References

UPDATES SUMMARY – OCTOBER 3, 2017

1- news about denied health in Gaza
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170823-pa-reduces-medical-referrals-for-gaza-patients-by-80/
First reported death from swimming in Gaza’s polluted seas is a 5-year-old boy
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Gaza’s sewage is overflowing

2-new calls to remove the blockade of Gaza

a call to EU to stop Gaza isolation issued by the ECCP
https://www.change.org/p/eu-stop-gaza-s-isolation?utm_source=embedded_petition_view
a call to Macron
Urgence humanitaire à GAZA: levée du BLOCUS ! #OpenGaza
https://www.change.org/p/pr%C3%A9sident-de-la-r%C3%A9publique-urgence-humanitaire-%C3%A0-gaza-lev%C3%A9e-du-blocus-opengaza

3-calls for health for Gaza from Medical Aid for Palestine
https://www.map.org.uk/campaigns/health-and-dignity-campaign

from Intel. Committee for Breaking Gaza Siege
https://youtu.be/MNm9b9JfU8k

4- actions
Actions in Milan (Italy) in September
https://www.facebook.com/events/927456337420174/

5- witnesses
Richar Flak in Paris
http://www.aurdip.fr/video-de-la-conference-de-richard.html

Gisha
Graphing-10-years-of-closure
http://gisha.org/publication/8227

6-commentaries
https://palestinefrommyeyes.wordpress.com/2017/09/17/has-gaza-ever-been-liveable/ Shahd Abusalama EN

Ramzi Baroud (Ma’an News)
http://zeitun.info/2017/09/07/tre-anni-dopo-la-guerra-parlano-i-giovani-di-gaza/ IT

UPDATES SUMMARY – AUGUST 16, 2017

References
We add links for the mechanism of crossing with Egypt (1) and about options and history of the building of a seaport (2, 3,4)

Witness
We add files by Israeli Gisha (5) and Palestinian center for Human rights (6), a very important film by John Pilger (7), which is not new, but very clearly illustrates the continuing actuality and the depth in time of the Palestinian issue, a video on energy cuts (8)an interview from Caritas in Palestine (9), a recent video about pollution of water (10) one about the present darkness (11)

Correspondence from signatories
A letter from Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout, writer and one by Victoria Britten, journalist (12 and 13).

Issues and tribunals
Believing that the charges according to international law that have been levied at Israel remain at the core of the struggle for justice in Palestine, we added documents from F.Boyles (14) and the final decision of the people tribunal, Russel tribunal on Palestine (15). Other issues raised in the ESCWA report (The report, was retired by UN and it is attached here in pdf: Israeli-practices-Palestinian-people-apartheid-occupation (16)) will be discussed in Belgium (17)

Initiatives/ appeals/campaigns
Since we issued the call many other initiatives have been initiated, here we report some of them, without pretense of exhausting the file

18- the End the blockade campaign that is directed to the UN with similar aims of opening Gaza, as ours

19- a Petition to Macron, France president to take a stance for Gaza opening

20- an information campaign by Oxfam that aims to state that the induced darkness on Gaza amounts to collective punishment

21- a call to action by IfNotNow, US

In the last 3 weeks there has been also an health mission in Gaza by Physicians for human rights Israel, here the report (22) and it was announced that an help caravan form Italy had permission to enter and is travelling (23)

News about health in Gaza in an unending aftermath of war, under blockade and lack of energy, (24) A doctor’s interviews the Deputy Minister of Health for Gaza, Dr.Baseem Naim; a report by PHRI (25) and a scientific publication about the contamination of women in Gaza by heavy metals in the war aftermath (26)

About the right of recurring to ICC of the patients whose life was lost because blocked by denied passage toward hospitals (27), not great audio

We picked some news that may not reach main stream as the filing in to ICC of a complain by the Palestine civil society (28); the comments to press of UNCHR spokesperson (29), the position of Arab donors (30) and a further waste of EU resources and loss for people, in lack still of a clear stand of the EU (31).

