UK Muslims slam Israel over Gaza's disastrous offensive
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- Date: 29 Jun 2006 07:49:57 -0700
UK Muslims slam Israel over Gaza's disastrous offensive
6/29/2006 12:00:00 PM GMT
The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) strongly denounced the latest
Israeli offensive in Gaza, saying that such aggressive operations
clearly contradict Israel's claims that it "withdrew" from the
Strip.
Israeli forces, backed by armored vehicles and helicopter gunships,
entered southern Gaza early Wednesday, in what the army said was an
operation aimed at freeing a soldier captured by Palestinian resistance
fighters last Sunday.
Palestinian families living in the path of the Israeli incursion were
forced to flee their homes and sought refuge in the nearby town of
Rafah, near the Gaza-Israel-Egypt border.
Witnesses said Israeli air strikes destroyed three bridges and a major
power plant in Gaza. Israeli warplanes also bombed a Hamas' training
camp in southern Gaza and knocked out electricity and water supplies
for most of the 1.3 million residents of the Gaza Strip.
"The blowing up of bridges and Gaza's main electricity transformer by
the Israeli army can only be described as illegal acts of collective
punishment against the Palestinian people," MCB said in a statement.
MCB Secretary General Muhammad Abdul Bari also said that Israel had
"repeatedly shown that it has absolutely no regard for international
law".
"This disproportionate use of military force in one of the most densely
populated areas in the world is a recipe for another disaster in the
making," Bari warned.
MCB also urged the British and U.S. governments to act immediately in
order to contain the situation and reach an agreement over the current
crisis involving Palestinian and Israeli prisoners.
Palestinian resistance fighters had demanded Israel to release of all
women and children held in Israeli jails in exchange for the Israeli
soldier.
"We urge that such efforts must include the release of the 400 women
and children among the 9,800 Palestinians that have been detained by
the Israeli Occupation Forces," MCB said.
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