The Palestinian Women’s Union in Cairo has scheduled a protest for Thursday to condemn Israeli crimes against the Palestinians, and to support their compatriots’ uprising against 34 years of military occupation.
The London-based Al Sharq Al Awsat quoted Samira Abu Gazalah, president of the union, as saying the women’s protest, to be held at the organization’s Cairo meeting place for two hours in the afternoon, would reaffirm their support for the popular resistance to the occupation and their opposition to the “brutal aggression of the Israeli military against the unarmed Palestinians.”
She said that Israel had escalated the conflict with its policy of assassinating Palestinian leaders, destroying hundreds of houses, killing and harming thousands of citizens with a “racist and unjust siege of a suffering nation.”
The paper said that Abu Gazalah declared Wednesday that the women demanded international protection for the Palestinians.
“The Israeli occupation will only strengthen the Palestinians’ unity and enhance the Palestinian resistance and firmness, until the liberation of the Occupied Territories and the establishment of a Palestinian state,” Abu Gazalah said.
AFP's latest death tally for the Palestinian uprising against 34 years of Israeli military occupation comes out to 13 Arab Israelis, 547 Palestinians, and 146 Israelis, putting the ratio of casualties at around four Palestinians killed for every Israeli loss.
Israel’s wounded number in the high hundreds, while the Palestine Red Crescent Society puts the number of Palestinians injured at over 14,000.
Amnesty International reported early this year that almost 100 Palestinian children had been killed by Israeli soldiers, nearly all in situations where the occupation troops were under no immediate threat – Albawaba.com
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