AhlulBayt News Agency - Establishing a seaport or a waterway in the blockaded Gaza Strip can alleviate the plight of the Israeli siege, chairman of the popular anti-siege committee, Jamal al-Khudari, said Tuesday.
According to Khudari, the bid has been there since 2008, following the arrival of the pro-Gaza flotillas to break the siege and allow humanitarian cases and stranded passengers’ access out of Gaza.
“I hope the seaport affair does not drag us into a new tide of national disagreements. The issue should be a reason to boost national unity and develop a joint Palestinian vision,” he said.
“The situation in Gaza is critical. It has seen an unprecedented exacerbation at a time when the Israeli siege is being toughened,” the activist added. “Over one million Gazans have been living on aid”.
In Khudari’s words, 80% of Gaza’s inhabitants are living below the poverty line and 80% of factories have been totally or partially shut down due to the ban imposed on industrial raw materials and difficulties in commercial exchange.
“The current state of affairs in Gaza requires serious efforts by the international, popular, and institutional bodies to lift the siege on Gaza,” he further stated.
Khudari, meanwhile, hailed the move announced by the Freedom Flotilla coalition to sail a women's boat to Gaza sometime soon in order to break the siege.
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