Friday, 22 December
10:15 am
Salon de Plenos (C/ Grupo Escolar, 2)
Rivas, Spain
This public street-theater performance by Pallasos en Rebeldia (Clowns in Rebellion) will simulate the checkpoints where Israeli occupation forces threaten Palestinians daily. Organized by Izquierda Unida, Equo, #SomosRivas
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network joins the collective call to action for protests and international mobilizations on Friday, 22 December in solidarity with Ahed Tamimi and other Palestinian child prisoners and demanding their immediate release. We urge organizations to join in the call for action, republished below. Sign on at the Google Form.
Posters and Flyers | Call to Action
Events are already being organized in cities around the world, including: a protest in New York City on 22 December and actions in London and Manchester on 23 December, as well as protests for Palestine on 22 and 23 December in Montreal, Berlin, Brussels, Athens and Milan that will include calls for freedom for Ahed Tamimi and all Palestinian prisoners. See the full list of demonstrations: https://samidoun.net/2017/12/global-protests-demand-u-s-and-zionist-hands-off-jerusalem-the-capital-of-palestine/
We will add additional events to the list as we become aware of them! Please email us at samidoun@samidoun.net or message us on Facebook to let us know about your protests for the Day of Action and for Palestine.
The following posters and flyers can be used by organizers planning actions to support Ahed Tamimi, Nariman Tamimi, Nour Tamimi and other Palestinian prisoners.
Download flyer for distribution (1/2 letter page – PDF)
Republished from: https://nycsjp.wordpress.com/2017/12/20/demand-an-end-to-child-detention-free-ahed-tamimi-and-all-palestinian-political-prisoners/
On Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 at 4 AM EEST 16-year old Ahed Tamimi, youth leader and daughter of activists Nariman and Bassem Tamimi, was abducted from her home in Nabi Saleh in the West Bank during a pre-dawn raid carried out by Israeli Occupation Forces. According to Bassem, at least 30 soldiers were involved in the raid and Ahed’s arrest. During the raid, occupation forces assaulted multiple members of the Tamimi family, including Nariman and Ahed’s 14-year old brother, and confiscated their cell phones and computers. Later in the day, after learning that Ahed was being held at a police station near Jabaa village, Nariman traveled there to be present for her daughter’s interrogation, only to be arrested by occupation forces upon arrival.
Tuesday’s raid and Ahed and Nariman’s arrests follow on the heels of Ahed’s 14-year-old cousin, Mohammad, being shot in the face with a rubber bullet by IOF on Friday during a protest in Nabi Saleh. Mohammad was put in a medically induced coma for 72 hours and remains in critical condition. A video posted on Facebook by Bassem Tamimi on Friday shows Ahed and Nariman blocking two israeli soldiers from entering their home after occupation forces had just shot Mohammad in the face and fired tear-gas canisters directly at their home, breaking several windows.
The Tamimi family is no stranger to brutal Zionist oppression, as family members have been regularly harassed, detained, beaten, and shot by IOF countless times over the years, targeted for their leading role in organizing weekly protests in the village of Nabi Saleh to demand the end of Israeli encroachment on their lands. According to members of the Tamimi family, Nabi Saleh has been raided on a near nightly basis for the past three months. Bassem, Ahed’s father, has been detained at least 11 times by Israeli authorities and has spent over three years in administrative detention without charge or trial. Israel uses administrative detention to incarcerate Palestinians indefinitely and without ever revealing what the allegations are. Under administrative detention, Palestinians can be detained and re-detained indefinitely, a method used to neutralize political action. There are currently over 450 Palestinians in Administrative detention. Mass incarceration of indigenous peoples is a consistent strategy in the toolbox of colonizers, practiced to neutralize effective political actors and normalize the abduction and torture of sisters, mothers, brothers, fathers, children and comrades. However, history has shown that Palestinians and nationally oppressed have resisted this formula and created their own: one that demands resistance in all its forms in the face of repression.
