Solidarity with the Palestinian hunger strikers
The KKE expresses its solidarity with the 8.000 Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, and especially with the 1.500 hunger strikers protesting the unacceptable conditions of their detention. They are kept imprisoned without any indictment been brought in against them, without possibility of communication with their advocates and relatives, in conditions similar to those at the detention camps in Guantanamo and in Iraq. The attitude of the Israeli government puts at stake the life of the Palestinian prisoners, since they explicitly state that they will not set back even if the Palestinians lose their lives.
During the Olympic Games, the Israeli government escalates again its aggressive policy, violating once more all international conventions, ignoring the condemnation of the "wall of shame” and disregarding the international protestation for the continued occupation and the massacre against the Palestinian people.
The USA, the European Union and the governments of several countries including the Greek one are jointly responsible for this new provocation since their tolerance and silence in fact encourage the Israeli actions.
The KKE calls upon the Greek people as well as all those that invoke the "Olympic Ideals” to express with all possible means their solidarity with the struggle of the hunger strikers and all the Palestinian people, for the end of the occupation and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.
Athens, 17 August 2004
The Press Bureau of KKE
During the Olympic Games, the Israeli government escalates again its aggressive policy, violating once more all international conventions, ignoring the condemnation of the "wall of shame” and disregarding the international protestation for the continued occupation and the massacre against the Palestinian people.
The USA, the European Union and the governments of several countries including the Greek one are jointly responsible for this new provocation since their tolerance and silence in fact encourage the Israeli actions.
The KKE calls upon the Greek people as well as all those that invoke the "Olympic Ideals” to express with all possible means their solidarity with the struggle of the hunger strikers and all the Palestinian people, for the end of the occupation and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.
Athens, 17 August 2004
The Press Bureau of KKE
e-mail:cpg@int.kke.gr