23 October, 2023 ـــ We, the undersigned Palestinian student groups and unions in occupied Palestine, call on students, student associations, and councils around the globe to take action to protect life and stop Israel’s unfolding genocide against the 2.3 million Palestinians in the Gaza open-air prison.
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Non-stop for almost two weeks now, Israel has been bombing homes, whole neighbourhoods, hospitals, schools, mosques and churches in Gaza, while cutting off electricity, fuel, water, medicine and food supplies to the 2.3 million Palestinians there. Three days ago, the US veto effectively blocked life-saving aid from reaching Gaza.
Israel’s genocidal war on 2.3 million Palestinians in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip was just given an even brighter green light by the US veto at the UNSC. After a 2-day delay, during which Israeli US-made bombs massacred hundreds more Palestinians in Gaza, the US veto effectively blocked the possibility of allowing water, food, medicine, fuel, and other life-saving humanitarian aid, to reach the badly battered population in Gaza.
ON FRIDAY, Israel ordered the besieged population in the northern half of the Gaza Strip to evacuate to the south, warning that it would soon intensify its attack on the Strip’s upper half. The order has left more than a million people, half of whom are children, frantically attempting to flee amid continuing airstrikes, in a walled enclave where no destination is safe.
Malaysia is deeply concerned over the loss of so many lives due to the latest escalation of clashes in and around the Gaza Strip. At this critical time, further loss of life, suffering and destruction should stop and parties must exercise utmost restraint and de-escalate. The root cause must be acknowledged. The Palestinians have been subjected to the prolonged illegal occupation, blockade and sufferings, the desecration of Al-Aqsa, as well as the politics of dispossession at the hands of Israel as the occupier.
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The BDS movement strongly condemns the governments of the colonial West for, once again, hypocritically standing with apartheid Israel and duly adopting its deceptive timeline of the current “violence” as if it all began this morning with the powerful armed reaction of the oppressed Palestinians in Gaza. This skewed timeline is meant to hide the initial and escalating decades-long colonial violence of the oppressor.
Cultural and solidarity movements supporting the Palestinian call for the cultural boycott of Israel in Argentina celebrate that Fito Páez no longer goes to Israel on his tour "El Amor 30 años Después del Love Tour". Fito's production has stated that there are no dates for Israel, despite the fact that the country was mentioned in the first communications about the tour.
The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the broadest coalition in Palestinian society, and the leadership of the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement for freedom, justice and equality of the Palestinian people, calls for the boycott of the “Oslo at 30: Legacies, Hard Realities and Alternatives for Israel-Palestine” conference, to be held on 27 and 28 September 2023 in Washington, Brussels and online.
The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) stands with the majority of the fraternal people of Saudi Arabia in its overwhelming condemnation of the normalization efforts between the Saudi dictatorship and apartheid Israel.
Today, 19th September, the General Debate of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly (#UNGA78) will open in New York, with the participation of representatives of governments from around the world.
On this day in 1982, under the oversight and control of the Israeli occupation forces, a fanatic, Israeli-backed Lebanese militia began a planned 3-day brutal massacre of several thousand Palestinian refugees, along with Lebanese civilians, in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in occupied Beirut.