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For 70 years, as part of its policy of “facts on the ground” Israel seized the western part of the city, and 50 years ago it occupied east Jerusalem and then annexed it declaring its unification as an “eternal and indivisible” capital in defiance of UN resolutions and in violation of international law….
International agreements define East Jerusalem as the Palestinian side of Jerusalem, destined to become the capital of the future state of Palestine. But the State of Israel has never respected – with the complicity of the US and Europe – any UN resolution and especially those concerning Jerusalem.
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We must stop Trump and Netanyahu. For that, apart from declarations, we cannot count on the French president. He invited, on Human Rights Day, December 10 in Paris, the Israeli prime minister who daily flouts international law and human rights. Who imprisons hundreds of Palestinians, including the French-Palestinian Salah Hamouri, without charges and without trial. Moreover, the French government itself is criminalizing the BDS campaign and imprisoning the struggler for Palestine, Georges Abdallah, for 33 years, despite his eligibility for release since 1999.
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Solidarity with the resistance of the Palestinian people.
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Ahed Tamimi, a young Palestinian, imprisoned by illegal Zionist forces of occupation, has become an international symbol of Resistance
Irish Socialist Republicans will gather at the GPO on Saturday, January 13, at 2.30pm to demand freedom for Ahed Tamimi, and all Palestinian Prisoners!
This is a non party political event and all supporters of Palestine are welcome!
Ahed Tamimi is a 16 year old Palestinian woman who has been arrested and charged with a range of offences, including assaulting a fully armed Israeli soldier. Her real crime is being a defiant young woman standing up for her people, the next generation of resistance.
Her entire family, indeed, the entire Palestinian people, are regularly subjected to this horrific treatment at the hands of Israel. It has to stop.
Join us for this important protest, and please spread the word.
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in New York’s Grand Central Station following a blizzard in the city on Friday, 5 January to demand freedom for imprisoned Palestinian teen activist Ahed Tamimi, 16, and her fellow Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Organized by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network and CODEPINK: Women for Peace with the active participation of dozens of New York-based Palestine and social justice organizations, participants carried signs, banners and flags supporting Ahed and fellow Palestinian prisoners.
“This rally showed the broad unity Ahed has inspired here, with every organization in solidarity with Palestine standing together to support her and demand her freedom,” said Joe Catron of Samidoun. “Her detention is a crucial test for all supporters of the Palestinian national and prisoners’ movement. Israel’s attacks on Nabi Saleh, the Tamimi family and Palestinian children are atrocities we must continue to confront.”
Photo: Joe Catron
Ahed’s case – and that of her family members, including her mother, Nariman, currently imprisoned alongside her daughter, and her cousin, Nour, recently released but still facing charges by an occupation military court – has attracted worldwide attention. Ahed and her family are leaders in the anti-colonial indigenous resistance and land defense movement in Nabi Saleh, their village of approximately 600 Palestinians that has been subject to land theft, invasions and extensive violence at the hands of Israeli occupation forces and settlers. Even the village’s spring was seized by the illegal settlement of Halamish. While both Ahed and her mother are held in HaSharon prison, they are isolated from one another and Ahed’s cell has reportedly been freezing in winter temperatures.
Photo: Rafael Justo
Ahed has been charged with 12 charges in an Israeli occupation military court after she slapped an occupation soldier – following the soldier slapping her first – who was on her family’s land and seeking to shoot down at protesters in the village below. The soldier was part of the same unit of occupation forces that had, shortly before, shot her cousin Mohammed Tamimi, 15, in the head with a rubber-coated metal bullet, causing serious damage and leaving him in a coma for days.
Photo: Jesse Rubin
Ahed is not alone; she is one of over 300 Palestinian child prisoners in Israeli jails. Each year, approximately 700 Palestinian children are brought before Israeli military courts; Palestinian children face torture and abuse under interrogation, violations of their rights as children and political imprisonment in military prisons. In the past two years, dozens of Palestinian children have been imprisoned without charge or trial under so-called administrative detention.
