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"We will launch fund-raising campaigns in mosques nationwide after Friday prayers to help relieve the people of Beit Hanun," Ibrahim said. |
VIENNA — Feeling for their fellow Muslims thousands of miles away, Austrian Muslims raced to donate for the afflicted people of Beit Hanun, the scene of a bloody and devastating Israel onslaught that has claimed 64 lives, including twenty on Wednesday, November 8.
"We have offered 10,000 euros in immediate aid for the families of the Beit Hanun victims," Hani Ibrahim, a volunteer with the Palestine Charity League, told IslamOnline.net on Thursday, November 9.
"We will launch fund-raising campaigns in mosques nationwide after Friday prayers to help relieve the people of Beit Hanun."
Tens of thousands of Palestinian mourners on Thursday lied to rest twenty civilians, including eight children and four women, killed in an Israeli shelling of their homes in the northern Gaza Strip town.
The Austrian group called for a major Arab and Muslim relief campaign to help the Palestinians in their distress.
"We are confident that Arabs and Muslims would not stand hand-folded while their Palestinian brothers are suffering under the yoke of the Israeli occupation," Ibrahim said.
Last month, Austrian Muslims launched a campaign to provide Ramadan packages for poor Palestinian families during the holy fasting month as well as `Eid presents for Palestinian orphans.
Muslims are estimated at 400,000, making up 4% of Austria's 8 million population.
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| Israeli occupation forces have destroyed scores of homes in Beit Hanun. (Reuters) |
The Muslim activist lashed out the failure of Arab governments to act on incessant Israeli onslaughts against the Palestinians.
"Beit Hanun residents are suffering under a watertight Israeli siege that neither spares children, women nor the elder," said Ibrahim.
"It is pity that Arab regimes failed to act to assuage the suffering of the Palestinian people."
The UN Security Council held an emergency session Thursday to discuss the new Israeli crimes against innocent Palestinian civilians.
Qatar, the lone Arab member on the 15-member council, circulated a draft resolution condemning the Israeli massacre.
Arab foreign ministers are also scheduled to hold a special meeting in Cairo on Sunday, November 12, to discuss the Israeli onslaught.
Sixteen family members were among the Palestinians killed in the Israeli massacre in Beit Hanun.
"It is a horrible Israeli crime against the Palestinian people," said Ibrahim.
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