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"In addition, European funding for dozens of radical pro-Palestinian "civil society" and human rights organizations that are campaigning on behalf of Hamas is a major problem. These groups, including the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) and Oxfam, along with Amnesty International, lead public relations efforts to portray the situation in Gaza as a "humanitarian crisis," and encourage Hamas leadership to expect international pressure in preventing the Israeli military action. Oxfam officials are simply repeating the Palestinian position, calling for "an immediate and lasting ceasefire" having falsely claimed: "After 18 months of a blockade of Gaza, constituting an illegal collective punishment under international humanitarian law, the bombing has left families facing critical shortages of food and fuel." This, despite the World Food Program having stated a few days into the operation that their warehouses were full, with provisions set to last around two weeks. Similarly, the wave of denunciations and anti-Israel demonstrations in many Western European cities – including London and Paris – are also supported by groups such as the French "International Federation for Human Rights" (FIDH) and the EU’s Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network. In a joint statement, these groups "strongly condemned the wide-scale aerial offensive by the Israeli Defense Forces in the Gaza Strip that started Dec. 27, 2008, and killed almost 300 Palestinians." As on many occasions in the past, the bias is blatant, and ignores the more than 6,000 rockets acquired and launched from Gaza. If these resources had been used for economic development, everyone would have been better off, but stating the obvious is politically incorrect for Western NGOs."