ISRAEL OUT OF GAZA!!!
1. TONIGHT:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
9:15 tonight, Women in Black and ANSWER LA will hold a half-hour vigil
at the Sunset Laemmle Theatres, 8000 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood,
Ca.8000 Sunset Blvd.
An Israeli film about the military, Close to Home, is being shown as
part of the LA Film Festival. We believe that all cultural, social,
sports and products from Israel should be boycotted until it withdraws
from the occupied territories and gives Palestinians their civil and
human rights. Israel is collectively punishing a people whose only aim
is freedom from occupation.For information on the invasion of Gaza,
please contact the following people who are facing, firsthand, the might
of the 4th largest military in the world.
Greta Berlin
Member, Women in Black Los Angeles
310-422-7242
<>GAZA CONTACTS FOR MEDIA INTERVIEW
June 28, 2006
Note: Most numbers can be reached using international prefixes of
both 970 (Palestine) or 972 (Israel).
GAZA CITY
Dr. Haider Abdel Shafi: Former Palestinian Negotiator 970-8-2830-222
(home), 970-8-286-6689 (office)
Diana Butto: Former Legal Advisor to PLO, now works for Paltel, 970 599
559 734 (mobile)
Ghazi Hamad: Spokesperson for Hamas, former Political Analyst 970 599
705 802 (mobile), 970 8 2833 539 (office)
Dr. Eyad Al Sarraj: Director of Gaza Community Mental Health
970-599-400-424 (mobile)
Raji Sourani: Director of Palestinian Center for Human Rights in
Gaza 970-599-412-919 (mobile)
2. TOMORROW:
ISRAELI OCCUPATION FORCES LAUNCH BRUTAL ASSAULT ON PALESTINIANS IN
GAZA
Food, water, electricity cut off to more than 1 million people
Israel threatens regional war, sending war planes over Syria
EMERGENCY PROTEST IN LA
Stop the attacks! Cut off U.S. aid to Israel!
Thursday, June 29, 4-6 pm
Israeli Consulate: 6380 Wilshire Blvd, LA (near Wilshire & San
Vicente)
Sponsored by A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition-LA, including member groups Free
Palestine Alliance and Palestinian American Women's Association, and
the National Council of Arab Americans-LA.
For more info call 323-464-1636 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:answerla%40answerla.org>.
http://www.answerla.org <http://www.answerla.org/>
Using the capture of one of its soldiers as the pretext, 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. The people of Gaza are
now without water and electricity -- and many will die. The use of
U.S. planes and other military goods against illegally occupied
territories is a violation of both international and U.S. law.
Israel is also threatening to widen the war, sending war planes over
Syria to "buzz" the home of Syrian President Bashir al-Assad, whose
government the U.S. has been actively working to bring down for more
than two years. The Palestinian population of Gaza, one of the
poorest and most densely populated areas of the world, was already
suffering severe shortages of food, medicine and other necessities
due to Israel's blockade of Gaza and the cut-off of international
aid to the West Bank and Gaza, in effect since January 2006. The new
Israeli assault has resulted in the cut-off of power, water and food
supplies to most of the people in Gaza. The situation constitutes a
deliberately created humanitarian disaster.
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 against the
Palestinian population as a whole. It is just one part of Israel's
colonial policy toward the Palestinians. In historic Palestine,
whether the West Bank, Gaza or inside the 1948 borders of Israel, an
apartheid system is in place, where many rights reserved for Jewish
Israelis are denied to Palestinians. More than six million
dispossessed Palestinians are denied the right to return to their
homeland.
Israeli apartheid 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. That
is why Israel receives more military and economic aid from the U.S. -
- over $3 billion annually -- than any other country in the world.
While a great hue and cry is heard in the mass media about one
captured Israeli soldier, the same media pays no attention
whatsoever to the 9,800 Palestinian political prisoners being held
illegally (it is illegal for an occupying power to transfer
prisoners from occupied territory) under terrible conditions in
Israeli prisons. At least 335 of these prisoners are children.
Palestinian prisoners are systematically tortured after arrest. Just
two days ago, the Israeli parliament gave the Shin Bet (the secret
police) the right to double the time for secret "interrogation" of
Palestinian prisoners -- a green light for even greater torture.
The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition (http://www.answerla.org
<http://www.answerla.org/>), which has
organized the largest anti-war protests in Washington, DC, Los
Angeles, San Francisco and in other U.S. cities over the past five
years, including the historic demonstration of over 100,000 people
supporting Palestinian rights in Washington on April 20, 2002, is
calling for and supporting protests at Israeli embassies, consulates
and U.S. federal buildings, to demand:The immediate end to the U.S.-
supplied Israeli assault on Gaza.
* The release of all Palestinian political prisoners from Israeli
jails
* An end to all U.S. aid to Israel
* An end to colonial occupation, support for self-determination for
the Palestinian people including the right of return.
* No new U.S.-Israeli war against Syria.
In Los Angeles, A.N.S.W.E.R., its member groups the Free Palestine
Alliance and Palestinian American Women's Association, and the
National Council of Arab Americans-LA are calling for an Emergency
Protest outside of the Israeli Consulate tomorrow - Thursday, June
29, from 4-6 pm. The Consulate is located at 6380 Wilshire Blvd in
Los Angeles. Bring signs, banners, flags and more to support the
Palestinian people.
A.N.S.W.E.R is also calling on justice-minded individuals and
organizations to contact Congress and the White House demanding an
immediate end to U.S. aid to Israel. Click here to send your
message. For more information go to http://www.answerla.org.
<http://www.answerla.org./>
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A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
Act Now to Stop War and End Racism
323-464-1636
http://www.answerla.org <http://www.answerla.org/>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:answerla%40answerla.org>
1800 Argyle Ave, #410
Los Angeles, CA 90028
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