Killing and Cleansing of Civilians in Gaza must stop

October 1, 2004

Civic Forum Institutes expresses its alarming distress of the Israeli daily random killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza and West Bank. That resulted in more than 30 killed, 200 injured, 50 homes destroyed, bulldozing vast areas of farm land and the destruction of civil infrastructure in the last 48 hours.

The Civic Forum Institute strongly denounce the crimes that are committed by the Israeli army against Palestinian civilian and demands the Israeli government to stop this savagery of killing women, children and the elderly without any provocation. CFI is currently occupied with monitoring this deteriorating situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, as it was in past several years working with the Palestinians towards a democratic society.

The Civic Forum demands;

 The United States

 European Union

 United Nations’ Security Council

 Arab States and

 Israeli leftist parties

to swiftly act to stop the blood bath of innocent civilians.