Lights out in Gaza

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You wouldn't know it from

following the mainstream media,
or from listening to any of the US presidential candidates, but some 1.5 million Palestinians are being slowly starved to death, right now, in Gaza. They have been barred from getting the food, fuel, and medical supplies they need to survive. Eighty percent of the population is dependent on food aid.

What's more, the Israeli government claims this collective punishment will protect the people of Sderot, Israel who have suffered tremendously from unrelenting rocket attacks from Gazan militants. But the Gaza blockade, and Israel's ongoing restrictions of goods and free movement, home demolitions, and use of excessive force, including dropping bombs on the heads of civilians, has only caused further loss of both Palestinian and Israeli life. Since 2000, almost 3,000 Gazans and 12 residents of Sderot have died. There is a better way to bring peace, security and justice to both peoples.

You probably also won't read in the US media that

the US actually helped foment the civil war in Gaza
Israel never ended its occupation of Gaza
or that this is all made possible through American support, and can therefore be prevented.

LEARN

Read the groundbreaking Vanity Fair article that has caused an international outcry but has been virtually ignored in the US press. Condoleezza Rice, Elliott Abrams and George Bush, through covert action, actually fomented the Palestinian civil war and strengthened Hamas.
Send your friends personal stories about people like 4 year old Islam Alassouli of Gaza who cannot get the bone marrow transplant he needs; or these other downloadable stories from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights.
View photos of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society Clinic that was destroyed in Gaza and learn about just one powerful nonviolent Palestinian civil society effort you'll never hear about in the press.
Explore our online library of hard-to-find primary documents, first-hand accounts and analysis about the Gaza crisis.

ACT

Send a letter to the editor of your local newspaper now. End the news blackout.
Sign a ceasefire petition initiated by Palestinians and Israelis who have jointly demonstrated against the siege of Gaza.
Donate to our efforts to educate others.
End the news blackout. Send a light to a friend.

DOWNLOAD

Download the full page Nation ad. You can use it as a flyer.
Download End the Siege of Gaza posters.
Download our print newsletter in PDF format with articles about selective divestment and the Presbyterians and Methodists; clearing Tutu's name; launching Trees of Reconciliation; talking about the Nakba and the siege of Gaza.

JVP deplores the terrible loss of life in the latest escalation of violence in the Middle East. Read our March 3 press statement about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza here, and our March 7 statement about the killings of yeshiva students in Jerusalem here. The most important step to end the terrible violence is to end the occupation.

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