Israeli jets bombed targets across Gaza for the third consecutive day. Five girls from the same family,
including a 14 month-old toddler, were slain overnight when Israeli warplanes pounded a mosque near their home in the northern
town of Jabaliya. Three boys were also killed in a separate Israeli strike on the southern city of Rafah. The fatalities took
to 27 the number of children killed in the Israeli onslaught, unleashed Saturday. More than 345 people have been killed and
1,650 wounded in the Israeli offensive. (References for text: IslamOnline.net and agencies.
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GAZA: STOP THE BLOODSHED, TIME FOR PEACE
With already 380 dead and
continued shelling of civilians in southern Israel, now is the time to issue a demand
to world leaders that the spiralling violence that has characterized the Israeli-Palestinian conflict must come to an end.
We urge you to act immediately to ensure a comprehensive ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, to protect civilians on all sides, and to address the growing humanitarian crisis. Only through robust international action and oversight can the bloodshed be stopped, the Gaza crossings safely re-opened and real progress made toward a wider peace in 2009.
Sign the petition calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza - and for peace to be achieved between Israel and Palestine in 2009.
From International Action Center
Sign the Appeal to Stop
the Attack on Gaza!
Urgent Appeal for Israel to Immediately Cease Its Murderous Bombing, Siege and Threatened Invasion
of Palestinian Gaza
Initiated by 2008 U.N. Human Rights Award winner Ramsey Clark
Let President George W. Bush, President-Elect Barack Obama, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, Secretary of State Designate Hillary Clinton, Vice President Richard Cheney, Vice President-elect Joe Biden, Congressional leaders, U.N. Secretary General Ban, U.N. General Assembly President d’Escoto-Brockmann, members of the U.N. Security Council, U.N. member states, the President, Prime Minister, Cabinet and Opposition leader of Israel, and Major media representatives know you support this urgent appeal initiated by 2008 U.N. Human Rights Award recipient Ramsey Clark for Israel to Immediately Cease Its Murderous Bombing, Siege and Threatened Invasion of Palestinian Gaza!
Take Action to Protest Israeli Attack on Gaza
Mid-morning Saturday, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) launched a series of deadly air strikes on the occupied Gaza Strip. As we write this, an estimated 380 Palestinians have been killed and 1,650 innocent people have been wounded. According to news reports today, Israel plans to keep these attacks going and has brought scores of tanks to the border with Gaza.
These Israeli attacks come on top of a brutal siege of the Gaza Strip which has been going on for years and has created a humanitarian catastrophe of dire proportions for Gaza’s 1.5 million Palestinian residents by restricting the provision of food, fuel, medicine, electricity, and other necessities of life. All of this is happening in the most densely populated and one of the poorest areas of the world.
Israel is carrying out these attacks with F-16 fighter jets and missiles provided by U.S. taxpayers. From 2001-2006, the United States transferred to Israel more than $200 million worth of spare parts to fly its fleet of F-16’s. In July 2008, the United States gave Israel 186 million gallons of JP-8 aviation jet fuel. Last year, the United States signed a $1.3 billion contract with Raytheon to transfer to Israel thousands of TOW, Hellfire, and ‘bunker buster’ missiles.
Israel’s lethal attack on the Gaza Strip could not have happened without the active military
and political support of the United States. We need to take action now to protest this attack and demand an immediate cease-fire.
The
U.S. Campaign to End the Israel Occupation (a member group pf UFPJ) has issued an action alert with these suggestions —
we urge you to take action today!
- Contact the White House to protest the attacks and demand an immediate cease-fire. Call 202-456-1111
or send an email to comments@whitehouse.gov.Contact the State Department at 202-647-6575 or send an email by clicking here.
Contact your Representative and Senators in Congress at 202-224-3121 or find contact info for your Members of Congress by clicking here.
Contact your local media by phoning into a talk show or writing a letter to the editor. To find contact info for your local media, click here.
Organize a local protest or vigil and tell us about it by clicking here.
Sign our open letter to President-Elect Obama calling for a new U.S. policy toward Israel/Palestine and find out other steps you can take to influence the incoming Administration by clicking here.
