Malta Peace Council Condemns Israeli Raid On Humanitarian Mission
The Malta Peace Council strongly condemns, with alarm and apprehension, the killings which took place as Israeli troops, in defiance of international law, boarded, assaulted, killed and wounded many civilians in its attempt to break and shut out the humanitarian aid mission to the people of Gaza.
VENGEFUL AND LETHAL ARROGANCE
The fact that this raid took place in international waters, as confirmed by senior United Nations officials, causes further alert and trepidation amongst all decent and peace-loving humans.
This is a violation of international law and nothing less than a massacre.
No imaginable violence against the mighty Israeli forces by the civilian activists can be conceived.
No retaliatory excuse can ever justify the action taken by the Israeli naval forces for firing at the ships, killing innocent civilians, boarding their ships and taking them over into Israeli waters and ports.
Further illegality involved the comprehensive Israeli media operation including the communications blockage and cut-off and the confiscation of all communication equipment, the quarantining of reporters and the defiant refusal of any legal assistance to the activists taken prisoners.
However, such measures cannot hide the severity of the crime! None can trust the Israeli propaganda machine to know what happened.
The Malta Peace Council stresses the importance of urgently lifting the blockade of Gaza.
We support the E.U. position declaring that “the continued policy of closure is unacceptable”, and calling for the “unconditional opening of the crossing for the flow of humanitarian aid”.
Have we become too cowardly to save lives?
How longer are we going to submit to Israel’s law of rule and its ‘gunboat diplomacy’?
Israel is the foremost threat to world peace! We join the worldwide condemnation of Israel!
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