Mishaal calls for ending Gaza siege once and for all

DAMASCUS, (PIC)– Khaled Mishaal, the supreme Hamas leader, held a series of contacts with Arab leaders and officials to discuss the Freedom Flotilla massacre committed by Israel against the defenseless convoy.

Hamas said in a statement that Mishaal on Monday contacted Libyan leader Muammer Al-Gaddafi, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh, Syrian vice president Farouk Al-Shara and foreign minister Walid Al-Moalem, Arab League secretary general Amr Mousa, and organization of Islamic conference secretary general Dr. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu.
It added that Mishaal, who also reached a number of other Arab officials, stressed that the Zionist crime should be condemned and the Zionist leaders should be tried as war criminals and they should not be allowed to evade responsibility.
The Hamas leader said that this historic moment should be exploited to break the siege on Gaza once and for all, the statement said, adding that Mishaal also called for full solidarity with Turkey and the activists on board the Freedom Flotilla.
Another Hamas leader Dr. Salah Al-Bardawil told El-Bayan website on Monday that what happened to the Freedom Flotilla at the hands of “Zionist gangs” was a miniature replica to what happened in the Gaza Strip at the hands of the Zionist military arsenal that bears “brutal grudge against humanity” and that targets the “innocent and the unarmed”.
He charged that Israel launched its savage bloodbath depending on the unlimited American support and the “shameful” silence on the part of some Arab regimes that is tantamount to “collusion”.
Bardawil said that maybe next time countries would be sending such convoys and would back the end of Gaza blockade.
Taher Al-Nunu, the Palestinian government’s spokesman in Gaza, said that Israel would not go away with the crime and would be punished.
He told a rally that ended a march of thousands in Gaza city in protest against the Israeli attack on the Freedom Flotilla that left tens of them either killed or wounded that Israel intentionally targeted Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of the Islamic movement in the 1948 occupied Palestine.

Haneyya: The victims of Freedom Flotilla are the Palestinian people’s martyrs

GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya on Monday described the victims of Freedom Flotilla as “the Palestinian people’s martyrs” and declared Monday as “the day of freedom,” calling for a general strike tomorrow in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
In a televised speech, Haneyya demanded all parties participating in besieging Gaza to stop their collusion with Israel and called on the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority to stop all forms of negotiations with Israel.
The premier also stated that his government decided to give all participants in the convoy a medal of honor to immortalize their heroism and their humanitarian movement.
He also called on the Arab League and the organization of the Islamic conference to hold an emergency meeting to address the implications of this crime and to take a decision to break the blockade on Gaza.