Palestine Center Statement on Gaza

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.