麻豆APP

This newsletter informs about recent and upcoming activities of Civil Society Organizations affiliated with the 麻豆APP Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. The Committee and the Division for Palestinian Rights of the UN Secretariat provide the information “as is” without warranty of any kind, and do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, or reliability of the information contained in the websites linked in the newsletter.

NGO Action News
30 July 2014

• ?will hold its next??on?31 July 2014?in Bangkok. For more information please contactpalestinesolidaritythailand@gmail.com.

EUROPE

• ?is inviting its supporters to? to the UK Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary as well as MPs to demand a ceasefire on Gaza, the lifting of the Gaza-blockade, an independent international investigation on the current hostilities, a ban on Israeli settlements trade and a full arms embargo on Israel.

• ?(CPJPO) published on?20 July 2014?a? of the Gaza solidarity event it organized in Luxembourg on 19 July.

• ?(IPSC) organized on?27 July 2014?a memorial? for Gaza’s victims at the Palestinian Embassy in Dublin.

• ?(MdM) issued a? on?22 July 2014?calling for an immediate halt to the bombing in Gaza to allow humanitarian aid to be deployed and civilians treated.

• ?(MAP) is inviting its supporters to sign an? calling on UK Prime Minister David Cameron to urgently use all available diplomatic means to end the collective punishment of the people of Gaza.

• ?is organizing a rally to protest against Israel’s offensive against the Gaza Strip on?31 July 2014?in The Hague. Click? for more information.

• ?is organizing on?31 July 2014?a Gaza solidarity??in front of the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm.

ISRAEL AND PALESTINE

• ?(AIDA) and other regional coordination networks, faith-based organizations and UN agencies launched the? on?27 July 2014?entitled #Ceasefire4Gaza.

• ?is calling for a military embargo on Israel and issued a? entitled?Stop Arming Israel.

• ?(PCHR) issued on?30 July 2014?its latest? on the victims of Israeli Operation Protective Edge on the Gaza Strip started on 8 July.

• ?is a new website recently launched as a resource for journalists covering Operation Protective Edge. It has access to ordinary spokespeople who can speak a variety of languages including English, French and Italian.

NORTH AMERICA

• ,?,?,?Jewish Voice for Peace?and the??are co-sponsoring the??Is Israel complying with US and international laws??on?1 August 2014?on Capitol Hill in Washington.?Tariq Abu Khdeir, who was recently brutally beaten by Israeli security forces while restrained and unconscious, will speak at the event. Click? for more information.

• ?called for an immediate? on the Gaza Strip on?22 July 2014.

• ?(CMEP) published?25 July 2014?its? with?Khaled Elgindy, a fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.

• ?(LWF) issued a? on?23 July 2014?on the violence in the Gaza Strip entitled?Abide by International Law in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

• ?(MECA) is hosting the screening of the documentary?Flying Paper?by Nitin Sawhney and Roger Hill during a benefit for aid to children in the Gaza Strip on?7 August 2014?in Berkeley. The event will feature co-filmmaker?Roger Hill?and MECA’s staff?Ziad Abbas?for a Q&A after the film. Click? for more information.

• ?will be holding its??in San Diego, CA, on?19-21September 2014. A??has been posted online. As well, the US Campaign’s Policy Director,?Josh Ruebner, will speak on?31 July 2014?at the Mid-Manhattan Library in New York. Please click??for more information. Lastly the Campaign is inviting its supporters to? because of the “outrageous tirade against Palestinians” made by one of its presenters while on-air.

• ?posted on?23 July 2014?a new? with?Joe Catron, a US International Solidarity Movement activist in Gaza. He has been filing almost daily eyewitness reports of the Israeli bombardment and was one of the volunteers trying to protect Al Wafa hospital.

• Norman G. Finkelstein, political scientist, activist, professor and author,??at least 100 people to protest against Operation Protective Edge outside the Israeli consulate on?29 July 2014?in midtown Manhattan, New York.

GLOBAL

• ?posted on?28 July 2014?a? featuring?prominent Jews and Palestinians as well as others standing for Palestine.?Jonathan Demme?(Oscar-winning filmmaker),Diana Buttu?(Human rights lawyer),?Chuck D?(hip-hop artist),?Roger Waters?(Pink Floyd) and many others participated in the video.

• ?(ICRC) issued a? on?29 July 2014?invoking the humanitarian imperative to “Stop the killing!”

• ?published an? for the people in Gaza written by doctors and scientists?Paola Manduca,?Iain Chalmers,?Derek Summerfield,?Mads Gilbert?and?Swee Ang, on behalf of 24 signatories.

• , former Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, published on his blog on?28 July 2014?a?.

UNITED NATIONS

• The Bureau of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People?(CEIRPP)?issued a? on the situation in the Gaza Strip on?21 July 2014.

• ?issued its most recent? on the Gaza Strip on?30 July 2014.

• ?on?28 July 2014? its grave concern regarding the deterioration in the situation in the Middle East as a result of the crisis related to Gaza and the loss of civilian lives and casualties.

• ‘s Commissioner-General?Pierre Kr?henbühl?issued a??on?30 July 2014?strongly condemning Israel’s shelling of a UNRWA school in Gaza. UNRWA is still collecting money for its? launched on?17 July 2014?to answer to the crisis caused by the escalation of violence with Israel.

• ’s Executive Director?Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka?issued a??on?22 July 2014?on the Gaza crisis.