Author: ISM Media

Voices of Resistance

For Media: We have English (as well as other languages) speaking people in Gaza wishing for their voices to be heard. To arrange for interviews please contact: palreports@gmail.com

Haidar Eid, professor (Tel Al Hawa, Gaza)

Quote november 18th “I was supposed to give an interview today at the Shuruk building one of the two buildings that house the media outlets in Gaza. Both were bombed. Apartheid Israel must not get away with its crimes against the innocent civilians of Gaza.  What more does the international community need to see to be convinced to act than the dozens of dead corpses and amputated bodies of children and women in Gaza? We no longer count on governments, especially Western, but rather on people of conscience and civil society to exert whatever pressure they can on the fascist government of Israel to stop its war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in broad day light! “


Omnia Abu Shahla, student (Gaza City Center)
‘’Please, help us. I’m really scared we will die soon. Yesterday was a bombing around us. Windows broken, everybody crying, the fire everywhere. I’m a human being. This is not human what is going on. We are just trying to live.’’

Khalil Shaheen, PCHR (Tel Al Hawa) 

‘’It is very important that we as PCHR and all Palestinian NGOs get together now. We have just finished our press conference in front of a journalist building which was attacked this morning. This was the strongest message to send, to assure our friends we use all possible tools. The international community should form a convention to stop Israeli aggression. This is already five days of escalating violence and Palestinians pay the price. We have more than 140 children injured. The international community should intervene. It is time for justice for all the victims, for all of us also and to demand accountability of Israel.’’

Rana Baker, student and blogger (Gaza City Center)

‘’The international media should cover more what is going on in Gaza. There are so many people that want to speak up, but my friends on Twitter tell me not much is written.’’

Rita Mari (Deir al-Balah, Gaza)
“We give birth to children so that they can live and build their country. But Israel robs them of their childhood, puts a siege on their country and destroys their future. In Gaza, the children are being killed for no reason by the terrorist Israeli occupation. Bombings and explosions everywhere.”

What YOU can do as an International to help people in Palestine

17th November 2012 | Palestine

via http://qumsiyeh.org

WHAT YOU CAN DO

Before we address what can be done, we need to ask what Palestinians want from the International Community and what are some goals to adopt for your group to help achieve that. The Palestinian Civil Society Call to action is the best articulation of what Palestinians want from the International community. They include the Palestinian Constants or Thawabet. The Civil Society Call was initially signed by 170 Palestinian civil society organizations and communities and has since been endorsed by thousands of groups. It is posted at http://www.bdsmovement.net/call

Second, we must educate ourselves. Visit Recommened Books and Links

Here are possible goals for your group:

Ultimate Goals
1. To implement the right of return for refugees to their homes, farms, businesses, and lands (include restitution, and compensation for suffering).
2. To develop and implement a pluralistic democracy in Israel/Palestine with equality and human rights for all.
3. To end to all acts of violence, colonization, and oppression.

Intermediate Goals
1. To develop and implement governmental and public support for the ultimate goals by media work, lobbying, and educational campaigns.
2. To develop and implement campaigns of boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) as happened in South Africa and as civil society has called for.
3. To develop and implement strategies and tactics for Palestinians remaining on their lands and resisting Israeli colonization and ethnic cleansing (e.g. by job creation and supporting non-violent direct actions).

Short-term Goals:
1. To develop community members and structures to identify with this vision.
2. To engage in efforts of education and alliance building.
3. To ensure fair media coverage and exposure with a concerted media strategy and action.
4. To provide direct relief and humanitarian aid to those suffering from human rights abuses.
5. To increase political/human rights tourism.

64 Ways to act for peace with justice (what YOU can do)

1) Educate yourself via reliable books. For example books by Ilan Pappe (Ethnic Ceansing of Palestine), Edward Said (The Question of Palestine).

2) Educate yourself and track current information and key historical data via websites (and disseminate it). For example look into http://www.imemc.org/, http://electronicintifada.net/, http://english.aljazeera.net/, Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem, Palestine Remembered, and similar websites.

