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14 April, Rome: Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli Prisons

Saturday, 14 April
10:00 am – 6:00 pm
SHG Hotel Porta Maggiore
Piazza di Porta Maggiore 25
Rome, Italy
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/574825426225655/

The “Amici dei prigionieri palestinesi” association and the “Con la Palestina nel cuore” committee with the support of the Friends of the Palestinian Red Crescent and the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio are organizing this one-day conference.

This event on the situation of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails will include a number of presentations, including talks by:

– Moneeb SHUBIB (Nablus, Palestine) – coordinator of the Qaderoun Network, professor of the Open University of Jerusalem
– Eman ADWAY (Ramallah, Palestine) – human rights activist
– Fausto GIANELLI (Modena) – lawyer, member of the national coordination for Democratic Lawyers
– Ugo GIANNANGELI (Milan) – jurist, human rights activist
– Bassam SALEH (Rome) – Amici dei prigionieri palestinesi

L’Associazione “Amici dei prigionieri palestinesi”
e il comitato “Con la Palestina nel cuore”, con il contributo degli Amici della Mezzaluna Rossa palestinese e della Comunità palestinese di Roma e del Lazio, organizzano
LA SITUAZIONE DEI PRIGIONIERI PALESTINESI NELLE CARCERI ISRAELIANE
convegno in occasione della settimana del prigioniero palestinese

Interventi di:
– Moneeb SHUBIB (Nablus, Palestina) – coordinatore della Rete Qaderoun, docente della Open University of Jerusalem
– Eman ADWAY (Ramallah, Palestina) – attivista per i diritti umani
– Fausto GIANELLI (Modena) – avvocato, membro del coordinamento nazionale Giuristi Democratici
– Ugo GIANNANGELI (Milano) – giurista, attivista per i diritti umani
– Bassam SALEH (Roma) – Amici dei prigionieri palestinesi

Nel pomeriggio, dopo la pausa pranzo, contributi di forze politiche e associazioni solidali con la lotta del popolo palestinese.
Seguirà programma dettagliato.

Il convegno avrà svolgimento presso
l’Hotel Porta Maggiore
Piazza di Porta Maggiore 25 – Roma
con inizio alle ore 10 e prosecuzione per l’intera giornata

Per raggiungerci: metro A fermata Manzoni; tram 14 o 516 da Termini; autobus 105 o 157 da Termini

Across France: Rallies to support Gaza, 6 April

Many events are taking place across France on 6 April including major gatherings in Paris and Toulouse in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza and against Israeli massacres.

Events can be found throughout the country, including the following:

ANNECY:
Friday, 6 April
6:00 pm
Prefecture d’Annecy
Annecy, France
More info: http://www.france-palestine.org/Rassemblement-de-soutien-a-Gaza-33007

BEAUVAIS:
Friday, 6 April
6:00 pm
Centre-ville de Beauvais
Beauvais, France
More info: http://www.france-palestine.org/Rassemblement-de-soutien-a-Gaza-32992

BELFORT:
Friday, 6 April
5:30 pm
Place de la Republique
Belfort, France
More info: http://www.france-palestine.org/Rassemblement-de-soutien-a-Gaza-33023

BESANCON:
Friday, 6 April
5:30 pm
Place du 8 Septembre
Besancon, France
More info: http://www.france-palestine.org/Rassemblement-de-soutien-a-Gaza-33023

BOURG-EN-BRESSE:
Friday, 6 April
6:00 pm
Place de la Mairie de Bourg-en-Bresse
Bourg-en-Bresse, France
More info: http://www.france-palestine.org/Manifestation-de-soutien-a-Gaza-33026

BREST:
Friday, 6 April
6:00 pm
Top of Rue de Siam
Brest, France
More info: http://www.france-palestine.org/Rassemblement-de-soutien-a-Gaza-33009

CHAMBERY:
Friday, 6 April
6:00 pm
Place St Léger
Chambery, France
More info: http://www.france-palestine.org/Rassemblement-de-soutien-a-Gaza-33022

GRENOBLE:
Friday, 6 April
6:00 pm
Rue Felix Poulat
Grenoble, France
More info: http://www.france-palestine.org/Rassemblement-de-soutien-pour-Gaza

