WATCH: Workers unions protest docking of Israeli ship
The protest, initiated by SATAWU, has the support of 18 organisations who are calling on Transnet to restrict Israeli buy offs from entering the ports.
Several organisations and hundreds of supporters gathered at the Durban Harbour this morning to protest the docking of an Israeli ship, The Zim Shanghai, and to boycott the offloading of the ship which docked on Wednesday night.
A press release issued on Thursday by the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) read, “The decision by SATAWU and the BDS Coalition follows a call by the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) on workers and trade unions to refuse to unload [Israeli] ships and goods from sea and airports. The PGFTU call is one of many actions of boycotts, divestment and sanctions called for by Palestinians as a result of the current Israeli onslaught on Gaza, in which more than 230 people have been killed, most of them civilians, and including about 70 children, as well as the wholesale destruction by Israel of infrastructure in Gaza, and 14-year hermetic siege of the territory.”
The protest, initiated by SATAWU, has the support of 18 organisations in total who are calling on Transnet to restrict Israeli buy offs from entering the ports.
According to media reports, an Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire came into effect in the early hours of this morning, bringing an end to 11 days of fighting.
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