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UN warns Israel over Gaza blockade

The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Valerie Amos (file photo)

PressTV Thu Jun 14, 2012 11:41PM GMT

This amounts to a collective punishment of all those living in Gaza and is a denial of basic human rights in contravention of international law.”

UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Valerie Amos

A senior UN humanitarian official has warned the Israeli regime over its five-year-plus illegal siege of the Gaza Strip, urging Tel Aviv to lift the destructive blockade immediately.

In a statement issued on Wednesday, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Valerie Amos said that the blockade has had a devastating impact on the lives of 1.6 million Palestinians living in the coastal sliver, the UN News Centre reported.

“This amounts to a collective punishment of all those living in Gaza and is a denial of basic human rights in contravention of international law,” she stated, noting that more than 80 percent of the families residing in the enclave are dependent on humanitarian aid.

The official, who also serves as the UN emergency relief coordinator, added “it is vital that the blockade be lifted immediately, so that essential services and infrastructure can be maintained.”

Israel imposed the all-out land, aerial, and naval blockade in June 2007 after the democratically-elected Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas took over the administration of the territory.

The siege has had a disastrous impact on the humanitarian and economic situation in the impoverished enclave, having turned the territory into the world’s largest open-air prison.

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May Allah Subhana wa Ta’ ala grant the Shuhada Jannatul Firdaus, and ease it for their families, loved ones and anyone around them. Allahumma Ameen ya Rabbil Alameen. ‘ Inna Lillahi wa ‘ Inna ‘ Ilayhi Raji’un, Allahu Akbar

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* The list of shuhada does not display, the numerous victims of the zionist occupation which are undocumented by media. Nor it displays the victims of the “silent onslaught” due to restrictions of movement, ability to go to hospitals for treatment or life saving surgery, due to lack of medication because of the blockades and so on. For example: The Slow Motion Genocide by the Siege on Gaza only, killed 600 patients since Gaza got under Israeli Siege.

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Neither does this list, display the avoidable mortality. A clear and statistical factual evidence, about the number of deaths due to indecent ruling by occupation forces. For even an occupier has obligations under International Laws, Geneva Convention and the Hague regulations, which it is neglecting. These circumstances, together with deliberate policies of the occupier to neglect and even deny every basic human right, severes avoidable mortality which is totally silenced by media or reporting organisations. While in the Holocaust, 1 on 6 Jewish people directly died of deliberate neglect, so if we believe the facts over 1 million due to avoidable mortality, neither should these same circumstances be ignores which are ongoing in Palestine. For this report displays a