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This declaration, put forward by the Palestinian Institute for Climate Strategy, ties together crises of border violence and refugee deaths at sea, extractivism and fossil fuel dependence, militarism, Big Tech and corporate power, the genocide in Palestine, and environmental destruction in the Mediterranean – and argues urgently for a transformative social, environmental and political alternative.<\/div>\n
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On Monday, 9th June Israeli forces boarded the Freedom Flotilla Coalition sailboat Madleen in international waters and kidnapped her crew to prevent the passage of aid to the besieged Palestinian people.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Despite at least\u00a062,000 deaths<\/span>\u00a0and countless more people killed, injured, bereaved and displaced over the last two years in Gaza, it fell to one small boat to attempt to break Israel\u2019s blockade.<\/p>\n

The international community has allowed a\u00a0genocide<\/strong>\u00a0to unfold in plain sight. And the poison of impunity is spreading. A month ago the aid ship Conscience was bombed off the Maltese shoreline, over a thousand miles from Gaza.<\/p>\n

Subsequent Maltese\u00a0obstruction<\/span>\u00a0of the Conscience\u2019s requests for aid mirrored Europe\u2019s routine frustration of attempts to rescue people in distress at sea.\u00a0Tens of thousands<\/span>\u00a0– Palestinians fleeing occupation among them – have drowned in the central Mediterranean on the world\u2019s deadliest migration route.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Here too, civilian ships and people seeking safety face obstruction and criminalisation as they keep humanitarian action alive; whilst European states sponsor crimes against humanity.<\/div>\n
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En route to Gaza, the\u00a0Madleen<\/strong>\u00a0crew rescued four Sudanese refugees, fleeing genocidal forces backed by the West\u2019s Gulf allies. They were unable to prevent the others on board being returned to Libya by an\u00a0EU-backed militia<\/strong>, where people seeking safety routinely face\u00a0slavery, incarceration, and death<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile the same Israeli Heron drones that surveil and target Palestinians in Gaza also police the Mediterranean for EU\u2019s border agency Frontex. Across the Mediterranean, European states\u00a0funnel<\/strong>\u00a0money, weapons and political support to authoritarians and militias whilst claiming to uphold human rights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In return, Europe demands its neighbours act as border guards, buyers of its weapons and tech, and a steady supplier of fossil fuels and resources.<\/div>\n
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The outcome is a sea where humanitarian ships and refugees are blocked whilst deadly arms and ecosystem-destroying fossil fuels move freely. And the sea itself is suffering. Amid successive years of\u00a0record heat<\/span>, the Mediterranean that is now warming a\u00a0fifth faster<\/span>\u00a0than the world\u2019s other oceans and much of the plant and animal life on its shores is\u00a0dying out<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The climate campaigners on the Madleen sailed to a Gaza where ecocide has compounded genocide, through a Mediterranean where more storms, fires and floods than ever before drive people from their homes and destroy their livelihoods. Those who protest the confluence of state violence and environmental destruction are targeted.<\/p>\n

From\u00a0Italy<\/span>\u00a0to\u00a0Egypt<\/span>, harsh civil liberties restrictions have recently targeted climate activists, human rights activists and migrants first. Governments that claim to be protecting their people from the crises we are living through are in fact exacerbating them. This is as true in Europe as it is in Trump\u2019s America, despite the growing schism between them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Palestine provides a glimpse of where this could end for us all.<\/div>\n
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Israel\u2019s new so-called \u201caid\u201d distribution system in Gaza: a labyrinth of surveillance drones and biometric gates operated amid a lethal blockade by troops and private security companies, is a terrifying model of modern repression. And the technologies it uses are both imported and exported globally. Against this system, we must build a different future while we can.<\/p>\n

In place of war and genocide, we demand a free Palestine.
\nIn place of racialised and deadly borders and blockades we demand free movement.
\nIn place of destructive and polluting rearmament programmes and aid budgets being torn apart, we demand wages and housing and humanity.
\nIn place of tech billionaires\u2019 dreams of mass surveillance and control, we demand that humanity\u2019s technological capabilities are harnessed towards increasing, not restricting our freedom.
\nIn place of climate and environmental destruction and extraction we demand a just transition, the restoration of our natural world, and cheap clean energy for all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In place of a Mediterranean Sea torn apart by state, corporate, and neocolonial violence, we demand a shared home in which we all can thrive.
\nIn place of death and despair, we demand life and hope.<\/div>\n
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