European municipalities to launch a media campaign to protest Gaza siege

Wednesday November 07, 2007 19:04 by Rami Almeghari - IMEMC & Agencies

A number of European municipalities are set to launch a media campaign to protest the siege being imposed on the Gaza Strip, in a time the siege has endangered all facets of the population’s life.

Emblem of Gaza Municipality

Gaza City mayor, Majed Abu Ramadan, stated Wednesday that he has been in contact with his counterparts in some European capitals, including those of Spain, France, Italy, Norway and Portugal, explaining the plight of Gaza’s 1.4-million residents in the shadow of the Israeli siege.

Abu Ramadan said that such contacts have prompted some European municipalities to launch a media campaign against the siege, intended at making the world public opinion aware of the siege’s grave consequences.

The Palestinian official revealed that he would dispatch a delegation, comprising of board members of Gaza municipality to as large number of world countries as possible, in order to explain the suffering of Gaza under the Israeli closure.

Since mid June, Israel has been strictly closing the Gaza Strop’s border commercial and travel crossings, causing harsh economic complications, with an 80 percent of the population living under beyond poverty line.

United Nations and the European Union have recently called on Israel reconsider the siege of Gaza, given the humanitarian consequences.

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