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Rest in Power, Mahmoud; Free Anas, Hussam, Fathi, Hamouda, Ali and Mahmoud: Defending Palestine and Gaza in Belgium

As the people of Gaza continues to confront a genocide, Palestinian refugees from Gaza in Belgium are facing a nearly unprecedented attack on their right to asylum — and on their very lives and freedoms. Following a string of arrests, at least six Palestinians from Gaza have been abducted and taken to closed detention centers, with a seventh – Mahmoud Farag Allah, deciding to take his life from the control of the Belgian state. The targeting of these Gazawis is not accidental, but follows their role in the heart of Belgium’s solidarity movement, leading daily protests for over two years in the center of Brussels outside its landmark Bourse.

On October 7th, 2025, Mahmoud Ezzat Farag Allah, decided to use his life as last weapon to protest the injustice; he took his own life inside one of the “closed centers” for immigration detainees. Mahmoud had been arrested 3 months ago; at the same time, he received the heartbreaking news of his mother passing away amid the ongoing Zionist genocide in his home, Gaza, Palestine. Samidoun mourns Mahmoud, honors his martyrdom and his act of resistance, and denounces the state violence, colonialism and white supremacy inflicted on him, his comrades, and all oppressed people.

Still imprisoned in the closed centers are many leading Palestinian youth organizers from Gaza, veterans of the daily protests, including:

  • Anas Seyam, currently on hunger strike
  • Fathi Al-Hamss
  • Hamouda Albayyouk
  • Hussameddine Al-Ras, currently on hunger strike
  • Ali Abu Taha
  • Mahmoud Abu Hudayed

The Bourse protests have become, in addition to outraged cries against the genocide and for the liberation of Palestine, spaces to call for the liberation of these imprisoned comrades and brothers, and to mourn the loss of Mahmoud; the Bourse protest on the evening of 8 October served as a memorial for Mahmoud and the martyrs of Palestine.

In response to the deteriorating conditions in the detention centres and to the martyrdom of Mahmoud, two of the detained youth, Anas and Hussam, have begun a hunger strike. Anas writes: “I have been detained for 34 days because I am defending my Palestinian cause.” They are also protesting the arrests of even more Palestinians in Belgium during the last days; reports indicate that in the hours after Mahmoud’s passing, police seized at least three Palestinian youth from Gaza from the streets of Brussels. In Anas’ last message before he launched his hunger strike, he said: “I am going on a hunger strike because we are really going through difficult times, me and all my friends, knowing that the police will take my phone because I will go on a hunger strike. I hope you do not forget us in your support.”

As Mahmoud paid with his life, as Anas and Hussam put their body and health on the line for the liberation of Palestine and their comrades, it is up to us to echo their call and amplify their voices, to resist repression, free the prisoners, and struggle against racist repression from Belgium to Palestine.

The increased repression and anti-Palestinian violence, follows the rise of the fascist “Arizona” government coalition, which proudly flouts its Islamophobia, racism and Zionism.

In fact, this government conducted an election campaign based in part on its eagerness to aid and abet genocide in Palestine by repressing Palestinian and Palestine solidarity organizations in Belgium. This includes the introduction of a new law through which the executive branch of the Belgian government would be able to dissolve ‘radical’ organizations without a legal process — a law that has primarily targeted Samidoun Belgium because of its active grassroots political work and its support for the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to resistance on the path to liberation. The adoption of such a bill would open the door to arbitrary decisions dependent on the will of the executive, setting a dangerous precedent that undermines the fundamental rights Belgium claims to follow.

Far from new, the targeted repression of Samidoun also includes the Belgian state attempting to revoke the refugee status and residency of Samidoun’s European coordinator, Mohammed Khatib. This process began with the former government and has been escalated by the current ‘Arizona’ coalition.

All of these attacks are part of one comprehensive assault by the imperialist Belgian government, accelerating the repression of the movement for the liberation of Palestine. This acceleration can be observed in different ways: politically motivated administrative decisions, including the revocation of asylum status; government action in drafting a new law facilitating the ban of organisations; arrests and charges of student activists; constant attacks by politicians, media figures and others against people and organisations advocating for Palestine. Now, and for the past weeks, Palestinian youth, particularly in Brussels, have been targeted by police, stopped and searched, arrested and sent to detention. Most of these youth have been targeted for playing an active role in the Brussels movement for Palestine since October 2023.

Most of these Palestinian youth are from Gaza; some are recognized refugees, while others are amid an asylum process, fleeing genocide, siege, and the relentless assaults of the Zionist entity targeting Gaza throughout their lives. Rather than provide protection, as is Belgium’s legal responsibility, for young people fleeing genocide, the state is ramping up the deportation machine with this series of arrests. These arrests and detentions are obviously politically motivated, and Palestinian youth, like their fellow migrant detainees, are suffering in difficult and often cruel conditions of detention.

The Belgian State, through its police, justice and migration policies apparatus, is directly responsible for denying the freedom, rights and dignity of young Palestinians in Belgium. For years, Belgium has cultivated an image of providing safety to Palestinians fleeing for their lives from the onslaught of the occupation. However, the government and its immigration agencies have used this image to impose odious political conditions and narratives that seek to blame Palestinians and their resistance, rather than the occupation, for the suffering  and oppression in Gaza. The live-streamed genocide conducted in full view of the world by the Zionist entity, with Belgian complicity, has made it impossible to maintain this charade. The attacks on Palestinian youth, Palestinian and solidarity organizations, and the growing popular movement, are part and parcel of ongoing Belgian complicity in the genocide.

Belgium has developed both very restrictive migration policies (as elsewhere in Europe) and is escalating repression against social movements. Migration laws and their dehumanizing potential have been increasingly instrumentalised as a political means of repressing and silencing Palestinian voices.

As the Belgian state and its police seek to imprison the heart of the Palestinian movement in Belgium and elsewhere, a collective response is urgently needed. We must make clear that no matter how they try to intimidate us, how many they arrest, how many they force to give up their lives, we will never give up on Palestine.

On October 7, 2025, a young Palestinian student, Ruaa Khatib, proudly affirmed support to the Resistance during her graduation ceremony in the center of Brussels.

For 2 years now, people continue gathering daily at Bourse in the Brussels city center, despite the growing risk for Palestinians and undocumented people. The police attacks and arrests seem to be a calculated attempt to destroy the protest movement and impose terror on the community; yet people are responding with solidarity, rather than silence.

The student movement is still alive, despite the repression it faced and continues to face, as it prepares for a massive strike on all campuses on 23 October. Gatherings are organised in every city in Belgium in support of the Global Sumud Flotilla and the Thousand Madleens, sailing to break the siege and end the genocide. And people everywhere are collectively organising against the danger of the new proposed laws and escalating repression — yet we must escalate our work to bring an end to these repressive attacks and free our comrades from the unjust imprisonment of the Belgian state.

As the solidarity movement grows in strength within the imperial core, so does state repression; this means a growing number of prisoners who refuse this subjugation. Anas, Mahmoud, Hussam and their comrades stand among the prisoners of Palestine in the diaspora and in the internationalist movement, imprisoned in imperialist jails, including T. Hoxha and the Filton 24, Casey Goonan, Tarek Bazrouk, Anan Yaeesh, Ghassan Elashi and Shukri Abu Baker, and, of course, the nearly 11,000 Palestinian prisoners in Zionist jails, the heart of the resistance and the conscience of our movement.

In their unrelenting support for the Palestinian struggle of liberation, in their denial of imperialist and zionist states’ attempts to suppress the voice of the people, in their steadfast resistance, the prisoners remain our compass. We urge all supporters of Palestine to speak up for the imprisoned Palestinian youth in Belgium, to call for their liberation, to join the daily protests at 7 pm (19h) at the Bourse in Brussels, and to demand that the Belgian government end its attacks on the Palestinian youth and its complicity in genocide. Belgian officials must not only cease their violations of Palestinians’ rights, but must be held accountable for their support for apartheid, genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

Ceasefire in Gaza: A tribute to steadfastness and resistance, and an urgent call for international escalation for Palestine

Note: The following statement is being issued on 9 October 2025, several hours before the stated ceasefire is to go into effect, at 5 pm Palestine time. We urge utmost vigilance, preparation for action, and readiness to respond in all cases, particularly as the occupation and its sponsors are already engaging in delay and denial tactics — particularly targeting the Palestinian prisoners’ movement — before the ceasefire even begins, and as this is a moment for escalation rather than complacency. We urge all to take the streets for mass organizing and direct action, for the sacrifices of the people of Gaza, the bravery of the resistance, the determination of the prisoners, and the liberation of Palestine.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes the steadfast, unbroken and unyielding Palestinian people of Gaza and their heroic and unshakeable Resistance after two years of genocide on the accomplishment of a ceasefire, wrested from the grip of the Zionists and imperialists and imposed upon them only through the valor and sacrifices of the people and the fighters from among them on the ground and under the rubble. We salute the Palestinian people throughout occupied Palestine and everywhere in exile and diaspora, the prisoners inside the dungeons of the occupation suffering torture of all forms, the heroic Lebanese resistance, the brave and steadfast Yemeni people and armed forces, and all of the forces of resistance in the region, particularly in Iran and Iraq.

