Gilad Shalit lleva cinco años retenido por Hamás. © Particular
Por Rachel Campbell, del Programa Regional de Oriente Medio y el Norte de África de Amnistía Internacional.
“A medida que pasan los días, comenzamos a perder la esperanza de volver a ver a nuestro hijo algún día. No sabemos dónde lo mantienen recluido ni cómo se encuentra […] ni tan siquiera si sigue vivo.”
(Noam Shalit, padre de Gilad Shalit, dirigiéndose a la Misión de Investigación de la ONU sobre el conflicto de Gaza, 6 de julio de 2009)
Mañana se cumplen cinco años del cautiverio del soldado israelí Gilad Shalit. El brazo armado de Hamás, que lo mantiene retenido en un lugar secreto en la Franja de Gaza, lo está utilizando como rehén en la negociación política que pretende llevar a cabo con Israel. Desde que grupos armados palestinos lo capturaran el 25 de junio de 2006 en una base del ejército situada al sur de Israel, se le ha negado todo contacto con el mundo exterior.
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Gilad Shalit has been held by Hamas for five years © Private
By Rachel Campbell from Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Programme.
“As the days go by, we begin to despair of the day when we will see our son again. I know neither where he is held nor how he fares … or whether he is even alive.”
(Noam Shalit, Gilad Shalit’s father, addressing the UN Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, 6 July 2009)
Tomorrow marks the fifth year of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit’s captivity. Hamas’ military wing, who are holding him in a secret location in the Gaza Strip, are using him as a hostage with which to conduct their political bargaining with Israel. Since his capture from an army base in southern Israel by Palestinian armed groups on 25 June 2006, he has been denied all contact with the outside world.
Amnesty International is asking activists around the world to sign our petition to Isma’il Haniyeh, Prime Minister of the Hamas de facto administration in Gaza, urging him to alleviate the suffering of Gilad Shalit and his family by immediately complying with its obligations under international humanitarian law to ensure that he is well treated, held in humane and dignified living conditions, and to allow him to communicate with his family, including through sending and receiving letters. Treating Gilad Shalit as a hostage is a flagrant violations of these obligations as Amnesty International stressed again today together with Israeli, Palestinian and international human rights NGOs.
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This month, Amnesty International's petition was presented to the President of the Human Rights Council © Amnesty International
By Rachel Campbell, Amnesty International Campaigner for Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Today, the UN Human Rights Council will meet to begin debating a crucial report on seriously flawed Israeli and Palestinian investigations into grave violations of international law committed during the 2008-2009 conflict in the Gaza Strip and southern Israel.
By the end of the week it will vote on a resolution on what should be done next. If it does the right thing, its actions could take the conflict’s victims a step closer to achieving the justice denied to them for over two years – this time at an international level.
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© Amnesty International
It’s Saturday 3rd July, and for us, the third day of the ESF will start with action. With our bright yellow t-shirts and jerseys, we headed towards Istiklal, the main busy pedestrian street in Taxim area and started setting up in Galata Saray. We built a long wall and nailed the banner which we all made together the day before. The message was ‘Israel: end the blockade of Gaza’, both in English and in Turkish. Amnesty staff, board members and volunteers gathered behind the wall to symbolise the blockade of Gaza while some were asking for signatures of our postcard action. After the media were gathered, we read the Amnesty public statement out loud from the speaker phone.
The action had very good coverage, mainstream Turkish media and CNN Turkey being some examples and there was a big interest from the public.
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