MANS:
Friday, 6 April
5:30 pm
Place de la Republique
Mans, France
More info: http://www.france-palestine.org/Rassemblement-de-soutien-a-Gaza-33012

METZ:
Friday, 6 April
5:30 pm
Outside the Prefecture
Metz, France
More info: http://www.france-palestine.org/Rassemblement-de-soutien-a-Gaza-33005

MULHOUSE:
Friday, 6 April
7:15 pm
Outside Bel Air Cinema
31 Rue Fénelon
Mulhouse, France
More info: http://www.france-palestine.org/Rassemblement-de-soutien-a-Gaza

PARIS:
Friday, 6 April
6:00 pm
Place des Invalides
Paris, France
More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/143848063120711/

RENNES:
Friday, 6 April
6:30 pm
Place de la Republique
Rennes, France
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/231666790901756/

THIONVILLE:
Friday, 6 April
6:00 pm
Place Anne Grommerch
Thionville, France
More info: http://www.france-palestine.org/Manifestation-de-soutien-a-Gaza-32975

TOULOUSE:
Friday, 6 April
6:00 pm
Metro Jean-Jaures
Toulouse, France
More info: https://samidoun.net/event/toulouse-rally-for-gaza-end-the-siege-stop-the-israeli-massacres/

6 April, Paris: GAZA – Stop the massacres!

Friday, 6 April
6:00 pm
Place des Invalides
Paris, France
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/143848063120711/

Lift the siege immediately! Protection for the Palestinian people! Sanctions against Israel!

Gather outside the Ministry of European and Foreign Affairs at Metro Invalides

LEVÉE IMMÉDIATE DU BLOCUS !

PROTECTION DU PEUPLE PALESTINIEN !

SANCTIONS CONTRE ISRAËL !

Dans le cadre de l’appel du Collectif National pour une Paix Juste et Durable entre Palestiniens et Israéliens,

l’AFPS appelle au rassemblement à PARIS ce VENDREDI 6 AVRIL à 18H

DEVANT LE MINISTÈRE DE L’EUROPE ET DES AFFAIRES ÉTRANGÈRES

AU MÉTRO INVALIDES

7 April, Bonn: Rally against the Israeli massacre in Gaza!

Saturday, 7 April
2:00 pm
Munsterplatz
Bonn, Germany
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/360566947779931/
Web: https://bdsgruppebonn.wordpress.com/2018/04/05/wer-stoppt-israel-kundgebung-der-pal-gemeinde-bonn-am-07-04-2018/

Who will stop Israel?
19 dead and 1500 wounded in a massacre in Gaza

The Day of the Land on 30 March is an annual commemoration and protest in Palestine against the expropriation of Arab land by the Israeli state. On 30 March 1976, six Palestinians were shot dead as they participated in a general strike by Palestinian citizens of Israel against the seizure and expropriation of their land by the Israeli state.

Tens of thousands of protesters rallied in Gaza on 30 March this year in a mass rally for the right of return of Palestinian refugees, the Great March of Return. Over 70 percent of the Palestinian population in Gaza are refugees who have been denied the right to return to their homes, lands and villages for 70 years.

And again, the Israeli state revealed its nature: soldiers shot and killed 19 protesters and injured over 1500!

The international community must finally put pressure on Israel to recognize international law and Palestinian self-determination. This means:
– the end of the occupation and colonization of Palestine and the demolition of the apartheid wall
– the legal equality of the Palestinian citizens of Israel with their Jewish fellow citizens
– the recognition of Palestinian refugees’ right to return to their homeland under UN resolution 194 of 1948.

19 Tote und 1500 Verletzte bei Karfreitags-Massaker in Gaza

Kundgebung am Samstag, 07. April 2018 ab 14 Uhr auf dem Bonner Münsterplatz

Der Tag des Bodens am 30. März ist ein jährlicher Gedenk- und Protesttag in Palästina, der sich gegen die Landenteignung der arabischen Bevölkerung durch Israel richtet. Am 30. März 1976 wurden sechs Palä­sti­nen­ser erschossen, als sich die palästinensische Bevölkerung Israels mit einem Generalstreik gegen die Be­schlag­nahme und Enteignung ihres Landes durch den israelischen Staat zur Wehr setzte.

