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SF: Emergency Protest - Stop U.S.-Israeli Assault On Palestinians
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Date:
Monday, July 03, 2006
Time:
4:30 PM
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6:30 PM
Event Type:
Protest
Organizer/Author:
Reem Assil
Email:
Phone:
415-678-6220
Location Details:
EMERGENCY PROTEST – MONDAY, JULY 3, 4:30 P.M.
CONSULATE OF ISRAEL, 456 MONTGOMERY ST., S.F.
CONSULATE OF ISRAEL, 456 MONTGOMERY ST., S.F.
End the Siege of Gaza / End All U.S. Aid to Israel / Boycott Israeli Goods
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) launched a brutal assault on the entire population of Gaza in the early morning hours of June 28. U.S.-supplied F-16 fighter-bombers destroyed the main power station in Gaza and destroyed bridges on the only major roads linking the northern and southern sections of the region. Round-the-clock Israeli artillery shelling is taking place. Most of the people of Gaza are now without water and electricity – Palestinians are dying. The use of U.S. planes and other military equipment against illegally occupied land is a violation of both international and U.S. law. In a further act of act of colonial aggression, the IOF has arrested a third of the members of the Palestinian Authority governing body.
While a great outcry is heard in the mass media about one captured Israeli soldier, the same media pays no attention whatsoever to the 9,000 Palestinian political prisoners being held illegally under terrible conditions in Israeli prisons. All of them were abducted by the IOF. At least 335 of these prisoners are children. Palestinian prisoners are systematically tortured by Israel, the only country in the world that has legalized torture.
Deliberately attacking the civilian population, with the intent of causing maximum suffering, is clearly a crime against humanity. What we are witnessing today in Gaza is collective punishment -- a war crime under international law -- against the entire population.
Israel's racist apartheid system and the latest assault on Gaza is supported by the Bush regime, Congress and the corporate media, because of Israel's vital role in Washington's project of Middle East domination. Israel receives more military and economic aid from the U.S. -- over $3 billion annually -- than any other country. Without that aid and support it receives from Washington, Israel could not carry out its crimes against the Palestinian people.
Sponsored by Al-Awda
http://www.al-awda.org
The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
To endorse please send an email to: host [at] al-awda.org
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) launched a brutal assault on the entire population of Gaza in the early morning hours of June 28. U.S.-supplied F-16 fighter-bombers destroyed the main power station in Gaza and destroyed bridges on the only major roads linking the northern and southern sections of the region. Round-the-clock Israeli artillery shelling is taking place. Most of the people of Gaza are now without water and electricity – Palestinians are dying. The use of U.S. planes and other military equipment against illegally occupied land is a violation of both international and U.S. law. In a further act of act of colonial aggression, the IOF has arrested a third of the members of the Palestinian Authority governing body.
While a great outcry is heard in the mass media about one captured Israeli soldier, the same media pays no attention whatsoever to the 9,000 Palestinian political prisoners being held illegally under terrible conditions in Israeli prisons. All of them were abducted by the IOF. At least 335 of these prisoners are children. Palestinian prisoners are systematically tortured by Israel, the only country in the world that has legalized torture.
Deliberately attacking the civilian population, with the intent of causing maximum suffering, is clearly a crime against humanity. What we are witnessing today in Gaza is collective punishment -- a war crime under international law -- against the entire population.
Israel's racist apartheid system and the latest assault on Gaza is supported by the Bush regime, Congress and the corporate media, because of Israel's vital role in Washington's project of Middle East domination. Israel receives more military and economic aid from the U.S. -- over $3 billion annually -- than any other country. Without that aid and support it receives from Washington, Israel could not carry out its crimes against the Palestinian people.
Sponsored by Al-Awda
http://www.al-awda.org
The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
To endorse please send an email to: host [at] al-awda.org
Added to the calendar on Fri, Jun 30, 2006 5:47PM
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