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Free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian Prisoners! Week of Action January 15-22, 2025

15 January 2025 marks the 23rd anniversary of the detention of Ahmad Sa’adat – Palestinian national and leftist leader, and the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – by the so-called “Palestinian Authority,” as part of its “security coordination” with the zionist occupation. Since then (23 years!), he has been detained, first in the PA jails. Later, he was abducted by the zionist entity on March 14th, 2006.

Join us to take action on 15-22 January 2025 for the Week of Action to Free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian Prisoners!

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This annual call to action is particularly urgent this year for two reasons:

1) The collaboration of the treacherous Palestinian Authority, which inflicts repression on the Palestinian people to maintain its own position of privilege and collaboration with the zionist entity. With the funding and support of the imperialist powers, this has accelerated in a particularly dangerous manner amid the ongoing genocide. Since 7 October 2023, the PA has taken the lives of 18 Palestinian martyrs and is currently waging an ongoing siege against the resistance in Jenin camp. It continues to imprison dozens of Palestinian political prisoners, including Palestinian students, while firing on the resistance forces defending Palestinian land.

2) This is an urgent moment for the potential prisoners exchange sought by the Palestinian Resistance. Contrary to zionist and imperialist propaganda, the Resistance is the primary force seeking a meaningful prisoner exchange combined with the complete withdrawal of the genocidal zionist forces from the Gaza Strip. One of the highest priorities of the prisoner exchange is releasing the leaders of the resistance held in Zionist jails, with high sentences, that the regime has refused to release in past exchanges, including Ahmad Sa’adat, Marwan Barghouti, Abdullah Barghouti, Abbas al-Sayyed, Hassan Salameh, Ibrahim Hamed, Mahmoud al-Ardah, and others.

Palestinian prisoners are Resistance leaders, on the front lines for justice and liberation, enduring hunger strikes and struggling relentlessly with an unbreakable will toward freedom amid the most dire conditions of torture, abuse, medical neglect and deliberate killing. Since October 2023, they are facing exponential violence from the zionists, a violence that led to the martyrdom of over 50 Palestinian prisoners, with extreme violence particularly directed against the undisclosed number of Palestinians from Gaza abducted by the occupation and held in notorious torture camps like Sde Teiman.

Ahmad Sa’adat is a leader in the Palestinian prisoners’ movement and the Palestinian national liberation movement and a Palestinian, Arab and international symbol of resistance to Zionism, capitalism, racism, apartheid and colonization. Targeted for his political role and clarity of vision, he remains unsilenced and unbroken, despite the oppression imposed upon him and thousands of fellow Palestinian political prisoners.

23 years after his arrest, it is long past time for freedom for Ahmad Sa’adat, his fellow Resistance leaders and all Palestinian Prisoners in Zionist, imperialist, reactionary and Palestinian Authority jails.

32 years after Oslo, it is long past time to expose the so-called Palestinian Authority and bring down its  “security coordination” and treachery against the Palestinian people, in Jenin camp and everywhere. 

76 years after al-Nakba, it is long past time for the liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea!

We call for an international week of actions from January 15th to January 22nd, calling for the liberation of Ahmad Sa’adat and his fellow resistance leaders, advancing the demand for a prisoner exchange and an end to the genocide in Gaza and throughout occupied Palestine, and highlighting the malevolent role of the “Palestinian Authority” in the Palestinian liberation struggle. Take action to escalate against the zionist genocidal colonial entity, organise for justice in Palestine!

What can you do at you local level?

  • Endorse the Week of Action to Free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian Prisoners.
  • Educate through your networks: organise a discussion on Resistance leaders and political prisoners, share resources about Ahmad Sa’adat and Palestinian prisoners on social media and in your community
  • Organise or join a protest or demonstration against the ongoing Zionist-imperialist genocide in Palestine with a contingent, signs or banners for Ahmad Sa’adat and the Palestinian prisoners
  • Organise a demonstration at a PA embassy or similar location to demand an end to the Palestinian Authority’s offensives in Jenin Camp and throughout the West Bank against the People and the Resistance.
  • Organise an event, protest, teach-in stand or letter-writing meeting for the Week of Action.
  • Organise events, actions and protests to demand freedom for Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian Prisoners. Protest in public spaces, campuses and community spaces.
  • Join the social media campaign. Post a photo or a video message calling for freedom for Ahmad Sa’adat and his fellow Palestinian prisoners.
  • Support the liberation of Abla Sa’adat, Ahmad’s wife, imprisoned since September 2024.
  • Use the hashtags #freeallpalestinianprisoners, #freeahmadsaadat

“The Palestinian struggle for national liberation is part and parcel of the international movement of peoples for national liberation, international racial and economic justice, and an end to occupation, colonialism and imperialism.” – Ahmad Sa’adat

Palestine will be free, from the river to the sea! 

