Call to Malta’s union GWU: Support the flotilla Conscience to Safe Harbor in Malta right away
ADDRESS:
Workers’ Memorial Building, South Street, Valletta VLT 1103
PHONE:
+356 25 679 000
EMAIL:
info@gwu.org.mt
Dear Comrades in GWU,
We are calling on you to do everything in your power to let the flotilla Conscience to have safe harbor in Malta right away. Malta is a land which has sheltered many who have nowhere to go and need protection from war, or economic peril. Malta was an example to the rest of Europe when the migrations from North Africa was underway and we call on you now to help our brothers and sisters on the flotilla who aspire to help the starving people of Gaza with humanitarian aid and have been targeted by Israeli drones and fear the worst is imminent.
Do all you can to help them have safe harbor at your hospitable shores right away. Israel is violating international law and has targeted this unarmed flotilla Conscience, which is carrying nothing but humanitarian aid and 18 aid volunteers and is in international waters near Malta.
Please contact :
Yasemin Acar – FFC Press Officer +49 151 62965117 Media@FreedomFlotilla.org
International media contacts https://freedomflotilla.org/media-contacts/
To find out more updated information and any details you need to help them.
Palestinian Unions have called on Unions worldwide to support the beleaguered people of Palestine and especially Gaza and we are echoing their call to all of us, to do what we can to help stop Israel from having access to our railways, ports, for transportation of arms and supplies and surveillance to Israel’s military and surveillance apparatus by any way we can.
Please answer our call to support humanitarian aid and human rights aid workers as soon as you can. We intend to strengthen our relationship with the other unions in the world who act on their humanity and take a principled stance for all humans on this planet.
We intend to publish this letter publicly and share it with our allies
In solidarity,
Labor for Palestine National Network, and the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
Citation of humanitarian rights in the mediterranean:
The 2017 UNHCR guidance on search and rescue operations at sea, including the non-penalisation of those taking part in these activities, and the UNHCR legal considerations on the roles and responsibilities of States in relation to rescue at sea, non-refoulement, and access to asylum
FRA (2013), Fundamental rights at Europe’s southern sea borders, 27 March 2013
- FRA (2018), Fundamental rights considerations: NGO ships involved in search and rescue in the Mediterranean and criminal investigations, 1 October 2018
- FRA (2023), Preventing and responding to deaths at sea: what the European Union can do, 6 July 2023
