[Org4j-announce] For Gaza - Two actions Friday in Ottawa, July 25

Thu Jul 24 19:09:49 PDT 2025

FRIDAY JULY 25 two Ottawa actions for Gaza

* 9am-12noon: Protest / sit-in outside Egyptian Embassy (Day 4)
* 6pm: Protest starting at Human Rights Monument

Ongoing
* Email Carney, Anand, and your local MP to take Immediate Action

Plus more information...

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OTTAWA - GAZA IS STARVING
Children are dying from hunger and thirst. Aid trucks are waiting, but
Egypt has kept the Rafah border closed. This is collective punishment.

Join us to protest at the Egyptian Embassy.
Demand they OPEN THE BORDER and LET AID INTO GAZA

🕘9:00am - 12:00pm
🗓️Friday, July 24
📍Egyptian Embassy - 454 Laurier Ave East

Poster: https://www.instagram.com/p/DMgfN3XO45i/

Video from Thursday (Day 3) sit-in at Egyptian Embassy:
https://instagram.com/p/DMfpQHrRsVp/

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🚨STOP STARVING GAZA NOW🚨

OTTAWA - Join us this week as we answer the call from @wizard_bisan1 and
Gaza to put an end to this genocide. [...] Join us on Friday, July 25, at
the Human Rights Monument at 6PM to make these demands louder and clear.

The genocide on Gaza has reached a critical moment, with thousands at
immediate risk of starvation due to the brutal siege on the Strip. While
aid sits at the borders and people from around the world try to sail or
march to deliver food, israel with the full of support of western
imperialist countries and the traitorous Arab governments, continue to
block any and all life saving aid from entering. After 21 months of
bombardment, besiegement, displacement, and suffering, Palestinians are now
dropping dead as they wait for bags of flour. Gaza is not starving. It is
being starved by an occupation that will do anything to murder the
Palestinian people.

We have a duty to respond to the calls of the people of Gaza, who are
facing death and destruction for our liberation. The time to act is now.

DATE: Friday, July 25
TIME: 6PM
PLACE: Human Rights Monument

Poster: https://instagram.com/p/DMeQHrEMb0v/

Video from July 22: https://instagram.com/p/DMdk29fOJU2/

Videos from July 24 protest outside Israel Embassy:
https://instagram.com/p/DMf5lAyRE3W/
https://instagram.com/p/DMf39RoRegV/

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SOME INSTAGRAM ACCOUNTS FOR LOCAL UPDATES:
@ottawapym @613palestine @sd.4.palestine @labour4palestineott
@ottawahcp4palestine

If you aren't on Instagram, you can still access the full accounts using a
site like https://imginn.com

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"EMAIL PRIME MINSTER CARNEY to take Immediate Action - Israel is Starving
Palestinians to Death"

First link at: https://linktr.ee/PalestinianCanadianCongress

Feel free to customize the message

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OTHER NEWS

Contact Lost with Gaza-Bound Ship Handala as Israeli Drones Circle
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/contact-lost-with-gaza-bound-ship-handala-as-israeli-drones-circle/

Iconic Handala symbol shown emaciated to raise awareness on Israeli
starvation of Gaza
https://www.newarab.com/news/handala-shown-emaciated-raise-awareness-gaza-starvation

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PREVIOUS MESSAGE

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Organizing For Justice <org4justice at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Subject: For Gaza - EMERGENCY PROTEST - Tuesday July 22nd
To: <org4j-announce at lists.resist.ca>

*6pm today, Tuesday July 22, beginning at the Human Rights Monument
(Elgin/Lisgar, OTTAWA)*
*** Bring your pots and pans ***

See forwarded message below with full event description,
and see these links for some context:

(1) “Precisely Designed Mass Starvation”: Aid Access as Weapon in Israel’s
War on Gaza, Researchers Find
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/21/forensic_architecture

(2) "Gaza is Starving. We've had to stop our food initiatives. There is
almost no food left in Gaza." - The Sameer Project (July 21)
https://www.instagram.com/thesameerproject/p/DMWLdQ6yGTF/
"The Sameer Project has been forced to stop food distributions that feed
entire encampments and community kitchens that feed thousands, because we
cannot find food or ingredients. We usually feed tens of thousands of
people per week, now we can only find limited amounts of nutritional
packets and some vegetables in the markets. When we do, this supply goes to
the sickest patients in hospitals to keep them alive, and we will continue
to do this.
We are still able to supply water and we are still able to buy tents and
provide medication. But soon this will not matter when people are dropping
in the streets."

(3) “It is time for the further concrete action that has been promised”: an
Open Letter to Prime Minister Carney to take decisive action to end
genocide in Gaza
https://justiceinconflict.org/2025/06/09/it-is-time-for-the-further-concrete-action-that-has-been-promised-an-open-letter-to-prime-minister-carney-to-take-decisive-action-to-end-genocide-in-gaza/
by 412 Canadian legal, human rights, social justice, international
relations, diplomatic, civil society, faith and labour leaders from across
the country.

(4) National News Media Council ruling "breaching the journalistic standard
of accuracy" for so-called 'Honest Reporting Canada' National Post op-ed, *"The
evidence is clear — there is no famine in Gaza"*
https://www.mediacouncil.ca/decisions/2024-44-williams-v-national-post/

----- Forwarded Message -----
*From:* PYM Ottawa <pymottawa at gmail.com>
*To:* PYM Ottawa <pymottawa at gmail.com>
*Sent:* Monday, July 21, 2025 at 05:59:37 p.m. EDT
*Subject:* EMERGENCY PROTEST - Tuesday July 22nd

Join us at the Human Rights Monument at 6PM on Tuesday, July 22, to take to
the streets as part of an international day of action for Gaza. Famine and
mass starvation have reached unprecedented levels across the Strip, with a
surge of preventable deaths from exhaustion, malnutrition and starvation
being reported each day. Palestinians in Gaza are starving for one reason
and one reason alone: Israel's siege, backed fully by the US, Canada, and
imperialist allies. We must multiply our efforts to bring the blockade to
an end. We must stop the world for Gaza.

Bring your pots and pans and be loud for Gaza!

DATE: Tuesday, July 22
TIME: 6PM
Place: Human Rights Monument
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