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Webinar highlights case of Ubai Aboudi, struggle of Palestinian prisoners

On Sunday, 19 April, the NY4Palestine Coalition hosted an online webinar highlighting the case of imprisoned Palestinian-American researcher Ubai Aboudi and the overall struggle of Palestinian prisoners for justice and liberation. Speakers at the webinar, which reached maximum capacity on Zoom and was also livestreamed on Facebook, included Hind Shraydeh, Palestinian human rights defender and the wife of Ubai Aboudi; Dr. Haynes Miller, professor of mathematics at MIT and an organizer of the Scientists for Palestine conference; and Hadeel Shatara, an organizer with Samidoun Network in occupied Palestine.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network in NY is a member of the coalition along with Al-Awda New York, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition; Within Our Lifetime – United for Palestine; American Muslims for Palestine – NJ Chapter; the Muslim American Society – New York; and multiple chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine at New York City campuses.

Watch the video of the webinar here:

Wassim Kanaan of American Muslims for Palestine and Nerdeen Kiswani of Within Our Lifetime moderated the event, introducing the speakers and highlighting the importance of international solidarity and mobilization, especially around Palestinian Prisoners’ Day.

Hind Shraydeh, taking time on the holiest day of the Orthodox calendar on Easter, joined the webinar to discuss the case of her husband, Ubai Aboudi, and the injustices faced by Palestinian prisoners. She highlighted the fact that Ubai is a U.S. citizen yet received little to no support from the U.S. State Department, even when he was jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention. After a global outcry from scientists and researchers who have worked with the Bisan Center he directs, he was then transferred to the military court with trumped-up charges based entirely on political and social work and association. She emphasized that the struggle was not Ubai’s alone, and focused on the need to achieve justice and freedom for all Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli jails.

Haynes Miller spoke about the organizing of the Scientists for Palestine conference at MIT, noting that he had long been appalled by the violations of international law and human rights taking place in occupied Palestine. He discussed Ubai Aboudi’s work with Bisan Center to bring the conference together, working with Palestinian scientists and building connections, and organizing a parallel event to provide a video link to the Cambridge conference. “The conference was haunted by the specter of our colleague Ubai in prison,” he noted, emphasizing the ongoing work to support science in Palestine – and to free Ubai and his fellow imprisoned Palestinians.

Hadeel Shatara followed, highlighting the work of Samidoun Network in occupied Palestine and the threat posed by COVID-19 to Palestinian prisoners. She discussed ongoing and systematic Israeli medical neglect against the prisoners as well as the denial of access to their families and lawyers, imposing another kind of psychological torture on the detainees’ families. She also noted that the prisoners are placed at particularly severe risk of COVID-19, denied access to sanitary products in the “canteen” (prison store) and repeatedly exposed to potentially infected Israeli interrogators, repressive units and jailers. She emphasized that violent night raids, arrests and home demolitions continue to target the prisoners and their families amid the pandemic.

Lamis Deek of Al-Awda, a Palestinian human rights attorney, provided further insight into the Ubai Aboudi case, highlighting the key role of international pressure, particularly from scientists, in protecting him from extreme torture and abuse and emphasizing the need for continued advocacy to raise the profile of his case.

A discussion followed with questions from attendees and responses from participants about connections between imprisonment and racialized repression in the United States and Palestine, increasing settler violence amid the pandemic and the possibilities to struggle together. Charlotte Kates of Samidoun wrapped up the discussion with action items, including writing to members of Congress and the State Department to demand action and accountability on the case of Ubai Aboudi; contacting members of Congress to support H.R. 2407, the bill that aims to prevent U.S. funding of the military detention of Palestinian children; and getting involved with the movement for justice in Palestine, especially the NY4Palestine coalition members.

Here are some of the ways that you can take action on these important issues:

1. First, help support freedom for Ubai Aboudi! You heard Hind tell the story of herself and her family – and take time away amid the Easter celebrations to share with all of us.  Call and email the Department of State at (202) 647-4000 and EMAIL to OFM-Info@state.gov , OFMNYCustomerService@state.gov , OFMCGCustomerService@state.gov , OFMMICustomerService@state.gov

Contact your member of Congress. Find your Representatives: https://www.house.gov/representatives

Here is a sample message:
Hi, my name is ____ and I am calling to demand that the Department of State act to secure the release of US Citizen, Palestinian Civilian, Father and Educator, Ubai Aboudi from Israeli Military custody where he has languished since November 13, 2019.  Scholars and activists from all over the world have been calling for his release.

I am shocked that the Department of State would allow any US Citizen- a civilian no less- to be held by a foreign government-let alone a foreign military without due process. Not only is the Israeli military detention of a civilian illegal under international law-and considered a war crime- it also compromises the safety of all US Citizens as they travel and reside abroad. It especially compromises the rights and protections of Palestinians as they return to or visit their homes and families. How can I feel safe traveling or residing anywhere outside the US, when I know that my own government would sit idly by if I were kidnapped by a foreign military through illegal means, such as “administrative detention” and held without due process by an illegal military occupation force.

Worse over, the UN has found Israeli military courts violate international law and has recently found that Israel practices systematic torture of Palestinians with impunity-  the ICC is now investigating Israel for war crimes.

It is absolutely terrifying to think your department would allow a US Citizen to be held by a government that has been found to violate rules against torture and racism and is being investigated for war crimes.

I want to know what your office will be doing to protect Mr. Aboudi’s rights and what you will be doing to secure his release. I want to see Ubai Aboudi reunited with his family and I will follow up to see what your office has done to further ensure his safety.

I am also appalled that during a health and financial crisis in the US and here in (this state) that you would continue to approve the diversion of US taxpayers money to this same illegal military that is also the only military in the world which kidnaps and tortures children. It is anathema that you would approve funding of such a government and its military- it is all the more outrageous that you would deprive the hungry and needing children of the US to send money to a military that tortures children overseas.