Photo: Bud Korotzer/Desertpeace
Samidoun organizers in New York worked with CODEPINK and other organizations to build a coalition and outreach to other organizations, especially following the successful NY4Palestine rally on 22 December in support of Ahed and fellow Palestinian prisoners. The rally was joined by an exceptionally broad number of groups in New York City with 32 endorsing groups, including Al-Awda NY, NYC Students for Justice in Palestine, Labor for Palestine, Decolonize this Place, Jewish Voice for Peace, the National Lawyers Guild, International Action Center, ANSWER, BAYAN USA, the Committee to Stop FBI Repression, Black4Palestine and many more.
Photo: Bud Korotzer/Desertpeace
“Israel’s anger at Ahed, their hell bent intention to destroy her, comes from her refusal to submit to their occupation,” said CODEPINK National Director Ariel Gold. “Rather than lowering her eyes in compliance, Ahed stands up to the army, unafraid, and demands her rights. She is accused of slapping a soldier. But Israel, not Ahed, is the real criminal.”
Photo: Joe Catron
Participants noted the strong, positive reception they received throughout the rally, which was emceed powerfully by Nerdeen Kiswani of NYC Students for Justice in Palestine. Participants chanted for freedom for Ahed and for all of Palestine, and passers-by noted their familiarity with Ahed’s case, supporting her demands for freedom and expressing their solidarity with Palestinians, especially around the issues of the arrest and imprisonment of children and U.S. President Donald Trump‘s declaration purporting to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The chants and the speeches reverberated around the busy station through a megaphone throughout the protest.
Nerdeen Kiswani from NYC Students for Justice in Palestine – Hundreds of New Yorkers joined Palestinian advocacy groups on January 5, 2017 at Grand Central Station to participate on an emergency rally calling out for the immediate release of 16 year old Ahed Tamimi and all Palestinian prisoners abducted and imprisioned by Israeli Occupation Forces. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
“Ahed is only 16 years old and she is sitting in jail,” said Kiswani from NYCSJP. “Palestinians have not only the right to resist their oppression, but the obligation. Ahed is one of many children being detained and tortured in Israel’s military courts. It’s an apartheid system. We are out here today and we will be out here in solidarity as long as Israel continues to imprison Ahed and her mother.”
Hundreds of New Yorkers joined Palestinian advocacy groups on January 5, 2017 at Grand Central Station to participate on an emergency rally calling out for the immediate release of 16 year old Ahed Tamimi and all Palestinian prisoners abducted and imprisioned by Israeli Occupation Forces. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
There were a few isolated counter-protesters from the extreme-right, racist Jewish Defense League, which held Israeli flags and a sign calling to “Jail Ahed.” Their miniscule presence did nothing to detract from the power of the mobilization throughout the station. At one point in the rally, participants collectively read out facts about Ahed, the Tamimis, Nabi Saleh and the escalating attacks on Palestinians by the Israeli occupation following Trump’s Jerusalem delegation from a series of placards. The concept was inspired by NYC Shut it Down, a Black Lives Matter organization that protests every Monday evening in Grand Central and other locations against police killings. NYC Shut it Down activists worked together with John and Lydia of Samidoun to organize this part of the action.
Photo: Bud Korotzer/Desertpeace
Joe Catron, Samidoun’s U.S. Coordinator, spoke at the rally about Ahed’s 17th birthday, forthcoming on 31 January and urging mobilizations around this day to demand her freedom and that of fellow Palestinian prisoners. Announcements will be forthcoming from multiple organizations to build for these events and actions.
