ADC
and Community Members Gather to Honor Victims Murdered in Gaza
Washington, DC | www.adc.org | July 31st, 2014 - The
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) sponsored a candlelight
vigil at the White House last night among nearly 500 community members to
honor and mourn the innocent lives taken by Israel's indiscriminate
attacks on Gaza.
ADC was joined in the
vigil by Arab American Institute (AAI), Council on American-Islamic
Relations (CAIR), American Federation of Ramallah Palestine, Bethlehem
Association, Coalition of Palestinian American Organizations, and Network
of Arab-American Professionals-DC (NAAP-DC). Several other social justice
groups such as Code Pink and the Answer Coalition also participated in
the vigil. The night was tweeted using the hashtag #LetChildrenLive.
As participants
gathered holding candles, ADC staff, members, colleagues and volunteers
read the list of names of the people who were killed in Gaza since
Israel's current massacre began on July 8th, 2014. Due to the large
number of victims, many of the candles burned out before participants
were able to finish reading all of the names.
As of this morning, over 1,300
Palestinians have been killed, with thousands more wounded or unjustly
arrested by Israeli Occupation Forces. In a report, the United Nations
estimates that 80% of those killed were civilians, women and children.
It is a sad day when Americans
must gather to mourn the relentless massacre of innocent people, when
those unnecessary and senseless deaths could have been prevented.
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