Ramallah, 02-03-08: Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi MP, Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative, called on international organisations and foreign diplomatic services to act immediately to save the life of Mervat AbdelSalam Abu Shbak and her three children, who are now besieged in their house in Ahezbet Abed Rabbo neighbourhood, East of Jabaliya in the Northern Gaza Strip.
Dr. Barghouthi said that the lives of Mervat AbdelSalam Abu Shbak and her children are in grave danger and urged immediate international action to protect their life and ensure their safe exit from their besieged house. “The Israeli military cannot be allowed to recklessly endanger the lives of civilians without any reactions. Let us act now and save these four innocents” said Dr. Barghouthi.
Mervat AbdelSalam Abu Shbak has already lost two children in a recent Israeli military attack. Saturday her daughter, 17-year-old Jacqueline, saw her 14-year-old brother Iyad struck down by an Israeli artillery shell. As she rushed towards him Israeli soldiers shot her in the heart. Mervat could not attend the funeral of her children because of the Israeli tanks besieging her house.
Mervat and her surviving children need immediate protection from the Israeli military.