I really hope that the Christian community and the World Council of Churches and others will really support us peace-loving people in the world to protest against this massacre and to really support our demands to lift the blockade to Gaza and see the Israeli security penalised who shot innocent people. We have a moral and Christian commitment I guess to speak out aloud against any sort of human rights violations.

- Annette Groth, a member of the Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament. A member of the Left Party, Ms Groth has been active in the ecumenical movement since she was a student and has worked for religious groups in Rotterdam, Geneva and Barbados where she was the director of the Ecumenical Coalition on Third World Tourism until 1999.