A fund-raising campaign to assist the Palestinian population affected by the Israeli military operations that have been going on for days in the Gaza Strip, in particular at Beit Hanoun, where yesterday an Israeli bombing raid killed 19 civilians, including women and children. "A terrible massacre", according to president Abu Mazen, who summoned the UN Security Council. The initiative comes from the Caritas centre of Jerusalem that for some time has been carrying out several health-care and social assistance schemes within the Territories and in the Gaza Strip. An urgent meeting will be held in Jerusalem by tomorrow, announced the Catholic organisation, with delegates of the NGOs and the United Nations working in Gaza, to see and monitor what is happening in Gaza and Beit Hanoun, from where comes an appeal from the doctor of the Caritas Centre, Bandalay Sayegh: "We urgently need medicines, gauze and cotton wool to treat the wounded and the sick. Ambulances are assaulted, and our mobile clinic has been denied access to the village".” “
