6 January, Glasgow: Free Ahed Tamimi – Free All Palestinian Child Prisoners

4 January 2018

Saturday, 6 January
2:00 pm
Buchanan Steps
Glasgow
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/321609941677104/

Israel automatically prosecutes children in military courts, it is the only country in the world that does this.

In 2018 around 500 Palestinian children will be arrested and detained by Israel’s military – some of these children will experience systematic ill treatment and torture.

Ahed Tamimi is only one of these children.

The Palestine Alliance is calling on all groups around Scotland to hold vigils this Saturday, 6 January 2018, in support of Ahed Tamimi and all Palestinian child prisoners.

So far the following locations and times have been confirmed – Please share event information and photographs with the hashtag #FreeChildPrisoners #BDS #StopArmingIsrael

Glasgow: 2pm at Buchanan Steps
Edinburgh: 2pm at Wellington Statue

More information:
Defense for Children Internatiknal Palestine – http://www.dci-palestine.org/issues_military_detention
Ahed Tamimi – https://samidoun.net/2017/12/free-ahed-tamimi/

Take action on 10 January: Day of Action for Palestinian Child Prisoners

3 January 2018

Wednesday, 10 January
9 am to 5 pm, your time zone
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/232884250585470/

The Arab American Civic Council is holding a day of action on Wednesday, January 10 to show Members of Congress that we will not be silent as American tax dollars are supporting the detention, interrogation, ill-treatment, and imprisonment of children in Israeli separate-and-unequal military courts.

On November 14, Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) introduced H.R. 4391: the Promoting Human Rights by Ending Israeli Military Detention of Palestinian Children Act (http://bit.ly/2AZzaDk). The bill prohibits any U.S. assistance appropriated to Israel being used to support military detention, interrogation, abuse, or ill-treatment of Palestinian children in violation of international law.

Now is the time to take action, support the bill, and send a message to our elected officials and the Trump Administration, that we will not be complicit. The bill is a step towards justice and equality for Palestinians and ensuring that American taxpayers know that human rights abuses of Palestinians are being funded through the $3.8 billion in weapons provided annually.

WHAT ARE WE ASKING?

It’s simple.

1. Call your Member of Congress at 202-224-3121
2. Say: “As your constituent, I urge you to co-sponsor H.R. 4391: the “Promoting Human Rights by Ending Israeli Military Detention of Palestinian Children Act”
3. Share on social media. Express your concern with others. Share your thoughts and use #FreeTheChildren & #NoWayToTreatAChild

Palestinian child prisoner Abdul-Khalik Burnat, 17, charged in occupation military court

3 January 2018

Palestinian child prisoner Abdul-Khalik Burnat, 17, was charged in an Israeli occupation military court on Wednesday, 3 January with 17 charges, along with his two friends seized with him by Israeli occupation forces, Hamzah Al-Khatib and Malik Rahdi.

The Ofer military court then adjourned until next Wednesday, 10 January, reported Abdul-Khalik’s father, Iyad Burnat, on Facebook. Abdul-Khalik was subjected to 24 days of interrogation before being brought before the military court, during which his detention was repeatedly extended.

While Abdul-Khalik was held under interrogation, his father Iyad and brother Majd traveled to Istanbul for surgery on Majd’s right leg, which was paralyzed after he was wounded by an Israeli occupation soldier who shot him in the leg with live ammunition during a peaceful demonstration, hitting a nerve in his leg. Abdul-Khalik’s younger brother Mohyideen Burnat was injured with tear gas on 22 December when he went to put up a poster of his older brother and his friends.

The case of Abdul-Khalik, the son of a prominent Palestinian activist, and the cases of Ahed Tamimi and her family have highlighted the imprisonment of over 300 Palestinian children by Israel. Every year, approximately 700 children face military trials and military imprisonment at the hand of Israeli occupation soldiers. Palestinian children are subject to torture and abuse under interrogation, arbitrary military trials, denial of their right to education, physical and psychological violence and imprisonment without charge or trial on a regular basis.

