15 August, Den Haag: March for Palestine

14 August 2021

Sunday, 15 August
3 pm
Het Plein, Den Haag (The Hague), Netherlands

Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/CSURK7CNqHI/

Make noise for Palestine!

A call to groups and individuals across The Netherlands: the Palestinians of Sheikh Jarrah have called for August to be an international month of action in the streets, and we shall respond. Following protests across the world, from London to Toulouse to Ontario, next Sunday we’ll be marching through the streets of The Hague to speak up against ongoing Dutch support for Israeli apartheid.

The Hague (Den Haag) is the political capital of The Netherlands. Among its key locations is the The International Criminal Court (ICC), which has made statements on the apartheid wall but never acted on them. Dutch parliamentary buildings, from which decisions have been made to purchase hundreds of millions’ worth of Israeli weapons tested on Palestinians, are situated side-by-side with the illegitimate Israeli embassy.

Practicalities: if you’re joining from Maastricht (or another city) and have a car, please message us for possibilities of taking other protestors along with you! Likewise, if you cannot join with public transport, message us and we’ll do our best to get you a ride.
____________________________________
Maak lawaai voor Palestina!
Een oproep aan groepen en individuen in heel Nederland: de Palestijnen van Sheikh Jarrah hebben opgeroepen om augustus een internationale maand van actie op straat te maken, en wij zullen hierop reageren. Na protesten over de hele wereld, van Londen tot Toulouse tot Ontario, marcheren we aanstaande zondag door de straten van Den Haag om ons uit te spreken tegen de aanhoudende Nederlandse steun voor de Israëlische apartheid.

Den Haag (Den Haag) is de politieke hoofdstad van Nederland. Een van de belangrijkste locaties is het Internationaal Strafhof (ICC), dat verklaringen heeft afgelegd over de apartheidsmuur, maar er nooit naar heeft gehandeld. De Nederlandse parlementaire gebouwen, waarin besloten is om voor honderden miljoenen aan Israëlische wapens te kopen die op Palestijnen zijn getest, bevinden zich naast de onwettige Israëlische ambassade.

18 August, Online Event: Palestinian grassroots organising against colonial incarceration

13 August 2021

Wednesday, 18 August
7 pm British time (8 pm Europe, 9 pm Palestine, 11 am Pacific, 2 pm Eastern)
Online Event, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMoc-qqrTosEtWPn-rVu5D-X30IIiLBBToi

The following event is organized by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (UK):

Over the course of April, May and June 2021, Palestinians participated in one of the largest and most inspiring mobilisations of recent years, including a general strike for dignity. Throughout historic Palestine and exiled Palestinian communities, thousands unified in struggle, calling for rights, dignity, justice and freedom. These extraordinary events brought new energy to the Palestinian decolonisation and anti-apartheid movement and brought about a sea change in people speaking out and standing in solidarity with Palestine internationally.

To quell the uprising, Israel relied on classic colonial tactics: direct lethal violence and arbitrary arrests resulting in repressive, lengthy, and costly legal procedures to intimidate Palestinians and attempt to silence their collective power. The wide and unprecedented participation of Palestinians citizens of Israel meant that they were targeted en masse: More than 2,000 were arrested and around 200 indicted, the mass majority of them working-class youth. Similar to Palestinian detainees from other parts of Palestine’s fragmented geography, they suffer from physical and psychological abuse at the hands of Israeli police compounded with discriminatory procedures and rulings by Israeli courts.

Palestinians are self-organising and pushing forward their liberation goals of freedom and justice, building upon the unity built through the past few months. In this conversation we will hear about these efforts, including the Dignity and Hope Detainees Fund Project to provide legal support and solidarity to the families and communities most impacted.

This event is hosted by Baladna: Association for Arab Youth and Palestine Solidarity Campaign, and will feature a panel of activists and lawyers:

Soheir Assad, a Haifa-based human rights lawyer and a member of the Advisory Board of the Dignity and Hope Detainees Fund Project at Baladna: Association for Arab Youth. Soheir will speak about the political and social context for the May uprising, the legal and political precarity experienced by Palestinian citizens of Israel, and new community organizing efforts to provide meaningful direct support to those detained.

Sahar Francis, lawyer and director of Addameer: Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association in the occupied West Bank. Sahar will speak about the historical and ongoing ways that Israel uses incarceration as a tool of political repression against Palestinians under occupation and apartheid rule across their historic homeland.

