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Kawther Salam | Feb 2, 2012
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Today Thursday February 2 2012, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in the besieged Gaza concentration camp, coming through the Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing in the northern border of the Gaza Strip.
Ban Ki-moon was welcomed in a very special way at the border of Gaza, where dozens of
According to the Palestinian protesters: “eggs and tomatoes are very expensive in Gaza, therefore we were not able to buy them to throw them at the convoy of the Secretary General of the United Nations Ban ki-Moon. The protesters only had their shoes and other things to throw. After they threw their shoes, they collected them and put them on”. They said “Sorry Mr. Ban Ki-moon, the economic situation in Gaza under the blockade is very much deteriorated, and eggs and tomatoes are not available”.
Abdullah Kandil, the spokesperson of the of prisoners families, stated that “the Palestinians sit-in blocked the convoy of Ban Ki-moon for some time in protest against the immoral and inhumane position of Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who refused to meet with the families of prisoners languishing in the jails of the Israeli occupation.”
Kandil said in his statement that “the protesters threw chairs, stones and shoes at the convoy Ban Ki-moon, holding signs that read ‘Enough of Ban Ki-moon bias for Israel’, ‘Where is the United Nations since the blockade of Gaza’ and ‘Where is the United Nations when the the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) members are kidnapped??”.
Mr. Abed El-Nasser Ferwana , a former Palestinian prisoner and a well known specialist in
The Palestinian protesters raised the pictures of a number of prisoners, especially the Palestinian leadership of the “Fatah”, among them Marwan Barghouti and Palestinian Legislative Council Speaker Aziz Dweik, who were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation.
Ismail Ibrahim al-Thawabta, Palestinian journalist from Gaza, forwarded me an
He added: “The United Nations policy of marginalization towards the Palestinian prisoners and detainees at the Israeli prisons, where they are denied the most minimal humanitarian rights, visits, medical treatment, where they are routinely tortured, does not express a sincere, logical and humanitarian policy of the UN, but it clearly serves the dictator criminal regime of the Israeli occupation, the israeli executioners, at the expense of prisoners and Palestinian refugees”.
Mr. Thawabta continued: “The clear message which must be understood by Ban Ki-moon