Norwegian website reports German arms sales to Israel and Norwegian women's solidarity with Palestine
Date: 06 / 07 / 2006  Time:  15:53
 
Gaza-Ma'an- Safsaf, a website of the Palestinian community in Norway, said that according to the German Press, German government sources confirmed that Germany gave the Israeli forces models of Dingo 2 military vehicles for testing.

According to the website's specialist in affairs of the Palestinian community in Norway, "these armored vehicles are known for their usefulness in street warfare, and for resisting mines, grenades, microbial bombs. They are equipped with a machine gun and can accomodate eight soldiers".

Safsaf added, "despite the Germany's knowledge that Israel used such weapons against Palestinians, it is always keen to save its face by adding a clause in sales transactions that they not be used against the Palestinians, but this time the deal breached this condition." The site reported that Israel would receive 55 armored Dingo 2 vehicles costing € 36 million, and would be signing an agreement for the sale of two German developed gunships "to the Israeli occupation under the claim of protecting Israel from Iranian attacks in a deal estimated at €one million".

The same website reported many Norwegian women NGO workers expressed their solidarity with Palestinian women. The women sent a letter to the site expressing their solidarity with the elected Palestinian government and denouncing the siege and boycott the west has imposed on it. The letter solidarity with all of Palestinian society as it is being destroyed and frustrated by the siege and especially the women of Palestine.
 

 

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