Over 2,000 Palestinian’s gathered in Gaza with red and Palestinian flags protesting the lockdown at the Egypt and Israel border.
2,000 Palestinian’s gathered at the Erez border crossing with Ireal in Northern Gaza protesting the closure of the borders with Israel and Egypt.
The protests at the Erez border was called by the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) and other left wing groups.
One of the protests organisers, Ramzi Rabah, of the DFLP said “We call on the world to stop the siege of Gaza and to come to the defence of Palestinian workers in all Palestinian territories,”
Another protest which involved a sit-in against the blockade by another batch of a few hundred protesters also took place. Demonstrators were reported to have said that the blockade at the borders where smuggling tunnels have also been closed by both Israel and Egypt governments have caused high unemployment at impoverished areas.
Hamas have also issued a statement saying they will support workers in the Erez border which is an impoverished area in the country, and urged Egypt to open it’s borders with the Gaza strip.
The statement wrote “Hamas supports all workers, especially those suffering until the end of the siege and the reopening of the crossings,”.
Hamas have also called for Islamic nations to issue pressure on Egypt to reopen the crossing between Gaza and Israel.
Both Israel and Egypt have targeted smuggling tunnels at the borders of the Gaza with Israel and Egypt borders which have been used by smugglers to get food from one side to another, especially since June 2007 when Hamas took control of the Gaza strip.
The statement continued “We ask the Egyptian leadership to stop killing our workers by gas that is illegal under international law,” which referred to four Palestinian’s who were trying to make a cross-border smuggling tunnel to Egypt but were poisoned by gas pumped under ground, an incident which Egypt denies.
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The reality of the situation is that Israel was always a burden on us.
Israel has been a burden on us in so many ways other than financial.
We betray our own values when we side with the murderers simply because the murderers happen to be Israelis.
Let’s take the rights guaranteed by our Constitution. You’ll be hard pressed to find a single American who wouldn’t give up his or her life to protect those rights. Yet, when Israel deprives the Palestinians of those same God-given rights, we stick our heads in the sand.
And by so doing, we lose our soul. That is not a financial loss. We should see the light not only because our tax dollars are diverted to a criminal state. We should see the light simply to save our own soul.
How can we live with ourselves when we have to suspend our conscience every time Israel commits a crime?
We always end up paying the price for Israel’s misbehavior. Is there presently a reason for the world to hate us other than siding with Israel every time it commits a crime? Or fighting Israel’s wars from Iraq, to Afghanistan, to Pakistan, to Iran, to God knows where else?
Sure we can argue that we were not innocent throughout our history. We have committed our own crimes against humanity, but that is no reason to add to that shameful past by committing additional crimes on behalf of Israel.
When we see our president who’s a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate unable to condemn a crime simply because the crime was committed by Israel, don’t we deserve to know why?
Don’t we deserve to know why no congressman can criticize Israel without jeopardizing his political career?
Why do our politicians pay allegiance to Israel and not the US? Can a single congressman criticize the prime minister of Israel with the same ease and immunity with which he can criticize his own President?
Why is the prime minister of Israel more immune to criticism in our own Congress than our own President?
Let’s ask ourselves those simple questions. The answers are even simpler.
Don’t we deserve to salvage our own humanity by being able to tell right from wrong?
Do we need Israel’s permission to save our own soul