I demand that you take immediate action to stop funding and bring our tax dollars home!

And don’t forget to tweet about the case – you can share a link to the video of this event! Use the hashtag #Freedom4Ubai.

2. Contact your Representative and ask them to support H.R. 2407, the important bill to help protect Palestinian children from Israeli military detention. There is an easy online action provided by American Muslims for Palestine – just follow this link to take part: https://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/51044/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=22466

3. Get involved with NY4Palestine and Palestine activism in your area!

This event was organized by the NY4Palestine Coalition. Find us on Facebook here: https://facebook.com/NY4Palestine/
We are comprised of several groups in the NY area – please check out our member organizations!

Global COVID-19 Crisis: Donate to support Palestinian refugees in Lebanon

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network supports this important campaign, being organized by Al-Awda:The Palestine Right of Return Coalition and the Palestinian Youth Movement in partnership with Al-Naqab Center in Burj Al-Barajneh Refugee Camp and the Palestinian Cultural Club in Al-Baddawi and Mar Elias Refugee Camps in Lebanon. Supporting the steadfastness of Palestinian refugees – particularly at this challenging time – is critical to sustaining the struggle for the right to return and the liberation of Palestine. Visit the Al-Awda site to donate: https://al-awda.org/donations/support-palestinian-refugees/

Donations to this campaign are zakat-eligible.

All donations to this campaign are U.S. tax deductible. Your contributions are handled by Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition (PRRC), a U.S.-based, registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

This global pandemic caused by COVID-19 poses a detrimental threat to refugee camps in Lebanon. The refugees in these Palestinian camps, who already face overcrowding, poverty, mass unemployment, and insufficient infrastructure, are not able to withstand the economic impact of this public health crisis with the camps shutting down and refugees losing their jobs. If we don’t act now, we might face a total human disaster.

In order to help the refugees practicing social distancing, we are calling on you to help provide food packages, each containing essential food items and sanitizing supplies to last about a month. Each package costs approximately $50. Please donate today to support Palestinian refugees in Lebanon during this global pandemic.

In light of the novel COVID-19, Al-Awda:The Palestine Right of Return Coalition and the Palestinian Youth Movement are organizing this emergency relief fundraiser in partnership with Al-Naqab Center in Burj Al-Barajneh Refugee Camp and the Palestinian Cultural Club in Al-Baddawi and Mar Elias Refugee Camps to support the refugee camps of Lebanon. The purpose of this campaign is to raise $50,000 that will be used to buy food packages for families that reside in Beddawi, Burj Al-Barajneh, and Mar Elias refugee camps.

Each package is $50 (75,000 Lebanese Lira), and 1,000 families in the camps will be reached by this campaign. Your contribution will both provide basic essentials that are not supplied by aid organizations and alleviate the need to leave home for these necessities.

Donate here: https://al-awda.org/donations/support-palestinian-refugees/

Learn more (in Arabic):

The Call from Palestinians in Lebanon: 

Disease and poverty have riddled Lebanon for many years, hitting the refugee camps the hardest, placing all our Syrian and Palestinian people in the same fate. Discrimination by the Lebanese government coupled with overcrowding, mass unemployment, and insufficient infrastructure, COVID-19 poses a detrimental threat to such vulnerable communities. We are calling on you to help provide food packages, each lasting about a month, to 1,000 families especially experiencing economic hardship. Each package costs approximately $50 and contains essential food items: rice, sugar, oil, noodles, pasta, lentils, bulgur, beans, hummus, mortadella, pandora, molasses, cheese, and tea, all of which will be purchased from businesses within the camps to support the community’s economy.

The Palestinian refugees in Lebanon suffer from a difficult economic situation. This situation is not new, but the declining UNRWA services and budget cuts have worsened the economic stress in the camps, directly affecting the livelihood of the refugees. In June 2019, the situation was greatly exacerbated when the Lebanese Minister of Labor implemented strict measures against the foreign workforce in Lebanon, which includes the Palestinian refugees, leading to mass layoffs of Palestinian workers and closures of Palestinian-owned businesses. These efforts were a culmination of years of labor discrimination against Palestinian refugees, which had amounted to pressure on international associations to set quotas for Palestinian employment.

All these restrictions, along with a lack of coherent legal channels to deal with the plight of the Palestinian refugees, pushed the camps to rise up against these racist practices by the Lebanese state. The camps went on strike and demonstrations spread to all Palestinian communities, which directly impacted economic activity inside the camps, yet no response came from the Lebanese state.

Palestinians did not leave the protests inside the camps until the Lebanese uprising erupted widely, which led the country to a complete halt, affecting Palestinian and Lebanese workers alike. A declining economy and collapsing banks with liquidity shortages also led to strikes by the middle class in the camps that had some money in the banks or who were still employed by international organizations.

These rapid developments exhausted any savings of the Palestinian refugees and impoverished the working class of the camps even further. As a result, this continued depletion of resources did not allow for those inside the camps to be ready to withstand the Coronavirus crisis, leaving thousands of families with no support after more than a year of economic crises.

These difficult circumstances should warrant the intervention of UNRWA and other international organizations, as they warranted the creation of internal and external links of solidarity to save what is left to be saved.

Consequently, many Palestinian institutions and volunteer teams have fought with great courage to fill the deficit and alleviate the dire effects of the economic crisis in the camps. Some of these organizations are the Palestinian Cultural Club and the Alnaqab Center for Youth Activities, which have been working hard to contribute as much as they can to the communities within which they operate (Beddawi Camp, Mar Elias Camp, and Burj Al-Barajneh Camp).

Throughout the crisis, the Palestinian Cultural Club and Alnqab Center have focused their energies on distributing food rations, hot meals, and some medical supplies. While the Palestinian Cultural Club’s work has been focused on the Beddawi and Mar Elias camps, the Alnaqab Center volunteers have been involved since November 2019 in a youth initiative (“Tabkhet al-Khair”) within the Burj Al-Barajneh camp seeking to support our people with food supplies. However, this type of work, in addition to the hundreds of male and female volunteers on the ground, needs constant support.

