JERUSALEM, August 22, 2009 (WAFA)- On The International Women’s Commission’s (IWC) visit to evicted homes east Jerusalem, on Friday, former EU Parliament Vice-President Luisa Morgantini said that “It’s not enough to call for a stop to the settlements. We need the international community to take concrete action.”
The international community must suspend all military aid to Israel and suspend investment in West Bank colonies, she continued on.
The IWC called for the world to take action to reverse Israel’s forcible eviction of two Palestinian families from their homes in occupied East Jerusalem.
The IWC, a coalition of prominent Palestinian, Israeli, and International women, was set up during a meeting in Istanbul in 2005. Supported by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the organization is co-chaired by Finnish President Tarja Halonen and Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.
