Wednesday, November 1, 2006

Haneyya: Beit Hanun massacre fruit of Lieberman's admission into Israeli cabinet

"Gaza - Ismail Haneyya, the PA premier, on Wednesday strongly condemned the IOF troops' massacre in Beit Hanun to the north of the Gaza Strip that claimed the lives of six Palestinians and wounded more than 50 others.

Haneyya, speaking to reporters in Gaza city, said that the Israeli military escalation targeted foiling the Palestinian democratic experience that brought Hamas to power.

He charged that the bloodbath was the first fruit of the admission of the Israeli political extremist Avigdor Lieberman to the government, affirming that his admission would lead to escalation in the Israeli aggressions on the Palestinian people.
The IOF incursion in Beit Hanun further fell in line with the campaign of pressures on the Palestinian people and government, Haneyya opined, urging the Palestinians and their political forces to enhance national unity and to cement ranks in face of those dangers.

The premier asked the international community, the Arab League and the legal organizations to immediately intervene to stop the IOF invasion and to put an end to the expected IOF military escalation in the Strip.

He hoped that the escalation would not affect the ongoing talks in Cairo over a prisoners' exchange deal between the Hebrew state and the Palestinian resistance factions capturing the Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit.

Meanwhile, the PA health minister, Basel Na'im, warned of a human catastrophe in Beit Hanun in the event the IOF troops' siege of the town persisted.

He denounced, in a press conference on Wednesday, the IOF bloody incursion that killed at least six Palestinians and wounded more than 50 others, seven of whom were in serious conditions.

He denounced the IOF troops for blocking the humanitarian mission of medical teams and even firing at ambulance cars. He said that the soldiers refused to coordinate with the medical teams to enable them evacuate the casualties.

The minister beseeched the Red Cross and concerned international organizations to pressure the IOF command into allowing entry of medicine, medical material and blood donations into Beit Hanun badly needed by the wounded civilians."

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