Stop Nakba, Stop Genocide: National demonstration in solidarity with Palestine
Programme:
2pm: Gathering
2.15pm: Speeches and artistic performances
3pm: Departure
5pm: Arrival at Gare du Midi, end of the demonstration
⚠️ A change from the usual route!
Route :
Boulevard Simon Bolivar,
Quai de Willebroek,
Boulevard de Dixmude,
Boulevard de Neuvième Ligne,
Boulevard Barthélémy
Square Auguste Smets
Boulevard de l’Abattoir,
Boulevard Poincaré
Esplanade de l’Europe
🥁 Palestinians are starving in silence, Let's make some noise!
It is now 65 days since any humanitarian aid arrived in Gaza: water, food, medicine, hygiene products. The World Food Programme (WFP) has announced that it can no longer carry out its missions. More than 50 people have already died of hunger, 133,000 are in the critical phase of malnutrition (phase 5/5) and 2 million are facing acute malnutrition. Despite this, no concrete action has been taken by our government. We want to contrast this inaction. Bring your own pots, pans, ladles and lids to symbolise the famine but also to contrast this silence.
The genocide that has been going on in the Gaza Strip for over 18 months is the appalling culmination of the long process of dispossession of the Palestinian people. This war of extermination being waged by Israel is in fact a continuation of the Nakba (‘catastrophe’ in Arabic), when in 1948 nearly 800,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced, their descendants still being deprived of their right to return. This was followed by 77 years of colonialism, apartheid, annexations, dehumanisation, deprivation (including the blockade of the Gaza Strip) and the systematic oppression of all sections of the Palestinian people.
This ‘Nakba continues’ and its trail of injustice and atrocities must end.
Just a few days before the 77th commemoration of the Nakba, let's get together for the ninth major march in solidarity with Palestine. Our demands are clear: an immediate and permanent ceasefire, the protection of all civilians, the release of all those held captive for political reasons, the lifting of the siege of Gaza, access to international aid for the population of Gaza currently in an absolute humanitarian emergency, an end to the illegal occupation and colonisation of the occupied Palestinian territory, and an end to the policy of apartheid.
While Israel is waging this genocidal war using the most inhumane methods, including a return to the use of starvation against civilians since the re-establishment of the total humanitarian blockade on 2 March, Belgium can no longer shirk its responsibilities. It must help to increase the pressure on Israel to comply with its international and humanitarian obligations!
Rendezvous on 11 May at 2pm at the Gare du Nord in Brussels to demand that the Belgian government :
take the initiative to impose a complete international military embargo;
push the European Union to suspend its Association Agreement with Israel, in accordance with Article 2 on respect for human rights;
step up its own efforts and the efforts of the international community.
that it reinforce its own and international efforts to guarantee access to humanitarian aid and reconstruction for the civilian populations of Palestine and Lebanon;
that it continues to support politically and financially the ongoing investigations of the International Criminal Court (ICC), and clarifies that it will indeed execute the arrest warrant against Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu if he is on Belgian territory;
that it fully supports the proceedings against Israel brought by South Africa before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in order to stop the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people by Israel;
to comply with the ICJ opinion on the occupation of the Palestinian Territory, which imposes in particular a ban on all trade with Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory;
to play a leading role in establishing new sanctions against violent Israeli settlers and political and military leaders guilty of violations of international law, including calls for genocide.
Signatory organisations: 11.11.11, A contre courant, Agir pour la paix, Ambassadeurs d'expression citoyenne, Amnesty International Belgique (French- and Dutch-speaking), Association belgo-palestinienne, AJAB, Attac Bruxelles, Awsa, Bacbi, BDS Bruxelles, Beitna, Broederlijk Delen, Cercle de Libre Pensée/KVD, Cetri, CNAPD, CNCD-11.11. 11, CNE, CSC/ACV, Communauté palestinienne de Belgique et du Luxembourg, Coordination Antifasciste de Belgique, De-Colonizer, DiEM25, Een Andere Joodse Stem, Entraide & fraternitéFGTB/ABVV, FGTB Centrale générale, Fédération internationale pour les droits Humains (FIDH), Forum Nord-Sud, Formation Léon LesoilLe monde selon les femmes, Masereelfonds, MOC, MOC Bruxelles, Mouvement Présence et Action Culturelles (PAC), Palestina Solidariteit, Pax Christi Vlaanderen, Plateforme citoyenne de soutien aux réfugiés, SCI - Projets internationaux, Shabbes, Solidaris, Solsoc, UPJB, Viva Salud, Via Velo Palestina, Vrede, VredesActie.
🙏 The organisers call on participants to respect these slogans and demonstrate peacefully.
🚫 Any apology for war crimes, attacks on civilians or any manifestation of anti-Semitism, Islamophobia or any other form of racism will result in exclusion from the rally.
🇵🇸 At the request of our Palestinian partners, only Palestinian national flags will be allowed.
Group departures are being organised
[* this text is automatically translated from French to English and double-checked by a human]
