This Saturday, teachers from Marea Palestine in Madrid installed a nativity scene at the Círculo de Bellas Artes with characters from Picasso’s Guernica, in memory of the victims of the bomb attacks in Gaza.
Under the motto “Bethlehem is in Palestine”, a group of teachers created a nativity scene with cardboard figures taken from the painting by the Malaga painter to show the situation of the Palestinian people in the same place where they were locked up for a week in September to demand that the government strengthen sanctions against Israel.
The images of the nativity scene on display represent the desperate mother with a child in her arms, from whose mouth balloons emerge, like vignettes, on which one can read “Total breakdown of relations with Israel”, “Palestinian families”. Immediate evacuation and regrouping”, and “Respect for the arms embargo and transit”.
This action is part of the “A Billion for Palestine” campaign launched this week, in which they presented to the parliamentary groups a non-legal proposal (NLP) urging the government to transfer to the United Nations Organization for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) “the billion euros that, according to forecasts, the State will receive from the extraordinary Christmas draw” of the National Lottery on December 22.
With this initiative, they intend to “focus on the urgency of contributing financially to repairing the damage caused by the genocide perpetrated against the Palestinian people and in particular against their children”, according to the teaching movement.
After submitting the request on Wednesday, a commission of spokespersons from Marea Palestine held talks with Martina Velarde, deputy of Podemos integrated into the Joint Group, and with Agustín Santos, deputy of the Sumar Parliamentary Group.
In their proposal, they emphasize that “the genocide perpetrated against the Palestinian people by the State of Israel”, in addition to the irreparable loss of human lives, has caused considerable structural damage “which prevents the enjoyment of the right to education of Palestinian children and to full and adequate care of their needs”.
These professors consider that “the international community, aware of the genocide perpetrated and its consequences, is obliged to contribute materially to repairing the damage caused”, and that Spain “has sufficient means to contribute to respecting this obligation”.
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