REFERENCES

1-EUBAM and port for Gaza
The Council has extended the mandate of the EU border assistance mission for the Rafah crossing point (EU BAM Rafah), as well as the mandate of the EU coordinating office for Palestinian police support (EUPOL COPPS) until 30 June 2018. http://www.eubam-rafah.eu/

2-https://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21718553-plan-build-artificial-island-might-let-palestinians-trade-outside

3-http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/05/open-gaza-seaport-end-blockade-20145141533315444.html

4-building a seaport for Gaza? By the way, contracts for construction of the port were signed back in 1994 between Israel and the PA. The plans were reaffirmed in the 1999 Sharm el-Sheikh memorandum, and construction began in the summer of 2000. But Israel bombed the site during the second intifada and it has since been abandoned.
Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/03/israel-gaza-strip-hamas-benjamin-netanyahu-vladimir-putin.html#ixzz4penQY4wh

WITNESS

5-report from Gisha http://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/shedding-legal-light-gaza-electricity-crisis

6- PCHR- Palestinian center for Human Rights, is currently working on documenting the electricity crisis in a series of videos of people’s daily struggles in their hospitals, houses, factories, farmlands, etc… here the first one https://youtu.be/e_4DXbUInTk, also see http://pchrgaza.org/en/?p=9348

7-John Pilger film http://johnpilger.com/videos/palestine-is-still-the-issue

8-Invicta Palestina video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghes9YcpwyM

9-http://www.bocchescucite.org/gaza-p-raed-abusahlia-caritas-jerusalem-aspettiamo-la-prossima-guerra-non-tardera-ad-arrivare/

10-http://www.ism-france.org/temoignages/Temoignage-video-sur-la-pollution-de-la-mer-de-Gaza-article-20377

11- http://www.huffingtonpost.it/2017/08/09/nel-buio-e-nel-silenzio-gaza-sta-morendo_a_23071766/

12- Bayan Nuwayhed al-HoutBay

23- VICTORIA BRITTAIN

24- https://palestinefrommyeyes.wordpress.com/2017/09/17/has-gaza-ever-been-liveable/ (by blogger Shahd Abusalama) EN

25- http://zeitun.info/2017/09/07/tre-anni-dopo-la-guerra-parlano-i-giovani-di-gaza/ (Voci di giovani di Ramzi Baroud – Ma’an News) IT

ISSUES AND TRIBUNALS

14- Francis Boyles

15- Russel Tribunal on Palestine- http://www.russelltribunalonpalestine.com/en/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/TRP-Concl.-Gaza-EN.pdf

16- ESCWA pdf israeli-practices-palestinian-people-apartheid-occupation

INITIATIVES/APPEALS/CAMPAIGNS

17-https://www.manifiesta.be/fr/programme/palestine-100-ans-de-complicite
During this feast Richard Falk will present the report by himself and Virginia Tilley, previous ESCWA director.

18-End the maritime blockade against Gaza. Campaign at the UN by the group ENd the blockade now, USA. reference Richard Littleton endblockade@gmail.com

19-petition to President Macron
https://www.change.org/p/pr%C3%A9sident-de-la-r%C3%A9publique-urgence-humanitaire-%C3%A0-gaza-lev%C3%A9e-du-blocus

20-Oxfam launched a campaing:
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170807-oxfam-electricity-crisis-in-gaza-strip-is-punishment-for-entire-nation-and-it-must-be-stopped-immediately/
#lights on Gaza at @lightsongaza and video https://www.facebook.com/pg/lightsongaza/videos/?ref=page_internal

21-IfNotNow Pledge to #SpeakTruthToPowerGaza
https://actionnetwork.org/groups/ifnotnow

https://www.change.org/p/eu-stop-gaza-s-isolation (ECCP) EN

MISSIONS IN GAZA

22-PHRI visited in Gaza – http://mailchi.mp/phr/muwsh5pulz-991385?e=19b7f93641

23-music for peace is traveling with a caravan of help items this week

HEALTH NEWS

24-A doctor’s interviews the Deputy Minister of Health for Gaza, Dr.Baseem Naim- August 2, 2017
http://www.pourlapalestine.be/quatre-questions-au-ministre-de-la-sante-de-gaza/