Therefore, we at the Palestinian Alnaqab Center and the Palestinian Cultural Club, invite you to contribute with in-kind and material donations so that we or the many other groups working on the ground are able to continue our efforts in support of our people.

Campaign organizers

This campaign is initiated by Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, the Palestinian Youth Movement, Al-Naqab Center in Burj Al-Barajneh Refugee Camp and the Palestinian Cultural Club in Al-Baddawi and Mar Elias Refugee Camps. These organizations direct the campaign and raise the funds to go to the camps.

    

 

Organizational Supporters

Current organizational supporters include Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, American Muslims for Palestine and Collectif Palestine Vaincra. These organizations commit to promote the campaign and its goals through their websites, lists an social media outlets. If your organization would also like to become an organizational supporter, use this form to contact Al-Awda.

    

 

Ahmad Sa’adat’s book “Echoes of the Chains” released in new Italian edition

A new Italian-language translation of “Echoes of the Chains,” the book written by imprisoned Palestinian leader Ahmad Sa’adat, the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, inside Israeli jails has been released by publishing house Edizioni Clandestine. The book features a foreword by fellow imprisoned Palestinian leftist leader and feminist Khalida Jarrar.

The Italian translation of the book was prepared by UDAP, the Arab Palestinian Democratic Union in Italy, and journalist Stefano Mauro. The 176-page book is available for sale for 11.40 EUR and the launch was planned to coincide with the week of action for Palestinian prisoners. A Kindle edition is also available for online download for 5 EUR.

In a statement, UDAP expressed its thanks to Al-Farabi publishing house in Beirut, the original publishers of the Arabic edition of the book, as well as progressive cartoonist Carlos Latuff, who created the cover image as part of the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat. UDAP noted that the proceeds from the book will be used to support the prisoners’ steadfastness and campaigns for their freedom.

The Arab Palestinian Democratic Union in Italy is a political and cultural association that works to promote leftist and progressive thought on Arab and international issues, particularly the Palestinian cause. Stefano Mauro is a journalist on issues in the Arab world and the surrounding region, incuding Morocco. He has published several books, including a 2018 work on the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Sa’adat is well-known as a leader of the Palestinian revolutionary left and the Palestinian national liberation movement as a whole. Sa’adat’s case epitomizes the colonial nature of Israeli imprisonment that aims to target the legitimate leadership of the Palestinian people, and his boycott of the Zionist military courts reflects his principled commitment to reject colonization in all forms.

His case also reflects the role of imperialist powers like the United States and Britain and the collusion of the Palestinian Authority and its “security coordination” regime in the oppression of the Palestinian people and the Palestinian resistance. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network released the following video to highlight Sa’adat’s case as part of the weeks of action for Palestinian Prisoners’ Day:

To read more details about Ahmad Sa’adat and his role in the Palestinian prisoners’ movement, see the Samidoun summary: https://samidoun.net/2020/04/free-ahmad-saadat-imprisoned-leader-of-the-palestinian-liberation-movement/ and the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat: https://freeahmadsaadat.org/

Samidoun participating in several webinars: Links of interest on Palestine and the prisoners’ struggle

Samidoun organizers will be participating in webinars taking place on Thursday, 23 April. We invite all to join these events and hope that friends and comrades can participate. We also recommend a number of other events of interest taking place online to build the struggle virtually in the coming days:

23 April, The Meaning of International Solidarity

Thursday, 23 April
10:30 am Pacific/1:30 pm Eastern/7:30 pm Europe/8:30 pm Palestine
REGISTER ONLINE: http://tiny.cc/re-palestine
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/214130030012357/

Organized by Revolutionaire Eenheid and featuring Mohammed Khatib of Samidoun!

Revolutionaire Eenheid invites you to join us for a webinar on the meaning of international solidarity. During this unfolding international crisis, international solidarity is more important than ever. But how can we effectively practice international solidarity? And how has international solidarity developed over the past decades?

We are happy to that we will be joined by Mohammed Khatib and Yasmin Ahmed, who are both committed internationalists. Mohammed is the European coordinator of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network. Yasmin is a member of Revolutionaire Eenheid and active in the International League of Peoples’ Struggle.

23 April: West Asia, COVID-19 and the people’s response

Thursday, 23 April
6:00 am Pacific/9:00 am Eastern/3:00 pm Europe/4:00 pm Palestine
REGISTER VIA ZOOM (click ‘April 23’): https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_V-j2Bv5gQsCY3bggXm65JQ
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/221207169165093/

Organized by the International League of People’s Struggle

Samidoun’s Charlotte Kates will be joining the discussion.

The International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) presents the on-line series, INTER VIEWS, featuring members of the ILPS and allies from around the globe.
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April 23, the ILPS will be hosting the second installment of INTER VIEWS via Zoom and YouTube Live. The session will focus on the current situation in West Asia (Middle East), the COVID-19 pandemic, and the people’s response.

The teach-in features RAZAN ZUAYTER, Co-Chairperson of the People’s Coalition for Food Sovereignty, founder of Arab for the Protection of Nature and member of the International Coordinating Committee of the League. Panelists include Barchir Nakhal, Red Oak Youth Group, Lebanon, and Charlotte Kates, Samidoun (Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network). There will be a Q&A.

