So – you have undoubtedly seen this news of Israel’s attack on the aid flotilla heading for Gaza. The people on board these ships were civilians in international waters and more than ten of them are now dead. Source: aljazeera.net
Some articles to ponder:
A Guardian article on the blockade that the aid flottilla was trying to break: “70% of Gazans live on less than a dollar a day, 75% rely on food aid and 60% have no daily access to water.”
Live coverage from the Guardian.
Perspective: “Peculiar how Israel is always violently attacked but it’s only the ‘attackers’ who die”
Emergency protests worldwide.
And in Japan? From Kyoto’s For Gaza website:
Urgent Action Alert for 1st June in Kobe and Osaka, JAPAN: Israel’s Massacre against Activists of the Free Gaza Movement
Palestine Forum, which is the Osaka based NGO supporting Palestinians, is planning to have an urgent action against Israel’s massacre against activists of the Gaza Freedom Movement as follows;
(1) Appeal in Kobe
Date: 1st June 2010
Time: from 4.45 pm (for an hour)
Venue: in front of the Honorary Consulate of Israel in Kobe
Address: Sento Centre Building, 5-2-3,
Nakayamate-dori, Chuo-ku, Kobe, JAPAN
(2) Appeal in Osaka
Date: 1st June 2010
Time: from 6.30 pm (for 30 minutes)
Venue: in front of the Police Box near the Southern Exit of JR Osaka Station
Contact: Palestine Forum, JAPAN
(palestine.forum@gmail.com)
For more details see For Gaza.
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