NOVANEWS
How do you say ‘I love you’ to someone you’ve never met? How do you tell them to keep hoping when the odds seem stacked against them?
*Love Letter to Gaza* is an unique theatrical event using verbatim personal messages of love, support and hope from people of all ages and all walks of life to the people of Gaza.
There’s a letter from a school-girl to the children of Gaza, another from a committed activist, poems from people who’ve never written poetry before and a sky full of peace cranes andkites. And that’s only the beginning.
In July this year thousands of letters written by Ame- ricans were en route to the people of Gaza on the Ame- rican ship ‘Audacity of Hope’.
The ship was prevented from leaving a Greek harbour to join the Freedom Flotilla II. With luck the letters from the UK will reach their destination. They will travel to Gaza with the next Viva Palestina aid convoy, alongside many hundreds of teddies knitted by volunteers throughout Britain.
On September 23 Palestine applied for full UN membership. *Love Letter to Gaza* is a timely reminder that nothing has changed for the people of Gaza – their land is still under siege, their lives are in daily peril and and they have none of the 30 rights listed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
