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A call for action: Stop the Prawer Plan!
06/08/2013 - 07:36

 

On the 24th June the Israeli Knesset narrowly approved the first reading of the racist and discriminatory Prawer-Begin Bill, paving the way for its second and third readings which the Israeli government hopes to push through parliament before the end of the month.
 
The Prawer Plan represents the largest single attempt at the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians since the Nakba, targeting the original Arab Palestinian Bedouin citizens of the southern Naqab region who are already the poorest and most marginalised sector of the population, many of whom live in villages unrecognised by the government and who are denied basic services such as electricity, schools and healthcare. The Prawer Plan aims to provide legislation to:

 ·       * confiscate around 850,000 dunums of land in the Naqab desert

·        * expel over 30,000 Palestinian Bedouins

·        * demolish about 40 unrecognized villages

·        * confine the arab Palestinian Bedouins who are 30% of the Naqab in  to 1% of the land

On 15th July a nationwide strike and day of anger was called to protest the Prawer Plan. Hundreds of Arab businesses across the country shut their doors in solidarity, while thousands of Palestinians protested in their cities, towns and at busy street junctions, from Ramallah to Jaffa, Sakhnin to Bir Sabe'.
 
Dozens were injured and arrested by Israeli forces, but despite this popular protests have been continuing, with solidarity protests in Beirut and Cairo. We are determined to continue demonstrating against this unjust and racist law, to bring pressure on the Israeli Knesset, and to raise awareness in all corners of society and across the world of Israel's latest attempt to destroy and erase Palestinian life. 
 
A new day of anger has been called for Thursday 1st August. We call on our supporters, solidarity activists, and all those who oppose this racist and discriminatory law to use this date to organise events in their towns and communities, spread information and awareness, and write to their politicians and representatives outlining the importance of their opposition to the Prawer Plan. 

Stay updated on Twitter and Facebook through the hashtags #StopPrawerPlan and#برافر_لن_يمر 
 
Facebook group: www.facebook.com/StopPrawerPlan
 
please feel free to circulate this call.

Petitions:

Sign the Avaaz petition: https://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Stop_Prawer/
Write to your Embassy in Israel, full list here: https://www.ambassadorsclub.org.il/embassiesnewsletters.html

Petition to UK Foreign Secretary: https://act.palestinecampaign.org/lobby/102
 
Petition to Israeli ambassador to the UShttps://org.salsalabs.com/o/301/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=13809

For more information on the Prawer Plan:

 

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