(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - First deputy speaker of the Palestinian legislative council Ahmed Bahar appealed to the inter-parliamentary union, the European Union, the Arab League and the Arab parliaments to urgently and necessarily intervene to save the Gaza Strip from an imminent human catastrophe as a result of the tight Egyptian and Israeli blockade.
This came in urgent messages sent by Bahar to heads of the inter-parliamentary union, the European Union, the Arab League and the Arab parliaments.
His letters highlighted the environmental and health dangers threatening human life in the besieged Strip.
"It is no longer secret how much pain and suffering the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip endure as a result of the unjust blockade, which is unprecedented in modern history and portends dire environmental, health and humanitarian disasters during the coming days if they were not addressed quickly," the Palestinian lawmaker stated in the letters.
He explained that the fuel crisis and the resultant power outages seriously affected all public services in Gaza, especially those provided by the health and environmental sectors.
He also said that the closure of the border crossings and the restrictions imposed by Israel and Egypt on the entry of building materials and vital needs worsened the economic and humanitarian situation in Gaza.
The lawmaker noted that more than 12,000 Palestinian citizens in Gaza are homeless due to their failure to rebuild their homes that were destroyed during Israel's repeated military assaults.
He also pointed out that 57 percent of the Palestinian families in Gaza suffer food insecurity, and the unemployment has reached more than 40 percent and is still on the rise.
The lawmaker warned that the lives of thousands of patients in Gaza are threatened because of the acute shortage of medical supplies, stating that 141 medicines and 469 medical consumables and items became unavailable in Gaza.
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18 November 2013 - 09:51
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