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Mohammed Walid Ali al-Aref martyred in Zionist prisons one week after his re-arrest

On Wednesday evening, 4 December 2024, Palestinian prisoners’ organizations announced the martyrdom of re-arrested liberated prisoner Mohammed Walid Hussein Ali (al-Aref), 45, of Nour Shams camp in Tulkarem inside the Zionist occupation prisons. He was abducted along with three other men from Nour Shams camp on 28 November 2024, when the invasion of occupation soldiers into the camp was met with a fierce response from the Resistance.

He was only in the occupation prisons for one week and was held in the notorious interrogation cells at the time of his martyrdom. Before his abduction by the occupation forces, he was healthy and well; he is married and the father of one child, and his wife is currently pregnant awaiting the birth of their second child. Given the circumstances of his martyrdom, it is clear that the attack on him is essentially an assassination behind bars, under torture in interrogation.

Mohammed Walid Ali al-Aref is a former prisoner who served 19 years inside the colonial Zionist prisons. During his time in prison, he was a leader in the prisoners’ movement and held several organizational positions, including representative of the Hamas prisoners in the Naqab desert prison and played an active role in struggles behind bars to defend the rights and achievements of imprisoned Palestinians.

He was released on 12 December 2021 in a celebration bringing together his family, loved ones, comrades and brothers in Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement.

 

The celebration of his release was attacked by Palestinian Authority “security forces” acting in “security coordination” with the Zionist regime, an attack condemned by — among others — the martyr Sheikh Khader Adnan, who was present for the welcoming occasion.

The martytdom of Mohammed Walid Hussein Ali al-Aref, held in Zionist prisons for only one week before he was martyred under interrogation, is part and parcel of the Zionist genocidal war on the Palestinian people and the Palestinian prisoners. He is now at least the 48th martyr of the prisoners’ movement since 7 October 2023, including 29 Palestinian prisoners from Gaza. It is clear that this number is incomplete, as at least dozens of Palestinians from Gaza were martyred under severe torture in the occupation prisons and detention camps, and the occupation has refused to release information about their names and the date of their martyrdom.

There are currently over 10,200 Palestinian prisoners held in Zionist prisons, although this number does not include all of the prisoners from Gaza, hundreds or thousands of whom have been subjected to enforced disappearance and whose names, locations, medical status and very life or death continue to be concealed by the occupation. There are at least 3443 Palestinians held under administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial (first brought to Palestine by the British colonial mandate and since enthusiastically adopted by the Zionist regime), 90 women prisoners and 270 imprisoned children, among this number.

All Palestinian prisoners are being subjected to medical abuse, extreme violence and deliberate starvation. The occupation regime recognizes that the Palestinian prisoners’ movement is a keystone of the Palestinian liberation struggle and is seeking to destroy it by all means, including the assassination of the prisoners. Palestinian prisoners from Gaza in particular have been subjected to systematic severe torture, gang rape, and extreme abuse, particularly in the notorious prison camps run specifically to torture Palestinians from Gaza without any kind of external observation.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network mourns Mohammed Walid Hussein Ali al-Aref and extends its condolences to his family, his fellow strugglers, and the Palestinian people. We pledge to redouble our efforts to organize to end the genocide, to stand with the resistance, to liberate the prisoners and for a free Palestine, from the river to the sea.

Glory to the martyr!
Freedom for all Palestinian prisoners and for all of Palestine, from the river to the sea!

Wounded Palestinian Ayman Ghanem abducted from hospital by occupation forces

Zionist occupation special forces — who arrived and departed partially disguised as a yellow taxi van — invaded the Arab Specialized Hospital in Nablus on the evening of Wednesday, 4 December, and abducted Ayman Ghanem, who had been wounded the day prior in the occupation’s bombing of a vehicle near the village of Aqaba in the Tubas governorate of the West Bank of occupied Palestine.

