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Citizens for Fair Legislation
For Immediate Release
May 20, 2004
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5/19/04-CFL ALERT: WAR CRIMES OCCURRING RIGHT NOW, EMAIL, FAX AND CALL YOUR
REPRESENTATIVES AND THE PRESIDENT NOW!
Wednesday morning, the Israeli Occupation Forces fired three shells into a
crowd of 3000 peaceful protesters, killing scores. Most of the dead were
children. We don’t have precise numbers on how many Palestinians have been
killed, as the Israeli army will not allow either medical personnel or
reporters into Rafah. Reports indicate that Rafah’s morgue is overflowing and
locals are asking anyone with large refrigeration systems to donate them for
use as makeshift morgues. Reports indicate that there are at least 50 dead
from the last two days alone and that hundreds more are injured. Please
contact your officials immediately, email, call or fax and ask that they
intervene.
TALKING POINTS
*Amnesty International issued a report today stating that Israel is committing
war crimes in Rafah. The report says, “Israel's unjustified destruction of
thousands of Palestinian and Arab Israeli homes as well as vast areas of
agricultural land has reached an unprecedented level and must stop
immediately.” Contact your representatives today and ask them to uphold
international law immediately. Tell your representatives that the US is
responsible for Israeli war crimes because the US is the largest donor of
welfare to Israel.
*Amnesty International is asking the US to stop the sale or transfer of
weaponry and equipment used by the IOF to perpetrate war crimes against
Palestinians. We call on all American companies and universities to
immediately divest from Israel until that country abides by international and
humanitarian law. In fact, the UN’s special human rights envoy in the West
Bank and Gaza said on Wednesday that the Rafah strikes were war crimes and a
violation of humanitarian law, and that the Security Council should consider
imposing an arms embargo against Israel just as it had against the apartheid
regime in South Africa in 1977.
*Leaders from around the world, including Israeli Knesset members are calling
the events in Rafah a massacre and war crimes. British Prime Minister Tony
Blair on Wednesday condemned Israel's recent military offensive in a Gaza
refugee camp as "unacceptable and wrong." The United States refuses to condemn
the attack.
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