A group of Basque political prisoners announced that they would fast on Friday, 27 October in solidarity with Palestine and against the genocide being carried out in Gaza by the Israeli occupation regime with the full support and complicity of imperialist powers. Since 7 October, the Zionist bombing campaign has taken the lives of over 6,000 Palestinians while destroying the homes of 1 million Palestinians.
We are republishing their statement below and extend our solidarity and salutes to these political prisoners struggling behind bars for collective liberation:
Palestinian women and men have been suffering violence caused by the Zionist occupation for decades; forced out of their homes and forced into exile, their cities and towns destroyed; imprisoned, tortured, raped, murdered…
We have evidence of this genocidal policy carried out by this terrorist Zionist state, the massacres and horrors in Gaza that the whole world has been able to see in these past days.
Because of all this, in solidarity with the Palestinian people, and declaring the legitimacy of the right to defend oppressed peoples, we Basque political prisoners who sign this letter will carry out a day of fasting next Friday, 27 October 27.
Palestine advances!
*Signatories:
Mattin Sarasola Iarzabal
Iñaki Krutxaga Elezkano
Fernando Elejalde Tapia
Mikel San Sebastian Gaztelumendi
Dani Pastor Alonso
Garikoitz Etxeberria Goikoetxea
Aitor Cotano Sinde
Beatriz Etxebarria Caballero
Beñat Aginagalde Ugartemendia
Lexuri Gallastegi Sodupe
Josu Ordoñez Fernandez
Xabier Garcia Gaztelu
Orkatz Gallastegi Sodupe
Fernando Garcia Jodra
Jon Kepa Preciado Izarra
Patxi Ruiz Romero
Dolores Lopez Resina
Liher Aretxabaleta Rodríguez
Irantzu Gallastegi Sodupe
Jesus Mari Etxeberria Garaikoetxea
