PEOPLE WHO HAVE JOINED A FAST AGAINST STARVATION

Abass Moruf - Nigeria

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Cara Platts - Melbourne

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Ariel Dunn - Narre Warren South, Australia

"A small contribution of solidarity for the abhorrent suffering of Gaza."

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Don Pajic - Margaret River, Australia - Art of Fittest

"Help where you can, with belief and positive affirmations. May your guardian angels help you and guide you."

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Lily Brady - Gladstone, Australia

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Shabnam Riaz - Perth, Australia

"Fasting in Ramadan and other times of the year is a regular practice of many Muslims. May Allah accept our voluntary fasts in solidarity with the people of Gaza."

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Dr Jasmine Davis - Bargara, Australia

"I will fast in solidarity with the people of Gaza. For me this is a choice, for them it is not. While I can break my fast, children, women, men, the elderly are being denied their human rights of access to food, access to aid, and freedom from violence. When we act together, even the smallest gestures become powerful."

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Jennifer Wiltshire - Australia

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Ray Higgs - Ferntree Gully, Australia - Ferntree Gully Uniting Church

"Starving and dying of thirst are the first two of the six tribulations that Jesus listed in his 'Identify with humanity in need' parable (Matthew 25: 42)."

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Hiro Katano - Sapporo, Japan - Japan Mennonite Fukuzumi Center

"I would like to dedicate my regular practice of fasting in prayers for Gaza. I hope my prayers be a sign of solidarity with the starving people of the world."

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Francesco Lenci - Pisa, Italy - International Peace Research Institute, Meiji Gakuin University

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Takao Takahara - Yokohama, Japan - International Peace Research Institute, Meiji Gakuin University

"Let me refrain from enjoying coffee until the situation ameliorates. It's been my long-held habit to have three cups a day. Looking at the coffee mill on the kitchen table will remind me of the plight of Gaza."

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Hussain Al-Shahristani - Baghdad, Iraq - Pugwash President

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Katariina Simonen - Helsinki, Finland - Pugwash

"Starvation as a method of warfare goes against everything that is human. It has to stop and the responsibles have to face legal and moral responsibility for their actions. #NetanyahutotheHague"

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Janet Pelly - Brunswick, Australia

“This small gesture of solidarity represents a drop in the ocean of suffering of Gazan men, women and children. Every life matters in this genocide.”

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Suresh Sundram - Melbourne, Australia - Monash University

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Will Abdo - Melbourne, Australia - Australia Arabic Council

"Famine and hunger are a terrible and unacceptable human tragedy in Gaza and indeed anywhere around our modern world!! Our hearts goes out to the people of Gaza and especially the women and children.."

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Jennifer Philip - Melbourne, Australia

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Rose Galle - Aspendale, Australia

"I feel really sorry for the people that are suffering"

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Michael Garbutt - Sydney, Australia - Jewish Council of Australia

"In solidarity with the Palestinian people, I fast every day from sunrise to sunset. How can we eat when the children of Gaza are being starved by Israel? As a Jewish person I feel compelled to do this. I have an Instagram where I upload a photo of an empty plate every day of my fast. I invite other Jews to join me: "Show your face, show your empty plate" https://instagram.com/jewishfastforjustice #EmptyPlatesForGaza #TikkunOlam #JewsForJustice"

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Nina Lopez - Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa

"In solidarity with the people in Gaza, who are being deliberately starved by the genocidal 'Israeli’ state - while the world stands by. For the sake of humanity, stop the genocide and free Palestine!"

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Ana Tomicic - Zagreb, Croatia - ARETE Institute for Sustainable Prosperity

“The suffering of Gaza cannot be ignored. By fasting I align myself, however humbly, with those who are forced into hunger without choice, in Gaza, and in all parts of the world where people are made to endure deprivation and injustice.”

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Amy Tighe - London, United Kingdom

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Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta - Jönköping, Sweden - Jönköping University

“In solidarity”

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Fikret Gultekin - London, United Kingdom

“This campaign you launched is very valuable. May Allah bless those who made it possible. I wish you success. I hope other Palestinian support organizations in the UK will be included in this campaign to make it even more effective.”

