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Since the bombing on Gaza started days ago, demonstrations all over the West Bank and in cities all over the wolrd, from Jerusalem to New York; have been happening every day. Here we present updates from these protests:

West Bank Updates:

November 17th:

Nablus

Around 200 people block the road near Huwwara checkpoint. Army uses tear gas on demonstrators. Around 10 palestinians arrested.

http://youtu.be/-8L-HiFgVLQ

Ramallah

Around 400 people demonstrating in front of Ofer Prison. Army uses tear gas, sound bombs and live ammunition to disperse protestors. At least 9 wounded. Two medics injuried, one of them critically.

via @JskwLeeds

Hebron

Clashes between demonstrators and the army near the old city. Tear gas and sound granades used on demonstrators. Border police enters a building to control the area. One person arrested.

Beit Ummar

Clashes with the army.

Jenin

Clashes with the army at Jalama Checkpoint. Several protestors arrested.

Nabi Saleh

Tear gas, skunk water and live ammunition used on demonstrators. Three injuried, one of them by a bullet.

A selection of photographs from previous demonstrations:

Ramallah:

Bethlehem:

Jerusalem:

Tel Aviv:

London:

Boston

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

Message from ISM volunteer in Gaza

Gaza, Now

I’m writing this from near the Gaza seaport from where I can see smoke rising around me from the bombs that fall down on the Gaza Strip from the Israeli planes above. Words fail me. Despite the limits to life from Israel’s five-year siege on Gaza some kind of normality is attempted in Gaza. How could it be any other way when the majority of the population are children, do parents and older siblings have any other option?

Yet this civilian population, most now holed out in the dense, tight refugee camp buildings and urban centers of Gaza are facing the wrath of some of the most powerful aerial warfare available to humankind. As I write, the constant bombardments consume your senses and shake the entirety of your surroundings. For the over 300 people injured or killed so far by Israeli F16s, drones and Gunboat shillings, the loss for them and their families will never relent.

I can barely write a sentence and more news, “six injuries from a bombing in Sheikh Radwan, children among them, including a 4-year old child who was playing in the street;” “elderly man just killed in Zaytoun neighbourhood, with 4 injuries.” Friends have received text messages from the Israeli Occupation Forces saying in arabic, “Stay away from Hamas the second phase is coming.”

Twelve year old Abdullah Samouni, who I teach English to in Zeitoun camp called me a little while ago. “We’re really scared” he said. We moved to get away to Zeitoun and went to our grandmother’s house. Take care of yourself, there are so many bombs.” Abdullah lost his father and four year old brother, shot by Israeli soldiers entering their house in the land offensive of Israel’s Cast Lead attacks on Gaza over the new year of 2009. In three days, he was injured and lost 29 members of his extended family. His mother Zeinat has moved her eleven remaining children to a town further north, but bombs are raining down all over the
Gaza Strip.

“We moved everyone out, but bombing is so bad here all of the kids are screaming. Whenever an attack happens they come and hold me. The children remembered what happened before, they think only the worst.” said Zeinat who like so many has had to put aside her own fears and tragedy to show strength for her children.

Seeing Western media continue to distort the picture of what is happening here, just as they did during the massacres that took place during Israel’s Cast Lead attacks, and any other offensive described as “retaliation” made my call with Abdullah all the more angry. This year from January 1st until November 6th this year 71 Palestinians were killed and 291 injured in Gaza, while no Israelis were killed and 19 were injured according to the United Nations. How many Western media outlets offer proportionate time to Palestinian victims as to Israeli victims?

Just as the Israeli forces initiated the pretense for the Cast Lead attacks, this time the Israeli army’s initial attack took place on Thursday, 8th November, with an Israeli incursion into Gaza, in Abassan village. They opened fire indiscriminately and leveled areas of Palestinian land. The shooting from Israeli military vehicles seriously wounded 13-year-old Ahmed Younis Khader Abu Daqqa while he was playing football with friends, and he died the next day of his injuries.

