Egypte laats internationaal gaza onderzoekts team niet toe tot Gaza

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Ze hebben vanaf het begin ook alle hulpgoederen voor Gaza tegengehouden.

Egypt hinders investigations into Gaza war

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:48:46 GMT
Egypt has refused entry into the Gaza Strip to members of an international committee in charge of investigating Israeli war crimes.

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) set up the committee.

Four French and Norwegian lawyers comprise the committee. The ICC had earlier started preliminary analysis into alleged Israeli war crimes in the Gaza war.

Israel's 23-day onslaught in the Gaza Strip killed over 13,00 Palestinian and wounded nearly 5,500 others, a large number of them women and children.

Israel has been accused of using banned weapons against civilians including white phosphorus munitions and depleted uranium.

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Egypt detains German Gaza activist

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:53:07 GMT
Rights groups accuse Egyptian authorities of torturing detainees.
A German-Egyptian student has been arrested during a pro-Palestinian rally in northern Cairo and is being held in a secret location.

Philip Rizk, a 26-year-old student in Cairo, was detained on Friday in Qalubia, north of Cairo, after holding a protest in solidarity with the Gaza Strip.

Eyewitnesses say he was bundled into a white car, with no license plates to an unknown destination. His family believes he is now being held by the Egyptian secret police.

A German Foreign Ministry spokesman, meanwhile, confirmed the incident, saying that the German Embassy in Cairo was looking into the case.

Egyptian authorities regularly arrest anti-government activists, holding many of them without charge in secret locations. Rights groups have accused authorities of torturing the detainees.

Rizk, who has been an outspoken activist on Palestinian issues, writes a popular blog about Gaza on the social networking Web site Facebook.

In some of his posts, he accuses the Egyptian government of contributing to the suffering in Gaza by keeping the Rafah border crossing closed on aid
shipments, during the 23-day Israeli war on the Palestinian enclave.

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