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Glory to the martyr: 22-year-old Louay Nasrallah martyred in occupation prisons

On Monday, 30 June 2025, Palestinian prisoners’ institutions reported the martyrdom of Louay Faisal Mohammed Nasrallah (Turkman), 22, imprisoned by the occupation, in Soroka Hospital. He had been suddenly transferred to the hospital after being held in the Naqab prison. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network mourns and salutes the martyr, and extends our condolences to his family and loved ones, the Palestinian prisoners’ movement and the Palestinian people as a whole.

Louay Nasrallah Turkman, from the city of Jenin, had been imprisoned without charge or trial under “administrative detention” since 26 March 2024, when he was abducted from his home by occupation forces. His family reported that, at the time of his arrest, he had no health issues or medical problems and was a healthy, active young man. He was held in the Naqab prison, which is infamous for the prison administration’s policies of forced overcrowding, starvation, and denial of hygiene products and medical care, which has led to the rampant spread of the scabies skin disease inside the desert prison.

He is at least the 73rd identified martyr of the prisoners’ movement since 7 October 2023, of at least 310 martyrs of the prisoners’ movement since 1967  (data is not compiled for the period 1948–1967). The occupation continues to imprison his body, as it does the bodies of hundreds of Palestinians, including at least 82 martyred prisoners—71 of them since the launch of the Al-Aqsa Flood.

The martyrdom of Palestinian prisoners—today, Louay Nasrallah—is part of an assassination campaign inside the occupation’s prisons and detention camps, carried out through institutionalized physical and psychological torture, beatings, starvation, sexual assault, the spread of contagious disease (particularly scabies), and the deliberate denial of medical care. This takes place in parallel with the ongoing, escalated genocide in Gaza and throughout occupied Palestine. These war crimes and crimes against humanity are compounded by the denial of family and legal visits, preventing any external monitoring of the mistreatment suffered by imprisoned Palestinians. All imprisoned Palestinians, and especially the leaders of the prisoners’ movement, are living under an ongoing threat to their lives due to the occupation’s policy of “slow assassination.”

Every dollar, euro, and pound exchanged with the occupation; every weapon given to its genocidal forces; and every intelligence-sharing and police-training mission between the Zionist project and the imperialist powers—especially the US, Canada, France, Germany, Britain, and EU countries—are evidence of full complicity in the ongoing genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity against Palestinian prisoners and the Palestinian people as a whole.

In memory and honor of Louay, and all of the martyrs, wounded and prisoners of Palestine, and of the resistance that continues to meet the occupiers and genocidaires with fire, we urge all to organize and take action, to escalate the struggle in the imperial core, to bring the genocide to an end, to break the siege on Gaza, to free the Palestinian prisoners and to free Palestine from the river to the sea.

Download this poster of the martyr Louay Nasrallah — as well as this group of prisoners’ posters — to include in your next action.

Poster below (Download PDF):

The martyrs of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement in the past 18 months include the following:

  • Omar Daraghmeh
  • Arafat Hamdan
  • Majed Ahmed Zaqoul
  • Abdel-Rahman Al-Bahsh
  • Atta Yousef Hasan Fayyad
  • Zuhair Omar Sharif
  • Raja Ismail Samour
  • Walid Abdel-Hadi Hamid
  • Abdel-Rahman Mar’i
  • Dr. Iyad Al Rantisi
  • Thaer Samih Abu Assab
  • Faraj Hussein Hasan Ali
  • Hamdan Hassan Anaba
  • Hussein Saber Abu Obeida
  • Ali Abdullah Suleiman Al-Houli
  • Arafat Al-Khawaja
  • Mohammed Ahmed Al-Sabbar
  • Mohammed Abu Sneineh
  • Ahmed Rizq Qudaih
  • Izz al-Din Ziad Al-Banna
  • Asif Abdel-Mu’ti Al-Rifai
  • Khaled Musa Jamal Al-Shawish
  • Majed Hamdi Ibrahim Sawafiri
  • Ahmed Abdel Marjan Al-Aqqad
  • Jumaa Abu Ghanima
  • Dr. Ziad Mohammed Al-Dalou
  • Wafa Amin Mohammed Abdelhadi
  • Kamal Hussein Ahmad Radi
  • Walid Nimr Daqqah
  • Fathi Mohammed Mahmoud Jadallah
  • Abdel-Rahim Abdel-Karim Amer
  • Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh
  • Karim Abu Saleh
  • Ismail Abdel-Bari Khader
  • Mohammed Sharif Al-Assali
  • Omar Abdelaziz Junaid
  • Adnan Ashour
  • Islam Al-Sarsawi
  • Sheikh Mustafa Abu Ora
  • Nasr el-Din Ziyara
  • Kifah Dabaya
  • Ayman Rajeh Issa Abed
  • Zaher Tahsin Raddad
  • Mohammed Munir Musa
  • Walid Ahmed Khalifa
  • Samir Mahmoud Al-Kahlout
  • Moath Khaled Rayyan
  • Anwar Aslim
  • Sheikh Samih Suleiman Muhammad Aliwi
  • Munir Abdullah al-Faqaawi
  • Yassin Munir al-Faqaawi
  • Mohammed Abdel-Rahman Idris
  • Mohammed Anwar Labad
  • Alaa Marwan Hamza al-Mahlawi
  • Mohammed Walid Hussein Al-Aref
  • Mohammed Rashid Saeed Al-Akka
  • Ashraf Mohammed Abu Warda
  • Motaz Mahmoud Abu Zneid
  • Musaab Hani Haniyeh
  • Ali Ashour Ali Al Batsh
  • Tayseer Sababa Abou Al Saeed
  • Khalil Haniyeh
  • Ayman Abdel-Hadi Qudaih
  • Mohammed Yassin Jabr
  • Raafat Adnan Abu Fannouneh
  • Khaled Mahmoud Qassem Abdallah
  • Walid Khaled Ahmad
  • Musaab Hassan Adili
  • Khalil Nasser Radaideh
  • Muhyiddin Nijm
  • Amr Hatem Odeh
  • Ayman Abdel-Hadi Qudaih
  • Bilal Talal Salameh
  • Mohammed Ismail al-Astal
  • Mohammed Ibrahim Abu Habl
  • Raed Suleiman Asa’sa
  • Louay Nasrallah Turkman
  • There are at least two more martyred workers from Gaza whose names have not been disclosed.