In the words of Bassem,
Ahed is one of 311 Palestinian child prisoners in Israeli jails as of November 2017. Israeli Occupation Forces regularly abduct, arrest, and abuse Palestinian children and torture them while in custody. On the evening of December 10, 17-year-old Abd al-Khaliq Burnat, son of activist Iyad Burnat, and two of his friends, Hamzah Al-Khatib and Malik Radhiwas, were abducted by occupation forces while they were out getting pizza. And just days prior on December 7, a photo of 16-year-old Fawzi al-Junaidi went viral in which he is seen blindfolded and handcuffed, surrounded by nearly twenty occupation forces. He now faces charges of throwing stones at israeli soldiers in military court. These are just some of the 450+ Palestinians, over 130 of them children, who have been abducted by Israeli forces since the US administration under Trump recognized Palestinian Al-Quds (Jerusalem) as the capital of the settler-colonial occupier state of Israel. This symbolic assault on Palestinian sovereignty has validated and further emboldened the Zionist entity to continue their unchecked hostility towards Palestinians.
The arrest of Ahed Tamimi is not an isolated incident, but rather follows suit with Israel’s policies and increased attacks on Palestinians since Trump’s announcement on Jerusalem. As Palestinians continue to mobilize in light of this decision, and for all issues that occur as a result of it, it is imperative that the international community condemns all efforts by Israel to stifle Palestinian resistance. Israel’s attempts to silence and instill fear in Palestinian youth, must be met with outrage, while extending full support to targeted Palestinians so they are not demoralized.
We stand against the imprisonment of all Palestinians, especially Palestinain children. We believe all occupied people have a right to resist their occupation by all means necessary. We stand by the Tamimi family in this difficult time and salute their struggle in their firm resistance against Zionist aggression.
#FreeAhedTamimi #HandsOffJerusalem #Right2Resist
We are calling for individuals and groups to show solidarity by signing onto this statement and distributing it amongst your networks. You can sign on by filling out this google form. We are also calling for:
If you are unable to do either, US residents can call their local representative and encourage them to sponsor the #NoWayToTreatAChild campaign and H.R. 4391, the Promoting Human Rights by Ending Israeli Military Detention of Palestinian Children Act as well as urge them to demand the release of the Tamimi family and all Palestinian political prisoners.
For those internationally, demand an end to the treatment of Palestinians who are rightfully resisting colonization, and demand for the release of the Tamimi family and all Palestinian political prisoners. Call your government officials to demand the release of the Tamimi family and all Palestinian political prisoners.
On Monday, 18 December, organizers in New York City protested outside the Best Buy electronics store in Union Square to demand freedom for Abdul-Khalik Burnat, a 17-year-old Palestinian from the village of Bil’in seized by the Israeli occupation on 10 December 2017. Abdul-Khalik was arrested with his two friends, Hamzah al-Khatib and Malik Rahdi; the three boys are now facing charges before an Israeli military court with an over 99 percent conviction rate, accused of “damaging” the Israeli apartheid wall.
The protest was organized by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network and a number of activists with Al-Awda NY, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, who have been actively organizing around Abdul-Khalik’s case and demanding his freedom, including holding a letter-writing night and distributing a global action alert highlighting his unjust arrest and the detention of over 300 other Palestinian child prisoners.
Participants in the demonstration also highlighted the global call for boycott of Hewlett-Packard (HP) products, many of which are sold by Best Buy, including laptop computers, tablets, printers and printer accessories, because of HP corporations’ involvement in profiteering from, maintaining and developing the IT infrastructure of Israeli colonization, apartheid and occupation. HP corporations maintain databases for the Israel Prison Service, provides IT support for the Israeli occupation navy that attacks Palestinian fishers and imposes the naval siege on Gaza, and developed the Israeli ID card system used at checkpoints and the apartheid wall to repress Palestinian lives.
