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End the Siege on Gaza – Protest outside Downing Street
Saturday 12th of January 2008
4 to 6pm
Opposite 10 Downing Street, London
The international Campaign to end the siege on Gaza
There are 1.5 million people, including women and children, in the Gaza Strip suffering the consequences of an oppressive siege and threatened with further measures of power cuts and cuts in foods and medicines allowed into the strip.
Last week the IDF killed 17 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including a woman and on Thursday the 3rd of January the Israeli High Court of Justice rejected an appeal by human rights groups for an injunction against fuel cuts to the Gaza Strip.
Please show your support to Gaza by attending this protest to call for an end to the siege which is causing untold misery to the residents of the Gaza Strip.
Supported by: PSC, PFB, BMI, PRC, STWC
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End the siege of Gaza – End Israeli occupation
PSC calls on its members and supporters to take urgent steps to highlight the crisis in Gaza.
The siege being imposed on Palestinians is making life a living hell in Gaza. The World Food Programme has said that food imports only cover 41 per cent of demand. Palestinians are suffering from hunger and malnutrition, and those seriously ill are being prevented from accessing essential medical treatment outside Gaza by Israel sealing the borders. Israel is cutting fuel and electricity supplies, and 210,000 people are able to access drinking water for only 1-2 hours a day.
Over 40 Gazans have died as a direct result of being denied medical treatment by the Israeli authorities. Twenty per cent of essential drugs and 31 per cent of essential medical supplies are no longer available inside Gaza .
The Israeli, EU, US and British governments are systematically attempting to overturn the results of the last Palestinian parliamentary elections, declared free and fair by the international community. This siege is punishing Palestinians for simply exercising their right to choose their own representatives.
But an even greater assault is on the horizon, with senior Israeli figures making clear that if their policy of imposing a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza does not succeed in ensuring that Palestinians submit to the will of the state of Israel , they are preparing for massive military action inside Gaza .
We therefore ask everybody to write to your MPs urging the British government to immediately:
- Demand the Israeli government lift the siege and ends all collective punishment imposed on the civilian population of Gaza
- Demand the EU restores funding to Gaza
- Respect Palestinian democracy and engage with elected Palestinian representatives
- Ensure Israel release the Palestinian elected representatives it has abducted and imprisoned
- Support the suspension of the EU/Israel trade agreement until Israel ends its occupation.
To publicise the End the Siege of Gaza campaign, PSC has produced leaflets for the public and postcards for the Foreign Secretary which are now available from the PSC office.
Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Box BM PSA
London
WC1N 3XX
Email: info@palestinecampaign.org
Tel: 020 7700 6192
Fax: 020 7609 7779
Web: www.palestinecampaign.org
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