Auch in diesem Jahr er­hoben sich am 30. März in Gaza wieder Zehn­­tau­sende von De­mon­­strant­en in einem Massen­­marsch, der an diesen Tag das Recht auf Rück­kehr der pa­lä­sti­­nen­sischen Flücht­­­­­linge in den Mit­tel­punkt stellte – der Große Marsch der Rück­­kehr.

Und wieder einmal of­fen­­barte der isra­eli­sche Staat seine Natur: Soldaten er­schossen 19 Demon­stran­ten und verletzten mehr als 1500!

Über 70 Prozent der palästinensischen Bevölkerung in Gaza sind Flüchtlinge, denen das Recht auf Rückkehr in ihre Heimat, ihr Land und ihre Dörfer seit 70 Jahren verweigert wird. Nach Angaben von Badil (Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights) gibt es heute weltweit 7,1 Millionen palästinensische Flüchtlinge. http://www.badil.org/en/

Welchen Ausweg kann es aus dieser uner­träg­lichen Lage geben? Israel als Besat­zungs­macht muss durch inter­nationalen Druck, wie z.B. Sanktionen dazu gebracht werden, das Recht des palästinensischen Volkes auf Selbst­be­stim­mung anzu­er­ken­nen und die Bestimmungen des Völker­rechts zu akzeptieren.

Dies bedeutet:

– das Ende der Besetzung und der Kolonialisierung Palästinas und der Abriss der Apartheidmauer

– die rechtliche Gleichstellung der palästinensischen Bürger Israels mit ihren jüdischen Mitbürgern

– die Anerkennung des Rechts der palästinensischen Flüchtlinge auf die Rückkehr in ihre Heimat gemäß dem UN-Beschluss 194 von 1948.

Aufruf der Palästinensischen Gemeinde Bonn zur Kundgebung

Palästinensische Gemeinde Deutschland – Bonn

Unterstützer: BDS-Gruppe Bonn, Institut für Palästinakunde Bonn, Frauenwege Nahost und Deutsch-Palästinensische Gesellschaft NRW-Süd

Als Reaktion auf das jüngste Massaker Israels in Gaza: Waffenembargo jetzt!

6 April, New York City: All out for Gaza: Solidarity with the Great March for Return

Friday, 6 April
5:00 pm
Union Square
New York City
Facebook pages: https://www.facebook.com/events/1002777756549190/
https://www.facebook.com/events/1207692712700937/

Various coalitions have called for this mobilization and will be rallying together in Union Square! The texts of the calls are below:

The NY4Palestine coalition calls on all of its allies and supporters of Palestinian liberation to mobilize tomorrow and join us as we rally for Gaza. Since tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza marched to the border last Friday on Land Day to erect tent cities and launch a 6 week protest leading up to Nakba Day dubbed the #GreatMarchOfReturn, 20 Palestinians have been martyred by occupation forces, with 1500 more injured, 800 by live ammunition.

As the protests enter there second week, the urgency to organize, resist, and fight for Palestine is greater than ever.

All out tomorrow as we rally in support of the heroic Palestinians in Gaza and throughout historic Palestine participating in the #GreatReturnMarch and honor the martyrs who gave their lives fighting for liberation and return!

Where: 14 st Union Square
When: Tomorrow, Friday April 6th at 5pm

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Join us to show solidarity with the tens of thousands of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip carrying out the historic #GreatReturnMarch and to mourn the 20 Palestinians shot and killed by Israeli forces along the border.

On Friday, March 30 an estimated 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza took part in the Great March of Return along the electric fence that has kept more than 2 million people imprisoned for more than a decade. The march, organized by a cross section of civil society, grassroots activists, and political factions in the occupied enclave, called for an end of the Gaza’s brutal siege and the right of return for Palestinian refugees. Conditions in Gaza are currently “unlivable,” as described by the UN, with severe electricity shortages and water contamination, on top of periodic military assaults by Israeli forces.

Israel reacted to families walking and chanting with a brutal show of force. Israeli snipers opened fire with live ammunition against the protestors and deployed tear gas against them by drones, killing at least 20 Palestinians and injuring more than 1,500, half of which were shot with live ammunition. The Israeli army claimed online on March 30 that, “Nothing was carried out uncontrolled; everything was accurate and measured, and we know where every bullet landed.”

