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Dr David Halpin - Eyes Open Gaza
Thursday 12th May 2011 @ 7pm
Dr David Halpin MB BS FRCS, will be presenting “Eyes Open Gaza”
- Tickets £3.00 on the door
For more information, contact myself or Margaret on 01202 762532.
Held downstairs in the Durley Dean Hotel, 28 West Cliff Road, Bournemouth, BH2 5HE
David Halpin is one of those rare people willing to make a personal sacrifice for what he believes in. But as a retired orthopaedic surgeon, he makes an unlikely saviour for the one million Palestinians living in Gaza.
62-year-old Halpin went to sea on a 3,000-mile trip to deliver supplies of food and medical equipment. What motivates a former doctor to charter a Brixham trawler to make such a gruelling, 28-day journey to the Middle East?
Halpin, who was a consultant at Torbay hospital and the Princess Elizabeth orthopaedic hospital in Exeter, says he has never been able to stand by in the face of suffering. Over the years, he has "fought like a tiger" for his patients, who have faced hospital closures, and he was a vociferous opponent of the NHS internal market.
We will not go down (Song for Gaza) by Michael Hart
Silence is Complicity: The methodical shooting of boys at work in Gaza by snipers of the Israeli Occupation Force
The deliberate injury of the limbs of 23 boys by high velocity weapons has been logged and described by Defence for Children International – Palestine Branch (DCI-P) since March 2010. (1) Some of the facts have been published in national newspapers. These barbarous acts contravene international and national law but there are no judicial responses. The caring professions see the physical and mental pain of those who suffer and they should be in the vanguard in calling for this great cruelty to cease forthwith. Political leaders have failed to act.
The Geneva Conventions Act 1957, which is of central importance in holding war criminals to account in the jurisdiction of the UK, is being emasculated.
Read more here:- http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22879