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Sign now and ask the EU to:

#HealthcareNotWarfare: Stop using Israeli killer drones for your anti-migration policies.

#DefendLives: These drones militarize the Meditarranean, they can kill but can’t save lives.

#SpreadSolidarity with those that already take the brunt of injustice – from besieged and occupied Palestine to the overcrowded migrant camps.

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The Petition

To: EU Commissioner Adina Valean, EU Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevicius, EU Commissioner Yiva Johansson

Dear Sir/Madam,

Since November 2018 the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) has leased through the Portuguese company CeiiA two Hermes 900 drones, so-called ‘killer drones’ manufactured by Israel’s largest military company Elbit Systems. Under the € 59 million worth 2 year leasing contract, the drones are used mainly to implement the EU’s repressive anti-migration policies. Experts condemn the move to aerial surveillance as an abrogation of the responsibility to save lives. Worse, the Elbit’s killer drones are supporting Frontex and national authorities in Greece, where migrants and refugees have been targeted with live ammunition at sea.

Elbit Systems develops its drones together with the Israeli military and promotes its technology as field tested – on Palestinians. It provides 85% of the drones used by Israel in its repeated military assaults and continued inhumane siege on Gaza. Hermes drones have been used to kill the four children playing at the beach during Israel’s attack on Gaza in 2014.

These drones can kill but can’t save lives.

Therefore, I demand:

Who do we address?

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Who promotes the petition?

A broad alliance of civil society organizations from all across Europe, including Palestine solidarity, anti-militarization, migrant rights groups, unions and more.

Co-sponsors:

1. Agir Pour La Paix – Belgium
2. Amici della Mezzaluna Rossa Palestinese – Italy
3. ARCI – Italy
4. Association France Palestine Solidarité (AFPS) – France
5. Association pour l’Amitié et la Solidarité avec les Peuples d’Afrique (AFASPA) – France
6. Association pour les Jumelages entre les camps de réfugiés Palestiniens et les villes Françaises (AJPF) – France
7. AssopacePalestina – Italy
8. BDS Berlin – Germany
9. BDS France – France
10. BDS Italy – Italy
11. BDS Greece – Greece
12. Carovana Migranti (Torino) – Italy
13. Collectif Judéo Arabe et citoyen pour la Palestine – France
14. Comité de Solidariedade com a Palestina – Portugal
15. Confederación Intersindical Galega – Spanish State
16. Cultura è Libertà – Italy
17. European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine (ECCP)
18. Gibanje za pravice Palestincev – Slovenia
19. Gruppo Ibriq per la cultura e la causa Palestinese – Italy
20. Intersindical Alternativa de Catalunya (IAC) – Catalunya
21. LAB Trade Union – Basque Country
22. Legal Center Lesvos – Greece
23. Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l’amitié entre les peuples (MRAP) – France
24. Mouvement International de la Réconciliation (MIR) – France
25. Movimento pelos Direitos do Povo Palestino e pela Paz no Médio Oriente (MPPM) – Portugal
26. Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees (Fagforbundet) – Norway
27. NWRG-onlus – Italy
28. Ongi Etorri Errefuxiatuak – Basque Country
29. Pax Christi Diözesanverband Rottenburg-Stuttgart – Germany
30. Paz con Dignidad – OMAL – Basque Country
31. Plateforme des ONG françaises pour la Palestine – France
32. Rete Antirazzista Catanese – Italy
33. Rete Eco – Italy
34. Rete Italiana Disarmo – Italy
35. Rete Romana di Solidarietà con il Popolo Palestinese – Italy
36. Salaam Ragazzi dell’Olivo, Comitato di Trieste – Italy
37. SOS Racismo – Portugal
38. Stop Wapenhandel – Netherlands
39. Transnational Institute (TNI) – Europe
40. Transnational Migrant Platform-Europe (TMP-E) – Europe
41. Union Juive Française pour la Paix (UJFP) – France
42. Un Ponte Per … – Italy
43. Sprecherkreis des Koordinationskreises Palästina Israel – Germany
44. SodePaz – Spanish State
45. Centre Delàs d’Estudis per la Pau – Spanish State
46. Vredesactie – Belgium

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More information

ECCP/STW briefing on the killer drones: 

• https://www.stopthewall.org/sites/default/files/StopIsraeliKillerDrones_0.pdf or http://www.eccpalestine.org/stop-israeli-killer-drones-from-intensifying-the-eus-border-militarisation/

On EU militarization of borders: “Expanding the fortress – The policies, the profiteers and the people shaped by EU’s border externalisation programme”: 

• EN: https://www.tni.org/en/publication/expanding-the-fortress
• ES: https://www.tni.org/en/publication/expanding-the-fortress?content_language=es
• FR: https://www.tni.org/en/publication/expanding-the-fortress?content_language=fr
• DE: https://www.tni.org/en/publication/expanding-the-fortress?content_language=de
• NL: https://www.tni.org/en/publication/expanding-the-fortress?content_language=nl
• IT: https://www.tni.org/en/publication/expanding-the-fortress?content_language=it
• GR: https://www.tni.org/en/publication/expanding-the-fortress?content_language=el

Joint Statement For A World Without Walls From European Palestine Solidarity And Migrants Rights Groups And Networks:

• EN: https://book.stopthewall.org/joint-statement-for-a-world-without-walls-from-european-palestine-solidarity-and-migrants-rights-groups-and-networks/
• ES: https://antologia.stopthewall.org/declaracion-conjunta-eu-mundosinmuros/

Manifesto on Migration:

• EN: https://www.stopcorporateimpunity.org/open-the-borders-stop-the-war-on-migrant-and-refugee-peoples/
• ES: https://www.stopcorporateimpunity.org/abran-las-fronteras-detengan-la-guerra-contra-las-personas-inmigrantes-y-refugiadas/?lang=es
• FR: https://www.stopcorporateimpunity.org/ouvrez-les-frontieres-arretez-la-guerre-contre-les-peuples-migrants-et-refugies/?lang=fr