The U.S. government has announced that it will move its embassy to Jerusalem in an attempt to legitimize the occupation of the city by the Zionist state on 14 May, the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, which marks the establishment of the occupation state and the mass displacement and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.
BDS Turkey and all friends of Palestine, together with the people of Jerusalem, declare that the city belongs to the Palestinian people. We demand the implementation of boycott, divestment and sanctions on the settler colonial Israeli state on the military, economic, diplomatic, poliical and cultural fields.
Organized by BDS Turkey
Kudüs Filistin’dir, Filistinlilerindir
القُدس لفلسطين، للفلسطينيين
Geçtiğimiz günlerde, ABD yönetimi, büyükelçiliğini Kudüs’e taşıyarak şehrin Siyonist devlet tarafından işgalini meşrulaştırma kararını, önümüzdeki 14 Mayıs’ta, yani işgal devletinin kuruluşuna ve Filistin halkının tehciri ve etnik temizliğe işaret eden Nakba’nın 70. yıldönümünde gerçekleştireceğini açıkladı.
BDS Türkiye olarak tüm Filistin dostlarını, Kudüs’ün işgalcilere değil, Filistin halkına ait olduğunu haykırmak, yerleşimci sömürgeci İsrail devletiyle askeri, ekonomik, diplomatik, akademik ve kültürel alanlardaki tüm ilişkilerin kesilmesi ve İsrail’e yaptırım uygulanmasına davet etmek amacıyla farklı yerlerde düzenlemeye başladığımız, ilkini ABD Konsolosluğu önünde, ikincisini Beyoğlu Tünel Meydanı’nda ve üçüncüsünü Kadıköy Khalkedon Meydanı’nda gerçekleştirdiğimiz Kudüs Nöbetlerinin dördüncüsünde, 3 Mart 2018 Cumartesi günü, Bakırköy Meydanı’nda, herkesi bir kere daha sesimize ses katmaya davet ediyoruz.
03 Mart 2018 Cumartesi günü saat 15.00
Bakırköy Meydanı
BDS Türkiye
بعد قرار نقل السفارة الأمريكية إلى القدس أعلنت الإدارة الأمريكية بكل تبجح أنها ستنقل سفارتها في الذكرى السبعين للنكبة الفلسطينية، معلنة بذلك شرعنتها للاحتلال الصهيوني للقدس.
يدعوكم تجمع المقاطعة ل”اعتصام القدس ۳” في اسطنبول من أجل رفع صوت التضامن مع الشعب الفلسطيني في نضاله التاريخي. لِنرفع علم فلسطين ولنهتف بصوت واحد القُدس لفلسطين، للفلسطينيين.
۳ آذار ۲۰۱۸، السَّبت السَّاعة الثالثة بعد الظهر
ميدان بكركوي الرئيسي
تجمع المقاطعة (بي دي أس – تركيا)
BDS Berlin ( http://bdsberlin.org/ ) is calling for a protest action against Hewlett Packard (HP). On Saturday, March 3, 2018 from 12:30 – 2:30 pm, we will protest in front of SATURN Alexanderplatz against the sale of Hewlett Packard (HP) products, as the HP corporation provides services and equipment to the Israeli occupation directly for the suppression of Palestinian people in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and profits from this oppression.
• Hewlett Packard (HP) benefits from illegal Israeli settlements
• Hewlett Packard (HP) allows mass arrests and incarceration of Palestinians
• Hewlett Packard (HP) benefits from the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip
This action is part of this year’s Israeli Apartheid Week and is part of the #StopHP international campaign.
BDS Berlin (http://bdsberlin.org/) ruft zu einer weiteren Aktion gegen Hewlett Packard (HP) auf. Am Samstag, den 3. März 2018 von 12:30 – 14:30 Uhr protestieren wir vor SATURN auf dem Alexanderplatz gegen den Verkauf von Produkten der Firma Hewlett Packard (HP), die mit ihrem Service und ihrer Hardware unmittelbar an der Unterdrückung der palästinensischen Bevölkerung in Israel, der Westbank and im Gazastreifen beteiligt sind und davon profitieren.
• Hewlett Packard (HP) profitiert von den illegalen israelischen Siedlungen
• Hewlett Packard (HP) ermöglicht Massenverhaftungen und -inhaftierungen von Palästinenser*innen
• Hewlett Packard (HP) profitiert von der israelischen Blockade des Gazastreifens
Diese Aktion findet statt im Rahmen der diesjährigen Israeli Apartheid Week und ist Teil der internationalen Kampagne #StopHP.