Demonstrators distributed leaflets and information about the case of Abdul-Khalik and other child prisoners as well as HP’s involvement and complicity in Israeli war crimes and human rights violations. They noted a marked uptick in strong expressions of support and solidarity from passers-by and New Yorkers on the street, many of whom expressed their outrage at U.S. President Donald Trump’s declaration purporting to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, a declaration that has inspired a Palestinian upsurge of demonstrations and protest and global censure and which underlines the destructive, imperial role of the U.S. in the region.
Sophie from Al-Awda presented a statement:
“We are here today for Abdul Khalik Burnat, a Palestinian minor detained and tortured by Israeli military forces for absolutely no reason except for the fact that he is Palestinian.
Abdul-Khalik was enthusiastically preparing for state exams for the completion of high school, when he and two friends (Hamzah Al-Khatib and Malik Rahdi) were suddenly abducted and detained by Israeli occupation forces while getting pizza during a study break on December 10, 2017.
Abdul Khalik was also targeted because his father, Iyad Burnat, is a well-known activist that leads weekly nonviolent demonstrations that expose Israel’s illegal atrocities against the Palestinian people:
Atrocities that include the depopulation of the Palestinian people, expansion of illegal settlements, checkpoints, home demolitions, mass incarceration, targeting of children, the apartheid wall etc.
Israel doesn’t want you to know their crimes! Israel wants to continue the genocide of the Palestinian people in silence and in secrecy! Imprisonment, torture, abuse and death are the consequences of talking against their occupation and their settler-colonial apartheid!
And in turn, Your silence consents to the imprisonment and murder of Palestinian children!”
Ruwayda from Al-Awda also emphasized the importance of organizing for Abdul-Khalik and fellow imprisoned and detained Palestinians:
“Unfortunately, Abdul-Khalik’s story is all too common. Every year, over 700 Palestinian 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.
It is up to us to stand up against these brutal violations and abuses against Palestinians held in Israeli prisons! This is nothing new! Israel has been doing this to us since it was created! It is up to us to stand up and take action for minors & children who constantly face danger with the risk of being abducted by Israeli terrorist forces! They know our youth are the future and that’s why they are heavily targeted. Israel is scared of our children!
Free Palestine! Free Abdul-Khalik Burnat! Free all Palestinian prisoners!”
Samidoun in New York will not be organizing its regular Monday protests on 25 December or 1 January, Christmas and New Year’s Day. However, the Israeli occupation has not stopped its attacks on Palestinian children or the Palestinian people as a whole, of course – and response and protest are necessary.
Prominent teen activist Ahed Tamimi, like Abdul-Khalik from a village targeted for land confiscation and settlement construction, was seized by Israeli occupation forces from her home in a pre-dawn raid in the village of Nabi Saleh on 19 December, sparking Palestinian and international protest. Samidoun will be joining with the NY 4 Palestine Coalition, NYC Students for Justice in Palestine, Al-Awda NY and a number of other organizations to protest on Friday, 22 December to demand freedom for Palestinian child prisoners, including Ahed Tamimi and Abdul-Khalik Burnat, and encourages all supporters of Palestine to join the NYC demonstration on Friday or participate in events in their own localities and cities for the Day of Action.
Saturday, 23 December
12:00 pm
Piccadilly Gardens
Manchester
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/202387466986443/
Take to the streets with Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! (FRFI) Manchester,Manchester Boycott Israel Group – Victory to Palestine! and other supporters to campaign for social justice in Britain and internationally.
– We demand an end to austerity, the policy of poverty and cutbacks supported by all of Britain’s main parties, leaving thousands homeless and crippled by debt.
– We call for an end to racist immigration controls. We demand justice and freedom for the Palestinian people, including Ahed Tamimi, locked up this week by the British backed Israeli occupation.
– And we call for an end to British warmongering around the world.
Join us and build a new movement to save humanity and the planet from capitalist greed, war and racism.
Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!
