Falk: Anti-Rafah Wall and Pro-Sanctions against “Israel”
Local Editor, 31-12-2009
Richard Falk, the UN special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Gaza Strip calls for military and economic sanctions against "Israel", noting that the UN has not been willing to give what's needed to exert pressure on "Israel" in order to end the unlawful blockade on Gaza.
Falk also said that a move towards economic sanction including military assistance is the only effective thing at the time being, criticizing the international community for its failure to end the "Israeli" blockade against Gaza.
The UN expert on Palestinian rights also asked for more "effective international approach" in order to lift the three year blockade that shocks the conscience of humanity, stating that the difficulties faced by the Palestinians due to the "Israeli" siege, should be protected in someway by the international community.
Falk told UN Radio: "Obviously Israel does not respond to language of diplomacy, which has encouraged the lifting of the blockade and so what I am suggesting is that it has to be reinforced by a threat of adverse economic consequences for Israel."
Ever since Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip in June 2007, "Israel" has tightened a blockade all around Strip. And now, Egypt is designing a 30 meter deep and 10 kilometer long steel wall along its border with Gaza, which interferes with and destroys the tunnels that have been bringing in food and material the Gaza population needs.
UN's Falk deplored the construction of the wall, and as Xinhua quoted him saying: "I'm very distressed by that, because it is both an expression of complicity on the part of the government of Egypt and the United States, which apparently is assisting through its crops of engineers with the construction of this underground steel impenetrable wall."
Falk concluded his statement saying:"And of course, the underground tunnel complex itself is an expression of the desperation created in Gaza as a result of this blockade that's going on now for two and a half years", adding that since World War II, people still haven't experience in such a severe and continuing form.
Richard Falk, the UN special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Gaza Strip calls for military and economic sanctions against "Israel", noting that the UN has not been willing to give what's needed to exert pressure on "Israel" in order to end the unlawful blockade on Gaza.
Falk also said that a move towards economic sanction including military assistance is the only effective thing at the time being, criticizing the international community for its failure to end the "Israeli" blockade against Gaza.
The UN expert on Palestinian rights also asked for more "effective international approach" in order to lift the three year blockade that shocks the conscience of humanity, stating that the difficulties faced by the Palestinians due to the "Israeli" siege, should be protected in someway by the international community.
Falk told UN Radio: "Obviously Israel does not respond to language of diplomacy, which has encouraged the lifting of the blockade and so what I am suggesting is that it has to be reinforced by a threat of adverse economic consequences for Israel."
Ever since Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip in June 2007, "Israel" has tightened a blockade all around Strip. And now, Egypt is designing a 30 meter deep and 10 kilometer long steel wall along its border with Gaza, which interferes with and destroys the tunnels that have been bringing in food and material the Gaza population needs.
UN's Falk deplored the construction of the wall, and as Xinhua quoted him saying: "I'm very distressed by that, because it is both an expression of complicity on the part of the government of Egypt and the United States, which apparently is assisting through its crops of engineers with the construction of this underground steel impenetrable wall."
Falk concluded his statement saying:"And of course, the underground tunnel complex itself is an expression of the desperation created in Gaza as a result of this blockade that's going on now for two and a half years", adding that since World War II, people still haven't experience in such a severe and continuing form.
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