More webinars of interest:

Joint Press Release: On Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, Civil Society Calls for Urgent Release of Palestinian Prisoners and Detainees in Israeli Prisons

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is an endorser of the below statement along with many groups and organizations in Palestine and around the world:

As we mark Palestinian Prisoners’ Day this year, Palestinian prisoners and detainees face the additional threat of a coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in Israeli prisons and detention centers. While governments around the world are being called on to release prisoners and those detained in violation of international law, the Israeli occupying authorities have taken no steps to release Palestinian prisoners and detainees or to adequately mitigate and prevent a COVID-19 outbreak in prisons. Instead, mass arbitrary detentions and arrests, a staple of Israel’s prolonged military occupation and widespread and systematic human rights violations against the Palestinian people, have continued during the pandemic.[i]

This year, our organizations call for urgent action to ensure the release of Palestinian prisoners and detainees and to uphold their right to the highest attainable standard of health during COVID-19,[ii] particularly as many are minors, chronically ill, members of vulnerable groups, or held under administrative detention in contravention of international law. According to Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, there are currently 5,000 Palestinian prisoners, including 432 administrative detainees and 183 child prisoners in Israeli detention. The Israeli occupying authorities hold Palestinian administrative detainees indefinitely without charge or trial and have detained journalists, human rights defenders, and members of the Palestinian Legislative Council.

While persons deprived of their liberty around the world are more likely to be vulnerable to a COVID-19 outbreak than the general population,[iii] COVID-19 presents a particularly acute and immediate danger to Palestinian prisoners and detainees, who already endure dire detention conditions, including systematic torture and ill-treatment, pervasive medical negligence, overcrowding, lack of proper ventilation and access to sanitary products, including sanitizers and disinfectants, poor nutrition, and, in certain cases, complete bans on family visits. These conditions make Israeli prisons dangerous breeding grounds for COVID-19 and compound the vulnerability of Palestinian prisoners and detainees, with hundreds currently detained suffering from chronic diseases that go untreated.[iv] Despite the pandemic, the Israeli occupying forces continue to routinely arrest Palestinians from their homes in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and immediately place them in quarantine.[v]

In early March 2020, the Israel Prison Service (IPS) halted all family and legal visits for prisoners, claiming that this was a COVID-19 precaution. The Israeli occupying authorities have also postponed all trial proceedings in military courts and have stopped bringing Palestinians in pre-trial detention or interrogation to court, further deepening Israel’s violations of Palestinians’ rights to liberty and security of person and to a fair and speedy trial. Moreover, Israel has barred legal representatives from meeting with Palestinian prisoners. Since legal representatives have been allowed to speak with their clients only by phone, they have been unable to accurately assess the health condition of Palestinian detainees.

The IPS has also continued to refuse to install landline phones inside prisons as stipulated in the most recent hunger-strike negotiations,[vi] thereby further distancing Palestinian prisoners from their families and legal representatives during the pandemic. To date, the IPS has allowed phone calls for female and child detainees but continues to delay them and has not determined a clear schedule for these calls to take place, resulting in confusion for prisoners’ families and for the prisoners and detainees themselves. As of now, only a number of Palestinian women and child detainees who are at Damon prison have been allowed to contact their families during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Despite guidelines and calls issued by the World Health Organization (WHO),[vii] the Office of the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights,[viii] and UN human rights experts[ix] on the need to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in detention settings, conditions in Israeli prisons continue to deteriorate. Prisoners have reported that the IPS has imposed new restrictions on purchases from prison canteens that make it difficult for them to obtain necessary sanitary products and maintain proper hygiene. At the same time, IPS officers routinely search prisoners’ rooms and conduct counts of prisoners five times a day, while failing to consistently wear hazmat suits, protective gloves, and medical face masks. A number of Palestinian prisoners at Ofer prison have recently reported concerns over COVID-19 exposure amongst Israeli prison guards. On 1 April 2020, Nur Eddin Sarsour, a former Palestinian prisoner, tested positive for COVID-19 upon release from Israeli prison. Arrested on 18 March 2020, he was released on 31 March from Ofer prison and tested positive for COVID-19 the next day.[x]

Around the world, UN experts have called for the release of prisoners and detainees in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 25 March 2020, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, stated that “[n]ow, more than ever, governments should release every person detained without sufficient legal basis, including political prisoners and others detained simply for expressing critical or dissenting views.”[xi] On 30 March 2020, the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture called on governments to take measures to protect individuals deprived of their liberty during the pandemic and to consider “reducing prison populations by implementing schemes of early, provisional or temporary release of low-risk offenders, reviewing all cases of pre-trial detention, [and] extending the use of bail for all but the most serious cases.”[xii] On 27 March 2020, the Israeli occupying authorities decided to release some 400 ‘non-violent’ Israeli common law prisoners who are serving lighter sentences and nearing the end of their time in prison,[xiii] selected on the basis of health condition and age.[xiv] Yet, the Israeli occupying authorities have not established the same release policy for Palestinian prisoners and administrative detainees.

On Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, our organizations issue this urgent call for the immediate release of Palestinian prisoners and detainees from Israeli prisons, particularly those who are more susceptible to the pandemic, such as those who are chronically ill, in order to uphold their rights and to ensure their safety from a COVID-19 outbreak in Israeli prisons. Until such time as Palestinian prisoners and detainees are released, our organizations call on:

  1. The IPS to:
    • Install landlines in all Israeli prisons and detention centers and to ensure the maintenance of contact with family and legal representatives for Palestinian prisoners and detainees through unmonitored phone or video calls;
    • Ensure adequate and independent access to medical care, hygiene facilities, and sanitary products for all prisoners and detainees;
    • Publicly guarantee that it will eliminate the use of solitary confinement, an internationally recognized form of torture, as a means of managing the spread of COVID-19 in prisons and detention facilities; and
    • Publicize all plans and policies to ensure the protection of all prisoners during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  2. The International Committee of the Red Cross to continue to carry out visits to Israeli prisons and detention centers, to provide updates to families of Palestinian prisoners and detainees on detention conditions, to oversee and ensure the provision of the necessary healthcare for prisoners and detainees during the pandemic, and to call on IPS to adopt the relevant international guidelines for prevention of COVID-19 outbreak in Israeli prisons;
  3. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to call on Israel, the occupying power, to release Palestinian prisoners and detainees in line with the guidelines issued by WHO, OHCHR, and relevant UN human rights experts on preventing COVID-19 outbreak in prisons and in light of additional calls made to specific States in this regard;
  4. Member States of the UN Human Rights Council to call on Israel, the occupying power, to take urgent action in line with the above-mentioned guidelines, in particular to release Palestinian prisoners and detainees and to uphold their rights, in particular to the highest attainable standard of health, during the public health emergency; and
  5. Third States, including the diplomatic community, to call on Israel, the occupying power, to fulfil its obligations under international human rights and humanitarian law with regard to its treatment of Palestinian prisoners and detainees and to ensure their protection, particularly during COVID-19.
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Endorsing organizations:

  • Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC), including:
    • ADDAMEER Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association
    • Al Mezan Center for Human Rights
    • Al-Haq – Law in the Service of Mankind
    • Aldameer Association for Human Rights
    • DCI – Defense for Children International – Palestine
    • Hurryyat – Center for Defense of Liberties and Civil Rights
    • Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center (JLAC)
    • Muwatin Institute for Democracy and Human Rights – Observer Member
    • Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)
    • Ramallah Center for Human Rights Studies (RCHRS)
    • The Independent Commission for Human Rights (Ombudsman Office) – Observer Member (ICHR)
  • Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network (PNGO), including:
    • Arab Agronomists Association (AAA)
    • Early Childhood Resource Center (ECRC)
    • Land Research Center (LRC)
    • Palestinian General Union for Charitable Societies
    • The Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)
    • The Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC)
  • Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel
  • Civic Coalition for Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem (CCPRJ)
  • Palestinian Counseling Center (PCC)
  • The Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy (PIPD)
  • Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS)
  • Habitat International Coalition – Housing and Land Rights Network (HIC-HLRN)
  • Abolitionist Law Center
  • Adalah Justice Project
  • Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, Yale Law School
  • Arab Lawyers Association (UK)
  • Asociación Americana de Juristas (AAJ)
  • Association France Palestine Solidarité (AFPS)
  • Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)
  • CIVICUS
  • CNCD-11.11.11
  • Cornell Law School International Human Rights Clinic: Litigation and Advocacy
  • Corporación Solidaridad Jurídica from Colombia
  • DefendDefenders (East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project)
  • International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
  • International Service For Human Rights (ISHR)
  • National Association of Democratic Lawyers (South Africa)
  • National Lawyers Guild International Committee (U.S.)
  • National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (Philippines)
  • Paz con Dignidad
  • Plateforme des ONG françaises pour la Palestine, including:
  • Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
  • World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)

[i] See Al-Haq, “Israel’s Gross Violations of Human Rights in the Face of COVID-19 (Reporting Period 8 – 29 March 2020),” 3 April 2020, available at: http://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/16676.html. See also Judith Sudilovsky, “Israel’s coronavirus lockdown is blocking human rights work, but not abuses,” +972 Magazine, 31 March 2020, available at: https://www.972mag.com/coronavirus-israel-human-rights-work/.

[ii] See, notably, Al-Haq, “Israeli Apartheid Undermines Palestinian Right to Health Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic,” 7 April 2020, available at: http://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/16692.html.

[iii] WHO, “Preventing COVID-19 outbreak in prisons: a challenging but essential task for authorities,” 23 March 2020, available at: http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/health-determinants/prisons-and-health/news/news/2020/3/preventing-covid-19-outbreak-in-prisons-a-challenging-but-essential-task-for-authorities.

[iv] See Al-Haq, “Addameer and Al-Haq Send Appeal to UN Special Procedures on the Situation of Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli Prisons amidst Concerns over COVID-19 Exposure,” 2 April 2020, available at: http://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/16674.html.

[v] See supra note i.

[vi] See, e.g., Middle East Eye, “Palestinian prisoners end hunger strike after Israel agrees to demands,” 15 April 2019, available at: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-prisoners-end-hunger-strike-after-israel-agrees-demands.

[vii] WHO, “Preventing COVID-19 outbreak in prisons: a challenging but essential task for authorities,” 23 March 2020, available at: http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/health-determinants/prisons-and-health/news/news/2020/3/preventing-covid-19-outbreak-in-prisons-a-challenging-but-essential-task-for-authorities. See also IASC, “IASC Interim Guidance on COVID-19: Focus on Persons Deprived of Their Liberty (developed by OHCHR and WHO),” 27 March 2020, available at: https://interagencystandingcommittee.org/other/iasc-interim-guidance-covid-19-focus-persons-deprived-their-liberty-developed-ohchr-and-who.

[viii] OHCHR, “Urgent action needed to prevent COVID-19 ‘rampaging through places of detention’ – Bachelet,” 25 March 2020, available at: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=25745&LangID=E.

[ix] See, e.g., OHCHR, “COVID-19: Who is protecting the people with disabilities? – UN rights expert,” 17 March 2020, available at: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=25725&LangID=E.

[x] See also supra note iv.

[xi] See supra note viii.

[xii] OHCHR, “COVID-19: Measures needed to protect people deprived of liberty, UN torture prevention body says,” 30 March 2020, available at: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=25756.

[xiii] The Jerusalem Post, “Israel releases 230 prisoners early to reduce crowding amid COVID-19 fears,” 29 March 2020, available at: https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/israel-releases-230-prisoners-early-to-reduce-crowding-amid-covid-19-fears-622844.

[xiv] See supra note iv.

Take Action: Phone Zap for Incarcerated New Yorkers on #PalestinianPrisonersDay! #AbolitionFromNYC2Palestine

 

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network strongly supports this pressing call to action by the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee – New York City and Free Them All for Public Health and urges broad participation in it by all defenders of Palestine, Palestinian political prisoners, and the prisoners’ movement. To learn more and boost the campaign, see these organizations’ social media toolkit and follow their Twitter and Instagram accounts, as well as the hashtag #AbolitionFromNYC2Palestine.

Table of Contents

  1. Call MDC Brooklyn: Operator, 718-840-4200
  2. Call the Manhattan Detention Complex: Operator, 212-225-1341
  3. Call the NYC Administration for Children’s Services: David A. Hansell, Commissioner, 212-341-0903
  4. Call New York City Council:

SHARE YOUR FINDINGS!

