May 11, 12:00 PM EDT - Zoom
Doctors Against Genocide Weekly Zoom Call: SOS from Gaza. Bread Not Bombs. Let the Children Eat!
Please join this important webinar on the impact of the genocide in Gaza on people with disabilities, highlighting their stories, struggles, and resilience.
Speakers:
Shatha Abusrour: She is a veteran advocate of the rights of persons with disabilities in the West Bank and Gaza. She is now a member of the executive staff of the Arab Forum for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and a volunteer rapporteur in the Palestinian Disability Coalition.
Zarif Al-ghourrah: Disability Activist
Zarif serves as a disability activist from Palestine, Gaza. He the chairperson of the disability representative bodies Network in Gaza, and a member at the Palestinian Disability Coalition. He is currently involved in facilitating Gazans' access to humanitarian interventions, and Palestinians with disabilities' access to health care and rehabilitative services.
Ali Taemeh: Association for Palestinians with Visual Disability
Ali is a disability activist from Palestine, Gaza. He is leading Gaza Forum Association for Palestinians with visual disability. He has been involved in designing and implementing humanitarian interventions for Palestinians with disability and their families during the current Genocidal war, and he is also interested in monitoring and documentation.
Latifa Al-Jaabari: Stars of Hope Society
Latifa works at Stars of Hope Society for Empowering Women with Disability. She works at the organization's office in Gaza. She has been involved in several interventions during the current war, such as: advocacy, field research assistance, and facilitating access to humanitarian and health care services.
Marina Salman: Disability Activist
Marina serves as one of the leading disability activists in the Palestinian Liberation Movement in the US. She has been involved in numerous advocacy efforts and engagements with US representatives in uplifting the voices and experiences of current and newly disabled Palestinians under the current genocide and occupation. Marina also serves as a full-time social service provider for one of the largest centers for independent living and as a member of Disability Justice for Palestine global collective. She is based in Chicago and has been mobilizing efforts in challenging and empowering The American disability community in speaking up about Palestine.
Fadel Korraz: from Gaza, he is an activist who is interested in the rights of Palestinians with hearing difficulties and deaf people, he is also a sign language interpreter.
Anji Aabed: she is an activist on the rights of Palestinians who are deaf and have hearing difficulties, from the West Bank.
Asmahan Asfour, she is also an activist in the same field, and also a sign language interpreter.
Our Call to Action
We call on the United Nations, world governments, humanitarian institutions, and all people of conscience to:
• Enforce a permanent ceasefire,
• Guarantee immediate, unrestricted humanitarian access
• Investigate and prosecute the use of starvation as a weapon
• Invoke the Uniting for Peace resolution to bypass Security Council paralysis and end the genocide now.
Let the Children Eat! Watch the May 8 Press Conference.
DAG hosted a live public press conference via Zoom call on Thursday, May 8, at 12 p.m. EDT to speak about the dire and rapidly deteriorating situation children and other innocent civilians are facing in the ongoing genocide.
Watch Here
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