The event will be chaired by Riya Al’Sanah, who is a Palestine-based political organiser and is also on the advisory board of the Dignity and Hope Detainees Fund Project at Baladna: Association for Arab Youth.

16 August, NYC: Globalize the Intifada – Rise Against Normalization, Defend Palestine

12 August 2021

Monday, 16 August
4:00 pm
Zionist Consulate
42nd St and 2nd Ave, NYC
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/CSct4nhJ6pd/

This MONDAY august 16th 4 PM in front of the Zionist consulate on 42nd St & 2nd Ave Manhattan NYC. Join Within Our Lifetime for another Globalize the intifada action, where we will gather at the zionist consulate to stand against the normalization of Zionism, and to make it known that despite some Arab nations ceding to normalization efforts, the people of these nations have always been and will always be with the Palestinian people.

12 Palestinian detainees continue hunger strikes for freedom

11 August 2021

Twelve Palestinian political prisoners are continuing their hunger strikes to bring an end to administrative detention, Israeli imprisonment without charge or trial. Salem Zeidat, the longest-striking Palestinian prisoner, has now gone without food for one month to demand an end to his arbitrary imprisonment, and despite his severe weakness after a month of hunger strike, he was attacked by Israeli occupation prison guards on Tuesday, 10 August inside the Negev desert prison.

Repressive units invaded section 2 of the Negev prison after the detainees held there protested Israeli jailers’ assault on Zeidat, especially in his weakened physical state. These Israeli forces ransacked and destroyed Palestinian prisoners’ belongings during the attack, after which the detainees closed their sections and returned their meals.

Alaa al-Araj, 34, joined the hunger strike against his administrative detention on Sunday, 8 August. He is held in Megiddo prison and has been jailed without charge or trial since June. He has now been thrown into the isolation cells in Megiddo in an attempt to pressure him into ending his strike. In addition to the assault on Salem Zeidat, striking detainees have been blocked from meeting their lawyers and repeatedly transferred from prison to prison, putting further pressure on their bodies.

Four of the hunger strikers, including Ahmad Nazzal, Mohammed Abu Sal and Ahmed Abu Sal, suspended their strikes after reaching agreements to end the administrative detention orders against them or not to renew the orders. Mohammed Nuwwara also suspended his hunger strike against his solitary confinement.

What Is Administrative Detention?

Administrative detention was first used in Palestine by the British colonial mandate and then adopted by the Zionist regime; it is now used routinely to target Palestinians, especially community leaders, activists, and influential people in their towns, camps and villages.

There are currently approximately 540 Palestinians jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention, out of 4,850 Palestinian political prisoners. These orders are issued by the military and approved by military courts on the basis of “secret evidence”, denied to both Palestinian detainees and their attorneys. Issued for up to six months at a time, they are indefinitely renewable, and Palestinians — including minor children — can spend years jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention.

On Wednesday, 11 August, Palestinians in Gaza protested outside the UN High Commission for Human Rights’ office in Gaza in support of the hunger strikers, demanding that international institutions carry out their responsibilities to protect Palestinian detainees and hold Israeli officials accountable in international courts.

Who Are the Hunger Strikers?

1. Salem Zeidat: from Bani Neim – Hebron, started the strike 31 days ago. Salem Zeidat is 40 years old and has been jailed without charge or trial since 22 February 2020; he is married andd the father of 5 children, held in the Negev Prison.

2. Mujahed Hamed: from Silwad – Ramallah, started the strike 29 days ago. He has been detained since 22 September 2020 and married with a son, who was only one month old when he was seized from his home; he is held in the Negev prison.

3. Mohammed A’mar: from Tulkarem, started the strike 29 days ago. Mohammed A’mar is 26 years old and has been jailed without charge or trial since October 2020, held in the Negev prison.

4. Kayed Fasfous: from Dura – Hebron, started the strike 29 days ago. He is 32 years old, detained without charge or trial since October 2020, and held in Ramon prison.

5. Rafat Darawish: from Dura – Hebron, started the strike 28 days ago. He is 28 years old, detained since October 2020 without charge or trial. He is married with one child and suffers from health problems; he is jailed in Ramon prison.

