From: Palestinian General DelegationSubject: Protests around the Country - END THE SIEGE OF GAZAInternational Day of ActionProtest Saturday 26th January4-6pmOpposite No10 Downing StreetWhitehall, London+++++++++++++++++++++++Protest in Leicester on Thursday the 24th JanuaryCandle lit Vigil - Leicester Town CentreThe Clock Tower- 5.30pm 6.30pm+++++++++++++++++++++++Stop Capital Punishment for Palestinians – Stop the Siege of GazaThursday 24th January 2008 between 6:00pm to 8:30pm
Opposite Downing Street, London - Organised by GUPS+++++++++++++++++++++++Protest Israeli Crimes against Humanity in GlasgowFriday 25 January, 5.30pmGeorge Square, Glasgow++++++++++++++++++++++Vigil for Gaza in Brighton Saturday 26th JanuaryAssemble at 1pm at the Clock Tower in BrightonPlease bring placards etc/Leaflets will be providedOrganised by Brighton and Hove PSC++++++++++++++++++++++Protest the Siege on Gaza Saturday 26th in SwanseaCity Centre of Swansea, Front of the Castle12pm++++++++++++++++++++++End the Gaza siege protest, Sheffield Town HallSaturday 26th January 2008, 12 - 1pm.This protest is part of an International day of action: including attempts by Israeli activists to break the blockade and take medical supplies into Gaza from Israel.- Wednesday 30th January 4.45pm to 6pm - Candlelit vigil outside Sheffield Town Hall.- Friday 1st February 4.30pm to 6pm - Candlelit vigil outside Sheffield railway station.Please bring nightlights in jam jars to the evening vigils.+++++++++++++++++++++++Letter in the Guardian TodaySituation in Gaza and the path to peace
Thursday January 24, 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,2245684,00.htmlWe refuse to remain silent on the brutal collective punishment being inflicted upon the Palestinian population (This brutal siege of Gaza can only breed violence, January 23), which has reached even more horrific levels following Israel's cutting of fuel supplies. The 1.5 million residents of Gaza, who were already suffering severe shortages of fuel, food and medicine, are facing a catastrophic humanitarian crisis in the middle of winter, without heat and lighting.The only power station in Gaza is needed to provide electricity to deliver clean water and manage sewage. Hospitals are warning that patients' lives are at stake, with electricity needed to run essential machinery such as incubators, dialysis machines, and heart monitors, and essential surgery that will have to be cancelled.Article 33 of the fourth Geneva convention states that "no protected person may be punished for an offence he or she has not personally committed". The British government, as a signatory to the convention, has a responsibility to ensure that it is upheld. We urge the government immediately to condemn the collective punishment of the Gazan population and ensure that the Israeli government's violations of the fourth Geneva convention end.A protest to call for an end to the Gaza siege is being held on Saturday opposite 10 Downing Street.
Miriam Margolyes, Maxine Peake, Dr Karma Nabulsi, Tony Benn, Victoria Brittain, Lord David Steel, Bella Freud, Samuel West, Juliet Stevenson, Simon McBurney, John Keane, Charles Glass as well as Alexei Sayle, Kika Markham and Corin Redgrave+++++++++++++++++++++++From the Guardian Leader'If you bottle up 1.5 million people in a territory 25 miles long and six miles wide, and turn off the lights, as Israel has done in Gaza, the bottle will burst. This is what happened yesterday when tens of thousands of Gazans poured into Egypt to buy food, fuel and supplies after militants destroyed two-thirds of the wall separating the Gaza Strip from Egypt. It was the biggest jail break in history.'+++++++++++++++++++++++***PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY***Please urgently write to your MP to sign the EDMs on Gaza below – new EDMs tabled this weekEDM 732 - HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN GAZA (No. 2) 21.01.2008
Corbyn, Jeremy 13 signatures
That this House is appalled at the continued and wholly preventable humanitarian crisis in Gaza; unreservedly condemns Israel for cutting off fuel supplies and preventing other vital supplies entering from Israel; and calls upon the Government to make all efforts to ensure that Israel lifts the siege with immediate effect.
EDM 698 - HOSPITAL SUPPLIES IN GAZA 15.01.2008
McDonnell, John 44 signatures
That this House notes with extreme concern the report from the Ministry of Health in Gaza that as a result of the Israeli blockade supplies of food and medical equipment are nearly exhausted in the hospitals and clinics in Gaza; and calls upon the Government to take every action possible to ensure the lifting of the blockade and the supply of food and medical equipment to Gaza.
EDM 624 - CIVILIANS IN GAZA 18.12.2007
Corbyn, Jeremy 36 signatures
That this House notes the financial pledges of around £7.4 billion from 90 countries to be made to Palestine in the follow-up to the formal re-launch of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations last month in Annapolis; notes with considerable alarm Israel's overnight extrajudicial killings of 12 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and West Bank in a series of air attacks, bringing the number of extrajudicial killing operations launched since September 2000 to at least 256, killing at least 612 Palestinians; and calls upon the Government to apply what pressure it can to ensure Israel ceases these extrajudicial killings which have become symbolic of its disregard for international law in Articles 6 and 4 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
EDM 305 - HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN GAZA 19.11.2007
Love, Andrew 90 signatures
That this House expresses grave concern about the humanitarian situation in Gaza and the decision by the State of Israel to declare it a hostile entity; notes that this further isolated the 1.5 million Palestinian residents of this occupied territory, 1.1 million of whom have to survive on food handouts; further notes that shortages of medical supplies are reported by the United Nations; considers that future Israeli measures could involve cutting off crucial supplies including food, fuel, electricity and water; believes that such measures would not deter the firing of Kassam rockets but would have a devastating effect on the humanitarian situation in Gaza with a detrimental impact on public health; further believes that the continued political and economic isolation of Gaza will jeopardise the prospects for a lasting peace and for any future negotiations to be credible and successful; and therefore calls upon the UK Government to make the strongest possible representations to the Israeli government that such measures are wholly unacceptable and tantamount to collective punishment and a breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
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