From: Benjamin Merhav <ben.merhav@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:42 PM
Subject: MY 515th OPEN MESSAGE TO ALL PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL
To: webmaster@hrweb.org
The zionist apartheid continues its daily war crimes by subjecting the Palestinian people of the Gaza Strip to collective punishment in every field of life. The latest zionist crime is strangling all civilian services and activities by depriving the entire population there of fuel, and thereby also of electricity.
The latest report below is from Gaza by Al Mezan, the local Palestinian human rights organisation. It is a call for help to the international community, and a reminder to the world that the illegal zionist siege of Gaza has not been lifted as yet.
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Al Mezan Center for Human Rights has the Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic & Social Council (ECOSOC)
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Date: 21 March 2012
"Al Mezan Calls on International Community to Intervene and Prevent
a Catastrophe Due to the Power Situation in Gaza
The shortage in electricity and fuel has reached a crisis point in the Gaza Strip. Shortages started to occur in the end of 2011, but have reached a crisis point since 14 February 2012, when the sole Gaza Power Plant had to shut down due to the lack of fuel. This crisis, which was doubled by the lack of fuel in the market, has deepened the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. People as well as organizations have not been able to compensate the shortage in electricity by operating electricity generators, which require fuel to operate. Gaza population are increasingly facing difficulty reaching health, work, and education places. Hospitals have had to seek emergency assistance from the ICRC.
The lack of power and fuel have affected a wide range of basic services, affecting not only the quality of life for the population, but also life itself in certain cases. Medical services have been undermined; including at hospitals, clinics, laboratories and blood banks. It is increasingly challenging to keep samples at labs or to preserve dead bodies. Water supplies to households have also been affected negatively. Sewage treatment is suffering from fuel and power shortages. Residents of the hundreds of high building in Gaza are also facing difficulty; especially the elderly, the sick and the disabled among them. The economic consequences of these shortages have been severe. Numerous industries have had to shut down or increase the cost of their products, which creates more difficulty for the predominantly poor population. There are also difficulties facing preserving food for household use as well as for commerce with fears of poisoning.
Palestinian and international organizations have been facing greater challenges pursuing their work in the Gaza Strip due to this crisis. Relief organizations find it increasingly difficult to distribute food and other relief materials. They are facing the risk of having to halt, or seriously reduce, their services to the population due to the lack of power and fuel, which are needed for transportation and preserving food. Palestinian NGOs are also facing serious difficulty and may soon have to close their offices as there is not enough power and their staff are not able to reach their workplaces.
Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights is highly alarmed by the deterioration in the living conditions in Gaza, which are well below the acceptable standards without such a crisis. Al Mezan is concerned by the continuous deterioration in the conditions and the lack of possibilities that they would improve soon, which threatens Gaza's population humanitarian conditions seriously. Al Mezan reaffirms that the responsibility of the life and wellbeing of the population of Gaza, which remains under Israel's effective control, lies primarily with Israel. Israel has continued its siege of Gaza and kept it on the verge of a humanitarian crisis that has not allowed the local authorities to take any effective measures to diversify the sources of power and fuel or make meaningful contingency plans that are credibly implementable. Al Mezan therefore calls on the international community to take prompt action to alleviate the current crisis in Gaza; including by ensuring an immediate end to Israel's siege of the Gaza Strip.
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I ask every reader to send immediately protest messages to the following email addresses, and with a copy to my email address (ben.merhav@gmail.com).
" I protest the continuous torture of the Australian citizen Benjamin Merhav by sleep deprivation and his daughter and son by psychiatric torture in Melbourne, Australia.
This torture is perpetrated against Benjamin Merhav directly by the clandestine arm of the State of Israel (the zionist Gestapo), and indirectly by the same culprit against Benjamin's daughter and son.
I demand that the Australian government instruct ASIO to protect these Australian citizens, and stop these terrorist crimes by a foreign government on Australian soil immediately !"
2. to ICJ-Australia and ICJ Secretariat (email president@icj-aust.org.au,chair@icj-aust.org.au,sec-gen@icj-aust.org.au,
info@icj.dk,info@icj.org ) a message along the following lines :
"I protest your refusal to investigate Benjamin Merhav's complaint against the Australian government's approval of ASIO's violation of the rule of law in Australia, regarding the continuous torture in Melbourne of himself, his daughter and his son , all Australian citizens, by the clandestine arm of the State of Israel (the zionist Gestapo).
I demand your immediate intervention to protect these Australian citizens, to stop the perpetration of these terrorist crimes In Australia, and to end these violations of the rule of law by the Australian government in Australia."
3. to the PCHR and to all the Palestinian leaders in occupied Palestine ( email english@palestine-info.co.uk ;
pchr@pchrgaza.org ) message along the following
lines :
"I protest the betrayal of Benjamin Merhav by Raji Sourani to the zionist Gestapo's torture.I demand Sourani's replacement on the ICJ and on FIDH with a honest Palestinian patriot who would initiate protest action against the torture of Benjamin Merhav, his daughter, and his son by the zionist Gestapo in Australia.
I demand that the Palestinian leaders encourage Palestinians and their supporters to protest this ongoing terrorist torture by the zionist Gestapo, and to demand that it should stop immediately."
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DISBAND NOW THE ZIONIST APARTHEID REGIME OF ISRAEL !
A JUST SOLUTION TO THE ZIONIST CONFLICT IN PALESTINE CANNOT BE ACHIEVED WITHOUT FIRST DISBANDING THE ZIONIST APARTHEID REGIME OF ISRAEL !
FOLLOWING THE DISBANDING OF THIS RACIST REGIME, A DEMOCRATIC, NON-RACIST STATE, TO WHICH ALL THE PALESTINIAN REFUGEES WOULD BE INVITED TO RETURN, SHOULD BE ESTABLISHED ON THE ENTIRE AREA OF HISTORIC PALESTINE !
THIS SHOULD BE WRITTEN INTO THE PLATFORM OF THE BDS MOVEMENT NOW, AS THE PURPOSE OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOYCOTT OF THE ZIONIST APARTHEID REGIME OF ISRAEL !
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