#HandsOffPalestine Protest, Washington D.C.

“…Watching in fear as Israel begins its same campaign of mass slaughter and carpet bombing. The same campaign that killed over 260 Palestinians last year, including 66 children. Children. Not even a year has passed for us to rebuild our homes and mourn our dead. But Israel continues to lay siege to one of the most densely populated areas in the world.

Israel, who has one of the best defense systems and militaries in the world with missiles and weapons funded by our very own government. Israel a nuclear superpower. And they have the fucking audacity to call us terrorists, to call this a conflict. This is not a conflict. This is a violent system of colonization and occupation.

This is Israel’s cruel and calculated plan of ethnic cleansing. Israel bombed Gaza knowing that their own blockades continue to withhold necessary medical resources, food and water. They bomb Gaza knowing that Palestinians there cannot leave. Israel will stop at nothing in their attempts to wipe the Palestinian people off of the face of the Earth.

But we refuse to. Palestinians deserve to live in…