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THE COMMON STRUGGLE!

This Friday, April 17, is Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, and abolitionists of NYC stand in solidarity with Palestinian freedom fighters caged by the Israeli occupation. As COVID-19 continues to spread inside carceral sites around the world, demands for safety and liberation are pouring out from behind the walls.

Though struggling to survive distinct political conditions, comrades in New York and Palestine are linked under a continuum of oppression. The NYPD and Israeli military enforcers have historically shared training and surveillance technologies. American companies like HP and Motorola sell enslavement management tools to U.S. and Israeli prison networks alike. Multiple forms of governmental and corporate power are complicit in this deadly exchange.

Where does today’s outbreak fit in? Simple: to authoritarian states already structured to rob, silence, and kill people deemed undesirable or undeserving, COVID-19 becomes not a problem but an extension and tool of punishment and deprivation. In this moment, we cannot expect that systems designed to punish, degrade, and exterminate will recognize institutionalized violence or the humanity of their captives. We cannot expect settler colonialism and white supremacy to cede power of their own volition.

MAKE YOUR CALLS!

Cases of COVID-19 in New York’s jails, prisons, and youth and immigrant detention centers have skyrocketed. These places are already designed to be vicious, unhealthy, overcrowded, and highly secretive. As any large-scale crisis would, COVID-19 has enabled modern-day slavers to reinforce their control over dominated bodies by exploiting the very conditions that make viral transmission possible.

1. Call MDC Brooklyn: Operator, 718-840-4200

This is the federal jail in Sunset Park where COVID-19 continues to spread among comrades and staff! Tell the operator:

“I am calling in support of the people who are caged at MDC Brooklyn, where there is a dangerous lack of ventilators, medical infrastructure and supplies, and personal protective equipment or soap for incarcerated people. The people you’ve incarcerated have already tested positive for COVID-19. What are you doing to ensure that incarcerated people have access to healthcare and hygiene supplies and that families are being updated as to the health status of their incarcerated family members inside?”

2. Call the Manhattan Detention Complex: Operator, 212-225-1341

This is the municipal jail from which our comrades have smuggled out important demands for harm reduction! Tell the operator:

“I am calling in support of the people who are caged inside of the Tombs. The people under your control have already demanded that facility overseers immediately: 1) administer COVID-19 tests to all people inside the facility; 2) provide hygiene products and sanitizing of common objects, including phones; 3) give tablets to all incarcerated people so they can contact loved ones outside; 4) halt all invasive searches of bodies and belongings. What are you doing to ensure that these demands are met?”

3. Call the NYC Administration for Children’s Services: David A. Hansell, Commissioner, 212-341-0903

This is the city agency that manages Horizon Juvenile Center, the abusive Bronx facility in which children with coronavirus symptoms are being forcibly clustered! Tell Commissioner Hansell’s office:

“I am calling in support of the youth who are caged at Horizons and Crossroads and facing dangerous exposure to COVID-19 in unsafe and unhealthful conditions. It is beyond time to end youth incarceration in our city. I am calling to demand that you and the City Council make a plan to immediately release all people under 18 caged in NYC and return our young people to their families and communities.”

4. Call New York City Council:

These Councilmembers chair the committees that collaborate with NYC’s policing and carceral systems!

  • Deborah Rose, Chair of the Youth Services Committee, 718-556-7370 (district) and 212-788-6972 (legislative)

“I am calling to urge Councilmember Rose to use the powers of her committee chair to end youth incarceration in our city. I was horrified to learn that ACH is forcing children with COVID-19 symptoms to crowd into Horizons in the Bronx. The fact that our city is using a detention center to quarantine vulnerable youth is beyond disturbing. Is this outbreak convincing Councilmember Rose that we need a total dismantling of the way we are punishing under-resourced children? What is she doing to take action?”

  • Rory Lancman, Chair of the Committee on the Justice System, 718-217-4969 (district) and 212-788-6956 (legislative)

“I am calling to urge Councilmember Lancman to use the powers of his committee chair to end youth incarceration in our city and to speed up the release of as many people as possible from municipal jails. Councilmember Lancman has been outspoken about the problems with our current juvenile detention system and adult criminal legal system. Right now, children with COVID-19 symptoms are being forcibly crowded into Horizons in the Bronx. He must also be aware of the skyrocketing cases of COVID-19 on Rikers Island and in the Manhattan Detention Complex. What is Councilmember Lancman doing to get incarcerated people out of harm’s way? Can he start by calling for the release of as many people as possible, including anyone over the age of fifty, living with high-risk health conditions, inside due to parole violations, and/or serving a sentence of less than one year or within one year of their earliest release date?”

  • Keith Powers, Chair of the Criminal Justice Committee, 212-818-0580 (district) and 212-788-7393 (legislative)

“I am calling to urge Councilmember Powers to use the influence of his committee chair to speed up the release of as many people as possible from municipal jails. Councilmember Powers has been present for countless public conversations about the inherent dangers of the city’s carceral system. Now, cases of COVID-19 are skyrocketing across city jails. What is Councilmember Powers doing to protect incarcerated people? Can he start by calling for the release of as many people as possible, including anyone over the age of fifty, living with high-risk health conditions, inside due to parole violations, and/or serving a sentence of less than one year or within one year of their earliest release date?”

SHARE YOUR FINDINGS!

Right after your phone calls end, please fill out this form to tell IWOC NYC’s organizers how your calls went and what kinds of responses you received. Thank you for adding your voice to this fight and for raising the voices of our loved ones inside!

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Reminder: Twitterstorm and more actions today for Palestinian Prisoners’ Day! #WeAreWithYou #FreeOurPrisoners

On Friday, 17 April, Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network will be joining with groups and activists around the world to tweet our collective, symbolic solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Follow @SamidounPP on Twitter for updates, news and more on the struggle of Palestinian prisoners and to follow the Twitterstorm!

