dimanche 4 août 2024

Gaza (EKO) : UK’s bloody arms sales.

 



 
 

Palestinian children in Gaza wait behind railings with their arms outstretched holding empty containers for food.

 


The world’s highest court has just issued an historic statement – 

Israel’s occupation of Palestine is totally illegal.

Horrors in Gaza are reaching boiling point. Palestinians are 

reporting torture at the hands of Israeli soldiers. Schools and 

refugee camps are bombed weekly. Almost 40,000 Palestinians 

have been slaughtered.

Now, the International Court of Justice is explicitly calling on 

states to immediately halt arms sales fuelling this nightmare.

One of the worst enablers is the UK government – since 2015 it 

has sent over *half a billion* pounds worth of weapons to Israel. 

We’re closer than ever to ending that !

A brave legal team is going to court to halt the UK’s weapons 

sales – they urgently need our help to gather critical evidence 

that these weapons are being illegally used against civilians. If 

enough of us contribute, we can rush them the cash they need for 

this crucial work immediately.

Every second counts – we're seeing that clearly. Will you help 

end UK arms sales to Israel and stop the slaughter ?

Almost 40,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children,

have now been killed in Israel’s onslaught on Gaza.

Doctors are being left “speechless” at the horrors they’re seeing – 

children having their legs amputated without anesthetic, 

babies dying of dehydration within days of being born.

The list of atrocities is endless. UN experts have urgently called 

for a halt on arms exports to Israel given the undeniable risk 

that they are being used against civilians. And the US has even 

found the Israeli army responsible for gross human rights 

violations.

There is NO defense to keep fueling Israel’s killing machine. 

Yet, the UK is doing everything it can to keep shamelessly 

arming Israel.

But we received amazing news last week. A brilliant group of 

lawyers has just had their groundbreaking case to stop the UK’s 

flow of arms revived after it was initially dismissed in February. 

This is huge – and means they have a real chance of winning !

They’re working round the clock to make sure they’re ready to 

take this case all the way to the High Court but it’s going to be a 

tough road ahead and the next few months are critical. If all of us 

chip in the cost of a coffee we can rush them the funds they 

need to collect extensive evidence from Gaza and build an 

ironclad case. 

Miriam, if we can get the UK to halt arms sales to Israel, it could 

help spell the end of this catastrophe. 

Any amount will make a difference – can you chip in ?

Hundreds of thousands of Ekō members from every corner of the 

planet have taken action for Gaza in the past 9 months. Let’s keep 

going to end this nightmare.

Thanks for all that you do,



Miriam and the Ekō team.























More information :





lawyer says. The Guardian 29 July 2024.


UN report. Al Jazeera 31 July 2024.


displaced people. Sky News 27 July 2024.


strip. UN OHCHR 09 July 2024.


Jazeera 08 July 2024.


Century conflict - Oxfam. Oxfam 11 January 2024.


began, health ministry says. CNN 29 February 2024.














































 
 

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