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PROTEST AT ISRAELI WAR CRIMES IN PALESTINE AND LEBANON

westmids psc list subscriber | 26.07.2006 10:53 | Lebanon War 2006 | Anti-militarism | Birmingham

West Midlands PSC calls for your support:

PROTEST AT ISRAELI WAR CRIMES IN PALESTINE AND LEBANON

Saturday 29 July

1.00pm-3.00pm

Birmingham City Centre (Meet on High Street by Waterstones, near the Bullring)
Wear Black if possible. Bring Palestinian and Lebanese flags.
This protest is planned to include leafleting and a die-in.

Justice for Lebanon and Palestine

We demand:

* An immediate ceasefire in Lebanon and Palestine.
* The withdrawal of Israeli army from Gaza, West Bank and Lebanon.
* Release of Prisoners from both sides (10,000 Arabs, three Israeli soldiers)
* Implementing all the UN resolutions on Palestine and Lebanon.

STOP ISRAEL’S WAR CRIMES

Israel is mounting an intensive and illegal military campaign against civilians in Palestine and Lebanon, including
- bombing civilian homes and cars, neighbourhoods flattened
- putting two countries under siege.
- destroying power stations (in Gaza and south of Lebanon)
- attacking petrol stations (Esso, Mobill, ..), factories (Dairy, bottles, clothes, ..)
- attacking ambulances, mosques churches, schools orphanages, supermarkets , bridges, roads, airports, harbours, light house, …

THIS CONSTITUTES THE COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT OF INNOCENT CIVILIANS. THESE ARE WAR CRIMES.

EMERGENCY IN PALESTINE

The Israeli government has mounted deadly incursions in Gaza, threatening invasion to rescue one Israeli soldier taken prisoner on Sunday 25th June. Israeli forces have attacked civilians with tanks, artillery, planes and helicopters. Large numbers of elected representatives of the Palestinian people have been abducted illegally by Israel. These actions are illegal under international law.

Israel, American and EU sanctions on the Palestinians have led to more than 160,000 employees not getting their wages in the last four months.

FREE CHILD PRISONERS

In response to the demand to release the Israeli soldier, Palestinians have demanded that Palestinian women and children held in Israeli jails be released. There are currently 300 Palestinian children (under 18s) and 100 Palestinian women being held hostage in Israeli prisons. They are among 9400 Palestinians being held, many of whom are in administrative detention, without trial or charges. However the Israeli leader Ehud Olmert says negotiations 'are not on the agenda’.
Israel continues to flout international law and to ignore UN resolutions. The Palestinian people are facing the complete destruction of their society. Please act now to stop this massacre.

Who is to blame about the attacks on Lebanon!

Israel was established on more than half of Palestine in 1948, which caused hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to become refugees in the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, Jordon, Syria, and Egypt. In 1967 Israel occupied what is left of Palestine (West Bank and Gaza strip) in addition to Golan Heights in Syria, Shabaa Farms in Lebanon, Sinai in Egypt. In 1982 Israeli invaded Lebanon. In 2000 under the pressure of the resistance lead by Hezbollah Israel withdrew from the lands they occupied in 1982 but they kept the Lebanese land occupied in 1967 (Shabaa Farms), they kept some Lebanese prisoners in their jails, and continued to assassinate the leaders of the resistance in Lebanon. And their air force regularly violated Lebanese airspace. So there were frequent exchanges of fire across that occupied area. Israeli jet fighters were hovering over Lebanon the day before Hezbollah took the two Israeli soldiers prisoners. The Lebanese resistance attacked a military target guarding occupied Lebanese land and captured two soldiers. They said clearly that they would release them in exchange for Arab prisoners in Israeli jails. How does this justify the indiscriminate Israeli attacks against civilian targets across Lebanon? Israel has killed more than 381 in Lebanon of which perhaps only 10 were Hezbollah militants.

You can do something:

- Boycott Israeli Goods and complain to the shops that sell them. (Boycotting South African goods helped end apartheid.)

- Contact your MP and MEP URGENTLY, TO PROTEST AGAINST THE ILLEGAL ATTACKS ON PALESTINIAN AND LEBANESE CIVILIANS AND THE ABDUCTION OF PALESTINIAN ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES AND TO URGE OUR GOVERNMENT TO RESTORE AID TO THE PALESTINIANS. You can contact MPs and MEPS at  http://www.WriteToThem.com and MPs at House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA
- Join the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) and support our work.
 http://www.palestinecampaign.org,  http://www.bigcampaign.org,  http://www.stopthewall.org

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