Friday, 22 December
4:30 pm
Union Square North (17th St., across from Barnes & Noble)
New York City
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/499878070395125/
Join the NY4Palestine coalition as we rally to demand the release of Ahed + Nariman Tamimi and all Palestinian child prisoners!
In the last 36 hours israeli occupation forces (IOF) abducted 16 year-old Ahed Tamimi, arrested her parents Nariman and Bassem when they rushed to her defense in israeli detention, and detained Ahed’s cousin Nour,a 21-year-old journalist. We condemn the targeted arrests of members of the Tamimi family in Nabi Saleh by IOF and the detention and abuse of Palestinian children.
In the aftermath of President Trump’s Jerusalem announcement, over 450 Palestinians have been arrested by occupation forces, 138 of them children, including Abd al-Khaliq Burnat, son of activist Iyad Burnat, and two of his friends, Hamzah Al-Khatib and Malik Radhiwas. We call on all organizations that support the Palestinian struggle for liberation to mobilize in defense of all of the Palestinian children who are currently being detained by the settler zionist state and to join us Friday as we demand their release.
Co-Hosts:
NYC Students for Justice in Palestine
NY4Palestine Coalition
Palestinian Youth Movement: NYC
Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
American Muslims for Palestine NJ Chapter
American Muslims for Palestine NY Chapter
Al-Awda NY
#FreeAhedTamimi
#FreeNarimanTamimi
#FreeBassemTamimi
#FreeNourTamimi
#RightToResist
#JerusalemIsTheCapitalOfPa
Bassem Tamimi, Palestinian human rights defender and the father of detained Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi, was released late at night on 20 December after being seized by Israeli occupation forces himself in the morning as he attended his daughter’s hearing at the Ofer military court, according to his Facebook post. Ahed was seized in the pre-dawn hours of 19 December from her family home and the Tamimis’ computers, phones and other electronics were confiscated by occupation soldiers.
Ahed’s mother, Nariman Tamimi, was detained later in the morning on 19 December after she was called to the “Benjamin” police station near Jaba village. Both Ahed and Nariman remain jailed; Nariman will be brought for a hearing in military court tomorrow, 21 December, and Ahed’s detention was extended until Monday, 25 December at the earliest. Bassem has previously been detained 11 times and spent 3 years in administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial; he was recognized by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience.
This came one day after both Ahed and then her mother were arrested by occupation forces following attacks on them in Israeli media for protesting and defending their land from Israeli occupation soldiers who had shot another local boy, 14-year-old Mohammed Tamimi, in the head with a rubber-coated metal bullet.
In overnight, violent raids, occupation forces seized a cousin of the family, Nour Tamimi, 21, from her family home in Nabi Saleh. This means that Ahed and both of her parents, Nariman and Bassem – all of whom are leading land defenders in Nabi Saleh – are currently seized by the Israeli occupation forces.
Thousands of people around the world have already responded to the call for action against this injustice. We urge you to continue to mobilize and take action to free the Tamimi family and all the Palestinians targeted by the Israeli occupation for imprisonment and detention.
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:
Saturday, 23 December
1:00 pm
Marks and Spencer
458 Oxford St, London
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1782307218447476/
Join us for a protest outside M&S to expose British companies collaborating with Israeli apartheid! Support the Palestinian uprising, call for the release of Ahed Tamimi and all Palestinian political prisoners! #BDS #Intifada#Palestine #HandsOffJerusalem
There is also another action being organized in London to protest for the release of Ahed, Nariman and Nour Tamimi and all Palestinian prisoners. Participants in this action will be joining the second protest as well:
Saturday, 23 December
Free Ahed, Nariman and Nour Tamimi
2:00 pm
Trafalgar Square
London
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/135683673777625/
This is an event to SUPPORT Ahed Tamimi, a Palestinian child activist, 16 years old, who was kidnapped at 4am on Tuesday 19 December and beaten up by the zionist soldiers. 30 of the zionist soldiers confiscated the family’s phones, laptops and computers, and when her Mum Nariman attempted to hug Ahed, she was shoved to the ground by the zionist soldiers, and they refused for any of the members of Ahed’s family to follow her outside. Later in the afternoon, her mum went to visit her in the Jerusalem district of the west bank, where she was also arrested. The Tamimi family have always been suffering from the zionist occupation and her Dad, Bassem Tamimi was also arrested numerous times. Also Ahed’s cousin Nour Tamimi’s home was raided and the zionist soldiers also arrested her cousin.