Despite the terror, devastation and destruction, the genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Zionist regime and its imperialist sponsors and backers, they were unable to achieve any of their stated military goals. They have been unable to free the prisoners held by the resistance by force, and unable to destroy or uproot the forces of the Resistance. They have been unable to uproot the Palestinian people from their land or complete their ongoing Nakba: all because they have run up on the rocks of the people and their Resistance.

On this occasion, we emphasize that it is the duty of the international movement in support of Palestinian liberation, which has grown immensely due to that same steadfastness, heroism and sacrifice of Palestinians in Gaza, not to stand aside, reduce its activity, or let celebration overcome our clarity and urgency. This is the moment to escalate, intensify and cement the international isolation of “Israel” at a popular level and an official level, to increase direct actions targeting the imperialist-Zionist war machine and their war profiteers, to hold those responsible for the genocide accountable through all means and mechanisms, and to raise our level of responsibility in order to meet the necessities of the moment.

The Palestinian people and their Resistance have achieved this ceasefire through blood, sacrifice, heroism, and their refusal to be uprooted from the land of Palestine. They are dealing with entirely untrustworthy counterparties and guarantors, who already broke a similar ceasefire centered on the same fundamental issues — withdrawal of occupation forces, end of aggression, entry of aid, and exchange of prisoners — on March 18, after unilaterally blocking aid and launching a genocide of starvation on March 2. Every day, the Zionist entity, with the full support of the United States, violates its ceasefire with Lebanon; it imprisons 16 Lebanese, conducts daily assassinations and drone attacks that have taken the lives of hundreds of martyrs, and has continued to destroy villages, attack people and their land in over 4,600 separate violations. The nature of the enemy they face is well-known to all Palestinians, Arabs, and the people of the region.

They must rely on promises by the United States to enforce the ceasefire agreement — which has co-directed the genocide and provided billions of dollars in weaponry against the Palestinian people — and on the compliance of the Zionist entity, a genocidal entity that seeks only the destruction and theft of Palestine. These parties have repeatedly violated their commitments and agreements, and they cannot be trusted.  Indeed, representatives of Hamas and the unified Resistance have already urged the mediators — Egypt, Qatar and Turkey — to pressure the occupation, as it is attempting to change the timelines and its responsibilities under the ceasefire before it even goes into effect. Mahmoud Mardawi said, “It seems that Netanyahu is seeking to blow up the ceasefire agreement before its implementation, by retracting the prisoner lists, in an attempt to sabotage the understandings. This step reveals his intentions regarding the other issues related to withdrawal, reconstruction, and the opening of crossings in both directions.”

Palestinian writer Yassin Izz el-Din said, “Trump promised Netanyahu to lift Israel’s isolation and to ‘bring the world back to loving Israel,’ as he said. We must ensure that this does not happen and continue to fight it everywhere in the world, for Gaza is still besieged and threatened with treachery, Israel continues to attack the West Bank, Lebanon, and Syria, Al-Aqsa Mosque is violated day and night, and the right of return for refugees to their homes still stands and is denied by the occupier.”

Therefore, it is our responsibility to escalate, organize and isolate — in order to serve as popular guarantors of the end of the aggression and colonization of Palestine, to prevent the schemes of imperialism and Zionism that aim to impose submission on the Palestinian people, and to support the Palestinian Resistance and its representatives in their unified efforts to protect the Palestinian cause and the return, liberation and self-determination of Palestine. The future in Gaza — “the next day” — is a purely Palestinian future, to be decided and determined by the Palestinian people, not the genocidal Zionist occupier nor its imperialist overlords, from Donald Trump to Tony Blair.

This is only the first stage of the ceasefire, by all reports, and the launch has already been delayed by four hours so that war criminal Netanyahu will obtain the official endorsement of his genocidal, fascist “Cabinet.” We emphasize the urgency of international vigilance and support to both ensure the implementation of the ceasefire and to halt any and all attempts to continue the genocide and undermine Palestinian rights by the Zionist occupation regime and its imperialist backers and directors. It is urgent that all efforts to impose legal, political, popular and direct accountability on the genocidaires continue and escalate, with full exposure of all those responsible for the horrific war crimes and crimes against humanity targeting the Palestinian people, especially in Gaza. It is also urgent to escalate to defend Palestinians in the West Bank, whose land and lives are targeted by the paramilitary settler mobs alongside the occupation soldiers, throughout occupied Palestine, and everywhere in exile and diaspora.

Osama Hamdan, a leader in Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement, said that the prisoner exchange will be forthcoming only after an end to the aggression and the end of occupation drone and surveillance flights over Gaza. He stated that 250 Palestinians with life sentences as well as 1750 Palestinians abducted from Gaza will be liberated by the Resistance in the new stage of the exchange. The names of the prisoners to be liberated will be published first by the Asra Media Office, and Samidoun will provide full reports, translations and details regarding the prisoner exchange as soon as that information is available.

We emphasize that there will remain thousands of Palestinians jailed in the torture chambers of the occupation, subjected to physical, psychological and sexual abuse, torture and inhuman treatment, starvation, deliberate denial of medical care and slow assassination. As we escalate our struggle against the genocide, we must also escalate our struggle for the liberation of all Palestinian prisoners in Zionist jails, alongside the prisoners of the Palestinian cause imprisoned in imperialist and reactionary prisons around the world.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all supporters of Palestine to hold rallies and public welcomes, even at a symbolic level, for the liberated Palestinian prisoners and the heroes of the resistance, at the moment of their release — alongside and as part of the ongoing mass mobilizations and demonstrations for Gaza and all of Palestine that must continue to urgently fill the streets of the towns, cities and capitals of the world. Now is a moment to commemorate their liberation, and for the global movement on Palestine to take into account the sacrifices and the central role of the prisoners in the resistance and the national liberation movement as a whole.

As Palestinian writer Ali Abu Rezeq said, “”The joy is incomplete this time; it is not like the joy of the previous truce.  Our people feel a great, painful, and unprecedented anguish, for this is an enemy more insolent, filthy, and despicable than they imagined and we imagined…Every tear of joy that falls from one eye is met with a tear of sorrow from the opposite side. Therefore, we believe that the global political struggle must begin and escalate after the ceasefire, not before. A global popular umbrella must be formed to stop the war and support the people of Gaza with relief, psychologically, materially, and on a human level. Every free person must feel that they carry a debt on their neck towards Gaza and its people, a debt that will not be lifted except by the removal and complete disappearance of this occupation.”

Every achievement and every life saved by the ceasefire has been accomplished only through the determination of the masses and the brilliance and heroism of the armed resistance. It is the sacrifices of the martyrs, the over 67,000 whose names are known, the nearly 10,000 who remain missing, and the hundreds of thousands more whose lives have been or will be cut short due to siege, forced starvation and the genocidal Zionist-imperialist assault on health care, sanitation and all aspects of life, who make this ceasefire a reality, not imperialist genocidaires looking to improve their global image or Arab reactionary regimes that have been complicit in the crimes against the Palestinian people. It is also the leadership martyrs, from Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh and Mohammed Deif, to Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, to Ahmed al-Rawhi and Mohammed Saeed Izadi, whose path continues to light the way forward, not only to ceasefire, but to victory and liberation.

This is not the moment for our international movement to rest. This is our moment to escalate, and to make clear, that we will become a strong bulwark of support for the Resistance as it continues the struggle, as we stand for nothing less than the full accomplishment of the Palestinian people’s goals and aspirations, the complete international isolation and dismantling of Zionism and the Zionist entity, accountability and revolutionary justice for the war criminals, and the defeat of imperialism in Palestine, and throughout the region.

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

Prior Samidoun statement from January ceasefire: Gaza: The Resistance Lives, The Prison Doors Open – On the Road to Liberation and Return | Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network

 

Anan Yaeesh, Palestinian prisoner in Italian jails, launches hunger strike

Anan Yaeesh, Palestinian political prisoner held in Italian prisons, has launched a hunger strike amid his sudden transfer to an isolated prison, seemingly sparked by the growing Italian popular movement in support of the Palestinian cause and against the genocide in Gaza, in which over two million Italians marched to end the genocide following a widespread national general strike sparked by the Zionist attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla.

While the imperialist Italian government under right-wing Georgia Meloni has repeatedly proclaimed its dedication to the Zionist colonial project in occupied Palestine, the Italian people have demonstrated their outrage against Zionist-imperialist war crimes, including demanding the release of Anan and dropping all charges against him and his co-defendants, Ali Arar and Mansour Doghmosh. (While Ali and Mansour are facing the same trial, they have been released pending the verdict, while Anan has remained imprisoned.)

The Free Anan campaign released the following statement:

On Saturday, October 4, 2025, Palestinian political prisoner Anan Yaeesh began a hunger strike. This decision follows the demonstrations for Palestine that have swept across Italy in recent weeks, notably in Rome, where, during the large national demonstration, more than one million people took to the streets to protest against the genocide of the Palestinian people and the collaboration and complicity of the Italian government with the Zionist occupation.

Through his hunger strike, Anan Yaeesh also intends to reaffirm his violated rights. Recently, in retaliation for the solidarity demonstrations organized in front of the Terni prison, he was transferred to the Melfi prison in Basilicata. This arbitrary and punitive decision has further worsened his situation: the distance from the L’Aquila court, where his trials take place, and from Rome, where his lawyers are located, seriously compromises his right to a full and fair defense.

