In this week’s Action for Palestine, we focus on efforts to:
🕯 Stop starving Gaza and demand borders be opened for aid
✊ Press Congress to protect the village of Umm Al Kheir
💥 Join Bay Area protests to demand justice for Palestine
🌊 Learn about Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank
🎬 Watch films about Palestine, now available online for free
Take Action
🕯 STOP STARVING GAZA: POWER HOUR
📅 Wed, August 27 at 1 PM EST / 10 AM PST
Join AROC for a Power Hour of phone and email zaps to the Jordanian and Egyptian embassies, demanding they open borders and allow aid into Gaza. Over 20,000 Palestinian children face malnutrition, and 40,000 babies risk death from starvation. Aid is blocked, insufficient, and often delivered in humiliating conditions—moldy food dumped near crowds, fresh food rotting just across the border.
✊ PRESS CONGRESS: PROTECT UMM AL KHEIR
On July 28, Awdah Hathaleen—a beloved Palestinian teacher, peacemaker, and father of three—was killed by a sanctioned Israeli settler. Days later, the same settler destroyed the village’s water supply, threatening the survival of the entire community. This is an attempt to erase Umm Al Kheir.
👉 Ask your Senators and Representative to urgently act for the safety and survival of Umm Al Kheir.
Take Action – Bay Area
💥 NOISE PROTEST FOR PALESTINE
📅 Every Thursday at 5 PM
📍 Downtown Berkeley BART
Join Berkeley Network 4 Palestine and Berkeley FSJP to demand justice for Palestine and an end to Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon of war.
👉 See their instagram post and just show up!
Explore & Learn More
🌊 WEST BANK SETTLEMENT EXPANSION
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich plans to approve 3,000+ settlement units in E1, aiming to “bury the idea of a Palestinian state.” Destroying the hamlet of Khan al-Ahmar has become a settler priority to cut the West Bank in two.
🎬 WATCH FILMS ABOUT PALESTINE
In light of current events, many filmmakers have made their films about Palestine available online for free.
