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A wonderful collection of introductory information about Palestine from PSC.

 

Thank you to all 80 people who made this event so heart warming.

Photos will be here in a few days.

Free Gaza, Free Palestine

Statement by WAPSC for the FREE GAZA VIGIL – 27 Oct 2023

Worthing & Adur Palestine Solidarity Campaign has called the FREE GAZA VIGIL to provide a space for the people of Worthing to demonstrate our solidarity with the people of Palestine. Although our hearts and our minds are naturally focused on Gaza, we’re here to show our solidarity for all Palestinians – including those in our community, throughout historic Palestine and around the world.

We’re here to use our collective voice to demand:

• An immediate ceasefire.
• Immediate humanitarian aid for Gaza (food, water, fuel & medical supplies).
• An end to Israel’s siege of Gaza.
• An end to Israel’s occupation of Palestine.

Israel’s latest war on Gaza has so far left over 5,800 Palestinians dead, and over 13,000 injured (as of 22 Oct).  Israel’s apartheid regime is carrying out militarised violence on the Palestinian people on an unthinkable scale. In just the first week Israel dropped over 6,000 bombs on the Palestinian people of Gaza.

Amid this horrific bloodshed, the HM UK government and opposition have failed to demand a ceasefire, uphold international law or protect Palestinian lives. They have refused to call-out the State of Israel for its war crimes.  Moreover, our political leaders, including the UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, and the leader of the Labour Party, Keir Starmer, have emboldened Israel’s war crimes by offering uncritical and ‘unequivocal support’ to Israel.

The UK government has meagrely pledged to increase aid to the Gaza Strip. But without urgent action to end Israel’s ongoing bombardment and siege of the Gaza Strip — which includes a total blockade on aid, food, water, electricity and medicine — this pledge will be too little and too late.

Israel has acted with impunity throughout its ongoing, three-quarter century-long violent occupation of the land of the Palestinians. The international community must work to uphold international law, and protect Palestinians from this brutal onslaught.

The UK government must do everything in its power to support the Palestinian people. This means calling for an immediate ceasefire, an end to the blockade to allow aid and humanitarian access, and protection from ethnic cleansing. The UK must end its complicity with Israel’s illegal occupation and apartheid regime.

On Saturday 14 October 150,000 people marched in London in solidarity with the Palestinian people, and to demand an end to Israel’s war on Gaza.  On Saturday 21 October 300,000 again marched in London.  Across the country — and throughout the world —people are openly and actively supporting Palestinians.  The UK government and opposition are belatedly rolling back on their most extreme rhetoric. The pressure we have created together is working.

We must keep up the pressure. The Worthing Free Gaza Vigil is our town’s small but significant part of that collective pressure.  The people of Gaza and Palestine will see are supporting them in their darkest hour.  And our politicians will hear our calls to show leadership to end the horror and carnage.

Puma supports Israeli apartheid.

 

 

Worthing Town Hall

Map location

Saturday 7th October 3PM

Show the Government that Worthing organisations and citizens are united against this appalling attack on our freedoms.

Bring banners and placards for mass colourful display.

 

• Protect the right to Boycott: Statement signed by 71 civil society organisations.  
• UK anti-boycott bill is an attack on freedom of expression: Guardian News Paper Article
• What’s the important issue: Briefing from PSC
• Other actions you can take: PSC Right to Boycott website

 

 

More than 20 people joined the Worthing Swing with Gaza event on Saturday 26th August 2023.

 

 

 

The 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza have endured a near total land, air & naval blockade by Israel for the last 16 years. For many people, and especially the children who make up 47% of the population, the beach and sea are one of the few places they can escape the reality of occupation and bombings, and simply enjoy life and have fun.

Each year the Tantish Swimming Academy holds a swimming festival on the beach in northern Gaza, attended last year by a thousand Palestinian boys and girls. This year’s festival on Saturday 26^th August will also see be joined by an international day of solidarity under the banner “Swim With Gaza”. From Chile to South Africa, Portugal to Ireland, Bethlehem to Jenin, (and along the Sussex coast) in seas, rivers, lakes and pools, people young and old will swim, paddle or just splash about to show the people of Gaza that they are not alone.

In Worthing we will be joining in this worldwide festival (to be livestreamed), so grab your towel and swimming togs (in red, green, black or white would be fantastic) and head for the beach!

Assemble at 5pm.  We’ll have a group dash into the sea at 5:15, to paddle together and wave Palestinian flags.  We will film this and post on line.

More information about the international Swim With Gaza, including videos and t-shirts: https://swimwithgaza.com/

Our friends at Hastings, Eastbourne and Brighton & Hove PSCs will also be holding their own events on the same afternoon.

 

Help fund free swimming lessons for Gaza’s children

The Tantish Swimming Academy also teaches hundreds of young boys and girls to swim every year but many families cannot afford lessons.

Swim With Gaza is therefore aiming to collect £5000 which would enable 100 children to each have 10 free lessons. Your donation will help give them the chance to safely enjoy the water, something which will last a lifetime.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/free-swimming-lessons-in-gaza?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer

(Thanks to BHPSC for some of this text.)