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    Trade Union Friends of Israel (TUFI) Statement August 2014

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    TUFI supports efforts to secure a permanent ceasefire between Gaza and Israel to end the recent month of conflict. It condemns rocket and tunnel attacks from Hamas against Israeli civilians but also expects Israel to act proportionately to avoid Palestinian casualties. The only solution is a commitment to peaceful means through a two-state agreement, stopping all attacks and easing Gaza's border closure in exchange for Israeli security, with the goal of an eventual free flow of goods and people. TUFI wants to help rebuild Gaza's economy and trade unions to live in peace beside Israel.

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    Trade Union Friends of Israel (TUFI) Statement August 2014

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    TUFI supports efforts to secure a permanent ceasefire between Gaza and Israel to end the recent month of conflict. It condemns rocket and tunnel attacks from Hamas against Israeli civilians but also expects Israel to act proportionately to avoid Palestinian casualties. The only solution is a commitment to peaceful means through a two-state agreement, stopping all attacks and easing Gaza's border closure in exchange for Israeli security, with the goal of an eventual free flow of goods and people. TUFI wants to help rebuild Gaza's economy and trade unions to live in peace beside Israel.

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    TUFI supports efforts to secure a permanent ceasefire between Gaza and Israel to end the recent month of conflict. It condemns rocket and tunnel attacks from Hamas against Israeli civilians but also expects Israel to act proportionately to avoid Palestinian casualties. The only solution is a commitment to peaceful means through a two-state agreement, stopping all attacks and easing Gaza's border closure in exchange for Israeli security, with the goal of an eventual free flow of goods and people. TUFI wants to help rebuild Gaza's economy and trade unions to live in peace beside Israel.

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    Trade Union Friends of Israel (TUFI) Statement August 2014

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    TUFI supports efforts to secure a permanent ceasefire between Gaza and Israel to end the recent month of conflict. It condemns rocket and tunnel attacks from Hamas against Israeli civilians but also expects Israel to act proportionately to avoid Palestinian casualties. The only solution is a commitment to peaceful means through a two-state agreement, stopping all attacks and easing Gaza's border closure in exchange for Israeli security, with the goal of an eventual free flow of goods and people. TUFI wants to help rebuild Gaza's economy and trade unions to live in peace beside Israel.

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    Trade Union Friends of Israel (TUFI) Statement

    August 2014
    Trade Union Friends of Israel (TUFI) is fully supportive for all efforts to secure a permanent cease fire
    between Gaza and Israel and that we will witness no return to the appalling events of the last
    month. The conflict is the result of failing to make a final peace agreement between Israelis and
    Palestinians in sixty plus years. The only solution to this is for two-states, no matter how hard or
    painful the concessions will have to be, to end this cycle of violence.
    We condemn all the rocketing and tunnel terrorist attacks from civilian centres, perpetrated by
    Hamas, against the Israeli civilian population and we regret the loss of life on both sides that is the
    result of this pointless conflict. We also expect that the Israeli military act in a proportionate and
    measured way, to avoid Palestinian civilian casualties. The only way to resolve this conflict is for a
    commitment to solely peaceful means of action. This means stopping all rocket and tunnel attacks,
    permanently. This has to be also responded with an easing of the closure of the Gaza boarders,
    whilst also remembering that currently thousands of tons of food, materials, humanitarian aid and
    medical supplies regularly cross from Israel into Gaza, and many Gazan patients are cared for in
    Israeli hospitals. We want an eventual free flow of goods and people between the two territories,
    with all the safeguards for security.
    TUFI wants to work with all agencies and NGOs to rebuild Gaza, into a fully functioning, prosperous
    state living in peace and security beside its neighbour Israel. We support the rebuilding of Gazan
    trade unions, with full freedom of association and trade union rights, in association with the PGFTU,
    who should play a part in developing the infrastructure and economy of Gaza that is so desperately
    needed.
    We call on the global trade union movement to make these demands of the governments in Israel
    and Palestine and work with the international community with the ongoing efforts for the long term
    development of Gaza and transition to normality for both Israelis and Palestinians. We also call on
    world's trade unions to campaign for return of full trade union rights and freedom of association for
    the people of Gaza.

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