25-http://mailchi.mp/phr/muwsh5pulz-991353?e=19b7f93641

26-https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28768639– A cross sectional study of the relationship between the exposure of pregnant women to military attacks in 2014 in Gaza and the load of heavy metal contaminants in the hair of mothers and newborns

RIGHTS AND RECOURSES

27-press conference video on law issue related to the blockade of patients in need to travel for getting cared (bad audio) MoH and https://www.facebook.com/MOHGaza1994/videos/1927373250873860/

RELEVANT PRESS NEWS

28-Palestinian Civil Society To File A Complaint Before The ICC http://gaza.scoop.ps/2017/07/palestinian-civil-society-to-file-a-complaint-before-the-icc/ and
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2017/07/20/529041/Gaza-Palestine-ICC-Israel-

29-Ravina Shamdasani: Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
http://gaza.scoop.ps/2017/08/unhchr-deeply-concerned-about-deterioration-of-humanitarian-conditions-in-gaza/

30-https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170812-arab-countries-half-their-aid-to-the-pa/

31-https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170811-israel-confiscates-eu-aid-from-palestinian-bedouin-community/

INTERVIEW

Summarizing the health situation under the energy crisis and more

FILMS
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170811-this-is-palestine/

July 12, 2017October 11, 2017

Call for a world wide campaign

UPDATE – OCTOBER 3, 2017

Signatures are more than 4000. We have added some materials in the section References. There is a summary of what was added, followed by the links and files.

UPDATE – AUGUST 16, 2017

Signatures are more than 3600. We have added some materials in the section References. There is a summary of what was added, followed by the links and files.

UPDATE – JULY 29, 2017
Over 3400 individuals and 60 associations and networks from across the world have come together to call for an end to Israel’s policies which are leading to the slow extermination of a population already affected by several military attacks in the Gaza Strip. The campaign, “Gaza alive is life for Palestine“, has received support from Professor Noam Chomsky, Ann Wright, former US Army colonel and peace activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Corrigan Maguire and former Vice President of European Parliament Luisa Morgantini amongst others. See Middle East Monitor

Two days ago there was a cacerolada in Madrid: 10 years ago the block against Gaza was started
www.facebook.com/events/1845593025757290/?ti=icl

PETITION
Gaza alive is life for Palestine

ITA – ESP – عربى – SIGN TODAY – REFERENCES

With the life of people in Gaza seriously endangered, it is the duty of the people of the world, of associations, groups and religious denominations to take responsibility and act. We need to take action to ensure this slow genocide finds its place on the international agenda.

First and foremost, our sights must be on the siege, imposed by the Israeli authorities and actively supported by the Egyptian government. Culpability is also shared by those of their allies who, actively or passively, persist in colluding to deprive Gaza’s people of human rights, essential supplies, medicines, sewage treatment, drinkable water, energy and freedom of movement.

This is not a natural catastrophe, but a man-made one.

Gaza’s slow strangulation highlights not only the sacrifice of the civilians there, but also what hopes may be left for autonomy, freedom and the survival of Palestine.

To those who ask, “Who profits from Gaza staying alive?” the answers are obvious: two million human beings living in Gaza and three million human beings living in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Gaza has been under siege for 10 years now. The 2014 ceasefire agreement between the Gaza Government and factions and the Israeli government included negotiations to open its land borders and provide a seaport, thus providing some relief from the siege.

Over the following three years, with some rare exceptions carried out by rogue actors, Gaza has honored its side of the deal. This has not been the case with the Israelis: low intensity attacks from land, sea and air have been an almost-daily occurrence, and have killed at least 30 Gazans, including fishermen. Rather than enforce the agreement brokered by them, the Egyptian authorities have tightened the siege and increased the suffering by bombing and flooding tunnels, and implementing an almost total closure of Rafah Crossing; the only alternative transit point for people, food, medicines and many other civilian supplies not permitted entry by Israe l-not even after the elaborate agreements reached with the UN for the entry of construction materials to rebuild the thousands of destroyed homes these have been respected by Israel.

