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Hamas Invites Obama To See The Siege Gaza - If Only He “Dares” Zionist Occupation Wrath
5 June 2009
GAZA, (PIC)-- The government committee against the siege on Thursday invited US president Barack Obama, who is currently visiting Egypt, to visit Gaza Strip to see for himself the amount of suffering of one and a half million besieged Palestinians. The committee in a press statement said that Obama should come to Gaza to witness the repercussions of the oppressive siege not known before in the history of mankind. It asked Obama to pressure Israel to open the crossings and lift the siege in order to reconstruct what Israel had destroyed during its latest war on Gaza and to save thousands of families from displacement and living in the open without shelter. The committee held Obama responsible for the serious humanitarian deterioration in the Strip in his capacity as president of the US, which can pressure Israel. The statement said that the talk about democracy and supporting the weak around the world should be translated into deeds, the committee concluded. Obama’s address to the Muslim world will be judged through his sincerity The Hamas Movement stated Wednesday that the speech which US president Barack Obama intends to deliver to the Muslim world in Cairo would be judged through his seriousness about supporting the justice of the Palestinian cause and respecting the Palestinian people’s choices and will. Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said, in a statement received by the PIC, that Obama’s wishes to establish a Palestinian state and stop settlement activities are insufficient and unworkable in light of the escalating Zionist attacks on the Palestinian people, their land and holy shrines. Spokesman Barhoum called on Obama to adopt new effective policies to counter Israel’s arrogance and its grave racist policies against the Palestinians, and to have positions matching with the size of the Palestinian people’s suffering and going in line with their aspirations for liberation and better life. In the same context, MP Mushir Al-Masri, the secretary-general of Hamas parliamentary bloc, downplayed the importance of Obama’s visit to the region or its ability to make a real breakthrough in the peace process. MP Masri warned of any attempt to make the Palestinian-Israeli conflict summarized in only the issue of ending the Israeli settlement expansion as a prelude to make Arabs and Muslims normalize relations with Israel. In a statement to the Quds Press news agency, the lawmaker called on the American administration to stop its bias towards Israel and to be open to the Palestinian democracy. Gaza children stage sit-in at Rafah crossing asking Obama to lift the siege Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip on Thursday staged a sit-in at the Rafah border crossing under the slogan of a message from Palestinian children to US president Barack Obama asking him to intervene and lift the blockade on the Strip. The children hoisted placards written in Arabic and English asking Obama to end the oppression befalling the Palestinian children, who have been under tightened siege in Gaza for almost three years. The higher national committee to mark the celebration of Jerusalem as the capital of Arab culture 2009 organized the sit-in in cooperation with a local society. Ezzeddin Al-Masri, the executive director of the national committee, said that the sit-in was meant to coincide with Obama's speech in Cairo to send a message to the world that the children in Palestine were still under siege and were still the target of ceaseless Israeli aggressions and murder. He called for more attention to the Palestine cause and for an end to the siege on Gaza to enable the Palestinians live a dignified life, warning that the siege was still reaping lives of Gaza patients.
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