Sharon ‘creates slow death for Palestinian people’

IT’S been called the slow death. Elderly couples and young children are most at risk.

They wait in their simple homes, without water and electricity, under siege. When they least expect it, sophisticated weapons of death and destruction will blow their homes into dust.

Members of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, people from all walks of life, horrified by the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, are standing in the line of fire, providing the only, albeit token, obstacle to the daily onslaught. Shortly before he was arrested by the Israeli militia, Salah Afifi, one of the solidarity campaign activists said: “there is no resistance here.