Hundreds of deaths have already resulted from a lack of medicines, treatments such as radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and of instruments for diagnostics and care, and more will inevitably result from environmental contamination, poverty and subsequent poor nutrition of the most fragile sectors of the population- especially children. The electricity, fuel, sewage and water situations have become unbearable and untenable, impacting severely on public health. The collapse of productive and commercial activities has resulted in an unemployment rate of over 40% and a consequent sense of despair among the population, affecting mostly the youth.

The currently silent European Union has failed to maintain even its pre-existing commitments. Most obvious is its failure to keep the Rafah border open under the still-active EUBAM mechanism. Similarly, it has abandoned an approved project for a Gaza seaport. Both of these were contained in the 2014 agreements for the cessation of hostilities.

The UN has failed to implement its many Resolutions.

We have been urged to act also by the most recent calls of the PHROC (Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council), Physicians for Human Rights and by the condemnation expressed by Gisha (Israeli Legal Center for the Freedom of Movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories) and the many others now being issued to build up an international campaign for Gaza that presents not only emergency requests, but a list of structural needs to be satisfied.

The list of the interventions is long – because inaction has persisted even longer and it will just keep mounting until change occurs. The time to act and provide what is so urgently needed is short.

The right to health, and to life, can only be guaranteed by a fully-functioning health system, by the provision of essential infrastructure and by a functioning economy. These should be provided by the authorities enforcing the siege. With no firm deadlines or sanctions in place, the international humanitarian laws requiring the occupying entity to provide to the needs of the occupied population have been disregarded and violated for too long. Time has now run out.

In the establishment of an integrated plan for the provision of tools, to accompany the first step in exercising international pressure on the Israeli authorities to fulfill their responsibilities and obligations under international law, it will be necessary to be ready to directly meet the Palestinian people’s essential needs and to do so within a framework that is independent of the parties denying these needs and upholding the siege.

So, we ask the international community of States, the European Union and the UN to act immediately and on a long-term plan of action. There are already frozen funds and approved projects that could accommodate many of the following requests:

– Immediate and stable supply of medicines, medical surgical devices, instruments and their parts, to restore very rapidly the deficits in provision of health services, and grant their maintenance.

– Immediate provision of a stable supply line of fuel to generate energy and of new energy cables to cover needs during construction of a second power plant in Gaza.

– Immediate, stabilized 24/7 opening of the Rafah border by EUBAM.

– Construction of a desalination plant of the size needed to provide drinking water for the whole community.

– Construction of the promised sea port while temporarily ensuring the activation of a small passenger and small items vessel service between Gaza and Cyprus.

– Provision of solar energy plants for all hospital structures serving more than 500 patients/month and for advanced specialist care departments regardless of the number of patients treated, and, in the interim, temporary provision of fuel to cover the requirements of existing generators.

– Delivery of cement and other items needed for housing reconstruction as already ascertained by the UN and UNRWA.

– Reconstruction of the destroyed sewage system and its expansion to meet the population’s needs.

– Establishing and building rubbish recycling and disposal services and plants.

– Granting independent access to satellite and telephone communications.

– Granting the possibility to produce and use local products for trade abroad and to purchase consumer goods from the free market.

If any of the above requests are met, work will restart and the education sector will also see improvements, the circulation of money and goods will make a return in Gaza, and young people may once more have a future to look forward to.

The slow genocide being imposed on the people of Gaza can no longer be accepted. A free Gaza represents the only healthy leverage in the forging of a democratic process in Palestine and its self determination.

Thus is the only realistic step on the road to peace. Act now!

Call started on July 1, 2017 by
Appello per i Bambini di Gaza, Genova, Italia
Cultura e Libertà, una campagna per la Palestina, Italia
NWRG, onlus, Italia

Contact: wexgaza@gmail.com

July 12, 2017July 13, 2017

Appello per una campagna internazionale

ENG – ESP – عربى – firma adesso – link

Gaza deve vivere per la vita di tutta la Palestina

La vita della popolazione di Gaza è seriamente messa in pericolo e noi, cittadini/e del mondo, associazioni, gruppi, non credenti e credenti di fedi diverse, sentiamo la responsabilità di agire laddove le Risoluzioni hanno fallito, e porre all’attenzione internazionale questo lento genocidio.