3) Educate yourself by visiting Palestine and writing about it. There are many organizations doing tours that inspire. Examples Siraj Center, Alternative Tourism Group, Holy Land Trust, Global Exchange, Birthright Unplugged, ISM etc

4) Practice using clear and unambiguous vocabulary including language to protest apartheid and colonization. See for example developing anti-partheid framework for the struggle (PDF File): http://www.endtheoccupation.org/downloads/AAF%20curriculum%20training%20.pdf

5) Challenge media bias by first educating yourself and others about its existence and the extent of the bias. See for example http://ifamericansknew.org/

6) Write to the mainstream media. You can do letters to the editor (usually 200 words) and/or opinion pieces (700-900 words).

7) Start your own group or join an existing organization that works for justice. Simply search/google your city with the word Palestine to identify candidates.

8) Join the International Solidarity Movement, the Ecumenical Accompaniment Program (EAPPI), Christian Peace Maker Team, or other groups doing work in the occupied areas

9) Develop close working relationship with progressive parties and groups in your country.

10) Network and enhance groups working on sanctions and suspension of US aid to Israel. e.g. Suspend US Aid to Israel Now

11) Lobby. This is done individually or by supporting/joining one or more od the many groups doing it, e.g. Council for the National Interest, Citizens For Fair Legislation, American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine, and American Association for Palestinian Equal Rights (http://www.aaper.org/).

12) Hold a teach-in, seminar, or public dialogue. This is straightforward: you need to decide venue, speakers, and do publicity. This can be facilitated through such groups as Palestine Media Watch which have speakers bureaus.

13) Send direct aid and support for people on the ground through transparent and trustworthy groups.

14) Use youtube and googlevideo to disseminate information

15) Challenge Israel in local and International courts.If you are a lawyer, donate your time and start some networking and initiate cases (e.g. US congress is violating US laws by sending money to Israel, US Citizens can bring cases against foreign governments that harmed them). Groups with great interest and activism on behalf of Palestinians includes Lawyers Without Border, National Lawyers Guild, Al-Haq, Yesh Din, and Adalah – Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel.

16) Help coalitions work for Palestine and insist they do not leave this issue; example is http://CTUnitedforPeace.org.

17) If you work in a group, suggest formation of local or national coalitions to increase the power by association.

18) Join the campaigns for economic boycotts. For example see successful examples here: http://www.qumsiyeh.org/boycottsanddivestment/

19) Join or initiate a campaign for cultural and academic boycott; see http://pacbi.org/.

20) Host an art exhibit or other art performance (music, dabka etc) that highlight the rich Palestinian culture.

21) Engage in civil disobedience actions to draw attention and change policies.

22) Develop campaigns to support the right to enter: see www.righttoenter.ps
Israel Takes Aim At Palestinian Families By Ida Audeh
http://www.countercurrents.org/audeh110907.htm

23) Facilitate a visit by the Wheels of Justice bus tour to your area (in the US) or create a bus like that (e.g. in Europe). See justicewheels.org

24) Donate to aid Palestinian Children. For example, Palestine Children Relief Fund, and Playgrounds for Palestine

25) Develop campaigns to ban Political Junkets to Israel.
Here is an example “In a challenge to one of the most powerful lobbying tactics used by the Jewish community, a county in Maryland decided last week that local legislators could no longer go on sponsored trips to Israel. http://www.forward.com/articles/11553/

26) Support the campaigns to end the siege on Gaza. See http://www.freegaza.org/, http://www.witnessgaza.com/

27) Work in your country against discrimination
Arabs Against Discrimination: http://www.aad-online.org/
American Arabs Anti-Discrimination Committee http://
28) Support Human Rights: Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org, Human Rights Watch: http://hrw.org/doc/?t=mideast&c=isrlpa
B�Tselem:The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories http://www.btselem.org

29) Support the Right to Education Campaign: http://right2edu.birzeit.edu/

30) Promote lifting Siege against Palestinians, especially Gaza

31) Work against home demolistions:
Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions: http://www.icahd.org/eng

32) Support empowering Youth from Palestine e.g. see http://www.yfppal.com/ and http://www.alrowwad-acts.ps

33) Write to and work with alternative mass media (like DemocracyNow, Public Access TV).