Respect to this family who have been suffering for years, just because they are defending their land. God bless them ♥
Join us in Trafalgar Square on Saturday 23 December from 2-5 to show our support and to call for the freedom of Ahed, her Mum Nariman, her cousin, Nour and her Dad Basem.
UPDATE (13 February): The first preliminary hearing in Ahed’s military trial took place today, 13 February. Over Ahed’s lawyers’ objections, the military court was closed to journalists and a closed trial ordered, while the defense argued to drop the case entirely due to the illegitimacy of Israeli military courts. The next hearing in the case will convene on 11 March, and global protests are taking place on 18 February.
UPDATE (18 January): Join the call to action! 26-30 January are days of global protest to free Ahed Tamimi and her fellow Palestinian prisoners. Ahed will turn 17 on 31 January, the day of her next military court hearing. On 17 January, Ahed was ordered jailed through her military trial. Organize to demand her freedom!
UPDATE (15 January): Ahed and Nariman Tamimi’s detention was extended until Wednesday, 17 January by the Ofer military court; a ruling on whether they will be detained through their military trial is expected on that day. Protests are taking place in Copenhagen, New York, Montevideo, Berlin, Paris, Marseille, Nimes, Lyon and elsewhere to demand freedom for Ahed and her fellow Palestinian prisoners.
UPDATE (12 January): Ahed and Nariman Tamimi will be brought back before a military court on 15 January. Ahed’s 19-year-old cousin, Mohammed, was seized from the home of Manal and Bilal Tamimi, his parents, in the early morning hours of 11 January by invading occupation soldiers. There are protests and actions taking place around the world to support Ahed, her family and Palestinian prisoners.
UPDATE (1 January): Ahed and Nariman Tamimi were charged by an Israeli military occupation court today, as was Nour Tamimi. Ahed and Nariman’s detention was extended for eight days, while Nour was ordered released pending an appeal by the military prosecution. Manal Tamimi was also ordered released pending appeal by the military prosecution. Protests are being organized in Los Angeles, New York, Manchester and elsewhere to demand freedom for Ahed and fellow Palestinian prisoners.
UPDATE (25 December): Israeli occupation Ofer military court extended the detention of Ahed, Nour and Nariman Tamimi for four days, on a morning following night raids in their village of Nabi Saleh, where two Palestinian youth, Izz and Moatasem Tamimi, were seized by occupation soldiers.
UPDATE (21 December): Nariman and Nour Tamimi‘s detention was extended by an Israeli military court this morning to Monday. People around the world are organizing a global call to action to #FreeAhedTamimi, with protests on 22 December and more. To sign on to the call or download materials, please click here.
FURTHER UPDATE: Bassem Tamimi was detained and released by Israeli occupation forces today, 20 December, as he attended the hearing for his daughter Ahed in Ofer military court, which extended her detention until Monday at the earliest. In overnight, violent raids, occupation forces seized a cousin of the family and a fellow prominent activist Nour Tamimi, 21, from her family home in Nabi Saleh. This means that Ahed and both of her parents, Nariman and Bassem – all of whom are leading land defenders in Nabi Saleh – are currently seized by the Israeli occupation forces.
UPDATE: Nariman Tamimi, Ahed’s mother, has also been arrested by Israeli occupation forces as she went to the Benjamin occupation police station to support her daughter, reported Bassem Tamimi on Facebook. We are updating our alert below and urge people to join the call to free Ahed and Nariman!
