Israel: Falun Gong Practitioners Protest to Mark Seven Years of Persecution by the CCP

On July 20th, 2006, Israeli Falun Gong practitioners held an anti-torture exhibition and photo exhibition on Rabin Square in Tel Aviv to protest the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong. Practitioners collected several hundred signatures against the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong. Some young Israelis also participated in the activity organised by Falun Gong practitioners.

Protesting against the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong on Rabin Square	Simulating the CCP’s organ harvesting

The tourists also participate in the activities of protest against the CCP	Signing to protest the CCP’s persecution	Signing the petition

Starting at 7:00am, practitioners from different places across Israel came to the square near Tel Aviv city hall to hold a reenactment of the CCP’s atrocity of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners. Some practitioners handed out flyers and ctalked to passers-by. On the day, several hundreds signatures were collected in support of the protest against the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong.

Between 5:00pm and 7:00pm, practitioners held a rally and also performed traditional dancing. A representative from the Falun Dafa Association said that "as in many other places in the world, today we are here to protest against the CCP’s seven-year long persecution of Falun Gong. The evidence exposed in March this year indicates that, in the CCP’s concentration camps, Falun Gong practitioners’ organs have been harvested while they are still alive and sold for profit. The first concentration camp exposed was the Sujiatun concentration camp, then another witness pointed out that there are another 36 concentration camps like the one in Sujiatun across China."

A middle school student from Jerusalem said that when she heard about the organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners and the persecution experienced by Falun Gong practitioners, she felt extremely shocked. From that time, she started to collect signatures at the school and boy-scouts for stopping the persecution. Today she deliberately came here to express her support.

Eve, a passer-by, said that, "I feel shocked, I heard of this practice (Falun Gong) before, but I didn’t know about the persecution. My grandfather once was a state prisoner in a prison of Stalin's government. Looking at it from the historical point of view, the development of evil forces is really astonishing. "

It is worth mentioning that some Israeli young people joined in with the Falun Gong practitioners’ activities.