Over 150 organizations around the world have endorsed the International Campaign to Liberate the Remains of Palestinian Martyrs and the week of action, March 11-18. Political parties, trade unions, Palestinian movements, solidarity groups, anti-imperialist organizations and anti-war coalitions have come together to stand with Palestinian families demanding the release of their loved ones’ bodies, detained for years and decades by the Israeli occupation.
- Read the call to action in English, French, Arabic, Spanish, German, Swedish
- Read the list of 150+ endorsers
- Calendar of events and actions (including a series of global webinars)
- Endorse the campaign
There are 256 Palestinian martyrs whose bodies are documented to be held in the “numbers cemeteries,” where Palestinians are buried with numbers, rather than their names, while another 131 Palestinian martyrs’ bodies are held in the occupation’s morgues.
These martyrs gave their lives in the Palestinian resistance movement, and their bodies remain imprisoned even after their death. A number of the martyrs were imprisoned before their death, and this battle remains an integral part of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement.
Announcing the launch of the international campaign to liberate the remains of Palestinian martyrs held in the morgues and “cemeteries of numbers” of the Zionist occupation
Call to action, 11 March through 18 March 2023
“We will not abandon the last duty we owe our sons, to bury them with dignity”
– Azhar Abu Srour, the mother of the martyr Abd al-Hamid Abu Srour who has been imprisoned in the Morgues of the occupation since 2016
It is critical that we take action on an international level to popularize this campaign. We call on resistance organizations, Palestinian and Arab networks, solidarity groups supporting the prisoners’ struggle and boycott campaigns around the world to join us in this international campaign to recover and release the remains of Palestinian martyrs. This campaign aims to expand the support and solidarity for Palestinian prisoners and martyrs everywhere around the world, for their liberation and the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea.
Click here to endorse and support the campaign
Hold an event: You can organize stands and demonstrations, prepare seminars, distribute leaflets and hang posters, and send your activities to [email protected] or to our Facebook, Twitter or Instagram pages.
Endorsers
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- 100 Idee per la Pace Siena –
Italy - Alkarama Palestinian Women’s Mobilization
- Alliance for Global Justice
- Al-Yudur Palestinian Youth Mobilization
- Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition
- Anti-Imperialist Action Ireland
- Anti-Imperialist Muslim Network
- Arab Left Forum
- ASLA – Australia Solidarity with Latin America
- Asociación Americana de Juristas
- Asociación Casa de la Memoria (Rosario/Argentina)
- Association France Palestine Solidarité – Clermont-Ferrand (AFPS 63)
- Association France Palestine Solidarité – Grenoble
- Association France Palestine Solidarité – Lyon (AFPS 69)
- ATL Jénine (Amis du Théâtre de la Liberté de Jénine)
- BACBI – Belgian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
- Balfour Project
- Basler Frauevereinigung für Frieden und Fortschritt ( BFFF )
- BAYAN -Philippines (New Patriotic Alliance)
- BAYAN Canada
- BDS Perú
- BDS Vancouver Coast Salish Territories
- Belgian Academics & Artists for Palestine (BAA4B)
- Bethel United Church of Christ
- Black Alliance for Peace
Solidarity Network - Boykot Israel DK
- Brooklyn Greens/Green Party
- Bruxelles Panthères
- Cafe Palestina
- Calgary Peace Council
- Campaign to Boycott Supporters of “Israel” in Lebanon
- Campaign for International Cooperation and Disarmament (CICD)
- Canada Palestine Association
- Canada Philippine Solidarity for Human Rights (CPSHR)
- Canada-Philippines Solidarity Organization
- Canadian BDS Coalition
- Canadian Council of Muslim Women Montreal
- CAPJPO – EuroPalestine
- CCIPPP34, Campagne Civile Internationale pour la Protection du Peuple Palestinien
- Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies
- Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
- Chicago Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines
- CJPME Okanagan
- Col.lectiu Intifada
- Collectif 69 de soutien au peuple palestinien
- Collectif Palestine Vaincra
- Confederación Intersindical Galega (CIG)
- Contrahegemonia Web
- Cork Palestine Solidarity Campaign
- Corriente del Pueblo Sol Rojo
- Couserans Palestine
- CUNY for Palestine
- Crystal Palace Friends of Palestine
- Dar al Janub
- Detroit Jericho
- Early Childhood Development Intercultural Partnerships
- East Berkshire PSV
- EATIP (equipo argentino trabajo e investigación psicosocial)
- Éirígí for A New Republic
- Falastiniyat