This cowardly assassination attack targeted the martyrs, the resistance fighters of the Al-Qassam Brigades, Karam Abu Ara and Mohammed Ghannam. The occupation forces then imposed a siege on the Turkish Governmental Hospital, detaining doctors and health workers in an attempt to confiscate the bodies of the martyrs and locate and abduct the wounded Ghanem.

The images of Ghanem’s hospital bed clearly indicate where he was bleeding as he was abducted and forcibly removed from IVs and other treatment. Ayman is being taken to join his fellow 10,200 Palestinians inside Zionist jails, where they are systematically denied medical care and where, at the same time, Mohammed Walid Hussein Ali al-Aref was martyred after only one week in the occupation’s interrogation cells.

Freedom for Ayman Ghanem and all Palestinian prisoners!

Haneen Jaber, mother of the martyrs Abu Shujaa and Mahmoud Jaber, abducted by occupation forces

On the evening of Wednesday, 4 December Zionist occupation forces abducted Haneen Jaber, the mother of the martyrs Mohammed Jaber (Abu Shujaa) and Mahmoud Jaber, at the entrance to Qalqilya city, occupied Palestine; she was then transferred to the Jalameh interrogation center, where she currently is being held captive.

The arrest and targeting of the mothers — and fellow relatives — of martyrs and resistance fighters is a common practice of the occupation regime in Palestine. It is frequently used in an attempt to force people to turn themselves in, or as a form of collective punishment in an attempt to deter future resistance fighters from confronting the occupation. For example, Tahani Masoud Mona, the mother of the martyr Jaafar Mona, is currently being held in administrative detention without charge or trial under a 4-month order. She is one of 27 Palestinian women prisoners jailed under administrative detention on the basis of a so-called “secret file” out of 3428 total administrative detainees, among over 10,000 Palestinian prisoners in Zionist jails.

Haneen’s son, the martyr Mohammed Jaber, Abu Shujaa, became a legendary resistance fighter and a leader of the Tulkarem Brigades with Saraya al-Quds of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, martyred at the age of 26. He was abducted for the first time by the Zionist regime when he was 17 years old and spent 5 years in occupation prisons through multiple arrests, where he was imprisoned alongside leaders of the resistance.

He was assassinated by the occupation regime on 29 August 2024 after multiple assassination attempts, and battled with the occupation until the last moment alongside his fellow strugglers, Hamouda al-Awfi and Majd Daoud. All three of their bodies were kidnapped by the occupation as part of the ongoing policy of the abduction of the bodies of martyrs as a form of collective punishment and in order to hold them hostage.

Watch his interview with Al-Mayadeen before his assassination (subtitled in English):


Nine months earlier, in December 2023, his brother, Mahmoud Jaber, was martyred in the Nour Shams camp, killed by the occupation forces during one of their attacks on the camp’s people. He was one of five Palestinians martyred that day in the camp as they confronted the invading occupation forces.

Haneen has two living sons, Ahmad and Uday; Ahmad is currently imprisoned by the occupation, while Uday is a liberated prisoner who was released in 2019.

 

Arrests, repression and fascism: The attack on Palestinians in occupied Palestine ’48

The Zionist occupation regime has carried out a concerted effort of repression against Palestinians in occupied Palestine ’48 to prevent the emergence of a clear front of protest, resistance and disruption to confront the genocide in Gaza and throughout occupied Palestine.

The regime’s criminal racist leaders, from Ben Gvir to Smotrich to Netanyahu, openly proclaim their plans to suppress the Palestinians of occupied Palestine ’48, with the latest attack being an order to silence the call to prayer from mosques throughout Palestine.

Colonial imprisonment is used as a weapon to attempt to prevent the Palestinian people living in ’48 from organizing into clear political organizations and resistance movements confronting Zionism head-on, despite the heroism of Palestinian resisters like Rami Natour, who used his truck to carry out a resistance operation near an occupation military base at Glilot, near “Tel Aviv” on 27 October 2024.

In fear of the development of a collective resistance, the occupation passes even more repressive “apartheid” laws targeting families of resistance fighters from occupied Palestine ’48, vowing to strip them of their imposed “Israeli” citizenship and expel them from Palestine.

