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Israeli Human Rights Groups Urge Lifting of Gaza Blockade

HeadlineJan 16, 2009

Meanwhile, in Israel, two Israeli human rights groups urged the Supreme Court to stop the Israeli government from worsening Gaza’s humanitarian crisis.

Human rights attorney Yadin Ilam: “We know for a fact that 250,000 people are without electricity since the war started twenty days ago, and half a million people are without proper water. Sewage is overflowing to the street, and we are on the verge of epidemics. So we are here to ask the Supreme Court to order the army to supply the Gazan citizens, who are not part of this war, with proper water, electricity and medicine and whatever else that they need.”

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