Letter: Horacio Verbitsky and Indio Solari call for end to Gaza bombings

Faced with the escalation of violence between Israel and Hamas, more than a hundred personalities and leaders of the political and social arena signed a letter with the title: “Once again Gaza, another policy of systematic massacre”.

In the text, which was signed by personalities such as the journalist Horacio Verbitsky, the musician Carlos “Indian ”Solari and the official legislator Ophelia Fernandez, demanded “the immediate end of the bombardments” and accused the government of Israel of “untold crimes”.

“We demand an immediate end to the bombing of Gaza and respect for public international law, to restore the essential peace agreement between the Palestinians and the Israelis; at the same time as we hold the Netanyahu government accountable for the imprescriptible crimes against the Palestinian people, ”the letter said.

Verbitsky and Solari were also joined by the writer Rita segato, the actress Luisa Kuliok, writer Mempo Giardinelli and actor Osvaldo Santoro among the signatories. Among the more than a hundred names who accompanied the initiative, academic figures, artists, journalists, scientists, bloggers, lawyers, politicians and artists stood out.

“The right-wing ruling Israel lets us know, once again, what is on offer in Gaza,” he started the letter and continued, “CNN is photographically recording postcards of the ongoing massacre. Hamas had demanded hours before that the Israeli police withdraw from the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, “where hundreds of Palestinians were injured.”

The letter went on to highlight reports from the US News Channel which for weeks reported how “Israeli ultra-nationalists provoked Muslim believers with the active complicity of the local police.”

“It is an escalation which has just started,” said the signatories, who stressed: “Over the days, the deaths, of both peoples, do not cease. They tend to increase while respecting the same military asymmetry. Rockets against air attacks ”.

“Until when? For what?”we asked them in the letter. “The people who signed below, Jews and non-Jews, demand an immediate end to the bombing of Gaza and respect for public international law, to restore the essence of the peace agreement between the Palestinians and the Israelis ; at the same time as we hold the Netanyahu government responsible for indiscriminate crimes against the Palestinian people, ”they concluded.