Israel’s impunity and gross violations of the rights of Palestinian children continue with the silence and complicity of governments around the world, including the U.S. government that not only provides $3 billion in military funding each year to the Israeli occupation state but also recently declared Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel, putting its stamp of approval on ethnic cleansing, settlement construction, land confiscation and blatant violation of international law.

Canada and Europe continue to maintain free trade pacts and association agreements with the Israeli occupation. It’s time for real international pressure to defend Palestinian children like Abdul-Khalik Burnat – and all Palestinians – from apartheid, war crimes and brutal, racist injustice.

TAKE ACTION TO FREE ABDUL-KHALIK BURNAT!

For supporters in the US: Call your member of Congress to support H.R. 4391, the Promoting Human Rights by Ending Israeli Military Detention of Palestinian Children Act. Tell them specifically about Abdul-Khalik’s case, and urge them to act for his release. Click here to tell your member of Congress to support the bill.
For international supporters: Call your government officials and demand action for Abdul-Khalik Burnat and other Palestinian child prisoners.

Call your country’s officials urgently:
Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop: + 61 2 6277 7500
Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland: +1-613-992-5234
European Union Commissioner Federica Mogherini: +32 (0) 2 29 53516
New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs Murray McCully: +64 4 439 8000
United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson: +44 20 7008 1500
United States President Donald Trump: 1-202-456-1111

Join one of the protests for Palestine, Ahed Tamimi, and Palestinian child prisoners and distribute this information about Abdul-Khalik. 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.
Write to Israeli officials to demand the release of Abdul-Khalik Burnat and fellow Palestinian child prisoners.Write a message and email or fax it to the officials below. Contact information and sample letter follow:

Contact information:

Minister of Defence
Avigdor Liberman
Ministry of Defence
37 Kaplan Street
Hakirya
Tel Aviv 61909, Israel
Fax: +972 73 323 3300
Email: minister@mod.gov.il
Salutation: Dear Minister

Minister of Justice
Ayelet Shaked
Ministry of Justice
29 Salah al-Din Street
Jerusalem, 91010, Israel
Fax: +972 2 640 8402
Email: sar@justice.gov.il
Salutation: Dear Minister

Attorney General
Avichai Mendelbilt
Ministry of Justice
29 Salah al-Din Street
Jerusalem 91010, Israel
Fax: +972 2 530 3367
Email: ClassActionFiling@justice.gov.il

Military Judge Advocate General
Brigadier General Sharon Afek
Hakirya, Tel Aviv, Israel
Fax: +972 3 569 4526
Email: Mag@idf.gov.il
Salutation: Dear Judge Advocate General

Commander of the IOF – West Bank
Major-General Roni Numa
GOC Central Command
Military Post 01149, Battalion 877
Israel Defense Forces, Israel
Fax: +972 2 530 5741, +972 2 530 5724
Salutation: Dear Major-General Roni Numa

Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan
Kiryat Hamemshala
PO Box 18182
Jerusalem 91181, Israel
Fax: +972 2 584 7872
Email: gerdan@knesset.gov.il
Salutation: Dear Minister

Sample Letter:

Dear Ministers,

I write today to demand the immediate release of Palestinian child prisoner Abdul-Khalik Burnat, the son of Iyad Burnat, nonviolent popular movement leader in the Palestinian village of Bil’in.

Abdul-Khalik and two of his friends were beaten and abducted by Israeli soldiers as they ate pizza on the evening of December 10. A dedicated high school student, Abdul-Khalik was in the middle of studying for his final exams when he was ripped away from his home and his studies.

Abdul-Khalik is 17 years old, and in his short life he has been detained and interrogated by armed Israeli soldiers, shot with a metal-coated rubber bullet, and suffered from severe traumas due to ongoing Israeli violence targeting his home village and his family.

Abdul-Khalik and his friends Hamzah Al-Khatib and Malik Rahdi are being held in Ofer military prison. They are not alone but are among approximately 300 Palestinian children held in Israeli military detention. Military detention and imprisonment of children violates their rights and creates lifelong trauma.