Indeed, the occupation is still imprisoning activists from the 2021 uprising during the Battle of Seif al-Quds/the Unity Intifada, when Palestinians in occupied Palestine ’48 mobilized together with those in Gaza, the West Bank and exile to confront the Zionist assault.

The use of colonial imprisonment has also included a series of attacks against Palestinians for posting on social media in support of Gaza and the Palestinian people, arresting them and imprisoning them for “incitement.” Palestinian women especially have been targeted in this way.

The occupation regime continues to imprison the body of the martyr, the Palestinian freedom fighter, intellectual and author Walid Daqqa, who was martyred behind bars after the occupation denied him appropriate medical care or release.

In many cases, the repression of Palestinians is rendered less visible through the use of “house arrest.” Palestinians under house arrest are often denied access to the internet, must have another family member with them to guard them, and often are held outside their hometown via forced expulsion.

While Palestinians under “house arrest” are free of the extreme torture, beatings, starvation and medical neglect imposed upon Palestinians in the Zionist jails, they are also kept away from the Palestinian prisoners’ movement and collective mobilization of the Palestinian people, serving the efforts of the Zionist regime to separate Palestinians in ’48 from their people.

In the past days, several Palestinians from occupied Palestine ’48 holding imposed “Israeli” citizenship have been sentenced. Nasr Zeitawi, from Zalfa village, was ordered yesterday to 5 years in prison and a fine of 20,000 NIS for his role in the Unity Intifada in 2021. He already served 2 years in prison and has been under “house arrest” since 2023. Now, he will be sent to prison for the remaining 3 years. Ward Zeitawi, also from Zalfa, was sentenced to 250 hours of “community service” and a fine of 3,000 NIS. He has also been under “house arrest” since 2021.

In the past year, around 550 Palestinians from occupied Palestine ’48 have been charged in Zionist courts for participating in 2021 in defense of Palestine. On 14 October, Mohammed Zeitawi was sentenced to 7 yrs and Ahmad Mahameed to 5 yrs (both from Zalfa) in Zionist prison.

On 9 October, Assi Hourani (52) from Akka had charges against him dropped. However, he already served six months in Zionist jails and was severely tortured under interrogation; has been held under “house arrest” since 2023; and has been deported from Akka this entire time.

On the same day, Saleh Majed and Mohammed Hammad from Akka were “convicted” of defending themselves from a settler who attempted to ram Palestinians with his car. Adham Bashir was sentenced in 2022 to 10 years in prison; and Qusay Abbas in 2023 to 17 years in the same incident.

On 4 December, the conditions on activist Mohammed Jabareen from Umm al-Fahm were “eased”; he can now leave the house for 5 hours and return to Umm al-Fahm, rather than the village of Zalfa, where he has been under “house arrest” since June.

Mohammed Jabareen was imprisoned between 19 October and mid-June 2024 in Zionist occupation prisons for participating in a demonstration against the genocide in Gaza (in sharp contrast to the deference shown to the “right to rape” Zionist rioters, who invaded military bases.) He has been in “house arrest” in Zalfa under forced expulsion since that time.

On Monday, 2 December, Mahdi Abu al-Hassan, 22, from Umm al-Fahm began serving a 9-month sentence in Jalameh prison. He was abducted by the occupation from Al-Aqsa Mosque in April 2022 with hundreds of worshipers & sentenced to 11 months in prison; he has already served 60 days.

All of these sentences are meant to create a sense of terror among the Palestinian masses that any participation in protest, confrontation or resistance will be met with a massive attack against not only the individual, but their family and community.

The Palestinian identity is certainly under attack by the Zionist regime, as it has been for over 76 and indeed, for over 100 years; however, even more, there is a concerted attack to prevent organized action, community defense and mobilized resistance.

All of these assaults make clear not only the racist nature of the Zionist regime and its desire to erase Palestinian life and existence, but also its inability to destroy Palestinians’ love for their land and people and willingness to act to defend them in all circumstances.

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!

Palestinian Authority escalates “security coordination” through arrests and attacks on Palestinian resistance

Every time there is a serious effort towards Palestinian unity to confront the occupation, in line with the needs of the people — and, therefore, with the Resistance — Palestinian Authority “security coordination” forces, in league with the Zionist occupiers, launch arrests and attacks against the Palestinian resistance.

