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29 November, Den Haag: International Protest – All to the Hague! #ICCJustice4Palestine

Friday, 29 November
1:30 pm
International Criminal Court
Oude Waalsdorperweg 10
The Hague, Netherlands
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2808269299399347/

LET’S PROTEST IN THE HAGUE SO THAT ISRAEL’S CRIMES CAN FINALLY BE JUDGED BY THE ICC !

The Attorney General of the ICC (International Criminal Court based in The Hague), Fatou Bensouda, refuses to handle the complaints filed against Israeli crimes, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Recently, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) was forced to order her to reconsider her refusal to continue the investigation into the bloody assault and act of piracy by the Israeli navy against the Mavi Marmara, a humanitarian flotilla saling to Gaza. She has until December 2 to review her dossier, butshe is the only one who has the power to decide. (In 2013, the state of Comoros, the country under which the Mavi Marmara was registered, filed a war crimes complaint with the ICC, but Ms. Bensouda decided that she would not prosecute Israel because the crime was “not massive enough”!)

However, even when the crimes of the apartheid regime are obviously massive, as is the case with the Gaza massacres of summer 2014 (more than 2,400 Palestinians killed, including 600 children), Ms. Bensouda is not in a hurry: she has not yet submitted her findings on this case, still “under study” for over 4 years now.

The NGO’s Al-Haq and Al Mezan, and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights have collected countless evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Israel (persecution, apartheid, theft, destruction and looting of Palestinian property, and hundreds of killings in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since 2014), and have lodged these complaints with the ICC Prosecutor General, despite Israel’s proven death threats against them.

Similarly, 650 well-documented complaint files concerning the killings and serious injuries of protesters during the March of Return in Gaza have been duly filed with the ICC.
Will they also be thrown into a drawer and forgotten by Ms. BENSOUDA ?

We, men and women of conscience, call for a rally at the ICC in The Hague on Friday 29 November 2019, which is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Join us!

MANIFESTONS A LA HAYE POUR QUE LES CRIMES D’ISRAEL SOIENT ENFIN JUGÉS PAR LA CPI !
La procureure générale de la CPI (Cour Pénale Internationale basée à La Haye), Fatou Bensouda, se refuse à traiter les dossiers de plainte déposés contre les crimes israéliens, crimes de guerre et crimes contre l’humanité.

Récemment, la chambre d’appel de la CPI a été obligée de lui ordonner de revenir sur son refus de poursuivre l’enquête sur l’assaut sanglant de la piraterie israélienne du 31 mai 2010 contre le Mavi Marmara, bateau de la flottille humanitaire en route vers Gaza. Mme Bensouda a jusqu’au 2 décembre pour revoir sa copie, mais elle seule est décisionnaire. (En 2013, l’Etat des Comores, pays sous lequel le Mavi Marmara était enregistré, déposait une plainte pour crimes de guerre auprès de la CPI, mais Madame Bensouda a décrété qu’elle n’engagerait pas de poursuite contre Israël, car le crime n’était « pas assez massif » !)

Pour autant, même lorsque le caractère massif des crimes du régime d’apartheid saute aux yeux, comme c’est le cas avec les massacres de Gaza de l’été 2014 (plus de 2400 Palestiniens tués, dont 600 enfants), Mme Bensouda n’est pas pressée : elle n’a toujours pas rendu ses conclusions sur ce dossier, « à l’étude » depuis plus de 4 ans maintenant.

Les ONG Al-Haq, Al Mezan, comme le Centre Palestinien pour les Droits Humains ont de leur côté collecté d’innombrables preuves de crimes de guerre et contre l’humanité commis par Israël (persécutions, apartheid, vol, destruction et pillage de biens palestiniens, et centaines d’assassinat en Cisjordanie et à Jérusalem Est depuis 2014). Elles ont déposé ces plaintes auprès de la Procureure Générale de la CPI, malgré les menaces de mort avérées qu’Israël fait peser sur leurs membres.
De même, 650 dossiers de plaintes très documentées concernant les assassinats et blessures graves de manifestants lors des Marches du Retour à Gaza, ont été dûment déposées à la CPI.

Vont-ils être également enterrés par la Procureure Générale ?