In the new prison, meetings with lawyers have become increasingly difficult and rare, making any agreement on a defense strategy almost impossible. This transfer, without objective justification, constitutes an act of retaliation against solidarity and an attempt at political and human isolation.

Anan Yaeesh’s hunger strike is an act of resistance and dignity, calling for the mobilization and vigilance of all those who care about justice, freedom, and the rights of the Palestinian people. We demand respect for Anan Yaeesh’s rights, an end to punitive measures, and his immediate transfer to a prison guaranteeing the full exercise of his right to defense.

We also reaffirm that a transfer will neither weaken nor diminish the solidarity that the Italian people have expressed towards Anan over the past two years. We therefore clarify, to those responsible for these decisions, that wherever Anan is transferred, he will continue to receive broad support and mobilization in favor of his cause.

The resistance cannot be arrested! The resistance cannot be prosecuted!

Anan is a 37-year-old Palestinian activist and a former prisoner in Zionist jails from Tulkarem in the West Bank of occupied Palestine. Active in the liberation movement during the Second, or Al-Aqsa, Intifada, he was imprisoned for 4 years in Zionist prisons and seriously injured after an ambush by colonial special forces in 2006. In 2013, he left Palestine for Norway before settling in Italy in 2017 and obtaining a residence permit there in 2019. At the end of January 2024, he was arrested by the Italian police in the city of L’Aquila, where he resides, then transferred to detention in the high-security prison of Terni — and now to Melfi — for alleged collaboration with the Tulkarem Brigades, an organization linked to the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades (one of the armed groups of Fateh, that continue to uphold Palestinian liberation rather than “security coordination” with the occupier.)

While the L’Aquila court rejected the initial attempt to extradite him to the Zionist regime in occupied Palestine on 12 March 2024, noting that he would be subjected to torture, Italian prosecutors arrested two more Palestinians one day before, on 11 March 2024 — Ali Irar and Mansour Doghmosh — accusing all of them of supporting the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades in Tulkarem. In September 2024, the court ordered Ali and Mansour’s provisional release, while the charges remained in place, but Anan has been continually imprisoned in a high-security facility.

On Wednesday, 26 February, Anan Yaeesh addressed the court, emphasizing the legitimacy of Palestinian resistance under international law and the necessity of confronting genocide. (Read his full statement here.) He noted:

“You want me to defend myself against the accusations against me, but I am ashamed to seek acquittal on charges that, for me, represent a source of honor. I do not want to defend myself against the accusation of having rights and having claimed them, or of having tried to liberate my people and my country from colonial oppression. I swear that I have no intention of being acquitted of the legitimate resistance against the Zionist occupation. The Palestinian resistance is one of the noblest phenomena known to history. On the contrary, I am ashamed to find myself in a warm room, even in prison, while children in Gaza die of cold, hunger, and thirst. I am ashamed of the humane treatment received from the prison authorities here, while my fellow prisoners in Israeli jails suffer the worst torture, oppression, and abuse.”

Anan’s trial has been repeatedly delayed, especially as the movement in solidarity with Palestine has grown; his supporters believe that these delays are a deliberate attempt to forestall a verdict due to the potential for popular outrage and action if Anan is convicted or, even worse, extradited to Palestine. The final hearings in the case were scheduled initially on 19 and 26 September, but due to the transfer of the associate judge, they have been rescheduled without applying the mandatory procedures to avoid interruption of the proceedings and the constitutional right to a trial without undue delays. The conclusion of the preliminary investigation is now scheduled for 31 October, with the prosecution’s closing arguments on 21 November and final closing arguments, including for the defense, on 28 November.

During the trial, the Free Anan campaign writes, “the prosecution failed to prove any involvement of the three in violent actions against either civilians or Israeli settlers. No breach of the limits imposed by international law regarding the right to resistance was shown. In fact, the prosecution failed to even prove that such events ever occurred. This confirms the political nature of a trial that increasingly appears an attempt to criminalize Palestinian solidarity and resistance.”

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all Palestinian, Arab and international activists and organizations for Palestinian liberation to stand with Anan Yaeesh, Ali Arar, Mansour Doghmosh and all Palestinian prisoners in exile and diaspora, and the international prisoners of the Palestinian cause in imperialist jails. Support Anan’s legal defense, protest or deliver letters to Italian embassies to demand that the trial of the three Palestinians ends with all charges dropped, and publicize his struggle for liberation as part and parcel of the struggle to liberate Palestine, from the river to the sea.

We have a sample poster in solidarity with Anan Yaeesh that you can download and use:

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Call for solidarity: “Until Victory” delegation to Palestine detained in Cairo Airport in Egypt

The members of the “Until Victory” delegation, organized by the Anti-Imperialist Front, are currently being detained at Cairo Airport in Egypt as of 8 October 2025, as they attempted to complete their journey to the Rafah crossing to enter Gaza as part of a solidarity mission to demand an immediate end of the Zionist-imperialist genocide against the Palestinian people.

The delegation began in Berlin, Germany, on 20 September, under the slogan, “Palestine, we are coming!” and followed with a series of events and protests at Egyptian embassies throughout Europe, including 10 countries and 15 cities (Berlin, Duisburg, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Brussels, Paris, Bilbao, Madrid, Barcelona, Marseille, Milan, Lecce, Patras and Athens). As the delegation members wrote, “Their goal is to show solidarity with the people of Gaza, who have suffered under Israel’s occupation and blockade for two years, and to demand the lifting of the blockade and embargo and the opening of the Rafah border crossing.”

The “Until Victory” delegation consists of the following individuals:

  • German citizens: Eda Deniz Haydaroğlu, İleni Açıkgöz, and Berivan Gel
  • Austrian citizens: Derya Devrim Özçelik, Hasip Kıvrakdal
  • French citizen: Sevil Sevimli
  • Dutch citizen: Yıldıray Yetik
  • Greek citizen: Konstantina Kartsioti

Immediately upon their arrival, the delegates’ phones were either taken from them or turned off — they had previously been livestreaming — and they have since been held incommunicado, potentially for deportation. This is only the latest in a series of deportations undertaken by Egypt in order to protect the ongoing Zionist-imperialist siege of Gaza, at the same time that Egypt claims to serve as a mediator between the Palestinian resistance and the Zionist occupation regime.

Egypt has normalized with the Zionist entity since the signing of the Camp David accords in 1978, which sidelined Egypt’s role as an Arab power and relegated it to serving as a reactionary regime in a subordinate alliance with U.S.-led imperialism. The Egyptian Camp David state has played a key role in guarding the southern border of Gaza and preventing the entry of trucks and solidarity delegations seeking to enter Palestine; at the same time, Egyptian organizers working to join the Global Sumud Flotilla or organize actions in support of Palestinian liberation continue to be arrested and jailed among thousands of political prisoners.

The delegation in particular aims to highlight resistance to starvation and international responsibility to confront genocide, comparing the steadfastness and resistance of Gaza to that of Leningrad:

    1.  Hitler’s fascism besieged Leningrad, a city of 3 million, and killed 1 million people through starvation.
    2. Leningrad did not surrender, resisted the siege for 900 days, and won. The Palestinian people will resist and win in the same way!
    3. We won in Leningrad, and we will win again in Gaza!
    4. FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA, FREE PALESTINE WILL WIN. The Palestine question will not be solved with a two-state solution, but with one single state under the leadership of revolutionaries – one Palestine, where all peoples live together under equal conditions.
    5. No power can achieve absolute victory against an organized and struggling people!

Victory belongs to the resisters – victory will be ours!

Our call to all the peoples of the world: The heartbeat of life pulses where there is resistance.

Today, the heartbeat of the world is in Palestine – the center of the world is Palestine!

Let us all together fulfill our duty: to hold imperialism and Zionism accountable for using starvation as a weapon, and to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people!”

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network stands in solidarity with the “Until Victory” delegation. We urge their immediate release to continue on their journey, and call for the full support of Egypt and all states for the land and sea journeys undertaken by people of conscience to break the 18-year siege of Gaza and bring an end to two years of escalated genocide, amid a century of occupation, colonialism and resistance in Palestine. These direct efforts to break the siege at all available points, to join with the Palestinian people, and to not only deliver aid but to unite to struggle against the genocide and for a liberated Palestine are a parallel effort with escalations and actions in the heart of the imperial core.

We urge people, especially in Germany, Austria, France, the Netherlands, and Greece, to call your Egyptian embassy or consulate and express your support for the “Until Victory” delegation to protect their safety, call for their freedom, and express support for their mission to break the siege, open Rafah for the entrance of unlimited aid and support, and bring an end to the Zionist-imperialist genocide in Gaza.

Ahmed Khdeirat: The “slow assassination” of a medically vulnerable Palestinian youth in Zionist jails

On 7 October 2023, Palestinian detainee Ahmed Hatem Mohammed Khdeirat, 22, from Al-Dhahiriya near al-Khalil, was martyred in the Zionist Soroka Hospital after a lengthy battle against severe medical neglect. Ahmed Khdeirat has been imprisoned without charge or trial under “administrative detention” — arbitrary military orders — since 23 May 2024 (nearly 18 months), with his detention renewed repeatedly despite his precarious health. His martyrdom was not accidental, but a clear example of the Zionist policy of “slow assassination” being applied to the Palestinian prisoners inside the occupation jails.