As Palestinian factions meet in Cairo, ostensibly to defend the Palestinian people in Gaza against the genocide and protect them from the plans of the Zionist regime and imperialist powers to impose their wishes for “the day after” on the besieged Strip, the PA in Ramallah is — as it always has been since its creation under the Oslo accords — arresting Palestinians under “security coordination” with the occupation, shooting at resistance fighters and dismantling resistance weapons.

This policy clearly aims to prevent the resistance in the West Bank from carrying out a large-scale confrontation of the occupation, standing with Gaza and the people throughout Palestine, and from defending their land and people from colonial settlers. Of course, it also aims to prevent Palestinian unity, as it is impossible to have national unity with forces that are actively engaged in an alliance with the occupation regime against the resistance.

In the early hours of 4 December 2024, PA “security” forces abducted Raheeb and Mohammed Daraghmeh after besieging their homes in Al-Jisr neighbourhood in Tubas, part of the PA’s ongoing attacks on the resistance in Tubas and its popular cradle (acting alongside Zionist assassinations and invasions.) This has involved repeatedly dismantling explosive devices created by the resistance in order to confront the invading occupation forces and multiple threats against the resistance.

Later in the day on Wednesday, 4 December, PA forces abducted two more young men, Abdel-Salam al-Masri and Mutaib Khaled Abu Hamad, from Aqaba in the Tubas district, the same village where the Zionist occupation had abducted multiple people the previous day, as well as bombing a car leading to the martyrdom of two Palestinian resistance fighters and the serious injury of a third Palestinian.

In Nablus, Palestinian Authority forces arrested Mohammed Jawad al-Bari from Jerusalem Street during the day on 4 December. He is a liberated prisoner who was released from the occupation’s prisons less than one month ago. A few hours later, the PA abducted his brother, Mahmoud Jawad in front of his home in Balata.

Later in the day, PA security forces in Bethlehem arrested Salahat Abayat as he was leaving the mosque following noon prayer, part of this ongoing campaign of arrests in cities throughout Palestine.

 

For Palestinian students, the PA prisons are a “revolving door” with the occupation. When released by the occupation, they are detained by the PA; and vice versa. At least five of the students arrested in the past week by the occupation were recently detained in the Palestinian Authority’s notorious jails. On Tuesday, 3 December, the PA “security” abducted Birzeit student Hudhayfa Ammar Abu Zneid from his university dorm.

One day before, the PA intelligence services in al-Khalil abducted Polytechnic University student Muhannad Mahmoud Amr, from Dura, after summoning him for interrogation at the Al-Khalil PA intelligence headquarters.

PA intelligence forces abducted Imad Abu al-Haija, the liberated prisoner, the son of the imprisoned leader Jamal Abu al-Haija, brother of the martyr Hamza Abu al-Haija, and brother of the prisoners Asem and Abdel-Salam Abu al-Haija, on 3 December.

PA “security” forces arrested Palestinian journalist Hammam Attili from his workplace in Attil, north of Tulkarem, at the same time the zionist regime carries out an arrest and assassination campaign against Palestinian journalists.

Only two weeks after he was released from PA detention in Nablus, the PA once again abducted Rami Dweikat on 30 November. He has launched a hunger strike to demand his freedom.

These are only those most recently detained by the “security forces.” Since 7 October 2023, the PA has detained 1,800 Palestinians for “security” reasons — that is, on suspicion of resisting the occupation, being held as political prisoners — while providing absolutely no security to the Palestinian people confronting violent illegal settlers and the occupation army on a daily basis.

At the same time it pursued these arrests on Wednesday, 4 December, the PA “security forces” attacked and opened fire on members of the Tulkarem Brigade of Saraya al-Quds in Tulkarem, who were able to escape, but who clearly stated following the incident that they viewed the attack as an assassination attempt. (The PA’s forces previously assassinated Brigade martyrs Ahmed Abu al-Foul and Moatassem al-Arif.)

Of course, this is nothing new. The Palestinian Authority was created in order to provide security for the colonizer and create a local agent to act in its interests, rather than to protect and liberate the Palestinian people.