Hundreds of New Yorkers joined Palestinian advocacy groups on January 5, 2017 at Grand Central Station to participate on an emergency rally calling out for the immediate release of 16 year old Ahed Tamimi and all Palestinian prisoners abducted and imprisioned by Israeli Occupation Forces. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
On Monday, 8 January, Samidoun activists will not be holding their regular protest because they will be participating in two events to honor Erica Garner, the activist, organizer and daughter of Eric Garner, killed by New York City police, who passed away recently from a heart attack. The public memorial service for Erica Garner will take place at 5:00 pm on 8 January at First Corinthian Baptist Church, which will be followed by a People’s Monday action for Erica Garner by Shut it Down NYC beginning at 116th and Lenox.
Photo: Jesse Rubin
The New York protest was one of a number of protests taking place over the weekend and in the coming days in solidarity with Ahed Tamimi and the Palestinian people, including actions in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, London, Los Angeles, Dallas, Bratislava, Saint-Etienne, Sydney, Dublin, Madrid, Toulouse, Washington, DC, Johannesburg, Arlington and elsewhere.
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network denounces the ongoing imprisonment of Ahed and Nariman Tamimi, among over 500 Palestinians arrested by Israeli occupation forces following U.S. President Donald Trump’s declaration of recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Issa Qaraqe of the Palestinian Prisoners Affairs Commission stated that approximately half of those detained, like Ahed, Abdul-Khalik Burnat and Fawzi al-Junaidi, are children. There are hundreds of Palestinian children jailed by Israel and frequently subject to beatings, abuse, and interrogations without parents or lawyers present in violation of the law. We urge people of conscience around the world to take action to demand freedom for Ahed and her fellow detained and jailed Palestinian children in occupation detention centers, interrogation centers and prisons – and for the Tamimi women and all detained and imprisoned Palestinians.
The resistance of the Palestinian people has never been quelled by arrests or repression, and it must be clear that we, around the world, stand alongside the Palestinian people as they defend Jerusalem and their entire land and people under attack. This includes standing with detained and jailed Palestinian prisoners in their struggle for liberation for themselves, their people, and their occupied homeland.
TAKE ACTION:
Join the Twitterstorm! Every day, a Twitterstorm is being organized with a new hashtag released at the moment the campaign begins to raise awareness and urge action to free Ahed and Nariman Tamimi. You can join in and follow the campaign at the Free the Tamimi Women facebook page and @YASHebron on Twitter. The twitterstorms are currently scheduled for 10 AM Pacific, 1 PM Eastern, 6 PM UK, 7 PM in Europe, 8 PM in Palestine – updates and hashtags are posted regularly on Facebook and Twitter.
Organize a protest for Ahed or join one of the protests being organized in cities like Washington, Bratislava, Vienna, Sydney, Dublin and elsewhere and distribute this post and other news about Ahed and the Palestinian prisoners. Get others involved in the struggle for Palestinian freedom! Build the campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel and complicit corporations like HP and G4S.
For supporters in the US: Call your member of the House of Representatives to support H.R. 4391, the Promoting Human Rights by Ending Israeli Military Detention of Palestinian Children Act. Tell them specifically about Ahed’s arrest, and urge them to act for her release. Tell them to pressure Israel to free Ahed and other detained Palestinian kids. Call the House switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to speak to your Representative’s office. CODEPINK has an action to highlight this case specifically.
Call your nearest Israeli embassy and let them know that you know about the detention of Ahed Tamimi in Nabi Saleh and other Palestinian child prisoners. Demand Ahed, her mother Nariman, and the other detained children be immediately released. Contact infomation here: https://embassy.goabroad.com/embassies-of/israel
Write to Ahed and Nariman. While Zionist jailers frequently censor Palestinian prisoners’ mail, these letters can help bolster morale and even send a message to the jailers and censors themselves. Write to Ahed Tamimi or Nariman Tamimi (choose one and address your letter to one only) at: HaSharon prison
Ben Yehuda, P.O. Box 7
40 330 Israel
On December 19, Israel arrested 16-year-old girl Ahed Tamimi. A few hours later they arrested her mother. Israel has levied 12 charges against her, including rock throwing, incitement and assault of a soldier. All of Ahed’s actions were legitimate resistance to Israel’s ongoing military occupation. She is facing years in an Israeli prison.
