Whanganui Tramways Museum
27 Taupo Quay, Whanganui
Saturday 25 January, 2025
11:00AM
Saturday 25 January, 2025
12:00PM
Enough is surely Enough!
The colonial fragmentation of Palestine and Palestinians is a strategy. Gaza has been under total blockade for the past 16 years. However, for the past 16 months Israel has committed one of the most atrocious genocides in history, carrying out massacres, annihilating entire families, forcibly displacing 90% of the population, using starvation as a weapon of war, and destroying 65% of homes and infrastructure, along with all universities, schools and hospitals. To date, Israel has killed over 46,913 Palestinians, including more than 20,000 children, and injured over 110,750. The true death toll in Gaza could well surpass 200,000 Palestinians. Keeping in mind our colonial interest now that a ceasefire is in place, we fear an aftermath of mass expulsion and a further ethnic cleansing.
In the West Bank, Palestinians are confronting entrenched annexation, with or without ceasefire with over 24,000 dunams of land confiscated for jewish-only settlements. More than 6,635 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced due to demolitions and settler violence. Military raids have escalated, particularly in refugee camps, with over 824 Palestinians killed across the West Bank since October 2023.
While the ceasefire foresees an exchange of prisoners, over 7000 Palestinian political prisoners still remain in Israeli jails and many Palestinian residents in Gaza remain forcible disappeared, enduring systemic torture and the most brutal conditions ever witnessed in the history of Palestinian political imprisonment.
In the region Israel has repeatedly said that its strategy is to “ reshape the Middle East”. In Lebanon, Israel's military invasion has claimed over 3,189 lives, injured 14,078, and forcibly displaced more than 1.2 million people. Exploiting the fall of the Assad regime, Israel has launched unprecedented military aggression into Syrian territory, deepening its occupation in the territory.