The following released prisoners were either martyred almost immediately upon their release due to torture and the denial of medical care, or, in the case of Kazem Zawahreh, following the prisoner exchange where he was returned to a Palestinian hospital in a coma.

  • Rami Attiya Jumaa Abu Mustafa
  • Farouk Ahmed Issa Khatib
  • Kazem Issa Zawahreh

We are all Palestine Action! Confronting proscription and “terror” designation of direct action in Britain

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network expresses our full solidarity with Palestine Action, threatened with proscription by the British imperialist regime because of their direct action to materially inhibit the Zionist war crimes and genocide in Palestine and throughout the region. British Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has introduced into Parliament an order to proscribe — that is, to ban, in a system similar to other imperialist powers’ “terrorist designations” — the direct action organization that has done so much to escalate the stakes of the solidarity movement and impose material costs on the imperialist and Zionist war machine. The attempt to proscribe Palestine Action as a “terrorist” organization is yet another British colonial crime against the Palestinian people and a clear indication of British imperialism’s commitment to full complicity and participation in the ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and throughout occupied Palestine.

The proscription proposal is scheduled to be voted on in the British House of Commons on Wednesday, 2 July, and in the House of Lords on Thursday, 3 July. A court challenge brought by Palestine Action will be heard on Friday, 4 July, before the proposed proscription is scheduled to go into effect, and could lead to an injunction against the order. It is clear, however, that relying on the courts is insufficient to defend Palestine Action and the Palestine liberation movement; this threat requires full-scale mobilization, protest and direct action to confront the state terror of unjust proscription and “anti-terror” laws.

Proscription is already used by the British state to criminalize Palestinian and regional resistance organizations. including Hamas, Hezbollah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The extent of repression connected to these designations is substantial, as even mere speech and moral support in favor of a proscribed organization may be criminalized under Britain’s Terrorism Act 2000. During the past several years, and particularly escalated amid the ongoing genocide, British police have raided activists’ homes, arrested and raided journalists, and put speakers and demonstration attendees on trial for affirming Palestinians’ right to resist and to organize to do so effectively. All of this creates a context where speaking honestly about the ongoing Zionist genocide and the forces leading the resistance to that genocide puts activists, students and even journalists at risk of severe state repression.

The excellent work of Riverway Law and CAGE in challenging the proscription of Hamas is a much-needed legal effort to advance the right to organize and defend international law — and becomes even more important amid the criminalization of grassroots solidarity resistance. One of the purposes of proscription and “terrorist” designation is an attempt to cut off legal challenges as well as popular support; while the precise mechanisms may vary between the imperialist powers, the mechanism serves the same function of both aiding and abetting genocide while also seeking to severely restrain the political and action-oriented horizons of the solidarity movement and the Palestinian and Arab community in exile and diaspora.

