Friday, 6 April
5:00 pm
Union Square
New York City
Facebook pages: https://www.facebook.com/events/1002777756549190/
https://www.facebook.com/events/1207692712700937/
Various coalitions have called for this mobilization and will be rallying together in Union Square! The texts of the calls are below:
The NY4Palestine coalition calls on all of its allies and supporters of Palestinian liberation to mobilize tomorrow and join us as we rally for Gaza. Since tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza marched to the border last Friday on Land Day to erect tent cities and launch a 6 week protest leading up to Nakba Day dubbed the #GreatMarchOfReturn, 20 Palestinians have been martyred by occupation forces, with 1500 more injured, 800 by live ammunition.
As the protests enter there second week, the urgency to organize, resist, and fight for Palestine is greater than ever.
All out tomorrow as we rally in support of the heroic Palestinians in Gaza and throughout historic Palestine participating in the #GreatReturnMarch and honor the martyrs who gave their lives fighting for liberation and return!
Where: 14 st Union Square
When: Tomorrow, Friday April 6th at 5pm
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Join us to show solidarity with the tens of thousands of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip carrying out the historic #GreatReturnMarch and to mourn the 20 Palestinians shot and killed by Israeli forces along the border.
On Friday, March 30 an estimated 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza took part in the Great March of Return along the electric fence that has kept more than 2 million people imprisoned for more than a decade. The march, organized by a cross section of civil society, grassroots activists, and political factions in the occupied enclave, called for an end of the Gaza’s brutal siege and the right of return for Palestinian refugees. Conditions in Gaza are currently “unlivable,” as described by the UN, with severe electricity shortages and water contamination, on top of periodic military assaults by Israeli forces.
Israel reacted to families walking and chanting with a brutal show of force. Israeli snipers opened fire with live ammunition against the protestors and deployed tear gas against them by drones, killing at least 20 Palestinians and injuring more than 1,500, half of which were shot with live ammunition. The Israeli army claimed online on March 30 that, “Nothing was carried out uncontrolled; everything was accurate and measured, and we know where every bullet landed.”
And yet, tens of thousands of Palestinians remain steadfast. They aim to stay 45 days until May 15, the 70th anniversary of the “Nakba,” Arabic for “catastrophe,” when 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled from their homes for the creation of the state of Israel.
We condemn these killings. We mourn the 20 Palestinians killed. New York City stands with the tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza in this historic new wave of organizing and their quest to return home.
Hosted by:
Jewish Voice for Peace – NYC
Adalah-NY
Apartheid Divest CUNY
Palestine Solidarity Alliance of Hunter College
Tarab NYC
NYC Queers Against Israeli Apartheid
Jews say No!