Prima di tutto il nostro sguardo si appunta sull’assedio, imposto dalle Autorità israeliane e attivamente sostenuto dal Governo Egiziano. Con un concorso di colpa anche di quei loro alleati che, in modo attivo o passivo, persistono nel privare la popolazione di Gaza dei diritti umani, dì rifornimenti essenziali, di medicine, di trattamento del sistema fognario, di acqua potabile ed elettricità, di libertà di movimento.

Non si tratta di una catastrofe naturale, ma prodotta dall’uomo.

Il lento strangolamento di Gaza mette in luce non solo il sacrificio di quella popolazione civile, ma mette in gioco anche le nozioni di autonomia, libertà, in quanto diritti universali e la sopravvivenza stessa della Palestina.

Come cittadini/e del mondo, la nostra responsabilità e il nostro interesse nei confronti del popolo di Gaza è chiedere la sua liberazione, passo essenziale per la liberazione e la conservazione della Palestina.

Alla domanda di coloro che chiedono “Ma chi ci guadagna dalla sopravvivenza di Gaza?” le risposte sono ovvie: i quasi due milioni di esseri umani che vivono a Gaza, e i tre milioni di esseri umani che vivono in Cisgiordania e a Gerusalemme.

Gaza è sotto assedio da 10 anni. L’accordo per il cessate il fuoco del 2014 tra il Governo di Gaza e diverse fazioni palestinesi e le Autorità israeliane, comprendeva negoziati per aprire le frontiere di terra e fornire un porto di mare, in modo tale da alleggerire l’assedio.

Nei tre anni successivi, con rare eccezioni di qualche atto irresponsabile, Gaza per parte sua ha onorato l’accordo. Ma non è avvenuto lo stesso da parte di Israele: attacchi di bassa intensità, dalla terra, dal mare e dall’aria quasi quotidiani e uccisioni di almeno 30 abitanti di Gaza, tra cui pescatori. E le Autorità egiziane, invece di mettere in pratica l’accordo da loro favorito, hanno stretto l’assedio e aumentato la sofferenza, bombardando e allagando tunnel e mettendo in pratica una quasi totale chiusura della loro frontiera con Gaza, l’unico punto di transito alternativo per persone, cibo, medicine e molti rifornimenti civili la cui entrata non è permessa dal confine israeliano.

Israele non ha rispettato nemmeno gli accordi elaborati con le Nazioni Unite per l’entrata dei materiali da costruzione per ricostruire le migliaia di case distrutte dalle sue ultime aggressioni militari.

Si contano ormai centinaia di morti per mancanza di medicine, di cure come radioterapia e chemioterapia, per mancanza di strumenti per la diagnostica e la cura, e aumenteranno inevitabilmente per l’inquinamento ambientale, la povertà e la conseguente malnutrizione dei settori più fragili della popolazione, in particolare i bambini. La carenza di elettricità, carburante, la mancanza di fognature e di acqua potabile è insostenibile e insopportabile, e incide sulla salute pubblica. Il crollo delle attività produttive e commerciali causa oltre il 40% di disoccupazione, con la conseguente disperazione di una popolazione per lo più giovane.

L’Unione Europea, attualmente silenziosa, non è stata neanche in grado di mantenere i suoi impegni preesistenti. Ancor più chiaro il suo fallimento nel tenere aperto il passaggio di Rafah secondo il meccanismo ancora attivo EUBAM. Analogamente è stato abbandonato un progetto approvato per un porto a Gaza. Entrambi questi impegni erano contenuti negli accordi 2014 per la cessazione delle ostilità.

Le Nazioni Unite hanno fallito nell’emanazione delle loro tante Risoluzioni, in quanto Israele non ne ha mai rispettata nessuna, senza per questo subire sanzioni.