The attack on Palestine Action is part and parcel of British colonialism in Palestine, which continues today and did not end with the Balfour Declaration. Britain is now and has consistently been a partner in the Zionist colonization and genocide throughout Palestine, from the Balfour Declaration of 1917 seeking to provide the Zionist movement with a “Jewish national home” in occupied Palestine, to the British colonial mandate of Palestine that included the assassination and imprisonment of Palestinian leaders and strugglers in intifada after intifada, to the ongoing British arming and funding of the Zionist regime. As an imperialist power and part of the US-led imperialist camp internationally, it is a leading force in the alliance of genocide. The British colonial mandate was the first to introduce “administrative detention” — imprisonment without charge or trial — to occupied Palestine, a policy enthusiastically adopted by their Zionist colonial successors, currently used to detain nearly 4,000 of the nearly 10,000 Palestinian political prisoners held hostage in Zionist jails.

Today, the British Royal Air Force has flown at least 500 spy flights over Gaza in order to provide intelligence sharing with the Zionist genocidal regime, thereby helping to facilitate the ongoing bombings and assaults on the entire population of Gaza, as well as the assassinations targeting political leaders, government officials, health workers, journalists, aid workers, police and security officers, and other targets of the Zionist regime, often alongside their entire families. British officials have refused to answer questions about these spy flights while the British state and mainstream media has been silent and avoiding the issue entirely.

Palestine Action, through its powerful action on 20 June 2025 at the RAF Brize Norton air base, has forced these crimes into full public view. As Palestine Action noted:

Palestine Action have damaged two military planes at RAF Brize Norton, where flights leave daily for RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, a base used for military operations in Gaza and across the Middle East. Two activists broke into the largest air force base in Britain and used electric scooters to swiftly manoeuvre towards the planes. They used repurposed fire extinguishers to spray red paint into the turbine engines of two Airbus Voyagers and caused further damage using crowbars. Red paint, symbolising Palestinian bloodshed was also sprayed across the runway and a Palestine flag was left on the scene. Both activists managed to evade security and arrest.

By putting the planes out of service, activists have interrupted Britain’s direct participation in the commission of genocide and war crimes across the Middle East.

This follows upon Palestine Action’s many successful actions against Elbit Systems, “Israel'”s largest weapons manufacturer, which makes 85% of the drones used in Zionist aerial attacks on Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and throughout occupied Palestine; in Lebanon; in Yemen; in Syria; and in Iran. Palestine Action has forced Elbit to sell its factories in Tamworth and Oldham and to shut down its London offices. Its direct actions have cost the war criminal company millions of British pounds in damages since 2021, acting directly to stop ongoing genocide in line with international law, and taking action when states refuse to do so. There are currently dozens of Palestine Action political prisoners, despite many actionists successfully winning their criminal cases in court by raising the necessity defense — that their actions were necessary to bring an end to Zionist war crimes in occupied Palestine.

Palestine Action and other direct action groups have not backed down in the face of the proscription attempts nor multiple arrests and imprisonments of its actionists. On 29 June, actionists taking on the name “Yvette Cooper” — for the Home Secretary seeking Palestine Action’s ban — sprayed red paint and broke windows at the offices of BNY Mellon’s investment firm, shareholders in Israel’s biggest weapons producer. In the past days, Palestine Action shut down the Bristol facility of Elbit Systems and occupied the roof of Guardtech, suppliers to Elbit Systems, in Suffolk.

In addition to the Filton 18, four actionists are currently being held under the Terrorism Act over the RAF Brice Norton direct action. The British state has been escalating the charges against actionists, especially after their repeated legal victories, and has even been shown to be coordinating its prosecutions with the Zionist embassy in Britain. Communications about state repression in Britain with the Zionist embassy also dovetailed with the British government’s raid on journalist Asa Winstanley.

As in the case of Samidoun, which was listed as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist” in October 2024 by a Democratic administration in the United States and as a “terrorist entity” by a Liberal government in Canada, it is the Labour Party’s government that is today seeking to proscribe Palestine Action. Once again, it is clear to all that the Labour Party and the Tory Party are two wings of imperialism, with the same devastating onslaught against the people of the world, including the Palestinian people.

The nature of the proscription being brought by Cooper on behalf of Keir Starmer’s Labour government reflects the overall use of “anti-terror” laws and designations, both in Britain and throughout the imperial core. The proposed proscription lists three organizations: Palestine Action and two little-known far-right entities (the Moldovan “Maniacs Murder Cult” and the “Russian Imperial Movement”), much as terrorist lists primarily target anti-imperialist and national liberation movements yet also include fascist, reactionary and far-right organizations. This serves the goal of blunting clear opposition to such proscriptions and demands to abolish these so-called “terror lists.” While it is the proscription of Palestine Action that is the subject of large-scale press coverage, including extensive comments by Cooper herself, massive protests and widespread outrage, linking these three organizations is meant to cast opponents of the proscription as supporters of, for example, a “maniacs murder cult.”

