Agha: Palestinian generations won't forgive those besieging, starving them

28 September 2007

GAZA, (PIC)-- Dr. Mohammed Ramadan Al-Agha, the agriculture minister in the PA caretaker government of the legitimate PA premier Ismael Haneyya, has affirmed Thursday that the escalated IOF troops' aggressions on the Palestinian people were part of the Israeli policy attempting to subjugate the Palestinian people.

But he affirmed that regardless of the Israeli pressures on them, the Palestinian people will remain steadfast and adherents to their national constants and legal rights in their homeland.

"The Palestinian generations will never forgive those participating in besieging and starving them as history will record that there were Palestinian parties that participated in the US-Israeli economic blockade against their own people", Agha affirmed in a press statement he made Thursday.

He also lashed out at those "receiving enemies and killers of the Palestinian people at their homes and coordinating with them in security matters against their own people", in clear allusion to PA chief Mahmoud Abbas and head of his illegitimate government Salam Fayyadh.

Furthermore, the PA official deplored what he called"unexplained silence" on the part of the Arab and international communities towards the Israeli atrocities against the Palestinian civilians, explaining that such "unjustifiable" silence had encouraged Israel to pursue, unabated, its slaughter of innocent Palestinian civilians.

"It is indeed regrettable that the international community and the Arab world are watching the suffering and the starving of our children without taking a step forward to stop that humanistic tragedy", said Agha.

Agha was apparently reacting to the latest IOF troops' military onslaught on Beit Hanon city, northeast of Gaza Strip, where he confirmed that hundreds of dunums (1 dunum = 1,000 sq. meter) of Palestinian agricultural lands in the city were bulldozed by the Israelis.

"The IOF troops aren’t awaiting excuses to attack Gaza Strip as they indeed storm it on daily basis with and without reasons and deliberately bulldoze fruitful trees and destroy hundreds of greenhouses leaving behind big destruction every time they unleash an incursion", he pointed out.

In this regard, Agha asserted that the PA government of premier Haneyya was in continuous contacts with Arab and foreign parties so as to acquaint them with the Israeli crimes against the Palestinian man and land.

He also called on Palestinian factions to consolidate ranks in confronting the Israeli hostilities against the Palestinian people, underlining that the Israeli occupation government was targeting all Palestinian factions without discrimination.

Since March of last year, the USA, Israel, and their local, regional, and international allies had led an international economic embargo against the Palestinian people after they elected Hamas Movement to rule them in unprecedented clean and honest democratic elections in the region.

Hundreds of Palestinian children and elderly people had died so far due to that crushing sanctions; yet the Palestinian people appeared to be determined to cling to their legal rights and national constants despite the harsh blockade.