Nous, hommes et femmes de conscience, appelons à un rassemblement devant la CPI à la Haye le vendredi 29 novembre 2019, à l’occasion de la Journée Internationale de Solidarité avec le Peuple Palestinien

Rejoignez-nous

NEDERLANDS
BETOOG MEE IN DEN HAAG OPDAT DE MISDADEN VAN ISRAEL EINDELIJK WORDEN BERECHT DOOR HET INTERNATIONAAL STRAFHOF!

De procureur-generaal van het Internationaal Strafhof (ICC International Criminal Court), gevestigd in Den Haag, Fatou Bensouda, weigert, de klachten te behandelen die tegen de Israëlische misdaden ingediend werden, oorlogsmisdaden en misdaden tegen de menselijkheid.

Recentelijk is de beroepskamer van het ICC verplicht geweest, haar op te dragen, terug te komen op haar weigering om het onderzoek voort te zetten over de bloedige bestorming, op 31 mei 2010, van de Israëlische piraterij op de Mavi Marmara, schip van de humanitaire flottielje, onderweg naar Gaza. Mme Bensouda heeft tot 2 december om haar kopie te herzien, maar zij alleen beslist. (In 2013 heeft de Unie der Comoren, onder wiens vlag de Mavi Marmara geregistreerd was, bij het ICC een klacht ingediend wegens oorlogsmisdaden. Maar mevrouw Bensouda heeft aangekondigd, dat zij geen vervolging tegen Israël zou instellen, want de misdaad was « onvoldoende massaal » !)

Overigens, zelfs wanneer het massale karakter van de misdaden van het apartheidsregime in het oog springt, zoals het geval is met de slachtpartijen van Gaza in de zomer van 2014 (meer dan 2.400 Palestijnse doden, van wie 600 kinderen), is mevrouw Bensouda niet gehaast : ze heeft nog steeds haar conclusies niet ingediend in dit dossier, dat nu al « ter studie » is gedurende meer dan 4 jaar.

De NGO’sAl-Haq, Al Mezan, evenals het Palestijns Centrum voor de Mensenrechten, hebben van hun kant talloze bewijzen verzameld van oorlogsmisdaden en misdaden tegen de menselijkheid, die sedert 2014 door Israël zijn begaan (vervolgingen, apartheid, diefstal, vernieling en plundering van Palestijnse bezittingen; zelfs van moord op de Westelijke Jordaanoever en in Oost-Jeruzalem. Ze hebben die, klachten ingediend bij de procureur-generaal van het ICC, in weerwil van de bewezen doodsbedreigingen van Israël tegen hun leden.

Er werden ook 650 zeer gedocumenteerde klachtendossiers naar behoren bij het ICC ingediend, betreffende de moorden en zware verwondingen waarvan manifestanten het slachtoffer waren ter gelegenheid van de Marsen van de Terugkeer in de Gazastrook.
Zullen die ook begraven worden door de procureur-generaal ?

Wij, mannen en vrouwen met een geweten, roepen op tot een bijeenkomst voor het ICC in Den Haag, op vrijdag 29 november 2019, ter gelegenheid van de internationale dag van solidariteit met het Palestijnse volk.

Wij rekenen op jou!