The drive to proscribe Palestine Action is clearly not a result of any single action among its many powerful direct actions confronting genocide. Instead, it reflects the ongoing escalation of repression in the heart of the imperial core against the Palestine liberation movement, as seen also in the United States, Canada, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and Spain, among others, as well as the escalating panic of the imperialist ruling class that even the masses in their own countries widely reject genocide.

This is on vivid display at present, as the British corporate and state media and imperialist politicians denounce punk band Bobby Vylan for leading tens of thousands at Glastonbury music festival in the chant, “Death! Death! to the IDF!” and after British prosecutors were forced to drop charges against “Mo Chara” of Irish rap group Kneecap for “support for a proscribed organization” for holding up a Hezbollah flag at a concert. That prosecution was only launched after Kneecap inspired tens of thousands to cheer and chant after displaying the message, “Fuck Israel Free Palestine” at the Coachella music festival in the United States.

While tens and hundreds of thousands cheer for these artists at festivals, and millions more salute the Palestinian resistance and every missile of resistance from Yemen and Iran fired at the Zionist entity, the ruling class is turning to increasingly harsh repression in an attempt to impose state terror upon the public, as the propaganda to justify genocide has been a miserable failure in the face of the documented reality of the Zionist-imperialist mass slaughter of children, women, men and elders, destruction of hospitals, carpet-bombing of residential buildings, demolition of mosques and churches, savage torture of prisoners, overt use of starvation as a weapon of war and ongoing war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in Gaza and throughout occupied Palestine as well as in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iran.

Palestine Action has consistently set the standard in the imperial core for imposing a material cost on weapons manufacturers and war criminals for their ongoing crimes against the Palestinian people. Indeed, actionists are doing only what is absolutely necessary to prevent and interrupt a genocide in progress.  This is why they are being targeted now.

It is critical that the entire movement stands behind Palestine Action and against the criminalization of direct action and resistance — and indeed, escalates the campaign to not only stop the proscription of Palestine action, but to deproscribe Palestinian and regional resistance organizations and, indeed, to scrap the entire “terror list” and proscription system. 

There is a massive popular and even official outcry against the proscription of Palestine Action, with even British civil servants appalled at the trampling of democratic, civil and political rights in order to advance the genocide. Dozens of organizations have spoken out against the proscription, while UN experts released an official call urging Britain not to use “anti-terror” laws to repress protest. Of course, this type of repression is nothing new for Britain and bears a striking parallel to the attacks on Irish republicans and the Irish liberation movement, which continues to confront proscription and political imprisonment today amid their continuing struggle.

Under the slogan, “We are all Palestine Action!” protests are being organized at Parliament, the High Court, and at British embassies and consulates internationally, while direct actions against Zionist-imperialist weapons manufacturers are taking inspiration from the example set by Palestine Action.

We urge all to continue to speak out and mobilize — including, and, indeed, especially, if the proscription is imposed by the British state. Unfortunately, experience shows that following proscriptions and designations, in many cases, large NGOs or liberal organizations have dedicated significant time and energy to isolating the targets of designation in the belief that such isolation provides them with some form of protection from further repression. This approach has even extended to the actual resistance organizations leading the struggle for liberation on the ground, with organizations in the imperial core seeking to uphold other forces, such as NGOs, as the “leadership” of the Palestinian cause.

Raising this at this moment is not a matter of alienating allies who are speaking up at this urgent moment to stop the proscription of Palestine Action; it is a warning for a critical time, because this type of reaction only encourages the imperialist powers to continue on the path of repression, as their goal is not merely to arrest or raid homes, but to constrain the horizons of the movement and impose silencing and censorship, whether externally or internally enforced. If we do not rally, even with the associated risks, behind those who are targeted, we encourage the state to escalate its attacks. This is especially true in the case of Palestine Action, which has done so much to lead in direct action materially resisting the Zionist-imperialist war machine. We must learn the lessons of history and act in clear rejection of such proscriptions, bans and designations throughout the imperial core, against Palestine Action – and against Samidoun, against Addameer, against Palestinian and Arab charity organizations, and against the resistance organizations leading the liberation struggle, including Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the PFLP, Hezbollah, AnsarAllah and other movements.

British imperialism seeks to shut down direct action for Palestine and aims to use this proscription to try to erase the example that Palestine Action sets for the confrontation of Zionism, imperialism and capitalism in the imperial core. It is all of our responsibility to multiply and globalize their work — a globalized intifada for a free Palestine, from the river to the sea.

