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End the Siege on Gaza
International Day of Action
Saturday 26th January
4-6pm
Parliament, London
View a short film about the 400 strong protest
on the 12th of January outside Downing Street:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWhBC6hP6cM
Join us in protesting against Israel blocking
desperately ill Palestinians from accessing
medical treatment and its escalating
military attacks on Gaza
Saturday 26 January,
4-6pm Parliament
We are particularly appealing to medical
staff to join us in uniform to visibly express
their opposition to Israel preventing Gazans
from traveling for lifesaving medical treatment.
'The human catastrophe deliberately
inflicted on Gaza by western policies
over the past two years is one of the
great crimes of the century so far'.
Jonathan Steele, Guardian
11 January.
Israel's illegal, brutal siege of Gaza
is tightening, restricting fuel and electricity,
and preventing even medical supplies, food,
essential construction materials and paper
for UN schoolbooks from entering Gaza .
With lethal military strikes being launched
on Gaza , and Ehud Barak has warned that
an Israeli invasion of Gaza is nearing.
Even those who desperately need medical
treatment are prevented from leaving. Over
65 Palestinians have died as a direct result
of Israel 's prevention of access to medical
treatment. Miri Weingarten from the
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel said
' Israel intends and wishes to punish the
general population in Gaza , and they're
not hiding it -- in fact, they've stated it clearly.'
Dr Ahmed Abu Tawahineh, deputy director
of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme,
has pointed out that since last June, only a hundred
patients have been allowed out of Gaza to seek treatment
- less than 10 per cent of the more than 1,000 applicants.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported
harrowing scenes of: 'a two-and-a-half-year-old
boy, Ahmed Samut from Khan Yunis, and a
nine-and-a-half-year-old girl, Sausan Jaafari,
of Rafah, as they entered the Erez crossing
alone, after being torn from the arms of their
weeping parents. The two children have heart
conditions and need urgent surgery to save
their lives...The parents of the two children,
both fathers and mothers, were not permitted
by the Israel Defense Forces' coordination and
liaison administration to accompany their
children to this critical surgery. They are
"denied entry" to Israel . The fact that
Sausan's parents had accompanied her
to previous operations at Wolfson did not
change the evil decree. It is indeed a
decree of unparalleled evil. Only the
elderly uncle of one of the children
was allowed to go with them.
' http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/943343.html.
How long can this inhuman treatment
continue unchallenged by international l
eaders?
Collective punishment is being inflicted
upon the Palestinians for voting for a
government against the wishes of Israel ,
the US and the EU.
Call on the British government to end
its collusion with these policies, which are
imprisoning Gazans and attempting to
destroy their lives by limiting access to
food, electricity, clean water supplis and
medical treatment.
26 January has been declared a day of
international solidarity. Join us in calling on
our government to act to immediately lift the
siege of Gaza . Join us in calling on our
government to end the siege immediately!
More details: www.palestinecampaign.org;
View a short film about the 400 strong
protest on the 12th of January outside
Downing Street:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWhBC6hP6cM
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Dr Norman Finkelstein
UK Speaking Tour
In Manchester, Keele, Cambridge,
London, Sussex and Edinburgh
From 21st to 25th January.
Author of 'Image & Reality of the
Israel-Palestine Conflict', 'The Holocaust
Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of
Jewish Suffering' and 'Beyond Chutzpah:
On the Misuse of Anti Semitism and the
Abuse of History'. He is the son of two
Holocaust survivors and one of the world's
foremost political scientists.
For full details and booking
information please visit:
http://tinyurl.com/2y7o2v
Monday 21 Jan
Manchester University 19:30 - 22:00
Tuesday 22nd of January 2008
Keele University 12:00 - 13:15
University of Cambridge (evening)
Wednesday 23 Jan 2008
London School of Economics 18:00 - 20:00
Thursday 24 Jan 2008
University of Sussex 13:30 - 15:30
Friday 25 Jan 2008
Edinburgh University 18:00 - 21:00
Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Box BM PSA
London
WC1N 3XX
Tel: 020 7700 6192
Fax: 020 7609 7779
Email: info@palestinecampaign.org
Web: www.palestinecampaign.org
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