Press Release on the First Anniversary of the Gaza Genocide
26 December 2009
The Palestine Human Rights Campaign (PHRC) of Auckland, New Zealand strongly supports the recent call of former US
President Jimmy Carter that “Gaza must be built now.” Carter also declared that "the human suffering demands urgent
relief".
The PHRC believes that the 4 year old and continuing siege of Gaza by Israel and Egypt, with the abject support of the
United States, is genocide in process. The Gaza Strip is cut off from the rest of the world. Even international
humanitarian aid is being prevented from entering the Strip by both Egypt and Israel. International aid agencies have
demanded that Israel allow aid in, both food items and building materials. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in an
annual report on November 16: “The Government of Israel should allow unimpeded access to Gaza for humanitarian aid and
the non-humanitarian goods needed for the reconstruction of properties and infrastructure,”
There are over fifty thousand Gazans living in tents or below destroyed buildings, the result of horrendous military
action by Israel between late Dec 2008 and during Jan 2009. That action left over 1400 dead and more than 5000
Palestinians injured.
"It is difficult to tell what does the future hold for the Gaza community: imprisoned in one big ghetto and demonised
while being starved. Israel’s action is a crime against humanity and it is obscene that the world community is silent
about this human tragedy. More obscene is the 'outrage' expressed by some leading figures against arrest warrants for
Israeli leaders responsible for war crimes commuted in Gaza as verified by a UN investigation."
PHRC holds the view that mass punishment is not working in Gaza. Hamas which was voted in by the Palestinians in fair
elections in 2006 is getting stronger and popular as witnessed by Jimmy Carter. The proof of intentional genocide in
Gaza by Israel is the fact that there is no land in the Strip that Israel covets and there is no hinterland, like
Jordan, to which the Palestinians can be expelled. Egypt will not accept them either. Ethnic cleansing is ineffective
here but starving people could do the trick for Israel.
Join us in support of the suffering people of Gaza
GAZA FREEDOM RALLY
QE2 SQUARE CNR CUSTOMS ST & QUEEN ST
Sunday Dec 27th 2009 at 2pm
ENDS