Ref: 02/2007

Date: 07 February  2007

PCHR Launches a Posters Campaign against Internal Fighting

PCHR launched a large posters and stickers campaign against internal fighting as part of its efforts to stop and condemn Palestinian infighting. The campaign aims to raise the voice of civil society, and enlist popular support against the crimes of internal fighting plaguing the OPT, and to call for dialogue and the rule of law.

Along side field activities, press releases, and other publications, PCHR and other civil society organizations started a drive to put up posters condemning internal fighting and calling for its immediate cessation. Among the slogans in this campaign:

–         Internal fighting is a recipe for self destruction

–         Anyone raising a gun in the face of his Palestinian brother is a criminal

–         Together towards building a secure Palestinian civil society respecting freedoms and rights

–         The jungle of guns means the absence of the rule of law

–         Infighting and security chaos lead to political obscurity

–         Our choice is life not death; Our goal is freedom of country and people

–         Work together to preserve Palestinian life, uphold dignity, support freedom, and respect rights

It is noted that PCHR also participated in setting up a protest tent that organized by public figures and human rights defenders in the Unknown Soldier Park in Gaza City to protest the continued infighting, and to call for stopping it.