ISESCO Extends Financial Assistance to Palestinian Monuments Department
Regional-Palestine, Culture, 4/16/2002

The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO/based in Rabat) has extended a financial assistance to the Palestinian department in charge of monuments.

The assistance is destined to help safeguard Palestinian Islamic historical monuments, protect the Palestinian civilization and cultural identity against Judaization attempts and restore the department which has been severely affected by Israeli raids, including the museum and other buildings.

The ISESCO did not specify the assistance amount.

The organization, an arm of the Jeddah-based Organization of Islamic Conference has urged the UNESCO to shoulder its responsibility regarding education institutions in Palestine, by exerting pressures on the Israeli government. ISESCO's director general, Abdulaziz Othmane Al-Twaijri, called in a letter his peer at the UNESCO to shoulder its responsibility vis-a-vis Palestinian children and youth who are facing the worst deprivations and are denied the internationally-recognized right to education.

For the Islamic organization, this is but a mere episode in a merciless open war waged by the Israeli army at the orders of prime minister, Ariel Sharon, who is guilty of the most odious crimes against humanity.

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children, girls and boys, were prevented from going to school, high-schools, universities and technical schools in the Palestinian territories cities and villages, plunging them into idleness and misery, the letter deplores.

All human ethics and legal and political systems consider Sharon's practices as crimes against humanity, some of them fall under the competence of the UNESCO which, in both times of peace and war, has obligations toward human societies whether they are independent or under colonial yoke, says ISESCO.

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