Police move againist Israeli Embassy Protestors

national | miscellaneous | news report Tuesday April 02, 2002 16:38 by Aidan

The following is a statement Natasha and Venus asked to published, Furthermore We've learnt that that the Garda's have moved againist them in the last hour.

Venus and Natasha have climbed a tree in the grounds of the Israeli Embassy,
they mantain that they will remain in the tree and stay on hunger strike
until the Israeli Ambassador speaks to them.

This is their statement.

The Irish Consulate in Tel Aviv David Gunniy made a statement that they are
holding the Israeli government responsible for the lives of Irish citizens
Caoimhe Butterly and Mary Kelly.

We are very concerned that both the Geneva Convention and the Oslo accord
that protects the lives of the innocent civilian in Palestine and recognises
Palestine as a Palestinian state are being ignored.

We are waiting here for the Israeli ambassador to come and speak to us. We
want to be given complete assurance that at the very least, the lives of our
best friend Caoimhe and Butterly and our friend Mary Kelly and all the other
international observers are safe and that no further harm will come to them

Furthermore we demand an explination for the shooting of the aidworkers,
international journalists observers, and innocent Palestinian civilians.

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We've just learnt that Natasha has been forceably removed from the tree by
Garda, despite previous assurances from them that this would not be a course
of action they would undertake. Furthermore the Garda are intimidating
protestors who are videotaping them, and threating supporters with arrest.