ARABIC
دعونا نتظاهر في لاهاي حتى تحاكم المحكمة الجنائية الدولية جرائم اسرائيل
المدعية العامة للمحكمة الجنائية الدولية بهولندا- لاهاي السيدة فاتو بن سودة ترفض دراسة ملفات الاتهام ضد إسرائيل حول جرائم الحرب وجرائم ضد الإنسانية.
مؤخرا غرفة الجنايات فرضت عليها مراجعة رفضها للاستمرار في البحث و التحري على عملية القرصنة الدامية اللتي تعرضت لها سفينة مرمرة يوم ٣١ ماي من سنة ٢٠١٠. أعطت الغرفة مهلة حتى ٢ ديسمبر القادم إلى السيدة بن سودة لمراجعة قرارها و تبقى السيدة بن سودة صاحبة القرار الأخير.
في ٢٠١٣ دولة جزر القمر الدولة الحاملة لتراخيص الملاحة لسفينة مرمرة قدمت شكاية للمحكمة الجنائية الدولية ضد إسرائيل اللتى ارتكبت جريمة حرب ضد سفينة سلمية. السيدة بن سودة قررت أعلنت أنها لن تحاكم إسرائيل، لأن الجريمة “ليست شاملة بما فيه الكفاية “!
لكن رغم شراسة الاعتداءات على غزة، و فداحة اعتداءات نظام الابرتايد و بالأخص في حربه ضد العزل في حرب صيف ٢٠١٤ حيث استشهد أكثر من ٢٤٠٠ فلسطينى، من بينهم ٦٠٠ طفل فإن السيدة بن سودة لا تحرك ساكنا للإسراع بإخراج حكم على ملف في رفوف مكتبها منذ اكتر من اربع سنوات.
المنظمات الأهلية الفلسطيني كمنظمة الحق، الميزان و المركز الفلسطيني لحقوق الإنسان يوثقون عدد كبير من الأدلة حول جرائم الحرب وجرائم ضد الإنسانية تقوم بها إسرائيل من اضطهاد، سياسة الابرتايد، سرقة، تدمير الممتلكات الفلسطينية بالإضافة إلى المئات من الاغتيالات في الضفة الغربية و القدس الشرقية منذ ٢٠١٤ . المؤسسات الغير الحكومية الفلسطينية قدمت هذه الشكاوي إلى المدعى العام للمحكمة الجنائية الدولية ، على الرغم من تهديدات إسرائيل المؤكدة بقتل أعضاء هذه الجمعيات.

وبالمثل ، تم رفع 650 ملف شكوى موثقة فيما يتعلق بقتل المتظاهرين وإصاباتهم الخطيرة أثناء مسيرات العودة بغزة حسب الأصول و القانون أمام المحكمة الجنائية الدولية.
هل سيتم دفن هذه الملفات من قبل النائب العام؟
نحن ، رجال ونساء يحركنا ضميرنا الإنسانى ، ندعو إلى جمع حاشد أمام المحكمة الجنائية الدولية في لاهاي يوم الجمعة 29 نوفمبر 2019 ، بمناسبة اليوم الدولي للتضامن مع الشعب الفلسطيني.
انضموا إلينا.

ONDERTEKENAARS – SIGNATAIRES – SIGNATORIES:

PAYS-BAS/NEDERLAND : BDS Nederland, Het Palestijnse Huis, Palestijnse Gemeenschap – PGNL , DocP – Diensten en Onderzoek Centrum Palestina, Een Ander Joods Geluid (A Different Jewish Voice), Stichting Palestina-Rotterdam.
BELGIQUE/BELGIÊ : Plateforme Charleroi-Palestine, Campagne Européenne pour la levée du blocus de Gaza, Mouvement Citoyen Palestine, La Communauté Palestinienne de Belgique, Coordination Femmes Citoyennes, ESG ASBL – Engagés, Solidaires et Généreux, L’Association Belgo-Palestinienne de Liège, Le Comité Verviers Palestine, BACBI – Belgian Campaign for an Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, JOC Bruxelles (Jeunes Organisés et Combatifs), Belgian Committee for the Palestinian Prisoners – BCPP, Antwerp for Palestine, Campagne Free Ali Aarrass, GAPP-Gents ActiePlatform Palestina, Palestina Solidariteit, JOC Verviers, VREDE vzw,
FRANCE/FRANKRIJK : Communauté Palestinienne du Nord (CPN), CAPJPO-EuroPalestine, Avec Naplouse, Collectif Palestine Nord Essonne, Collectif 69 de Soutien à la Palestine, Les Désobéissants, le Collectif Ni Guerre NI Etat de Guerre, Mgr Jacques Gaillot, Pr. Christophe Oberlin, Driss Ettazaoui, Adjoint au maire d’Evreux, Sarah Katz (ISM), Pierre Stambul, Campagne Unitaire pour la Libération de Georges Abdallah, ISM France, AFPS 59, Association des Chrétiens pour l’Abolition de la Torture (ACAT), Droits Devant !! Campagne BDS France Montpellier, Collectif Palestine12-Millau, le Collectif BDS 57. ESSOR Langues & Partages culturels, Palestine Libre Haute Marne, Comité Poitevin Palestine
ALLEMAGNE/DUITSLAND : Annette et Gûnter Groth, Institut für Palästinakunde e.V. Bonn, Salam Shalom Arbeitskreis Palästina-Israel Munich, Le Forum Démocratique Palestinien en Europe, Die Jüdisch-Palästinensische Dialoggruppe München, Palestinien community Deutschland, Union of Palestinien Communities Institutions and Aktivitis in Europe, BDS-Gruppe Bonn, Deutsch-Palästinensischer Frauenverein (Karin Steinbrinker, Salwa Rashmawi, Amal Hamad), DIE LINKE- Bundesarbeitskreis Gerechter Frieden in Nahost, Wolfgang Behr, Günter Wimmer.
ROYAUME-UNI/VERENIGD KONINKRIJK : Dr Derek Summerfield (Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, London), Football Against Apartheid, The Palestinian, Expel Israel from Olympic Games (UK), ICAHD UK.
ITALIE/ITALIË : NWRG-onlus New Weapons Research Group (Genova), Assopacepalestina, Cultura è Libertà, Angelo Baracca, Pr. of Physics University of Florence, Invictapalestina, Comunità Palestinese di Roma e del Lazio, Palestina Nel Cuore (Rome), Forum Palestina, CLP( Coordinamento Lombardo Palestina), Donne in Nero di Torino.
LUXEMBOURG/LUXEMBURG : Comité pour une Paix Juste au Proche-Orient (CPJPO). ESPAGNE : Associación Madrid Solidaria Con Palestina.
FINLANDE/FINLAND : The Finnish-Arab Friendship Society. SLOVENIE/SLOVENIÊ : Gibanje za pravice Palestincev. AUTRICHE/OOSTENRIJK : Les Femmes en Noir de Vienne. SUISSE/ZWITSERLAND : Association Switzerland Palestine, ASP/GSP, BADIL Resource Center, Alternative Refugee Center. CANADA : Palestiniens et Juifs Unis (PAJU).
USA : Ann Wright, retired U.S. Army Colonel, Veterans for Peace. SOUTH AFRICA : Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), INTERNATIONAL: SAMIDOUN Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network.