6. Fadi al-Amour: from Hebron, started 22 days ago. Al-Amour, 31, was seized by the occupation on 20 May 2021 after being released in 2020 after serving six years in Israeli prisons. His brother, Mohammed, is also jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention; he is held in the Negev prison.

7. Miqdad Qawasmeh: from Hebron, started 21 days ago. Miqdad Qawasmeh is a Palestinian university student, 24 years old. He has been jailed without charge or trial since January 2021 and is held in Ofer prison.

8. Yousef al-Amer: Jenin, started 14 days ago. Yousef al-Amer is 28 years old, and previously launched a hunger strke against his administrative detention. He has been jailed since June 2020 and was sentenced to one year in Israeli prison; after his sentence ended, he was transferred to administrative detention in May 2021 rather than being released.

9. Ahmad Hamamra: from Beit Sahour, started the strike 12 days ago. He has been imprisoned without charge or trial since 17 August 2020 and previously participated in the 2017 collective hunger strike while detained.

10. Amjad Nammoura: from Dura, al-Khalil (Hebron), launched his strike 7 days ago. In the past, he spent over 5 years in Israeli prison, much of that in administrative detention. He is 38 years old, married, and the father of three children; he has been imprisoned since October 2020.

11. Akram Fasfous: from Dura, al-Khalil (Hebron), launched his strike 7 days ago. He is the brother of Kayed Fasfous, on hunger strike for 28 days, and of Mahmoud Fasfous, who was previously on strike before suspending due to severe heatlh deterioration. He has been jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention since October 2020. He is 38 years old, married and the father of four children.

12. Alaa al-Araj: from Tulkarem, launched his strike 4 days ago. He has been jailed since 30 June without charge or trial under administrative detention and is held in Megiddo prison. He is 34 years old.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all supporters of Palestine to take action to support these Palestinian hunger strikers and all Palestinian prisoners struggling for freedom, for their own lives and for the Palestinian people. They are confronting the system of Israeli oppression on the front lines, with their bodies and their lives, to bring the system of administrative detention to an end. Take these actions below to stand with the hunger strikers and the struggle for liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea!

Download these signs for use in your campaigns:

TAKE ACTION:

Sign the petition!

Independent grassroots international activists have launched a petition in support of the hunger strikers and to end administrative detention. Show your support by signing on – in addition to taking action in person! Sign here: change.org/NoChargeNoTrialNoJail

Protest at the Israeli Embassy or Consulate in Your Country!

Join the many protests taking place around the world — confront, isolate and besiege the Israeli embassy or consulate in your city or country of residence. Make it clear that the people are with Palestine! Send us your events at samidoun@samidoun.net.

Take to the streets: Organize a protest in solidarity with Palestine!

Take to the streets and join the actions on our full list of events, which is constantly being updated as new actions are announced! Organize your own if there is none in your area, and send us your events at samidoun@samidoun.net.

Boycott Israel!

The international, Arab and Palestinian campaign to boycott Israel can play an important role at this critical time. Local boycott groups can protest and label Israeli produce and groceries. During Ramadan, Israeli dates from stolen Palestinian land are marketed around the world while Israel attempts to force Palestinians from Jerusalem, demolish homes, and imprisons thousands more. By participating in the boycott of Israel, you can directly help to throw a wrench in the economy of settler colonialism.

Demand Your Government Sanction Israel!

The racist, settler colonial state of Israel and its war crimes against the Palestinian people are enabled and backed extensively by the over $3.8 billion each year given to Israel by the United States — targeted directly to support the Israeli occupation military killing children, women, men and elders throughout occupied Palestine. From Canada to Australia to the European Union, Western governments and imperialist powers provide ongoing diplomatic, political and economic support to Israel as well as selling billions of dollars of weaponry to the settler-colonial state. Meanwhile, they also purchase billions of dollars in weaponry from the Israeli state. Governments in league with imperialist powers, such as in the Philippines, Brazil, India and elsewhere, also buy weapons and “security” services — all “battle-tested” on the Palestinian population. Call your representatives, MPs, political officials and demand your government sanction Israel now, cut off all aid, expel its ambassadors, and stop buying and selling weapons!

