Action alert

Join international call to open Rafah border

A deadly siege on 1.6 million people living in Gaza has been imposed by Israel since 2006.  It was partially and momentarily lifted when the revolutionary Egyptian movement ousted Hosni Mubarak and made clear that emancipation and the freedom of Palestine were joint and connected goals.

A deadly siege on 1.6 million people living in Gaza has been imposed by Israel since 2006.  It was partially and momentarily lifted when the revolutionary Egyptian movement ousted Hosni Mubarak and made clear that emancipation and the freedom of Palestine were joint and connected goals.

Yet today, and daily, approximately 35,000 people wait to cross the border. Meanwhile, Israeli air strikes in the past several weeks on ‘the largest open air prison on earth’ killed at least 18 people, including 2 children, and injured at least 80 more. The denial of freedom of movement for Palestinian people is also an offense to the immense ongoing struggles of the Egyptian people in pursuit of human rights and dignity.

Join the growing calls from Egypt for: recalling the Egyptian ambassador from Tel Aviv, expelling the Israeli ambassador from Egypt, opening the Rafah Crossing unconditionally, halting all moves for normalization with Israel and halting trade of natural gas between the two countries.

TAKE ACTION

This Friday, Sept. 9, join in international actions in solidarity with Gaza and in support of the on-going Egyptian people's movement:  

Request that the Egyptian Supreme Council of the Armed Forces  honor the human dignity and freedom of its own people and the people of Gaza, and

OPEN THE RAFAH CROSSING PERMANENTLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY.

Contact your Egyptian embassy or consulate.

Egyptian embassies contact information

London

Tel: 020 7235 9777 
Fax:020 7235 5684
[email protected]

Madrid 

Tel: 34-91-5776308/9/10
Fax:34-91-5781732
[email protected]

Montreal 

Tel: 514-8668455/6/7
Fax: 514-8660835

Ottawa 

Tel: 613-2344931/5
Fax: 613-2349347/4398
[email protected]

Paris 

Tel: 33-1-536-78830/2
Fax: 33-1-472-30643
[email protected]

Washington DC

Tel: (202) 966-6342
Fax: (202) 244-4319
[email protected]

Sign and circulate the petition.

For more information, contact us at: [email protected].

 

 

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