- Finnish-Arab Friendship Society
- France Palestine Mental Health Network
- Free Palestine Halifax
- Free Palestine Maastricht
- Frente Antiimperialista Internacionalista
- Friends of Sabeel Colorado
- Friends of the Earth – Costa Rica
- GABRIELA BC
- Global Peace Alliance BC Society
- Greater Toronto for BDS
- Grupo Tucumán por Palestina
- Haldane Society of Socialist
Lawyers - Healing Our Homeland
- Hussain Collective
- Indiana Center for Middle East Peace
- Inminds Human Rights Group
- Interfaith for Palestine
- International Center for Palestine Studies
- International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines Canada chapter
- International Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self-Determination & Liberation (IPMSDL)
- International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network – IJAN Argentina
- International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network – IJAN España
- International League of Peoples’ Struggle – ILPS US Country Chapter (ILPS-US)
- International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) Commission 10
- ILPS Australia
- International Prisoners’ Network IPN
- Italian Democratic Jurists (Giuristi Democratici-Italia)
- Jericho Advisory Board
- Jericho Boston
- Jewish Network for Palestine
- Jewish Socialist Bund
- Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
- JUNTS Asociación de Judios y Palestinos
- Just Peace Advocates
- Kairos/Franklin County Justice for Palestine
- Kairos Sabeel Nederland
- Katribu Kalipunan ng Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipinas
- Kenya Palestine Solidarity Movement
- King’s College London Students for Justice for Palestine Society
- Labor for Palestine
- Le droit de vivre en paix Montréal/El derecho de vivir en paz Montreal
- Let Kashmir Decide
- Letters for Palestine
- Los Angeles Movement Advancing Socialism
- Madison for Palestine
- Maine Voices for Palestinian Rights
- Manchester Palestine Action
- Manchester Palestine Solidarity Campaign
- Masar Badil, Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement
- MD 2 Palestine
- Media Review Network
- Minnesota Anti-War Committee
- Mouvement Citoyen Palestine
- MST en el Frente de Izquierda Unidad
- National Jericho Movement
- National Students for Justice in Palestine
- Nevadans for Palestinian Liberation
- New Buffalo Center
- New York City Jericho Movement
- Nicaragua Center for Community Action
- North NJ DSA BDS and Palestine Solidarity Working Group
- Northern California International Solidarity Movement
- Oakland Jericho
- Oakville Palestinian Rights Association
- Olive Press
- Ongd AFRICANDO
- Ontario Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines
- Orinoco Tribune
- Orléans Loiret Palestine
- Palästina Antikolonial
- Palestina Libre
- Palestina Rossa
- Palestine Committee Basel
- Palestine Solidarity Alliance of Hunter College
- Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Cape Town
- Palestinian and Jewish Unity (PAJU)
- Palestinian Feminist Collective
- Palestinian Rights Committee
- Palestinian Youth Movement
- Palmdale Anti Imperialist Study Group
- Parti des Indigènes de la République
- Party of Communists USA
- Pati Kominis pou Lendépandans ek Sosializm (PKLS) MARTINIQUE
- Peoria No Ban No Wall
- Plate-forme Charleroi-Palestine
- Public Intellectuals for Social and Spare Change
- Racine Coalition for Peace & Justice
- RAS Film Productions
- Regina Peace Council
- Resistance News Network
- Revolutionaire Eenheid
- Revolutionary Communist Group
- Rimonim Liturgy Project
- Rosette Fair Trade
- Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
- Santa Feans for Justice in Palestine
- SDSU SJP
- SE London Lewisham Friends Of Palestine
- جمعية شموع للمساواة / المغرب Shamoua Association for Equality / Morocco
- Solidaridad Obrera
- South Durban Community Environmental Aliance
- Stop the War Machine
- Students Allied for Freedom and Equality
- Students for Justice in Palestine, University of South Carolina
- Students United for Palestinian Equality and Return – UW
- The Key
- Troika Kollective
- UBC SPHR
- UK-Palestine Mental Health Network
- Unadikum
- Unité Communiste (ICOR)
- United National Antiwar Coalition
- UNM Students for Socialism
- US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
- U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN)
- Vapaa Palestiina – ryhmä
- V-SB
- Within Our Lifetime – United for Palestine
- Women in Black – Vienna
- Workers World
Party - WorldBeyondWar.org
- Youth For Al-Quds
- Youth Front for Palestine
Days of Action:
Below are the events for each day throughout the week! We encourage you to schedule events and actions on any day during the week, regardless of theme or topic, focusing on the Liberation of Palestinian Prisoners and Martyrs. We also present a schedule of the events we know of taking place during the week.
