Egyptian Trade Union Federation Statement

Egyptian Trade Union Federation is following with keen interest and concern the brutal Zionist aggression against the unarmed Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. This barbaric aggression which came on everything and everybody and killed hundreds of martyrs and injured children and elderly people and women
Egyptian Trade Union Federation is  strongly condemning this barbaric aggression, which came on the eve of the celebration of the Muslim Hijri New Year in the middle of a terrible international silence that ignore the sanctity of the sacred months

This discharge and belief in the role of  ETUF at the Arab and international  is asking  ICATU to hold an emergency and immediate  meeting in Cairo to discuss the repercussions in the region also appeals to  workers around the whole world boycotting American ships  everywhere

And the Egyptian Trade Union Federation stands side by side with the invitation of the International Federation of Arab Trade Unions and the League of Arab States and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Conference and all Arab and Islamic countries to shoulder their responsibilities in deterring aggression

ETUF is highly urging Trade Union Leaders from all over the world to move to condemn this aggression and pressuring their governments to Take effective decisions to protect the Palestinian people from this massacre ..,

ETUF is strongly against the World Zionist schemes and trying to Judaize the holy city… And supporting a unified Arab stance in the framework of the General Assembly of the United Nations in order to recognize the state of Palestine as a full member of this organization internationalism.

Meanwhile Egyptian Trade Union Federation is asking t all Palestinian organizations to renounce division and rivalry to unify Palestinian ranks with all components because that is the only way to salvation from the crisis


Guebali Mohammed Guebali Maraghi

Senior Vice President of the Federation
and Secretary-general of the Federation of Trade Unions Nile Basin Land Transport
Cairo November 16, 2012