Ahmed Khdeirat has type 1 diabetes, requiring ongoing, proper treatment with insulin, which he was routinely denied by occupation forces. Like many other Palestinian prisoners held in unsanitary, overcrowded conditions and systematically and deliberately denied access to cleaning and hygiene products, he developed scabies. He also experienced frequent low blood sugar levels due to his illness and found it difficult to move. As of August 2025, when he was visited by a lawyer, he had been unable to leave a medical bed for two months, and his weight had dropped to 40 kg.

His martyrdom is an example of the targeting of a medically vulnerable Palestinian for arbitrary detention without charge or trial, deliberately denying him medication, exposing him to further infection, epitomizing the policy of “slow killing,” as described by the Palestinian prisoners’ movement.

Today, 8 October, there was a general commercial strike in Al-Dhahriya in mourning and outrage at the martyrdom of Ahmed Khdeirat.

Since 7 October 2023, at least 78 Palestinian prisoners have been martyred in Zionist prisons, of those identified, including at least 46 Palestinians abducted from Gaza, with over 315 martyrs of the prisoners’ movement since 1967. The list (below) is not complete, as it does not include all Palestinian prisoners from Gaza, for whom the occupation continues to hide the numbers, names and current situation of the thousands of people its genocidal forces have abducted amid the ongoing assault on the Strip. The occupation continues to imprison 85 bodies of the martyred prisoners, holding them hostage in an attempt to extract an advantage in prisoner exchanges with the Palestinian resistance.

The martyrdom of Palestinian prisoners is an assassination campaign inside the occupation prisons and detention camps, through institutionalized physical and psychological torture and beatings, starvation, sexual assault, the spread of contagious disease, particularly scabies, and deliberate denial of medical care, as well as medical neglect and abuse, in parallel with the ongoing escalated genocide in Gaza and throughout occupied Palestine. These war crimes and crimes against humanity are accompanied by the denial of family and legal visits, preventing any external surveillance of the mistreatment suffered by imprisoned Palestinians.

Every dollar, Euro and pound exchanged with the occupation, every weapon given to the genocidal forces, and every intelligence-sharing and police-training mission between the Zionist project and the imperialist powers, especially the US, Canada, France, Germany, Britain and EU countries, are evidence of full complicity in the ongoing war crimes and crimes against humanity, against the Palestinian prisoners and the Palestinian people as a whole.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network sends its deepest condolences to the Khdeirat family, the Palestinian prisoners’ movement, and the Palestinian people as a whole. Glory to the martyr!

In memory and honor of Ahmed, and all of the martyrs, wounded and prisoners of Palestine, and of the resistance that continues to meet the occupiers and genocidaires with fire, we urge all to organize and take action, to escalate the struggle in the imperial core, to bring the genocide to an end, to break the siege on Gaza, to free the Palestinian prisoners and to free Palestine from the river to the sea.

Download this poster of the martyr Ahmed Khdeirat  — as well as this group of prisoners’ posters — to include in your next action.

Poster below (Download PDF):

Netherlands marches against genocide, in solidarity with Palestinian Resistance

On Sunday, 5 October, over 250.000 people from across the Netherlands participated in the “Red Line” demonstration in Amsterdam to demand an end to the ongoing Zionist-imperialist genocide against the Palestinian people, especially in Gaza.  The city was effectively shut down for hours, with public transport brought to halt, many businesses closed and the streets filled with demonstrators in support of Palestine.

Among these hundreds of thousands, participants, including Samidoun Netherlands, joined the Revolutionary Bloc, called in order to raise the demands of this march. Organized and launched by The Hague for Palestine, the bloc was supported by other local Palestine solidarity organisations, student groups and other progressive forces, particularly as the  “Red Line” demonstration is a largely NGO-backed and -organized initiative that is backed by some of the same political parties that have previously being supporting Israel’s genocide on Gaza.

This call and movement has emerged out of the popular movement and mass revulsion against the Zionist entity, which has witnessed an immense turning tide among the Dutch population. In this context, the Red Line demonstration unites around the basic demand of sanctions on Israel.

With the revolutionary bloc, we marched for an end to the genocide and the siege, liberation of the prisoners, liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea and return for all Palestinians exiled from their homeland.  We raised banners to support the resistance and chanted for our freedom fighters. We also heard from Mahmoud, brother of Palestinian journalist from Gaza Mustafa Ayyash, who has been imprisoned in the Netherlands since September 19. Mustafa, the founder of media platform GazaNow, was detained as he attempted to enter the Netherlands to visit his family, despite the fact that he is an Austrian citizen.

For nearly three weeks, Dutch authorities have been and continue to hold him captive on trumped-up charges, and there are significant fears he could be extradited to the Zionist entity. He has previously been subjected to bogus sanctions lists in both the United States and Britain. While the streets were filled with people demanding and end to Dutch complicity, the Dutch state continues to imprison Palestinians and escalate its repression of those who are struggling for Palestinian liberation.

Sunday’s demo was the third and largest Red Line protest; it was in fact the largest protest that has taken place in the Netherlands in over 20 years. The sheer numbers of people who took to the streets is a clear indication of Israel’s loss of the propaganda war.  The people stand with Palestine, the people see clearly the descent of Zionism and imperialism into full-force fascism, reflected also in the Dutch government pushing forward policy to criminalise support for the resistance, attempting to characterize it as “glorifying terrorism” — the same framework used to repress free expression on Palestine in Britain and France.

Movements in the Netherlands organized and marched again on 7 October; in Amsterdam, only two days after this historic largest demonstration in decades, the mayor banned the march in support of Palestine and the Resistance. In the Hague, marchers took to the streets, were blocked from marching to the Zionist embassy, and were repeatedly kettled by police, attempting to break the rally into small groups and disperse it. Despite the police intimidation and rainy skies, participants chanted, “Long live the 7th of October!”

Within the broad movement supporting Palestine, there is a resilient progressive force that continues to raise the demands to total liberation, and continues to build alliances across sectors and struggles, focusing on uplifting and standing clearly with the Resistance. We mark the two year anniversary of the Al Aqsa flood, October 7 ,2023 was the day that changed the world and ushered in a new era of resistance, a resistance that will continue to grow and fight until an end to Zionism and the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea.

 

Support Elias Rodriguez and Casey Goonan: Call to Action – Oct 25th – Nov 1st

We are republishing the following call from Abolition Media

In commemoration of October 7th, the revolutionary Al-Aqsa Flood Operation, we are calling for a week of action for  pro-Palestinian political prisoners Elias Rodriguez and Casey Goonan.

The Palestinian Revolution, with dignity and pride, changed the course of history two years ago, and on this anniversary we must also stand up for those who took action. Former political prisoner Georges Abdallah said, “it is the duty of every revolutionary to respond with the means at their disposal” in his salute to Elias, noting that it is a duty for revolutionaries in the west to rise in response to genocide and in solidarity with the Resistance. Elias is accused of being such a figure and Casey has been convicted of fulfilling this duty.

Elias is accused of assassinating two zionist pigs in DC in solidarity with anti-colonial Resistance forces in West Asia fighting for a free Palestine. He is currently pre-trial and potentially facing the death penalty.

Casey Goonan is a political prisoner who has been convicted of torching a UC Berkeley pig vehicle in support of the pro-Palestine student movement and in support of the Palestinian Revolution. They were accused of a series of arsons in what was termed Operation Campus Flood. They were recently sentenced to almost 20 years in prison.

From October 25 through November 1st take action in support of our comrades. Direct actions, letter writing, wheat pasting, banner drops, or whatever you may have in your toolkit. Stand up for our comrades in the imperialist dungeons.

Email us any photos or reports of your actions and we will publish them in a later round up.

Email: dayofaction1025@proton.me

Casey Goonan #24611-511
FCI Mendota
33500 West California Avenue
Mendota, CA
93640
(Casey likely will not be here indefinitely so please check before sending mail.)

Elias Rodriguez
#394346
1901 D Street SE,
Washington DC
20003

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October 7, Al-Aqsa Flood: Today’s Palestinian revolution resisting two years of genocide and the urgent tasks of our movement

Today, 7 October 2025, we mark the second anniversary of Al-Aqsa Flood, the great crossing of the Palestinian people and their resistance: the day that changed the world. Two years later, amid the horrific genocide carried out by the Zionist regime with the full involvement and joint responsibility of the United States, France, Britain, Germany, Canada and their fellow imperialist powers, it remains clear that the path forward forged by the fighters on 7 October 2023 is the path to the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea. 

The seventh of October is now and will remain a great revolutionary occasion, a moment that is celebrated by the oppressed peoples and nations of the world as a historic moment in the anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggle, and which will live on after liberation as a milestone in the path to victory. The red triangles of the Palestinian resistance have become international symbols of the ability to defeat the oppressor, and the legendary heroism of the Palestinian resistance has been written indelibly into the history of global revolution. 

