Lama Hourani from the Gaza based International Women Commission, is spending this week mobilising people for the WSF global action day. On Saturday, she will join a demonstration in Rome.
“I’m here thanks to the commitment of some very active Italian solidarity groups like Women in Black, and Action for Peace, and other volunteers and human rights groups who come to Palestine very often to support Palestinians even in the hardest conditions,” Hourani told IPS.
“Mobilising people, also outside Palestine, is key for our cause,” she said. What her group aims for, she said, is to inform European people of the real situation in Gaza, why Palestinians are suffering, and what could be done for them. A rising awareness in Europe, she said, “could help pressure governments.”
Gaza is in a very difficult situation, she said, while “Americans (are) refusing any U.N. Security Council resolution regarding the situation.” She said she had failed to reach her friends and family in Gaza these last days. “I’ve sent them emails, but nobody replies, I guess because they have no electricity.”
Hourani said the breach of the border is a normal reaction by desperate people denied basic human rights. “What do we expect from people submitted to such actions for such a long time. Desperation, anger, and hate cannot give any positive results, to anybody. So, it was absolutely predictable.”
From http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40922
End the Siege on Gaza International Day of Action
* Saturday 26th January 2008 from 4-6pm at Parliament, London
We are particularly appealing to medical staff to join us in uniform to visibly express their opposition to Israel preventing Gazans from traveling for lifesaving medical treatment.
More details at http://www.palestinecampaign.org or http://www.endgazasiege.net
See also “Israel’s blockade poses immediate threat to the lives of Gaza’s sick and elderly” Oxfam Press Release 25th January 2008 at http://www.oxfam.org/en/news/2008/pr080125_israel_blockade_threatens_gaza
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