PNI Mourns the Vicious Murders of Two Young Girls

Ramallah, 30-12-08: Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi MP, The Secretary General of the Palestinian Initiative has expressed this morning his deepest regrets regarding the latest children killing in the Gaza Strip.

This morning, Israeli missiles directly hit a donkey cart driven by two young sisters, aged four and eleven. The sisters were throwing garbage bags into dumpsters outside their home in Jabaliya. Medical sources said Israeli missiles made a direct hit on the girls, and a third sister was loaded onto a donkey carriage and transported to Gaza City’s hospital.

“ It is increasingly clear that Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip is not limited to Hamas”, said the Deputy, “no matters how many times the Israeli administration repeat it to the international media.”

As the fourth day of the massacre unfolds, the body count has already reached over 365, and is steadily climbing higher. The precision guided missiles of the Israelis have now struck hospitals, mosques, private houses and schools, and continue raining down on civilian areas of the world’s most densely populated region.

On behalf of the Palestinian National Initiative, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi harshly condemns these war crimes, and calls for the immediate cessation of Israeli airborne and seaborne attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip.

“It is also now time to put an end to the Israeli campaign of disinformation and lies concerning their targeting and massacring of innocent civilians. Facts and victims are speaking from themselves.”