Enough of Israeli barbarity! : Protest against the collective punishment of Gaza!

galway | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Tuesday January 22, 2008 18:14 by TD - Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

No Light! No Bread! No Fuel! No Justice! : Only the darkness of Zionism!

Besides the wanton murder of nearly 40 Palestinians the past week, the vicious Israeli blockade of Gaza has also snuffed out the lives of five patients, including three babies in the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City - according to Dr Raed al-Arani, a surgeon and spokesman for the hospital, they either died from hypothermia or from power cuts interrupting their vital oxygen supplies at home.

Gaza City in darkness, save for a few apartments with their own means of electricity and the headlights of a car driving through the power cut (Photo : Adel Hana/AP. More can be viewed on the UK Guardian website. See link)

In a moment of uncharacteristic weakness the EU has called the blockade " collective punishment," in character, the US blame the victims and Hamas and UNHRA is of the view that; " This drip drip, door closed, door left ajar approach makes it very difficult to provide for the needs of well nigh a million people in Gaza".

Against Israel's latest barbarism, the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign will be protesting this Saturday outside Lynch's Castle in Shop Street from 11AM to 6PM.

At 1.30PM, we will be joining the Galway Alliance Against War solidarity protest at the Liam Mellow's Statue, top of Eyre Sq (GAAW will also be protesting against the transit of US troops and CIA torture flights through Shannon Airport and the obscenity that is Guantanamo Bay).

An infant lies in an incubator at the primary care unit of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, which awoke Monday to shuttered bread shops and petrol stations (Photo : Khalil Hamra/AP)