[News] Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees: Life for Palestine, Freedom for our People

[Anti-Imperialist News]

*/A statement issued by the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees (UPWC)/*

*/Life for Palestine and Freedom for our People
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*/http://samidoun.ca/2014/07/union-of-palestinian-womens-committees-life-for-palestine-freedom-for-our-people/
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The Zionist occupation, led by a government of settlers, continues to 
commit war crimes against our people. They commit crime after crime, 
massacre after massacre. The rights of women and children, the elderly 
and families, are violated and their right to their land and to enjoy 
the sea lapping at their feet stripped from them: They use the most 
powerful means of killing: aircraft, tanks and advanced missiles.

The number of martyrs is approaching 200, half of them women and 
children; and more than a thousand have been injured. And still the 
Occupation Army continues to kill, attacking the besieged Gaza Strip and 
destroying the homes of families making them homeless while they are 
mourning their dead. They destroy their homes over their heads and 
destroy institutions providing care for those with disabilities.

In the West Bank, and in the heart of Jerusalem, they are continuing 
their campaign of oppression, murder and torture against our people. 
Invading their homes, institutions and arresting. Now they have taken 
their Zionist crimes to a new level by kidnapping the a child, Mohammed 
Abu Khudair, burning him alive. And still the number of martyrs, 
wounded, prisoners and displaced persons is on the rise.

All this is happening with the support of the Governments of Western 
imperialism. These Governments see freedom, independence and liberation 
of our people and our land as a threat to their interests in the region. 
The crimes of the Occupation are allowed to continue, all with the 
suspicious silence of the Arab regimes.

We in the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees (UPWC) are engaged in 
a battle of steadfastness and confrontation. We continue to denounce the 
crimes committed against our people and our land, and condemn Western 
support and political cover that is provided for the crimes of the 
occupation, whether that support is clear and direct or veiled. We 
affirm the right of our people’s resistance to settler colonialism in 
Palestine and insist on the right of return for Palestinian refugees to 
the homes from which they were displaced. In addition, the right of 
self-determination and the establishment of an independent Palestinian 
state with full sovereignty with Jerusalem as its capital.

We are the reality of pain and suffering, and the manifestation of 
steadfastness and determination. As our inevitable victory approaches we 
call the international community to assume its responsibilities towards 
our people, through the mechanisms of a clear vindication of our rights 
to our land. We also demand a provisional international protection force 
for our people and the accountability of the Zionist war criminals.

It is time for the international community to stop falsely claiming 
there is a "peace process," which has in reality only benefited the 
Occupation, allowing it to strengthen its control over our land and 
institute racist policies through a system of apartheid, which is the 
ugliest in the history of mankind.

We applaud the resistance of our people in all its forms and spectra, 
and we salute the young men and women rebelling in the fields in all 
parts of Palestine. We also salute the Arab peoples and all people 
around the world that have shown solidarity with us.

  * We also call for the implementation of the following:
  * We demand that the Palestinian leadership to tackle the task of
    unity of our people, protecting our cause. A leadership that is
    working to develop a national strategy for the struggle, and thus
    ending the negotiations and security coordination with the
    occupation, which is a dagger in the side of our people and their
    struggle.
  * We call on the masses of our people for increased participation in
    the struggle and direct confrontation with the Occupation. We call
    upon it to achieve victory for our people and our cause and to
    fulfill the wishes of our martyrs, our wounded, our prisoners, our
    bereaved, our orphans and the homeless of our people.
  * We call upon Palestinian women to provide more even more initiative
    and direction for national events and to increase their militancy,
    as positive role models for women and people around the world.
  * To the people of the free world and to the Arab people we ask you
    all to show even greater solidarity through events, and apply more
    pressure on your Governments to provide real support to the struggle
    of our people and for the accountability of the Zionist war criminals.
  * We call for the expansion of the campaign to boycott the state of
    the Zionist entity "Israel" and the imposition of sanctions and
    divestment at the global, Arab and national levels. We call for a
    mass campaign to boycott "Israel."

Life for our people, in spite of all the crimes committed against them;
Glory, eternity and loyalty to our martyrs; and
Healing of our wounded and freedom for our prisoners.

Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees
13/07/2014

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