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". Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, a real humanitarian disaster has been taking place in Gaza over the last few hours, involving more than one million civilians. UN, UNICEF and WFP reports talk of a desperate situation. Gaza has become a prison in which an entire population is being collectively punished. The international community had finally come to an agreement to ensure that the Palestinians received the aid they needed to survive via the European Union, but all of that is now pointless since Gaza is practically isolated and nothing is getting through to an exhausted and humiliated population. The Palestinian issue cannot, however, become a humanitarian issue, because it remains a major political issue. The indiscriminate decapitation of Hamas was, for its part, an act of madness, firstly because the members of parliament and the ministers now legitimately represent the majority of the Palestinian population, but mainly because Prime Minister Haniyeh had given the go-ahead to the so-called ‘prisoners’ document’ and had actually dissociated himself from the most intransigent of the positions adopted by the Hamas representatives in Syria, avoiding the referendum and paving the way for a coalition government in Palestine. With these actions, the Israeli authorities are in real danger of once again encouraging the most extreme and violent fringes of Palestinian society. Corporal Gilad Shalit must be released, just as an entire population must be released from the grip of an army that is infringing every aspect of the law. In the past, the European Parliament has pressed for aid to be allowed to get through to the Palestinian population; today, the same Parliament is calling on the European governments and the Presidency to demand respect for fundamental human rights, so that people can resume their lives in Gaza and so that political prospects can be re-established in place of violence and abuses of power."@en1
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