34) Create your own content and post it to the web

35) Utilize social networking sites to reach a mass audience (e.g. facebook)

36) Go into chat rooms, email discussions etc and spread the word.

37) Buy Palestinian Products, for example from www.palestineonlinestore.com, www.canaanfairtrade.com, www.palestinefairtrade.org.

38) Pray for Peace and Justice or if you are not religious, take time out to think and meditate on what can be done to achieve Peace with Justice

39) Make a podcast or public service announcement and spread it

40) Drop a banner from a traffic bridge or any other publicly visible location

41) Put out an information table in a university student center, public gathering, festivals, or other places where people congregate.

42) Host a fundraising party or dinner at your home.

43) Show a documentary in a public setting and then have a discussion about it.

44) Organize a public debate between those who support Zionism and those who support equality and justice

45) Learn Arabic or if you are an Arab learn another language (including Hebrew) so that you can communicate better

46) Make a street theater

47) Engage in Civil disobedience acts (this may entail getting arrested).

48) Reach out to Christian religious leaders and ask them to act based on the Kairos Palestine document www.kairospalestine.ps

49) Challenge the Zionist attempts to doctor Wikipedia (ie. imposing a Zionist distorted version on this free web encyclopedia). Become a wikepedia editor/writer.

50) Start a genuine interfaith dialogue based on acting for justice rather than chatting to hide injustice.

51) Find a way not to pay taxes to governments that violate human rights and use your taxes for war and oppression.

52) Host a dinner with Arabic food and show people the rich cultural traditions like embroidered dresses that go back to Canaanitic times.
Write to us to remind us of other ways to act.

53) Run for public office.

54) Put-up a billboard in your community that highlight a certain aspect of the struggle.

55) Develop partnerships/twinning between universities, schools, colleges, churches etc with similar Palestinian entities.

56) Introduce a divestment resolution from Israel at your city or town council.

57) Pass-out flyers or stickers at a public event.

58) Host a speaker from your community who was in Palestine to tell personal stories and experiences

59) Ask your Church or University or other appropriate group to invite a Palestinain speaker.

60) What ever your field of work, you can find a way to network people in it with Palestinains in that work: librarians, professors, pediatricians, journalists, farmers, small shop owners, workers etc.
61) Wear an armband on particular days to start conversations about Palestine. For example a black arm band on Nakba day (15 May) or a green armband on Land Day (30 March). It allows you to tell a story to those who ask.

62) Hold a sign that says boycott apartheid in front of every visiting Israeli official in your country including artists or university faculty or othesr that represent Israeli institutions.

63) Do a flash mob at facilities that support Israel (like Starbucks).

64) Organize programs to support Palestinian political prisoners (more than 750,000 Palestinains were imprisoned since 1967).

(list initiated by Mazin Qumsiyeh, George Rishmawi and others at the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People).

More ideas in this collection of activist experiences found in the Activist Manual

Emergency Global Actions for Gaza

Original updated document posted here 

For additions or corrections tweet @riverdryfilm or @southsouth or email orhamilton [at] gmail [dot] com

FRIDAY, 16th November

 

Aberystwyth (UK) | Aberystwyth University, 6:00 p.m. [link]

Albuquerque (USA) | UNM Bookstore, 5:00 p.m. [link]

Aosta (Italy) | Piazza Chanoux, 9:00 p.m. [link]

Athens (Greece) | Israeli Embassy, 5 p.m. [link]

Asheville (USA) | Vance Monument, 4:30 p.m. [link]

Benghazi (Libya) | Tahrir Square, 4:00 p.m. [link]

Berlin (Germany) | Brandenburger Tor, Pairser Platz 2:30 p.m.

Birmingham (USA) | 1400 University Boulevard, 1:30 p.m. [link]

Bristol (UK) | The Fountains, 5:00 p.m. [link]

Brussels (Belgium) | Place de la Bourse, 4:00 p.m. [link]

Cairo (Egypt) | Tahrir Square

Cairo (Egypt) | Mosireen (action meeting), 9:00 p.m. [link]

Calgary (Canada) | City Hall, 3:00 p.m. [link]

Cape Town (South Africa) | Outside Parliament, 12:00 p.m.

