Dr Derek Summerfield deserves full praise for his timely and
courageous report on the brutal Israeli occupation of Palestinian
territories. The Palestinian people, as he describes, are being
subjected to denial of health care, daily humiliation, detention
without charge or trial, torture, extra-judicial assassination,
demolition of their homes, uprooting of their trees, and
expropriation of their land, for the creation of illegal Jewish
settlements. All these practices are in violation of virtually every
article of the Fourth Geneva Convention, and thus are defined as war
crimes.
It is,thus, the duty of all those who claim to care for human
rights and international legitimacy to demand an end to this
oppresive illegal occupation that has been allowed to stand for 37
years, in defiance of international law and repeated Security
Council resolutions.
Yours sincerely, Ismail Zayid, MB., BS.; FRCPath.
Competing interests: None
declared