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Alert 22nd Jan 2015 - Join us, ask Hewlett Packard VP of Education - What of the Palestinian children you're helping kill? #StopArmingIsraelinminds  DATE: Thursday 22nd Jan 2015, 11:30am - 2:00pm
Please join us on Thursday as we ask HP's VP what of the children in Palestine that HP is helping kill. HP provides and manages the IT infrastructure of the entire Israeli military which killed over 500 children last summer and has been found guilty of war crimes and possible crimes against humanity by the United Nations Human Rights Council. One Palestinian child is murdered by Israel every 60 hours for the past 14 years. Between the start of BETT on Tuesday to when HP's VP stops talking at the podium on Thursday one more Palestinian child will have been killed. Hewlett Packard, one of the top 20 armament companies in the US, with its $6 billion investment in Israel, provides and manages the IT backbone of Israel's entire killing machine - from the army, to the navy, to the Ministry of Defense - that makes such slaughter possible. Last year Israel abducted 1266 Palestinian children - that's one child taken from their parents every 7 hours! 40% of the 600 that were taken from Jerusalem alone were sexually abused by Israeli soldiers during arrest or interrogation. During interrogation 75% of Palestinian children detained by Israel are physically tortured. Hewlett Packard keeps those torture dens and dungeons where Palestinian children are caged and abused, operational by the IT infrastructure it provides to the Israeli Prison Service. Join us ask HP's VP if he is proud of the torture and sexual abuse of children that his company facilitates? The ExCel is served by the Custom House DLR station, we will meet at 11:30 on the footbridge from Custom House station approaching the entrance of ExCel at 11:30am sharp.
BACKGROUND - HEWLETT-PACKARDHP is more than an office supplies and printers company, they are one of the top 20 defense contractors in the US with arms* sales worth $3 billion in 2011. They specialize in developing the IT infrastructure that is essential for the military to function. Whilst Hewlett-Packard(HP) operates in 178 countries around the world in HP's own words "Israel is one of the few countries where HP has a massive presence.. In the past decade, HP has invested over $6 billion in the acquisition of Israeli companies, including the establishment of production plants.. HP is the second largest investor in Israeli IT." HP provides IT backbone to Israeli MilitaryIn 2011 HP won Israel's largest ever servers tender, worth an estimated $140 million. Under the tender HP implements and manages the entire server farm of the Ministry of Defense and the Israeli army for 5 years (contract ends in 2016). Those HP servers form the IT backbone of the entire Israeli war machine making HP complicit in Israel's war crimes. HP has been equipping the Israeli military since 2006 when it was first contracted to provided the IT infrastructure for the Israeli navy, a œvirtualization project which was used by the Israeli military as a pilot for implementing the same system to the entire army. HP is thereby assisting the illegal naval blockade of Gaza which also began in 2006. In 2009 HP won the contract to supply all computer equipment to the Israeli military. In another contract HP supply configuration management database system for the Israeli Army's secret IT unit. Currently HP is implementing and assimilating an enterprise resource planning and management system for the Israeli Army (2011-2015). HP helping Israels dungeons and torture dens to operateHewlett Packard is also providing essential IT services and infrastructural that enable the Israeli Prison Service (IPS)** to function. Last year Israel abducted 1266 Palestinian children as young - that's one child as 12 years old taken from their parents every 7 hours! 40% of the 600 that were taken from Jerusalem alone were sexually abused by Israeli soldiers during arrest or interrogation. During interrogation 75% of Palestinian children detained by Israel are physically tortured***. Human rights groups have documented the brutal torture of children as standard practice during interrogations in order to coerce confessions, usually to stone throwing which carries a sentence of up to 20 years imprisonment. Today there are over 6000 Palestinian political prisoners, including women and children, imprisoned by the Israeli Prison Service - many locked up without even a charge let alone a trial. 72 Palestinian prisoners have been tortured to death in Israeli prisons since 1967. The latest being father of five young children, Raed Abdul-Salam al-Jabari, who was died following interrogation at Eshel prison on 9th Sep 2014. he had been arrested over a simple car accident involving an illegal Israeli settler. The IPS claimed he had comitted suicide by hanging himself in his cell but the autopsy revealed he had been savagely tortured with repeated blows to the head and face causing brain hemorrhage. His neck showed no signs of hanging. In an ongoing contract (until 2016), worth millions of dollars, HP provides the Israeli prison service the systems and servers needed to keep it operational. In 2012 HP provided the central servers for the operational system of the IPS ("Tzohar") and its ongoing maintenance. In a contract worth $35 million, HP developed the Kidma information system for the IPS which includes the prisoners management system and intelligence subs systems, helping the occupation keep illegal records on Palestinians it has abducted and their families. HP has also executed a project for e-mail storage and archive for the IPS. HP helping the occupation implement apartheidHP has developed and maintained the Basel System - a biometric access control system with hand and facial recognition, which is used by Israel at illegal checkpoints deep inside occupied territory to restrict and control Palestinian freedom of movement in their own land. It forms part of the separation wall apparatus declared illegal by the International Court of Justice in 2004. HP also provided services to the illegal settlements, in particular Modi'in Illit and Ariel. This includes a data storage system for the municipality of Ariel as part of the "Smart City" project. *Arms sales defined as goods & services designed specifically for military purpose and doesn't include general purpose equipment like office computers. Figure may be underestimate as it doesn't include classified contracts. Src: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute **We would especially like to thank WhoProfits.org for the research they have conducted on HP, in particular their freedom of information requests that have revealed the extent on HP's complicity with the Israeli Prison Service. ***Source - Euro-Mid Observers For Human Rights, Jan 2010 - Jun 2014
PHOTOS - VIDEO FROM LAST PROTEST AGAINST HEWLETT PACKARD #StopArmingIsrael (16th Jan 2014)    VIDEO'SHP Complicity in Israeli War Crimes HP Complicity in Torture of children Protest outside HP London HQ
LIVE UPDATES DURING PROTESTWe will, inshAllah, be tweeting live from the protest with live photos being uploaded to our twitter and facebook page. The hash tags will be #Bett2015 #StopArmingIsrael and #BoycottHP @HP So if you can't join us on the day, please help us by sharing the photos as they get uploaded. https://www.facebook.com/inmindscom https://twitter.com/InmindsCom
JazakAllah, Abbas Ali Palestinian Prisoners Campaign fb.com/inmindscom The Palestinian Prisoners Campaign aims to raise awareness for the plight of Palestinian prisoners and build solidarity for their struggle and work towards their freedom. The campaign was launched by Innovative Minds (inminds.com) and the Islamic Human Rights Commission (ihrc.org) on the occasion of Al Quds Day 2012 (on 17th August 2012), since then we have held actions every fortnight in support of Palestinian prisoners, if you can spare two hours twice a month then please join the campaign by coming to the next action.
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