And yet, tens of thousands of Palestinians remain steadfast. They aim to stay 45 days until May 15, the 70th anniversary of the “Nakba,” Arabic for “catastrophe,” when 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled from their homes for the creation of the state of Israel.

We condemn these killings. We mourn the 20 Palestinians killed. New York City stands with the tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza in this historic new wave of organizing and their quest to return home.

Hosted by:
Jewish Voice for Peace – NYC
Adalah-NY
Apartheid Divest CUNY
Palestine Solidarity Alliance of Hunter College
Tarab NYC
NYC Queers Against Israeli Apartheid
Jews say No!

6 April, Philadelphia: Rally to Join the Cultural Boycott and End Israeli Apartheid

Friday, 6 April
4:00 pm
300 S. Broad St
Philadelphia, PA
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/189577875157380/

As Israeli snipers kill unarmed Palestinians in Gaza protesting 11 years of total blockade and 70 years of occupation, over 100 musicians, artists, writers, scholars, union members activists and 30 social justice organizations are calling on the Philadelphia Orchestra to CANCEL ITS ISRAEL TOUR!

Press Conference and Rally in front of the Kimmel Center

Despite Israel’s decades-long suppression of Palestinian voices and Palestinian human rights, the Philadelphia Orchestra plans to perform in Israel in June, claiming that their performance in Israel is “cultural diplomacy,” not “a political mission.” Their statement is undermined by their own admission that the trip is “in celebration of its [Israel’s] 70th anniversary” and by their close collaboration with Israeli government officials, before the trip and in the planned itinerary.

Palestinian civil society, inspired by the global cultural boycott that helped end Apartheid in South Africa, has called on international cultural institutions not to perform in Israel as a popular non-violent means of helping to end Israel’s illegal occupation and apartheid policies.

You can add your name/organization on a letter to Philadelphia Orchestra at Phillybds.org, demanding:

Philadelphia Orchestra: DON’T PLAY WITH ISRAELI APARTHEID!

Gaza is the world’s largest open-air prison, where nearly 2 million people are kept under siege, denied the right to medical care, education, drinking water and electricity. Most people in Gaza are the children and grandchildren of refugees driven off their land a few miles away, in what are now Israeli cities and resort towns like Tel Aviv and Herzliya.

The current protests against Israeli-imposed dire conditions and 70 years of theft of land by Zionist settlers have led to shockingly excessive force, outright assassinations resulting in 18 deaths and many scores of injuries to Palestinians.

Israel receives more than $3 billion in annual direct military aid from the US, nearly three times as much as the next highest recipient, and billions more by other means. That is why we demand:
Join the Cultural Boycott & End Israeli Apartheid
Visit us at https://www.facebook.com/phillydontorchestrateapartheid/

27 April, Berlin: Decolonise Palestine – Stop Apartheid!

Friday, 27 April
8:00 pm
Stadtteilladen Zielona Gora
Grünberger Str. 73
Berlin
Facebook: http://palaestina-solidaritaet.de/2018/03/30/berlin-fr-27-04-decolonise-palestine-stop-apartheid/

On the current struggle of the revolutionary Palestinian liberation movement, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and why revolutionaries support the worldwide boycott campaign, BDS.

Speaker: Khaled Barakat (Palestinian writer, of the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat)

With a slideshow and screening of clips from “Roadmap to Apartheid”

“Wherever there is colonialism, oppression and violence, resistance will gain strength. You are resisting. You are the voice of those who resist colonialism. I greet you on behalf of the fighting Palestinian people.” (Leila Khaled, HDP Congress in Ankara, 11th March 2018)

“Refusing to buy products in a store or cancelling a corporate contract will not liberate Palestine. Nothing but the Palestinian struggle and resistance in all of its forms, from refusing the orders of an occupation soldier to marching in protests to armed struggle, will liberate Palestine. But the international movement of people of conscience can help significantly to change the balance of power in favour of the Palestinian people to achieve justice, despite a powerful opponent.” (Leila Khaled, BDS South Africa Tour, 2015)

Organized by Internationalistischer Abend

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ber den aktuellen Kampf der revolutionären palästinensischen Befreiungsbewegung PFLP und warum Revolutionäre die weltweite Boykott-Kampagne BDS unterstützen.

