Free Palestine on Saturday 20th May

From the Respect site:

Palestine Demonstration 20th May 2006

EU/Israel - Stop Starving Palestinians
Recognise Palestinian Democracy
End Israel's Occupation
DEMONSTRATE Saturday 20 May
Assemble 12noon, Embankment
Rally in Trafalgar Square

Organised by Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Palestinian Forum in Britain, Association of Palestinian Communities, Palestine Return Centre, British Muslim Initiative, Friends of Al-Aqsa, Stop the War Coalition

Supported by Just Peace UK, Jews for Justice for Palestinians, Muslim Association of Britain, Pax Christi, Freedom and Justice for Samar and Jawad, Arab Media Watch, War on Want, RMT, Unison, GMB, NUM, CWU, NUJ, PCS, NATFHE,  1990 Trust

Details: www.palestinecampaign.org

The Palestinian people need your help Israel's brutal occupation of the Palestinian people is creating a humanitarian crisis.

The Israeli government has decided to strengthen the economic blockade of the Palestinian people. Dov Weisglass, the Israeli prime minister's adviser, joked: 'It's like an appointment with a dietician. The Palestinians will get a lot thinner, but won't die'.

a. According to a January 2006 UN report, 64% of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories are living below the poverty line.

b.. In Gaza, 40% of children suffer from malnutrition because of the Israeli occupation. John Ging, director of UN operations there, said: 'This is the first time bread has been rationed.There's no sugar, oil, milk, the basics.'

c.. A UN report in September 2005 said that 60 Palestinian women had given birth at Israeli checkpoints since 2000 and 36 of their babies died as a result.

d.. Since September 2000, over 3,800 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army and settlers, and over 29,000 injured.

e.. Israel is building an Apartheid Wall that, when completed, will annex East Jerusalem and almost half of the West Bank, leaving the Palestinians imprisoned in a series of ghettos.

f.. Over half of the Palestinian population were expelled from their homes in the 1947-49 war, and a second wave of refugees was created in 1967. Today, two-thirds of Palestinians are refugees.

Israel must:

a.. abide by international law
b.. acknowledge Palestine's right to exist
c.. recognise the democratically elected government of Palestine
d.. end the illegal occupation
e.. remove settlers
f.. dismantle the Apartheid Wall
Help us send a clear message - write to your MP and MEP for support

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