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Monday 6 April 2020

Medical Aid for Palestine.


IsolatedButTogether: Stand with Palestinian health workers
Across the world, health workers are risking their health on the frontline against the coronavirus pandemic. With many cases of the disease now confirmed in the occupied Palestinian territory, health workers there are also preparing to do their duty. But they do so in the harshest of circumstances.
 
This week, we released a report highlighting that attacks on Palestinian health workers by Israeli forces happen time and time again and those responsible are almost never held accountable.


We need your help to show Palestinian health workers that though we are isolating at home to stop the spread of coronavirus, and they are isolated from the world by the military occupation and blockade, we are together. Please show your support for Palestinian health workers by taking an #IsolatedButTogether selfie; we aim to send 500 supportive selfies to Palestine. 
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Wednesday 1 April 2020

Droning on!


 Our thoughts are with people everywhere fighting the coronavirus. Israel’s apartheid regime has used the pandemic as a smokescreen to intensify its oppression of Palestinians, with even more impunity than ever. Palestinians count on your continued support during this difficult period, including through online actions you can take from home to end international complicity in Israel’s war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Decades of Israeli military occupation and apartheid have devastated Palestinians’ health infrastructure, particularly in the Gaza Strip. The first coronavirus cases have been detected in Gaza while Israel continues its siege on two million Palestinians imprisoned there.

Israel's largest arms company, Elbit Systems, profits from the siege on Gaza — “battle-testing” its killer drones, white phosphorus, sniper bullets and fighter jet parts, all deployed by the Israeli occupation army to murder or maim Palestinians. Elbit Systems’ Hermes 900 drones were among Israel’s drones that murdered 164 Palestinian children in Gaza in 2014.

Now the European Union is using Elbit’s Hermes 900 drones to implement the EU’s deadly anti-migration policies.


Elbit’s drones are used for aerial surveillance of refugees in the Mediterranean. The EU is betraying its legal and ethical obligation to save lives, replacing boats with Israel’s killer drones, turning the Mediterranean into a cemetery.


Elbit Systems also produces surveillance technology for Israel’s apartheid wall, fence around Gaza and military checkpoints, enabling Israel's apartheid rule.

In the US, Elbit provides surveillance technology for Trump’s wall with Mexico, which is destroying the land of Arizona’s indigenous Tohono O’odham Nation, and preventing refugees from seeking safety in the US.


Human rights campaigns are scoring wins in efforts to #StopElbit. Major European pension funds and banks have divested from Elbit. In 2018, the French insurance giant AXA, which calls itself “the most ethical insurer in the world,” divested from Elbit, but only partially, failing to live up to its motto.


Our thanks to Visualizing Palestine for their valuable new infographics showing how Elbit Systems profits from grave human rights violations.

In solidarity,

Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)