Charleston SC (USA) | Marion Sq, 3:00 p.m.

Cincinnati (USA) | MLK Boulvard and Clifton Avenue, 4:30 p.m. [link]

Cleveland (USA) | Public Square, 4:30 p.m. [link]

Derna (Libya) | Sahet Tahrir, 4:00 p.m. [link]

Detroit (USA) | Windsor Detroit Tunnel, 4:30 p.m. [link]

Durban (South Africa) | City Hall, 2:00 p.m. [link]

Durham, NC (USA) | Duke University, West Campus bus stop, 5:00 p.m.

Florida (USA) | Gainesville, Turlington Hall, 11:00 a.m. [link]

Forth Worth (USA) | Courthouse, 4:00 p.m. [link]

Houston (USA) | Intersection of Westheimer & Post Oak Boulevard, 4:30 p.m. [link]

Johannesburg (South Africa) | Luthuli House, 2:00 p.m.

Johannesburg (South Africa) | Wits Jamaa Khana, 7:00 p.m. [link]

Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) | US Embassy, 2 p.m. [link]

Liverpool (UK) | Outside BBC Radio Merseyside, 5:30 p.m. [link]

Madison (USA) | In front of Memorial Library, 4:00 p.m. [link]

Mälmo (Sweden) | Triangeln, uppgång Smedjegatan, 6:00 p.m.

Manchester (UK) | Picadilly Gardens, 5:00 p.m. [link]

Michigan | the Diag, University of Michigan, 3:00 p.m. [link]

Milan (Italy) | Piazza del Duomo, 6:00 p.m. [link]

New York (USA) | Israeli Consulate, 5:00 p.m. [link]

Norman OK (USA) | University of Oklahoma, 9:00 a.m. [link]

Ohio, (USA) | Columbus, Ohio Statehouse, 5:00 p.m.

Ottawa (Canada) | Israeli Embassy, 50 O’Connor b/w Queen and Albert, 12:00 p.m. [link]

Palermo (Italy) | Piazza Giuseppe Verdi, 5 p.m. [link]

Perth (Australia) | Murray Street Mall, Perth City, 5:30 p.m. [link]

Philadelphia (USA) | Israeli Consulate, 19th and JFK Boulevard, 12:00 p.m. [link]

Pittsburgh (USA) | U.S. Federal Building, 1000 Liberty Avenue, 5:00 p.m. [link]

Rochester (USA) | Federal Office Building, 5:00 p.m. [link]

Rome (Italy) | Montecitoria, 5:30 p.m. [link]

São Paulo (Brazil) | MASP, 5:00 p.m. [link]

Sacramento (USA) | Federal Building, 5th and I Street, 4:30 p.m.

San Francisco (USA) | Israeli Consulate, 4:00 p.m. [link]

Sao Paulo (Brazil) | MASAP, 5:00 p.m. [link]

Seoul (Korea) | Israeli Embassy, Kabool Bulding, 149 Seorin-dong, 110-726, 1:00 p.m.

Sousse (Tunisia) | Sahet al Chelli, 12:00 p.m. [link]

St. Catherine’s, ON (Canada) | 61 Geneva St, 2:00 p.m. [link]

St. Louis (USA) | Robert Young Federal Building, 4:00 p.m. [link]

St. Paul (MN) | Snelling & Summit Ave, 4:15 p.m. [link]

Tripoli (Libya) | Shuhadaa Square, 4:00 p.m. [link]

Vienna (Austria) | Stephansplatz, 1010, 4:00 p.m. [link]

Wellington (New Zealand) | Cuba Mall, by the Buckets, 12:00 p.m. [link]

West Lafayette (USA) | Memorial Mall (south end), 1:30 p.m. [link]

Zawiya (Libya) | Shuhadaa Square, 4:00 p.m. [link]

 

SATURDAY, 17th November

 

Aberdeen (Scotland) | St. Nicholas Square, 12:00 p.m.