Khalida Jarrar’s detention extended: Download posters and images for the 8-11 November Days of Action

On Sunday, 3 November, the Israeli military court at Ofer prison extended the detention of Palestinian political leader, leftist and feminist Khalida Jarrar for eight more days. As reported by Jarrar’s daughter Yafa on social media, the military prosecution relied on secret evidence to keep Jarrar locked up.

Jarrar was seized in the pre-dawn hours of Thursday, 31 October by over 70 armed soldiers and 12 military vehicles invading her Ramallah home. Her arrest came only eight months after she was released from 20 months of Israeli administrative detention: imprisonment without charge or trial, once again on the basis of secret evidence. Detention orders are issued for up to six months at a time, and they can be indefinitely extended. As a result, Palestinians regularly spend years at a time in Israeli prison without charge or trial.

There are currently approximately 450 people held under administrative detention without charge or trial, out of approximately 5,000 total Palestinian political prisoners. Several administrative detainees are conducting a long-term hunger strike, including 24-year-old youth activist Heba al-Labadi, a Palestinian with Jordanian citizenship seized by occupation forces when she entered Palestine with her mother to attend a wedding in Nablus.

We urge people around the world to participate in the Days of Action for Palestinian Political Prisoners between 8-11 November 2019. We are focusing on the cases of Khalida Jarrar, Heba al-Labadi and tortured husband and father Samer Arbeed, shackled, tear-gassed and under interrogation in Hadassah prison after Israeli occupation forces beat him into unconsciousness and broke 11 of his ribs.

As Yafa Jarrar noted, “International pressure has made the difference in how quickly mom gets released in the past.” All 5,000 Palestinian political prisoners need your support in their struggle for justice and freedom.

You can use the following flyers and social media images to join the campaign to free Khalida Jarrar and her fellow political prisoners. Download here and share widely!

Images:

Posters:

Listen online: Samidoun’s Charlotte Kates on By Any Means Necessary Radio on Heba al-Labadi, Khalida Jarrar and Samer Arbeed

Samidoun’s international coordinator Charlotte Kates joined Eugene Puryear and Sean Blackmon for an interview on “By Any Means Necessary Radio,” a Sputnik News program, on 2 November 2019. The interview focused on the call for days of action to free Palestinian prisoners between 8-11 November, particularly highlighting the cases of Palestinian leftist, feminist and parliamentarian Khalida Jarrar; hunger-striking youth activist Heba al-Labadi; and tortured husband and father Samer Arbeed.

