Monday 14 July 2014
People Of Britain Call On Israel To End Its Massacre In Palestine
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Tens of thousands show solidarity as bloodshed continues
Palestine solidarity actions escalated this weekend with demonstrations taking place for the second week in a row all over Britain.
As the Israeli Defence Force continued to bomb the Gaza Strip under Operation Protective Edge, thousands of people took to the streets of London, Manchester, Birmingham and Cardiff among others.
Palestinian Durham University student Siba Fadda told the Star: “We need international pressure to make this atrocity stop.”
Ms Fadda — who left her hometown Nablus after she won a scholarship to study in England last year — joined this Saturday’s Durham Miners’ Gala with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
She felt she had to be there because Israel placed no value on her life as a Palestinian.
“We are exhausted and we are humans,” Ms Fadda said.
“Our lives are as important and we deserve to live.”
Central London was rammed with a sea of people waving flags and banners on Friday, while Bradford hosted a mass protest yesterday evening where campaigners converged with those watching the World Cup final.
Charitable organisations across the country are now preparing to ramp up action with protests and vigils called for the coming weeks.
Stop the War has no less than four events planned this week alone.
On Saturday July 19 a national demonstration to lobby government on the bombing of Gaza is set to start at Downing Street.
It will be the third protest in the capital in less than three weeks.
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People Of Britain Call On Israel To End Its Massacre In Palestine
‘Israel’s Gaza offensive, which by the sixth day has claimed at least 145 lives, including 28 children, and injured as many as 1,000 people, threatens to bring an even deeper humanitarian disaster to the area, with vital water and sewerage systems being destroyed by Israeli air strikes.
Palestinian officials on Saturday claimed that the Israelis had targeted water wells in different parts of Gaza City, leaving thousands of families without access to clean drinking water. An Oxfam official said going into the weekend that 90 percent of the water in Gaza was already unsafe to drink.’
