A group of Sheffield residents from different backgrounds – Palestinian, British, secular as well as observant, Jewish, Muslim and Christian – and will be setting up a #ceasefirenow camp at the top of Turner Hill in Meersbrook Park from 6pm on New Year’s Eve to half past midnight.
It is to remind everyone, on this new year, that, while we are wishing each other a happy, peaceful and healthy twelve months ahead, the people of Gaza are undergoing a genocide at the hands of the Israeli State; it is criminal to remain silent in the face of this.
Please pay a visit, bring candles of hope, a spirit of peace and a deep passion for justice for Palestinian people. There will be short (10-15 minute) mini-events on each hour between 6 and midnight.
We will start off with a quiet meditation and reflection and we will end with the power and passion of dabke dancing to launch our resistance to the genocide in the new year.
In between we will have Palestinian poems and singing. A full timetable will be available on our facebook and here on new years eve.
Please come and join in all or any of these events.
We are demanding:
- an immediate ceasefire and an end to Israeli occupation
- immediate permission for necessary aid at scale to avoid the starvation of people in Gaza
- that Sheffield City Council declare Sheffield an Israeli Apartheid Free Zone until such time as the occupation of Palestine has ceased. Sign Israeli Apartheid Free Zone pledge here
Sheffield Ceasefire Now Camp