Listen online to the full program:

27 November, Britain: Time to Get #ApartheidOffCampus

Wednesday, 27 November
UK-wide
Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd1GIUAgm-mKGlFheVwr9WG6Xiv7i4IwYCx10SLF8pmNcFUdg/viewform?fbclid=IwAR0sYkBwxl2O7QSaMFpP6zzO9xGuONDkI6pcNYoIr_QiX9ru2gkqq0H8dXI

Take action to demand #ApartheidOffCampus on the 27th November 2019!

Israel’s system of institutionalised racist discrimination, amounting to the crime of apartheid, can only be sustained because of weapons, technology and other support it receives from companies around the world.

UK universities invest 100s of £millions and hold institutional links with companies complicit with Israel’s apartheid regime, despite over 90 UK universities holding “social responsibility policies”. These policies often include restrictions on holding investments in companies who are complicit in human rights violations. One example includes University of Glasgow, who invest over £18 million worth of shares in companies complicit with Israel’s apartheid regime, despite claiming principles of socially responsible investment. Their portfolio includes investments in Caterpillar, who supply armoured bulldozers for the Israeli army, used to demolish Palestinian homes, schools olive groves and communities.

UK Universities must refuse to provide any kind of support or to engage in the normalization of relations with any regime of racism, oppression and dispossession. This includes Israel’s apartheid regime. For UK universities to be free from all forms of discrimination, they must end and seek to hold no investments or ties with companies or institutions complicit in the denial of rights to Palestinians.

Students on campus are fighting back and showing their solidarity with the Palestinian people by holding their institutions to account and campaigning to get #ApartheidOffCampus and declare themselves Apartheid Free. Take creative action on your campus as part of the national day of action on the 27th November 2019 to demand UK universities get #ApartheidOffCampus and pledge to be #ApartheidFree!

9 November, Manchester: Protest – Free All Palestinian Political Prisoners

Saturday, 9 November
12:00 pm
Piccadilly Gardens
Manchester, UK
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/437514870282284/

As Israel re-arrests Palestinian socialist Khalida Jarrar, another female prisoner Heba Labadi faces a deteriorating condition in her hunger strike for freedom. Join us on the streets to break the silence of British politicians on the Palestinian prisoners in Zionist jails and support the Samidoun call for action!

Meet in Piccadilly Gardens at 12.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
RCG – Revolutionary Communist Group

8 November, NYC: Palestine Beyond the Law

Friday, 8 November
1:00 pm
CUNY School of Law
2 Court Square
Long Island City NY
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/569867533760624/

Join CUNY Law SJP on Friday, November 8th for a discussion featuring lawyers and activists Lamis Deek and Huwaida Arraf, and CUNY law student Nerdeen Kiswani, on movement lawyering in the context of the Palestine movement. Our panelists will explore the state of the national movement in Palestine, civil liberty violations and challenges faced by Palestinians, and the legal challenges on an international, domestic, and local scale. Tarek Ismail will be moderating.

Lamis Deek is an attorney and human rights advocate specializing in defending Arab and Muslim community members, activists, and organizers against U.S. government attacks. She’s chief counsel to the Global Justice and Human Rights Law Network, the founder of the Muslim Defense Project of the National Lawyers Guild, and part of the growing international legal movement for war crimes prosecution in the Middle East and North Africa.

Huwaida Arraf is a Palestinian American attorney and human rights activist. In 2001, she co-founded the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a Palestinian-led nonviolent resistance movement, which has twice been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was one of the primary organizers of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and was traveling with it when it was lethally attacked by Israeli forces on May 31, 2010.

Nerdeen Kiswani, a first-year CUNY Law student, is a Palestinian organizer from NYC. She’s a founder and chair of Within Our Lifetime – United for Palestine, a Palestinian led community-based organization.

