Actualité - Israel Kidnaps as Hostages Palestinian MPs, Cabinet Ministers
Franc-Parler publie un rapport faisant le point sur la situation en Palestine alors que l'armée israélienne a enlevé 21 députés palestiniens dont 8 ministres dans l'invasion de Gaza. En plus, le Tsahal s'est attardé à détruire différentes infrastructures dont 3 ponts, un pipeline d'eau et la centrale électrique produisant la moitié de l'électricité de Gaza. Franc-Parler condamne le rejet des demandes des résistants palestiniens et le terrorisme d'État d'Israël. Le silence criminel et complice du gouvernement canadien doit être également vigoureusement condamné.
Pre-empting a Palestinian national unity government after the anti-occupation factions initially agreed to an amended “prisoners’ document,” Israel in violation of international law kidnapped as hostages nine Palestinian cabinet ministers, 21 MPs, a number of elected mayors among at least 60 others in the West Bank and pushed its tanks and troops into northern Gaza Strip overnight Thursday in the second stage of “Operation Summer Rains,” cutting less than one million Palestinians from electricity and water supplies for months.
The AP quoted Israel’s Army Radio as saying that the kidnapped Hamas leaders might be used to trade for the captured soldier.
Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Education and Higher Education, Dr. Nasseruddin Al-Shae’r was kidnapped early Thursday.
Overnight the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) rounded up as hostages the following Palestinian cabinet ministers.
*Dr. Omar Abdul-Razeq – Minister of Finance
*Samir Abu Eisheh – Minister of Planning
*Issa Al-Ja’bari – Minister of Local Government
*Fakhri Al-Turkuman - Minister of Social Affairs
*Mohammad Al-Barghouthi – Minister of Labor
*Nasser Abdul-Jawad – Minister of Prisoners’ Affairs
*Nayef Al-Rjoub – Minister of Religious Affairs (Awqaf)
*Engineer Khaled Abu A’rafah – Minister of Jerusalem Affairs
Twenty-one members of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) were also kidnapped overnight Thursday, alongside several mayors and leading Hamas suspects, including mosque preachers.
Deputy Speaker of the PLC, Ahmad Bahar, and Minister of Information of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), Dr. Yousef Rizqa, in separate press conferences in Gaza, said that Israel’s kidnapping of the detainees is in violation of the Geneva conventions and the detainees are considered “hostages” and not POWs.
The 21 kidnapped PLC members join six other Palestinian MPs in the IOF jails, notably Marwan Barghouthi who was kidnapped from the West Bank town of Ramallah in 2002.
Bahar and Rizqa called on Arab and Muslim parliamentarians to protest against the kidnapping of their Palestinian colleagues by the IOF and appealed to the world community and human rights organizations to intervene to free them swiftly.
Separately the Palestinian chief negotiator and lawmaker, Saeb Erakat, on Thursday said that Israel was planning to undermine the PNA, both presidency and government.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned Wednesday the Israeli invasion of Gaza at midnight Tuesday as a “crime against humanity” and a “collective punishment” against the Palestinian people.
IOF sealed off and banned entry to and exit from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, besieging President Abbas, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and top officials of the PNA as leading anti-occupation activists went underground.
The IOF pushed their tanks and troops backed by warplanes into northern Gaza Strip at dawn Thursday in the second stage of “Operation Summer Rains,” which kicked off at midnight on Tuesday in the southern Gaza Strip.
IOF warplanes bombed the soccer field of the Islamic University in Gaza late Wednesday after destroying the only power plant in the strip early in the day, plunging Gaza Strip into darkness and depriving about one million Palestinians from electricity for months to come, hitting very hard not only households but also hospitals and schools.
Water supplies were also cut early Wednesday by bombing water pipelines, after destroying three bridges linking the south and north of the Gaza Strip.
Palestinians in Gaza Strip are preparing for what they feared could be a long Israeli invasion, and tried despite their meager resources amid an exacerbating food and humanitarian crisis to stock up on food, candles and batteries for radios.
Israel and Palestinians must “step back from the brink” before a crisis over the capturing of an Israeli soldier spirals out of control, EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said in a statement on Wednesday.“
All sides need to consider their responsibilities extremely carefully. Both sides must step back from the brink before this becomes a crisis that neither can control,” she said.