We say that Israel, not the women and girls of Palestine, are the criminals. We call for immediate freedom for Ahed Tamimi and her mother
We call for an International Week of Action for Ahed Tamimi and Palestinian political prisoners.
We call on you, citizens, activists, organizations and unions to make a huge statement to our governments around the globe that the tipping point has been reached: We, international civil society, demand action now against Israel’s institutional human rights abuses, especially against Palestinian children.
Let’s stand up for Ahed and all imprisoned Palestinians, by telling our national lawmakers and ministers to act, holding Israel responsible for its crimes. Let’s blow the whistle together from January 10 till 20: Free Ahed al-Tamimi | End Israeli military arrests and abuse of Palestinian Children | End Israeli apartheid and illegal occupation.
What can you do?
1.Send an email to your Members of Parliament and ministers of your government and ask them:
– to condemn Israels practice of child-detention, which is a violation of children’s rights, human rights and international law.
– to speak up for rights of Palestinian children to be guaranteed by the state of Israel and to be respected by it’s military system.
-to condemn Israel’s child abuse and to call the ambassador to account.
– to urge Israeli authorities to release immediately and unconditionally Ahed Tamimi and other political (child) prisoners.
Israel is the only country in the world that systematically detains and prosecutes children through military courts, lacking basic due process guarantees. According to Defense for Children International-Palestine, Israel prosecutes 500-700 Palestinian children in military courts annually. At this moment 450 Palestinian children are kept in military prisons by Israel, waiting extensive periods for trial, in lonely cells, ill-treated, intimidated, interrogated, often abused and harassed. We see how 16-year-old Ahed al-Tamimi, who is in jail since her abduction 19 december 2017, is brought to face military judges in shackles. According to Middleeasteye, Israel is implementing a deliberate policy to terrorise Palestinian children to dissuade them from engaging in Palestinian resistance as they grow into adulthood.
Sample Letter to your MP/Minister. Subject:
“The Arrest And Abuse Of Palestinian Children by Israel Has To Stop”
Dear MP / Minister
I am writing this letter to ask for your support in calling for an end to the detention of Palestinian children in Israeli jails, especially Ahed Tamimi who is being persecuted by the Israeli government.
On December 15th, Mohammed Tamimi, 15, has been shot in the head by Israeli Occupation Forces at close range with a rubber-coated metal bullet. Mohammed was in a critical condition and his cousin, Ahed Tamimi, 16, was visibly upset to hear of his injuries.
The same forces who shot Mohammed approached the family home of Ahed an hour later and she slapped the soldiers telling them to leave. This encounter was filmed by her mother and released on social media. The video showed the bravery of a young unarmed activist standing up to two heavily armed Israeli soldiers.
On December 19th, 2017, Ahed Tamimi was arrested by Israeli occupation forces and taken from her home and parents in the middle of the night. Ahed has appeared in military court and has been charged with 12 crimes which sees her facing a jail term of up to 12 years. Military courts are only used to try Palestinians and have a 99.74% conviction rate, so the future looks bleak without our intervention.
I am calling for you to urgently support the immediate release of Ahed Tamimi and for all charges against her to be dropped.
Unfortunately, Ahed’s case is not an isolated incident in Palestine. According to Defense of Children International – Palestine, Israel prosecutes between 500 and 700 children in military courts each year, some as young as 12, and holds on average more than 200 Palestinian children in detention at any given time.
Investigations by United Nations agencies (including UNICEF), Human Rights Watch, Bt’selem, Amnesty International and Defense for Children International – Palestine, have found evidence that:
– 3 out of 4 Palestinian children arrested experience physical violence during arrest or interrogation by Israeli soldiers
– Palestinian children are often arrested during night raids on their homes
– 85% of Palestinian children arrested were blindfolded and 95% were hand-tied, denied access to lawyers and their parents during interrogation and are coerced into signing confessions
– Palestinian children are often held in ‘administrative detention’ – children can be detained for many months without charge or trial
– Palestinian children are convicted in military courts and imprisoned in detention centres, often inside Israel outside of the occupied West Bank, making it difficult for their families to visit
Since 2016, Israeli authorities have increasingly used solitary confinement for interrogation purposes, a practice amounting to torture under international law.
