Action alert: Open Rafah now
in Action Alerts, Gaza August 22, 2014
18th August 2014 | Open the Rafah crossing permanently and unconditionally | Occupied Palestine
In response to calls from human rights defenders in Gaza who ask that we bring an end to the Egyptian government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide of the people of Gaza an urgent call to action was issued.
The call was endorsed by renown anti-apartheid and freedom and justice activists such as: Former Robben Island inmate, and ANC leader Ahmed Kathrada, Former ANC Minister for Intelligence Services Ronnie Kasrils, Luisa Morgantini Former Vice President of the European Parliament and Italian MEP, Richard Falk Former United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Breyten Breytenbach, a South African anti-Apartheid writer, painter, novelist and icon and civil society collectives from Egypt, Palestine and around the world. Continue reading “OPEN RAFAH NOW !”