Ahed Tamimi, 16 years old and a prominent activist in the occupied Palestinian village of Nabi Saleh, whose courage along with that of her family in standing up to armed Israeli soldiers, land confiscation and settlement construction stealing the resources and even the well of their village has become world-renowned, was seized by occupation soldiers who invaded the Tamimi family home on the morning of 19 December 2017.
Ahed’s father, Bassem, posted on Facebook that Ahed was targeted for arrest after she was attacked by Israeli media after she protested occupation soldiers in Nabi Saleh who shot a 14-year-old boy in the head with a rubber-coated metal bullet; the boy, Mohammed Tamimi, is in a medically-induced coma. Tamimi reported that the soldiers violently invaded the home, hitting Ahed’s mother, Nariman Tamimi, and siblings, and confiscating phones, cameras, laptop and other electronics. Ahed was taken away by the occupation soldiers to an unknown location.
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.
Ahed’s visa to the United States in early 2017 was put under “administrative review,” when she was to participate in a tour across the U.S. with writer and activist Nadya Tannous and Black liberation activist and minister Amanda Weatherspoon on Palestinian-Black solidarity and joint struggle. The lengthy delay and effective visa denial meant that Ahed was unable to join the tour live.
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network denounces the arrest of Ahed Tamimi and Nariman Tamimi, the latest of over 450 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 Nariman Tamimi 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 *UPDATED 12 JANUARY*: .
Wednesday, 20 December
6:00 PM
Polytechnion
Athens, Greece
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/127662394688136/
Εκδήλωση του PFLP στην Ελλάδα
Παλαιστίνιοι αγωνιστές στην Αθήνα διοργανώσουν εκδήλωση στις 20 Δεκεμβρίου για την 50ή επέτειο από την ίδρυση του Λαϊκού Μετώπου Απελευθέρωσης της Παλαιστίνης, του Κόμματος της Παλαιστινιακής επαναστατικής αριστεράς.
Η εκδήλωση θα τιμήσει τα 50 χρόνια της πάλης του Μετώπου και τα 100 χρόνια του παλαιστινιακού αγώνα ενάντια στην αποικιοκρατία, με ιδιαίτερη έμφαση στην υποστήριξη της αυξανόμενης παλαιστινιακής εξέγερση μέσα και έξω από την Παλαιστίνη ως απάντηση στην ιμπεριαλιστική και σιωνιστική επίθεση στον παλαιστινιακό λαό, που υποστηρίζεται από αραβικά αντιδραστικά καθεστώτα˙ αυτό αποδεικνύεται από την ανακοίνωση του Προέδρου των ΗΠΑ Ντόναλντ Τραμπ αναγνώρισης από την Αμερική της Ιερουσαλήμ ως πρωτεύουσας του σιωνιστικού κατοχικού κράτους του Ισραήλ.
Κεντρικό σύνθημα της εκδήλωσης είναι «Για ένα Παλαιστινιακό Κίνημα Αντίστασης στη Διασπορά», τονίζοντας το ρόλο της παλαιστινιακής νεολαίας στην εξορία και τη διασπορά στον αγώνα για την απελευθέρωση της Παλαιστίνης.
Στην Ελλάδα, η δύναμη αυτού του αναπτυσσόμενου κινήματος συνοδεύεται από την πολυετή και εξαιρετική αλληλεγγύη προς την Παλαιστίνη του ελληνικού λαού και των λαϊκών κινημάτων του. Το PFLP έχει εκφράσει τη δέσμευσή του να οικοδομήσει και να εμβαθύνει τη σύνδεση μεταξύ των δύο λαϊκών κινημάτων και να κλιμακώσει τον αγώνα ενάντια στον ιμπεριαλισμό, την εκμετάλλευση και το ρατσισμό.