14 August, Online Event: Canada’s Role in Palestinian Dispossession

11 August 2021

Saturday, 14 August
12:30 pm Pacific (2:30 pm Central, 3:30 pm Eastern)
Register for online event: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/canada-settler-colonialism-and-palestine-tickets-164019391415

Hanna Kawas discusses Canada’s complicity in Palestinian dispossession and how it enables settler colonialism at home and abroad.

Hanna Kawas is a Palestinian activist, writer, and journalist who was born in Bethlehem, Palestine. He is the chairperson of the Canada Palestine Association (cpavancouver.org) and was cohost of Voice of Palestine (voiceofpalestine.ca); he has been active in anti-war struggles and support work for liberation movements. He has presented to conferences and workshops at UBC, SFU and Kwantlen and has also been invited to speak in classrooms across Greater Vancouver.

Sat, August 14, 2021, 12:30 PM PDT (2:30 pm CDT, 3:30 pm EDT)

Online, please register here: eventbrite.ca

Sponsors:
Peace Alliance Winnipeg,
Geopolitical Economy Research Group

69 Palestinian and Jordanian political prisoners sentenced in Saudi Arabia for supporting Palestinian resistance

9 August 2021

On Sunday, 8 August, a Saudi court convicted and sentenced dozens of Palestinian and Jordanian detainees on charges of supporting Palestinian resistance, underlining once again the complicity of Saudi Arabia in advancing U.S. imperialism in the region and protecting the interests of the Israeli occupation. The sentences, which can be appealed after 40 days, range from 3 years to 22 years in Saudi prisons.

During the hearing, only one person from each detainee’s family was permitted to attend the trials. Mohammed al-Khoudari, who had served as the official representative of the Hamas movement in Saudi Arabia, was sentenced to 15 years in prison, with half of the sentence suspended for a total of 7.5 years.

Mohammed al-Abed was sentenced to 22 years in prison, Mohammed al-Banna to 20 years, Ayman Salah to 19 years, Abdel Rahman Farhan to 19 years, Ayman al-Arian to 19 years, Mohammed Abu al-Rub to 18 years, Sherif Nasrallah to 16 years, Jamal Dahoudi to 15 years, Omar Aref al-Haj to 12 years, Basel al-Kurdi to 7 years, Saleh Qafa to 5 year, Hani al-Khoudari to 3 years, and Musa Abu Hussein and Ayman al-Akkad to 4 years imprisonment.

Some of the Palestinians and Jordanians sentenced in these cases had lived in Saudi Arabia for 50 years; they were detained 2.5 years ago in what was widely perceived not only as an attack on the Palestinian resistance and Palestinian rights, but also as a step advancing official Saudi normalization with the Israeli regime. Their work to support Palestine had been officially licensed by the Saudi monarchy in the past before their sudden arrest and detention. Many of the detainees’ families were also expelled from Saudi Arabia and their residency rights cancelled.

The cases reflect a policy of openly targeting the Palestinian resistance and adopting the false “terrorist” designation against Palestinian resistance organizations; rather than being arrested, charged or deported on vague allegations or traditional criminal charges, they were specifically accused of providing support to the Palestinian people and their resistance to Israeli occupation, apartheid and colonialism.

These unjust sentences were imposed against Palestinians living and working in Saudi Arabia and supporting the steadfastness of the Palestinian people. The sentences come as a mechanism of terrorizing Palestinians in Saudi Arabia and reflecting the Saudi monarchy’s full alliance with the imperialist powers that label Palestinian resistance as “terrorist.” Of course, they also come hand in hand with the imprisonment, torture and execution of Saudi political detainees seeking justice in their homeland, and the ongoing war of starvation and brutality waged on the people of Yemen by the Saudi monarchy, working hand in hand with the U.S. and other imperialist powers.

The Saudi role in the region has also included active and militarized support for destabilization campaigns promoted by the United States targeting Arab countries, as well as artificially suppressing oil prices as part of the U.S’ economic war on Iran, Venezuela, and other nations pursuing sovereign development in defiance of imperialism.

Family members of the detainees and Palestinian political forces expressed shock at the length of the sentences, noting that various negotiations had taken place, and they expected the files to be closed and the cases ended, particularly after the Israeli assault on Gaza in May 2021 and the Palestinian resistance’s successful defense of their land and people. The ruling had been suddenly moved from October to August, leading many families to believe that a diplomatic solution had been found that would free their loved ones.