Co-Sponsors for this event include: MLSA, LALSA, APALSA, ILS, NLG, IALA, OUTLAWS, Dilley Delegation, HALT

Berlin protest stands in solidarity with Palestinian women prisoners in Israeli jails

Photos by Magdalena Stefanova Vassileva

The following report is reprinted from BDS Berlin: http://bdsberlin.org/2019/11/01/solidaritaet-mit-den-gefangenen-palaestinenischen-frauen/

(German below)

Photos by Magdalena Stefanova Vassileva

In solidarity with Palestinian women incarcerated in Israeli jails, who are subjected to the most brutal forms of violence and repression, and in struggle for their liberation and the liberation of Hiba Al-Labadi who has been on hunger strike for over 37 days, numerous supporters in Berlin followed the call of Palästina Spricht/Palestine Speaks and Tal3at and joined the yesterday’s demonstrations organised throughout Palestine and beyond, in Ramallah, Haifa, Jerusalem, Yaffa, Bethlehem, Nazareth, Rafah (Gaza), Berlin and London.

Activists organized protests in several locations in support of the administrative detainee Heba Al-Labadi, 24, who was detained on August 20th. Under administrative detention law, Israeli authorities can hold Palestinians without charge or trial based on “secret information”. Photos are from Haifa, Ramallah, Jaffa and Jerusalem by: Activestills.

Photos by Magdalena Stefanova Vassileva

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Heba, a Palestinian with Jordanian citizenship, was detained as she and her mother attempted to cross the bridge to Palestine to attend a wedding in Nablus. The mobilizations also came on the same day that internationally well-known Palestinian feminist, leftist and parliamentarian Khalida Jarrar was seized by Israeli occupation forces in an armed raid on her Ramallah home. Jarrar was released only eight months prior from 20 months held without charge or trial under administrative detention. Samidoun is calling for days of action between 8 and 11 November to free Khalida Jarrar, Heba al-Labadi, Samer Arbeed and all Palestinian prisoners.

Photos by Magdalena Stefanova Vassileva

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In Solidarität mit den palästinensischen Frauen, die in israelischen Gefängnissen inhaftiert sind, dort brutalsten Formen von Gewalt und Unterdrückung ausgesetzt sind, und im Kampf für ihre Befreiung und die Befreiung von Hiba Al-Labadi, die sich seit mehr als 37 Tagen im Hungerstreik befindet, sind in Berlin zahlreiche Unterstützer*innen dem Aufruf von Palästina Spricht/Palestine Speaks  und Tal3at  gefolgt und haben sich gestern Abend auf dem Hermannplatz den Demonstrationen angeschlossen, die in ganz Palästina und darüber hinaus, in Ramallah, Haifa, Jerusalem, Yaffa, Bethlehem, Nazareth, Rafah (Gaza), Berlin und London organisiert worden sind.

Photos by Magdalena Stefanova Vassileva
Photos by Magdalena Stefanova Vassileva
Photos by Magdalena Stefanova Vassileva
Photos by Magdalena Stefanova Vassileva
Photos by Magdalena Stefanova Vassileva
Photos by Magdalena Stefanova Vassileva
Photos by Magdalena Stefanova Vassileva
Photos by Magdalena Stefanova Vassileva

 

Call to Action Nov. 8-11: Free Khalida Jarrar, Heba al-Labadi, Samer Arbeed and all Palestinian prisoners!

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all supporters of justice in Palestine to hold events, actions, info tables, demonstrations, postering campaigns and mobilizations on 8 through 11 November to demand freedom for Palestinian political prisoners struggling for freedom – and their very lives – in Israeli occupation prisons.

Khalida Jarrar, leading Palestinian feminist, leftist and parliamentarian, was seized in the pre-dawn hours of 31 October 2019 by Israeli occupation forces. The heavily armed force invaded her home with over a dozen military vehicles and 80 soldiers only eight months after she was last released from Israeli prison. She had been jailed there for 20 months with no charge and no trial under administrative detention. During Khalida’s imprisonment, over 275 organizations around the world joined the call for her freedom, and protests and mobilizations around the world highlighted her case. It is time to act again and demand Khalida’s immediate release!

Heba al-Labadi is a 24-year-old Palestinian with Jordanian citizenship. She has been on hunger strike since 24 September 2019 against her administrative detention – imprisonment without charge or trial. She is one of 425 Palestinians detained without charge or trial, many of whom spend years at a time jailed under indefinitely renewed administrative detention orders. There are over 5,500 Palestinians imprisoned in total by the Israeli occupation. Heba al-Labadi launched her hunger strike after five weeks of harsh interrogation involving techniques amounting to torture, including sleep deprivation, threats against her family, verbal abuse and sleep deprivation. Heba has been jailed by the Israeli occupation since 20 August, when she entered Palestine with her mother to attend a wedding in Nablus.

