Zionists in US Congress introduces bill to punish UNRWA for daring to speak out against the Israeli war crimes in Gaza

ccun.org, February 7, 2009

Editor's Note By Hassan El-Najjar

The Zionist hardliners in the US Congress House of Representatives have been trying to provide assistance to the Israeli war criminals who killed hundreds of Palestinian children and women in Gaza last month.

In particular, the Israeli warn criminals killed scores of Palestinian children and women while taking shelter in the schools of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRAW), despite the fact that the UNRWA provided the Israelis of maps of these schools and told them that these had become shelters of civilians.

The Israeli war criminals repeated their attacks on these schools using US-made white phosphorus bombs, dropped by US-made F-16 war planes, hoping to kill Palestinian leaders they though could be hiding among refugees there.

No Palestinian leaders were hiding, none of them was killed in the UNRAW schools. Both of the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and the UNRAW Chairman in Gaza, John Ging, condemned the Israeli war crimes.

This has angered the Zionists of AIPAC who control the US Congress, hence their attempt to penalize the UNRWA for speaking out against the Israeli war crimes in Gaza.

These Zionist hardliners are confirming again that they are accomplices and enablers of the Israeli psycho-pathetic war criminals, and consequently bear part of the responsibility for the Israeli war crimes committed in Gaza last month.

US Congress introduces bill to punish UNRWA

Friday February 06, 2009 03:22 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News

A bill has been introduced in Congress, criticizing the work of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza.

The bill accuses the Agency of providing support to so-called ‘terrorists’ in the Gaza Strip.

Laila al Quttami, of the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee, says that this bill is actually an attempt to punish the UNRWA for speaking out against the Israeli invasion of Gaza last month.

The committee has called on Congress to vote against Congressional Resolution 29, and vote instead for HR 66, which would provide much-needed humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people.

Some US groups have even called on President Obama to dispatch the Navy’s Hospital ship, the USNS Mercy, to help provide medical care to the besieged population of Gaza.

US National Union of Lawyers Found Evidence to Charge the Israeli State of Committing Massacres and Violations of International Law

Unofficial fact-finding mission from USA finds "violations of international law" in Gaza

Date: 07 / 02 / 2009 Time: 14:42
Gaza – Ma’an –

An eight-lawyer fact-finding mission with the American National Union of Lawyers found evidence to charge and find guilty the state of Israel of committing massacres and violations of international law.

The committee traveled to Gaza to investigate allegations of war crimes, Human Rights violations and crimes against humanity perpetrated during the Israeli war on Gaza, which lasted for 22 days and caused the death of 1,373 individuals more than half of them under 18-years-old.

“We came to Gaza and listened to testimonies of eyewitnesses in order to report to the US Congress, to the American people and to human rights organizations,” said the committee at a news conference Saturday.

The group toured Gaza for five days, visiting destroyed residential areas and medical centers. They collected testimonies from ambulance drivers and medics as well as civilians. According to International law expert and human rights expert Huwayda Arrab they “came to the conclusion that there have been violations of international laws and deliberate attacks on civilians.”

However, she explained that “US law prevents us from filing legal cases against Israel [in the United States], but we are adamant to show these testimonies to the American people because they know nothing about what happens in the Gaza Strip.”

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