On 7 October 2023, the Palestinian people and their Resistance, led by the Izz el-Din al-Qassam Brigades, demonstrated to the world that it is in fact possible to breach the armored structures of the Zionist regime, set up with the most advanced technologies and with billions of dollars in imperialist weaponry, to defeat the soldiers of colonialism and racism, and to roam freely in occupied Palestinian land. Indeed, “Israel” can be defeated – and will be defeated.

With every bulldozer tearing down the fences, every tank mounted by the people it aimed to shoot and kill, every military base and intelligence office trampled by the fighters of the resistance, and every paraglider sailing toward the dawn of liberation, every march forward by the sons of those exiled from this very land and denied their right to return, the Palestinian resistance carried out a brilliant, strategic military operation targeting the military bases surrounding Gaza targeting the breaking of the siege and the liberation of Palestinian prisoners. 

The effect was immediate, and not simply because the resistance imposed remarkable losses on the colonial forces who had been, for 75 years prior, massacring Palestinians, forcing from their land and confiscating it, constructing settlements, imprisoning and torturing tens of thousands of prisoners, destroying their villages, sacred places and holy sites, denying their right to return, and carrying out an ongoing genocidal assault on Palestinian and Arab existence. It was because on October 7th, with the launch of Al-Aqsa Flood, the Palestinian resistance made clear that it was capable of liberating Palestine and that a Palestine free of Zionism was on the horizon – and, furthermore, that an entire Arab nation and broader region free of imperialism was also entirely possible and within the grasp of the people and their mobilized and organized resistance.    

Imperialism and Zionism are the Reasons for Genocide

Let us be clear: The proximate cause of the Zionist-imperialist genocide targeting the Palestinian people was not the heroic operation of October 7. The cause of the genocide is Zionism and imperialism and their vicious commitment to maintaining colonial domination in perpetuity. Zionism has always been not only a form of racism and racial discrimination, as was once correctly recognized by the United Nations, but an ideology of genocide, and one created hand in hand with European and, later, U.S. imperialism. 

Palestinians are not targeted for genocide because they have continued and escalated their ongoing revolutionary struggle, but because the enemy they confront is a genocidal one, that has taken a nearly uncountable toll from the peoples of Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, the Arab nation and the broader West Asian region over decades of destruction, colonial extraction, invasions, wars, deliberate underdevelopment and brutal subjugation. 

This is borne out in Gaza today, where over 2.4 million Palestinians are subjected to the genocidal onslaught, displaced from their homes. Over 67,000 Palestinians are confirmed martyred, with nearly 10,000 more missing under the rubble. Over 90% of the Gaza Strip has been destroyed. The occupation has destroyed the health care and education systems in Gaza, targeting each hospital and university one by one; targeting aid workers, engineers, health workers, and security personnel for assassination, abduction, torture and imprisonment. 304 journalists and media workers have been targeted for reporting the truth about the genocide to the world, a truth that has outraged global public opinion and led to the international popular isolation of the Zionist regime and millions in the streets. 

Today in the West Bank, where the resistance has been subjected to severe repression and mass imprisonment, and where the Palestinian Authority security forces continue to engage in “security coordination” with the occupier, the occupation is engaging in massive, large-scale land theft, settlement construction, attacks on Palestinian villages, and open declarations of the planned annexation of huge swathes of Palestinian land. All of the PA’s complicity has not stopped the clear and overt declarations by the Zionist regime, including its notorious fascist finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, that it will never cease its theft of Palestinian land, attacks on holy sites, mass arrest campaigns, and rampant killings.

Confronting the Enemy Camp

It is clearer than ever that the enemy camp facing the Palestinian people laid out in the Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine in 1969 is the same genocidal enemy that it faces today: “Israel,” the Zionist movement, imperialism, led by the United States, and the Arab reactionary regimes, with the caveat that the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, at its leadership level and through its commitment to “security coordination” with the Zionist regime, is now lined up with that complicit Arab camp. 

Immediately upon 7 October 2023, upon the launch of the great flood, the imperialist powers identified this operation of the Palestinian resistance as not only a significant blow to the Zionist project, but a herald of a new advance in the resistance camp in the region, that with its steadfast allies, could break the stranglehold of imperialism on the region that has long deliberately undermined Arab and regional development, self-determination and true liberation. The leaders of the imperialist powers rushed to Tel Aviv to declare that their fortress was in place and immediately began shipping billions of dollars, Euros and pounds of weaponry to the Zionist regime to launch its escalated genocide in Gaza; they sent their generals to join its war rooms, and their spy planes to provide them surveillance of the Palestinian resistance to target their assault.

The rise of overtly fascist and extreme right forces within the imperialist powers is directly tied to their open embrace of genocide in occupied Palestine and repeated proclamations of support for “Israel”; indeed, they view it as a model implementation of racial supremacy. The genocide has been intertwined with Big Tech corporations, military contractors, shipping and logistics companies, and surveillance corporations, making the vicious, anti-human reality of capitalism visible to all. The U.S. aggressions against Venezuela and Iran are part and parcel of the same attempt to assert colonial domination on behalf of an empire in decline and unwilling to exist in a multipolar world as is its full-fledged partnership in genocide in Palestine.

At the same time, those who fight fascism globally stand with Palestine. Now, more than ever, the Palestinian flag is the global standard of resistance to colonialism, imperialism and injustice of all kinds. 

Popular Solidarity vs. Corporate and Imperialist Disinformation

We are subjected to a global stream of propaganda designed to misrepresent and slander the resistance, from false allegations of “mass rapes” and “beheaded babies” to the unending stream of movies, TV shows and “documentaries” promoted by major television companies and studios. On social media, Palestinian journalists and Palestine solidarity groups constantly face deplatforming and bans at the hands of Big Tech corporations, while Netanyahu himself boasts of the acquisition of TikTok in order to suppress global outrage and condemnation of the genocide. All of this is necessary in Western state-funded, corporate, and Big Tech media because of the reality: people’s natural sympathy is with the Palestinian people resisting genocide, and the heroic fighters on the front lines of that struggle, and their revolutionary military operation, would clearly be embraced by the people of the world, unless it is possible to drown the flood in a sea of lies and disinformation. 

For 16 years, the Palestinian people under siege in Gaza had built the infrastructure to withstand siege and develop their resistance, building Gaza’s underground as well as its aboveground, in order to defend their land and struggle for return and liberation to Palestine – all of Palestine. When the enemies of the Palestinian cause attempted to strangle this resistance project, with 2 million people on a tiny strip of land, through repeated violent assaults and wars, through a strangling siege, attempting to wipe out the people’s will to live or coerce them into submission, the forces of resistance instead developed an economy and infrastructure of steadfastness. This was built atop seven decades of resistance in Gaza, from the era of the late 1960s, when even Zionist war criminal Moshe Dayan was forced to admit that Mohammed al-Aswad, “Guevara Gaza,” “ruled the Strip at night,” to the great popular Intifada launched in 1987 among the entire Palestinian people, from the heart of Jabaliya refugee camp. 

Amid the tens of thousands of martyrs whose lives have been taken by the horrific genocidal destruction of the Zionist-imperialist assault include many of the great leaders who have forged today’s resistance movement, and who stand as iconic leaders of the global anti-imperialist cause: Ismail Haniyeh, the icon of Palestinian national unity and self-determination; Yahya Sinwar, the legendary fighter and liberated prisoner who fought to liberate the prisoners, Gaza and all of Palestine; Mohammed Deif, the chief of staff of the Palestinian Resistance and the architect of a generation of struggle; Saleh al-Arouri, the great Palestinian fighter; Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the great Arab leader and icon of decades of resistance, the maker of victory over the Zionists; Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, the heroic strategist of resistance; Ahmed al-Rahwi, the Yemeni prime minister alongside 11 members of his government; Ibrahim Aqil, Fouad Shukr, Ali Karaki; Commanders Mohammad Bagheri, Hossein Salami, Gholam Ali Rashid, Mohammad Saeed Izadi of Iran, Abdel Aziz Minawi, the Political Bureau member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement assassinated in Damascus; and many others, in the political and military leadership of the cause, as well as the journalists, doctors, security officials, aid leaders, government officials targeted in order to break the steadfastness, creativity and resistance of the Palestinian people. 

And yet the Resistance continues, never defeated or surrendered, with thousands of young people putting their lives on the line in order to defend their people and their cause, with just this morning, news of missiles from Gaza hitting the settlements surrounding Gaza, and seemingly impossible resistance operations carried out on a daily basis by those on the front lines of the defense of Palestine and those who defend humanity from genocide. 

The Prisoners Movement at the Heart of the Struggle

The Flood also came to seek the liberation of Palestinian prisoners, at the heart of the Palestinian cause, subjected to torture, isolation, arbitrary detention, and all forms of abuse. Infamous fascist Itamar Ben-Gvir had already been named the Zionist “Minister of Public Security,” and the Zionist entity had dramatically ramped up its use of administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial, while boasting of their threats to the prisoners. 