Amherst (USA) | Student Union, UMass Amherst, 4:00 p.m. [link]

Amsterdam (Holland) | Dam Sq, 1:00 p.m. [link]

Aukland (New Zealand) | Aotea Square, 2:00 p.m. [link]

Barcelona (Spain) | Placa Saint Jaume, 12:00 p.m. [link]

Bergen (Norway) | Torgallmenningen, 2:00 p.m. [link]

Brisbane (Australia) | Brisbane Sq, 12:30 p.m. [link]

Cairo (Egypt) | Arab League HQ

Canterbury (UK) | High Street, 12:00 p.m. [link]

Cardiff (UK) | Aneurin bevan Statue, Queen Street, 2:00 p.m. [link]

Edinburgh (UK) | Charlotte sq, 12:00 p.m. [link]

Edmonton (Canada) | Edmonton City Hall South steps, 103a Av & 100 St, 1:00 p.m. [link]

Frankfurt (Germany) | Hauptwache, 3:00 p.m. [link]

Geneva (Switzerland) | In front of the UN (Places des Nation), 2:00 p.m. [link]

Lisbon (Portugal) | Israeli Embassy, 5:00 p.m. [link]

London (UK) | Israeli Embassy, 2:00 p.m. [link]

Mälmo (Sweden) | Gustaf Adolfs Torg, 3:00 p.m. [link]

Melbourne (Australia) | Bourke St Mall, 12:30 p.m. [link]

Newcastle (UK) | Grey’s Monument, 12:00 p.m. [link]

New Haven (USA) | 141 Church St., across from the Green, 12:00 p.m. [link]

Norman OK (USA) | University of Oklahoma, 12:30 p.m. [link]

Nottingham (UK)| Nottingham Market Square, 5:30 p.m. [link]

Oklahoma City (USA) | Penn Sq Mall, 12:30 p.m. [link]

Oslo (Norway) | Israeli Embassy, 2:00 p.m. [link]

Paris (France) | Place de la Bastille, 3:00 p.m. [link]

Portland (USA) | Pioneer Courthouse Sq, 12:00 p.m. [link]

Sacramento (USA) | Federal Building, 4:00 p.m. [link]

Santiago (Chile) | Israeli Embassy, 11:00 a.m. [link]

Sheffield (UK) | Outside the Town Hall, 12:00 p.m. [link]

Stockholm (Sweden) | Israeli Embassy 3:00 p.m. [link]

St Paul (USA) | Snelling & Summit Ave, 4:15 p.m. [link]

Swansea (UK) | Castle sq, 2:00 p.m. [link]

Warsaw (Poland) | Israeli Embassy, 1:00 p.m. [link]

Wrexham (UK) | Hope st., near Barclays, 11:00 p.m. [link]

 

 

SUNDAY, 18th November

Antwerp (Holland) | ProvincieHuis, 1:00 p.m. [link]

Berlin (Germany) | Hermannplatz, 2:00 p.m.

Hong Kong (China) | Victoria Park, 2:00 p.m. [link]

 

 

 

MONDAY, 19th November

Berlin (Germany) | Brandenburge Tor, Pariser Platz 5:00 p.m.

 

 

 

[PREVIOUSLY]

 

WEDNESDAY, 14 Nov

Bethlehem | Manger Square, 7:30 p.m.

Istanbul | al Fateh Mosque, 9:00 p.m.

Jerusalem | Damascus Gate, 7:00 p.m.

London | Israeli Embassy

Ramallah | al Manara Square, 7:00 p.m.

Tel Aviv | Ehud Barak’s doorstep, 8:00 p.m.

Quebec | Hall Building, Concordia U, 1455 de Maisonneuve West, 6:00 p.m. [link]

 

 

THURSDAY, 15 Nov

 

Alexandria (Egypt) | Qaid Ibrahim, 12:00 p.m.

Amsterdam (Holland) | Zuidelijke Wandelweg 41, 6:45 p.m. [link]

Ann Arbor (USA) | Campus Diag, in front of Hatcher Graduate Library, 3:00 p.m. [link]

Austin (USA)  | I-35 and 12th Street (overpass), 2:00 p.m. [link]

Atlanta (USA) | Israeli Consulate, 4 p.m. [link]

Beirut (Lebanon) | Cola, 10:00 a.m.