As part of the “You are not alone, We are with you” campaign, the hashtag throughout the day will be #WeAreWithYou. This twitterstorm will be joined by activists from throughout occupied Palestine and around the world, and we urge you to join us! Tweet your links, message of solidarity or video about the Palestinian prisoners at any time during the day and add the hashtag, #WeAreWithYou.

Use our list of sample tweets and resources here.  Use the link: https://bit.ly/SamidounTweets

Note: We will also be joining the online Twitterstorm from 2-4 pm Central time (9-11 pm Europe, 10 pm-midnight Palestine) on Friday, 17 April called by the US Palestinian Community Network, Addameer and others for #PalestinianPrisonersDay and #FreeOurPrisoners. Sample tweets for this campaign are available here: https://bit.ly/USPCNPrisonersDay2020 and here.

 
Join the EuroPalForum webinar (with Samidoun participation) for Palestinian Prisoners’ Day!

With Charlotte Kates of Samidoun, Lara Ramadan of Addameer, former prisoner Akram Satari and journalist Motassem Dalloul:Friday, 17 April
7 am Pacific/10 am Eastern/3 pm UTC/5 pm Europe/6 pm Palestine
Online over Zoom
Register at Eventbrite for event link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/5000-prisoners-israeli-racism-and-medical-negligence-amidst-covid-19-tickets-101540586628

As the deadly covid-19 virus evidently threatens to exacerbate the situation in prisons to levels hitherto unseen, it is vital that awareness is raised as a matter of urgency.

It is in this context that EuroPal Forum brings you this online seminar, which seeks to raise awareness about the plight of Palestinian prisoners and the specific challenges they are facing during this global pandemic. To foster this seminar, EuroPal is bringing together those at the forefront of discourse and understanding on the condition of Palestinian prisoners for a 2-hour discussion on the dynamics of the situation in Israeli jails.

 
More important online events today:

  • Friday, 17 April: Participate in the Facebook Live featuring Sahar Francis of Addameer, organized by the US Palestinian Community Network at 11 am Pacific, 2 pm Eastern, 8 pm Europe, 9 pm Palestine at https://www.facebook.com/USPCN/
  • Friday, 17 April – In Prison there is no Social Distancing, from Rikers Island to Palestine. Organized by Jewish Voice for Peace, including speakers Marc Lamont Hill, Bassem and Ahed Tamimi, Mariame Kaba, Aarab Barghouthi, Randa Wahbe, Dareen Tatour, Brad Parker, Azadeh Shahshahani, Lex Steppling. 10 am Pacific/1 pm Eastern/7 pm Europe/8 pm Palestine. Register here: https://secure.everyaction.com/bK2HzdtoI0WRvDkmfsRo7Q2
  • Friday, 17 April. Palestinian Prisoners’ Day with Ramzy Baroud, organized by the University of Leeds Palestine Solidarity Group. 11 am Pacific/2 pm Eastern/7 pm Britain/8 pm Europe/9 pm Palestine Join the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/224106195604998/
  • Friday, 17 April (In Spanish) Prisons: The pandemic behind walls and bars. Testimonies from Colombia, Palestine and the Basque Country (Euskal Herria). Organized by Paz Con Dignidad. 8:30 am Pacific/11:30 am Eastern/5:30 pm Europe/6:30 pm Palestine. Join on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/810549703
  • Friday, 17 April (In Arabic): Palestinian Prisoners – Resisting the occupation amid a global pandemic, with Dr. Khaled Odetallah. 9 am Pacific/12 pm Eastern/6 pm Europe/7 pm Palestine, organized by the Right to Education Campaign with many other organizations, including Samidoun Palestine. Via Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/events/513623755977088/
  • Friday, 17 April: A Tale of A Palestinian Detainee. Facebook Live at the Global Campaign to Return to Palestine. 6 am Pacific/9 am Eastern/3 pm Europe/4 pm Palestine. More info: https://www.facebook.com/Return.Eng/
  • Friday, 17 April: Hands Off Venezuela, the first of a series of webinars hosted by The Red Nation in partnership with the Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC) and the Center for Political Education. 5 pm Pacific/8 pm Eastern/2 am Europe/3 am Palestine
    Zoom registration link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_W1uTlqEFQn2qCAYIWhmIjQ
  • Sunday, 19 April: NY4Palestine will host a webinar on the case of Ubai Aboudi and child prisoners in occupied Palestine at 11 am Pacific, 2 pm Eastern, 8 pm Europe, 9 pm Palestine. Featuring Hind Shraydeh, Palestinian writer, married to Ubai Aboudi; MIT mathematician Dr. Haynes Miller and Hadeel Shatara of Samidoun Palestine. Register online to attend:  http://bit.ly/ImprisonedPalestiniansWebinar
Palestinian Prisoners’ Day is also an international day of solidarity against racist, colonial imprisonment. We join with the Incarcerated Workers’ Organizing Committee of NYC to support their Phone Zap for NYC prisoners today. Get the details here and join in: https://twitter.com/IWOC_NYC/status/1250960579575111681
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Video: Jose Maria Sison’s solidarity message for Palestinian Prisoners’ Day

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network expresses its warmest greetings to Prof. Jose Maria Sison and the Filipino people for their solidarity with the Palestinian political prisoners and the Palestinian liberation struggle. In the video below, Joma Sison, Chairperson Emeritus of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) and Chief Political Consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, expresses his solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners as part of the international week of action for Palestinian Prisoners’ Day from 10-17 April.

As Samidoun, we also reiterate our full support and solidarity to our comrades and friends in the Philippines by demanding the release of all 532 political prisoners in the country. Among them are 44 elders, 61 women, 118 sick prisoners, five children and 10 consultants for the National Democratic Front of the Philippines. Amid the global pandemic of COVID-19, the situation of these prisoners in the jails and detention camps run by the current U.S.-backed fascist government presents a serious threat to their lives.

