Emergency Demo: End Israel's Barbarity

Date: Saturday 3rd January
Assemble 12.30pm at Embankment, WC2 (Nearest tube Embankment or Charing Cross)

Israel has launched a terror bombing against the people of Gaza, with over 300 hundred dead and many hundreds more injured. Not content after three days of devastating slaughter, the Israeli government promises more barbarity to come. The head of the Israeli military says, "This is only the beginning". The people of Gaza are asking, if this is only the beginning, what will the end look like? (See http://tinyurl.com/83b7el)

An eye witness describes what happens when the world's fourth most heavily armed nation rains down such devastation on the civilians of the world's most densely populated area:

"People are going through the dead terrified of recognizing a family member among them. The streets are strewn with their bodies, their arms, legs, feet, some with shoes and some without… Hospitals and morgues cannot cope and some of the dead are still lying in the streets with their families gathered around them, kissing their faces, holding on to them. Outside the destroyed buildings old men are kneeling on the floor weeping. Their slim hopes of finding their sons still alive vanished after taking one look at what had become of their office buildings." (See http://tinyurl.com/82fuho)

Protests against these atrocities have already taken place across the world with two big demonstrations in London, called at the shortest notice, blocking the roads to the Israeli Embassy.

Now a national emergency demonstration in London has been organised for Saturday 3 January. Called by Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Stop the War Coalition, British Muslim Initiative and many more organisations, the demonstration will assemble in central London at 2.0 pm (location to follow very shortly).

We need to mobilise in the largest possible numbers for the emergency demonstration. Gordon Brown needs to be reminded that Tony Blair's support for Israel's attack on Lebanon in 2006 lead to him being forced from office. The British government must call for the bombing to stop now and for an end to Israel's illegal blockade of Gaza over the past year, which has inflicted near starvation and lack of essential resources on its people.

Please do all you can to mobilise for the emergency demonstration:

* Spread the word as widely as you can among your friends, neighbours, work colleagues, fellow students.

* Download the demonstration flyer from the Stop the War website, photocopy or print it, distribute it as widely as you can (available shortly http://www.stopwar.org.uk/)

* Take leaflets to your local community centre, mosque, church, etc. Help leaflet tube and bus stations.

Stop the War is asking all of its local groups around the country to mobilise support for the demonstration as widely as possible.

Called by Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Stop the War Coalition, British Muslim Initiative and many other organisations.

HANDS OFF GAZA: STOP THE BOMBING: FREE PALESTINE