Urgent Appeal to Stop Implementation of Israel Racist Separation Plan

Ramallah, June, 4, 2002, Wafa - The Palestine Monitor, A PNGO Information Clearinghouse, issued the an appeal to the international community to stop an Israeli racist plan, hereby are excerpts of the appeal:

The implementation of the separation, or outright apartheid policy that the Israeli government has decided to impose in the Occupied Palestinian Territories has begun. So far, little protest has been launched against this merciless plan that is in contravention of the Fourth Geneva Convention and violates international human rights law.

This "silent" war on the Palestinian people in the occupied territories is extremely dangerous, more so than any bloody military aggression. The closure has caused several deaths already and many more innocent people will die still if prevented from crossing checkpoints and roadblocks to receive medical treatment. Furthermore, tens of thousands of people living in remote villages all over the West Bank will starve because food and essential supplies cannot reach them.

The Palestinian areas have been turned into isolated camps of slow death. The world cannot remain silent while millions are being subjected to this horror.

We implore all those with a conscience to contact their government officials and insist that they put pressure on the Israeli government to immediately cease its inhuman policy of collective punishment, mass imprisonment and slow murder of the Palestinian people.

Urge your government to intervene immediately, and demand international protection for the Palestinian people