Anche i recenti appelli del Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Council (PHROC), dei Physicians for human rights, la denuncia di Gisha e le tante denunce che si susseguono, ci sollecitano a sviluppare una campagna internazionale per Gaza, non solo con richieste sull’emergenza, ma presentando una lista di bisogni strutturali da soddisfare.

La lista degli interventi è lunga – perché l’inazione di fronte alle tante violazioni dei diritti umani è stata ancora più lunga. E crescerà, se non interviene un cambiamento. Ma il tempo per agire è breve se si vuole che le decisioni siano efficaci.

I diritti alla salute e alla vita possono essere garantiti solo da un sistema sanitario pienamente funzionante, dalla fornitura di infrastrutture essenziali, da una economia che funzioni. Sono condizioni che, secondo il Diritto Umanitario internazionale dovrebbero essere fornite dalle autorità occupanti, ma in mancanza di scadenze vincolanti e senza sanzioni il Diritto umanitario internazionale è stato disprezzato e violato troppo a lungo, fino ad essere reso “inutile”. Adesso il tempo è scaduto.

Mentre si concerta un piano integrato per la messa a disposizione di strumenti e si fanno i primi passi per una pressione internazionale sulle Autorità israeliane affinché adempiano alle loro responsabilità e obblighi derivanti dal Diritto internazionale, è necessario essere pronti a rispondere direttamente ai bisogni fondamentali del popolo palestinese e farlo in un quadro di indipendenza dal chi queste necessità nega, mantenendo l’assedio.

Dunque chiediamo alla Comunità internazionale degli Stati, alla Unione Europea e alle Nazioni Unite di agire immediatamente e per un piano di azione a lungo termine. Ci sono già fondi congelati e progetti per rispondere a molte di queste richieste.

– Fornitura immediata e stabile di medicine, presidi medico chirurgici, strumentazione medica e sue componenti, per ripristinare molto rapidamente quanto manca per provvedere alla salute e garantirne il mantenimento.

– Immediata disposizione di una linea stabile di fornitura di carburante per generare energia e nuovi cavi per coprire le necessità, mentre a Gaza si ricostruisce un secondo impianto di produzione

– Apertura immediata e stabile 24/7 del passaggio di Rafah attraverso EUBAM.

-Impianti di desalinizzazione costruiti secondo le tecniche e le misure adeguate a provvedere acqua potabile per l’intera comunità.

– Costruzione del porto e nel frattempo attivazione temporanea di un servizio di piccoli battelli per passeggeri e piccoli carichi, con la terra più vicina, Cipro.

– Fornitura di impianti di energia solare per tutte le strutture ospedaliere che servono più di 500 pazienti al mese e ai dipartimenti per cure specialistiche avanzate indipendentemente dal numero di pazienti e, nel frattempo, fornitura temporanea di carburante per coprire le necessità dai generatori esistenti.

– Fornitura di cemento ed altri materiali necessari per la ricostruzione delle abitazioni, già accertate da Nazioni Unite e UNRWA.

– Ricostruzione ed espansione, come necessaria, del distrutto sistema fognario.

– Costruzione di servizi e impianti di riciclaggio e smaltimento dei rifiuti

– Garantire accesso indipendente alla comunicazione satellitare e telefonica

– Garantire la possibilità di produrre e utilizzare prodotti locali per scambi economici con l’estero, per la compravendita di prodotti per il consumo sul mercato libero

Se si verificano queste condizioni il lavoro potrà ricominciare e anche il settore dell’istruzione migliorerà, a Gaza tornerà la circolazione di beni e danaro, e i giovani potranno avere un futuro.

Non è più accettabile il lento genocidio imposto al popolo di Gaza.

La libertà di vivere del popolo di Gaza è la sola sana leva per un processo democratico in Palestina e per la autodeterminazione del suo popolo.

Dunque è anche il solo piano realistico per la pace. Agire adesso!

