The high seas shall be reserved for peaceful purposes. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea |
In the early hours of this morning, the Israeli navy attacked the Freedom Flotilla. According to the Israeli lawyer of the Free Gaza Movement, 10 passengers have been murdered.
With few exceptions, governments of the world are complicit in these murders and in this act of piracy because of the many occasions when they have turned a blind eye to illegal acts by the Israeli government during the 42 years of the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. The Israeli government believes in its impunity - and our governments have given them every reason to do so.
Today and in the next days, demonstrations and vigils will be held in our country and elsewhere to protest against the illegal attack on the six ships that the Israeli navy carried out in international waters against the six ships of the Freedom Flotilla, which were carrying materials that are urgently needed for the survival of the population of Gaza driven to the brink kby the siege that Israel, with the support of the international community has imposed for more than three years, during which time, operation Cast Lead killed more than 1400 people including 400 children.
The ships that made up the flottilla were completely:
- PEACEFUL
- LEGAL
- HUMANITARIAN
Because the aim was only
- To contribute to the reconstruction of Gaza and to restore normal life in the strip.
- To press Israel, Egypt, Italy and the international communtiy to end the embargo.
- To show the people of Gaza that they are not alone.
- To call on Israel to respect the norms of International Law and the charter of the Human Rights.
We invite all to send letters of protest to foreign minister Frattini and to the under secretary Letta who had been asked to ensure the intervention of the Italian government and who did not do so.
Demonstrations in Italy
31 May
- Rome, 17.00 piazza San Marco.
- Milan, 17.30 in piazza San Babila;
- Bologna: 17.00 in piazza Maggiore;
- Genoa: 18.00 in front of the Prefecture
- Turin: 17.00 in front of palazzo Nuovo;
- Naples: 17 piazza Plebiscito;
- Grosseto: 18 in front of the Prefecture;
- Parma: 18 in piazzale della Pace;
- Bergamo: 18 in front of the town hall;
- Venezia: 17 ponte di Rialto;
- Siena: piazza Duomo;
- Livorno: 18 piazza Grande;
- Firenze: 17 davanti Prefettura;
- Padova: ore 17 davanti Prefettura;
- Lecce: ore 17.30 piazzetta De Pace;
- Pesaro: ore 18.30 davanti al Comune
- Treviso: 18.00 davanti alla Prefettura;
- Savona: 18:00 piazza Mameli;
- Varese: 17 in front of the Prefecture
- Viareggio: 17in front of the town hall
- Vicenza: 18.30 in front of the Prefecture
- L'Aquila: 18 in front of the offices of the Guardia di Finanza;
- Modena :17 at the Ghirlandina;
- Reggio Emilia: 19 piazza Prampolini;
- Empoli:18 piazza della Vittoria;
- Mantova: 18, in front of the Prefecture in Via Principe Amedeo;
- Arezzo : 19 in front of the Prefecture;
- Novara: 17.30in front of the Prefecture.
1 June
- Catania 18 in front of the Prefecture;
- Cagliari 18:00 sit-in at Bastione Saint Remy;
- Brindisi, 17.30 in piazza Santa Teresa.