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Jenny K - New Zealand

“I am utterly appalled that the Israeli authorities have engaged in the inhumane collective punishment of the entire civilian population of Gaza by demolishing the entire area: bombing entire apartment blocks, houses, schools, ambulances, hospitals, United Nations centres, and entire refugee camps, sometimes multiple times. Also the targeted killings of journalists, doctors, aid workers, plus shooting unnecessarily and killing or maiming children and adults queuing for food aid because they have been deliberately starved via the blockade of food for almost two years now. Fresh water, medical care and supplies, electricity, etc have also been blocked for almost two years. This is in addition to the ongoing restrictions on food and other supplies to Gaza for over 18 years now since 2007. Most of the world's leaders have done little other than occasional pathetic platitudes ‘calling’ on Israel to end this humanitarian catastrophe. Since when has Israel ever taken the slightest bit of notice of such platitudes? Or even international humanitarian law or United Nations resolutions for that matter? The whole world must take very urgent action, now. I commit to eat only one meal per day until this horrific situation ends. The money I save on food will be donated to organisations working to break the blockades and provide essential food, aid, and supplies to Gaza.”

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Maurice Gomes - Melbourne, Australia

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Marieta Gomes - Melbourne, Australia

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Melissa Parke - Perth, Australia

“Fasting in solidarity with Gaza. When will the world act to end this horror?”

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Bertram Jenkins - Armidale, Australia

“One meal every two days … I am joining the fasting as a small response to the devastating starvation of children and women and non combatants in Gaza by the Israeli government”

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Ahmad Fakhrul - Terengganu, Malaysia

"Eating only once a day is not just about sacrifice it is about solidarity. By limiting ourselves, we are reminded of the constant hunger and struggle faced by our brothers and sisters in Palestine."

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Kerry Dawborn - Hobart, Tasmania

"I can't begin to imagine the suffering from hunger being experienced by Palestinians. There really are no words. This is just one small thing I can do in solidarity."

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Wilma Davidson - Canberra, Australia - Quakers Australia

"I have been fasting Tuesdays for some weeks and posting this on the what's app, Quakers action for Palestine."

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Joanne Carroll - Canberra, Australia

“Solidarity with the people of Gaza. All Israelis should be demanding Netanyahu's resignation for committing genocide in their name”

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Prof. David Kaye - Australian Trauma Research Institute

“I undertook a fast in solidarity with the starving people of Gaza to highlight their desperate need for a state of their own.”

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Abdul Mujib - Temerloh Pahang, Malaysia - Matrikulasi

“I hope Malaysians continue to pray for our brothers and sisters in Palestine.”

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Mohamad Shukri - Kuantan, Malaysia

“Justice for Gaza”

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Habibti Rasid - Pahang, Malaysia

“Free Palestine!! It's time to end their pain, suffering and hunger!!”

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Ahmad Danish - Malaysia - KMPh Malaysia

“… As human beings, we cannot close our eyes to injustice, no matter where it happens. The struggle of the Palestinians is a reminder that oppression anywhere should concern us everywhere. It teaches us the values of solidarity, empathy, and courage that even in times of great hardship, the human spirit still hopes and resists.”

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Hars Hakim - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

“Free Palestine, may Allah grant them peace and freedom.”

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Izzul Danish - Malaysia

“Experience a bit of their experience”

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Farah Hamimah - Terengganu, Malaysia

“Seeing all those people expecially kids made me realise that I have to always be grateful with what I had now.”

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Mike Ferner - Toledo, United States - Veterans For Peace

"Multi-day, The 40-day 'Veterans & Allies Fast for Gaza,' centered at the UN in New York City gained participation from over 800 people in the USA and beyond (Australia, Hong Kong, South Africa, Germany, Canada, and Italy). We never dreamed it would take off so well. We were overwhelmed by the comments people had, glad something like that was being offered."

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Hadia Mukhtar - Sydney, Australia

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Tarik Sammour - Adelaide, Australia - Royal Adelaide Hospital

"One meal, Never again, is happening again ... today. Speaking up is an obligation."

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Ian Yates - Melbourne, Australia

"This has nothing to do politics: it is just wrong that any civilised person allows starvation to occur."

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Ruth Komesaroff - Balnarring, Australia

"One day"

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Ghassan Shah - Damascus, Syria

"Solidarity and sympathy"

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Kavitha McGinty

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Anne Elvey - Seaford, Australia

"In solidarity with people in Gaza under siege deprived of food."

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Wendy Charles - Footscray, Australia
"The genocide of the people in Gaza must be stopped. Start real life saving aid now."

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Dipesh Chakrabarty - Chicago, United States

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Kate Judith - Sydney, Australia
"I chose to fast in solidarity with the people of Gaza who cannot avoid their hunger."

