CHAPEL HILL, N.C. –UNC students and other community members will deliver a petition to Rep. David Price Friday afternoon, expressing outrage at his support for HR 34, a resolution condoning Israel’s attacks on Gaza and giving Israel a blank check to continue the massacre. 

Members of UNC-SDS collected hundreds more signatures on campus this week from students appalled at Price’s support for the IDF’s brutal invasion of Gaza, and Israel’s continuing occupation and blockade of Gaza.  Along with community members, including Southern Anti-Racism Network (SARN) member Theresa El-Amin, UNC students will deliver the newly gathered signatures to Price’s Chapel Hill office at 88 Vilcom Circle at 4 p.m. Friday.

Despite last weekend’s cease fire, students at UNC remain horrified by the situation in Gaza, where more than 1,300 Palestinians have been killed and 22,000 wounded in the past three weeks.  International aid organizations have made clear that thousands more will die without access to medications and food. 

UNC students and community members will call on Price to speak out for an end to Israel’s occupation of Gaza, and for an opening of Gaza’s borders.  These are essential first steps to ameliorate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and to move towards the realization of the Palestinians’ right to self-determination.

For more information about UNC SDS, visit http://chapelhillsds.org/node/12.