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January 16, 2009

Israeli Human Rights Groups Urge Lifting of Gaza Blockade
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Meanwhile, in Israel, two Israeli human rights groups urged the Supreme
Court to stop the Israeli government from worsening Gaza’s humanitarian
crisis.

Human rights attorney Yadin Ilam: “We know for a fact that 250,000
people are without electricity since the war started twenty days ago,
and half a million people are without proper water. Sewage is
overflowing to the street, and we are on the verge of epidemics. So we
are here to ask the Supreme Court to order the army to supply the Gazan
citizens, who are not part of this war, with proper water, electricity
and medicine and whatever else that they need.”



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