"Days of Lifting Gaza Siege" Begin Friday

Source: Al-Manar TV, 18-12-2008

Lawyers from the opposition urged all lawyers and people in Lebanon to take part Friday in the civic events to lift the Gaza blockade as called for by Hizbullah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
For its part, the Lebanese-Palestinian students committee called on all students to participate in tomorrow's action.

Friday will be the day to start action to end the siege of Gaza, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah announced last Monday.

In a televised speech broadcast on Al-Manar, Sayyed Nasrallah said that large demonstrations in solidarity with the oppressed Palestinians and to end the siege of Gaza will take place starting Friday after noon prayers. His eminence stressed in his speech the demonstrations are also to support the choice of resistance, steadfastness and adherence to rights regardless of the sacrifices and difficulties. Sayyed Nasrallah called on all Lebanese, regardless of their political affiliations, to take part in the action given the importance of the central cause of Palestine. "I call on all the Lebanese, regardless of whether they are loyal to March 8 or 14, to participate in the demonstration that Hizbullah will organize on Friday at 2 PM," Sayyed Nasrallah said.

His eminence warned that the goal of besieging Gaza was to break the will of the Palestinian people and frustrate it to impose US and "Israeli" conditions in line with the "humiliating settlement process that does not preserve the least rights of this people."

The Invitation

The Arab National Conference, the Islamic National Conference and the Arab Parties Conference invite you to take part in the "Days of Lifting the Siege of Gaza" which begin on Friday.

The program includes:
- Devoting Friday sermons for the occasion.
- Demonstrations and rallies following Friday prayers.
- Public festivals and seminars.
- Sit-ins outside Egyptian embassies across the world to demand the opening of the Rafah crossing.
- Addressing Arab parliaments to pressure their governments to assume their national duty.
- Sit-ins outside United Nations and Arab League headquarters across the world.
- Delivering memos to the Arab League, Arab Foreign Ministers, the United Nations, the Egyptian government and the Palestinian President to take responsibility regarding the Gaza blockade.
- Raising Palestinian flags during all events and in all possible locations.
- Demanding Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to halt negotiations with "Israel".
- Dispatching convoys to break the siege.

The organizers will announce other dates to follow up the move under the slogan "Silence on the siege is also a siege."