These boys have been targeted for nothing more than being Palestinian. I demand their immediate release.

Sincerely,

5 January, Berlin: Protest against US/Israeli actions on Jerusalem

2 January 2018

Friday, 5 January
4:00 pm
Brandenburger Tor/Pariser Platz
Berlin

The Palestinian and Arab organizations in Berlin urge all to attend a protest demonstration against the U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Samidoun urges all to attend to stand with Jerusalem and all of Palestine, including the 6,200 Palestinian political prisoners and the 300 child prisoners like Ahed Tamimi jailed by the Israeli occupation.

4 January, Paris: Free Ahed Tamimi and all Palestinian children!

2 January 2018

Thursday, 4 January
5:30 pm
Place du Chatelet to Republique
Paris
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/175380983055971/

#FreeAhed

Protest Thursday for the liberation of Ahed Tamimi and all imprisoned Palestinian children! The organizers urge all to join in large numbers in the protest on Thursday, 4 January at 5:30 pm, for the freedom of Ahed Tamimi, her mother, her cousin and all of the children imprisoned by the Israeli occupation.

The year 2018 is beginning under the signs of resistance. The extraordinary resistance of Palestinians, including the very young who are determined to defend their rights like Ahed Tamimi and her family, but also all the others who risk their lives daily because neither Netanyahu nor Trump can silence them.

First endorsers: CAPJPO-EuroPalestine, Enfants de Palestine, Droits Devant !! Association Femmes Plurielles, ISM France, Nanterre Palestine, Avec Naplouse, One Justice, Campagne européenne contre le blocus de Gaza, Collectif pour la libération de Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, Les Désobéissants, le Collectif Ni Guerre ni Etat de Guerre, Comité Israël Palestine Chateaubriant…

#FreeAhed
Manifestation jeudi pour la libération d’Ahed Tamimi et de tous les enfants palestiniens emprisonnés !

Nous vous appelons à vous joindre le plus nombreux possible à une manifestation ce jeudi 4 janvier, à partir de 17 H 30, pour la libération d’Ahed Tamimi, de sa mère, de sa cousine et de tous les enfants emprisonnés par l’occupant israélien.

Chères amies, Chers amis,
L’année 2018, que nous vous souhaitons à toutes et à tous la meilleure possible, commence sous le signe de la résistance. Cette résistance extraordinaire des Palestiniens, y compris très jeunes, qui sont déterminés à défendre leurs droits, comme la jeune Ahed Tamimi, sa famille, mais aussi tous les autres qui risquent leurs vies quotidiennement parce que ni Netanyahou, ni Trump ne peuvent les faire taire.

A leurs manifestations pacifiques, l’occupant israélien répond par toujours plus de terreur, de colonisation, de démolitions de maisons palestiniennes et d’emprisonnement d’enfants. Ces derniers sont plus de 700 à être incarcérés, en toute illégalité dans les geôles de l’occupant.

L’armée israélienne a carte blanche pour tuer, et ne cherche même plus à justifier ses crimes les plus odieux, comme celui d’Ibrahim Abu Thuriya, amputé des deux jambes suite aux bombardements israéliens de 2008-2009, et assassiné le 15 décembre dernier tandis qu’il manifestait à Gaza.

C’est le même jour, que cette même armée a quasiment laissé pour mort le petit cousin d’Ahed, Mohamed Tamimi, lui logeant une balle dans la tête lors d’une manifestation contre les déclarations de Trump. C’est au même moment qu’Ahed Tamimi, 16 ans, a tenté de repousser les soldats qui occupent en permanence sa maison et son village de Nabi Saleh.

La vidéo de sa résistance ayant fait le tour du monde, Israel veut se venger, la maintenant en détention dans des conditions éprouvantes, ainsi que sa mère et sa cousine. Netanyahou prépare contre elles un procès destiné à faire « un exemple », qui doit se dérouler le 8 janvier devant un tribunal militaire.