Samidoun is a member of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle, along with many mass organizations and popular movements in the Philippines, who have been targeted for severe repression. Following the ILPS conference in Manila in 2015, Samidoun’s European coordinator Mohammed Khatib participated in the launch of the Philippines-Palestine Friendship Association, along with Leila Khaled.

Watch the video here:

Full text of the video by Prof. Jose Maria Sison:

Dear Comrades and Fellow Activists,

On my personal behalf as  Chairperson Emeritus of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle  and as Chief Political Consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines  and on behalf  of the NDFP and the Filipino people, I wish to convey through the Samidoun warmest greetings of revolutionary solidarity to the Palestinian political prisoners and to the Palestinian people in their struggle for national and social liberation against US imperialism and  Israeli Zionism.

We join you in celebrating the Palestinian Prisoners Day, in honoring all the Palestinian political prisoners together with all martyrs and heroes for  their self-sacrificing and noble struggle for the liberation of the Palestinian people, in condemning the violations of their democratic rights and fundamental freedoms and in demanding humane treatment for the political prisoners and their freedom from their unjust  imprisonment.

The Filipino people and their revolutionary forces share a strong sense of solidarity with the Palestinian people and revolutionary forces because they are waging a common struggle against US imperialism and its reactionary puppets such as Israeli Zionism and the big comprador-landlord regime in the Philippines. We are all inspired by the sacrifices made by the political prisoners and all the martyrs and heroes in order to advance the struggle for national and social liberation.

We take this occasion to thank the Samidoun for expressing the solidarity of the Palestinian political prisoners with the Filipino political prisoners and of the Palestinian people with the Filipino people and for joining the campaign to demand the freedom of  political prisoners in the Philippines. We have a special concern for the release of all the student political prisoners who have been arrested and imprisoned for exercising their democratic rights.

All political prisoners in the world, especially the sick and elderly and the social activists who have exercised their democratic rights in defense of the people, must be freed in the face of the extremely contagious and deadly COVID-19. It is unjust to continue imprisoning them and serving them to the jaws of death. The imperialists and their reactionary puppets can only prepare their doom in the long course of history as they refuse to respect the just cause of the oppressed people and heed the just demands for their freedom.

Long live the solidarity of the Palestinian and Filipino political prisoners!

Release all political prisoners at this time of the COVID-19 pandemic!

Long live the solidarity and common struggle of the Palestinian and Filipino peoples!

 

 

 

ATIK sends message of solidarity for Palestinian Prisoners’ Day

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes our comrades of ATIK, the Confederation of Workers from Turkey in Europe. In the video below, a spokesperson for ATIK expresses their solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners. At the same time, we express our strongest solidarity with the Turkish and Kurdish political prisoners in Turkish jails struggling for justice and freedom, as well as the political prisoners jailed in Europe in collaboration with the Turkish state.

We also express our solidarity with Müslüm Elma, who previously spent many years in Turkey jailed for his political views, where he was subjected to torture and undertook several long-term hunger strikes. Despite the fact that he received asylum in Germany due to the persecution he endured from the Turkish state, today he is jailed in Germany solely due to the political allegations against him by Turkish security services. Freedom for Müslüm Elma and all political prisoners! Long live international solidarity!

Watch the video here:

Transcript of the message from ATIK:

“In the week of actions for the Palestinian prisoners and all the other political prisoners worldwide, we, as ATIK – Confederation of Workers from Turkey in Europe – want to salute all the imprisoned activists and all their comrades, who fight for their freedom.

Our comrades have also been imprisoned after the operation of the police in 2015. The trials are still processing in Münich and the German state is still keeping our comrade Müslüm Elma in the prison. This process has been started with cooperation of the fascist Turkish state, which has hundreds of thousands political prisoners. We know that the so-called democracy in Europe ends where revolutionaries start to criticize them and struggle against their powers. Their laws and humanright declarations are nothing but misleading nonsense, as we are following it in the case of comrade Georges Abdallah, who had to be released years ago.

The Palestinian prisoners are facing even worse conditions, as torture and harassment, which are daily happening in the Turkish prisons as well. The prisons of the system, which are built to eliminate the struggle against the oppressors, is our common problem. That’s why the fight against this inhumane pressure and cruelty can and should be commonized as well. The walls of the prisons will be destroyed from inside and outside! And gathering the strength from outside is our duty, which is even more crucial in these days, since the health of our comrades are in danger as well with the pandemia crisis.

Once again, we want to send our comradely salute to all the political prisoners and the determined activists of Samidoun! Freedom for all political prisoners!”

Join the Twitterstorm for Palestinian prisoners on April 17 #WeAreWithYou

On Friday, 17 April, Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network will be joining with groups and activists around the world to tweet our collective, symbolic solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Follow @SamidounPP on Twitter for updates, news and more on the struggle of Palestinian prisoners and to follow the Twitterstorm!

As part of the “You are not alone, We are with you” campaign, the hashtag throughout the day will be #WeAreWithYou. This twitterstorm will be joined by activists from throughout occupied Palestine and around the world, and we urge you to join us! Tweet your links, message of solidarity or video about the Palestinian prisoners at any time during the day and add the hashtag, #WeAreWithYou. You can share the graphics below to support the campaign and participate in the Twitterstorm on Friday. We will also be sharing more sample tweets and graphics in the coming days!

https://twitter.com/jannamahmoud3/status/1249296189129883648

Note: We will also be joining the online Twitterstorm from 2-4 pm Central time (9-11 pm Europe, 10 pm-midnight Palestine) on Friday, 17 April called by the US Palestinian Community Network and others for #PalestinianPrisonersDay. Sample tweets for this campaign are available here: https://bit.ly/USPCNPrisonersDay2020

We also invite all to participate in the wide array of webinars and online events in the coming week in support of the Palestinian prisoners’ struggle. Freedom for all Palestinian prisoners – Freedom for Palestine!

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