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. Mustafa Barghouthi MP, Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative declared today that "Israel is killing babies, children and entire families while the world remains silent. This very silence is enabling the Israeli crimes. It must stop."

Mahmoud Al Masalmah, 14, was shot in the heart Sunday in Beit Awoua village, near Hebron. Muhammad Shreitih, 19, was shot in the head today in Al-Mazra’a Al-Qibliya village, near Ramallah. Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi MP, Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative declared: “these two young boys were participating in non-violent demonstrations to protest the Israeli killings in Gaza. And Israeli soldiers killed them! This is murder.”

The Israeli attack on Gaza launched from Wednesday 27 February to Monday 3 March killed more than 120 Palestinians. Palestinian and international sources confirmed that 31 children had been killed, and are investigating 13 more reported child fatalities. Dr. Barghouthi MP, Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative, declared “this horrendous death toll clearly highlights Israel’s contempt for Palestinian lives, even children. These deaths are war crimes.”

“Yet another example of the nonchalance of Israeli police forces in the face of violence by settlers and extremists against Palestinians” was how PNI Secretary General, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi MP described an attack by members of Israeli far right groups on the Jabal Al Mukaber neighbourhood of Jerusalem last night.

"Ehud Barak's actions are those of a war criminal, one who should be tried in an international court for crimes against humanity," said PNI Secretary General Dr. Barghouthi today, dismissing a statement by Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak that the killing of four Palestinians by an undercover Israeli death squad in Bethlehem late on Wednesday night, demonstrated Israel's commitment to "pursue and strike all killers with Jewish blood on their hands."

I'm calling on you in this moment while the Gaza Strip where I'm living is under attack by the Israeli occupation forces. They are showing no mercy; killing children, our beautiful youth and women. Seventy Palestinians were killed since Wednesday, the youngest of whom was six months old. Tens have been injured.