The Eye on Palestine festival in Ghent, Belgium, running from 17 to 23 February 2018, featured a range of films, cultural events and discussions focusing on the struggle of oppressed communities internationally, particularly the Black Liberation movement in the United States and the Palestinian liberation struggle. In particular, the 2018 festival focused on prisoners’ struggles in Palestine, the United States and beyond.
The festival’s framework was inspired by the work of professor Greg Thomas, whose exhibition on “George Jackson in the Sun of Palestine” served as the centerpiece and driving theme of the events of the week. The exhibition, which was mounted in the main hall at De Expeditie in Ghent, includes poster art, letters, book covers and other material that highlight the life and death of Black Panther and prisoner leader George Jackson, assassinated in prison in 1971. Among his books and possessions were Palestinian poems by Palestinian poet and freedom struggler Samih al-Qasem. The exhibition looks at Black-Palestinian solidarity in light of resistance movements, prison organizing, poetry and art. It was first exhibited at the Abu Jihad Museum in Abu Dis and has since been shown in the African Community Center of Jerusalem, San Francisco, Vienna, Washington, DC, and elsewhere.
Photo: Eye on Palestine
Among the festival’s events was a discussion on 21 February, which featured a presentation by Rasmea Odeh, former Palestinian prisoner, torture survivor, resister to U.S. oppression and deportation and Palestinian community leader. Odeh discussed her experiences in Israeli and U.S. prisons, the use of solitary confinement and the various forms of torture used in an attempt to suppress resistance. She urged young people in particular to take their role in the struggle for liberation everywhere, highlighting the connections between struggles for justice and liberation in Palestine, the United States and throughout Europe.
Odeh was joined by Black Panther veteran and former U.S.-held political prisoner Dhoruba Bin Wahad – who has previously been denied entry to Palestine for his political activity – who spoke via Skype at the event. Bin Wahad explored his own prison experience, highlighting the resistance role of prisoners’ self-directed reading and education in defiance of the prison authorities. He also noted the ongoing role of Israeli arms corporations and U.S. imperialism in neocolonialism in Africa and around the world. In this context, he denounced the criminalization and repression of Palestine activism and international solidarity in the U.S. and internationally.
Charlotte Kates, international coordinator of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, also joined the panel discussion, which was coordinated by long-time Belgian antiracist and prison abolition organizer Luk Vervaet. Kates presented facts and figures about the situation of Palestinian prisoners today, highlighting the cases of Ahed Tamimi and her fellow child prisoners as well as the boycott of Israeli occupation military courts currently being conducted by over 450 Palestinians held without charge or trial under administrative detention. She noted the ongoing imprisonment of Lebanese struggler for Palestine Georges Ibrahim Abdallah in French prisons as part of the Palestinian prisoners’ struggle, as well as the importance of international joint struggle and collective organizing to fight imperialism, Zionism, racism and oppression in all forms.
Photo: Eye on Palestine
The festival included a week of events that focused on the struggles of oppressed peoples against imprisonment and colonialism. Greg Thomas presented a keynote address for the week, reflecting on the struggles of Black people in the United States and Palestinians and the role of imprisonment as a means of oppression and punishment by racist systems.
A poetry evening included works by Giovanni Baudonck, Nisma al-Aklouk, Lindah Nyirenda and Dalia Tahai, while films screened during the festival included “3000 Nights,” “Ghost Hunting,” and “Jean Genet, un captif amoreux.” The screenings were accompanied by discussions with directors Michele Collery, Mai Masri and actor Wadie Hanani as well as former Palestinian ambssador Leila Shahid.
26 February 2018 marks the second anniversary of the loss of Omar Nayef Zayed, former Palestinian prisoner targeted once again by the Zionist occupation and found dead outside the Palestinian embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria in the early morning hours of 26 February 2016. Nayef Zayed had escaped from Israeli prisons 28 years before and had traveled through Arab countries before marrying, having children and living over two decades in Bulgaria.
On 25 February, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Jenin marched to commemorate Nayef Zayed’s life and demand justice and accountability for his death. The participants in the march demanded that Bulgaria resume the investigation into his death to uncover those responsible. The march traveled through Jenin’s old city and past the family home of Nayef Zayed.
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network reiterates our call for justice and accountability for Omar Nayef Zayed. We reprint our statement from one year ago. Omar Nayef Zayed’s memory and legacy of struggle and resistance live on and cannot and will not be silenced or forgotten:
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network marks the second anniversary of the loss of Omar Nayef Zayed with a renewed call for justice and accountability for the death of this struggler for Palestine and former Palestinian political prisoner whose life was taken as he struggled once more for his freedom.
