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.
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 Yousefwas 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.
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.
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Palestinian teen and youth activist Ahed Tamimi, 16, whose arrest and detention by the Israeli occupation military has drawn worldwide attention, was charged in an Israeli military court with multiple allegations on Monday, 1 January. Her mother, Nariman, was also charged with several allegations related to the Tamimi family’s anti-occupation organizing and expression; the detention of both Ahed and her mother was extended for an additional eight days, until next Monday, when the military court will convene again.
Photo: Khaled Tabasha – Facebook
Ahed was charged with “assault” for slapping an Israeli occupation soldier outside of her home in Nabi Saleh – after the soldier slapped her – and for “threatening a soldier…interfering with a soldier in carrying out his duties, incitement, and throwing objects at individuals or property.” Nariman Tamimi was charged with “incitement” on social media for streaming Ahed’s encounter with the occupation soldiers at the family home in Nabi Saleh on Facebook Live and for her other political expression on social media, as well as assaulting soldiers. The Tamimi women and their family are leaders in the anti-colonial land defense and popular resistance movement in the Palestinian village of 600. The village is surrounded by the illegal settlement of Halamish, which has stolen the village’s land and even its spring.
The incident itself took place shortly after Mohammed Tamimi, 14, Ahed’s and Nour’s cousin, was shot by an Israeli occupation soldier invading their village with a rubber–coatled metal bullet. Mohammed was in a medically induced coma in critical condition for several days and is now released from the hospital after a six-hour operation by seven surgeons on his face and head.
Photo: Khaled Tabasha – Facebook
Nour Tamimi, 21, Ahed’s cousin, was also indicted by the Israeli occupation military court on Sunday, 31 December; she was initially ordered released on bail, then remained in prison due to an appeal by the military prosecution. On Monday, she was ordered released once more, but the decision was stayed for 20 hours to give the occupation military prosecution time to appeal once again. Nour is accused of “aggravated assault on a soldier” and “interference with a soldier.” She is being ordered to present herself every Friday to an Israeli police station, potentially intended to deter her from participating in Nabi Saleh’s weekly protests.
Meanwhile, Manal Tamimi was arrested by the Israeli occupation on Thursday, 29 December as she protested outside the Israeli occupation military court in Ofer. On Monday, 1 January, she was ordered released on Tuesday, but with the order stayed in order to give the military prosecution, once again, time to appeal.
It should be noted that Ahed is refusing to answer questions during interrogation or speak with the interrogators, emphasizing her commitment to sumoud (steadfastness) under interrogation and refusal to cooperate with or confess to the occupation. There is a long tradition of Palestinian resistance to interrogation and refusal to confess or provide information.
Ahed has become internationally known for her defense of Palestinian rights under occupation, including her defense of her younger brother when he was seized by an occupation soldier and regular protests against land confiscation targeting Nabi Saleh and other villages around Ramallah. She has spoken internationally, including in Turkey, South Africa, and in the European Parliament in a conference earlier this year on women in Palestinian resistance, where she spoke alongside Leila Khaled, Sahar Francis and several members of parliament.
Bassem Tamimi, Ahed’s father and Nariman’s husband, wrote a piece in Ha’aretz about his daughter’s case and participation in struggle from a young age despite her and her family’s desire to enjoy childhood. “My daughter is just 16 years old. In another world, in your world, her life would look completely different. In our world, Ahed is a representative of a new generation of our people, of young freedom fighters. This generation has to wage its struggle on two fronts. On the one hand, they have the duty, of course, to keep on challenging and fighting the Israeli colonialism into which they were born, until the day it collapses. On the other hand, they have to boldly face the political stagnation and degeneration that has spread among us. They have to become the living artery that will revive our revolution and bring it back from the death entailed in a growing culture of passivity that has arisen from decades of political inactivity.”
Daily Twitterstorms organized by the Facebook page Free the Tamimi Women have highlighted the cases of Ahed, Nariman, Manal and Nour. The Twitterstorms are continuing on a daily basis, with the hashtag released at the time of the Twitterstorm; the storms take place at 10 am Pacific time/1 pm Eastern time/6 pm UK time/7 pm Central Europe time/8 pm Palestine time.
International protests in New York, Berlin, Brussels, Milan and elsewhere have highlighted the cases of the Tamimi women, including Ahed’s case and that o other Palestinian children targeted for persecution by the Israeli occupation in military courts with a conviction rate of over 99 percent. Protests are being organized in the coming days, on 5 January in New York and 6 January in Manchester, to demand freedom for Ahed, the Tamimi women and their fellow Palestinian prisoners. In Argentina, a collective of organizations dedicated a mural to Ahed Tamimi:
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 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 New York and Manchesterand 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, Nour 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, Nour 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
Protest against Israel’s detainment and torture of Palestinian children in Israeli jails!
Israel has just charged 16 year old Ahed Tamimi, a young Palestinian girl who spent the Christmas period and New Year in Israeli prison and remains imprisoned by an illegal occupying force. Since she was 9 years old Ahed, along with her family and community have faced up to the Israeli soldiers during protests against Israel’s seizure of their land and only water source in their village Nabi Saleh. Right now she remains in an Israeli prison cell for challenging Israeli soldiers in her own court yard, the same day her fifteen year old cousin had earlier been shot in the face and was sitting in an induced coma in hospital. Her mother Nariman and cousins have also been detained.
Arrests and detainments of Palestinian children is child abuse and one of the horrors of Israel’s decades-long military occupation of Palestine. Over 483 children were detained in Israeli jails in 2017 and in October 2017, 8 out of 40 Palestinian children arrested were subject to torture.
