January, 2009

Filipinos in New York City joined thousands on January 3 in a long march from Times Square to the Israeli Consulate on Second Avenue in opposition to the continuing military offensives of the Israeli government on the city of Gaza, already claiming over 400 lives and wounding thousands more Palestinians, including women and children.

The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Hugo Chávez urged Israel “to stop the invasion of the Gaza Strip and the murder of thousands of innocent people.”

The Bolivarian leader denounced the government of Israel and described it as murderous and genocidal. “It is sad that Israel continues acting as the killing arm of the yankee empire.”