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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 leaders?
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: http://www.palestinecampaign.org
; http://www.endgazasiege.net;
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
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Tuesday 22nd of January 2008
Keele University 12:00 - 13:15
University of Cambridge (evening)
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Wednesday 23 Jan 2008
London School of Economics 18:00 - 20:00
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Thursday 24 Jan 2008
University of Sussex 13:30 - 15:30
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Friday 25 Jan 2008
Edinburgh University 18:00 - 21:00
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Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Box BM PSA
London
WC1N 3XX
Tel: 020 7700 6192
Fax: 020 7609 7779
Email: info@palestinecampaign.org
Web: http://www.palestinecampaign.org
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