Ref: 56/2007

Date: 18 October  2007

Sourani Meets Danish Representative to the PNA and German Parliamentary Delegation

On Thursday, 18 October 2007, Raji Sourani (PCHR’s Director) met Rolf M. Hay Pereira Holmboe (Danish Representative to the Palestinian Authority), Jens Nauntofte (Senior Foreign Correspondent in the Danish Broadcasting Corporation News), and Said El Ghandour (Project Engineer for the Danish Project in the Central Gaza Strip).

The meeting discussed the human rights situation in the OPT in general and the Gaza Strip in particular, including the internal Palestinian situation and escalating Israeli violations against the civilian population. Sourani also highlighted the most significant effects of the Israeli closure of the Gaza Strip that coincides with an international embargo on the Strip since January 2006. He stressed that the civilian population is the party suffering from the closure as a result of movement restrictions and restrictions on the movement of food, medicines, and goods.

Earlier, Sourani met Prof. Herta Daubler-Gmelin (Chairwoman of the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid in the German Parliament), the director of the Fredrich Numan Foundation, and the director of the Fredrich Ebert Foundation. The meeting took place in the Fredrich Ebert Foundation office in Gaza City. It discussed the human rights and humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. Faisal Abu Shahla (PLC member and Chair of the Monitoring and Human Rights Committee in the PLC), Kamal El-Shrafi (Ex-PLC member), Issam Yunis (Director of Al-Mezan Centre for Human Rights), and Ibrahim Mo’ammar (Director of the National Association for Democracy and Law) participated in the meeting.