Nayef Zayed, 52, was a former Palestinian prisoner who was imprisoned in 1986, as a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, accused with his brother Hamza and Samer Mahroum of being part of an attack on an Israeli extremist settler in Jerusalem. Sentenced to life imprisonment, he escaped in 1990 after a 40-day hunger strike. His escape from Israeli prison is almost legendary, securing his freedom amid close and intense repression.
After traveling in the Arab world for 4 years, he arrived in Bulgaria in 1994. Nayef Zayed was married to Rania, a Palestinian Bulgarian; they had three children. He owned a grocery store and was a leader in Sofia’s Palestinian community. In December 2015, moments before the expiration of the statute of limitations, the Israeli state demanded he be arrested and turned over to them by the Bulgarian police, after years of escalating “security cooperation” and security agreements between Bulgaria and Israel. He took sanctuary in the Palestinian embassy in Sofia while internationally, Samidoun and others campaigned against the extradition demand. Throughout this time, he was constantly subject to pressure by PA representatives to leave the embassy.
On 26 February, Nayef Zayed’s bloodied body was found on the ground of the garden of the embassy. Since that time, Samidoun has joined his family and comrades in an ongoing struggle to hold those responsible for Nayef Zayed’s death accountable and uncover the truth.
During Omar Nayef Zayed’s 70 days within the Embassy, he struggled for his freedom, facing a triangle of injustice and responsibility – the Israeli state, the Bulgarian state and also the Palestinian Authority, whose embassy and ambassador did their best to push Omar from the embassy and make his life there difficult or impossible, denying him visitors and threatening to remove him at any time.
Today\, there has still been no justice or accountability on the death of Omar Nayef Zayed. His family won an appeal in Bulgarian courts against the original autopsy findings and are securing a new investigation into his death. Today, we revive the demand for truth, justice and accountability for Omar Nayef Zayed. This demand for justice is also being heard, resoundingly from Palestine and around the world.
Throughout his life, Nayef Zayed struggled for Palestine and for the Palestinian people; he was loved by his family, his friends and his comrades. We pledge to continue to organize and demand justice in this case and to remember his life, his struggle and his commitment to freedom, justice and liberation for the land and people of Palestine.
Al-Awda Palestinian Folkloric Dabkeh Troupe is a youth dance and music troupe based in Berlin, Germany. Berlin is one of the world’s capitals of Palestinian diaspora life and is home to tens of thousands of Palestinians, mostly refugees from Lebanon and Syria.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkdeB_za694
The Palestinian and Arab population in Berlin has continued to grow as more Palestinians have continued to be displaced in recent years from Syria and Lebanon. Al-Awda Dabkeh Troupe was created by young Palestinians in Berlin as a means of preserving cultural heritage and identity and expressing their commitment not only to the culture and music of Palestine but to their fundamental right to return to their homeland.
The group consists of 25 members and includes young men and women, who perform traditional and modern Palestinian folkloric dance (dabkeh). It also includes a musical performance group that specializes in a range of Palestinian national and cultural music.
This group was founded largely by Palestinian refugee youth seeking to express their culture and affirm their right to return home to Palestine, without institutional support, funding or backing. These talented youth have already performed at dozens of Palestinian community events, cultural festivals and progressive multinational activities in Berlin and throughout Germany.
This fundraiser will go to provide BOOTS AND COSTUMES for Al-Awda Dabkeh to highlight their Palestinian folkloric dance and style. In addition, the band needs new or repaired MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS for their musical performances. The troupe also needs PROPS and an improved SOUND SYSTEM for their public performances.
Your support will help these talented, inspirational Palestinian refugee youth in Berlin continue to dance and sing toward return and liberation.
قوم رؤية فرقة العودة على اساس ان الفن الشعبي الفلسطيني هو مكون أصيل اساسي من الهوية الوطنية الفلسطينية ، فالتراث الشعبي الفلسطيني وكان وسيظل أداة هامة لا غنى عنها في التعريف بتاريخ وهوية وحضارة الفلسطينيين ويؤكد على عشق الشعب الفلسطيني للحياة والطبيعية والارض والقيم الانسانية ، وفي الوقت ذاته ، يُظهر الجوهر الانساني التقدمي لشعبنا وتمسكه بأرضه وحقوقه الوطنية واستعداده للتضحية والفداء من اجل تحرير وطنه وانتزاع حريته من المحتلين الصهاينة.