The speakers in the online seminars are parents and family members of martyrs whose remains are withheld by the zionist occupation. Join us and listen to their stories and learn more about the morgues, cemetries of numbers, children martyrs still in the hands of the occupation, the legal struggle to retrieve the remains, the martyrs in the prisoners movement, and much more. English translation will be provided.
Hold an event: You can organize stands and demonstrations, prepare seminars, distribute leaflets and hang posters, and send your activities to [email protected] or to our Facebook, Twitter or Instagram pages.
09.03.2023
Rally demanding the retrieval of the remains of the Martyrs
Nablus, Palestine
In front of the red cross office
12 midday Jerusalem time
10.03.2023
Rally demanding the liberation of the remains of Palestinian martyrs in the morgues and “cemetries of Numbers”
Bahnhofsvorplatz,
Cologne, Germany
At 2 p.m. CET
For more Information
11.03.2023
Online seminar
Cemeteries of Numbers – Palestine’s martyrs imprisoned by the occupation
مقابر الأرقام – شهداء فلسطين في قبضة الاحتلال
At 7 p.m. Jerusalem time
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85824406823?pwd=NVNKRXhIR2lINk1OeFgzbmhWWTBUUT09
Meeting ID: 858 2440 6823
Passcode: 332440
Seminar in Cologne
The Struggle of the Palestinian, Turkish and Kurdish Prisoners Movements
Followed by an intervention by the sister the imprisoned martyr Bilal Rawajbeh
Kalk-Mülheimer Str 124
51103 Köln, Germany
At 4 p.m. CET
For more information
12.03.2023
Online seminar
Birds in Paradise and prisoners under the soil – the remains of our martyred children
طيور في الجنة و أسرى تحت التراب – رفات أطفالنا الشهداء
At 7 p.m. Jerusalem time
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82957118542?pwd=Q0FJSHlTMnBqcXU3c0N1eFRlOGxyQT09
Meeting ID: 829 5711 8542
Passcode: 457088
14.03.2023
Online seminar
The legal struggle to free the imprisoned martyrs
المعركة القانونية في قضية الجثامين المحتجزة
At 7 p.m. Jerusalem time
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84122661614?pwd=TmVJWjEwSWJkdDhlRUhQZVdONnR2UT09
Meeting ID: 841 2266 1614
Passcode: 063571
15.03.2023
Online seminar
Bodies frozen, awaiting spring – Our martyrs in the morgues of the occupation
أجسادٌ في الصقيع بانتظار الربيع – شهداؤنا في ثلاجات الاحتلال
At 7 p.m. Jerusalem time
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87083754781?pwd=RGkycDRaS3JJLzVFTi9xaDg2amFuZz09
Meeting ID: 870 8375 4781
Passcode: 169695
17.03.2023
Online seminar
From one cell to another – the martyrs of the prisoners movement
عمرين في زنزانتين – شهداء الحركة الأسيرة
At 7 p.m. Jerusalem time
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85005742322?pwd=UHNLUjNJWWhxODdZTnJRZlVCaWxJZz09
Meeting ID: 850 0574 2322
Passcode: 805836
Seminar in Berlin
Karanfil at 7pm CET
18.03.2023
Demo in Köln
International Day of Political Prisoners
Bahnhofsvorplatz
Cologne, Berlin
At 2 p.m. CET
For more Information
Demo in Berlin
International Day of Political Prisoners
Hermannplatz
At 3 p.m. CET