Two Palestinian women, Lena Mussa and Sahar Awadallah, have started a week-long camp outside Sheffield Town Hall to raise awareness of the ongoing Genocide in Gaza.
Today they were joined by the Tadhamon Singers and the Well Dressed Band.
Lena starts a hunger strike on Sunday night. Hear in their own words why they are doing this and what support they need in the video above. On Sunday they were joined by the Tadhamon Singers and The Well Dressed Band. Please find time to visit the camp this week and sign the visitors’ book.
Here I am at the camp with Green Councillor Marieanne Elliot.
Sahar and Lena are horrified, sick and tired of the complicity of the UK government with the genocide Israel is currently carrying out on Palestinian people.
They also said they recognise that the city council has passed a ceasefire resolution “but there has since been silence (with honorable exceptions), or outright support for Israel in Sheffield, by councillors and by its MPs, in the face of government pressure to dampen support for Palestine.”
They went on “For all those whom the occupation has killed, for all those who have been injured, for all those who lost their beloved ones for the last 75 years, we want to call our councillors, our MPs and our government to account.”
They listed the following demands
1/ Sheffield City Council to declare Sheffield an Apartheid-free zone
2/ That the UK government investigate British citizens who have joined the Israeli Defence Force, bring criminal charges and cease it’s support for the Israeli army
3/ There is an immediate ceasefire, an end to the occupation, and a just political solution based on an end to discriminatory apartheid policies, settler-colonialism and ethnic cleansing.
They are being supported by Sheffield Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid and are confident too of the support and friendship of many individuals
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