Byron shire’s supporters of Palestine are ramping up their protest against apartheid Israel with planned actions against federal MPs on the north coast in coming weeks.
ABC News offices around the states also will be targeted by the Byron Friends of Palestine in the face of what they say is a lack of coverage by Australian media of the Palestinian struggle against Jewish state occupation.
The group will also lobby for the release of 6,300 Palestinian political prisoners via a petition to the federal government at a street stall outside Byron Bay post office on Saturday, February 3.
Friends spokesman Gareth Smith said they would lobby for the release of 16-year-old Ahed Tamimi, her mother and aunt, who were arrested by Israeli military after the girl slapped and punched Israeli soldiers who had injured her brother with a rubber bullet.
‘Since 1948 about 1 million have been imprisoned,’ Mr Smith told Echonetdaily.
‘Currently, there are about 400 Palestinian children incarcerated mainly in the Ofer and Megiddo prisons and many of these have been tortured.’
Much of the issue of young prisoners is documented under the US campaign ‘No Way To Treat A Child’ (nwttac.dci-palestine.org).
Read the full article by Luis Feliu at Echo Netdaily.