Les dirigeants israéliens, qui ont appelé à la marquer dans sa chair, à violer Ahed —pour avoir porté atteinte à la « virilité » de leur armée—, doivent savoir que la jeune fille et sa famille ne sont pas isolés, pas plus que les milliers d’enfants palestiniens constamment persécutés, kidnappés, torturés par l’occupant israélien.

La pétition en français lancée sur le site d’Avaaz a dépassé les 250.000 signatures en moins quelques jours seulement. Et nous vous invitons à continuer de la signer et faire signer : https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/fr/free_ahed_mor_fb1/

Mais cela ne suffit pas ! Nous devons manifester dans toutes les villes de France, comme c’est le cas dans le reste du monde pour la libération d’Ahed, de sa famille, et celle des centaines d’enfants palestiniens emprisonnés.

A PARIS, ET AVEC DE NOMBREUSES AUTRES ASSOCIATIONS,
NOUS VOUS DONNONS RENDEZ-VOUS :
CE JEUDI 4 JANVIER, À PARTIR DE 17 H 30
A LA PLACE DU CHÂTELET, POUR DÉFILER JUSQU’À LA PLACE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE
NOUS COMPTONS SUR VOTRE PRÉSENCE MASSIVE !

Premiers signataires : CAPJPO-EuroPalestine, Enfants de Palestine, Droits Devant !! Association Femmes Plurielles, ISM France, Nanterre Palestine, Avec Naplouse, One Justice, Campagne européenne contre le blocus de Gaza, Collectif pour la libération de Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, Les Désobéissants, le Collectif Ni Guerre ni Etat de Guerre, Comité Israël Palestine Chateaubriant…

Nour Tamimi remains imprisoned as Israeli military prosecution files appeal

2 January 2018

Nour Tamimi, the cousin of Ahed Tamimi who was scheduled to be released on bail today after being charged by an Israeli military court on 1 January, instead remains imprisoned after occupation military prosecutors appealed her release.

According to Naji Tamimi, Nour’s father, the military prosecution filed the appeal on 2 January, minutes before Nour was to be released; a military appeals court hearing will be held in the coming days. Nour, 21, was seized by occupation forces a day after Ahed and her mother Nariman; she is charged with Ahed for confronting occupation soldiers on their family’s land outside their home in the village of Nabi Saleh shortly after their cousin Mohammed, 14, was shot in the head with a rubber-coated metal bullet by occupation forces, critically injuring him.

Nour, Ahed, Nariman and the rest of the Tamimi family are leaders in the Palestinian indigenous anti-colonial popular resistance and land defense movement in Nabi Saleh, a village of 600 Palestinians targeted and encircled by the illegal Israeli settlement of Halamish, which has stolen the village’s land and even its spring.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network denounces the ongoing imprisonment of Ahed, Nariman, Nour and Manal 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, Nour, Nariman and Manal 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 the Tamimi women or join one of the protests being organized in cities like New York , Los Angeles and Manchester 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, her cousin Nour, and the other detained children be immediately released. Contact infomation here: https://embassy.goabroad.com/embassies-of/israel
Sign the petition. Over 150,000 people have already signed on to demand freedom for Ahed: https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/free_ahed/?feiNukb
Write to Ahed, Nour, Nariman and Manal. 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, Nour Tamimi, Manal 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

Khalida Jarrar among 41 Palestinians ordered imprisoned without charge or trial

2 January 2018

The Israeli occupation military courts confirmed 41 more administrative detention orders against Palestinian political prisoners in the latter half of December 2017. There are currently over 450 Palestinians imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention orders.

Administrative detention orders are indefinitely renewable and are issued for one to six months at a time. Palestinians have spent years consecutively jailed with no charge and no trial under repeatedly renewed administrative detention orders. An artifact of the British colonial mandate over Palestine, Israeli administrative detention orders are used systematically to target community leaders and Palestinian activists.

Among the Palestinians subject to administrative detention orders in late December was Khalida Jarrar, the prominent Palestinian leftist leader and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, whose imprisonment without charge or trial was renewed for an additional six months.

