Social Justice group is condemning in the strongest words the Israeli barbaric inhumane massacre against the international activists part of the Free Gaza flotilla. This massacre that resulted so far in killing more than 10 innocent activists and injuring dozens more, according to Israeli sources. The Israeli army conducted this massacre in the international water, even before the activists entered the Gaza waters.
“The international activists part of the flotilla were not armed and the flotilla only carried humanitarian aids. There was no excuse for these barbaric actions which cost many lives” said Jamal Daoud, the group’s spokesperson and leading candidate for the next election. “While we are at the moment watching with deep sadness the loss of innocent lives, we are not surprised by this barbaric action as Israel has conducted regularly massacres against innocent people”.
While this massacre is added to the previous massacres that Israel conducted against anyone who challenges its illegal actions, it comes as clear evidence of the deep crises it goes through since its defeat in Lebanon 2006 and then in Gaza 2008 - 2009.
Few months ago, Israel forged foreign passports, including Australians, to conduct another illegal action. The international community, including Australia, did not take decisive measures to discipline Israel to enforce it from taking further barbaric actions.
This time, international community (including Australian government) should take urgent decisive actions against Israel. This should include cutting ties and expelling Israeli diplomats. Without such tough actions, Israel will continue its violations of human rights of anyone dares to criticise it or take actions against its illegal actions.
We now know that there are few Australians were on board when ships were attacked by Israeli navy. Consequently, we urge Australian government to act immediately by calling the Israeli diplomats and get some clarifications about the need for this barbaric action against unarmed international activists and about the fate of Australian journalists.
On this issue, we condemn the Australian government’s silence on this barbaric action. We also strongly condemn the so-called progressive small parliamentary parties, especially the Greens, for their complete silence over these crimes. In this instance we note that these parties (the Labor and the Greens) got the biggest slice of the Muslims, Arabs and progressive votes in the past decade. We urge these communities to take these into account when they go to the election later in the year.
The group will participate in organising and participating in other activities on this issue in the next few days. One of these actions would be the rally in Canberra on next Thursday. We will announce details of these actions later on.
For media contact, you can call Jamal Daoud on 0404 447 272
