and I told them in response that the Red Cross maintained frequent contact with the Lebanese government and the Hezbollah in the matter concerning their loved ones."

During the conversation, he told the families that Red Cross representatives visit Lebanese prisoners held in Israel, except for two: Mustafa Dirani and Sheikh Abd al Karim Obeid



"When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the government of Israel."

- David Ben-Gurion, Israeli Prime Minister


Palestine banner
Viva Palestina!

Latest Additions - in English

What is this Jewish carnage really about? - The background to atrocities

Videos on Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam and Blacks and Jews  

How Jewish Films and Television Promotes bias Against Muslims

Judaism is Nobody's Friend
Judaism is the Jews' strategy to dominate non-Jews.

Jewish War Against Lebanon!

Islam and Revolution
By Ahmed Rami

Hasbara - The Jewish manual for media deceptions

Celebrities bowing to their Jewish masters

Elie Wiesel - A Prominent False Witness
By Robert Faurisson

The Gaza atrocity 2008-2009


Iraq under Jewish occupation
Iraq - war and occupation


Jewish War On Syria!

CNN's Jewish version of "diversity" - Lists the main Jewish agents

Hezbollah the Beautiful
Americans, where is your own Hezbollah?

Black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan's Epic Speech in Madison Square Garden, New York  - A must see!

"War on Terror" - on Israel's behalf!

World Jewish Congress: Billionaires, Oligarchs, Global Influencers for Israel

Interview with anti-Zionist veteran Ahmed Rami of Radio Islam - On ISIS, "Neo-Nazis", Syria, Judaism, Islam, Russia...

Britain under Jewish occupation!


Jewish World Power
West Europe    East Europe
Americas          Asia
Middle East       Africa
      U.N.              E.U.

 

The Internet and Israeli-Jewish infiltration/manipulations

Books - Important collection of titles

The Judaization of China

Israel: Jewish Supremacy in Action - By David Duke

The Power of Jews in France

Jew Goldstone appointed by UN to investigate War Crimes in Gaza

When Jews rule...
The best book on Jewish Power


The Israel Lobby - From the book

Jews and Crime - The archive

Sayanim - Israel's and Mossad's Jewish helpers abroad

Listen to Louis Farrakhan's Speech - A must hear!

The Israeli Nuclear Threat

The "Six Million" Myth

"Jewish History" - a bookreview

Putin and the Jews of Russia

Israel's attack on US warship USS Liberty - Massacre in the Mediterranean

Jewish "Religion" - What is it?

Medias in the hands of racists

Strauss-Kahn - IMF chief and member of Israel lobby group

Down with Zio-Apartheid
Stop Jewish Apartheid!

The Jews behind Islamophobia

Israel controls U.S. Presidents
Biden, Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton...

The Victories of Revisionism
By Professor Robert Faurisson

The Jewish hand behind Internet The Jews behind Google, Facebook, Wikipedia, Yahoo!, MySpace, eBay...

"Jews, who want to be decent human beings, have to renounce being Jewish"

Jewish War Against Iran

Jewish Manipulation of World Leaders

Al Jazeera English under Jewish infiltration

The Founding Myths of Modern Israel
Garaudy's "The Founding Myths
of Israeli Politics"


Jewish hate against Christians
By Prof. Israel Shahak

Introduction to Revisionist
Thought
- By Ernst Zündel

Karl Marx: The Jewish Question

Reel Bad Arabs - Revealing the racist Jewish Hollywood propaganda

"Anti-Semitism" - What is it?

Videos - Important collection 

The Jews Banished 47 Times in 1000 Years - Why?

Zionist strategies - Plotting invasions, formenting civil wars, interreligious strife, stoking racial hatreds and race war

The International Jew
By Henry Ford

Pravda interviews Ahmed Rami

The Founding Myths of Modern Israel
Shahak's "Jewish History,
Jewish Religion"


The Jewish plan to destroy the Arab countries - From the World Zionist Organization

Judaism and Zionism inseparable

Revealing photos of the Jews 

Horrors of ISIS Created by Zionist Supremacy - By David Duke

Racist Jewish Fundamentalism

The Freedom Fighters:
   Hezbollah - Lebanon
   Nation of Islam - U.S.A.

Jewish Influence in America
- Government, Media, Finance...

"Jews" from Khazaria stealing the land of Palestine

The U.S. cost of supporting Israel

Turkey, Ataturk and the Jews

Talmud unmasked
The truth about the Talmud


Israel and the Ongoing Holocaust in Congo

Jews DO control the media - a Jew brags! - Revealing Jewish article

Abbas - The Traitor

Protocols of Zion - The whole book!

Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem
Encyclopedia of the
Palestine Problem


The "Holocaust" - 120 Questions and Answers

Quotes - On Jewish Power / Zionism

Caricatures / Cartoons 

Activism! - Join the Fight!