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UN official, John Dugard : "Gaza is a prison and Israel seems to have thrown away the key.”

category galway | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Thursday September 28, 2006 01:19author by TD - Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Gaza, the prison, "where life is intolerable, appalling and tragic".

John Dugard, the UN Special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territory has charged that Israel’s security measures are in violation of international humanitarian law and amount to "collective punishment."

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Related Link: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/27/146236

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"Israel is an army with a state attached"
author by -publication date Sat Oct 21, 2006 21:23author address author phone

or if you prefer - " Israel is a military organisation & war economy with small elements of a democratic state attached "

Palestinians didn't even get that far.

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