Petizione lanciata l’11 luglio 2017 da

Appello per i Bambini di Gaza, Genova, Italia

Cultura e Libertà, una campagna per la Palestina, Italia

NWRG, onlus, Italia

Contatto: wexgaza@gmail.com

July 12, 2017July 13, 2017

Llamamiento para el apoyo de una campaña mundial para Gaza

ENG – ITA – عربى – Sign today – References

La vida del pueblo de Gaza está seriamente amenazada y nosotros, los pueblos del mundo, las asociaciones, los grupos y las confesiones religiosas compartimos la responsabilidad de actuar donde las Resoluciones pasadas han fracasado y asegurarnos de que este lento genocidio ocupe su lugar en la agenda internacional.

En primer lugar, nuestra mirada debe estar en el bloqueo, impuesto por las autoridades israelíes y activamente apoyado por el gobierno egipcio. La culpa también es compartida por aquellos de sus aliados que, activamente o pasivamente, persisten en la confabulación para privar al pueblo de Gaza de derechos humanos, suministros esenciales, medicamentos, tratamiento de aguas residuales, agua potable, energía y libertad de movimiento.

Esto no es una catástrofe natural, sino una catástrofe hecha por el hombre.
El lento estrangulamiento de Gaza pone de manifiesto no sólo el sacrificio de todas las personas allí, sino también las escasas esperanzas que se pueden albergar para la autonomía, la libertad y la supervivencia de Palestina.

Como ciudadanos y ciudadanas del mundo, que ahora están seriamente preocupadas por la difícil situación del pueblo de Gaza, sentimos que es nuestra responsabilidad exigir su liberación, un paso esencial hacia la liberación y preservación de Palestina.

A las personas que preguntan, “¿Quién se beneficia de Gaza viviendo?” las respuestas son obvias: dos millones de seres humanos que viven en Gaza y tres millones de seres humanos que viven en Cisjordania y Jerusalén oriental.

Gaza lleva sitiada 10 años hasta hoy. El acuerdo de alto al fuego de 2014 entre el Gobierno de Gaza y otras facciones palestinas y el gobierno israelí incluía negociaciones para abrir sus fronteras terrestres y proporcionar un puerto marítimo, proporcionando así cierto alivio del asedio.

Durante los tres años siguientes, con algunas raras excepciones llevadas a cabo por actores deshonestos, Gaza ha honrado su parte del acuerdo. No así los israelíes: los ataques de baja intensidad desde tierra, mar y aire se han sucedido casi todos los días, y han matado al menos a 30 habitantes de Gaza, incluidos pescadores. Lejos de apoyar el acuerdo negociado por ellos, las autoridades egipcias han reforzado el asedio y aumentado el sufrimiento bombardeando e inundando túneles, e implementaron un cierre casi total del paso de Rafah, el único punto de tránsito alternativo para personas, alimentos, medicamentos y muchos otros suministros civiles cuya entrada no está permitida desde Israel.

Ni siquiera los elaborados acuerdos alcanzados con la ONU para la entrada de materiales de construcción para reconstruir los miles de viviendas destruidas han sido respetados por Israel.

Cientos de muertes han resultado ya de la falta de medicamentos, de tratamientos como la radioterapia y la quimioterapia, y de instrumentos de diagnóstico y tratamiento, y más resultarán inevitablemente de la contaminación ambiental, la pobreza y la consiguiente malnutrición de los sectores más frágiles de la población, especialmente los niños y las niñas. La situación de la electricidad, el combustible, las aguas residuales y el agua potable se han vuelto insoportables e insostenibles, afectando gravemente a la salud pública. El colapso de las actividades productivas y comerciales ha dado como resultado una tasa de desempleo de más del 40% y un consecuente sentimiento de desesperación entre la población, afectando sobre todo a los jóvenes.

La Unión Europea, que mantiene su silencio, no ha mantenido ni siquiera sus compromisos preexistentes. Lo más obvio es su fracaso en mantener abierta la frontera de Rafah, bajo el mecanismo todavía activo de EUBAM. Asimismo, ha abandonado un proyecto aprobado para un puerto de Gaza. Ambos estaban contenidos en los acuerdos de 2014 para el cese de las hostilidades.
La ONU ha sido incapaz de implementar ninguna de sus numerosas resoluciones.

