The Times Of India, Ju;y 25 2014, Pune: The National Alliance of People’s Movement (NAPM), recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, popularly known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize” has strongly condemned the killing of hundreds of children and civilians in Gaza by the Israeli defence forces, the indiscriminate firing of rockets by Hamas against Israeli civilians.

In a press statement issued on Friday , NAPM has stated, ” We mourn the continued suffering of Gaza’s inhabitants. Gaza faces shortages of water and electricity supply, of hospitals, physicians and medicine, while bombs and bullets kill and injure both civilian people and health workers in a spiral of violence and hopelessness. Around 24 % of all those who have lost their lives in Gaza, as a result of Israeli bombing and military invasion, are children”.

The NAPM has added that the responsibility for such deaths lies with the joint and manifold accountabilities of Israel’s soldiers, Hamas’ fighters and their governments. Other governments are responsible either directly or indirectly through the transfer of weapons, military advice and silence. “

Such countries and the United Nations seem not to have learned from the past. Meanwhile, even as the violence grows rapidly in Gaza, negotiations move at an incredibly slow pace and are hindered by the vested interests of countries that don’t face any bloodshed in this conflict. Dialogue and negotiations cannot be replaced by the use of military force. Revenge solely produces revenge and bloodshed solely produces more bloodshed” said the NAPM.

Web: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/NAPM-condemns-killings-in-Gaza/articleshow/38997326.cms