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From: najla10@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 02:21:39 +0100 (BST)
- Turn off your power supply at the mains

- Turn off your water supply at the mains
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- Stop using all forms of transportation

- Stop going to work, school or college

- Reduce your food intake to a minimum and eat sporadically

- Ask your neighbour to play loud music all through the night

Do this until we tell you to stop!

If you take the challenge, you will have some idea of the conditions faced by thousands of Gazans right now.

Help Margaret Beckett See The Light!!

If you can't stomach the 'Israel Challenge', then we
ask you to send a tealight/candle to Foreign Minister Margaret Beckett
now, asking her to forward it to the people of Gaza. She has refused to
condemn the Israeli attack against Gaza ? maybe thousands of tealights
will make her see the light.

The Rt. Hon. Margaret Beckett

Foreign Secretary

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

King Charles Street

London SW1A 2AH
***

Sample letter to the Foreign Office to be sent with
the candles:

Dear Rt. Hon. Margaret Beckett, Foreign Secretary

During the early hours of 28 June 2006, the Israeli
Occupation Force launched a ground offensive into Gaza. As part of
the assault, the Israeli Air Force attacked three bridges and the Gaza City
power station, cutting power to much of the area.
The transformer station is also used to help pump water. As the power has been severed, the water cannot be pumped and Gazans are unable to access water. As a result, some 860,000 residents in Gaza are currently without electricity and running water.

The situation is further exacerbated by the use of sonic booms, whereby
low flying planes break the sound barrier over Gaza to fulfill Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert's order that no one should be able to sleep at night in
Gaza.

The Israeli army has seized half of the democratically elected
government and a quarter of the elected MPs inside the Occupied
Palestinian Territories.

According to The Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network (Pengon):
The public health and safety and environmental hazards stemming from
the damage caused to infrastructure as a result of this military operation
include:

- water shortages

- contamination of any remaining drinking water

- uncontrolled discharge and flow of untreated sewage
in the streets, resulting in groundwater pollution

- pollution of agricultural land which Gazans will be unable to cultivate to harvest crops, negatively impacting their earning power

- damage to marine life as untreated wastewater flows into the sea

- migration of fish to other parts of the coast, resulting in a
reduction in the number of fish caught and, concomitantly, money
earned by Gazan fishermen

- direct exposure to untreated wastewater in open systems

- indirect human health risks due to the consumption of polluted crops
and fish

- an increase in waterborne acute and infectious diseases as a result
of additional viruses, bacteria and protozoa in the water.

These are likely to cause serious illnesses ranging from
gastroenteritis and cholera to liver failure and death.
Once again the British Government remains silent in the face of the latest round of collective punishment inflicted on the people of the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Please forward this candle to the people of Gaza as a token of my support during this current crisis.

Please can you also assure me that the British government will:

- Immediately work for the restoration of EU aid to the Palestinian authority?

- Demand that Israel ends it blockade and restore Palestinian taxes to the Palestinian Authority.

- Demand that Israel ceases all military action in the Occupied Territories.

- Apply pressure through the United Nations for Israel to respect the UN resolutions requires its withdrawal from the territories it illegally occupied in 1967.

- Demand the release of all elected Palestinian officials held by Israel and a program for the release of all prisoners held in violation of international law.

Yours sincerely:

Name

Address

Signature

---------------------------------
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  - Turn off your power supply at the mains
 
  - Turn off your water supply at the mains
 d
  - Stop using all forms of transportation
 
  - Stop going to work, school or college
 
  -
Reduce your food intake to a minimum and eat  sporadically
 
  - Ask your neighbour to play loud music all through the night
 
   Do this until we tell you to stop!
 
   If you take the challenge, you will have some idea of the conditions faced by thousands of Gazans right now.
 
   style="mso-spacerun: yes"> 
Help Margaret Beckett See The Light!!
  
  If you can't stomach the 'Israel Challenge', then we
  ask you to send a  tealight/candle to Foreign Minister Margaret Beckett
  now, asking her to  forward it to the people of Gaza. She has refused to
  condemn the
 Israeli  attack against Gaza ? maybe thousands of tealights
  will make her see  the  light.
 
   The Rt. Hon. Margaret Beckett
 
  Foreign Secretary
 
  Foreign and
w:st="on">Commonwealth Office
 
  King Charles Street

 
  London SW1A 2AH
    ***
  
  Sample letter to the Foreign Office to be sent with
  the candles:
  
  Dear Rt. Hon. Margaret Beckett, Foreign Secretary
 
   During the early hours of 28 June 2006, the Israeli
  Occupation Force launched a ground offensive into Gaza. As part of
  the assault, the Israeli Air Force attacked three bridges and the Gaza w:st="on">City
  power station, cutting power to much of the area.
   The transformer station is also used to help pump water. As the power  has  been severed, the water cannot be pumped and Gazans  are unable to  access  water. As a result, some 860,000 residents in Gaza are currently without electricity and running water.
 
   The situation is further exacerbated by the use of sonic booms, whereby
  low  flying planes break the sound barrier over Gaza to  fulfill Prime
  Minister  Ehud Olmert's order that no one should be able to  sleep at night in
  Gaza.
  
  The Israeli army has seized half of the democratically elected
  government and a quarter of the elected MPs inside the Occupied
  Palestinian Territories
.
 
 According to The Palestinian Environmental NGOs  Network (Pengon):
 The public health and safety and environmental  hazards  stemming from
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> 
 the  damage caused to infrastructure as a result of this  military operation
  include:
 
   - water shortages
 
   - contamination of any remaining drinking water
 
   -
uncontrolled discharge and flow of untreated sewage
  in the streets, resulting in groundwater pollution
  
  - pollution of agricultural land which Gazans will  be  unable to  cultivate to  harvest crops, negatively impacting their earning  power
 
   - damage to marine life as untreated wastewater flows style="mso-spacerun: yes"> into the sea
 
   - migration of fish to other parts of the coast,  resulting in a
  reduction in  the number of fish caught and, concomitantly, money
  earned by Gazan  fishermen
  
  - direct exposure to untreated wastewater in open  systems
 
   - indirect human health risks due to the consumption  of polluted crops
     and  fish
 
   - an increase in waterborne acute and infectious  diseases as a result
    of additional
viruses, bacteria and protozoa in the  water.
 
   These are likely to cause serious illnesses ranging from
  gastroenteritis and cholera to liver failure and death.
  Once again the British Government remains silent in  the face of the  latest  round of collective punishment inflicted on the  people  of the w:st="on">Occupied  Palestinian Territories.
 
   Please forward this candle to the people of Gaza as a token of my support during this current crisis.
 
  Please can you also assure me that the British government will:
 
   - Immediately work for the restoration of
EU aid to the Palestinian authority?
 
  - Demand that Israel ends it blockade and restore Palestinian taxes to the Palestinian Authority.
 
  - Demand that Israel ceases all military action in the Occupied Territories.
 
  - Apply pressure through the United Nations for w:st="on">Israel to respect the UN resolutions requires its withdrawal from the territories it illegally occupied in 1967.
 
  - Demand the release of all elected Palestinian officials held by Israel and a program for the release of all prisoners held in violation of international law.
 
   Yours sincerely:
 
   Name
 
 
  Address
  
  Signature


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