[[{"content_id":"81284","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":"Syria warns about Gaza siege","content_number":"0","content_date_event":"2008-01-21 15:13:00","content_summary":"","content_summary_fill":"0","content_body":" \r\nSyrian Arab Republic called on Monday for the lift of Zionist siege against Gaza, warning against a humanitarian tragedy due to the regime's violation of the simplest human rights norms.\r\n \r\nIn a statement, the Foreign Ministry source condemned Zionist regime for perpetrating the massacre and imposing the suffocating siege in Gaza, according to the official SANA news agency. \r\n \r\n"The talk about a Palestinian-Israeli peace process is quite contrary to giving a green light for more aggression and siege," the source was quoted as saying.\r\n \r\nThe source added that "the Palestinian issue is currently passing through an unprecedented and dangerous development which requires the Palestinians to return to a national unity." \r\n \r\n"Syria believes... that the lifting of the blockade being imposed on the Palestinian people is an Arab and international responsibility and that it requires immediate intervention to halt these collective punishments and crimes by Israel," the source said.\r\n \r\nThe main power station that supplies Gaza electricity completely stopped on Sunday night due to fuel shortage.\r\n \r\nZionist regime on Thursday decided to tighten a closure that has been imposed on Gaza since mid June, when Hamas took control of the coastal strip. All crossings leading to Gaza have been closed down.\r\n\r\nat least 37 Palestinians have been martyred since Israel launched its offensive on Gaza on Tuesday.","content_html":" \r\n