Arab-Dutch demonstrators demand lifting siege on Gaza

[ 30/01/2008 - 08:13 PM ]

AMSTERDAM, (PIC)--

Representatives of Arab and Dutch institutions along with demonstrators rallied in front of the Netherlands' parliament building in Amsterdam demanding an immediate end to the siege on Gaza.

The demonstrators on Tuesday hoisted placards demanding an end to the "war on Palestinians" and calling for boycotting Israel and punishing it for its crimes against civilians.

A delegation of institutions declaring solidarity with the Palestine cause met with the Dutch foreign affairs parliamentary committee and handed its members a memo asking the parliament to adopt a just position regarding the Palestinian question and to pressure the Israeli occupation government to end its siege and war on the Palestinians.

The European committee against the Gaza siege had organized a sit-in before the European parliament in Brussels on Monday in the presence of delegations from various European countries demanding immediate EU moves to break the siege on Gaza.

Arabs, Russians, protest against Israel’s siege over the Gaza Strip

Wednesday January 30, 2008 01:00 by IMEMC News saed at imemc dot org

Hundreds of Arabs and Russians protested in Moscow on Tuesday against the unjust Israeli siege over the Gaza Strip and demanded the establishment of an independent Palestinian State with Jerusalem as its capital.

The protestors carried Palestinian flags and posters calling for ending the siege and slamming the Israeli policies against the residents in the Gaza Strip. They also called for ending the Israeli occupation in Palestine and ending the starvation policy carried by Israel against the Palestinians.

The protesters also said that there are 1.5 Million Palestinians besieged in their own land in the Gaza Strip, and lacking water, electricity, medicine, fuels, and food supplies.
They also called for ending the Israeli attacks against the Palestinians people, and called for another protest in front of the US Embassy in Moscow on February 5.

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