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MP out to promote peace process in visit to Gaza

from Cambridge evening news | 28.06.2004 12:26 | Cambridge


CAMBRIDGE MP Anne Campbell will visit Gaza next week in a show of solidarity with the Palestinian people and to gain first-hand experience of their daily plight.

Mrs Campbell, a member of the all-party Palistinian group in Parliament, is one of two British MPs to attend a conference aimed at empowering Palestinian women in politics.

The conference, organised by the Palestinian Council on Foreign Relations, will bring together Palestinian women leaders and female European Parliamentarians who will contrast their different experiences of public life.

The women-to-women event will also give Mrs Campbell the opportunity to see Palestine for herself, having developed an interest in its troubled people over several years.

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in the meantime...

28.06.2004 13:45


... a 4 year-old child, Afik Zahavi, is killed in a Palestinian Qassam rocket attack on Sderot. What, if anything, will be said about this?

shlomi


also in the meantime...

28.06.2004 13:50

Sixteen-year-old Asma al-Mughayr and her 13-year-old brother Ahmad were shot dead within minutes of each other on the roof-terrace of their home in Rafah. Each was killed by a single bullet in the head, Asma while taking clothes off the drying line and her brother Ahmad while feeding the pigeons. What, if anything, will be said about this?

salman


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