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Maximilian Sundram - Fitzroy, Australia

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Rob Moodie - Hawthorn, Australia - University of Melbourne
"I will fast for 36 hours once every week until there is an end to the war"

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Christopher Lamb - Melbourne, Australia
"Fasting on important occasions is one way of addressing the horror faced by the innocent people of Gaza."

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Matthew Grant - Utrecht, The Netherlands
"I feel an overwhelming sense of powerlessness in the face of this conflict. I realise that fasting may have little consequence, but is at least a course of action in which to direct these emotions."

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Michael Chapman - Canberra, Australia

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Ezrena M - Malaysia

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Ida Ghazali - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
"Peace be upon you"

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Hilda D'Souza - Goa, India
"To show solidarity with those suffering injustice."

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Sharifa Noor - Malaysia - AlKauthar
"Fasting resonates with what the people of Gaza is enduring. An immense suffering of being deprived of food and water. This is the least that I can do to show my solidarity."

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Meena Thangam - Chennai, India
"Deeply pained to see the starvation and innocent people dying. Please stop the war and reach out to the needy. God is on the side of the poor … We are praying for the people of Gaza."

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Hema Letchamanan - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
"Standing in solidarity with the people of Gaza, fasting as a small act of witness against starvation and injustice."
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Mary Zournazi - Marrickville, Australia

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Russell Smith

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Alip Moose - Malaysia
"Stop the holocaust and genocide. Free Palestine, intifada!"

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Masjaliza Hamzah - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - SIS Forum
"Gaza has changed my worldview. I hope Palestinians know that we witness their suffering and carry their faith and hope in our hearts … From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!"

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Zainah Anwar - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - SIS Forum
"Palestine will be free."

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Lyana Khairuddin - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - SIS Forum
"By luck and privilege I am able to choose to fast while thousands are systemically starved in Gaza. Human rights for all - nutritious food, clean water, and medications to Gaza … Now."
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Sanne de Swart - Melbourne, Australia
"So much sadness for Gaza right now. Don't lose hope. A new world is on its way, we can hear her screaming!"
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Marina Mahathir - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - SIS Forum
"No food from dawn to dusk for two days a week."

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CharnWeng Boey - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Choongyew Wong - Seremban, Malaysia
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Sri Nuryanti Noyanti - Jakarta, Indonesia
"Fasting is a time for spreading blessing, empathy, and solidarity too. Time for our body to rejuvenate as well."

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LeeJoon Tai - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Munirah Alatas - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Allianz Centre for Governance, Universiti Malaya

“I pledge to fast two days every week, from sunrise to sunset”

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Ilona Komesaroff - Toorak, Australia

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Michelle Berkon - Sydney, Australia - Jews Against the Occupation ‘48

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Jacqueline Moldovan - Turramurra, Australia - Coalition of Women for Justice and Peace.

“May we recover our humanity morality and heal the soul of our world. Free Palestine. Free us all.”

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Sue Wareham - Canberra, Australia - Medical Association for the Prevention of War.

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Sarah Raymundo - Philippines - Bayan

“If this world doesn't bring us peace, justice and abundance, neither will the afterlife. Change the world. Free Palestine from the river to the sea!”

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Anonymous - Mexico City, Mexico

“It is time for the conflict to end.”

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H Wong - Beijing, China - Chinese People Against Starvation

“No child should ever go hungry"

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Sally Gardner - Melbourne, Australia

“I fasted as a protest against the atrocities being committed in Gaza.”

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Paul Komesaroff - Melbourne, Australia - Global Reconciliation

“I undertook a one-day fast in solidarity with the suffering of the people of Gaza and in the hope that international action can achieve an end to the conflict.”

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Paul James - Melbourne, Australia - Global Reconciliation

“The horror in Gaza is unbearable. Fasting is my small way of expressing embodied solidarity with people on the other side of the world.’

This roll is a living record of people who have chosen to fast in solidarity with the people of Gaza. We protest against starvation, violence, and cruelty toward civilians.

We have added our names as a shared act of ethical witness. We act alongside others with diverse beliefs, backgrounds and political views, united by the conviction that every human being deserves respect, safety, and the protection of life.

We emphasise that the fasting we have undertaken is not the end of action, but part of an ongoing struggle. Individually, we express the need for change through our bodies. Together, we join a chorus of protest.