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Targeted assassinations
Targeted assassination, contribution to peace?
European Jews for a Just Peace*
Press statement, 23 June 2003
While the Palestinian National Authority and Egyptian
mediators are trying to obtain a cease-fire from
Hamas, the Israeli government has carried out yet
another targeted assassination, described by Israel's
policy chief for the territories, Major-General Amos
Gilad as a "contribution to peace".
Shortly afterwards, more house demolitions and
killings were carried out by the IDF in the Gaza
Strip. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, speaking at the
weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, on Sunday June
22nd, said that Israel can continue building in the
occupied territories, "but should not celebrate the
construction, should just build".
We call upon the members of the Quartet and in
particular on the European Union to face their
responsibilities and to put real pressure on the
Israeli government to meet its undertakings instead of
allowing its resort to terror and destruction of
Palestinian lives and property, and its threat to the
lives of all people in the region and to the peace
process, to go unremarked.
EJJP Executive Committee,
23 June 2003
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