This is the first time in a while that I have spoken but I wanted to share my speech. I will create a record of our original protests when I can.
"We gather here six months into Israel’s vicious bombardment of Gaza which has seen the massacre of almost 33,000 civilians – over 14,000 of them children – with many more missing under rubble
Any excuse that Israel has put forward for their slaughter
of civilians has long since been debunked by anyone with an ounce of humanity
The International Court of Justice has found plausible evidence of genocide and an interim report by the UN special rapporteur has confirmed that
These are important steps but anyone watching the horror
unfold in Gaza over the past six months can be in no doubt that Israel is
engaged in ethnic cleansing and genocide
Not just the massacres of entire families through their
bombing campaigns which have left so many bereaved, so many with life changing
injuries, so many traumatised, so many displaced
A bombing campaign which has targeted so called safe areas
– bombing residential areas and even the tents and makeshift shelters that the
displaced have been forced into
Not just the destruction of most of the hospitals in Gaza,
the targeting and murders of so many health care staff, that our colleagues in
Health Care Workers for Gaza, some of whom are here today, remember every Friday evening