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Defend Palestinian activists: The Netherlands upholds entry ban on Mohammed Khatib

In a blatant escalation of political repression, the Dutch state has rejected the appeal of Mohammed Khatib, Europe coordinator of Samidoun, upholding his two-year entry ban into the Netherlands. 
In October 2024 the Dutch state banned Mohammed Khatib from entering the Netherlands, in an effort to stop him from speaking at Radboud University. This entry ban and the court’s rejection of Khatib’s appeal, only reinforces the Dutch government’s commitment to criminalizing any dissenting voice that speaks out in support of the Palestinian resistance and the thousands of Palestinian political prisoners struggling inside Zionist detention camps.
Meanwhile the fascist Dutch state, alongside it’s other imperialist allies, continues their unconditional support for the ongoing Zionist genocide in Gaza. Therefore, this is not just an attack on Khatib as an individual or Samidoun as an organization: it is an attack on the entire Palestine movement, as it is precisely these repression tactics that are allowing the Dutch government to continue their complicity in genocide and colonialism. As NATO’s warmongers gather in the city of the Hague and ships carrying Zionist weapons parts enter the port of Rotterdam, the Dutch state continues to brutalize and criminalize anyone that dares to resist this complicity in genocide and the colonial occupation of Palestine. The Palestinian diaspora resisting the destruction of their homeland are faced with threats of deportation, protesters stopping arms shipments for the Zionist entity are arrested and students throughout the imperial core are faced with police brutality for protesting their universities ties with the Zionist entity.
While we are outraged at these intensifying repression efforts, we also know that it speaks to the strength of our movement that, since the heroic Al-Aqsa Flood operation and  start of the Zionist genocide in Gaza, has been able to mobilize the biggest demonstrations for Palestine in history and unite millions across the world for the Palestinian liberation struggle. Let us continue to unite, defend each other and confront repression and criminalization, for a free Palestine from the river to the sea.
We will continue to fight the entry-ban of Mohammed Khatib and call upon the Palestinian diaspora and their supporters in The Netherlands to support him in this fight and continue intensifying the struggle for an end to the genocide, an end to the occupation and a liberated Palestine from the river to the sea. ​​​​​​

Samidoun Brussels joins delegation to Iranian embassy in Brussels

As part of a joint delegation of several grassroots organizations in Brussels, Belgium, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network participated in a joint meeting with the Iranian Ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg, Mr. Seyyed Mohammad Ali Robatjazi.

The delegation included representatives from the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement (Masar Badil), the Samidoun Network in Brussels, Bruxelles Pantheres, Tayyar and Plate-Forme Charleroi-Palestine.

During the meeting, Comrade Mohammed Khatib, a member of the Executive Committee of the Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement and coordinator of the Samidoun Network in Europe, conveyed the delegation’s greetings and congratulations to the Islamic Republic of Iran for its steadfastness and victories in the face of aggression. He emphasized the importance of Iran’s role in supporting the Palestinian and Arab resistance forces—particularly the resistance in the Gaza Strip—amid the ongoing genocide perpetrated by the Zionist enemy.

The delegation also expressed its full solidarity with the Iranian people and their revolutionary leadership, and firmly rejected any American or Zionist aggression targeting Iran or any of the forces of the Axis of Resistance.

The delegation handed the ambassador a joint statement issued by the four organizations, expressing clear support for Iran’s position and calling for the removal of U.S. military bases from the region—including the Zionist entity, which the statement described as “the largest aggressive U.S. military base in West Asia.”

For his part, the Iranian ambassador welcomed the members of the delegation and reaffirmed the Islamic Republic’s unwavering position in supporting the Palestinian people and their resistance until the full liberation of their national land. He stressed the importance of strengthening relations between the peoples of the region and the free people of the world in confronting hegemony and colonialism.

The delegation also discussed with the Iranian ambassador ways to enhance the role of solidarity forces with the Palestinian people, confront racism and fascism, and address the challenges facing Palestinian refugees and migrant communities more broadly in Europe.

Read the text of the statement:

Dear Your Excellency, Mr Seyed Mohammad Ali Robatjazi, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Belgium and Luxembourg; and Head of Mission to the EU;

The Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, congratulates the Islamic Republic of Iran on its tremendous achievements in confronting Zionist and U.S. aggression, and expresses its strongest solidarity with the courageous, steadfast and victorious leadership, armed forces and people of Iran, who have consistently demonstrated their strong, clear position in support of the Palestinian people and their ongoing liberation struggle, including the urgent efforts to bring the ongoing Zionist genocide in the Gaza Strip to an end.

The momentous victory achieved by the Islamic Republic of Iran not only exposed the illusory “superiority” of the Zionist and imperialist war machine but made clear that the Zionist regime, and indeed the U.S., will no longer be able to impose their hegemony upon the region unchallenged, establishing new rules of engagement that have shattered the logics of terror imposed by the enemy. The precise and qualitative responses carried out by Iran’s armed forces reverberated throughout the region and the world, making clear that the Zionist regime has been utterly unable to ensure security for its settlers through genocide and aggression.