Belfast (Ireland) | City Hall, 7:00 p.m.

Boston (USA) | 4:30 p.m., Copley Square [link]

Bradford (UK) | 4.30 p.m. [link]

Brighton (UK) | Outside EcoStream HQ, 12:00 p.m. [twitter]
Brighton (UK) | Victoria Gardens, 5:30 p.m. [link]

Cairo (Egypt) | Omar Makram, 12:30 p.m.

Cairo (Egypt) | Arab League, 4:00 p.m.

Chicago (USA) | Outside Obama HQ, 130 E Randolph Street, 4:00 p.m. [link]

Cork (Ireland) | Daunt square 6:00 p.m. [link]

Denver (USA) | Colorado State Capital, 4:00 p.m. [link]

Dublin (Ireland) | Israeli Embassy, 5:30 p.m.

Durham (UK) | Market sq, 4:00 p.m. [link]

Florence (Italy) | Piazza della Repubblica (flash mob), 6:00 p.m. [link]

George Mason University (USA) | The North Plaza, 1:30 p.m. [link]

Glasgow (Scotland) | Ahl al Bayt Centre, 6 p.m. [link]

Haifa (Palestine) | Karma House, 7:00 p.m. [link]

Jerusalem (Palestine) | Outside Hebrew University, 12:00 p.m.

L’Aquila (Italy) | Fontana Luminosa, 6:30 p.m. [link]

Limerick (Ireland) | Thomas st, 6:15 p.m. [link]

Leeds (UK) | Parkinson Steps, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, 1:00 p.m. [link]

London (UK) | Israeli Embassy, 5:30 p.m. [link]

Los Angeles (USA) | UCLA, Meyerhoff Park, 11:30 a.m. [link]

Los Angeles (USA) | Israeli Consulate, 11766 Wilshire Boulvard, 4:00 p.m. [link] [link]

Manchester (UK) | Piccadilly Gardens, 5:00 p.m. [link]

Memphis (USA) | Poplar and Highland, 5:00 p.m. [link]

Mexico City (Mexico) | Israeli Embassy, 4:00 p.m.

Montreal (Canada) | Hall Building, Concordia University, 5:00 p.m.

Nashville (USA) | Centennial Park, 3:00 pm [link]

Nazareth (Palestine) | Kassarat Crossroad, 6:30 p.m. [link]

New York (USA) | Israeli Consulate, 42nd Street & 2nd Ave, 5:00 p.m. [link]

Nottingham (UK)| Nottingham Market Square, 5:30 p.m. [link]

Olympia (USA) | Red Square at Evergreen State College, 12:00 p.m. [link]

Ontario (Canada) | University of Windsor, CAW Student Centre, 12:00 p.m.

Ottawa (Canada) | Israeli Embassy, 6:00 p.m.

Oxford (UK)  | Cornmarket Street, 4:00 p.m. [link]

Paris (France) | Ministry of Justice, 6:00 p.m. [link]

Princeton (USA) | Princeton University, outside of Frist Campus Center, 12:30 p.m.

San Diego (USA) | US Federal Building, 880 Front Street, 4:30 p.m. [link]

San Francisco (USA) | Israeli Consulate, 5:15 p.m. [link]

Santiago (Chile) | Palestine Stadium (Vitacura 8049) to Israel Stadium, 9:00 p.m. [link]

Seattle (USA) | Henry Jackson Federal Building, 915 2nd Avenue, 4:00 p.m. [link]

Spokane (USA) | Corner of Maine and Division, 5:00 p.m.

Sydney (Australia) | Parmatta Town Hall, 6:00 p.m. [link]

Tel Aviv (Palestine) | Main Entrance, Tel Aviv University 11:30 a.m. [link]

Toronto (Canada) | Israeli Consulate, 180 Bloor Street (E. of St. George TTC), 6:00 p.m.

Tunis (Tunisia) | In front of the National Theatre, 11:00 a.m.

