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World :
Global Energy Embargo to End the Genocide in Gaza
Palestinian Groups , Unions and Environmental Organisations Call for a Total Global Energy Embargo against Israel
Palestinian organisations , call for a total global energy embargo against Israel until it ends the genocide and its regime of Apartheid and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people .
One month ago , on Friday , January 26 2024 , the International Court of Justice took the historic ruling to proceed with South Africa ’ s case charging Israel with genocide . This decision , after decades of obfuscation and foot dragging by United Nations bodies , makes crystal clear Israel ’ s stated goal of annihilating the Palestinian people .
Yet , Israel ’ s genocide still goes unpunished and we continue to watch with horror as bombardment , murder and death is rained down on the steadfast people of Gaza . More than 30,000 Palestinians have now been killed , the entire Gaza strip reduced to rubble and its population subjected to starvation . Urgent action is required to stop the carnage .
In response to Israel ’ s ongoing impunity , we , as Palestinian organisations , call for a total global energy embargo against Israel until it ends the genocide and its regime of Apartheid and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people .
Energy supplies are instrumental to Israel ’ s war machine : to operate its army tanks , armored personnel carriers , ships and military bulldozers , including specialist jet fuel that allows Israeli jets to rain death and destruction down on Gaza . The demand for an energy embargo is integral to the call from Palestinian trade unions to stop arming Israel which has already elicited an enormous global response .
This call includes previous demands from the Palestinian 20
General Federation of Trade Unions ( PGFTU ) to “ all trade unions and workers associations , and transportation and ports workers … in oil , gas , and metals producing countries ” to stop feeding the Israel war machine , and to stop “ export ... to countries supporting the Israeli onslaught on Gaza .”
Building on this work , today we issue an urgent call to workers , environmental activists , human rights groups , civil society and states to take immediate action to : 1 . Stop all energy exports to Israel . 2 . End all imports of Israeli energy . 3 . Divest from extraction projects , and joint ventures with Israeli energy corporations .
4 . Stop all energy exports from Middle East and Global Majority countries to the United States , United Kingdom , Germany , and other imperialist states supporting Israel in its campaign of genocide . Energy embargoes driven by trade unions and popular demands have played a significant role in anti-colonial history , both in West Asia and further afield , and can act
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as significant points of pressure . Today , they offer new means of enforcing international law and impelling the Israeli machine to cease its murder .
W e call on you - friends , supporters , environmentalists , workers and people of conscience around the world - to move without hesitation to disrupt the flow of energy making Israel ’ s genocide possible ! We call on you to take action in your workplaces , at ports , outside oil companies and in any arena in which energy flowing to Israel can be disrupted !
Now is the time to act and build on the historical mobilisations for Gaza , to end the genocide and bring forward a liberated Palestine . Arab Group for the Protection of Nature
Disrupt Power . ps Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network ( PENGON )
Palestinian Institute for Public Diplomacy ( PIPD )
February 26 , 2024
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