Stop the Gaza Nakba!!!

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Event by Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa - PSNA
Tram Shed, Taupo Quay, Whanganui

As you will no doubt be aware, Israel is waging war and genocide on Gaza, Palestine. Much like the senseless and barbarian invasion from Russia into Ukraine, Israel is bombing and killing innocent Palestinians for living in their very homeland.
This is NOT a clash between Palestinians and 'Israelis!' This is genocide on Palestinians and we need to stand against it!
*No more fear, no more laziness, stand up! Speak up! Come support this Saturday at the Tram Shed, Taupo Quay at 11:00 am, to pressure the New Zealand government to recognise and speak up against this genocide on Palestine, and hide no more! Palestinians kiwis expect much more!

Day in and day out - Palestinians live under siege, caged, brutalized, colonized, expelled & ethnically cleansed, bombed and imprisoned in Gaza, Hebron, Jerusalem, Jenin, Nablus and all over occupied Palestine for long enough. 75 years!
Palestinians are an occupied people and we have the right to resist occupation, we have the right to freedom. We will fight for that freedom!  It's past time for the world wake up and help the Palestinians, indigenous and native nation of Palestine, achieve their just rights to self-determination to live peacefully and freely IN THEIR OWN LANDS!

It’s over five weeks since the October 7th attack on Israel and the launch of Israel’s genocidal rampage against the Palestinian people of Gaza. But while our political leaders have been vocal in condemning war crimes that led to the killing of Israeli civilians they have not yet breathed a single word of condemnation for the slaughter of Palestinians civilians, including over 4,600 Palestinian children.
 
Israel has now slaughtered the equivalent of all the children in 17 average-sized New Zealand primary schools.
 
But, unbelievably, outgoing PM Chris Hipkins and incoming PM Chrisopher Luxon have been deathly silent on these crimes and the whole range of Israeli war crimes against the Palestinian people which include:Collective punishment of an occupied people
Failure to treat Palestinians civilians as “protected persons” under the Fourth Geneva Convention
Depriving 2.2 million Palestinians of food, water, fuel, electricity, medical supplies etc
Bombing and attacking schools, hospitals, ambulances and civilian infrastructure such as water treatment plants, sewage treatment plants etc
Bombing densely populated residential areas murdering Palestinians in their thousands (According to the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, Israel has dropped more than 25,000 tonnes of explosives on the Gaza Strip since October 7, equivalent to two nuclear bombs)
Ethnic cleansing, forcible movement of civilian populations in Gaza
Assisting in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by heavily armed Israeli militias, with the support of the Israel army, from Palestinian towns and rural communities in the Occupied West Bank – casually killed any Palestinians that get in their way
Expanding illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian land
Applying apartheid laws against Palestinians across the entire area of historic Palestine
Continuing its illegal military occupation of Palestine
These are all war crimes and some, such as genocide and apartheid, are crimes against humanity.

If Russia were doing anything like this in Ukraine or a European community anywhere in the world suffered as Palestinians are suffering now our political leaders would condemn the outrages and apply immediate sanctions and accountabilities as we have done for Russia in Ukraine. Such barbarism as is being displayed by Israel today would be condemned as depraved, racist and genocidal.
 
But our political leaders are weak and spineless. The best our government can do is repeat its call for a “humanitarian pause” (a “tea-break” in Israel’s murderous rampage) and has called on both sides to “protect human lives” – a meaningless response to genocide happening before our eyes.
 
Refusal to condemn Israel’s political leaders for their war crimes means Israel’s cowardly attacks on Palestinian civilians will continue. Israel knows its genocide of Palestinians comes at no political cost where New Zealand is concerned. Israel knows that anti-Palestinian racism is alive and well in New Zealand’s political leadership.
 
Our political leaders have made New Zealand complicit in Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.

Please note, this protest is not in the Tram Shed, nor endorsed by it, it will take place on the footpath in front of the Tram Shed.

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