The same draft law for the execution of Palestinian prisoners being pushed now was on the agenda in mid-2023. Today, there are over 11,000 Palestinian prisoners including over 3,600 jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention, and over 2,900 Palestinians from Gaza held as “unlawful combatants,” including not only the heroic fighters of the resistance, but kidnapped health care workers and doctors, journalists, and everyday people abducted en masse by genocidal forces invading refugee camps full of tents of displaced people. 77 Palestinians have been killed inside occupation prisons in the past two years, their bodies held hostage by the Zionist regime, often under extreme and severe torture. Multiple doctors kidnapped from Gaza have been assassinated in occupation prisons through physical and sexual assault, both in the prisons of the occupation and the infamous military torture camps like Sde Teiman. 

Today, the leaders of the prisoners’ movement, leaders of the Palestinian resistance as a whole, figures such as Abdullah Barghouti, Ahmad Sa’adat, Marwan Barghouti, Ibrahim Hamed, Hasan Salameh, Abbas al-Sayed and Mahmoud al-Ardah, are held in isolation, subjected to frequent beatings, starvation and abuse, even as the Palestinian resistance fights to achieve their liberation – and that of their brothers and sisters in captivity – through a dignified prisoner exchange. The prisoners’ movement was at the heart of Al-Aqsa Flood, just as it remains at the heart of the Palestinian liberation movement. 

The Rise of the Support Fronts

Just as the enemies of the Palestinian cause were made clear to the world on 7 October, if there were any doubts remaining, so too, were its allies and friends, who have risen in support fronts for Palestine, against the genocide in the face of an imperialist war machine seeking to destroy all who defy it. The great global movement of the people, in the streets and the squares, from the public spaces of the global South to the heart of the imperial core, is raising the flag of Palestine as the flag of justice and liberation for all. This has been met with legal initiatives from South Africa, Colombia and Nicaragua, and the mobilization of innovative legal actions and initiatives to hold Zionists accountable in the courts of the world. 

In Yemen and with its rightful, revolutionary government in Sana’a, the people, armed forces and Ansar Allah movement continue to blaze a trail of unparalleled commitment to Palestinian liberation. 

As millions fill the squares every Friday, the Yemeni armed forces continue to send their drones and missiles to disrupt the skies of occupied Palestine, and as the Yemeni navy shuts down the supply lines of genocide in the Red Sea, forcing the Zionist port in Umm al-Rashrash (“Eilat”) to declare bankruptcy. The Islamic Republic of Iran has continued its consistent and material support of the Palestinian resistance, while responding to Zionist and U.S. aggression with powerful strikes, while defying the attempts to cut off the line of support to Palestine through physical, economic and cyberwarfare.

In Lebanon, the resistance forces led by Hezbollah, who earlier in May 2000 set the region on a path of defiance of Zionist occupation when liberating south Lebanon from nearly 20 years of occupation, immediately launched a support front on 8 October, which emptied much of the north of Palestine of its settlers. The Zionist/imperialist assault on Lebanon, which continues to this day despite the ostensible ceasefire agreed to in November 2024, included the assassination of great, historic, Lebanese, Islamic and international leaders like Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, the horrific “pager attacks” which killed and severely wounded thousands of Lebanese, and daily assaults and invasions throughout south Lebanon, confronting a brave and dedicated resistance from which the occupation was never able to gain or secure territory. 

Confronting U.S. schemes to “disarm the resistance”

As we mark the second anniversary of Al-Aqsa Flood, there is a parallel assault taking place on Palestine and Lebanon – “American proposals” and the so-called “Trump 21-point plan” in Gaza. In both countries, the forces of the resistance, dedicated as they are to the protection and the best interests of their people, have pursued and continue to pursue every possibility of a ceasefire while protecting the core of the cause from colonial interventions, new illegitimate occupation entities like “stabilization forces” and a “peace board” run by notorious war criminals Tony Blair and Donald Trump, collaborator forces armed and trained by the Zionist enemy, and attempts to destroy Palestinian and Lebanese sovereignty and self-determination. 

For our global movement, however, and especially in the heart of the imperial core – amid the governments fully, jointly and severally responsible for the genocide of the Palestinian people – it is our responsibility to do everything we can to strengthen the position of the resistance and ensure the Palestinian people are not left alone to confront the genocidal forces and their complicit agents seeking to extract in the negotiating table what they have been unable to obtain on the battlefield. 

We must stand firmly and clearly behind the resistance in Palestine, and behind the resistance in Lebanon, against any attempts to impose “disarmament” – in other words, to impose helplessness in the face of the nuclear-armed Zionist regime and its billions of dollars in imperialist-provided weaponry. It is clear under international law, and under every basic tenet of humanity that the Palestinian people have the right to resist occupation and colonialism through armed struggle, and that the Lebanese people have the right to resist foreign invasions and ongoing attacks through armed struggle. The weapons of the resistance are the rights of the people, which represent, symbolically and materially, the ongoing struggle for the liberation of their land. Throughout bitter histories of betrayal and sabotage, most notably in the case of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, it is clear: any and all attempts to disarm the resistance are attempts to liquidate the Palestinian cause. 

It is clear that the resistance is not only the best defender of sovereignty but also the only force with the ability to impose the self-determination of the people of the land over colonizers that seek to create “greater Israel” over not only Palestine, but also Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and even Jordan and Egypt, despite the complicity of their ruling elites and their commitment to repress resistance in the interests of their normalization with the Zionist regime. 

October 7 and the Revolutionary Promise of Victory

As we struggle to end the genocide, to break the siege, to rebuild Gaza, to defend the West Bank, for Palestinian refugees’ right to return, and for the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea, we continue to affirm, two years later: Long live October 7! We embrace this call and this slogan because this day represents the revolutionary potential, and indeed reality, of the Palestinian resistance and the entire resistance camp of the region, and because it represents the indelible mark of pride that the occupation has tried to erase through a fountain of bloodshed and massacres. 

This date represents the potential for victory and triumph, and the ability of the Palestinian people and their Resistance to defeat the Zionist entity and its imperialist backers, and it therefore terrorizes all of those who stand on the side of genocide, racism and colonialism, as it represents the end of their supremacy, plunder and domination. It represents the Haitian revolution, the victory of Algeria, Vietnam throwing off its shackles, and the future of liberation in our world.

We have been subjected to an onslaught of repression in the imperial core that is part and parcel of these states’ participation in the genocide, led by the United States. Indeed, just today, a demonstration in Bologna, Italy, was banned – after over two million Italians took to the street and engaged in a general strike for Gaza – because the organizers declared, “Long live October 7! Victory to the Palestinian Resistance!” The designation of Samidoun as a “terrorist entity” and the proscription of Palestine Action are meant to terrorize the mass movement, to rein in popular anger, and to compel the growing movement to be satisfied with illusory “recognitions of a Palestinian state” with no sovereignty, land, or self-determination and without even an arms embargo on “Israel.” 

This comes hand in hand with the ongoing designation as “terrorist organizations” of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Hezbollah, AnsarAllah, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), and a number of other resistance organizations as “terrorist organizations,” criminalizing “material support” and, in some countries such as Britain, even verbal support, for these resistance organizations or for courageous, newly proscribed grassroots movements like Palestine Action, who, through direct action, have caused significant damage to the British-”Israeli” – war machine. 

The targeting of Samidoun in the United States, Canada, and Germany, alongside threats in Belgium and the Netherlands, is designed to silence solidarity for the Palestinian prisoners at a time when the Resistance is fighting for their lives, and to break the bonds of solidarity between the global grassroots movement and the active resistance in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen and throughout the region. 

Perhaps these bonds of the unity of all fronts are expressed most clearly by Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, member of the Political Bureau of the AnsarAllah movement in Yemen – as always, setting an example that all sectors of the movement must strive to emulate – when he said, “Hamas has not lost its cards but gained new ones; our weapon is their weapon and the most important maritime strait in the world is now in their hands, and if you return, we return….Our theater of operations is Hamas’s theater of operations, and millions of Yemeni fighters are Hamas men, and Hamas’s war is our war and its peace is our peace.” We are, and must strive to be, one collective global movement, participating in one common resistance across many fronts.

 It is urgent to support all efforts to delist and deproscribe resistance organizations and grassroots movements from “terrorist lists,” and to meet repression with greater solidarity and overt support; the mass protests, at which hundreds have been arrested, in support of Palestine Action in Britain, are one such example. 

It is clear that the attempts to terrorize the people into supporting genocide have failed, as millions of people around the world rallied and marched, from Karachi and Rabat to Amsterdam and Rome, to bring an end to the genocide, and as hundreds sailed to break the blockade of Gaza in the Global Sumud Flotilla, followed now by the Thousand Madleens. 

The Global Flood for Palestinian Liberation

Now, on the second anniversary of Al-Aqsa Flood, it is time to renew, intensify and build our global flood for Palestine, and to take up our collective responsibilities to shut down the war machine and bring the genocide to an end, in support of the Palestinian people and their Resistance. We must escalate the struggle and impose material costs on the profiteers of war, and we must embrace all of the political prisoners in imperialist jails alongside those in Zionist jails as prisoners of the Palestinian cause and demand their liberation, from Tarek Bazrouk and Jakhi McCray, to Anan Yaeesh and Musaab Abu Atta, to Elias Rodriguez and Casey Goonan. This is our time to make the international isolation of the Zionist regime a material reality, even in the heart of the imperial core. 

