Nobel Women's Initiative

Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire is calling on the Egyptian government to open its border with Gaza to allow people and aid to enter the territory freely. This following the assault on a humanitarian convoy last week. Read the statement.

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Egyptian riot police and intelligence officers attacked members of a humanitarian convoy on their return from delivering much needed supplies to the people of Gaza. The group was part of an international delegation that gathered in Egypt at the end of December to mark the one year anniversary of the Israeli invasion of Gaza. The 22 day military offensive killed 1400 people and since that time the Israeli military cut off all access to Gaza.

The blockade has left 1.5 million people with inadequate access to food, water, health care, electricity, sanitation and educational facilities. The Egyptian government is supporting the siege by restricting the flow of goods and people across its shared border and intends to build an 18m wall deep into the ground to prevent the use of tunnels connecting to the occupied territory.

Maguire is appealing to the Egyptian authorities to open its border and is calling upon the international community to work towards bringing an end to the illegal and inhumane Israeli occupation. 

 

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Endorse the Cairo Declaration on the Gaza Freedom March website

Support legislative action to end the suffering in Gaza with the Friends Committee on National Legislation

 

LEARN MORE

Terror is the price of support for despots and dictators, The Guardian UK,  7 Jan 2010

Read the full report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict

From the Nobel Women's Initiative Site:

Learn more about Israel-Palestine

Read about Maguire's Attempt to break the siege of Gaza