Buy Water Filters for Gaza
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The Gaza Relief Convoy campaign is gaining momentum. It’s not yet too late to make a donation earmarked for “Gaza Convoy Jan. 2008″ to:
Gush Shalom p.o.b. 3322 Tel Aviv 61033 Israel
In the U.S., Canada, U.K., Holland and Germany tax-exempted donations can be made for the Gaza Relief Convoy through charities which will pass it on to Gush Shalom - write to correspondence@gush-shalom.org for the details.
It is very rewarding to see our efforts supported by concerned people sending contributions from near and far, but we still need more.
We decided to concentrate on buying waterfilters - water filters being desperately needed:
The lack of fuel has severely damaged the provision of drinking water, and the people have to make do with extremely bad quality water. Therefore there is an enormous need for water filters, but there aren’t anymore - they are ‘blacklisted’ as part of the collective punishment by the Israeli government.
Though we assume you know about the situation of the one and half millions inhabitants of Gaza, we add a link to a Dec 19,2007 Sky news video, which gives some sharp insight in daily life under siege.
Another important reason why to buy water filters: they won’t deteriorate if our struggle to get them into Gaza would take some time.
By coming on Saturday January 26 with a truckload of filters AND a lot of Israeli citizens AND (hopefully) a lot of media, AND with the Palestinians waiting for us on the other side of the checkpoint we think we can make it extremely inconvenient for the authorities to refuse us to pass these things on.
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And in the case that they won’t let it through to begin with, we will continue to campaign, and hopefully all the international donors will then protest - by phone and fax and snail mail and through the embassies worldwide - until the convoy is let through. It looks as if with such a basic necessity we would also stand a good chance with the Supreme Court on this matter.The water filters will ultimately get to Gaza, however hard we may have to struggle for it.
As a result of it all, we hope also to have raised the awareness about the Gaza plight.
The list of Israeli sponsors so far:
Gush Shalom * Coalition of Women for Peace * Combatants for Peace * Committee Against House Demolitions * New Profile * Hadash * Balad * Adalah * Tarabut /Hitahbrut * Alternative Information Center * Bat Shalom * Anarchists Against the Wall * Physicians for Human Rights-Israel * Follow-Up Committee of the Arab Population in Israel * PsychoactiveGazan partner:
End the Siege Campaign
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8 Comments on “Buy Water Filters for Gaza”
why are we fighting on
god’s land!?!?
arg, why are we fighting on gad’s land?!?!?!?!?!?!!
This is just another example of Israel being just like Hitler.
“Ve tell you vat to do”.
They are evil and racist!
What they a doing is the same as Hitler.
But they don’t see it.
They blame it on the Palestinians.
These people are freedom fighters. They are defending their lands.
The Israelis are defending lands that they have stolen.
Haitham, sorry for the languish.
Fuck Israel. Fuck settlements. Fuck the Bush settlements.
All these arrangements is a KissKiss, LoveLove, for fucking Olmert.
Bush is a fucking idiot. As the world is starting to know.
The world is starting to know that real people are involved.
That real land is involved.
That Israel is involved.
Personal feelings: Israel get the Fuck out of Palestein!
B*****ds are building settlements over Palestinian graveyards!!!!!!
It’s really Funny, The West kicked these Zionists to Palestine, because they knew very well that these fuckers just cannot be trusted, they are a deceptive and treacherous people. Now, they have realized that even from Palestine, these Zionists can still extort money from the West. Hey, these are a slimy fishy people.
Gush Shalom needs some help to set up a credit card donation routine through transfer sites like Paypal. They would get much more than they do from the USA.
khothla,
This isn’t really that simple.
Zionists want a state that they can call their own.
In Palestein there were Jewish people living there.
They were living in peace.
After WWII the Zionists (in the name of the persecuted race) wanted a home.
They claimed Palestein as their promised land.
They killed Palestinians and stole their lands in the name of persecutions that they endured.
The world accepted their plight.
Now my problem is that the Israelis are treating the Palestinians like they were treated by the NAZIs
These people have been occupied for over 60 years.
Israel has stolen their lands.
I will be polite.
Get the f@%#$@ ot of Palestein.