Palestine News Network (PNN) : "Italy attacking Nativity Church deportees, Fateh criticized for not addressing issue at Conference"

Italy attacking Nativity Church deportees, Fateh criticized for not addressing issue at Conference

22.08.09 - 21:54

Gaza / PNN – The Palestinians deported and exiled by Israeli forces from the Church of Nativity are still outside.

Some were deported to the Gaza Strip with instructions to not leave Gaza City and to not engage in any political activity. If they did, their fates would be more unknown than they are now.

Those exiled to Europe have had as difficult time as the Gazans, and perhaps much more so. Most cannot work and are allotted a paltry sum by the Palestinian Authority in order to survive.

It was only supposed to last a year or two, three at the most. It has been more than seven.

The concern today was issued by the deportees in Gaza who are calling to end the suffering of those exiled to Italy. It has been more than two years that the Italian government has not fulfilled the obligations it agreed to toward the Palestinians living in exile. The West Bank residents now in Gaza are asking that the Palestinian Authority pressure the Italian government.

Fahmi Canaan is a spokesperson for the Palestinians deported to the Strip. He said Saturday, “Our brothers are exiled in Italy where they are now sitting at the Palestinian embassy. The Italian government is engaged in trying to crush them and repeatedly expel them from Italy.”

Canaan also issued a sentiment that is shared by hundreds of people involved, saying that he “strongly deplores the great failure on the part of the Palestinian Authority on the issue of deportees.”

Canaan directed additional criticism of the Fateh Sixth Conference held earlier this month in Bethlehem. During all the back-slapping there was no talk of the issue outstanding since Spring 2002. “It did not address the issue of deportees at all, even though it took place in Bethlehem, the birthplace of the exiles.”

He added, “We are still suffering the pain of distance and separation from our families and loved ones.”





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