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Sit-in for Gaza

Station Leiden Centraal, donderdag 31 juli om 18:00 CEST

🚨 SIT-IN — No silence while Gaza is starving 🚨

📍Leiden — Central station

🗓️ Thursday, July 31 — 18:00

Last week, thousands took to central stations across the Netherlands. This week, we continue - louder, larger and more united. The starvation in Gaza hasn’t stopped, so neither do we.

🛑 Gaza is still suffering from hunger

🛑 Borders remain closed

🛑 Aid is being blocked

The world is silent. We are not.

🪧 Resist the complicity of the Netherlands.

Join us in protest!

📢 Let your voice be heard, your presence, your solidarity. Let’s make it impossible to ignore. We stand behind Gaza. We stand together. ✊🇵🇸

🍽️ Bring empty plates and pans to show solidarity with the people of Gaza suffering from hunger.

👥 by Leiden for Palestine (source)

acties.todon.nl/event/sit-in-f

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@palestine

Air-drop operations failed to reach those in need.

Four of six air drops landed in areas under Israeli military control or neighbourhoods where civilians had been ordered to evacuate.

Anyone in these areas faces direct targeting and killing,” making the air drops “not only futile but also dangerous to the starving population.

#Gaza
#aid
#AirDrops

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@palestine
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Only 50 trucks have been allowed in over the past three days. This is not nearly enough to address the deepening humanitarian crisis. What has been let inside so far has either been looted or destroyed. What has made its way to the market is either expired or incredibly expensive.

Starvation is on the rise, and we’ve passed the tipping point.

Hani Mahmoud

#Gaza
#aid

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@palestine
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It has marginalised more people, more of the hungry population, pushing them aside because the 22 months of constant bombardment created a power vacuum and conditions for looters and armed gang members to take over aid trucks coming from the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

Hani Mahmoud

#Gaza
#aid

Small amount of aid allowed into Gaza is purely for optics

This is the third day since Israel announced the opening of the “humanitarian corridor”, and what we’re seeing so far is it is designed largely to be theatrical.

It is not effective at all because we’re not seeing the direct impact on the ground.
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Hani Mahmoud

@palestine
#Gaza
#aid

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@palestine
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Now and again, Israel offers alternatives that do not resolve the crisis it created in the first place:

Food air drops – inefficient and expensive, five air drops offer the equivalent of one truckload if the pellets fall within people’s reach without harming civilians in the process.

The US and Israeli-backed GHF. Set up to replace the UN, it’s a chaotic operation that turned into a “death trap” for more than 1,000 Palestinians.

#Gaza
#aid

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@palestine
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Aid organisations need to bring in at least 500-600 aid trucks into Gaza every day – carrying food, medicine, hygiene products, fuel and other critically needed supplies.

The number allowed under the new measures is a fifth of that.

#Gaza
#aid