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FREEDOM FOR PALESTINE!
ABCD
Lift the siege of
Gaza! End the Economic Blockade! Tear Down the Apartheid Wall and Illegal
Settlements! End the Occupation! Let the Refugees
Return! Freedom for Palestine! Light a candle for
Palestine! 
Between 27/12/08 and 18/01/09 the Israeli military fell like wolves upon Gaza: hospitals, ambulances, housing apartments, universities and schools were bombed, and 1400 people died, over a third of these children: Another episode in six decades of war, occupation, ethnic cleanising, colonisation, racism and dispossession the most powerful states in the West have inflicted upon the people of Palestine.
In Gaza, Palestinians still live a desperate life, surviving another bitter winter in the rubble of destroyed homes, with the Israeli & Egyptian government denying the necessary food, medical and even reconstruction materials in a brutal blockade backed by the West.
Many families are forced to live on grass and scavenge in rubbish tips for food with almost half the agricultural land destroyed during the war, eight out of ten dependent on aid to live, and massive unemployment caused by the destruction of most
industry. Gaza is a prison, something like
Guantanamo, basically a torture chamber under a constant harsh and brutal siege. A seige is an act of war; a total seige is a major war
crime.
Meanwhile ethnic cleansing continues in occupied East Jeruslaem and the West Bank with the expansion of illegal settlements and the apartheid wall.
Everything going on there is in violation of international
law. The apartheid regime in South Africa was a
picnic, according to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, in comparison with the utter brutality of Israel’s occupation of
Palestine. Tutu referred to the whole of Biblical Palestine from which Palestinian Arabs have been driven or are struggling to survive from the 1948 ethnic cleansing to the violence in the occupied West Bank and Gaza
today.
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