APPEAL OF THE PALESTINIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE BOYCOTT (BNC) occupied Palestine, June 8, 2010 - Following the killing of aid workers and activists on board the Freedom Flotilla, which occurred May 31, 2010, and the insistence of Israel want to continue the illegal siege of Gaza putting pressure on the Zionist state to force it to comply with its obligations under international law has become a matter of undeniable urgency. Drunk with power and meaning of his own impunity, Israel has ignored the recent calls by UN Secretary-General, in addition to widespread opinion among the governments of the world, to put an end to his deadly siege. Israel has also downloaded the weight of moral responsibility to do something about the civil society, forced itself to try to make him take responsibility and to respect international law in order to put an end to his unpunished crime. The global campaign led by the Palestinian boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel has proven to be the most effective way to get the results listed above. The prolonged blockade that Israel imposed in respect of essential food, medical supplies and materials for education and the construction is not only immoral, it is a severe form of collective punishment, a war crime prohibited by Article 33 of the Fourth Convention Geneva. The block results in widespread poverty, the water contamination, environmental degeneration, chronic diseases, the economic devastation and hundreds of deaths. This medieval siege, in place for three years against 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza, was unequivocally condemned by leading legal experts, including the Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied territories of the UN, Prof. Richard Falk, who has described the situation as a "slow genocide."
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