[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [GushShalom] Barghouti // Israelis protest against Rafah outrage

Sun May 23 12:04:01 CDT 2004

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>International release
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>[] The  long road of Marwan Barghouti
>[] 700 Demonstrators Confront Soldiers At Checkpoint To Rafah
>[] How to send donations to newly-homeless families at Rafah
>
>
>[] The  long road of Marwan Barghouti
>
>In this week of Rafah - another act in the judicial process against
>senior Fatah leader and member of the Palestinian Parliament Marwan
>Barghouti. At the end of a very predetermined trial, in which Barghouti
>refused to take part and be represented by a lawyer, he was found guilty
>of "responsibility for terrorist activity", with the foregone conclusion
>that on the final session at the 6th of June he will be condemned to
>numerous "consecutive life imprisonments".
>By not recognizing Barghouti as a legitimate leader of a people fighting
>for its independence the present Israeli establishment closes one more 
>door through which it might have been ppssible to get to peace. 
>Barghouti - now, more than ever, a highly influential Palestinian leader -
>was on several occasions involved from his prison cell in promoting and
>facilitating a cease-fire with Israel. Taking all this into
>consideration, the Barghouti trial made clear how far we are away from
>the situation which in the end prevailed in South Africa - with war
>criminals brought before Truth Commissions, and with a long-time defamed
>prisoner being freed and respected as  leader of his oppressed people.
>
>[] 700 Demonstrators Confront Soldiers At Checkpoint To Rafah + ongoing
>vigils
>
>Before going into this report, we should note that from now (Sat. May 22)
>until Israeli forces are definitely and completely withdrawn from Rafah,
>there will every day be a protest vigil at 6.30 am in the three main
>cities;  Tel-Aviv (Defence Ministry, Kaplan St.), Jerusalem (Tzion
>Square) and Haifa (corner of Hatzionut and Hagefen streets).
>
>					~~~
>
>AT THIS MOMENT THE ISRAELI ARMY IS COMMITTING WAR CRIMES IN RAFAH.
>YOU CANíT JUST STAY AT HOME AND COMPLAIN!!!
>
>This was the essence of the call for today's protest at the entrance to
>Gaza Strip.
>
>12 busloads of demonstrators - came to the united call of  
>Gush Shalom - Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions - HaKampus Lo
>Shotek - Yesh Gvul - The Refusnik pilots - The Refusnik's parents forum -
>Women Coalition for Just Peace - Ta'ayush Arab Jewish Partnership
>(the logistics were taken care of excellently by Ta'ayush).
>
>In the following Ha'aretz description you find more about today's protest
>- placed against the background of this terrible week, in which many of
>us have been running around between protests, police stations,  and
>solidarity visits to the Bat Shalom women, who had set up a permanent
>presence at the "Gate to Rafah" (Sufa Checkpoint).
>
>
>http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/430445.html
>
>Peace activists march on Kissufim crossing  
>
>By Nir Hasson. Lili Galili, Yuval Yoaz and Tsahar Rotem, Haaretz
>Correspondents, and Itim
>
>
>Hundreds of people marched on the Kissufim crossing between the Gaza
>Strip and Israel on Friday to protest the Israel Defense Forces operation
>in Rafah, in which 40 Palestinians have been killed as the army works to
>flush out militants and drug smugglers in the south Gaza refugee camp.
>
>
>The demonstration was supposed to take place at the Sufa crossing, which
>is closer to Rafah, but the protesters decided on Kissufim instead after
>being threatened by police at the Sufa crossing, protest organizers said.
>
>The peace bloc issued a statement Friday saying, "None of us can sit at
>home at a time like this. None of us can say, 'We didn't know!'"
>
>Six people were held for questioning during the march, three of whom were
>released a short time later. Protesters blocked the road, and vowed to
>remain there until the three remaining detainees were also released.
>
>On Thursday, about 500 people demonstrated for the second consecutive day
>in front of the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv. The demonstration was
>organized by Peace Now and attended by members of refusnik organizations,
>the Yahad Knesset faction, the Yahad youth movement, and leftist student
>groups.
