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From: "CanadaBoat Gaza" (via gaza Mailing List) <gaza@PROTECTED>

Subject: [Gaza] 60 DAYS OF WAITING: join us in demanding Israel release Medical Supplies for Gaza

Date: September 30, 2018 at 11:46:42 AM EDT

To: Gaza info list <gaza@PROTECTED>

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STILL WAITING for Israel to deliver 114 boxes of medical supplies from the Gaza flotilla to the Gaza border crossing. 

 

 

Please sign, and urge your friends to sign, the petition demanding that the Israeli military releases the boxes of medical supplies.

• • • It has been 60 days since the Israeli military stopped the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s ship Al Awda (The Return) and took control of the medical supplies for Gaza… For eight weeks the Freedom Flotilla Coalition has demanded the immediate release of the 114 boxes and thousands of people from around the world have called Israeli embassies and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in their countries demanding the release. 

      Meanwhile the steadfast Palestinian Great March of Return protest continue meeting with disproportional violence and repression from the Israeli Occupation Forces.

      According to the Palestine Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) data from September 21, 140 Palestinians have been killed, including 27 children, 2 journalists, 3 para medics and 1 woman.  Among those killed are three people with disabilities and a young girl.

      7509 people have been wounded by gunfire including 1,303 children, 216 women, 87 journalists and 115 paramedics. Among those wounded, 455 are in serious condition and 76 people have had lower or upper limbs amputated. Statistics of the injured only include those directly hit with bullets and tear gas canisters, but there are thousands of other people who have suffered tear gas inhalation and sustained bruises.
      

      The medical supplies are desperately needed in Gaza as Israeli snipers continue to kill and wound hundreds of Palestinians each week. According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, on Friday afternoon, 21 September 2018, using excessive force against the peaceful protesters in the eastern Gaza Strip for the 26th  Friday in a row for the Great Return March, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian civilian,  wounded 148 others, including 32 children, with live bullets and direct tear gas canisters. Eight of those wounded sustained serious wounds.

      The Freedom Flotilla Coalition continues to demand the immediate release of the 114 boxes of medical supplies (sterile gauze and sutures, purchased through the generosity of donors like you) that were carried on the Al Awda and Freedom boats of the 2018 Freedom Flotilla for health services in Gaza, and hijacked by Israeli forces on July 29 and August 3. As Swedish Foreign Affairs Minister Margot Wallström has stated, the cargo and boats must be released, according to international law.

      Please sign and share the petition demanding that the Israeli military releases the boxes of medical supplies. Almost 3,000 persons from around the world have signed the Petition, but we need your help to increase this number significantly.

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      You can support Canadian Boat to Gaza by donating via e-transfer (Interac, from Canada accounts only), mailing cheques or money orders, or online, see : http://canadaboatgaza.org/donate/. 

       In other parts of the world, please consider donating through one of our other partner campaigns in the Freedom Flotilla:  https://jfp.freedomflotilla.org/donate

      
      
      Together, we can help end the blockade!
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