لقد اختارت الفرقة اسم ” العودة ” لكي تؤكد على تمسك شعبنا بحقه في العودة الى دياره وقراه ومدنه التي شرد منها قسرا والى سعيه الدائم من اجل استرداد وطنه واملاكه السليبة. كما تقوم الفرقة من خلال عروضها على شرح اهمية ومركزية حق العودة في النضال الفلسطيني باعتباره جوهر القضية الوطنية الفلسطينية والتعريف يمعاناة اللاجئين الفلسطينيين والعرب للراي العام الالماني والاوروبي.
Palestinian prisoners continue to face repressive attacks and punitive transfers inside Israeli occupation prisons. The Handala Center for Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners reported on 26 February that there is an escalated state of tension and overcrowding in Ramon prison following the transfer of prisoners in Section 5 to the Nafha prison by occupation forces.
Repressive units invaded room 65, where prisoners of Islamic Jihad movement are held, ransacking their belongings and transfering them all en masse to Nafha prison under the pretext of “repairs.” In total, 70 prisoners were removed and transferred.
After the move, the prisoners were again invaded and attacked in Nafha prison; one of the prisoners attacked was Wael al-Natsheh, who was severely beaten by the guards of the repressive unit after he refused to undergo a strip search. Natsheh was transferred to the hospital with injuries; from al-Khalil, he has spent 20 years in Israeli prisons and is serving a life sentence.
This is the section of the prison that is occupied by imprisoned Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Secretary Ahmad Sa’adat, and the state of anger within Ramon prison generally has risen following the invasion of repressive units and raids on a number of sections and rooms as prisoners protested the transfers and repression. The Center emphasized that the situation is expected to escalate if the prison administration does not end its ongoing attacks and repressive measures targeting Palestinian prisoners.
Two other PFLP leaders, Shadi Shurafa and Thaer Hanani, were transferred last weekend from Ramon prison to Megiddo prison. On 26 February, fellow PFLP leader Munther Khalaf Mifleh was transferred from Hadarim prison to Ramon prison. Khalaf has been engaged in collective hunger strikes in 2004, 2006 and 2012 as well as the strike in solidarity with Bilal Kayed in 2016. He is serving a 30-year sentence imposed upon him in 2003 after three months of interrogation and was previously arrested in 1995; he joined the Palestinian national liberation movement in 1988 during the intifada.
These actions come only days after other mass transfers; on 20 February, Islamic Jihad prisoners were suddenly returned to Section 1 of Ramon prison after being transferred to Nafha prison several months ago under the pretext of a thorough search of the section.
Prisoners have frequently noted that these transfers are used to disrupt prisoners’ organization and structure of life and work inside the Israeli occupation prisons and impose tension, harassment and exhaustion. The transfer process is carried out by the infamous “Bosta,” exacerbating the difficulty and discomfort of the journey for prisoners. In addition, transfers are frequently accompanied by confiscation and destruction of prisoners’ personal belongings.
Palestinian prisoner Amir As’ad, 35, has been on an open hunger strike in the Israeli Gilboa prison for 12 days, reported the Prisoners’ Affairs Commission. As’ad, from Kafr Qana in occupied Palestine ’48, has been imprisoned since 2012. He is serving a six and one-half year sentence and is scheduled for release in June 2018.
Due to his disability, he must use a wheelchair. This means that he must stay in a section of the prison that allows him to access the bathrooms in his wheelchair. Despite the fact that only one section is suitable for a person in a wheelchair, the prison administration refuses to move him there and instead insists on transferring him to inappropriate, non-accessible sections.
As’ad said that he has a mattress on a ground and is kept in isolation and that he will not end his strike until he is released from solitary confinement and placed in appropriate conditions. He has spent much of the past six years in the Ramle prison clinic due to his ongoing medical problems. Prior to his imprisonment, he was receiving specialized treatment which has been interrupted due to the prison administration.
Palestinian teen Jalal Sharawna, 19, whose leg was amputated by an Israeli hospital in 2015 after he was shot by Israeli occupation soldiers near his town of Dura, was sentenced on Sunday, 25 February to three and a half years in Israeli prison and fined 2,000 NIS ($500 USD).
Sharawna was only 17 when he was shot and seized by occupation forces in Dura on 9 October 2015. He was accused of attempting to infiltrate a settlement and carry out a stabbing in the Israeli military courts.