Gaza is now, and has always been, the graveyard of the invaders. It is the path of resistance that is the road to liberation, with no surrender, and no defeat. It is up to our movement to truly globalize the intifada, to activate and organize ourselves as workers in the labor movement, as students in the student movement, as women in the women’s movement, as people in a revolutionary cause, to unite against imperialism, to be a truly worthwhile partner of the resistance making history on a daily basis, rising like a phoenix from the rubble of genocide.

Palestine is the center of the world. Gaza is the compass of conscience. The resistance are the defenders of humanity.

End the genocide now! 

Freedom for the prisoners!

Glory to the martyrs! 

Victory to the Resistance! 

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

Further Resources:

  • Mohammed Deif’s statement on 7 October 2023

They attacked the stationed worshippers and desecrated Al-Aqsa, and we have previously warned them. The enemy desecrated Al-Aqsa and dared to harm the Prophet’s path.

Hundreds have been martyred and injured this year due to the occupation’s crimes. Our calls for a humanitarian exchange were met with refusal, and daily violations continue in the West Bank.

We have decided to put an end to all of the occupation’s crimes. The time has ended for them to act without accountability. We announce the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation, and in the first strike within 20 minutes, more than 5,000 rockets were launched.

Starting from today, security coordination ends. Today, the people reclaim their revolution, correct their path, and return to the march of return.

O, our people in Al-Quds, expel the occupiers and demolish the walls. O, our people in the interior, Al-Naqab, Al-Jalil, and the Triangle, turn the land into flames beneath the feet of the occupiers.

Oh, our brothers in the Islamic resistance in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, today is the day when your resistance merges with the resistance of your brothers in Palestine. It is time for the Arab resistance to unite.

We call for mobilization towards Palestine. O, our brothers in Algeria, Morocco, Jordan, Egypt, and the rest of the Arab countries, take action and heed the call. 

The era of bets has ended, and the occupation must be expelled.

Oh, our people in all Arab and Islamic countries, start marching, not tomorrow, and breach the borders and barriers. 

This is the day of the grand picture to end the occupation.

Today, whoever has a gun, let him bring it out; it’s time. Everyone should come out with their trucks, cars, or tools. Today, history opens its most pure and honorable pages.

As the morning dawns on 7 October 2023, the resistance is rising throughout occupied Palestine, smashing the siege on Gaza with a comprehensive offensive confronting the occupier by land and air, taking control of Palestinian land, seizing occupation settlers and soldiers and launching thousands of missiles as Palestinian resistance forces fight to advance return and the liberation of Palestine.

The new resistance operation, titled the Al-Aqsa Flood by Mohammed Deif, commander in chief of the Izz el-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, comes on the 50th anniversary of the 1973 war in which Egypt reclaimed the occupied Sinai from Zionist occupation, and is set to alter the direction of the struggle in occupied Palestine, moving from resistance toward revolution and liberation.

The resistance operation comes in response to the ongoing stream of crimes against the Palestinian people, the daily murder of Palestinians on the streets of the West Bank of occupied Palestine, the siege on Gaza, the theft of land for settlements, the denial of refugees’ right to return, imposing exile for over 75 years, the torture and attacks on the Palestinian prisoners, the ongoing invasions of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the 75 years of Zionist occupation and over 100 years of imperialist domination and colonialism throughout occupied Palestine.

It also comes to bring about the liberation of Palestinian prisoners, as part and parcel of the Palestinian people and land. The occupation has repeatedly dragged its feet in conducting a prisoner exchange with the resistance, and now the resistance has announced that it has taken a significant number of prisoners from among the occupation soldiers and settlers in order to liberate the 5,250 Palestinian prisoners in occupation prisons, including the 1350 jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention, 39 women and 170 children. The resistance is taking new steps to liberate Palestinian land, to confront the settlement project and to liberate the prisoners from a position of power.

News is developing rapidly; however it is clear that the Palestinian resistance is determined to reset the status quo in the region and uncover the reality that the Zionist regime can no longer rely on its technological strength and imperialist weaponry to impose its domination on the Palestinian people. In particular, coming as it does on the 50th anniversary of the 1973 war, it is a decisive rebuke to the entire path of Oslo and normalization imposed upon the Palestinian and Arab people for the past 50 years, indicating a new path forward with a clear goal: liberation, and nothing less. It builds upon the liberation of south Lebanon from occupation by the Lebanese resistance, led by Hezbollah, in 2000, and the defeat of the Zionist invasion of Lebanon in 2006, as well as the successive heroic battles waged by the Palestinian resistance throughout occupied Palestine and especially from its base area of resistance land in Gaza.

In his statement announcing the operation, Deif said: “Starting from today, security coordination ends. Today, the people reclaim their revolution, correct their path, and return to the march of return.” He called upon all to participate in the resistance, and specifically to all the forces of resistance in the region, in Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Yemen, and all of the Arab peoples from the Gulf to the ocean, to join in this battle, which is their battle for freedom, dignity and liberation, declaring, “it is time for the forces of Arab resistance to unite.”

Samidoun joins the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, in calling “the masses of our Palestinian people, supporters of the resistance in exile and diaspora, allies from the liberation forces and movements, and solidarity committees with the Palestinian people everywhere, to express their support for the heroic Palestinian resistance, raise the flag of Palestine and the banners of resistance, and organize popular, political and media demonstrations and events to expose the Zionist crimes against our people in occupied Palestine….The heroic Palestinian resistance has opened a chapter of battles of dignity and pride at the dawn of October 7, 2023, and it is now responding to decades of continuous and repeated Zionist, American and European aggression against the masses of our Arab and Islamic nation from the ocean to the Gulf, and in the face of the wars of starvation and siege that the United States and its agents have engineered against our peoples in the region, especially in Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and Iran.”

As the Palestinian resistance confronts occupation forces, it is critical that internationalists everywhere speak out, mobilize and act to confront the U.S.-led imperialist system, including the EU states, Britain and all complicit powers to end their ongoing crimes against the Palestinian people, and to defend the resistance. These crimes are reflected not only in the Balfour Declaration and the $3.8 billion in U.S. military aid to the occupation regime annually, but in the racist assaults on the Palestinian people in exile and diaspora throughout Europe, and especially in Germany, for speaking out and organizing to take up their role in the cause, for their return to Palestine and the liberation of their land.

Imperialism is the primary enemy of the Palestinian cause, creating the Zionist project and arming it to the teeth as a mechanism of attack against the Arab and Iranian peoples, alongside Zionism, the “Israeli” occupation regime and reactionary, complicit Arab forces.

Today, the resistance is making clear that despite the weaponry and brutality of the occupier, the promise of liberation is closer than ever before.

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

 

Beirut event highlights solidarity with Palestinian journalists targeted for imprisonment and assassination

The Journalist Support Committee held an event in solidarity with Palestinian journalists on Thursday, 2 October 2025 in Beirut, Lebanon, with broad participation from Lebanese, Palestinian, Yemeni and other Arab media outlets. Charlotte Kates, international coordinator of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network and the deputy secretary-general of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, participated in the event, speaking about the imprisonment of Palestinian journalists in Zionist jails and international accountability for ongoing genocide in Gaza and throughout occupied Palestine.

The event, marking the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian Journalists, highlighted the over 300 Palestinian journalists who have been martyred at the hands of the Zionist occupation forces in the past two years, especially in the Gaza Strip, under siege and genocidal assault. It was introduced by Hanan Sharaf el-Din, a member of the Executive Board of the Journalist Support Committee, emphasizing the moral and human duty to stand in solidarity with Palestinian journalists, those recording the path of history.

Maysam Butari of the Journalist Support Committee spoke first, emphasizing that Palestinian journalists do not only spread the news but are witnesses to truth, carrying out resistance through words and images and confronting an unjust war machine; she urged international parties to uphold their responsibilities to hold the occupation accountable for its crimes.

Ahmed Sabbahi of the Palestine Today TV channel emphasized that the Palestinian journalist is a voice of truth confronting injustice, emphasizing the dedication and commitment of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, maintaining their courage, commitment and faith in Palestine despite working in tents under harsh conditions without food and water.

Tawfiq Salim of Al-Aqsa TV said that “The Palestinian journalist is now on the front line of the battle for awareness, in a world where words are terrorized, images are condemned, and truth is threatened,” noting that over decades, there has been no accountability for the ongoing crimes against Palestinian journalists, writers and thinkers.

Speaking on behalf of the Palestinian Journalists Forum, Khaled al-Khalil noted that solidarity, particularly from other media professionals is an important unifying force for Palestinian journalists, supporting their steadfastness and ability to withstand all attempts to destroy their rights of expression and media work.

Journalist Hala Haddad spoke on behalf of the Syndicate of Audiovisual Media Workers in Lebanon, emphasizing that real journalists, who are flesh and blood — especially in Palestine — are the foundation of truth, while media outlets ignore their realities and instead compete on the use of artificial intelligence.

Mohammed Kazan of the Lebanese Media Group noted that all journalists are part of this battle, emphasizing that the genocide and the resistance to it are not only a military matter but instead include a psychological, media and propaganda war, in which the honesty of Palestinian journalists confronts the technological deceptions of the enemy.

