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Home  ISLAM SHARIAH LAW AND FINANCE Arabs must use oil, wealth to secure end to bloodshed
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(MENAFN - Arab Times) Kuwaitis and Arab residents on Friday staged the largest demonstration in the country against Israel since the start of the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip on Dec 27. More than 5,000 people, including women, marched after Muslim Friday prayers at the Grand Mosque in Kuwait City, chanting slogans against the Israeli attacks and in support of the Hamas movement. They then assembled outside parliament building where they heard speeches from MPs and activists condemning the "Israeli massacres" in Gaza and also the silence of Arab regimes.
Arabs should use oil and their huge wealth to secure an end to the bloodshed," Islamist MP Nasser Al-Sane told the gathering. "It is shameful that they (Arab leaders) are holding a summit while there are Israeli flags still flying in (some) Arab countries," he said. Kuwaitis have been holding protests against the Israeli attacks on Gaza that has
so far killed more than 1,100 people and wounded more than 5,000. Arab leaders are due in Kuwait for next week's Arab Economic Summit which will also discuss the situations in Gaza.
Meanwhile, the Awqaf Secretariat-General has donated KD 300,000 to support Palestinians in Gaza, General-Secretary of the Secretariat Dr Abdul-Ghafar Al-Sheriff told Al-Seyassah daily. Dr Al-Sheriff hoped the donation will alleviate sufferings of innocent people. He said such acts were part of fundamental activities of the secretariat, whereby it stands by people during difficulties and tries to solve their problems to the best possible limit. He stated that its assistance is not limited to war-torn regions, but also areas experiencing natural disasters like famine, hurricane and earthquakes. He affirmed that the secretariat presented the donation through the Joint Kuwaiti Relief Committee in
line with its policy of cooperating with other charitable organizations and NGOs in carrying out such activities. "This is part of efforts of Kuwait to rescue depressed and needy people in Gaza, as well as Kuwait's normal response to such situations globally," Dr Al-Sheriff added.
In another development, about 59 Kuwaiti columnists, in a jointly signed press statement, have appealed to the international community to ensure that Israel stops attacks on Gaza, unconditionally withdraws from Palestinian territories, lifts ban on movement of people within the area and opens all borders, especially the Rafah border, reports Al-Seyassah daily. The local daily columnists urged Islamic and Arab nations to sever ties with the Zionist nation, illegalize maintenance of ties with Israel, sue it for genocide against innocent civilians and raise funds to reconstruct Gaza after the massacre.
They expressed concern of Kuwaiti government and citizens towards terrible political, psychological and financial condition of Gazans and accused some politicians and journalists of issuing irresponsible comments over the incidents.
"It behooves on us all to stand against the injustice and aggression going on in Gaza where Zionists freely assassinate innocent children, women and old people. This is the nature of Kuwaiti people and we had taken a similar step by assisting Iraqi immigrants after occupation," the statement said And in New York, Kuwait called on the international community and the Security Council in particular to establish a working group mandated to look for effective ways to provide protection to civilians in armed conflicts in
the Gaza Strip or elsewhere in the world.
Kuwaiti charge d'Affaires Khalaf Bu Dhhair told the Security Council as it examined 'Protection of civilians in armed conflict' that the meeting was taking place while civilians were suffering the impact of armed conflicts in many places around the globe, especially in Gaza.
He requested all member states to seriously consider the Secretary-General's 2007 proposal, which included his vision of a practical solution for committing the Council to civilian protection by establishing a working group on the issue.
That group would assist the Council to move towards real and effective implementation of efforts to protect civilians in armed conflict, he said.
The United Nations Charter, international humanitarian law and divine law, he noted, held all states, particularly member states of the Security Council, responsible for seeking all possible means to grant the United Nations a vital and tangible role on the ground to protect humankind, especially civilians in armed conflict.
The tragic circumstances facing the unarmed Palestinian population suffering under the "Israeli onslaught" in the Gaza Strip, he said, required urgent international action.
The Palestinian population was largely civilian, he explained, only a fraction belonged to the militia. It was facing a professional military institution using bombs that "filled the hearts of children with horror".
He argued that such indiscriminate actions on the part of Israel could only lead to the creation of a more violent and extremist generation, and would engender more hatred and resentment.
The same applied to those who lived under siege and who were denied food and medicines, he added.
The Israeli occupation was a clear violation of international law, and when "arrogant countries" allowed the "sound of arms" to prevail and believed that through killing, terrorizing and starving innocent civilians they could achieve political gains, they were totally mistaken. "This is a dead-end road," he declared, adding that such postures only transformed those seeking better lives for themselves into extremists that knew only the language of violence and bloodletting.
At the end of the meeting in which 50 speakers participated, the council president Jean-Maurice Ripert of France read out a presidential statement in which the members expressed their deepest concern that civilians were still the most common victims of violent acts committed by parties to armed conflicts.
They reaffirmed that such parties bore primary responsibility to "take all feasible steps to ensure the protection of affected civilians and to meet their basic needs, including by giving special attention to the needs of women and children." Social Reform Society condemned the carnage taking pace in Gaza and denounced Israeli forces for massacring
innocent people, reports Al-Seyassah daily.
Kuwait, Bahrain and UAE branches of the society said Israel is trying to eliminate the resistance movement. Members of all three branches called all and sundry to support the beleaguered people of Palestine and urged kings and heads of states of Islamic states to take effective steps to prevent the carnage.
The society also called for suing Israeli political and military leaders for the crimes they perpetrated against innocent civilians. "The people of Gaza are facing the Israeli military bravely and are continuing to offer resistance. Their steadfastness comes from their belief in the Holy Quran and their faith that Allah will grant them victory," Al-Seyassah daily quoted a researcher at the Jerusalem Center for Documentary Studies Issa Qadoumi as saying.
He was speaking at a seminar 'Gaza from Inside,' organized by Islamic Heritage Revival Society in Al-Omariya. He said "Palestinians were displaced due to a British project stated in Balfour Declaration and this resulted in the domination of Israelis in Palestine, in addition to the establishment of their settlements."
Stating that Hamas members were imprisoned when a siege was imposed on Gaza, Qadoumi said "Jews don't want Palestinians to gather in the West Bank or in Gaza and hence they are carrying out their hideous carnages." He further noted that the Jewish entity was happy when Baghdad collapsed because "it wants all Arab and Islamic states to collapse so that it can terrorize Arab armies."
There are more than 1,000 tunnels connecting Egypt's Rafeh area with Gaza Strip and these have helped in supplying food and other necessities to Palestinians who are totally isolated from the rest of the world. He said more than 100 clerics have condemned the siege imposed on Muslims.
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