However the Press Secretary of the US White House, Tony Snow, said Wednesday that Israel has a right to defend the lives of its citizens, but should ensure “innocent civilians are not harmed” and “unnecessary destruction of property and infrastructure” is avoided.
(Palestine Media Center - 29 June 2006)
Pre-empting a Palestinian national unity government after the anti-occupation factions initially agreed to an amended “prisoners’ document,” Israel in violation of international law kidnapped as hostages nine Palestinian cabinet ministers, 21 MPs, a number of elected mayors among at least 60 others in the West Bank and pushed its tanks and troops into northern Gaza Strip overnight Thursday in the second stage of “Operation Summer Rains,” cutting less than one million Palestinians from electricity and water supplies for months.
The AP quoted Israel’s Army Radio as saying that the kidnapped Hamas leaders might be used to trade for the captured soldier.
Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Education and Higher Education, Dr. Nasseruddin Al-Shae’r was kidnapped early Thursday.
Overnight the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) rounded up as hostages the following Palestinian cabinet ministers.
*Dr. Omar Abdul-Razeq – Minister of Finance
*Samir Abu Eisheh – Minister of Planning
*Issa Al-Ja’bari – Minister of Local Government
*Fakhri Al-Turkuman - Minister of Social Affairs
*Mohammad Al-Barghouthi – Minister of Labor
*Nasser Abdul-Jawad – Minister of Prisoners’ Affairs
*Nayef Al-Rjoub – Minister of Religious Affairs (Awqaf)
*Engineer Khaled Abu A’rafah – Minister of Jerusalem Affairs
Twenty-one members of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) were also kidnapped overnight Thursday, alongside several mayors and leading Hamas suspects, including mosque preachers.
Deputy Speaker of the PLC, Ahmad Bahar, and Minister of Information of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), Dr. Yousef Rizqa, in separate press conferences in Gaza, said that Israel’s kidnapping of the detainees is in violation of the Geneva conventions and the detainees are considered “hostages” and not POWs.
The 21 kidnapped PLC members join six other Palestinian MPs in the IOF jails, notably Marwan Barghouthi who was kidnapped from the West Bank town of Ramallah in 2002.
Bahar and Rizqa called on Arab and Muslim parliamentarians to protest against the kidnapping of their Palestinian colleagues by the IOF and appealed to the world community and human rights organizations to intervene to free them swiftly.
Separately the Palestinian chief negotiator and lawmaker, Saeb Erakat, on Thursday said that Israel was planning to undermine the PNA, both presidency and government.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned Wednesday the Israeli invasion of Gaza at midnight Tuesday as a “crime against humanity” and a “collective punishment” against the Palestinian people.
IOF sealed off and banned entry to and exit from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, besieging President Abbas, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and top officials of the PNA as leading anti-occupation activists went underground.
The IOF pushed their tanks and troops backed by warplanes into northern Gaza Strip at dawn Thursday in the second stage of “Operation Summer Rains,” which kicked off at midnight on Tuesday in the southern Gaza Strip.
IOF warplanes bombed the soccer field of the Islamic University in Gaza late Wednesday after destroying the only power plant in the strip early in the day, plunging Gaza Strip into darkness and depriving about one million Palestinians from electricity for months to come, hitting very hard not only households but also hospitals and schools.
Water supplies were also cut early Wednesday by bombing water pipelines, after destroying three bridges linking the south and north of the Gaza Strip.
Palestinians in Gaza Strip are preparing for what they feared could be a long Israeli invasion, and tried despite their meager resources amid an exacerbating food and humanitarian crisis to stock up on food, candles and batteries for radios.
Israel and Palestinians must “step back from the brink” before a crisis over the capturing of an Israeli soldier spirals out of control, EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said in a statement on Wednesday.“
All sides need to consider their responsibilities extremely carefully. Both sides must step back from the brink before this becomes a crisis that neither can control,” she said.
However the Press Secretary of the US White House, Tony Snow, said Wednesday that Israel has a right to defend the lives of its citizens, but should ensure “innocent civilians are not harmed” and “unnecessary destruction of property and infrastructure” is avoided.
(Palestine Media Center - 29 June 2006)
Libellés : La lutte de résistance du peuple palestinien
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