From Muhyi al-Din al Sharif to Ahmad Sa’adat to today’s detainees, the treacherous PA imprisoned many leaders of the resistance in order to serve the Zionist occupation and its imperialist backers in the US, EU, Canada, etc. Free all Palestinian prisoners in PA, Zionist & imperialist jails!

Jordanian martyrs for Palestine buried at night amid official complicity with the Zionist regime

The Jordanian regime has continued to serve as a partner of US imperialism and its Zionist colony in Palestine, arresting those who fund and arm the Resistance and serving as a supply line for Zionism, even as the people and armed forces of Yemen do all in their power to cut that line.

The real sentiment of the people of Jordan is seen in the streets, in the masses coming out for Palestine. It is felt materially in the actions of brave resistance fighters from Jordan, like the martyr Maher al-Jazi, the truck driver who shot and killed 3 occupation soldiers at the Karameh crossing on 8 September 2024.

While the monarchy retains its Wadi Araba deal normalizing relations with the Zionist regime, up to and including the maintenance of economic and full security coordination and pledges to shoot down any missiles shot toward the Zionist regime by forces of resistance in Iraq or from Iran, the people of Jordan were in the streets to celebrate their hero, Maher al-Jazi, and calling for further acts of resistance.

In the early morning hours of 4 December 2024, the occupation forces finally handed over the bodies of the two martyrs: Husam Abu Ghazaleh and Amer Qawas. The two martyrs took up the Resistance, embodying the history of all the fedayeen — the fighters of the Palestinian liberation movement — who crossed the borders from Jordan to confront the colonizer, injuring two Zionist soldiers in the Dead Sea Operation on 18 October 2024.

The Jordanian regime summoned the families of the two martyrs at 1:30 am to Sahab Cemetery, without informing them that the occupation had returned their kidnapped parties. They were buried with the participation of only a few family members, in the middle of the night.

The Zionist regime also engages in this same practice of terror and repression against families in occupied Palestine; often they will return the kidnapped martyrs’ bodies only if they are buried in the darkest night. They want to do the impossible and erase the glory of the martyrs by denying them the farewell they deserve.

Jordan is complicit in this order from the Zionist regime, as it continues its trade and engagement with the genocidal regime while repressing the resistance. It is complicit in the denial of the martyrs their rightful place, when they should be celebrated as national heroes.

Multiple Jordanians are currently imprisoned for working to support the Palestinian people and their resistance, and even facing military/security courts in an effort to shield their cases from scrutiny under the normal judicial system. Pharmacist Ahmed Barakat has been jailed since 9 March, accused of seeking to support the Palestinian resistance, while Ibrahim Jabr, Hudhayfa Jabr and Khaled al-Majdalawi have been imprisoned since mid-2023 — prior to the Al-Aqsa Flood — for allegedly attempting to bring arms to the Palestinian resistance. Between October and November 2023, at least 1,000 Jordanians were arrested for participating in protests against the genocide in Gaza in Amman.

Journalist Hiba Abu Taha was sentenced to a year in prison after she published an article exposing the Jordanian role in collaborating with the US, British and French militaries to shoot down drones and rockets from Iran targeting the Zionist regime and a second article exposing the role of Jordanian corporations in providing goods to the Zionist regime amid the genocide, in order to avoid the blockade imposed by Yemen in the Red Sea.

Yet no matter the repression and the crimes, the borders of occupied Palestine will never be kept “safe” for the occupier, colonizer and genocidaire, from the Palestinian people and the Jordanian people, from the entire nation.

Glory to the martyrs!
Freedom for all prisoners of the Palestinian cause, from Jordan to Palestine!

Occupation forces shoot and kill Palestinian boy in Jerusalem, detain his body

Zionist regime forces shot and killed 15-year-old Palestinian boy, the martyr Omar Hussam Yaqoub Shwaiki in Silwan, occupied Jerusalem, the eternal capital of Palestine, on the night of Tuesday, 3 December 2024. Omar was shot down by occupation forces, then arrested and accused of throwing stones at colonial settler invaders.

They denied him medical care until his martyrdom. Following Omar’s martyrdom, the occupation forces continued to detain his body, alongside hundreds of bodies of Palestinian martyrs held in the freezers, morgues and numbers cemeteries of the occupation. Occupation forces invaded his family home, ransacking it and abducting his father.

