The number of Palestinians injured or killed in Israel's war on Gaza continues to rise [GALLO/GETTY]Israel’s Aggression in Gaza must end immediately.
The Palestine Center calls on the United States and the international community to end Israel’s military onslaught against 1.5 million Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip. Israel’s current military assault on Gaza is an escalation of its prolonged humanitarian warfare effort which has claimed hundreds of Palestinian lives.
The Palestine Center calls on international aid agencies to immediately dispatch supplies and personnel to the area to assist the desolate local emergency responders and aid workers dealing with the massive death and destruction in Gaza.
When addressing the unfolding events in Gaza one must look beyond the collapse of a cease fire between disproportionate powers and recognize the root cause of this conflict, Israel’s continued occupation and siege of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Israel’s unsanctioned indifference to international law and human rights has allowed it to maintain a brutal military occupation of over 3 million Palestinians for 41 years and to act as a nation above the law, immune from accountability for its criminal acts.
The Palestine Center is an independent think-tank committed to communicating reliable and objective information about the Palestinian political experience to American policy makers, journalists, students and the general public. Established in 1991, it is the educational program of the Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development.
The Palestine Center brings together people and resources within the American and Palestinian communities to educate about Palestine and the Palestinian people’s ongoing quest for sovereignty on their land, civil and political rights and an end to Israeli occupation.
The need for an organization such as The Palestine Center can be found in the effects of the economic, cultural and political oppression Palestinians have endured and which continues on a daily basis in East Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the surrounding refugee camps and for Palestinians world-wide as they struggle to retain their homeland.
Palestinians’ ability to maintain their daily lives and strengthen their democratic political system depends on international humanitarian and non-governmental organizations such as The Jerusalem Fund.
