Walk for Gaza

The Palestine Solidarity Network – Malta* is hereby condemning the latest brutal Israeli aggression against the population of Gaza. The network is also organising a Walk for Gaza on Thursday 17^th July at 5:30pm, starting from City Gate, Valletta.

During this aggression 120 people, including children and whole families have already been murdered, hundreds were injured and Gaza’s infrastructure is once again being demolished under Israeli bombardments. On the other hand, the few rockets thrown from Gaza into Israel as a reaction to the murder of 7 Palestinians living in a Gaza refugee camp by the Israel army haven’t resulted in any casualties on the Israeli side. Thus, contrary to many media portrayals, what is happening in Gaza is not a war but a vicious aggression by the Israeli state.

The Gaza strip is a land the size of Malta and 1.5 million people live there, most of them Palestinian refugees who in 1948 fled Zionist militias that were ethnically cleansing Palestinian land from Palestinian people. This attack is therefore a continuation of decades of oppression, racial discrimination and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by Israel. The population of Gaza has been living under constant Israeli siege for the past eight years and has already suffered two massacres, in 2009 and 2012, where more than 1,500 persons were killed.

The network is organising a Walk for Gaza on Thursday 17^th July, at 5:30pm, starting from City Gate Valletta. It urges the public to attend and show its condemnation of this aggression and express its support for a free Palestine.

*The Palestine Solidarity Network – Malta is a group of organisations and individuals active against the systematic oppression and dispossession of the Palestinian population. The organisations within the network include: Moviment Graffitti, Third World Group, Koperattiva Kummerc Gust, Integra Foundation, Zminijietna – Voice of the Left, Arab Maltese Community, Partit Komunista Malti, Arabic Culture Information Society and Garden of Knowledge.