After abducting his father and taking him to interrogation at the notorious Moskobiyeh detention center, the occupation forces informed him of his son’s martyrdom in their captivity. He is the 81st martyr from occupied Jerusalem since 7 October 2023.

Palestinian prisoner Hanan Barghouti freed after 9 months in administrative detention

Salutes of freedom to Hanan Saleh Abdullah Barghouti, Umm An’ad, 59, from Kobar village in the Ramallah area, occupied Palestine, freed after nine months in administrative detention, Zionist imprisonment without charge or trial on 3 December 2024.

Hanan had been held in administrative detention since September 2023; she was liberated on 24 November 2023, as part of the prisoner exchange secured by the Palestinian Resistance in Gaza.

After four months, she was once again abducted by occupation soldiers invading her home. Upon her release from Zionist prisons, she spoke about the horrific conditions currently facing Palestinian women detained in Damon prison:

“If we want to talk about the condition of the prisoners, and the women prisoners in particular, it is true that they are strong and their morale is high but the prison conditions are very harsh. I don’t want to talk about the lack of food, the poor food quality and the limited types of food. I want to talk about the prison administration, how it suppresses and there are no more red lines. It exceeded them with all the prisoners, whether by beating, humiliating, through solitary isolation, confiscating clothing, strip searching and harassment. Anything you can imagine, they’ve done it to the female prisoners. So, I hope, the message from the women prisoners, the women prisoners’ message to the whole world and to all concerned: True, we are strong, and we do not accept to be used as a pressure card against the resistance. But at what price will the women prisoners be released?  Because the honor that currently exists inside the prisons is being violated, there are no red lines that have not been crossed by the prison administration. On September 25, we experienced major repression. They took the girls out in the yard, handcuffed with their hands behind them, and they were beaten, they were insulted. On 7 October, they took us out and they brought the Yamaz and Keter units, with dogs…On 7 October there were dogs, they beat, humiliated and isolated us. On November 20, they repressed us, it was a major repression. They took us into the yard, handcuffed, with our hands behind our back, blindfolded. We were beaten, they didn’t make exceptions for elderly women. I am 60 years old. I was beaten and insulted. Young girls were also subjected to strip searches by female soldiers. They tried, the prison administration was treating them badly while stripping the prisoners, I can’t say more than that, but all red lines were violated for the women prisoners.”

There are approximately 90 women prisoners out of 10,200 Palestinian prisoners in Zionist jails; note that this number does not include all women from Gaza, many of whom have been subjected to enforced disappearance in the occupation’s torture camps. Of these, approximately 27 are held in administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial. Khalida Jarrar, the prominent Palestinian feminist and leftist scholar, is being held in isolation, away from the women in Damon, in Neve Tirza prison and has been isolated for over 100 days.

Hanan’s husband, Mohammed Barghouti, Abu An’ad, is also held in administrative detention without charge or trial after Zionist occupation soldiers abducted him on 1 August, ordering him to three months in administrative detention on 7 August 2024. His detention was just extended again at the end of October 2024.

Hanan and Mohammed are the parents of three imprisoned sons, Abdullah, Omar and Islam. Their son An’ad was just released from administrative detention on 15 August.

Hanan Barghouti is also the sister of the longest-held Palestinian prisoner, Nael Barghouti, who has been held by the occupation regime for over 44 years. Nael was already one of the longest-held Palestinian prisoners when he was released in the Wafa al-Ahrar exchange, only to be re-abducted three years later.

Hanan and Nael Barghouti are also siblings of Omar Barghouti, Abu ‘Asif, who spent more than 30 years in occupation prisons. Omar was a beloved long-term leader of the prisoners’ movement who spent over 27 years in occupation prisons. He passed away in 2021. Omar’s son Saleh was assassinated by the Zionist regime in 2018 and his son Asem sentenced to four life sentences in occupation prisons.

Upon her liberation from Zionist prisons in the exchange achieved by the Palestinian resistance, Hanan said: “We tell the children of Gaza that we will meet in heaven and victory is yours.”

The re-arrest of Hanan Barghouti is part of an ongoing attack on the women released in the exchange one year ago, as multiple women have been abducted by the occupation again, including Fadwa Hamadeh, Sameh Hijjawi, Walaa Tanja, Dania Hanatsheh, Haneen Masaed, and Aseel Samih Khader.