Resisting Israel’s brutal and illegal military occupation of Palestine is a duty not a crime. Join the Protest in Manchester this Saturday and call for the release of all Palestinian child prisoners and all Palestinian political prisoners. End Israel’s take over of Jerusalem and all of Palestine!
Emergency Rally to #FreeAhedTamimi and all Prisoners of Israel
WHEN: 5:30-7pm Friday Jan. 5, 2018
WHERE: Grand Central Station, New York City
On December 19, Israel arrested 16-year-old girl Ahed Tamimi. They have 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 the Israeli army, not the women and girls of Palestine, who are the criminals. We call for immediate freedom for Ahed Tamimi and all Palestinian prisoners of Israel.
Organized by: Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, CODEPINK: Women for Peace, NYC Students for Justice in Palestine, NY4Palestine, Al-Awda NY, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, NY4Palestine, International Action Center, Jews for Palestinian Right of Return, Labor for Palestine, Committee to Stop FBI Repression NYC, American Muslims for Palestine NY and NJ and the ANSWER Coalition.
Rally to support the Palestinian people and Jerusalem, the capital of Palestine against the statement of Donald Trump on the U.S. designating it the capital of Israel.
Jerusalem will always be the capital of Palestine – Total and unconditional support to the Palestinian resistance – Commemorate 9 years of the assault on Gaza, “Operation Cast Lead” – Freedom for all Palestinian prisoners
Saturday, 30 December 4:00 pm Rathaus Neukolln, Karl-Marx-Str 83 Berlin
The Palestinian National Action Committee in Berlin calls on all freedom-loving people to join our protest demonstration against the American recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and for the Palestinian people.
Protest for Palestine and against the US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, organized by Palestinian women and Palestinian and Arab organizations.
The Israeli occupation military issued an order extending the arbitrary administrative detention of Palestinian parliamentarian and national leader Khalida Jarrar for an additional six months on Wednesday, 27 December 2017, four days before her detention was to expire. Jarrar was seized by occupation soldiers who invaded her home in El-Bireh on 2 July 2017. A well-known Palestinian leader, Jarrar is a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, head of its Prisoners’ Committee and Vice-Chair of the Board of Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association.
Jarrar is one of 11 Palestinian parliamentarians imprisoned by the Israeli occupation, most of them jailed – like her – without charge or trial under administrative detention. She is one of three Palestinian women currently held in administrative detention, along with Khadija Ruba’i and journalist Bushra al-Tawil. There are a total of over 450 Palestinians imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention and over 6,100 total Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails.
Administrative detention is an artifact of the British colonial mandate over Palestine that allows the Israeli military to arbitrarily imprison Palestinians with no charge and no trial. It is frequently used to target community leaders like Jarrar, and its widespread and systematic use stands in violation of the Geneva Conventions and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Protests and statements from around the world, including from political parties and the South African government, have urged Jarrar’s immediate release. She has been subject to repeated and ongoing attacks by the Israeli occupation, including the attempt to forcibly displace her to Jericho from her Ramallah home in 2014, followed by her arrest and imprisonment in 2015. She was also ordered to six months in administrative detention then; however, following an international outcry, the administrative detention order against her was cancelled and she was instead ordered to the no less unjust Israeli military courts, sentenced on political charges and jailed until June 2016.
This latest renewal of Jarrar’s administrative detention comes hand in hand with the detention of over 500 Palestinians since the imperial Trump declaration by U.S. President Donald Trump purporting to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The mass arrests, including the targeting of youth activist Ahed Tamimi and former long-term hunger striker Khader Adnan, are an attempt to suppress the Palestinian people’s resistance to injustice and emerging uprising. This is part and parcel of an Israeli strategy that aims to deny the Palestinian people their active, principled leadership at a critical time of mobilization.
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Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges international mobilization and action to demand the immediate release of Khalida Jarrar, prominent Palestinian parliamentarian, leftist and feminist leader committed to the freedom and liberation of her people. This is a clear attempt to continue the systematic suppression of Palestinian popular movements through arrests and attempted intimidation by an armed occupation force with the clear backing of U.S. imperial power.
We urge all friends of Palestine and the Palestinian people to join us in reactivating the Khalida Jarrar Solidarity Campaign. The detention of Khalida Jarrar represents an attack on the leaders, the political activity and the popular organizing of the Palestinian people. It must be met with intensified solidarity to demand the freedom of Khalida Jarrar and all of the thousands of Palestinian prisoners behind bars in Israeli occupation prisons.
Take Action to support Khalida Jarrar:
1. Contact your Member of Parliament, Representative, or Member of European Parliament. The attack on Khalida is an attack on Palestinian parliamentary legitimacy and political expression and a violation of parliamentary immunity. Parliamentarians have a responsibility to pressure Israel to cancel this order.
2. Use the Campaign Resources to inform your community, parliamentarians and others about Khalida’s case.
3.Protest at the Israeli consulate or embassy for Khalida Jarrar or join one of the many protests for Jerusalemand distribute this post and other news about Khalida and the Palestinian prisoners. Go to a public square or find your nearest Israeli embassy here: https://embassy.goabroad.com/embassies-of/israel
4. Write to Khalida and show your support. 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 Khalida Jarrar at: HaSharon prison
Ben Yehuda, P.O. Box 7
40 330 Israel
5. Boycott, Divest and Sanction. Hold Israel accountable for its violations of international law. Don’t buy Israeli goods, and campaign to end investments in corporations that profit from the occupation like HP and G4S. Learn more at bdsmovement.net.
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.
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
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