Referent: Khaled Barakat (Palästinensicher Schriftsteller und Kampagne Free Ahmad Sa’adat)

mit Diashow & Videoclips aus „Roadmap to Apartheid“

Ort: Stadtteilladen Zielona Góra, Grünberger Str. 73, Berlin-Fhain.

Zeit: Freitag, den 27.04.2018 um 20:00 Uhr

Um die internationale BDS-Kampagne (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) zu diffamieren, wird immer wieder eine Unterwanderung durch Revolutionäre wie der PFLP oder „linksradikale Anarcho-Kommunist_innen aus Europa“ herbeifabuliert.

■ Doch wer ist die 1968 gegründete revolutionäre linke Befreiungsbewegung PFLP und was macht sie aktuell?
■ Und was bringt es, eine eher bürgerliche Boykott-Kampagne zu unterstützen?
■ Um was geht es bei den aktuellen BDS-Kampagnen?

„Wherever there is colonialism, oppression and violence, resistance will gain strength. You are resisting. You are the voice of those who resist colonialism. I greet you on behalf of the fighting Palestinian people.“ (Leila Khaled, HDP-Kongress in Ankara, 11th March 2018)

„Refusing to buy products in a store or cancelling a corporate contract will not liberate Palestine. Nothing but the Palestinian struggle and resistance in all of its forms, from refusing the orders of an occupation soldier to marching in protests to armed struggle, will liberate Palestine.
But the international movement of people of conscience can help significantly to change the balance of power in favour of the Palestinian people to achieve justice, despite a powerful opponent.“
 (Leila Khaled, BDS Süd-Afrika Tour, 2015)F

7 April, Nice: Demonstration in Support of the March of Return in Palestine

Saturday 7 April
3:00 pm
Place Garibaldi
Nice, France

Come out to stand for Palestinians under attack after the Israeli massacre in Gaza! Support Palestinians’ right to return.

Palestina på vägen mot återvändo och befrielse: Massakern på Jordens dag och #GreatReturnMarch

Skicka dina arrangemang och aktioner med koppling till massakern på Jordens dag eller Palestinska fångars dagtill Samidoun på samidoun@samidoun.net, på Facebook eller genom formuläret. Samidoun publicerar en internationell lista på arrangemang och aktioner som uppdateras regelbundet, se listan på arrangemang.

Translation by Frihet åt Ahed Tamimi Göteborg

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Landets martyrer och hemvändandets fångar: En uppmaning till handling för befrielse på Palestinska fångars dag

Den 30:e mars, Jordens dag, skrevs först in i palestinsk historia 1976, då ett folkligt massuppror i ockuperade Palestina 1948 konfronterade den bosättarkoloniala sioniststatens beslagtagande och expropriering av land.

Den dagen 1976 mördades sex palestinier när de deltog i en generalstrejk mot den utdragna Nakba, 30 år av förtryck och fördrivning. Deras namn har blivit outplånliga ur den palestinska historien och ur alla kämpandes historia världen över – Kheir Mohammad Salim Yasin, Khadija Qasem Shawahneh, Raja Hussein Abu Rayya, Khader Eid Mahmoud Khalayleh, Muhsin Hasan Said Taha och Raafat Ali Al-Zheiri – nedskjutna medan de tågade för att försvara sitt land.

Idag, i det belägrade Gaza, ockuperade Palestina, reste sig tusentals demonstranter ett folklig masståg i åminnelse av den där dagen för 42 år sedan med dagens krav på att befria landet och för palestinska flyktingars rätt till återvändo – Återvändons stora tåg. Över 70 procent av den palestinska befolkningen i Gaza är flyktingar som har nekats rätten att återvända till sina hem, sin jord och sina byar i 70 år.