We salute all of the martyrs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, including military and political leaders, scholars and scientists, soldiers, journalists, athletes, men, women, children and elders, and we wish for speedy recovery for all of the wounded. Throughout this battle, and indeed for the past 46 years, the people of Iran have made clear that the U.S.-Zionist scheme to break the unity of Iran and impose “regime change” would fall into defeat.

The U.S.-Zionist war on the Islamic Republic of Iran did not begin on the 13th of June, but has persisted for decades, including through the imposition of illegal and unilateral economic coercive measures that are meant to use enforced poverty, destruction and extraction of resources to deny the people of Iran their sovereignty, their right to determine their own path of development, and even their lives. In Iran’s great battle of self-defense against aggression, it has set a firm line in defense of its own sovereignty and, indeed, of all peoples of the region against U.S. imperialism and Zionist occupation and colonization.

Since Al-Aqsa Flood on 7 October 2023 and the beginning of the escalated Zionist genocide in Gaza – amid 77 years of ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people as a whole – it is clear that the world has been changed irreversibly through the heroism and commitment of the great Palestinian freedom fighters and their partners in the camp of resistance, in Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq and Iran – and indeed, the world continues to change. The Zionist entity is exposed before the world as a criminal regime that is actively engaged in the greatest crime in international law: genocide. Today, as the Zionist regime daily slaughters dozens of Palestinians – most frequently, while attempting to receive food aid amid ongoing famine – the heroic Palestinian resistance continues to carry out significant operations that are imposing a significant price on the genocidal enemy.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has a principled and dignified position that stands as one of the very few nations of the world that have acted directly and clearly to impose international law according to the Genocide Convention, at a time when not only the United States and the Zionist regime, but also Britain, Canada and the European powers continue to provide ongoing support and cover, up to and including the sale and purchase of weaponry, provision of intelligence data, ongoing technological and research collaboration, and even the suppression of domestic movements and activists organizing in defense of Palestine.

The alliance between the Palestinian people and national liberation movement and the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the alliance of the camp of resistance, which stretches to Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, and indeed all of those around the world who participate in resisting U.S. imperialism and Zionist genocide, has only been strengthened over the past 21 months of unceasing struggle against a horrific and genocidal enemy. We are certain that, together, we are on the path of the liberation of Palestine.

The Masar Badil Movement is launching a new campaign to demand that all U.S. military bases must be removed, once and for all, from the Arab and Iranian region – including the largest U.S. military base, the Zionist entity itself. These bases are a threat to the security, sovereignty and peace of all of our peoples of our region and serve as centers of aggression and espionage against the resistance forces in order to protect the Zionist regime and impose U.S. hegemony over all of West Asia. We salute the Islamic Republic of Iran’s clear position and meaningful action to confront these bases of destruction imposed upon our land.

We not only express the position of our Movement internationally but also look forward to cooperating with you locally in events and activities in defense of the rights, sovereignty and self-determination of our nations and peoples confronting Zionism and imperialism.

Our salutes and solidarity,

Masar Badil: Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network (Samidoun Brussels)

Bruxelles Pantheres

Plate-forme Charleroi-Palestine

Tayyar

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Statement from the Resistance Festival: The Zionist ambassador’s lies in Brussels

The Resistance Festival issued the following statement in response to a series of media and political attacks on the Festival and on Palestinian refugee youth theater performers, sparked by the lies of the “Israeli” ambassador to Belgium, Idit Rosenweig:

To absolutely no one’s surprise, the israeli ambassador is lying. Again. 
On Monday the 9th of June, amidst the continued horrors inflicted by the genocidal and colonial zionist occupation in Gaza, the representative of the genocidal zionist entity in Belgium decided to fabricate a lie about a Palestinian theatre piece performed at the Resistance Festival in Brussels. This lie is yet another part of the systematic campaign of genocide denial that the official representatives of the regime have begun carrying out since October 7th to justify their war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The theatre piece performed by Palestinian refugees in Place Bethlehem was about the ongoing genocide that has killed over 55,000 Palestinians and the Palestinian Resistance that has remained steadfast. It began with actors of various nationalities and ages holding pieces of paper asking, “Why is our voice silenced? Why are children killed in front of their parents? Why is Palestinian Resistance called terrorism?”. The bodies on the ground depicted murdered Palestinians wearing keffiyehs and Palestinian children covered in bloodied shrouds. Hundreds of people witnessed the play, cheering and applauding in the end, as the Resistance fighters celebrated their victory against a genocidal regime that has killed, again, over 55,000 Palestinians.
Instead of watching the full performance, freely available on social media, the zionists like to believe that everything is about themselves. The official representative of the genocidal regime trots out a bare-faced falsehood that the bodies are Israelis, and that the play was about October 7th, and the Right-wing media immediately follow suit. Rather than fulfilling their journalistic duty to find out the truth, they instead act as stenographers for a foreign government, stretching the lie so far as to say that the bodies on the ground cannot be Palestinian as some actors are wearing shorts.
Despite our clarifications to the media, and to the mayor of St Gilles, Zionists will continue to do what they do best: defend their lie until they have enough time to think of a new one, in order to deflect from the latest atrocities committed by their entity and its increasingly clear position as a pariah state. Indeed, this isn’t the first or last lie the official representative of the genocidal regime, Idit Rozenweig has fabricated. Aside from her constant smears of the Palestine solidarity movement in Belgium, she also compared Palestinian prisoners to Marc Dutroux, Belgium’s most infamous paedophile, when israeli occupation soldiers are consistently exposed for sexual assault including in prisons. At a time when the EU is facing increasing pressure to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement and Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, both ministers in the administration she represents, have been sanctioned by five countries including the UK for incitment to commit human rights violations, one would be forgiven for assuming she perhaps has more pressing priorities than street theatre in St Gilles. Alas, Madam Rozenweig instead spends her days tweeting. Her commitment to spotlighting the arts would be laudable, were she not using her cultural illiteracy to spread a defamatory campaign against young Palestinian artists. In desperate daily tweets acknowledged exclusively by fascists and client journalists, Madam Rozenweig is attempting to present her genocidal settler colony as the victim. It is a move akin to closing the stable door after the horse has not only bolted, but lived a full life and died of natural causes.
We refuse to participate in this pathetic charade. Her latest lie is not the story. An 11 year old killed by the police is the story, rubber bullets fired on mourners is the story, a sitting member of the European Parliament kidnapped in international waters is the story, and above all, over 55,000 Palestinians murdered by Israel with the full backing of the West, is the story.
Madam Rozenweig’s preferred form of diplomacy is one based in threats and lies, more mobster than ambassador. Her continued presence in Belgium is an affront to democracy and an embarrassment to a country that professes to respect human rights and the rule of law. Rather than censoring Palestinian refugees, Belgium must take belated action to stop its complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Stop the criminalisation of Palestinian refugees and activists. Stop the repression and police brutality. Stop the genocide denial by Belgian politicians. Suspend all ties with the Zionist entity, and expel Idit Rozenweig for her crimes.
Free Free Palestine. 

 

19 June, Vancouver: Fedayin: Georges Abdallah’s Fight Screening and Discussion

NOTE: We are publishing events for the Week of Action to Free Georges Abdallah that are independently organized. For any information about these events, please contact the organizers, as Samidoun is not an organizer of these events and actions.

FEDAYiN: Georges Abdallah’s Fight
Screening and Discussion

On June 19, Georges Abdallah will face a new hearing in French courts after 40 years of imprisonment. The Lebanese Arab Communist and struggler for Palestine Georges Abdallah has been jailed in France since 1984 and remained imprisoned, despite being eligible for release since 1999. Join us for a screening of Fedayin: Georges Abdallah’s Fight, a documentary tracing the life and resistance of the longest-held political prisoner in Europe. The screening will be followed by a discussion.

Organized by the Canada Palestine Association. More info: https://www.instagram.com/p/DKyGn11PIux/

June 19th, 6:30 pm at 1803 E 1st Ave., Vancouver

Learn more about the FREE GEORGES ABDALLAH campaign
https://tariqeltahrir.org/free-georges-abdallah/

15 June, Seattle: Film Screening and Letter Writing, Fedayin: Georges Abdallah’s Fight

NOTE: We are publishing events for the Week of Action to Free Georges Abdallah that are independently organized. For any information about these events, please contact the organizers, as Samidoun is not an organizer of these events and actions.

On Sunday June 15th 3-6PM Nidal Seattle is hosting a screening of Fedayin: Georges Abdallah’s Fight as well as a bilingual (Arabic and English) discussion of the current situation in our community, and how we can continue to fight for a free Palestine and Georges freedom. Participants will also write letters to Georges, to be delivered directly to him by our comrades in France. Location and additional information provided upon registration. Register here: https://tinyurl.com/freegeorges2025

More info: https://www.instagram.com/p/DKxYwgSS9X8/

Georges Abdallah is a Lebanese participant in the Palestinian cause who has been held as a political prisoner in France for over 40 years. He has been eligible for release since 1999, but has been denied freedom repeatedly by zionist, US and French interventions. In November 2024 Georges was ordered by a French court to be released to his home country of Lebanon. However, French prosecutors immediately moved to block his release and deny him justice by appealing his case, forcing him to remain in detention until the date of the ruling: June 19, 2025. This event joins the unified campaign for the liberation of Georges Abdallah deceleration of June 11-19 as an International Week of Action.