Hanan Barghouti is a symbol of resistance and steadfastness. Despite multiple medical issues, including high blood pressure and diabetes, she is at the forefront of every demonstration for the release of the prisoners and the liberation of Palestine. The wife, mother, sister and aunt of prisoners and freedom fighters, she has always refused to remain silent even in face of threats of arrest, declaring after her liberation: “The resistance is God’s hand on earth. As long as our resistance is well, we will remain well and we will continue to support the resistance with our children, our souls and our blood.”

For more information about Palestinian women prisoners or to get involved with the independent international campaign for their liberation, please visit Dismantle Damon at https://instagram.com/dismantle_damon or https://t.me/dismantle_damon. 

Samer Hussein and Abdel-Rahman Rashdan: Occupation targets prisoners’ and martyrs’ homes for demolition

Occupation forces invaded the homes of Palestinian prisoner Abdel-Rahman Rashdan and the martyr Samer Hussein on Sunday, 1 December 2024, taking the homes’ measurements — typically done in preparation for their demolition by Zionist colonial forces.

The demolition of the homes of Palestinians imprisoned or martyred for their role in the resistance, like administrative detention, was first introduced to Palestine by the British colonial mandate and used against the Palestinian revolutionaries of 1936, and has become a systematic practice of collective punishment under the Zionist colonial occupation in order to target the families and communities of the prisoners and martyrs. The Zionist regime has announced a new policy of demolishing the home of Palestinians involved in the resistance even when no settlers or occupation soldiers were killed, and appears to be implementing this policy with the invasion of the homes of Rashdan and Hussein.

Both Rashdan and Hussein are from the village of Einabus, south of Nablus. Abdel-Rahman Rashdan was abducted by the occupation on Thursday, 28 November; he was released on 13 June 2022 after spending 19 years in occupation prisons for his participation in the Izz el-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, and his involvement in several shooting operations and planting explosive devices against the occupation as part of the resistance during the Al-Aqsa Intifada. He was greeted with a massive and enthusiastic reception upon his return to Einabus.

In August 2023, he was detained by the Palestinian Authority’s “Preventive Security” service under its “security coordination” agreements under the Oslo accords with the Zionist occupation regime. He was accused of collecting money for the resistance and possession of a weapon and subjected to torture and beatings before being released after launching a hunger strike to demand his freedom.

The martyr Samer Mohammed Ahmed Hussein, 46, carried out a resistance operation near the Ariel settlement on Friday, 29 November. The father of five children, he ambushed and opened fire on an occupation police patrol and a settlers’ bus transporting soldiers to the illegal colonial “Ariel” settlement built on stolen Palestinian land, injuring 9 soldiers and settlers. Occupation forces also arrested one of his sons while storming his home in Einabus following the operation.

Like Rashdan and many resistance strugglers in Palestine, the martyr Samer Hussein is a liberated prisoner. A struggler in the al-Qassam Brigades, Samer Hussein was arrested by the Zionist occupation regime in 2003, and served 20 months in occupation prisons, and was detained at least twice by the Palestinian Authority under its “security coordination” regime, accused of being a member of the Hamas movement. A deeply religious man, Samer Hussein also served as the imam at the Einabus mosque.

Like other forms of collective punishment such as the imprisonment of family members, the theft of the bodies of the martyrs, the invasion and attack of entire villages, towns and refugee camps, the Zionist regime aims to suppress Palestinian resistance and its popular cradle of support through the tactic of home demolition. Of course, the Zionist project seeks to demolish Palestinian homes and confiscate Palestinian land for any reason and upon any pretext, as is seen throughout occupied Palestine, including in Jerusalem and occupied Palestine ’48, where Palestinian buildings are frequently forcibly demolished for settlers or on the grounds of “lacking a permit,” which are always denied to Palestinians.

The escalation of the home demolition policy is part and parcel of the fascist Zionist genocide against the Palestinian people — particularly in Gaza — being armed and funded by the United States, Germany, France, Britain, Canada and other imperialist powers. Such efforts failed in the hands of the British colonial mandate and will continue to fail in the hands of the genocidal Zionist project and its allies, underlining once again the steadfastness of the Palestinian people and their deep rootedness in the land and willingness to struggle that cannot be suppressed through destruction, imprisonment and massacres.

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