Admin I Monday, April 01, 2024
GAZA – Amidst protests in cities around the globe, a senior US Air Force serviceman has embarked on hunger strike to draw global attention to farmine and starvation facing Innocent children in Gaza as a result of ongoing genocidal war by Israeli Defence Forces, IDF.
Israel embarked on collective punishment of Palestinians following October 7, 2023 surprise attack on Israel by Hamas, during which about 1,137 Israelis were killed and several others kidnapped.
And since then, calls for ceasefire, including United Nations Security Council resolution, calling for immediate and sustained ceasefire have been ignored by Israel.
Till date, over 34,000 Palestinians have been killed, over 74,000 others injured, among the dead are over 14,000 children. Many have been declared missing with the whole of Gaza rendered uninhabitable by Israel.
The Air Force Senior Airman Larry Hebert 26, and a member of Veterans For Peace, took authorized leave from his assignment at Naval Station Rota, Spain to participate in demonstrations demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza
He and his colleagues will also visit Congressional offices to demand for a halt weapons shipments to Israel
“I was deeply touched when I saw that Aaron Bushnell took his own life at the Israeli Embassy for the people of Gaza and knew that I had to raise my voice in opposition to the U.S. government supplying Israel the bombs and rockets to commit genocide in Gaza.”
