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Urgent Action Alert - “unprecedented” humanitarian crisis in Gaza


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Urgent Action Alert

Write to your MP about the “unprecedented” humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip

We are witnessing a horrific escalation and intensification in the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, with food, fuel and medicine being blocked for prolonged periods.

Two weeks ago Israel issued a written list of goods banned from import into Gaza . The list, which has baffled UN officials, includes spices, kitchenware, glassware, yarn and paper.

John Ging, director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza , The Washington Post 15 November 2008 said:

"This is a disastrous situation, and it's getting worse and worse... It is unprecedented that the UN is unable to get its supplies in to a population under such obvious distress;

More & details of what they want you to do:

http://community.livejournal.com/free_palestine/665727.html



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