On the 10th November, Palestinian resistance fighters attacked an Israeli army jeep patrolling the border with Gaza, injuring 4 Israeli occupation soldiers. Israeli forces then targeted civilian areas, killing two more teenagers playing football, then bombed the gathering that was mourning their deaths, killing two more. Five civilians were killed and two resistance fighters, including three children. Fifty-two others, including six women and twelve children were wounded. For Gaza to be under such attack, could anyone doubt that resistance forces would fire back? Once Israeli forces had carried out further bombardments, one of which was the extra-judicial killing of the Hamas military commander Ahmed Jabari, the circle was complete. [2]

Since then during the last three days 29 Palestinians have been killed and three Israelis. The majority of Palestinian victims were civilians, of which six were children. More than 270 have been injured, of whom 134 are children and women. The vast majority are civilians. The number is rapidly rising.

Even this comparison is detached from the context that Gaza is under Israeli military occupation, illegal according to United Nations Resolutions; and a five-year blockade deemed collective punishment by all major human rights organizations, violating article 33 of the Geneva Conventions. The right to resist enforced military occupation by a foreign force is also enshrined in international law, a right that should be self-evident.

All this explains the jubilance from Palestinians in Gaza when rumors spread that one of the rockets which usually hit open land, this time brought down an Israeli F16 fighter jet, the likes of which had carried out over 600 airstrikes all over the Gaza Strip these last three days.

Indeed, our visits to hospitals didn’t take long to convince us that these Israeli aerial attacks and shelling from gunships have hit many civilian areas.

At the main Al-Shifa hospital, Gaza City, every ten minutes more people arrived in ambulances; an elderly man, a young man, a child, two more children. Once leaving the injured, the stretcher gets a new towel and is sprinted back out for the courageous paramedics of the Palestinian Red Crescent to go back out into the danger zones, to find the latest victims of attacks.

There weren’t many beds free in the intensive care unit where some had brain injuries from embedded shrapnel. While we were there, rushing in came a tiny child, ten month old girl, Haneen Tafesh. She had very little color or life in her and was rolled on to the hospital bed. She had suffered a brain hemorrhage and a fractured skull. Later that evening we learned that she hadn’t survived.

Talking to the Director General of Al-Shifa, Dr Mithad Abbas he asked, “We know Israel has the most precision and advanced weaponry. So why are all these children coming in?” He stated that if casualties increased there would be a severe lack basic medicines and supplies, such as antibiotics, IV fluid, anesthesia, gloves, catheters, external fixates, Heparin, sutures, detergents and spare parts for medical equipment. What’s more, electricity blackouts would hit hard without enough finance for suitable fuel for generators.

Once again as I write, five huge blasts from nearby shake our building and our senses. The bombings have progressively escalated, especially once night falls. Jabaliya refugee camp, Shejaiya, Rafah and Meghazi I learned had been under a continuous barrage. One blast came down during an interview with a Canadian radio station which helped the audience to understand more than I could.

A 13 year old girl, Duaa Hejazi was hit in Sabra neighborhood as she walked back home with family. Shrapnel was embedded all over her upper body. “I say, we are children. There is nothing that is our fault to have to face this.” She told us. “They are occupying us and I will say, as Abu Omar said, “If you’re a mountain, the wind won’t shake you”. We’re not afraid, we’ll stay strong.”

And so the night goes on. The near future of Gaza is uncertain. The fates of everyone here is uncertain. Which people now preparing to go to their beds, will have their lives turned upside down by the loss of a loved one these next few days. I know some of the warmest people here that I feel strongly attached to, that you would instantly care for if you met them. The complete madness of this violence makes me wonder what we have done to ourselves, how do we allow humanity to manifest itself in this way.

Outside you can make a difference. I’m asking you because the Israeli army will not empathize with the people they are looking down on through their cockpit windows. Nor will their politicians. But you can empathize and you can act; the normal ways but multiplied by ten. Small and big efforts to create massive international mobilization are the only way to reduce the extent of the horror and loss facing the Palestinians of Gaza.

The Israeli cabinet has approved the call-up of 75,000 reservists compared to the 10,000 reservists called up for the massacres during Israel’s air and land offensive in Cast Lead. There is not much time.

Adie Mormech

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

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