Och ännu en gång har den israeliska staten avslöjat sin natur, när den mördade 16 jordens och återvändons martyrer i ännu en massaker på Jordens dag, 42 år efter den första. Dagen började med mordet på den palestinske bonden Omar Samour av ett skott från en israelisk pansarvagn. Detta senaste mord på en palestinsk bonde illustrerar ytterligare den oupphörliga driften att beslagta palestinsk mark och att attackera palestinsk produktionskapacitet och självförsörjning, och i vilken Gazas bönder har angripits hårt. Den så kallade “buffertzonen” som pådyvlats Gazas bönder har beslagtagit 30 procent av landet, den bördigaste andelen. Faktum är att palestinska fiskare och bönder har burit huvudbördan av upprepade israeliska bränder, angrepp och mord, med syfte att eliminera palestinsk självförsörjning även i den smala Gazaremsan, omringad i skyn, till lands och till sjöss av dödliga ockupationsstyrkor.

Och när väl tusentals palestinska flyktingar i Gaza samlades i massor till ett folkligt tåg nära den illegitima koloniala barriären och den så kallade “gränsen”, påtvingade av ockupationsstaten, öppnade ockupationsstyrkornas skarpskyttar eld rakt på folket som demonstrerade för sina rättigheter – för återvändo, befrielse, ett slut på belägringen. Deras namn är nu också odödliga i den palestinska historien och i alla kämpandes historia  – Naji Abu Hajir, Mohammed Kamal Al-Najjar, Wahid Nasrallah Abu Samour, Amin Mansour Abu Muammar, Mohammed Naeem Abu Amr, Ahmed Ibrahim Ashour Odeh, Jihad Ahmed Fraina, Mahmoud Saadi Rahmi, Abdel Fattah Abdel Nabi, Ibrahim Salah Abu Shaar, Abd al-Qader Marhi al-Hawajri, Sari Walid Abu Odeh, Hamdan Isma’il Abu Amsha, Jihad Zuhair Abu Jamous och Bader al-Sabbagh.

De var bönder, studenter, begåvade konstnärer, föräldrar, syskon och kära anhöriga som älskade sitt folk, sitt land och sin vision om frihet, och deras förlust är smärtsam och omätbar. Den måste även bli en brådskande uppmaning till handling för att hedra uppoffringarna som gjorts av martyrerna för jorden och återvändon, för att begära fångars frihet och hela Palestinas frihet – förverkligandet av palestinska flyktingars rätt till återvändo, en kärnpunkt för den palestinska saken.

Självklart är detta långt ifrån den första massakern av dess slag. Den är en i en lång rad av massakrer och angrepp mot folkligt palestinskt motstånd, särskilt palestinska flyktingar som kräver sin rätt till återvändo. Vi minns morden på palestinska flyktingar från Libanon och Syrien som tågade till gränserna och vågade sig på att korsa dem mot sitt länge förnekade hemland i maj och juni 2011. Vi drar även till minnes årtionden av mord på palestinier som betecknats som “infiltratörer” för att de försökt återvända till sitt egna stulna land ur exil.

Dessa dödsfall får inte tillåtas passera obemärkta och ouppmärksammade, och rörelsen för vilken deras liv togs måste stödjas med den bredaste folkliga mobiliseringen. Låt oss ta till gatorna i varje stad som svar på denna massaker. Jordens dag har utvecklats till en evig årsdag för att palestinier och anhängare till den palestinska saken överallt reagerar på beslagtagandet av land och massakrerna med förstärkt kamp och motstånd. Dagens offer kräver samma svar.

Den ökände IDF-generalen och krigsförbrytaren Gabi Eizenkot, grundaren av Dahiyah-doktrinen och dess mordiska angrepp på folket i Beiruts södra förorter i ett (misslyckat) försök att krossa motståndet, ledde personligen angreppet mot de palestinska demonstranterna i Gaza. Självklart agerade Eizenkot och hans väpnade band inte ensamma – de är en våldsam arm hos ett helt statsbygge som angriper det palestinska folkets själva existens. Och deras vapenkraft backas upp av USA, Kanada, europeiska stater och andra imperialistiska och koloniala makter med de reaktionära arabregimernas medhjälp.

Dessa 16 dyrbara liv förtjänar vår sorg, men mer brådskande allas vår handling. Demonstrationer, mobiliseringar, konstnärliga, kulturella och juridiska aktioner för att hålla krigsbrottslingar till svars och för att häva det internationella imperialistiska stödet för de pågående krigsbrotten i Gaza och mot hela det palestinska folket krävs omgående – idag, imorgon, i den kommande veckan.