Also among the Palestinian prisoners whose detention was renewed were two former long-term hunger strikers, Akram al-Fassisi and Anas Shadid. The detention of Fassisi, 34, was renewed for the fourth time for four months; he has been imprisoned without charge or trial since 19 September 2016 – only months after his prior release, also from administrative detention without charge or trial. During previous administrative detentions, he won his freedom in two lengthy hunger strikes. Shadid, 21, was also subject to another six-month administrative detention order. Detained for nine months without charge or trial, he won his release after an 88-day hunger strike in May 2017. He was re-arrested only 27 days after his release, on 14 June, and ordered jailed once more without charge or trial.

The following Palestinian prisoners were subject to administrative detention orders:

1. Mujahid Abdel-Qader Abdel-Fattah, Ramallah, 6 months, new order
2. Jihad Mohammed Suleiman, Ramallah, 3 months, new order
3. Mohammed Ahmed Shehadeh, Ramallah, 6 months, extension
4. Ibrahim Nasser Hammad, Ramallah, 4 months, extension
5. Mohammed Mahmoud Sahwil, Ramallah, 4 months, new order
6. Aseed Mohammed Mualla, Nablus, 4 months, extension
7. Mahmoud Mohammed Muteir, Jerusalem, 6 months, new order
8. Yazan Mohammed Tari, Jerusalem, 6 months, new order
9. Qais Fuad Kharma, Ramallah, 4 months, extension
10. Seif al-Deen Mahmoud Salameh, Jenin, 6 months, extension
11. Thaer Said Abu Roumim, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
12. Khalil Walid Suleiman, Nablus, 4 months, extension
13. Tamer Abdel-Karim Haj Ali, Nablus, 6 months, extension
14. Iyad Habib Mohammed, Bethlehem, 4 months, extension
15. Yousef Abed Rabbo Kawazbeh, al-Khalil, 6 months, extension
16. Mohammed Mahmoud Husseiniya, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
17. Tawfiq Faisal Nazzal, Jenin, 6 months, new order
18. As’ad Mohammed Marahil, Nablus, 4 months, extension
19. Ibrahim Issa Mansour, Ramallah, 4 months, new order
20. Mamoun Jamal Hamdan, al-Khalil, 6 months, new order
21. Suleiman Abdel-Karim Aghouz, Bethlehem, 4 months, extension
22. Mahmoud Farhan al-Dariyah, Bethlehem, 4 months, new order
23. Omar Ayed Taqatqa, Ramallah, 6 months, new order
24. Akram al-Fassisi, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
25. Basil Khaled Dweikat, Nablus, 4 months, new order
26. Mohammed Taleb Shawawreh, Bethlehem, 4 months, extension
27. Ayman Naim Mar’i, Ramallah, 4 months, extension
29. Khalida Kanaan Jarrar, Ramallah, 6 months, extension
30. Hashem Abdel-Qader Hijaz, Ramallah, 4 months, extension
31. Shadi Fayez Nammoura, al-Khalil, 6 months, new order
32. Mohammed Ahmed Salah, Tulkarem, 6 months, new order
33. Hussein Mohammed Mardawi, Nablus, 6 months, extension
34. Baraa Musa Zahiman, Nablud, 6 months, new order
35. Anas Ibrahim Shadid, al-Khalil, 6 months, extension
36. Yousef Faris Abu Arqoub, al-Khalil, 3 months, new order
37. Salah Awad al-Jawarish, Bethlehem, 6 months, new order
38. Murad Walid Malaisha, Jenin, 4 months, extension
39. Mujahid Ahmed Abu al-Izz, Jenin, 2 months, new order
40. Saud al-Araj, Ramallah, 4 months, extension
41. Suleiman Akram Abu Salha, Nablus, 6 months, extension

Marah al-Jaidi, 16, on her release: Work for freedom for Palestinian women and child prisoners

2 January 2018

Released Palestinian child prisoner Marah al-Jaidi, 16, had an interview with Asra Voice Radio in Palestine after her release on Monday, 1 January. Speaking about the conditions for Palestinian prisoners, especially the women and girls held in HaSharon prison, she emphasized that they are demanding their freedom and must be supported.

