Huge Assault, Fontaines D.C., and Younger Fathers have teamed up for a limited-edition vinyl document to boost cash for Medical doctors With out Borders’ support in Gaza and the West Financial institution. The Ceasefire EP options music from all three bands and is out there for pre-order. Along with donating all of the income to the trigger, the bands have referred to as for a ceasefire and, as Fontaines D.C. put it, “a everlasting finish to Israel’s brutal occupation of Palestine” as practically 20,000 Palestinians are confirmed killed within the present section of the Israel-Hamas warfare.
Huge Assault’s Robert “3D” Del naja mentioned in a press launch, “The hourly scenes of horror in Gaza, with hospitals and faculties bombed to mud and harmless civilians, journalists, and docs killed in unspeakable numbers has been made a lot worse by greater than ten weeks of abject political failure. We’re in awe of the Medical doctors With out Borders medics who place their lives on the road to assist harmless civilians in Gaza. The Ceasefire EP is a tribute to them, and their unimaginable ongoing work in really indescribable circumstances. We stand in solidarity with the folks of Palestine.”
The 12″ vinyl consists of paintings designed by Del Naja, which may also be bought as a big signed print. The reverse sleeve of the EP options the notorious phrases of Medical doctors With out Borders medic Dr. Mahmoud Abu Nujaila, who wrote the next message on a hospital whiteboard in Gaza final month earlier than being killed in an airstrike by Israel: “Whoever stays till the tip will inform the story. We did what we might. Keep in mind us.”
In October, dozens of high-profile musicians and leisure celebrities signed an open letter urging President Joe Biden to name for a cease-fire in Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas warfare. Amongst these to name for an finish to the bombing had been Dua Lipa, Caroline Polachek, Michael Stipe, Run the Jewels, and Devonté Hynes.
