Protest outside G4S headquarters on Palestinian prisoners day

Wednesday 17 April 2013 (4.30pm - 7pm)

Outside G4S UK & Ireland head office at 105 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6QT

War on Want calls on G4S to end its complicity in Israel’s prison system.

On 17 April, Palestinian Prisoners Day, War on Want joins a number of Palestine solidarity and human rights organisations in a protest outside G4S headquarters in London.

In 2007, G4S signed a contract with the Israeli Prison Authority to provide security systems and other services for major Israeli prisons. G4S provides systems for the Ketziot and Megiddo prisons, which hold Palestinian political prisoners from occupied Palestinian territory inside Israel. Article 76 of the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits the transfer of prisoners from occupied territory into the territory of the occupier.

G4S also provides equipment for Ofer prison, located in the occupied West Bank, and for Kishon and Moskobiyyeh detention facilities, at which human rights organisations have documented systematic torture and ill treatment of Palestinian prisoners, including child prisoners.

Beyond Israel's prison system, G4S also provides equipment and services to Israeli checkpoints in the West Bank that form part of the route of Israel’s illegal Wall and to the terminals isolating the occupied and besieged territory of Gaza. G4S signed contracts for equipment and services for the West Bank Israeli Police headquarters and to private businesses based in illegal Israeli settlements.

Join us on 17 April outside G4S UK & Ireland head office to send a message to G4S that complicity in Israel’s prison system and illegal occupation is unacceptable.

Protest called by Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Supported by: Action for Palestinian Children, Amos Trust, Fire Brigades Union, Friends of Al-Aqsa UK, ICAHD UK, Jews for Justice for Palestinians, Lib-Dems Friends of Palestine, Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), Stop G4S Campaign, UNISON, UNITE the Union, and War on Want

http://www.waronwant.org/news/events/17853-protest-outside-g4s-headquarters-on-palestinian-prisoners-day

British company JCB and the ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem

From UK charity, War on Want:

TAKE ACTION: STOP JCB EQUIPMENT DESTROYING HOMES IN SILWAN

At 6am on Monday February 13^th, the Israeli authorities demolished the Madaa creative centre and children’s playground in Silwan, East Jerusalem. The demolitions, which will make way for a controversial tourist site, were carried out using UK-made JCB equipment.

WAR ON WANT HAS WRITTEN TO JCB demanding an investigation of the use of JCB equipment to demolish Palestinian homes and communities in Jerusalem. We're asking supporters to show solidarity with Silwan by EMAILING JCB and writing on the JCB FACEBOOK PAGE. 

The playground was the last children’s play area in Silwan, and built with funding from the American NGO MECA for Peace. This demolition comes on top of eviction orders which have been issued to 88 families in the Silwan area. The Silwan district of East Jerusalem now faces the biggest mass evictions since 1967, with over 1,000 people set to be displaced. Any such demolitions are prohibited by the fourth Geneva Convention and therefore illegal under international humanitarian law.

The world is watching what is happening in Silwan. It is up to us to show the Israeli authorities that the international community condemns any further demolitions or use of intimidation in Silwan. This is critical, since the community in Silwan will be rebuilding the playground and creative centre in time for their Mother’s Day celebrations in March. 

VISIT THE MECA FOR PEACE WEBSITE to write to the Israeli officials responsible for the area condemning the demolitions in Silwan.

Please FOLLOW @SAVESILWAN for action updates and news from Silwan.

And here's the Morning Star.