"Activists call for global strike against Israel war on Gaza"

“We want people to stop their work and protest. Use speakers to air the sounds of the air strikes that are hitting us and our people, so people know what we are living through.” seven-year-old journalist from Gaza, Lama Jamous, tells MEMO.

This powerful plea from Gaza’s youngest journalist reflects the desperate situation unfolding in Gaza and the urgent need for global solidarity. Lama, along with Dr Ahmed Al-Mughrabi, former head of the Plastic and Burns Department at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, is calling for a global strike to be held on 1 October in support of Palestinians in the Strip.

Organised by Pick Up for Gaza, an initiative led by a group of activists, the strike aims to bring international attention to the ongoing violence and atrocities in Gaza, urging people worldwide to stop working, stop purchasing and take a firm stand against the silence surrounding the suffering of Palestinians.

“Red lines traditionally observed in conflicts have been completely disregarded by Israel in Gaza,” says Al-Mughrabi.

Hospitals, schools, churches and aid organisations have all been targets. The indiscriminate violence is devastating, and yet the international community remains largely silent. “They are killing everybody; they don’t care,” he says.

... Describing the situation as nothing short of genocide, he recalled the siege of Nasser Hospital, where essential supplies like food and clean water were entirely cut off. “My own child would ask me for sweets, and I couldn’t even find dry bread,” he explains.

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... he was forced to pretend to be a civilian because occupation troops were targeting surgeons. “Either they kill us or they detain us,” he says, adding that the fate of many of his colleagues remains unknown after they were disappeared by occupation forces following the siege of Nasser Hospital.

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The 1 October global strike is about making the world stop and take notice. It is about ending complacency and forcing international leaders to reckon with the consequences of their silence.

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