City of Baltimore - File #: 11-0300R

• File #: 11-0300R
• Version: 0
• Name: Gilad Schalit, Citizen of Baltimore City, Maryland
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 6/13/2011
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 6/13/2011
• Title: Gilad Schalit, Citizen of Baltimore City, Maryland FOR the purpose of naming Gilad Schalit an honorary citizen of the City of Baltimore, formally protesting his prolonged, inhumane, and isolated imprisonment by agents of Hamas, and urgently calling for his immediate and safe return to his family and his homeland.
• Sponsors: Rochelle Spector, Carl Stokes, William H. Cole, IV, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, President Young, James B. Kraft, Robert Curran, Bill Henry, Sharon Green Middleton, Belinda Conaway, Helen L. Holton, William "Pete" Welch, Edward Reisinger, Warren Branch, Mary Pat Clarke
• Indexes: Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/13/2011	0	City Council	Advanced to 2nd Reader on same day
6/13/2011	0	City Council	Introduced
6/13/2011	0	City Council	Adopted

INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Spector

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Gilad Schalit, Citizen of Baltimore City, Maryland

FOR the purpose of naming Gilad Schalit an honorary citizen of the City of Baltimore, formally protesting his prolonged, inhumane, and isolated imprisonment by agents of Hamas, and urgently calling for his immediate and safe return to his family and his homeland.
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Recitals

Saturday, June 25, 2011, will mark the 5th anniversary of the kidnaping of Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit by Hamas, in a cross-border raid. Since his capture on June 25, 2006, Schalit has been held hostage in an unknown location in the Gaza Strip, allowed no communication with his family, nor visits from the International Committee of the Red Cross to ensure his humane treatment at the hands of his captors.

Baltimore City joins Paris, France; Rome Italy; Miami, Florida; and New Orleans, Louisiana in embracing Gilad Schalit as an honorary citizen, in hopes of sustaining a campaign of international solidarity to bring attention to his plight and to hasten his release. In making Gilad an honorary citizen, the Mayor of Rome called upon all the capitals of Europe to do likewise, stating: “We must bolster the message and fight towards one goal, bringing Gilad safe and well to his family.”

The City Council of New Orleans issued a proclamation on the 3rd anniversary of his kidnaping, noting that: “Gilad’s story is a symbol of the human element of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and must not be minimized as the global community str...