6/9 LEE SIU HIN: Our Historical Chinese Activists Delegation to organize Gaza Medical Humanitarian Mission!

Lee Siu Hin 李小轩
China-US Solidarity Network
中美民间交流协会
National Immigrant Solidarity Network
全(美)国移民团结协会

6/9 Shanghai, China: After a several weeks preparation, with sincere thanks from the support of our friends and partners across China. our week-long "Panda Aid" international humanitarian project, initiated by the China-US Solidarity Network, National Immigrant Solidarity Network and the Beijing e-Medical Alliance, officially departed from Shanghai, China to Cairo, Egypt today to carry out our medical humanitarian support mission for Gaza.

Our team include students, community groups and bio-tech comapny, will travel Egypt for medical donations, coordinate with local humanitarian organizations for the Gaza aid, and the solidarity messages from China to the people of Palestine!

For the past several months, several members from our organization, and our international antiwar allies had been try to enter Gaza via Egypt to deliver aids, but without success. The Rafah crossing connecting Egypt and Gaza has been invaded and occupied by the Israeli Occupied Force (IOF), forced to closed down since April. No humanitarian volunteers and supplies can enter Gaza, how should we fight for break the siege, and to deliver our solidarity aids in the future?

We have been communicating with many international and Egypt local partners, UN agencies, and aid workers in Gaza, to strategize how we can involve.

Last March we visited Cario and met with local humanitarian organizations and US-based Palestinian writer and activist Susan Abulhawa, she's the founder of her Gaza-based humanitarian organization "Playgrounds for Palestine", her testimony and organizing experience inspired us a lot.

Articles and Videos:
www.GazaWatch.net
www.immigrantsolidarity.org/Gaza/GazaReport/PartOne.html
www.PandaAid.org
www.immigrantsolidarity.org/PandaAid/index.html

Compare with the West and the U.S., China has the World largest public opinion base to support Palestinian struggle, yet most international humanitarian operations are run by the white Europeans. While there're some Chimese-run humanitarian operations in Gaza, because of the big media censorship and racism, no voices from China had been highlighted by the West; instead U.S.-imperialism and Genocide Joe who're nonstop backing military aids to Israel for the genocide, same time they had been spreading non-stop Chinaphobia propaganda.

Our goal is to bring Chinese activists from around the World, as well as people of color community activists anywehere, unite for peaceful action to fight against US-Israeli war machine and genocide and to deliver our solidarity aids to Gaza.

We want to build our activist-run medical tents in Gaza, it'll be a very complex operation due to the Israeli blockade and multiple-government bureaucracies of custom clearance, logistics transportation to deliver aids to Gaza,. causing the entire operation unnecessarily expansive.

Still there're many civil groups of all sizes with different backgrounds working hard for humanitarian assistance in Gaza.We cannot enter Gaza for our humanitarian aid this time, with the cooperation with the Egyptian, Chinese and Global South partners, we'll build our humanitarian work in Gaza very soon!

More updates will he coming when we're arriving to Egypt tomorrow.

Our red line is US Imperialism and Israeli Zionism, and our messages are:
Free Gaza! China Stands for Palestine!
The People United Will Never be defeated!

Past Reports:

English
https://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/Gaza/GazaReport/PartOne.html

中文Chinese
https://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/Gaza/GazaReport/PartOne-CHN.html

About Lee Siu Hin 李小轩
Lee Siu Hin, a Chinese-American immigrant activist from Los Angeles, CA, is the founder and national coordinator of the China-U.S. Solidarity Network (CUSN) and the National Immigrant Solidarity Network (NISN). He is a long-time community, labor, antiwar and immigrant rights activist for grassroots struggle. He's also a long-time Pacifica Radio KPFK Los Angeles unpaid reporter and producer and war correspondent who has worked in the Middle East, Europe, and Africa.

NISN is a grassroots-based national immigrant activist network, and CUSN is a network of academic and community activists in both countries committed to building a China-U.S. grassroots activist dialogue.

Lee holds a Masters of Public Administration (MPA) and a Masters of Engineering (Aerospace) from California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, located in Pomona, CA.

He is currently working on medical IT technology for the inner-city community, and for the global south. He travels frequently between China and U.S. for the activism work.

His latest book “Capitalism on a Ventilator” was co-published with Sara Flounders in September 2020; the Chinese edition was released in January 2022. He contributed to “Sanctions: a wrecking ball in a global economy” published in December 2022 and produced the documentary “Vaccine and Sanctions” released on February, 2023.  

His second documentary “Voice of Xinjiang” still under production, a short version was released on December, 2023.