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ACTION
ALERT: FREE SU'AD GHAZAL - STOP ISRAELI ABUSES OF CHILDREN
January
26, 2001
On January
21, Su'ad Ghazal a 17-year old Palestinian girl from Sebastia village in the Israeli-occupied
West Bank was sentenced by an Israeli court to six and a half years in prison
allegedly for attempting to stab an Israeli settler.
The extreme injustice of this sentence is underscored by the fact that on the very same day another Israeli court allowed Nahum Korman, the settler who pistol-whipped and kicked to death 11-year old Hilmi Shusheh in 1996, to walk free with only a fine and six months of community service. An unrepentant Korman told the media "I take no responsibility for the boy's death...I admit to nothing, and I continue to regard myself as innocent."
These two sentences, along with countless other grave violations of Palestinian children's rights once again highlight the urgent need for international intervention and protection for Palestinians living under Israeli military occupation.
WE URGE YOU TO WRITE LETTERS TO THE U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE, TO THE U.N. HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, TO THE EUROPEAN UNION OR THE GOVERNMENT WHERE YOU LIVE, ASKING THEM TO HOLD ISRAEL TO ACCOUNT AND DEMAND THE RELEASE SU'AD GHAZAL:
TALKING POINTS:
Palestinians cannot get justice in the Israeli legal system, as documented by numerous human rights organizations, and again underlined by the fact that Nahum Korman an Israeli settler who beat to death an 11-year old Palestinian child was just freed with only fine and community service.
WE CALL ON:
All governments to demand that Israel release Su'ad Ghazal and hold Israel to account for abuses of human rights;
Ms. Mary Robinson, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to immediately intervene in the case of Su'ad Ghazal and investigate Israel's systematic abuses of the rights of Palestinian children.
PLEASE SEND YOUR EMAILS TO:
U.S.
Secretary of State Colin Powell
Email: secretary@state.gov
Fax: 202-261-8577
Ms.
Mary Robinson
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Emails: webmaster@unhcr.ch and areca@unhcr.ch
Mr.
Romano Prodi
President of the European Union
Email: romano.prodi@cec.eu.int
Please cc your letters to: child_rights@mail.com and Al-Awda-Alerts@mail.com
Information provided by Defence for Children International/Palestine Section and LAW--The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment was used to prepare this action alert.
Action
alert prepared by:
Ali Abunimah, USA
Arjan El Fassed, Netherlands
Zahi Damuni, USA
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