After his arrest, he was moved to the Israeli Assaf Harofeh hospital; his leg was amputated without consultation with his parents or his lawyer. “What happened to Sharawna was an intentional and complex crime committed jointly by doctors at Assaf Harofeh and Ramla clinic without consulting the prisoner’s family,” the director of the prisoners’ society in Hebron, Amjad al-Najjar, said at a mock funeral for the leg held in Dura.
In 2016, he launched a hunger strike against mistreatment and medical neglect in Israeli prison; he was held in the Ramle prison clinic under harsh conditions and without accommodations for his disability. His father noted that, although only 17 at the time, his rights as a child were never respected by Israeli occupation forces.
The Al-Khalil activist group, Human Rights Defenders, and the residents of Shuhada street organized a demonstration on 4 February led by kindergartners and other children to protest the imprisonment of 350 child prisoners currently being held in Israeli jails. Some of the children being held in jail are as young as twelve years old.
The demonstration culminated with attacks by the settlers on two journalists, Du’aa Yahya from Ma’an and Zidan al-Sharbat, covering the event for the organizers. At one point, the Israeli Occupation Forces also blocked the children from returning to their homes.
Human Rights Defenders leader Badee Dwaik and activist Arif Jabar organized the rally in one of the most heavily contested and settler-oppressed areas of al-Khalil, Tel Rumeida. In this area, a majority of residents are violent settlers, whose presence is maintained through land theft and the repression of occupation forces. Palestinians in al-Khalil have repeatedly documented the vicious attacks of occupation soldiers and settlers in the area.
The kindergarteners rallied for three child prisoners in particular, a young girl named Razan Abu Sal, 13 who was sentenced to one and a half months and a fine of 3000 NIS; Shadi Farrah, sentenced at the age of 12, who has already served two years of his three year sentence; and the well-known teen activist Ahed Tamimi, 17, who was arrested for defending her property and fellow children from attacks by Israeli soldiers. She has become a worldwide symbol of child imprisonment and the Palestinian struggle for freedom.
The children carried signs protesting the occupation, an all encompassing word for the abuses and indignities that are carried out against them by the Israeli Occupation Forces and the settlers that work in conduction with the army. The children chanted that every “child deserves a childhood”. They asked the world community to protect them and for international law to be upheld. They carried banners speaking of their anger at Israel and the Western countries that support Israel’s racist, Apartheid colonialist occupation of Palestinian people. Israel is the only country in the world today that maintains an Apartheid regime.
Badee Dwaik, leader of Human Rights Defenders spoke, telling the group that the demonstration marked the start of the group’s annual campaign called “Dismantle the Ghetto,” an effort to publicize and protest the horrors of life under the illegal occupation in the city of Hebron. The campaign is supported by international actions to call for the lift of closures and suppression of the population. It is held on the 24th anniversary of the massacre at the Ibrahimi mosque by Baruch Goldstein, which also marks the beginning of violent extremist settlers’ move into Hebron.
As the demonstration finished, settlers approached the group. Anat Cohen, a settler notorious for slapping, kicking and yelling at activists while being filmed, hit Du’aa Yahya, the journalist covering the event for Ma’an News. Another settler, Ofer Hassan, also known for his violence, attacked Arif Jabar, an activist for Human Rights Defenders.
Meanwhile a large crowd of IOF soldiers moved in on the crowd and closed the barrier to the road leading from the play area where the children held their demonstration, preventing them from returning home. Hassan and Cohen continued to harass the crowd. Hassan even attempted to enter the home of one of the residents, as the resident pleaded, “I am in my own home. Get out of here!” After a period of harassment of both the adults and the children, the protesters were finally allowed to leave the area and return to their homes.
Free Salah Hamouri contingent at Paris protest against the labor law changes, 12 September 2017
Palestinian-French lawyer Salah Hamouri was ordered to four more months of renewable arbitrary imprisonment under administrative detention as notoriously racist, far-right Israeli defense minister Avigdor Lieberman signed a renewal order for his continued imprisonment on Monday, 26 February. Hamouri, a former political prisoner, newly graduated Palestinian lawyer, advocate for Palestinian prisoners and internationally known speaker on Palestine, was seized from his Jerusalem home by occupation forces on 23 August 2017. After ongoing interrogation, he was ordered imprisoned for six months without charge or trial. During that time, his support campaign in France has garnered the support of dozens of cities and towns, 1,600 elected officials and thousands of supporters demanding freedom for their fellow citizen.