Human rights institutions like Skyline International noted that they were arrested and interrogated without lawyers, denied legal visits and a proper defense, subjected to torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment, and that many of the detainees were denied proper health care, noting that a large number were elderly men.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network condemns the imprisonment of these Palestinian and Jordanian detainees by the Saudi monarchy, and urges their immediate liberation as well as the immediate liberation of all Saudi political prisoners in Saudi jails. This criminalization of Palestinian resistance and even charitable work, following in the footsteps of the imperialist sponsors that arm and support the Saudi monarchy, is not only a crime against these 69 detainees and their families but against the Palestinian people as a whole. It reflects an attempt to terrorize and suppress Palestinians living in Saudi Arabia, where many Palestinians have traveled for years to work and support their family.

Of course, these sentences come as no surprise and reflect entirely the role played by Saudi Arabia in the region, including its war on Yemen and its efforts to direct the compass of the Arab people away from Palestinian liberation, and its long-term alliance with imperialism as well as its undercover normalization with Zionism and the Israeli regime. Freedom for all Palestinian and Arab political prisoners in the jails of Arab reactionary regimes, imperialism and Zionism!

Toulouse Palestine Stand shows solidarity with Palestinian child prisoners and hunger strikers

7 August 2021

Read the original French report at Collectif Palestine Vaincra.

On Saturday, 7 August, the Collectif Palestine Vaincra organized a Palestine Stand in central Toulouse, France, outside the exit of the Capitole metro station. Collectif Palestine Vaincra is a member organization of the Samidoun Network internationally. The stand came as part of the international mobilization to support Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike, demanding their immediate release and the end of Israeli administrative detention. Administrative detention is imprisonment without charge or trial, indefinitely renewable every six months, under which Palestinians are routinely jailed for years at a time.

Today, 4,850 Palestinian prisoners are jailed by the Israeli occupation, including 540 under administrative detention. Israel uses mass imprisonment as a colonial weapon to target the Palestinian people, and supporting the prisoners’ struggle for freedom is a critical means of supporting the entire Palestinian people and their resistance to colonialism, racism and apartheid.

https://twitter.com/CollectifPV/status/1423964352424595456

Despite the rainy weather, participants distributed almost 1,000 leaflets on the situation of Palestinian prisoners, engaging in hundreds of conversations with passers-by. Many people on the streets of Toulouse were outraged by the violations of the Israeli occupation. The stand distributed many flyers and stickers about the history of Zionist colonialism in Palestine and the campaign to boycott Israel, as well as the campaign to free Georges Abdallah. Georges Abdallah is a Lebanese Arab Communist resistance struggler for Palestine, imprisoned in France since 1984.

The stand was adorned with large banners calling for freedom for all Palestinian prisoners and highlighting the cases of Georges Abdallah and Ahmad Sa’adat, imprisoned general secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Dozens of people participated in the stand by writing letters in Arabic, English and French to Palestinian prisoners and signing petition cards to free Georges Abdallah.

The stand also drew attention to the case of Palestinian child prisoner Abdullah Bassem Abu Bakr. Abdullah, 17 years old, was seized from his home in Yabad in the occupied West Bank of Palestine on 25 July and was severely injured by Israeli occupation soldiers. His family has been denied visits with him despite him being held and shackled in the hospital. Dozens of people took photos to demand Abdullah’s freedom, while many more wrote cards to send to his family to express solidarity with their struggle to free their beloved son.

The Collectif Palestine Vaincra organizes actions and initiatives in Toulouse every month to support the Palestinian people and their resistance for the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea. Contact the Collectif to get involved, or reach out to Samidoun Network to get involved in your local area.

7 August, Toulouse: Palestine Stand – Free all Palestinian prisoners!

6 August 2021

Saturday, 7 August
11 am
Metro Capitole
Toulouse, France
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/436408997413252/

Saturday August 7th from 11am to 1pm, Collectif Palestine Vaincra is organizing a Palestine Stand at the exit of the Capitole metro in Toulouse. Today, 4,850 Palestinians are imprisoned in Israeli occupation prisons, including 540 administrative detainees (without charge or trial). This comes in addition to the case of Georges Abdallah, Palestinian resistance fighter imprisoned in France since 1984.