Director of Al-Mayadeen office, Roni Alpha, noted that each journalist in the meeting had lost colleagues and friends practicing their profession and that their participation is an act of solidarity with their colleagues martyred as a result of the Zionist genocide. He emphasized that a responsible stance that preserves facts and credibility requires solidarity with Palestinian journalists under fire.

Charlotte Kates noted that the Zionist-imperialist assault on Palestine, particularly on Gaza, includes a systematic policy of targeting journalists and media workers as a method and mechanism of carrying out genocide. She further noted that over 50 journalists are imprisoned inside Zionist jails, many held under administrative detention without charge or trial. Criticizing Western state-sponsored and corporate media, she noted that those responsible for inciting and promoting genocide should be held accountable internationally.

Ali al-Zuhri, speaking on behalf of the Yemeni media, emphasized that Palestinian journalists are confronting not only killing and massacre at the hands of the occupation, but also a siege of disinformation, including on social media platforms that routinely silence Palestinian accounts. He emphasized that the Yemeni media stands by Palestine, noting “We are with you in every action, word and deed.”

Below are the full remarks by Charlotte Kates:

As we gather today, to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian journalists under siege, targeted for assassination, imprisoned under torture, by the Zionist regime, “Israel,” for their reporting and their truth, I want to note that we are also one day before the first anniversary of the assassination of the great and courageous leader, Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, on 3 October 2024; and one week following the assassination of the great Arab, Lebanese and international figure of resistance, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, by hundreds of tons of U.S. made bombs dropped by Zionist warplanes. Their path of resistance, clarity and truth, continues on today, never stopped or erased by the horrific crimes of the occupier and the colonizer. 

Of course, we also must note that amid the ongoing, extraordinarily violent attempts of the Zionist project to shield its genocide from global exposure and international isolation through the targeting of journalists, writers, camerapeople and photographers, the Global Sumud Flotilla – many of whose participants were themselves inspired by the work of Palestinian journalists – was today targeted by the Zionists, attacking over 40 boats in international waters with 500 participants, sailing to break the siege, end the genocide, to deliver aid, but not only to deliver aid but to take action to break the siege when third states are instead complicit in the ongoing genocidal assault on Gaza. 

The assassination of journalists, writers and thinkers as a policy of the Zionist occupation is not one that began two years ago, with the inception of the escalated genocide against the Palestinian people, and particularly targeting Gaza, following the rise of the resistance and Al-Aqsa Flood, but also has been a component of the 77 years of genocide in occupied Palestine. Here in Lebanon, Palestinian writers like Ghassan Kanafani and Kamal Nasser – engaged writers who were leaders in the cultural resistance to colonialism and the propagation of the Palestinian narrative – were assassinated by Zionist forces over 50 years ago, in a clear precedent to the ongoing assassinations and en masse targeting of journalists in Palestine, especially in the Gaza Strip; Lebanon; and Yemen.

The targeting of journalists is a systematic attack on truth-telling, documentation and reality itself, particularly after well over 700 days of what has been called “the world’s first live-streamed genocide.” Palestinian journalists have played a necessary and essential role in exposing the crimes of Zionism and imperialism before the world, in conveying the horrific daily reality of genocide in Gaza internationally, and they have been brutally targeted. At the same time that the occupation refuses to allow the entry of independent international journalists, it repeatedly targets Palestinian journalists, as if the global outrage and revulsion against the Zionist project and its genocide can be stemmed by eradicating those who expose its reality.

The law is clear: journalists are protected persons. However, In the past two years, the Zionist entity has killed over 304 journalists in Palestine, mostly in Gaza Strip alone. To this is added the massacre of 36 journalists in Yemen, ten in Lebanon, three in Iran. This is the deadliest armed conflict for journalists on record in modern history, with the targeting of journalists made an explicit tool of genocide. 

It is not only assassination that the occupation pursues against journalists but also imprisonment. There are at least 50 journalists in occupation prisons, amid 11,000 Palestinian prisoners in Zionist jails, subjected to routine and systematic torture, starvation, abuse, physical, psychological and sexual assault,  and even assassination behind bars. Most of these journalists are imprisoned with no charge and no trial under administrative detention orders, indefinitely renewable. 

Journalists play a critical role in documenting the crimes being carried out today in occupied Palestine,  laying out the record of genocide for prosecutions to come. However, they also play a critical role in documenting those who make history, the people and their resistance, so that their suffering, their steadfastness, their heroism and their strikes against the enemy are also portrayed before the nation and the world.

It is clear that “Israel” is carrying out a genocide in Palestine, especially in Gaza, and that the targeting of journalists is a method of genocide. However, what also must be clear is the international responsibility. The same Western imperialist powers led by the US that provide the weapons and the intelligence cooperation to enable the assassination of journalists are fully complicit in this targeting as is Western mainstream corporate and state media. Even the employers of targeted journalists like Reuters and the AP issue vague statements without naming the party responsible for the killings and publish zionist propaganda. The New York Times won a Pulitzer prize for publishing a discredited zionist article by a former occupation soldier. Big tech companies close Palestinian journalists’ accounts while zionist state ministries pay Western influencers $7000 per post to whitewash genocide. We must be clear – the official sources of disinformation and genocide denial can and must be held accountable, not only at a popular and sentimental level but legally as well, as an international responsibility.

It is the responsibility of journalists, particularly international journalists, to be engaged journalists and not stenographers for the Zionist regime, to report the stories of the martyrs and publicize the journalists who continue to document amid the crimes. And to document and expose the involvement of governments , states and occupation soldiers, to not merely comment on genocide, but to actively work to emulate the example of the martyred journalists, to be truth tellers of the people, of the resistance and of humanity.

For a free Palestine, from the river to the sea: the implementation of necessity, truth and conscience. 

October 2, 2025

Charlotte Kates

Deputy Secretary-General, International Association of Democratic Lawyers

International Coordinator, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network

 

Long Live Assata Shakur, 1947-2025

On September 26, 2025, Black revolutionary Assata Shakur transitioned after leading a long and virtuous life of internationalist resistance. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes Assata’s living legacy and recognizes her lifelong struggle against global oppression as a practice to inspire countless generations to come.

Assata Shakur was the target of racist, counter-insurgent incarceration from 1973 to 1979 because of her work with the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. For years from within prison walls, she fought false accusations while bearing the brunt of settler-colonial prison and police violence. After being shot twice by New Jersey State Police, Assata testified to being choked, beat, dragged, kicked, pulled by her hair, and cuffed by her ankles so tight that the handcuffs were inside her flesh. She received inadequate medical care and was imprisoned in a men’s prison because of how “threatening” she was deemed to be by the state.

Writing of her own experience, Assata noted that political persecution and incarceration is “part and parcel of the [US] government’s policy of eliminating political opponents by charging them with crimes and arresting them with no regard to the factual basis of such charges.”

In 1979, a unit of the Black Liberation Army liberated Assata from prison and in 1984 she travelled to Cuba where she lived in exile until her recent passing. Living in exile in Cuba under the protection of the socialist Cuban government only further expanded Assata’s analysis of anti-imperialism and the interconnectedness of global struggles for liberation. Assata was a true internationalist in every sense of the word, describing Cuba as “One of the Largest, Most Resistant and Most Courageous Palenques (Maroon Camps) That has ever existed on the Face of this Planet.”

Since the FBI’s commencement and alleged completion of COINTELPRO — the program that targeted Assata and other Black liberation activists between 1956 and 1971— little has changed in how the settler state attacks those who fight for the oppressed masses of the world. Assata Shakur is one of many people labelled as a so-called “terrorist” by the US and other Western and allied governments.

“They wanted to portray her as a terrorist, something that was an injustice, a brutality, an infamous lie,” President Fidel Castro once remarked about Assata. The FBI eventually classified her as the first woman on their Most Wanted Terrorists list. A few years later, the first woman Al-Qassam Brigades member Ahlam Al-Tamimi was added to this same list illustrating the joint struggle that the Palestinian and Black liberation movements share.

Much like the case of Assata and Ahlam, Palestinian resistance factions, the Axis of Resistance, and Palestinian solidarity organizations and individual activists across the globe are designated as “terrorist[s]” for siding with the masses of the world who oppose imperialism. Those of us who recognize prisons as a colonial tool for waging warfare against a subjugated people are particularly criminalized.

Assata’s political work with the Black Panthers and the BLA specifically identified American police and prisons as racist and oppressive forces that must be eliminated. Her offerings of steadfastness remind us to continue to fight for and honour those still inside and those who have been martyred by the colonial prison system.

Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Free Abdullah Barghouthi, Free Kamau Sadiki, Free Jakhi McCray, Free Malik Farrad Muhammad, Free Ahmad Sa’adat, Free Kojo Bomani Sababu, Free Casey Goonan, Free Imam Jamil Al-Amin, Free Elias Rodriguez, and Free Them All!

Long live Assata Shakur, Sekou Odinga, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Sheikh Khader Adnan, Ed Poindexter, Ismail Haniyeh, Dr. Mutulu Shakur, Yahya Sinwar, and many more who have been martyred and/or have joined the ancestors.

A revolutionary freedom fighter, a political prisoner, a mother, a woman in exile— Assata Shakur’s lifelong practice of militancy and sacrifice will continue to be aspirational to all who wish to see the day that imperialism receives its final blow.

It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.

Rest in Power, Comrade Assata!

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