17:e april är Palestinska fångars dag, en nationell och internationell handlingsdag för frihet åt alla palestinska politiska fångar, frihetens fångar, återvändons och befrielsens fångar, bakom sionistiska galler för deras engagemang för deras folks och deras lands frihet. Detta år kan och måste 17:e april bli en dag för mobilisering för att befria palestinska fångar, befria Palestinas land och folk, för att bryta belägringen av Gaza och för att konfrontera alla imperialistiska och sionistiska angrepp.

Det internationella solidaritetsnätverket för palestinska fångar Samidoun uppmanar alla som stödjer Palestina världen runt att mobilisera i omedelbart och kontinuerligt svar på massakern på Jordens dag i solidaritet med palestinierna i Gaza och hela det palestinska folket – inräknat alla miljoner palestinska flyktingar i exil och i diasporan som kämpar för sin rätt att återvända hem, nyckeln till palestinsk befrielse.

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Skicka dina arrangemang och aktioner med koppling till massakern på Jordens dag eller Palestinska fångars dagtill Samidoun på samidoun@samidoun.net, på Facebook eller genom formuläret. Samidoun publicerar en internationell lista på arrangemang och aktioner som uppdateras regelbundet, se listan på arrangemang.

En översättning av: https://samidoun.net/2018/03/palestine-towards-return-and-liberation-the-land-day-massacre-and-the-greatreturnmarch/

11 April, Celbridge: public talk on Ahed Tamimi and all child prisoners

Wednesday, 11 April
7:30 pm
Celbridge Manor Hotel
Clane Road
Celbridge, Ireland
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/170083246974947/

Palestinian Child Prisoners in Apartheid Israel’s Prisons. 700 children detained and prosecuted every year. ‘Institutional’ torture. Forced confessions. ‘Systematic’ human rights rights violations.

Wednesday 11th April 2018 – 7.30pm, Celbridge Manor Hotel

SPEAKERS: Nery Ramati – Human Rights Lawyer from Israel; Fatin Al Tamimi – Chairperson, Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Every year, hundreds of Palestinian minors undergo the same scenario. Israeli security forces pick them up on the street or at home in the middle of the night, then handcuff and blindfold them and transport them to interrogation, often subjecting them to violence en route. Exhausted and scared – some having spent a long time in transit, some having been roused from sleep, some having had nothing to eat or drink for hours – the minors are then interrogated. Completely alone, cut off from the world, without a lawyer or other guardian present they are interrogated in manner that often involves threats, verbal abuse and physical violence. Its sole purpose is to get the minors to ‘confess’ or provide ‘information’ about others.

They are then taken to the military court for a remand hearing. In the vast majority of cases, the military judges approve remand, even when the only evidence against the minors is their own confession. These military courts, which are only used to try Palestinians, have a 99.7% conviction rate and have been repeatedly criticised by human rights groups as failing to meet international standards for a fair trial. The facts and figures all demonstrate that the righst of Palestinian minors’ are being regularly and systematically violated by Apartheid Israel.

About the Speakers
Nery Ramati is an attorney and partner in Gaby Lasky and Partners Law Office, a leading human rights office in Israel, specializing in freedom of expression and protest, and Ahed Tamimi’s lawyers.

He has been representing Palestinian, Israeli and international human rights and anti-occupation activists in Israel’s military (Occupied Palestinian Territories) and civil (State of Israel) courts for almost a decade. Mr. Ramati has been representing leading human rights defenders and activists from the Palestinian villages of the popular struggle movement, such as Bi’ilin, Nabi Saleh, Beit Ummar, Qadom and others. One of his most important achievements is raising the awareness worldwide on the issues of the ill-treatment of the Palestinian minors (children) in the military court system.

Fatin Al Tamimi is chairperson of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign. A diaspora Palestinian with Jordanian-Irish citizenship, Ms. Tamimi has been living and raising her family in Ireland for 30 years. Her family originally hails from Gaza and Hebron in Palestine, and she still has close relatives living in both areas. She has been involved for many years in Palestine solidarity work in Ireland, and in 2016 she was elected to the position of Chairperson of the IPSC, the first Palestinian to hold the position. She is also active in anti-racist, anti-war and women’s groups in Ireland, and has spoken at many events.

Organised by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign in Celbridge