>
>Yahad chairman Yossi Beilin called for an immediate evacuation of the
>Gaza Strip, saying Prime Minister Sharon's plan to evacuate the Strip in
>stages would mean getting stuck there. An unusually large police
>contingent was present but unlike the previous day's demonstration, it
>passed without disruption.
>
>At a hearing on a police request to release with limitations two minors
>arrested during Wednesday's demonstration, Youth Court judge Ruth Ben-
>Hanoch said: "The court must warn against using court procedures to
>silence protesters or limit their rights to express their opinions."
>Judge Ben-Hanoch had harsh words for the behavior of the police in
>holding the minors overnight at Abu Kabir lockup.
>
>Attorney Gabi Laski will submit a complaint to the police investigations
>unit in the Justice Ministry with regard to one minor who needed medical
>care after an injury by police during the demonstration. In an unusual
>move, all attorneys for the eight people arrested during Wednesday's
>demonstration were denied access to their clients at the Yarkon region
>police station, although ambulances had to be summoned for three who were
>injured.
>
>Among the six adults arrested in Wednesday's demonstration were David
>Zonshein of Courage to Refuse, and Yonatan Pollack of the anarchists'
>movement, who were released yesterday. The Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court
>refused a police request to limit their approach to within a one-
>kilometer radius of the demonstration area, and all six returned to
>demonstrate yesterday.
>
>Yonatan Shapira, among the signatories to the pilots' refusnik letter,
>and his brother Zohar, who signed the Sayeret Matkal refusniks' letter,
>said that police officers threatened to kill them if they did not let go
>of the four-meter-long black flag they held during the demonstration.
>
>Zami Ben-Horin, of Kibbutz Ga'ash on the coastal plain, started a protest
>march Thursday from Rabin Square in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Ben-Horin, who
>is calling for an Israeli evacuation from the Gaza Strip, is accompanied
>by his wife Sigal, his son Gal, age 14, and his daughter Orian, age 12.
>Ben-Horin, who described himself as "not one who demonstrates in the
>squares" said the deaths of the 12 soldiers in the Gaza Strip last week
>brought him out of his apathy.
>
>[] How to send donations to newly-homeless families at Rafah
>
>At the Kisufim Checkpoint rally, Dr. Anat Matar of Tel-Aviv Univesity
>appealed to those gathered - and to symapthizers elsewhere - to give
>donations helping the newly homeless familes at Rafah to rebuild their
>homes and their lives. The project - now more necessary than ever - had
>been going on since 2001, when the army started the policy of destroying
>houses at Rafah.  Donations are sent to Khalil Shahin, a human rights
>activist in Rafah, who happens to live at the Tel Sultan Neighborhood
>which was directly hit by the latest Israeli military incursion.
>Matar tells that in the last few months she passed over to Shahin three
>sums:
>At the end of 2003, 20,000 NIS that were distributed to 30 families,
>numbering 245 persons; in February 2004 ñ 40,000 NIS to 54 families (473
>people); and on May 9  (right before the IDF invasion)  40,000 NIS whose
>distribution was greatly disrupted by the invasion and will continue in
>the coming weeks. Immediately upon hearing the news of massive new house
>demolitions, a new effort was launched by Ta'ayush, whose activists
>already collected 4,000 NIS just during the two hours of the giant May 15
>rally held on Tel-Aviv's Rabin Square by the mainstream peace groups.
>The money is distributed by a team of volunteers headed by Khalil, whose
>members include members of the Demolished Homes' Families Committee and
>social wokers. Khalil himself works in the Palestinian Human Rights
>Centre in Gaza and distributes the money voluntarily, not as part of his
>job. After each distribution he sends a detailed report with the names of
>the families who got the donation, how many people in each family and how
>much was donated.
>Donations can be sent by cheque, made out to Anat Matar, to:
>Dr. Anat Matar, 33 Bernstein-Cohen Street, Ramat Hasharon 47213, Israel 
>or the money can be deposited to Ta'ayush' bank account: Bank Hapoalim,
>account no. 396608, Ramat Aviv Branch (606). Please inform Anat Matar
>about your donation.
>For further details: 
>Anat Matar, ++972-3-5408977 ; e-mail:Matar at post.tau.ac.il
>
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