Dear friends,

I have just returned from a ten days visit to Palestine where, again, I witnessed and experienced what Roberts Burns called "Man's inhumanity to Man".

During these 10 days there were no suicide bombings but on a daily basis Israeli incursions, targeted killings, mass arrests, settlement building and an acceleration of the wall construction continued relentlessly.

The check-points continue to strangulate Palestinian society and suffocate the economy. In a globalised world where productivity and competitiveness are important, the Palestinian people lose daily millions of working hours on check-points.

The Wall of shame, if allowed to continue will eat up to over 50% of the West Bank and the Palestinians are being literally caged in small cantons and communities are totally dislocated, disconnected.
 

For further information please visit:
1- http://www.stopthewall.com  (Campaign & Information)
2- http://www.palestinemonitor.org
3- http://www.palestinecampaign.org
 

Afif Safieh
Palestinian General Delegate to the
United Kingdom and to the Holy See

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