Emergency Action - Gaza: Silent Vigil at Feinstein's Office

Emergency Action - Gaza: Silent Vigil at Feinstein's Office, Market and Montgomery SF - 5PM Monday December 29

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EMERGENCY ACTION! STOP THE ATTACK ON GAZA

Silent Vigil at Feinstein's Office
5PM Monday Dec. 29th - Montgomery and Market
Bring candles, posters, and banners; wear black.
Rain or Shine

Co-Sponsored by Direct Action to Stop the War; the Middle East Children's Alliance; Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism; SF Women in Black

We condemn the missile strikes that have killed hundreds of Palestinians in the Gaza strip as a brutal and murderous form of collective punishment. The strikes in heavily populated areas display a reckless disregard for the civilians of Gaza and are part of an ongoing war by Israel not against Hamas or terrorism, but against the Palestinian people. The following text is from a BBC eyewitness report in Gaza City:

"Doctors say the operating rooms are full and the morgues are full and they have no place to put the dead bodies. They are asking for every doctor who is not working today to come and help. We have seen in the streets of Gaza today and this evening many funerals . . . It's a very bad situation... There were Israeli aeroplanes everywhere, hitting everywhere. You could see smoke from north to south, from west to east. The people are really in a panic. The main object for the people now is to find a secure place to secure their family. Gaza has no shelters, it has no safe places. The Hamas security compounds are in the middle of the city - it's not the kind of place where you see compounds outside the cities."

This recent offensive against people in Gaza is only the latest in the Israeli government's continued occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. With the siege of Gaza Israel has shown a consistent disregard for the human rights of Palestinians leading to an unprecedented humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Malnutrition in the Strip rivals that found in sub-Saharan Africa, as Gazans cannot receive necessary food, fuel and medical supplies. The effects of the siege will greatly impact the hundreds of civilians injured by the missile strike.

We recognize that the US Government is complicit in these crimes against the people of Palestine. We call on the US government to end its support of the Israeli occupation, to stop the billions of dollars in military aid sent to Israeli, and to end Israel's criminal raids and siege on the people of Gaza. We gather outside Senator Feinstein's office to send this message. We stand in solidarity and sympathy with the innocent civilians being bombed in Gaza.

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