Peace activists confronting settlers who want to stop aid getting to Gaza acknowledge they are ‘a minority within a minority’
Alon-Lee Green, centre, with other activists from Standing Together formed a group around Israeli settlers at the Tarqumiya checkpoint to stop them from obstructing aid trucks travelling to Gaza.Alon-Lee Green, centre, with other activists from Standing Together formed a group around Israeli settlers at the Tarqumiya checkpoint to stop them from obstructing aid trucks travelling to Gaza.
“We decided to form this humanitarian guard, because we understand that this a fight over the lives of innocent people in Gaza,” said Alon-Lee Green, the national co-director of the Jewish-Arab peace coalition Standing Together, a movement mobilising Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel in pursuit of peace, equality and social justice. “These are people who have lost their homes their land, people facing starvation.
The settlers tried to free themselves from the human barrier and reposition themselves in front of the truck, shouting at the peace activists and accusing them of aiding Hamas.In previous instances footage has appeared to show Israeli soldiers escorting convoys, without taking any action against the settlers.
The UN has said 1.1 million people in Gaza – nearly half the population – face catastrophic levels of hunger, and that the territory is on the brink of famine. In the past three days, settlers have continued blocking and looting dozens of aid trucks bound for the territory.
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