The moral masses of the world, those who stand with the liberation of Palestine, Lebanon and of all humanity, join in solidarity with Georges Abdallah. Here and now we demand to be heard by the French consulate as we declare: Free Georges Abdallah!

15 June, New York City: Film Screening – Fedayin: Georges Abdallah’s Fight

NOTE: We are publishing events for the Week of Action to Free Georges Abdallah that are independently organized. For any information about these events, please contact the organizers, as Samidoun is not an organizer of these events and actions.

On Sunday June 15th, Al-Ahrar-NY-NJ will be hosting a screening of Fedayin: Georges Abdallah’s Fight.
Doors at 6PM
Screening at 6:30
May Day Space, 176 St Nicholas Ave, Brooklyn, NY
More info: https://www.instagram.com/p/DKnjv52vl8Z/

Following the film Al-Ahrar will have a short presentation and discussion on the current state of Abdallah’s case and ways we can support.

This screening is in a part of the international week of action for Georges Abdallah June 11-19th.

The 19th is a very important date for Georges Abdallah and the campaign for his release. On 15 November 2024 the court ordered his release, but the decision on the appeal by the government-ordered prosecution, originally scheduled for February, has been postponed to a new hearing on 19 June. His detention is a political offense, a reprisal by the state against those who stand up to the powerful.

 

Join the social media campaign to #FREE_GEORGES_ABDALLAH

On 19 June 2025, the French Court of Appeal will convene to consider the request to release the Lebanese struggler for Palestine, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, held as a political prisoner in French jails for 41 years, without a fair trial or legal justification, and despite being eligible for release since 1999. The four decades of his imprisonment reveal the falsehood of France’s claims of “democracy” and underline its continued colonial domination of Lebanon and its role as an imperialist power, allied with the United States and the Zionist project, the military base of imperialism in the region. 

To participate in the social media campaign, “We are all Georges Abdallah”:

1 Post your photo as a prisoner or hostage (Like the example in the poster above or the photo below, ideally with a French flag) with the hashtag #كلنا_جورج_عبدالله or
#FREE_GEORGES_ABDALLAH

2 Take to the streets: take part in the marches and protest stops in front of the French embassies  and consulates in cities around the world as part of the Week of Action to Free Georges Abdallah, from the Europe-wide march in Paris to events in Madrid, Barcelona, and elsewhere.

3. Hold a screening of the film “Fedayin, Georges Abdallah’s Fight” near you, which retraces his story and that of Palestine, or hold events and symposia on the case of Georges Abdallah and all prisoners of the Palestinian cause. Screenings are planned in New York, Seattle, Beirut, Vancouver and elsewhere.

Freedom and justice for Georges Ibrahim Abdallah and all revolutionary prisoners in the Zionist, French and imperialist prisons.

15 June, Beirut: Film Screening of “Fedayin” on the Life and Struggle of Georges Abdallah

تدعوكم الحملة الوطنية لتحرير جورج إبراهيم عبدالله وشبكة صامدون للدفاع عن الأسرى ‏الفلسطينيين والاتحاد الطلابي العام، لحضور عرض فيلم “فدائيين”، الذي يتناول سيرة المناضل ‏اللبناني الأسير جورج إبراهيم عبد الله، في ملتقى السفير – الحمرا، في أسبوع التضامن مع ‏الأسير البطل جورج عبد الله، وفي ظل انعقاد المحكمة الفرنسية يوم 19 حزيران للنظر في ‏قضية الإفراج عنه، وكذلك الإعلان عن انطلاق الحملة الدولية ضد العدوان الصهيوني على ‏لبنان، وضد سياسة الاغتيالات الصهيونية‎.‎

‎ ‎الزمان: الأحد – 15 يونيو (حزيران) 2025‏‎ ‎
المكان: ملتقى السفير – الحمرا – بيروت‎ ‎
‎ ‎الساعة: السادسة مساءً‎ ‎

The National Campaign to Free Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, and the General Student Union invite you to attend the screening of the film “Fedayin,” which chronicles the life of the imprisoned Lebanese activist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah. The screening will take place at the As-Safir Forum in Hamra, during the Week of Solidarity with the heroic prisoner Georges Abdallah. The event also coincides with the French court’s convening on June 19 to consider the case for his release. The event also marks the launch of the international campaign against the Zionist aggression against Lebanon and against the Zionist policy of assassinations.

Date: Sunday, June 15, 2025
Venue: As-Safir Forum, Hamra, Beirut
Time: 6:00 PM