Recommended Covid-19 Actions For Gaza

With the Coronavirus pandemic, U.S. Boat to Gaza is recommending our friends help out the people of Gaza since they not only face the virus like the rest of us; they also face it under a blockade and occupation.  Here are things you can do:

• Petitions:
  • Sign a petition asking the Israeli government to release all Palestinian child detainees amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
    • More info at Defense for Children-Palestine
    • Click Here for the Defense for Children-Palestine petition.
  • Sign a Mpower Change and Jewish Voice For Peace petition to Congress to #EndTheGazaBlockade “so that those vulnerable in Gaza will have access to the basic medical resources they need to survive this global pandemic.”
    • Click Here for the MPower Change petition
• Donations: In addition to DCI-Palestine, MPower and JVP mentioned above, please consider the following organizations on the ground in Gaza:
  • UNWRA (https://www.unrwa.org)
  • Rebuilding Alliance (https://www.rebuildingalliance.org/) and
  • Middle East Children’s Alliance (https://www.mecaforpeace.org/)
  • IMET2000 Fundraising to Support Frontline Healthcare Professionals in Palestine: (https://www.imet2000.org/)
• Other great organizations with information about Palestinian actions relative to prisoners and Covid-19:
  • Addameer
  • Al-Haq
  • Al Mezan Center for Human Rights
  • Palestinian Centre For Human Rights

Thank you.

Be A Part Of The 2019 Freedom Flotilla For Gaza !

The Freedom Flotilla For Gaza is planning events in the U.S. and Canada this summer.  Our objectives are to raise awareness in our communities about the situation in Gaza and provide hope to people in Gaza.  At the same time we are designing these events to be great for the whole family.

Join us at events in:

• St. Louis, MO: June 16 @ 12pm – 7pm
  – See pictures of the
  St. Louis Palestine Heritage Festival
  World’s Fair Pavilion
  1904 Concourse Dr.
  St. Louis, MO 63146

• Chicago, IL: July 18-20
  – See pictures of the Chicago events!
  More info on the Voices for Creative Nonviolence website
  Download the flyer

• Madison, WI: July 24-25
  – See pictures of the Madison event!
  More info on the events July 24 and 25 at: The Madison-Rafah Sister City Project
  More info also on the Facebook page
  Download the flyer

• San Francisco, CA: August 3
  – See pictures of the San Francisco event!
  Participate on the Freedom Flotilla event starting at the ferry to Sausalito.
  For details: Download the flyer

• Avalon, Catalina Island, CA: August 17: 9am (from Newport Beach) through the day
  – See pictures of the Catalina Flyer event!
  Join Free Gaza on the island or take the Catalina Flyer from Newport Beach.  Demonstrate on the beach in Avalon.
  For details: Download the flyer

• Spokane, WA: August 17: 3-5pm.
  – See pictures of the Spokane event!
  Veterans for Peace convention. Meet at the lobby of the Doubletree Inn.  Walk with us from the hotel in A HUMAN BOAT (inside fabric designed to look like a boat) to the River walk where we will have a vigil for the victims of Israeli attacks on Gaza and the effects of the 10 year naval and land blockade of Gaza by the Government of Israel plus curtailing water and electricity to make Gaza uninhabitable by 2020 according to the United Nations. Since 2008, the Freedom Flotilla movement has sent 35 ships attempting to break Israel’s illegal, US-backed brutal military blockade of Gaza that has denied 2 million people –half of them children — access to food, clean water, fuel, medicine, employment and basic human dignity for 13 years. Join this flotilla action that educates our U.S. citizens about the crushing economic blockade as well as airstrikes, arrests, torture, and myriad human rights violations the Israeli government perpetrates on the people of Gaza.

• Mary’s River, MD: August 24
  – See pictures of the Mary’s River, Maryland event!

• Quilcene Bay, WA: October 1
  – See pictures of the Quilcene Bay, Washington event!

• Bellingham, WA: October 13
  – See pictures of the Bellngham Washington event!
  Join the Freedom Flotilla for Gaza 10:30am-1:30pm at
  The Whatcom Peace & Justice Center
  1220 Bay St, Bellingham, Washington 98225

• Lyme, CT: Nov 19-26– See pictures of the Tree of Life Connecticut event!
  Join the Freedom Flotilla for Gaza at the Tree of Life Educational Trust in Lyme, Connecticut! Stay posted for more details as the time approaches.

• Detroit
• Honolulu
• Hudson River
• Miami
• Syracuse
• Washington D.C.

If you would like to help with one of the events above or want to have an event in your town contact us so that can work together to make it a success!