Hands off Gaza, Protest! Saturday 3rd January

Assemble @ 12:30pm, Victoria Embankment.

Greens to meet at Villiers Street, by the park entrance on the Charing Cross side of the Embankment Tube Station
If it is pouring with rain, up the stone stairs at the higher end of this little street, at the side entrance to Charing Cross Station.
Meet for 12.30. The off won’t be ’till later.

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TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT THE DEMONSTRATION (From StWC)

* 1. Close to 400 people have already been killed and Israel
is committed to continuing the mass murder. With Israeli
elections due in two months, all Israeli leaders are
competing over who is the toughest and who is ready to kill
more in Gaza.
* 2. Most of those killed have been civilians. The figure of
60 civilians which has been given out is nonsense, based on
the exclusion of all male victims from the dead.
* 3. Over 1000 people have been injured, many of them
seriously, with loss of limbs, eyes etc.
* 4. Despite letting in a little aid one day this week,
Israel is maintaining the most severe blockade seen anywhere
in the world for over 50 years, which starves Gaza of food,
medical supplies, water, fuel and other essential resources.
* 5. UN commissioner-general, Karen AbuZayd, says the
situation in the region is desperate: “There’s no fuel,
there’s no power plant, there’s no electricity working now.”
* 6. Medical services in Gaza, already depleted by the
Israeli siege over the last year, are close to collapse,
with doctors and nurses only able to deal with the most
serious cases, many injured left to die in hospital
corridors, the morgues full and ambulances not working for
lack of fuel and spare parts.
* 7. The UN, on which under the Israeli siege most people in
Gaza depend for food, has stopped distributing food because
its agencies have run out of fuel for vehicles. Nine out of
ten Gazans live below the poverty line, with many families
forced to eat grass to survive.
* 8. The infrastructure in many areas has been so destroyed
that residents have no access to water or electricity. The
UN says the Israeli blockade has resulted in Palestinians
receiving running water only once every five to seven days
* 9. Israel is in breach of many Geneva Conventions and
international laws amounting to war crimes, including,
wilful killing, extensive destruction of property not
justified by military necessity and collective punishment.
* 10. The condemnation of Israel’s actions must become so
overwhelming that it is forced to stop its policy of mass
murder and collective punishment against a defenceless
people.

Attack on Gaza

Absolutely tragic situation in Gaza currently. Israel’s actions are disgusting and utterly abominable.

Eyewitness account here.

Protest tomorrow (29th December), 4pm outside the Israeli Embassy, Kensington High Street.

Green Party press release here.

I must link to the December 18th campaign here, supporting brave men and women of 18 or 19 years old refusing to serve in the Israeli military and being sent to jail for their conscientious objection.