Gaza Strip is one of the highly densely populated areas in the world where 1.5 million people living, half of them are children. The only two border crossings to Gaza have been partially sealed for more than a year untying the Strip from the entire world. More recently, Israeli government has imposed more strict measures by closing these borders, decreasing the amount of fuel entering Gaza, cutting off electricity, preventing essential food supplies and aid deliveries intensifying the existing humanitarian crisis since January 2006. Israel has continued to push ahead with its military offensive measures against Palestinians in both Gaza and the West Bank. The Israeli military has particularly intensified its operations in Gaza, with at least 40 people killed and tens are wounded during the past week.   UNRWA, which is the UN organization supporting Palestinian refugees living in eight refugee camps in the Gaza Strip, warned that the shortages of electricity and fuel, would drastically affect health care delivery, in patients medical interventions, and water facilities. Hospitals are able to operate using fuel generators when the electricity goes out, but they will have to cut back on activities like laundry, waste incineration and sterilization procedures. When fuel goes out, which is prevented by the Israeli army, these generators will not be functioning.   These Israeli measures have been criticized by the regional and international communities, professionals’ bodies and human rights organizations including Israeli human rights activists. These organizations highlighted the need for Israel government to stop its collective punishment of residents in Gaza. Such a collective punishment was described by the Secretary General of the Arab league as “war crimes”.   Collectively punishing civilians and innocent children are clear violation of human rights principles and will not provide security and peace, in contrary, these measures extend the feeling of hatred, undermining genuine voices of peace and threatening the peace process, which has been in limbo for many years.   Jesoor for trauma recovery is deeply concerned over the continuation of collective punishment measures and its negative impact on physical, mental and environmental health. Furthermore, Jesoor calls for breaking the newly practiced culture of punishing civilians for political purposes.     In such life-threatening situation and on behalf of our patients, their families and innocent civilians, Jesoor, appeals to grass-root organizations, those who believe in peace, justice and dignity, international community, human rights organizations, medical institutions, and to all peace activists all over the world to break the silence against the Israeli collective punishment.   Jesoor calls for international, legal, humanitarian and professional bodies to urgently intervene in order to prevent the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. We are all, morally, ethically and professionally obliged to raise our voices; stop collective punishment, stop punishing civilians, stop the siege imposed on 1.5 Palestinian living in the Gaza Strip and let the candles of peace override darkness.   Jesoor for trauma recovery, 21 Jan. 2008 www.Jesoor.org