[bru-info] EMERGENCY RALLY: Stop Israeli War Crimes! July 22nd at 3PM

[bru-info at lists.resist.ca]

EMERGENCY RALLY

Stop Israeli War Crimes! End the Siege on Lebanon and Gaza! Free All
Palestinian and Lebanese Political Prisoners!

SATURDAY JULY 22ND AT 3 PM VANCOUVER ART GALLERY

Palestinian and Lebanese community groups in Vancouver will be
demonstrating to demand an end to Israeli terrorism in Lebanon and the
Gaza Strip, and will be calling for an immediate end to Israel's
unjustified aggression and for Canada to end its support for the Israeli
apartheid regime.

In the first 24 hours of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, 27 civilians
were killed, including 15 children. In the past 96 hours, the Israeli
assault has killed over 100 civilians in Lebanon, many of whom were
children, and over 300 reported injuries. Homes, bridges, and the Beirut
international airport have been bombed by the Israeli Air Force, along
with the targeting of vital infrastructure that supports their daily lives
(roads, institutions, bridges, and airports). Dan Halutz, the Israeli army
chief of staff, has stated that, "nothing is safe in Lebanon" and has
threatened to "turn Lebanon's clock back 20 years". This type of blind
aggression, which constitutes war crimes, is completely unacceptable and
cannot be tolerated.

The attack on Lebanon has come 19 days into a brutal assault on the
Palestinians of Gaza in which Israel has killed 74 people- a
disproportionate number of whom are children- and bombing water and
electricity stations, bridges, roads and other vital infrastructure,
creating a humanitarian disaster for hundreds of thousands of Palestinian
people. Canada has given its support to this Israeli terrorism by voting
against a resolution to condemn the attacks at the UN Human Rights
Council, and by its ongoing diplomatic and economic ties with Israel.
Stephen Harper and the Canadian government have also participated in
starvation policies against the Palestinians by cutting off all their
foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority. This fact, combined with the
recent invasion, has pushed the population of the Gaza Strip into a severe
humanitarian crisis.

Join us to show your support for the Palestinian people of Gaza and the
people of Lebanon! Express your outrage against the Israeli military
invasion of Gaza and Lebanon! Call on the Canadian government to act!

Organized by: Lebanese Information Centre- BC, Adala, Al-awda –
Palestine Right of Return Coalition