[[{"content_id":"100927","domain_id":"0","lang_id":"en","portal_id":"2","owner_id":"29","user_id":"1","view_accesslevel_id":"0","edit_accesslevel_id":"0","delete_accesslevel_id":"0","editor_id":"0","content_title":"Islamic Jihad denounces policy of mass punishment","content_number":"0","content_date_event":"2008-01-27 10:07:00","content_summary":"Israel tries to force the people to conclude that resistance will be useless","content_summary_fill":"0","content_body":" \r\nIslamic Jihad leader Muhammad Al-Hindi said on Saturday that the siege on the Palestinian territories is a continuous escalating Israeli policy aimed at breaking the will of the Palestinian resistance. \r\n \r\nAl-Hindi was addressing a popular conference organized by the Palestinian Centre for Study and Research in the Rashad Ash-Shawwa educational centre in Gaza City.\r\n \r\nThe conference came under the banner of "facing the siege together." \r\n \r\nHe added that embargo has become a policy of collective punishment which is effectively detaining medical patients, students, pilgrims and merchants, as well as other sectors of the Palestinian society, inside a large prison.\r\n \r\n"We do not need their fuel, yet they prevent us from extracting gas from the sea near the Gaza Strip. We do not need their hospitals, yet they deprive our patients of treatment in Arab countries. They are rendering the Gaza Strip on the verge of a famine, trying to let the people come to an inevitable conclusion that resistance will be useless and the best way will be to surrender," Al-Hindi added.\r\n \r\nThe Islamic Jihad leader highlighted that the US blind support for Israel encourages Israel to go ahead with its policy of collective punishment. He said that US support was maintained through US President George W. Bush's last visit to the region when he stated that his administration understands the Israeli measures against the Gaza Strip as self defence.","content_html":"