Peacewatchers block Danish Ministry of Foreign affairs

international | rights, freedoms and repression | press release Sunday May 23, 2004 00:24 by Palestina Peacewatchers - Palæstina Fredsvagter

Gaza is bleeding.

a "Die In" outside the danish ministry of foreign affairs by 30 former peacewatchers to demonstrate the attrocities put upon the Palestinian people by the israeli occupation in Gaza and killings in Rafah which has given worldwide ressonans.
International Peacewatchers are on their way to the Gaza area in a protest demonstration.

30 former Palestina Peacewatchers blocked the entrance to the danish ministry of foreign affairs with a "Die In". Everyone was hoping this morning (May 21st) that Israel had heard the UN security council and the outside world's condemnation of killing and housedestruction in Rafah, as the military seemed to be in the process of withdrawal from the area.
But no,the israeli minister Gideon Ezra ensured on israel radio that the operation will continue.According to the israeli newspaper Haaretz, the israeli army warns the Palestinians that they wil not be able "to breathe freely".
"Die In" in Copenhagen spread to other localities in the city later in the day.
Peacewatchers protest against Israels continuous raging in Rafah and demand an international act against the occupation and the horrifying consequences for civil palestinians.
"Each day without international action,civil palestinians,many innocent children amoung them, lose their lives.It is unbearable."
International Peacewatchers are ,at this moment, on their way to Sufa, outside Gaza, to a protest demonstration.
The 20 year old Randa Sebelin from Denmark is participating in the demonstration.