The renewal of the order against Hamouri comes as he joins over 450 fellow administrative detainees in a collective boycott of the Israeli occupation courts that pronounce and verify these military orders. They are demanding an end to the policy of administrative detention, a systematic policy used in an attempt to remove Palestinian leaders, organizers and prominent voices from their communities and isolate them from the Palestinian people and the world. There are 450 administrative detainees among 6,200 total Palestinian political prisoners and there have been over 3,500 administrative detention orders issued in just the last two and a half years.
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network demands the immediate release of Salah Hamouri and all of his fellow Palestinian prisoners. This extension of the imprisonment of Salah Hamouri also underlines the complicity of the French state in his ongoing detention; even while officially requesting his release, the French government has not put any significant and meaningful pressure on the Israeli state to demand his freedom, while continuing to embrace the occupation state and suppress Palestine solidarity organizing. This, of course, comes hand in hand with the imprisonment for over 33 years of Lebanese struggler for Palestine, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah. Now, more than ever, it is critical to support the administrative detainees’ strike and escalate our demand for their liberation.
Administrative detention of Salah Hamouri is renewed!
France is humiliated but the struggle continues
Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli Minister of Defense, has signed the renewal order for the detention of Salah Hamouri, French-Palestinian lawyer, arbitrarily imprisoned by Israel since 23 July 2017. His detention was extended by four months and is further renewable. The most absolute arbitrariness and injustice continue.
To the arbitrary actions of the Israeli state is added the responsibility of France, which beyond mere statements, has not made use of the substantial resources at its disposal to release a French victim of an arbitrary policy who is subject to an entirely unjust detention abroad.
The lack of serious action by France, despite its words, leads to a situation which does not ensure that the injustice is not repeated and that Salah is released on 28 February, as we have repeatedly and strongly requested.
All of this is political, on the Israeli side and the French side. Justice and law are in the relationship between our two countries merely negotiable concepts and not, as the French side frequently proclaims, firm and universal principles that must be fiercely defended in all places and at all times.
Since the responsibility for this situation is so clearly established, we all know that the State of Israel tramples the law with impunity and that this arbitrariness is a principle, we call on the French Presidency to demonstrate our clear and legitimate discontent and our willingness to act to meet the challenge: at stake is the fate of a man, of a right, but also that of our country.
We call, in this extreme situation, upon the President of the Republic to finally receive his wife, Elsa Lefort, as soon as possible to inform her of his intentions.
Arbitrary detention continues. Our action will continue accordingly, more resolute and determined than ever. Those who believe that we will tire are wrong; we draw new strength from this decision.
Paris, Monday, 26 February 2018
La détention administrative de Salah Hamouri est renouvelée !
La France est humiliée mais le combat continue.
Avidgor Liberman, ministre de la défense israélien a signé le renouvellement de la détention de Salah Hamouri, avocat franco-palestinien, arbitrairement incarcéré par Israël depuis le 23.07.2017. Cette détention est prolongée de 4 mois, renouvelables. L’arbitraire et l’injustice les plus absolus continuent.
À l’arbitraire de l’Etat israélien s’ajoute les responsabilités de la France qui, au-delà de ses affirmations, n’a pas mis en œuvre des moyens conséquents dont elle dispose pour faire libérer un Français, victime d’un arbitraire politique qui lui vaut une détention totalement injuste à l’étranger.
Cette absence de résolution de notre pays, malgré les paroles, aboutit à cette situation où elle n’a pas permis de garantir que l’injustice ne se répète pas et que Salah soit libéré le 28 février comme nous n’avons cessé de le demander avec force.
Tout cela est politique. Et côté israélien et côté français. La justice, le droit ne sont, dans cette relation entre nos deux pays, que des variables d’ajustements et non, côté français, des principes intangibles et universels à défendre farouchement en tout lieu et en tout temps.
Puisque les responsabilités de cette situation sont ainsi clairement établies, que nous savons tous que l’Etat d’Israël piétine sans la moindre réaction le droit et fait de l’arbitraire un principe, nous appelons à manifester vers la présidence française notre mécontentement légitime et notre volonté d’action à la hauteur de l’enjeu : il en va du destin d’un homme, du droit mais aussi de celui de notre pays.
Nous demandons, dans cette situation extrême, que le Président de la République reçoive enfin sa femme Elsa Lefort dans les plus brefs délais afin de lui faire part de ses intentions.
L’arbitraire continue. Notre action continuera en conséquence. Plus déterminée et résolue que jamais. Ceux qui croient que nous nous lasseront se trompent. Nous puisons des forces nouvelles dans cette décision.