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Titolo: Human rights groups to Israeli High Court: Stop the harm to the civilian populat

Human rights groups to Israeli High Court: Stop the harm to the civilian
population in Gaza 
Today, July 11, 2006, six human rights groups petitioned the Israeli High
Court demanding that the crossings in Gaza be opened to allow for the
steady and regular supply of fuel, food, medicine, and equipment,
including spare parts needed to operate generators. 
The groups – The Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Physicians for
Human Rights-Israel, Hamoked: Center for Defence of the Individual,
B’tselem, The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel and Gisha -
Center for the Legal Protection of Freedom of Movement also asked for an
urgent hearing in order to prevent serious harm to the health of the
civilian population, especially patients in hospital, and to prevent the
breakdown of the water and sewage system in Gaza. 
During the current military operation in the Gaza Strip the Israeli
military has interrupted the supply of fuel to Gaza and kept Gaza's
crossings mostly closed to supply of food and other humanitarian goods.
The uninterrupted supply of fuel and equipment is necessary for the
functioning of Gaza's health and sanitation systems, and Gaza requires a
steady supply of food and medicine.
Since Gaza's power station was destroyed on June 28, there is an increased
need for fuel to power the generators in Gaza and for spare parts to keep
the generators running at such a high capacity. The closure of Karni
Crossing has led to shortages in food at a time when, given the difficulty
of obtaining electricity to prepare and refrigerate foodstuffs, Gaza
requires increased shipments of dairy products, meat, flour, and other
goods. 
Without a steady supply of fuel and parts, hospitals cannot perform
life-saving surgery and treatment plants cannot pump and treat sewage in
Gaza. Gaza hospitals have reduced their activities to life-saving
procedures. Since the bombing of the power plant, Gaza's water utility has
been dumping 60,000 cubic meters of raw sewage into the sea each day, for
lack of power and equipment to run the treatment plants, and there is
concern that untreated sewage will pollute the aquifer or spill into the
streets. 
Because of the electricity shortages, stores in Gaza have stopped selling
meat and dairy products. Trucks laden with food and medicine have been
stuck at Karni Crossing, which has been closed since July 6, including 230
containers from international aid organizations.
Withholding fuel, food, and equipment from Gaza residents constitutes
collective punishment, in violation of international law. The petition
argues that Israel is not fulfilling its legal obligations to provide for
the needs of the civilian population and to distinguish between military
and civilian targets.
According to Faysal Shawa, a businessman and Gaza resident: "We have been
thrown back to the way people lived 100 years ago ... We don't have water,
we don't have milk for our kids."
According to Maher Najer, Deputy Director of Gaza's Water Company: "We
face severe shortages in the electricity, fuel, and spare parts needed to
operate Gaza's water and sewage systems. These shortages threaten to
create a public health catastrophe." 
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 population in Gaza 
Prima liberino Shalit.
"Mostrare cammello, prima di vedere soldi"
Mirco

 Prima liberino Shalit.
che c'entra Shalit, un militare, con i crimini che IL sta commettendo
contro i civili di Gaza solo un nazistucolo come te lo sa.
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 contro i civili di Gaza solo un nazistucolo come te lo sa.
Centrano quanto i civili tedeschi nella WW2.
Voluta la bicicletta? Adesso pedalino.
Mirco

 Centrano quanto i civili tedeschi nella WW2.
che strano che ti ricordi solo di loro eh nazistucolo? 
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