Samer Arbeed is being held in Hadassah hospital after severe Israeli torture under interrogation and brutal beatings that caused him to lose consciousness for weeks. He has been shackled to his bed and even tear-gassed in his hospital room by Israeli forces despite the fact that he has 11 broken ribs and pneumonia as well as kidney dysfunction so severe he now requires dialysis. He suffered from none of these medical conditions prior to being seized by Israeli occupation forces on 25 September, although his wife witnessed occupation soldiers begin to beat him immediately upon arresting him. He has been banned from lawyers’ visits and his lawyers were not informed that he was tear-gassed; in a medical report delivered by the intensive care unit at the hospital, it was noted that Samer’s lung health has further deteriorated due to contamination in his ventilation apparatus. He is being subjected to continuous interrogation even as he remains in his hospital room due to Israeli torture.

Khalida, Heba and Sameer have all, independently of one another, organized and spoken out for Palestinian prisoners. Khalida is one of the most prominent international advocates for Palestinian prisoners and their rights and the former vice-chair of the board of directors of Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association. Heba has written and campaigned about Palestinian political prisoners and urged their freedom, including that of Georges Abdallah, jailed in France for 35 years. Samer Arbeed volunteered and worked for organizations demanding freedom for prisoners – and has been previously targeted for his work.

On Friday, 8 November through Monday, 11 November, speak out for Khalida, Heba, Samer and all of the thousands of Palestinians held behind bars. Torture, arbitrary detention and abuse are taking place in full view of the world and we must speak out to stand with these Palestinians demanding their most fundamental rights. Free all Palestinian prisoners! Freedom for Palestine!

1) Organize or join an event or protest for the Palestinian prisoners. You can organize an info table, rally, solidarity hunger strike, protest or action to support the prisoners. If you are already holding an event about Palestine or social justice, include solidarity with the prisoners as part of your action. Send your events and reports to samidoun@samidoun.net.

2) Write letters and make phone calls to protest the violation of Palestinian prisoners’ rights. Demand your government take action to stop supporting Israeli occupation or to pressure the Israeli state to end the policies of repression of Palestinian political prisoners. In particular, demand that your political officials put pressure on Israel to end the policy of administrative detention, the imprisonment of Palestinians without charge or trial.

Call during your country’s regular office hours:

• Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs Marise Payne: + 61 2 6277 7500
• Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland: +1-613-992-5234
• European Union Commissioner Federica Mogherini: +32 (0) 2 29 53516
• New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters: +64 4 439 8000
• United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt: +44 20 7008 1500
• United States President Donald Trump: 1-202-456-1111

3) Boycott, Divest and Sanction. Join the BDS campaign to highlight the complicity of corporations like Hewlett-Packard and the continuing involvement of G4S in Israeli policing and prisons. Build a campaign to boycott Israeli goods, impose a military embargo on Israel, or organize around the academic and cultural boycott of Israel. Learn more about the BDS campaign at bdsmovement.net.

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31 October, Berlin: For Palestinian Political Prisoners #Tal3at in Berlin

Thursday, 31 October
7:00 pm
Hermannplatz
Berlin, Germany
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1405031486320637/

For Palestinian political prisoners #Tal3at #PalästinaSpricht

In solidarity with Palestinian women incarcerated in Israel’s colonial jails, who are subjected to the most brutal forms of violence and repression, and in struggle for their liberation and the liberation of Hiba Al-Labadi who has been on hunger strike for over 37 days, we call on you to join the demonstrations organized across Palestine on Thursday 31/10/2019 in Ramallah, Haifa, Jerusalem, Yaffa, Bethlehem, Nazareth, Rafah (Gaza), Berlin and London.

We also urge our Palestinian communities across Palestine and in the diaspora to join us in action by organizing demonstrations, actions and rallies.

The liberation of Palestinian political prisoners is central to our national liberation movement and our struggle against all forms of violence and dispossession.

No Free Nation Without Free Women!