Tunis (Tunisia) | Front of all Trade Association Buildings (Sa7et Mohamed Ali) 1:00 p.m.

Vancouver (Canada) | The Art Gallery, Hornby and Robson Streets, 5:00 p.m. [link]

Washington D.C. (USA) | March from State Department, 6:00 p.m. [link]

 

 

EYE WITNESSSES

 

To get direct reports from Gaza in various languages contact:

 

Lydia de Leeuw (Dutch)                  +972 (0) 597478455

Adie Mormech (British)                  +972 (0) 592280943

Adriana Zega (Italian)                   +972 (0) 597241318

Gisela Schmidt Martin (Irish)          +972 (0) 592778020 blipfoto.com/GiselaClaire

Joe Catron (United States)          +972 (0) 595594326 twitter.com/jncatron

Julie Webb-Pullman (New Zealand)  +972 (0) 595419421 todayingaza.wordpress.com

Lydia de Leeuw (Dutch)                   +972 (0) 597478455 asecondglance.wordpress.com

Meri Calvelli (Italian)                    +972(0)598563299

 

Find out more about this initiative on Mondoweiss.

Letter from ISM activist in Gaza

14th November 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Strip

Dear All. I am calling on all your support for the besieged people of the Gaza Strip.

Here in Gaza, more than 10 people have been killed so far in the Israeli operation named “Pillar of Defence” within the last 7 hours, including countless children such as 7-year-old child Ranan Arafat and an 11 month old baby. We’ve seen charred bodies of dead and injured children  pouring in to Al Shifa hospital of Gaza City and the other depleted hospitals around the Gaza Strip. 50 airstrikes all over the Gaza Strip so far. Deafening explosions shook us all as bombs landed close to us in the streets near the Universities. Huge explosions are landing all around us in Gaza City now as I write, some entire families have been injured. We can also hear the shelling of Israeli Gunships. Announcement of possible Israeli land invasion very soon.

More than 330 children were killed in the last bloody operation like this in operation Cast Lead, killing over 1400 in total: the vast majority civilians. We are reporting from hospitals, streets and bombed areas. How many, terrified in there homes will have their lives shortened by tomorrow, or after the days of airstrikes, tank shellings and Gunship missiles Israel has announced. YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. MOVE. ACT NOW TO STOP ANOTHER GAZA BLOODBATH. INACTION AROUND THE WORLD HAS LEAD US TO THIS POINT. ACT NOW.
Adie

For more information on how to contact International activists in Gaza now please email: palreports@gmail.com

A new Gaza Massacre: Press Release

14th November 2012 | The One Democratic State Group, Gaza Strip

via www.odsg.org

Besieged Gaza, Occupied Palestine–The Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel, University Teachers’ Association and The One Democratic State Group condemn in the strongest possible terms the criminal Israeli attack against innocent Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. More than 7 people have been killed within the last 6 hours, including 7-year-old child Ranan Arafat. Charred bodies of injured children are pouring in to Al Shifa hospital and the other depleted hospitals around the Gaza Strip. This heinous crime also comes one week after the re-election of Barak Obama for a second term. Tel Aviv claims to have been given the green light to annihilate as many Palestinians in Gaza as possible.

Gaza has been enduring Israeli policies of extermination and vandalism since 2006. We reiterate our condemnation of the international conspiracy of silence and Arab impotence in the face of these continuous Israeli crimes. We note that not a single action against Israel has been taken by any Arab country. Will the Arab Spring stand aside and watch while we are being butchered? Empty rhetoric will no longer be accepted. Words of condemnation have to be translated into action!

We also reiterate our call on all civil society organizations and political parties to boycott Israeli embassies and compel their governments to sever their diplomatic ties with Apartheid Israel. This time, Apartheid Israel must not get away with its crimes against the innocent civilians of Gaza. All students and academics should stand in solidarity with their Palestinian colleagues and peers. We ask, what more does the international community need to see to be convinced to act than the dozens of dead corpses of children in Gaza? It is left to civil society and people of conscience to stop the ongoing massacre in Gaza.

Inaction has led us to this point.

ACT NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!

One Democratic State Group

Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel

University Teachers’ Association