GAZA: Israeli "End the Siege" action at Erez Checkpoint
February 6th, 2008
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CPTnet
6 February 2008
GAZA: Israeli "End the Siege" action at Erez Checkpoint
On 26 January 2008, almost 2000 people arrived at the Erez Checkpoint, Gaza, in a convoy of buses, trucks and cars, bringing two tons of food donated by the participants as well as five tons of essential foodstuffs and water distillers the organizers had purchased.
Jessica Frederick and Paulette Schroeder, representing the Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) in Hebron and Sean O’Neill a CPTer from At-Tuwani, traveled in the convoy along with representatives from at least twenty-six Israeli human rights and peace activist groups who had organized the action.
During a program near the checkpoint, Nurit Peled Elhanan, an Israeli peace activist whose daughter had been killed by a suicide bomber spoke. Dr. Eyad al-Sarraj from within Gaza addressed the crowd on his cellular phone declaring, "Every drop of blood is a crime against humanity." Shir Shusdig, a young Israeli woman from the Israeli village Sderot near the Gaza border said, “For seven years I am suffering from the Qassams (rockets) in Kibbutz Zikum and Sderot. I know that the people on the other side are also suffering very much. That’s why I am here.” One peace activist from Israel, eighty-five-year old Pnina Feiler serves as a nurse with Physicians for Human Rights in clinics within the Occupied Palestinian Territories. She noted that at many of these checkpoints, mothers have babies and people die.
Though demonstrators could not hand the commodities directly to the Gazans, the organizers promised that they would appeal to the Israeli High Court in the next two days if the Israeli authorities did not allow the supplies to enter. In the meantime, they are being stored at a nearby Israeli kibbutz.
Photos and further information about the convoy are available at
http://www.alternativenews.org/news/english/thousands-of-palestinian-and-israelis-demonstrate-on-both-sides-of-the-gaza-border-against-blockade-20080127.html
6 February 2008
GAZA: Israeli "End the Siege" action at Erez Checkpoint
On 26 January 2008, almost 2000 people arrived at the Erez Checkpoint, Gaza, in a convoy of buses, trucks and cars, bringing two tons of food donated by the participants as well as five tons of essential foodstuffs and water distillers the organizers had purchased.
Jessica Frederick and Paulette Schroeder, representing the Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) in Hebron and Sean O’Neill a CPTer from At-Tuwani, traveled in the convoy along with representatives from at least twenty-six Israeli human rights and peace activist groups who had organized the action.
During a program near the checkpoint, Nurit Peled Elhanan, an Israeli peace activist whose daughter had been killed by a suicide bomber spoke. Dr. Eyad al-Sarraj from within Gaza addressed the crowd on his cellular phone declaring, "Every drop of blood is a crime against humanity." Shir Shusdig, a young Israeli woman from the Israeli village Sderot near the Gaza border said, “For seven years I am suffering from the Qassams (rockets) in Kibbutz Zikum and Sderot. I know that the people on the other side are also suffering very much. That’s why I am here.” One peace activist from Israel, eighty-five-year old Pnina Feiler serves as a nurse with Physicians for Human Rights in clinics within the Occupied Palestinian Territories. She noted that at many of these checkpoints, mothers have babies and people die.
Though demonstrators could not hand the commodities directly to the Gazans, the organizers promised that they would appeal to the Israeli High Court in the next two days if the Israeli authorities did not allow the supplies to enter. In the meantime, they are being stored at a nearby Israeli kibbutz.
Photos and further information about the convoy are available at
http://www.alternativenews.org/news/english/thousands-of-palestinian-and-israelis-demonstrate-on-both-sides-of-the-gaza-border-against-blockade-20080127.html
