18. July 2014- Mannheim Paradeplatz (Germany) A group of 3 Students decide they want to set a sign by using a technique that some might remember from South Africa. Stop the violence, open your eyes, your silence is killing them! Please visit our facebook page for further information: https://facebook/cycle.of.light Speech by Hani Assem The conflict in palestine / israel andthe despair and suffering, that are related to it are by no means apurely religious or political question, at the moment, it isprimarily about receipting humanity. We are against the violence onboth sides, against each injured person, any dead, it doesn`t matterif that person was a Palestinian, an Israeli, Muslim, Christian orJew. We must, however, clearly critisize and condemn the Israeligovernment and its policies. It is proven, that Israel violates humanrights and it is executing actions of disciplining and punishing,that are inhumane and violate existing international law. The Israeli government has startedoperation Brother`s Keeper in response to thekidnapping and murder of three young Israelis in the West Bank, amurder, which backgrounds are still not fully elucidated and in thefollowing weeks, something happened that we consider collectivepunishment and arbitrary action. Hundreds of houses were violently,raided and dismantled, more than 500 Palestinians have been forciblyarrested in these so-called Raids without having prove oftheir connection to the murders. 10 Palestinians were killed in thisoperation. Israelis (among them IDF soldiers) posted on Twitter orFacebook hateful messages, like Kill all Arabs . As Spiegel Online and the IsraeliHaaretz reported , more and more Israeli soldiers and Gaza veteransreport denominations on arbitrary and irrational killings, housedemolitions and humiliation against the Palestinians. Soldiers hadthe house walls smeared with slogans such as Death to theArabs and spat on family portraits. Many ex-soldiersconsistently reported about the fact that in the frequent raidsso called house searches, soldiers simply shot wildly andindiscriminately around, with the legitimacy that every resident ofGaza is a terrorist. Radical israeli settlers tried a fewtimes to drag young Palestinians in their car and kidnap them, onJuly 2, 2014 some of them succeeded. The 16-year-old Mohammed AbuKhdeir was kidnapped on his way to prayer, struck with a sharp objectand then burned alive. Under these circumstances, one has towonder where the anger and despair of the Palestinians comes from,anger that eventually leads to increased radicalism andcounter-violence in the form of homemade rockets. According to official figures of theGaza Emergency Situation Report of the United Nations from 17 July,so a day ago it emerged that during the current military operationProtective Edge so far 230 Palestinians have been killed(, now there are many more reports of fatalities, such as eg. 4 slainchildren playing soccer on the Gaza beach ), ie 230 deaths, of which171 were civilians, including 48 children and 31 women. 1764casualties, of which 521 children and 372 women. Overall, thepercentage of civilian casualties is 74 percent. IN THIS MOMENTIsrael is leading an operation on the ground, in that, accordingcurrent reports, about 20 to 30 Palestinians have been killed. Thehouses of 1780 families were destroyed. 22,900 people rely on to behoused in UN bodies. I have a friend in GAZA named Bahaa, like me, hestudied political science in Heidelberg. He has surely no ties to anyradical forces. Sadly i hat to find out, that his family`s home wasdestroyed recently. Approx. Due to the crippledinfrastructure,900,000 people are unable to provide themselves withwater and 50 percent of the sewage pumping stations are paralyzed.All in all, this collective punishment leaves behind 57,900 childrenwho need special psychological care, 23 medical facilities have beendestroyed or damaged, 84 schools have been destroyed or damaged,including some UN agencies. Recently, INCREDIBLE Israeliair assault tactics were captured on video, the Palestinians aregetting „warned“ about the bombing of their civilian residentialbuilding by getting BOMBED on their roofs first. A minorrocket is fired as a warning on the roof of the house before a fewmoments later the building gets bombed more fatal. Any person withcommon sense can only describe such tactics just atrocious andunethical: Amnesty International condemns this action and hasdocumented cases in which civilians were wounded or killed duringthis warning bombing . They call this method knockon the roof. Videos on this can be found on online portals suchas YouTube. Human rights watch recently examinedsome Israeli air attacks on civilian buildings, so illegitimate,non-military targets, in which civilians were killed every time . Theorganization came to the conclusion that Israel strikes are anythingbut precise and also Israel tried to hide information on these attacs.So Israel actively violates international humanitarian law. We are against the one-sided broadcastthat responds more to one side and subliminally suggests that life ofone side is more valuable than that of the other side. We require abalanced coverage, so that crimes against humanity also will be identified as such. Due to these facts and driven by ourhumanity we so therefore demand: Immediate stop of military aggressionby the Israeli army and the release of political prisoners! The end of all German arms shipments toIsrael! More courage of our government tocriticize the government of Israel! The forwarding of medicine to Gaza andmedical aid for the local population! The lifting of the blockade of Gaza byIsrael and Egypt! An end to the aggressive and illegalsettlement-agenda and the occupation by the Government of Israel!
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