Haneyya Asks Mousa for Urgent Aid

19 February 2008

GAZA, (PIC)--Ismail Haneyya, the premier of the PA caretaker government, has asked Arab League secretary general Amre Mousa to expedite assistance to the Gaza Strip after the League's ministerial council declared it a "disaster area".

Haneyya in a message to Mousa on Monday evening asked about the League's plan to implement this decision and the earlier one of breaking the siege on Gaza.

"Our people are looking forward to their Arab brothers and waiting for their support," he said, hoping that the League decisions would not be shelved.

The premier had started his letter with a review of the Israeli daily aggressions on the Palestinian people that culminated in the murder of entire families other than the gradual reduction in supply of electricity and fuel.

Haneyya asked what the League would do in face of such unending IOF "savagery" and plans of invading the Strip.