The prisoners suffer from very harsh and difficult conditions, Marah said, especially inside the “bosta” bus used for transporting prisoners, which takes hours and even days due to frequent stops, is uncomfortable and harmful to the sick prisoners and where the Palestinian political prisoners, including child prisoners, are combined with Israeli “criminal” prisoners who often subject the Palestinians to racist abuse.

She said that many of the prisoners do not communicate with lawyers and are barred from family visits by the prison administration. She urged the world to act to release the child prisoners, of which there are more than 300 held in Israeli prisons, including Ahed Tamimi, 16, the youth activist targeted for arrest from the village of Nabi Saleh, and children arrested from the age of 12 years old, like Shadi Farrah.

Marah, from Qalqilya, was imprisoned for nearly one year; she was seized on 29 January 2017 and accused of possession of a knife and intention to carry out a stabbing against occupation soldiers.

Twelve Palestinian parliamentarians jailed by Israeli occupation

2 January 2018

Israeli occupation forces continued their ongoing campaigns of raids and arrests targeting the Palestinian civilian population under occupation as the new year dawned on 1 January 2018, including the seizure of Palestinian Legislative Council member Nasser Abdel-Jawad in a pre-dawn raid on his home in the village of Deir Ballut near Salfit. Abdel-Jawad, 50, is now the 12th Palestinian parliamentarian jailed by Israeli occupation forces, just days after the Israeli military issued a second six-month detention order against leftist parliamentarian and Palestinian national leader Khalida Jarrar.

Abdel-Jawad returned from abroad two weeks ago after completing his Ph.D. in Malaysia, reported Asra Voice radio. He is a member of the PLC representing the Change and Reform Bloc associated with the Hamas movement. He previously spent over 16 years in Israeli prisons.

Fellow PLC member Hassan Yousef was also recently re-arrested on 12 December after being released for only three months from his prior imprisonment without charge or trial.

Ahmed Attoun, Mohammed Jamal al-Natsheh, Mohammed Abu Teir, Mohammed Badr, Ibrahim Dahbour, Ahmad Mubarak, all of the Change and Reform Bloc, are held without charge or trial under administrative detention, while Azzam Salhab was sentenced by a military court to one year in Israeli occupation prisons.

Ahmad Sa’adat, the imprisoned General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and Marwan Barghouthi, the Fateh Central Committee member, are both imprisoned members of the PLC; Sa’adat was sentenced to 30 years in prison after he and his comrades were seized from a Palestinian Authority prison while Barghouthi is serving multiple life sentences. Both are among the most prominent Palestinian political leaders imprisoned in Israeli jails.

6 January, Los Angeles: Women’s Rally to Free Ahed and all Palestinian Child Prisoners

1 January 2018

Saturday, 6 January
12:00 pm
11766 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1964691983857410/

Emergency Women’s Rally to #FreeAhedTamimi and All Palestinian Child Prisoners!

WHEN: NOON – 2PM on Saturday, Jan 6th
WHERE: Consulate General of Israel, 11766 Wilshire Blvd, West Los Angeles, CA 90025 (near Wilshire and Barrington)

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 14 Palestinians have been killed to date, by the Israeli military, thousands have been injured and detained, including hundreds of children, for protesting.

One of these children is 16-year-old girl named Ahed Tamimi. Ahed was filmed slapping an Israeli soldier after they had invaded her home and shot her 15-year-old cousin, Mohammad Tamimi, in the face. Ahed, her mother and another cousin have been detained without any charges.

Please join LA4Palestine, Al-Awda: Coalition for Palestinian Right of Return, Jews for Palestinian Right of Return, Me Too March International, Idle No More So-Cal, ANSWER Coalition, March and Rally LA, California for Progress, CODEPINK: Women for Peace, Labor for Palestine, International Action Center, BDS LA for Justice in Palestine and others TBA.

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