Economic and Financial Blockade of the Palestinian people must be stopped
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2006/gapal1027.doc.htm
Sunday, December 17, 2006
The on-going attempts by Harper and his allies in the Bush administration to starve the Palestinian people through depriving the Palestinian Authority of basic funding must be stopped. The humanitarian repercussions for these actions are depriving millions of the basics that they need to survive and seem to me to be more likely to encourage violence than influence Hamas.
The NDP's press release from Friday estimates the Palestinian Authority's own 160,000 employees were directly supporting nearly 1 million of the 3.7 million people living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank before the Authority stopped paying their wages due to financial ruin.
Peace in the middle east (or anywhere for that matter) will never be achieved without a concerted effort to bring people the basics of health care, education, food and shelter. Canada's shameful funding freeze to the authority of March 29, 2006 should be ended and financial aid restored immediately.
The NDP's press release from Friday estimates the Palestinian Authority's own 160,000 employees were directly supporting nearly 1 million of the 3.7 million people living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank before the Authority stopped paying their wages due to financial ruin.
Peace in the middle east (or anywhere for that matter) will never be achieved without a concerted effort to bring people the basics of health care, education, food and shelter. Canada's shameful funding freeze to the authority of March 29, 2006 should be ended and financial aid restored immediately.
Labels: democracy, human rights abuse
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