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DESCRIPTION:This Tax Day, Bay Area communities will rally in opposition to the ongoing 
 military US aid to Israel. Since the start of 2023, over 90 Palestinians 
 have been killed by occupation forces, including in attacks by armed 
 Israeli settlers, marking this year as the deadliest year for Palestinians 
 since 2002. A press conference will be held at 4:30pm, before the 
 mobilization. \n\n“For too long, the US has played an active role in the 
 perpetuation of military occupation and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian 
 people.” says Sharif Zakout of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center. 
 “The US government provides more than $3.8 billion annually in direct 
 military aid to the Israeli occupation. We demand an end of $3.8 billion of 
 US military funding to the Israeli occupation forces. Our taxes should fund 
 healthcare, housing, and education, not Israeli’s crimes against 
 Palestinians.”\n\nThese protests will take place against the backdrop of 
 escalating attacks on Palestinians by Israeli forces. In the West Bank, 
 Palestinian cities of Jenin, Nablus, and Hawarrah have been raided 
 repeatedly by Israeli settlers, with military backing. In Al-Aqsa Mosque, 
 Palestinian worshippers have been repeatedly subjected to brutal assault 
 and arrest by the Israeli military police during the holy month of Ramadan. 
 Palestinian Christians were also attacked on Holy Saturday at Jerusalem’s 
 Church of the Holy Sepulchre, with extremist settlers vandalizing holy 
 sites.. \n\n“This Tuesday, in protesting outside of the Israeli 
 Consulate, we are demanding an end to the US’s explicit complicity in the 
 deliberate ethnic cleansing and slow genocide of the Palestinian people.” 
 says Suzanne Ali of the Palestinian Youth Movement. “We support the 
 Palestinian peoples’ inalienable right to self-determination and 
 resistance against the oppressive Israeli regime and continued settler 
 violence.”\n\nThis May will mark the 75th anniversary of the Nakbeh 
 (“the Catastrophe”), the forced displacement and ethnic cleansing of 
 over 800,000 Palestinians from their homelands. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/04/18/18855521.php
SUMMARY:Bay Area Communities To Rally and Demand No Aid to Israeli Apartheid on Tax Day
LOCATION:Israeli Consulate\n456 Montgomery Street\nSan Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/04/18/18855521.php
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