In 2013, UNICEF released a report titled ‘Children in Israeli military detention: Observations and recommendations’. The report concluded that “ill-treatment of children who come into contact with the military detention system appears to be widespread, systemic and institutionalized throughout the process, from the moment of arrest until the child’s prosecution and eventual conviction and sentencing”.
Regardless of guilt or innocence, children in conflict with the law are entitled to special protections and all process rights under international human rights law and international humanitarian law. Israel agreed to and ratified the International Juvenile Justice Standards in 1991 and these demand that children should only be deprived of their liberty as a last resort, must not be unlawfully or arbitrarily detained, and must not be subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
I am calling for you to urgently contact the Israeli Ambassador and hold Israel accountable for its practices of child detention which is a violation of children’s rights, human rights and international law.
Thank you for your attention to this letter and for representing my concerns with the action you will take on behalf of Ahed and all Palestinian child prisoners.
On Monday, 8 January at 2:00 pm, a public gathering in front of the Israeli Embassy in Bratislava will call for the freedom of Ahed and Nariman Tamimi as well as all other political prioners, including child prisoners in Israei jails.
Organized by the Initiative for Just Peace in the Middle East
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V pondelok 8.1. o 14:00 sa pred izraelským velvyslanectvom v Bratislave uskutocní verejné zhromaždenie so žiadostou o prepustenie Ahed a Nariman Tamimi (Manal a Núr už boli prepustené), ako aj všetkých ostatných politických väznov, vrátane detských väznov v izraelských väzniciach.
Na území historickej Palestíny majú právo na slobodu, bezpecnost a rovnost všetci jej obyvatelia, nie len príslušníci jednej skupiny.
On December 6th Donald Trump announced his reckless decision to declare Jerusalem, a city with great significance to Muslims, Christians and Jews, as the capital of the occupying power, the state of Israel. Since then fourteen Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military, thousands have been injured and detained, including hundreds of children, for protesting.
One of these children is a sixteen year old girl named Ahed Tamimi. Ahed was filmed slapping an Israeli soldier after they had invaded her home and shot her fifteen year old cousin, Mohammad Tamimi, in the face. Ahed, her mother and another cousin have been detained without any charges.
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The unilateral decision of the US president to move their embassy from Tel Aiv to Jerusalem is an attempt to recognize the annexation of Jerusalem and its “unification” by the Israeli state and was met with the warm approval of only Netanyahu.
Ahed Tamimi, a young Palestinian, imprisoned by illegal Zionist forces of occupation, has become an international symbol of Resistance
Ahed Tamimi is a 16 year old Palestinian woman who has been arrested and charged with a range of offences, including assaulting a fully armed Israeli soldier. Her real crime is being a defiant young woman standing up for her people, the next generation of resistance.
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in New York’s Grand Central Station following a blizzard in the city on Friday, 5 January to demand freedom for imprisoned Palestinian teen activist 
Emergency Rally to 
We call for an International Week of Action for Ahed Tamimi and Palestinian political prisoners.
On Monday, 8 January at 2:00 pm, a public gathering in front of the Israeli Embassy in Bratislava will call for the freedom of Ahed and Nariman Tamimi as well as all other political prioners, including child prisoners in Israei jails.
On December 6th Donald Trump announced his reckless decision to declare Jerusalem, a city with great significance to Muslims, Christians and Jews, as the capital of the occupying power, the state of Israel. Since then fourteen Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military, thousands have been injured and detained, including hundreds of children, for protesting.
Solidarity with Jerusalem, the capital of Palestine