Hemos sido instados a actuar también por las llamadas más recientes del Consejo de Organizaciones de Derechos Humanos de Palestina, Médicos por los Derechos Humanos y por la condena expresada por Gisha (Centro Legal Israelí para la Libertad de Movimiento en los Territorios Palestinos Ocupados) y muchas otras que se están emitiendo ahora, para construir una campaña internacional para Gaza que presente no sólo peticiones de emergencia, sino una lista de necesidades estructurales que deben satisfacerse.

La lista de demandas es amplia – porque la inacción ha persistido aún más. Y seguirá creciendo hasta que se produzca el cambio. Pero el tiempo para actuar y proporcionar lo que es tan urgentemente necesario es corto.

El derecho a la salud y a la vida sólo puede garantizarse mediante un sistema de salud plenamente operativo, mediante la provisión de infraestructura esencial y por una economía en funcionamiento. Esto debe ser proporcionado por las autoridades que mantienen el bloqueo. Sin plazos firmes ni sanciones, las leyes humanitarias internacionales que obligan a la entidad ocupante a satisfacer las necesidades de la población ocupada han sido desatendidas y violadas durante demasiado tiempo; el tiempo se ha agotado.

Para el establecimiento de un plan integral para facilitar de herramientas, para acompañar el primer paso en la presión internacional sobre las autoridades israelíes para que cumplan con sus responsabilidades y obligaciones bajo el derecho internacional, será necesario definir las necesidades y hacerlo dentro de un marco independiente de las partes que niegan estas necesidades y que sostienen el bloqueo.

Por lo tanto, pedimos a la comunidad internacional de Estados, a la Unión Europea y a las Naciones Unidas que actúen de inmediato y con un plan de acción a largo plazo. Ya hay fondos congelados y proyectos aprobados que podrían acomodar muchas de las siguientes solicitudes:

El suministro inmediato y estable de medicamentos, dispositivos médicos quirúrgicos e instrumentos, para restablecer rápidamente el déficit en la prestación de servicios de salud y garantizar su mantenimiento.
Provisión inmediata de una línea estable de suministro de combustible para generar energía y líneas nuevas de energía para cubrir las necesidades durante la construcción de una segunda central eléctrica en Gaza.
Apertura inmediata, se establece para el 24 de julio de la frontera de Rafha por EUBAM.
Construcción de una planta desalinizadora del tamaño necesario para proporcionar agua potable a toda la comunidad.
Construcción del puerto marítimo prometido, garantizando temporalmente la activación de un pequeño servicio de pasajeros y buques pequeños entre Gaza y Chipre.
Suministro de plantas de energía solar para todas las estructuras hospitalarias que atienden a más de 500 pacientes/mes y para los departamentos avanzados de atención especializada independientemente del número de pacientes tratados y, provisionalmente, suministro temporal de combustible para cubrir los requisitos de los generadores existentes.
Entrega de cemento y otros elementos necesarios para la reconstrucción de viviendas, tal como ya han sido establecidos por la ONU y la UNRWA.
Reconstrucción del sistema de alcantarillado destruído y su expansión para satisfacer las necesidades de la población.
Establecer y construir servicios de reciclado y plantas de eliminación de basura. – Conceder acceso independiente a las comunicaciones satelitales y telefónicas.
Conceder la posibilidad de producir y utilizar productos locales para el comercio exterior y para comprar bienes de consumo en el mercado libre.

Si se cumple alguna de las solicitudes anteriores, se reiniciará el trabajo y el sector de la educación también verá mejoras; la circulación de dinero y bienes retornará a Gaza, y los jóvenes podrán esperar un futuro.
El lento genocidio impuesto al pueblo de Gaza ya no puede seguir aceptándose.
Una Gaza libre representa la única influencia saludable en la forja de un proceso democrático en Palestina y su autodeterminación.
Por lo tanto, es también el único plan realista para la paz. ¡Actúa ahora!

iniciado 11 de julio de 2017 desde,
Appello per i Bambini di Gaza, Genova, Italia
Cultura e Libertà, una campagna per la Palestina, Italia
NWRG, onlus, Italia

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