Faced with this situation, more than 17 prisoners are on hunger strike to demand their immediate release and the end of administrative detention. At the same time, many prisoners are subjected to a policy of medical negligence like Abdullah Bassem Abu Bakr. The 17-year-old Palestinian boy was arrested and then hospitalized following injuries caused by occupation soldiers. He is currently in a serious state of health and his family cannot see him.

Join us at the stand to show Palestinian prisoners that they are not alone! To demand the release of all Palestinian prisoners is to support the legitimacy of the Palestinian resistance in the face of colonialism, racism and apartheid!

On the program: information stand, distribution of flyers, speeches, writing workshop for prisoners, photos of solidarity, signing of petitions cards, Palestinian music, etc.

This gathering is registered at the prefecture and respects the required health measures (masks, gel, etc.).

7 August, Toronto: Make Noise for Jerusalem

6 August 2021

Saturday, 7 August
2 PM
Yonge/Dundas Square
Toronto ON
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/218433180287757/

TORONTO:

Join us this Saturday August 7th at 2PM in Yonge & Dundas Square to make some noise for Jerusalem and take a stand against Zionist settler-colonialism.

As Israel‘s attempts to evict and displace the residents of Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan continue unabated, we call on all people of conscience to show out and stand with residents of occupied East Jerusalem resisting displacement. We demand an end to state and institutional complicity with Israeli apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. We demand the release of all Palestinian political prisoners.
Come out this Saturday to take a stand against ongoing ethnic cleansing in Palestine!

Hunger strike update: Struggle continues against administrative detention

5 August 2021

As of 5 August 2021, 15 Palestinians continued their hunger strikes in Israeli occupation, 14 of them protesting their administrative detention — imprisonment without charge or trial — and one, Mohammed Nuwarra, protesting his ongoing solitary confinement. On 5 August, two detainees joined the hunger strike: Akram al-Fasfous, joining his brother, Kayed al-Fasfous, who has been on hunger strike for 22 days.

Sign the grassroots international petition: change.org/NoChargeNoTrialNoJail

Their other brother, Mahmoud al-Fasfous, also jailed without charge or trial, suspended his hunger strike earlier on Thursday after a severe deterioration of his health. Amjad Nammoura, of Dura near al-Khalil, also joined the hunger strike on Thursday in protest of his administrative detention.

Earlier, three Palestinian prisoners suspended their hunger strikes: Alaa el-Din Ali and Maher Dalaysheh, both Palestinian refugees from Jalazone camp near Ramallah, and Guevara Nammoura, the Palestinian professional football player who has competed on the Palestinian national team. Ali and Dalaysheh suspended their strikes after an agreement to set an end date for their administrative detention. Nammoura also suspended his strike after an agreement to conclude his administrative detention before the Israeli military court on 5 August.

While the occupation military court confirmed his detention on 5 August, reducing it to three months instead of four, it did not verify that this was a final order, which leaves open the possibility that the detention order could be renewed.

Administrative detention orders are issued for up to six months at a time and are indefinitely renewable. As a result, Palestinians routinely spend years at a time jailed without charge or trial in Israeli occupation prisons on the basis of so-called “secret evidence” denied to both the detainee and their lawyer. Administrative detention was first introduced to occupied Palestine by the British colonial mandate and then adopted by the Zionist occupation in order to suppress Palestinian resistance.

Fellow Palestinian prisoners have joined protests inside Israeli occupation prisons in support of the detainees on hunger strike. A series of rolling solidarity strikes have been announced, with the first participants including Bara’a Issa from Anata in Jerusalem, Taha al-Tarwa from Taffouh in al-Khalil, Malik al-Sa’ada from Halhoul and Qasim Masalmeh from Beit Awwa, all held in Ramon prison.

Israeli occupation forces have escalated their repression targeting the hunger strikers, including throwing them into isolation, storming and ransacking their cells, and repeatedly transferring them from one prison to another, a physically and mentally exhausting and taxing process, especially as the detainees begin to experience severe health effects. The Israeli prison system has also delayed in issuing permits to lawyers to visit the hunger-striking detainees, attempting to deprive them of communication and representation.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all supporters of Palestine to take action to support these Palestinian hunger strikers and all Palestinian prisoners struggling for freedom, for their own lives and for the Palestinian people. They are confronting the system of Israeli oppression on the front lines, with their bodies and their lives, to bring the system of administrative detention to an end. Take these actions below to stand with the hunger strikers and the struggle for liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea!