Nick Pretzlik died suddenly of heart failure at home in the early hours of the morning on Sunday 11 July 2004. Nick leaves his wife, Ursula, and their two sons and a grandson. Donations, if desired, should be made to a Palestinian cause of your choice.
Nick was a semi-retired businessman. He spent three or four months of the year in the West Bank, Gaza and the wider Middle East working as a free-lance journalist. Nick was passionate about the Palestinian issue and believed that broad public awareness of the plight of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and in refugee camps situated in neighbouring countries is key to promoting a just resolution of their appalling predicament.
If the public in the USA and the UK can be made aware of what has been done to Palestinians in the past and what is currently being done to them, they will not accept their government's ongoing role. They will pressurise the government to change its policies towards Israel.
Nick's family has been involved with the Palestinian struggle since the first Intifada.