This last week, Israel has increased the mass destruction inflicted upon the starving, grieving and injured Palestinians in Gaza, killing at least 81 in the last 24 hours. Including those under the mountains of rubble, over 20000 children have been slaughtered, many dying in their families’ arms.

Israel’s crimes stretch back 76 years, to the Nakba in 1948, when they ethnically cleansed Palestine to found the so-called Zionist state. They brutally cast out the native residents, and have since occupied and expelled the remaining Palestinian population.

While Palestinians in Gaza endure a genocide, Israeli militia run rampant through the West Bank, killing Palestinian men, women and children and occupying further land, fully protected by Israeli soldiers.

In addition to settler violence, Israel recently approved the largest ever land confiscation in the West Bank, and is increasing its forced displacement practices in the Naqab area in ‘48 Palestine, seeking to erase entire villages.

Israel is accelerating Palestinian home demolitions, forcing Palestinians to watch as Israeli bulldozers, guarded by soldiers, destroy their homes and livelihoods to pave the way for Zionist settlers.

After 76 years of violent dispossession, imprisonment and apartheid, how much more must Palestinians suffer? Why does the world watch as Palestinian prisoners are tortured and raped? Why does the media not utter a murmur of empathy when 4 Palestinian families are massacred in 24 hours, murdering at least 81 and injuring 198?

Where is the outrage at the remaining few hospitals submerged in the blood of children, parents, brothers and sisters? Or at Israeli snipers roaming the streets, targeting children and the elderly alike, such as 11-year-old Palestinian child Rasha Nahid Abdel Latif who was shot in the head as she fled from Israeli tanks?

The time is now for everyone to stand. Take action. Make the true story of Palestine known to the world, and put yourself in the way of the shameful kill-chain leading to our Manchester streets.

All out Saturday 20th July, 12pm, St Peter’s Square.

Oldham Vigil for Gaza. 

Wednesday 17h July, 4.30 to 5.30. Oldham Peace Garden

We are protesting every Wednesday – please join us if you can.  

We need to continue to publicly join together in our fight for an immediate ceasefire and peace and justice in Palestine.

If you can please bring banners or messages of support. Also – please let others know. 

Keep talking about Gaza and doing what you.

In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians!

this Wednesday 17th July weekly vigil at Brooks Bar 5-6pm.

Join us at:

Brooks Bar, Whalley Range for our weekly vigil

17th July 5-6PM

Monthly protest outside UAV Engines in Shenstone, Staffordshire that makes the engines for Elbit drones massacring Gaza right now
Tuesday 30th July 11am – 1pm

GMFP coach going from Manchester leaving Chorlton St coach station at 8.20am returning by 4pm. Tickets £10 or £15 solidarity price to help cover costs. 

Contact Norma 07903 668 500 to book your place

All out in Manchester on Saturday, 13 July, 12pm, Piccadilly Gardens on the anniversary of Israel’s 51 day massacre in Gaza in 2014. Stop Gaza genocide. More Israeli crimes, the same international silence!

The last few days have been described by people in Gaza as the worst yet. No one imagined that it could ever get any worse than what we have been witnessing for the last 9 months. From continued bombing to starvation to detention to displacement to torture, there isn’t anything that Israel has not inflicted on the Palestinians in Gaza, yet it can always get more and more vicious. From the smallest detail to the biggest, people’s lives have turned into one endless nightmare. What we take for granted from the comfort of our homes is a luxury for the people in Gaza.

A recent study in the esteemed Medical Journal the Lancet estimated that the amount of Gaza deaths attributable to Israel’s bombing could exceed 186,000. This is 8% of the total population! This is not a mere statistic, nor raw data, this is 8% of the life in Gaza shattered and destroyed. These are dreams and hopes, loved ones, friends and family members, students, all murdered by a relentless deadly entity built on ethnic cleansing.

This week, Palestinians commemorate the beginning of the 2014 onslaught in Gaza, while Gaza is yet again under attacks. It was the 2014 bombing when Israel mobilised all of its deadly doctrines to create as much damage and loss of life in Gaza as possible, attacking homes, hospitals, UN schools and everything in sight.

What we thought was the worst assault ever that took the lives of 2,200 people in 51 days, escalated into a genocide 10 years later. This happened because the Zionist entity’s inherent barbaric nature has no limits, and its violence can only escalate. This also happened because the world that stood still when the 2014 massacres happened, and during all of the massacres that preceded and followed, is yet again refusing to take a moral stance and cut the murder chain enabling the rivers of blood from drowning the streets of Palestine.

While entire establishments are still silent and complicit, the Palestinians’ lives are only getting worse under the settler-colonial machinery of death and destruction. This is why we have an even bigger duty to stand with Palestine, with its people and their resistance for justice, and their struggle to live in a free homeland, safe from the sounds of bombing and the grip of oppressors.

Join us on Saturday, 13 July, 12pm, Piccadilly Garden, to say that no more will Gaza be the stage of unleashed Zionist and global monstrosity, and to demand an end to the genocide and the freedom for Palestine.