Indio Solari (musician); Eduardo Grüner (UBA); Elsa Drucaroff (UBA); Alejandro Horowicz (UBA); Diego Sztulwark (Loose Wolf Blog); Horacio Verbitsky (journalist); Marcelo Langieri (UBA); Silvia Duschatzky; Roberto Pittaluga; Rita Segato (UnB and UNSAM); Jorge Pinedo (UBA); Abel Gilbert; Javier Trímboli (FaHCE-UNLP); Pablo Sztulwark (UBA); Ana Amorosino (visual artist); Moro Anghileri (actress); Ofelia Fernandez (Legislator FdT CABA); Mariana Gainza (UBA); Eduardo Weisz (UBA); Diego Tatián (Conicet); Martín Cortés (UBA); Natalia Romé (UBA); Federico Geller (artist); Elina Malamud (writer); Gisela Catanzaro (UBA); Diego Giller (UBA); Emir Sader (Clacso); Enzo Maqueira; Gerardo Breier (journalist); Gustavo Nielsen (writer); Roberto Guareschi (journalist); Rodolfo Yanzon (lawyer specializing in human rights); Luis Borda (musician); Cristina Civale; Rodolfo Rapetti; Hugo Presman (journalist); Alicia Naput; Cristian Sucksdorf (UBA); Aldo Amura; Telma Luzzani (journalist); Pablo Tavilla (UBA – UNDM); Francisco Bessone (journalist); Nilda Redondo (UNdLP); Beto Salinas (journalist), Ernesto Calvo (University of Maryland); Juan Pablo Csipka (journalist); Idelber Avelar (literary critic); Yuyo Ceballos (union leader); Mariana Abuin; Alejandro Lamadrid; Daniel Sorin (writer); Susana Schnell; Marta Amorosino; Luis Sagasti (writer); Rubén Efrom (psychoanalyst); Andrés Neuman (writer); Marcelo Figueras (writer); Alicia Plante (writer); Raquel Àngel (UBA); Alberto Guilis (UBA); León Lewkowicz (Loose Wolf Blog); Facundo Abramovich (Loose Wolf Blog); Guillermo Saccomanno (writer); Ariel Pennisi (UNDAV – UNPAZ – Red Editorial); Rubén Rojas Breu (UBA); Fernando Alfón (UNLP); Enrique Carpintero (psychoanalyst); Guillermo Saavedra (poet); Horacio González (UBA); Dardo Scavino (UPP – France); Guillermo David (essayist); Osvaldo Coggiola (USP-Brazil); Florencia Martínez Parera (psychoanalyst); Ricardo Nacht (psychoanalyst); Eduardo Lucita (economist); Marcela Croce (UBA); Miguel Vedda (UBA); Gerardo Oviedo (UBA); Horacio Zabala (visual artist); Sean Purdy (professor of history, University of São Paulo); Waldo Ansaldi (UBA); Andrés Tzeiman (UBA); María Pía López (UBA); Miguel Mazzeo (UBA); Carlos Kuri (UNR); Guillermo Korn (writer), Diego Rojas (journalist), Leo Sarsale (architect), Mariano Mestman (UBA); Carlos Gamerro (writer); Samanta Schweblin (writer); José Gandarilla (CEIICH-UNAM, Mexico); Haydeé García Bravo (CEIICH-UNAM, Mexico); Mabel Pagano (writer); Elina Aguiar (psychoanalyst), Julián Lòpez Rousso (writer); Pedro Biscay (CEPAS); Roman Mazzilli; Diego Lazzaletta (teacher); Ernesto Larrese; Silvia Boggi; Miguel Rep (designer), Luisa Kuliok; Marta Pechman (alternative therapies); Cora Gamarnik (FSOC-UBA); Max Zolkwer (architect); Martín Krymkiewicz (psychoanalyst); Mariana Pacheco (psychoanalyst); Susana Stivelman (psychoanalyst); Marita Manzotti (psychoanalyst); Carina Battaglia; Lila Lisenberg (audiovisual artist); Cecilia Rossetto; Susana Torres Molina (playwright); Mirta Busnelli; Daniela Blanco (UBA lawyer); Maria Onetto (actress); Ana Bianco, Alejandro Brainm Dennis Weisbrot, Michelle Aslanides; Alexander Vannelli; Virginia Notenson (psychoanalyst); Conrado Yasenza (journalist – director of La Tecl @ Eñe); Liliana Navarro; Aida Quintar (UNGS sociologist); Alejo Fardjoume (ATE Delegate – National Parks); Gloria Seddon (psychoanalyst and plastic artist); Cristina Banegas; Maria Ibarreta (actress); Mempo Giardinelli; Osvaldo Santoro; Luis Ziembrowski; Mariel Herszman Geler (teacher and psychologist); David Paoli (photographer); Ana Seoane (journalist); Carlos Lopez (architect and town planner, University of Geneva); Raúl Vidal (psychoanalyst); Alejandro Sicorsky (psychoanalyst); Mabel Bellucci (Malucas molecules); Hugo Del Pin (lawyer); Adriana Bruno (journalist); Nora Elichiry (UBA); Pepa Vivanco; Flora Hillert (FFyL UBA); Gabriela Moreno; Norberto Alayón; Gladys Merola; Adela Coria (UNC educator); Luis Abad; María Cristina González; Alejandra Flechner (actress); Martín Otero (UNDAV Architect); Mariana Canavee (historian); Isabel Casas (voice professional); Marcela Menassé; Manuel Alterleib (insurance advisor); Eduardo Gurucharri; María Emilia López (teacher); Mónica Fernández Pais (UNLP); Waiter Pedro Cazes; Lucía Delor (UBA); Cristina Posleman (UNSJ); Bruno Boostels (Columbia University); Martha Rosenberg (psychoanalyst); Clara Obligado (writer); Daniel Silber (Vice-President of ICUF – Federation of Jewish Cultural Entities of Argentina); Javier Salgado (teacher and historian); Juan Matias Zielinski (FFyL UBA); Diana Szeinblum (choreographer); Fernán Medrano (Colombia. TeleSUR Blogger); Cristina Tejedor (actress); Sebastián Russo (UBA / UNPAZ); Julio Rudman (journalist); Miguel Nicodemos (journalist, Peru); Maia Gattas Vargas (IIDyPCA, CONICET); Teresa Azcarate (architect); Martín Piqué (journalist)

Since last Monday, Gaza has been the target of Israeli bombardment, and more than 3,000 rockets have been fired from the Strip into Israel, most intercepted by Israel’s defense system, the Iron Dome. The latest balance sheet of the Palestinian authorities estimates that 200 deaths have been exceeded, including 58 children. On the Israeli side, there are so far 10 dead and more than 560 injured.

Riots that took weeks but erupted in recent days, began with the start of Ramadan when the Israeli police erected fences around the Damascus Gate, which generated multiple protests, and reached its peak of tension yesterday afternoon, when Hamas launched a ultimatum, which then filled the police force at 18 ”.

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