For more information on the conditions of Palestinian political prisoners see here: http://www.addameer.org/

For a detailed account of Hiba Al-Labadi’s case see here: http://www.palestinechronicle.com/palestinian-jordanian-hunger-striker-moved-to-hospital/

للأسيرات طالعات

دعمًا واسنادًا لأسيراتنا واسرانا في سجون الاحتلال، واللواتي يواجهن اقسى انواع القمع والتعنيف، ومن اجل حريتهن وحرية الاسيرة هبة اللبدي المضربة عن الطعام منذ 35 يوم والتي تقبع في المستشفى جراء تدهور خطير في صحتها.

ندعوكن في حراك #طالعات وتحالف فلسطين بتحكي للانضمام الى الوقفات المعلنة يوم الخميس الموافق 31/10/2019 في كل من حيفا ورام الله والقدس وبيت لحم وبرلين ولندن.

كما وندعو مناطق اخرى للانضمام وتنظيم وقفات في البلدات المختلفة داخل وخارج فلسطين، كي نؤكد معًا ان تحرر الاسيرات هو جزء اساسي من تحررنا الوطني وانعتاقنا من جميع انواع القمع والتعنيف.

فلنصرخ معًا من اجل الحرية ولنحطم معًا قيد المُستعمِر
لا وجود لوطن حر الّا بنساءٍ حرّة

Breaking news: Israeli occupation forces arrest Khalida Jarrar, Palestinian leftist, feminist parliamentarian

In the early dawn hours of Thursday, 31 October, Israeli occupation forces stormed the Ramallah home of Palestinian leftist and feminist leader and internationally-known parliamentarian, Khalida Jarrar. They seized Jarrar from her family home at 3 a.m. Jerusalem time, with over 70 soldiers and 12 military vehicles armed for the forcible invasion, as reported by her daughter Yafa on Facebook:

The arrest comes just eight months after Jarrar was last released from Israeli imprisonment after spending 20 months jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention. Administrative detention orders can be issued for up to six months at a time, and they are indefinitely renewable. Palestinians like Jarrar have spent years at a time jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention.

Within the Israeli occupation prisons, she played a leading role in supporting the education of the minor girls held there, organizing classes on human rights and in review for mandatory high school examinations when the prison authority denied the girls a teacher.

Over 275 organizations, political parties and social movements around the world joined in a collective call for her release.

This was not the only time that Jarrar was imprisoned by the Israeli occupation; her arrest in 2017 came only 13 months after she was released from Israeli prison after serving a 15-month sentence for her public political activity. After being arrested in 2015, she was ordered to administrative detention; in response to public outrage, she was transferred to the military courts for a bogus trial. During this most recent 20 months in prison, she remained jailed with no charges and no trial the entire time.

Jarrar is a longtime advocate for the freedom of Palestinian prisoners and has served as the former Vice-Chair and Executive Director of Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association. A member of the Palestinian Legislative Council elected as part of the leftist Abu Ali Mustafa Bloc, associated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, she chaired the PLC’s Prisoners Committee.

She is also an outspoken leader in the fight to hold Israeli officials accountable for war crimes in the International Criminal Court. She is a member of a Palestinian commission charged with bringing complaints and files before the international court about ongoing Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people, from attacks on Gaza to land confiscation and settlement construction to mass arrests and imprisonment.

In 2014, she resisted – and defeated – an Israeli attempt to forcibly displace her from her family home in el-Bireh to Jericho. Only nine months later, in April 2015, she was seized by Israeli occupation forces and ordered to administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial. After a global outcry, she was brought before Israeli military courts and faced 12 charges based on her political activity, from giving speeches to attending events in support of Palestinian prisoners.

After she was released in June 2016, she resumed her leading role in the Palestinian liberation movement, only to be seized once more on 2 July 2017 and once again thrown in prison with no charges and no trial.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges international mobilization and action to demand the immediate release of Khalida Jarrar. This arrest comes amid multiple hunger strikes, including a hunger strike of over a month carried out by Heba al-Labadi, and the severe torture of Samer Arbeed. It is yet another attempt by the Israeli occupation to attack Palestinian popular movements – and campaigns to defend Palestinian prisoners – and suppress them through fear, arrests and intimidation carried out by a massively armed occupation force.

It is urgent that we intensify our solidarity to demand the freedom of Khalida Jarrar, Heba al-Labadi and all of the thousands of Palestinian prisoners behind bars in Israeli occupation prisons, including building the movement to boycott Israel on an international level.