Global Emphasis to End the Israeli Siege on

Gaza

Friday, 01 January 2010 10:32

Special Rapporteur on Palestine for the UN Human Rights Council,

Richard Falk has urged imposition of military and economic sanctions against the Israeli regime.
While implicitly criticizing the UN's muted response towards the Zionist regime, Richard Falk
reiterated that the UN has not yet pressured the Israeli regime to end its blockade on the Gaza
strip.
He also emphasized that the United Nations can impose economic and military sanctions against
the Zionist regime as an effective move to counter Israel's siege on Gaza.
Richard Falk urged the United Nations to take an effective approach to end the 3-year Israeli
siege on the impoverished Gazans while criticizing the Egyptian government's measure to build a
steel wall across Egypt's border with Gaza.
Thousands of Palestinians have urged the removal of Gaza siege and the Israeli regime's criminal
acts through holding demonstrations in various Palestinian territories.
Palestinian demonstrators condemned the Israeli regime's crimes against humanity in the course
of its 22-day assaults against Gazans in early 2009 and urged trial and arrest of the Israeli
regime's ringleaders.
Jamal al-Khezri, head of the Palestinian public committee on removal of Gaza Siege also urged
an end to the blockade of Gaza and opening of all Gaza crossings while reiterating that the
international community should operate based on humanitarian values in order to aid the
Palestinian people who are under oppressive siege.
Also, the Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad urged an end o the Israeli regime' blockade on the
Gaza Strip and condemned Israel's ongoing inhumane policies.
The Syrian president also said that Arab and Muslim counties in addition to the international
community should do their utmost to end the Israeli siege on Gaza.
The Gaza strip has been under the Israeli regime's all-out siege for almost three years now and the
blockade has also intensified in the past one year.
This is while western regimes and certain Arab states' support for the Israeli regime has
emboldened Israel in its ongoing acts of crime against the oppressed Palestinians.
Also, Egypt has launched a plan to build a steel wall across its borders with Gaza while also
closing the Rafah crossing which all signal its support for the Zionist regime's policies.