-Caveat Lector- --- Rima Anabtawi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To: "Al-Awda-News" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: "Al-Awda-Refugee-Support" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Al-Awda-Muslim-Outreach" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Al-Awda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "Rima Anabtawi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 12:45:21 -0500 > Subject: [AL-AWDA-News] An Appeal For Help from > EPCSPP > Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > THE Egyptian Popular Committee in Solidarity with > Palestinian People (EPCSPP) > > AN APPEAL > TO ALL Human Rights Defenders > > WE URGE YOU to intervene with the Israeli > authorities > to allow the humanitarian relief convoys of medicine > and food, to be handed over to the Palestinians. > These convoys are blocked at the boarders to the > Palestinian territories in Rafah and Amman. > They are in danger of rotting and expiring due to > several months storage since 29th June 2001, > while > Palestinians are suffering severely. > We suggest addressing this appeal to: > > 1- International Red Cross: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 2- United Nations Secretary General: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 3- UN. Refugees Relief Agency: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 4- European Union: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 5- Egyptian Foreign Ministry. > 6- League of Arab Countries. > > We wish to have some feed back on the response to > this > appeal. If you have received it and acted upon it, > we > would be grateful if you could inform us at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If you wish to be taken off our mailing list please > notify us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For MORE DETAILS About EPCSPP, and the situation of > its convoys you might find the following useful: > > The Egyptian Popular Committee in Solidatiry with > Palestinian People (EPCSPP) was established on the > 13th of October 2000, shortly after the beginning of > the (second) Palestinian intifada. > Membership of the committee is open to Egyptians > regardless of their political beliefs or > affiliations. > The EPCSPP aims to show the Egyptian people's > solidarity with the Palestinians; who are besieged > in > their own homeland and suffer the daily horrors of > occupation. > Among other forms of solidarity the EPCSPP has > undertaken the organizing of convoys carrying > donations of food supplies, medicine and blankets to > the Palestinians, who are in dire need of such > humanitarian aid. The EPCSPP collects these > donations > from individuals, charities and other organizations, > and delivers them to representatives of the > Palestinian authorities at Rafah on the border > between > Egypt and Palestine. The Israeli occupation army > controls the borders, on the Palestinian side. > The first relief convoy organized by the EPCSPP, > arrived in Rafah on the 26th of November 2000, was > allowed to enter Palestine 25 days later, on the > 21st > of December 2000. > Since then the waiting period has been lengthened > with each successive convoy. > At the moment the EPCSPP is still trying to secure > the entry of its 6th convoy. This convoy, which > contained 650 tons of food and half a million > (Egyptian) pounds worth of medicine, arrived in > Rafah > on the 29th of June 2001. After various de-marches > by > the EPCSPP with the International Red Cross, the > UNRWA, the UN, the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign > Affairs, the Egyptian Red Crescent …etc. requesting > their intervention, the Israeli authorities finally > allowed medicine and 50 tons of food to go through. > 600 tons more of food are still waiting there on the > Egyptian side of the border. Also blocked at the > Egyptian border are 400 tons more of food. These are > backlogs from earlier convoys that had been sent by > local branches of the EPCSPP. On top of all that the > depots at Rafah are reportedly over flowing with > material that has been donated by various Egyptian > organizations, and that is being blocked by the > Israeli authorities. > What the Israelis have in fact been doing since the > so called partial lifting of the blockade, is to > allow > 2 or 3 trucks (that is around 50 tons or so with > variations depending on the material being > transported) to pass the Egyptian border each day. > This includes every thing, aid from Egypt aid from > outside Egypt, commerce whatever. And this is on the > days when the borders are not closed. > The situation on the Jordanian border is reportedly > no better. > > > > > > Hisham Mubark center of law > Kourneesh Elniel Street 1041 > Cairo _ Egypt > T & fax : 3625784 > http://communities.msn.com/antizionism > > > ãÑßÒ åÔÇã ãÈÇÑß ááÞÇäæä > 1041 > Ô ßæÑäíÔ Çáäíá ÇáÞÇåÑÉ > ÊáíÝæä - ÝÇßÓ: 3625784 > > > >
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