Σήμερα αντιμετωπίζουμε ανανεωμένες και εντεινόμενες επιθέσεις κατά του παλαιστινιακού λαού. Την περασμένη εβδομάδα, 2.000 Παλαιστίνιοι τραυματίστηκαν και τέσσερις σκοτώθηκαν και εκατοντάδες συνελήφθηκαν και φυλακίστηκαν από τις σιωνιστικές κατοχικές δυνάμεις, καθώς διαμαρτύρονταν για τις παράνομες και αλαζονικές αυτοκρατορικές ενέργειες του Τραμπ.
Σε αυτό το περιβάλλον αγώνα και καθώς ο παλαιστινιακός λαός κλιμακώνει τη νέα του Ιντιφάντα, καλούμε όλους τους υποστηρικτές της Παλαιστίνης και του παλαιστινιακού λαού να παραστούν στην 50ή επέτειο του Λαϊκού Μετώπου για την Απελευθέρωση της Παλαιστίνης στην Αθήνα, καθώς προετοιμαζόμαστε για άλλα 50 χρόνια αγώνα προς τη νίκη, την επιστροφή και την απελευθέρωση.
Η εκδήλωση θα πραγματοποιηθεί την Τετάρτη 20 Δεκεμβρίου στις 18:00 στο Πολυτεχνείο της Αθήνας, Κτήριο Γκίνη.
Το πρόγραμμα θα περιλαμβάνει ομιλία εκ μέρους του PFLP, απόδοση τιμής στον Έλληνα μαχητή της ελευθερίας Μανώλη Γλέζο, οργάνωση αλληλεγγύης μεταξύ Παλαιστινίων και Ελλήνων πολιτικών κρατουμένων και πολιτιστική παράσταση του θιάσου Jafra Dabkeh. Όλες οι οργανώσεις που υποστηρίζουν τον παλαιστινιακό απελευθερωτικό αγώνα είναι ευπρόσδεκτες να συμμετάσχουν και να στήσουν ένα τραπέζι ή ένα περίπτερο με έντυπα υλικά.
Γραφείο πληροφοριών του PFLP
EN:
Palestinian organizers in Athens, Greece will hold an event on 20 December marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the party of the Palestinian revolutionary left.
The program will commemorate 50 years of struggle of the Front and 100 years of Palestinian struggle against colonialism, with a special focus on supporting the growing Palestinian upsurge inside and outside Palestine in response to imperialist and Zionist attacks on the Palestinian people, backed by Arab reactionary regimes; this is exemplified by US President Donald Trump’s announcement of the United States’ recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of the Zionist occupation state of Israel.
The event will gather under the slogan, “Toward a Palestinian Resistance Movement in the Diaspora,” emphasizing the role of Palestinian youth in exile and diaspora in struggling for the liberation of Palestine.
In Greece, the strength of this growing movement is accompanied by the longtime and outstanding solidarity of the Greek people and the Greek popular movements with Palestine. The PFLP has expressed its commitment to building and deepening the connection between the two people’s movements and escalating the struggle against imperialism, exploitation and racism.
Today, we are facing renewed and intensified attacks on the Palestinian people. In the past week, 2000 Palestinians have been injured and four killed as hundreds were rounded up and imprisoned by Zionist occupation forces as they protested Trump’s illegal and arrogant imperial actions.
In this environment of struggle and as the Palestinian people escalate their new intifada, we call upon all supporters of Palestine and the Palestinian people to attend the 50th anniversary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Athens, as we prepare for another 50 years of struggle towards victory, return, and liberation.
The event will take place on 20 December at 18:00 at the Polytechnic in Athens. The program will include a speech on behalf of the PFLP, an honor for the Greek freedom fighter Manolis Glezos, joint solidarity between Palestinian and Greek political prisoners, and a cultural performance by the Jafra Dabkeh troupe. All organizations in support of the Palestinian liberation struggle are welcome to participate and host a table or a stand for materials.
Monday, 18 December
5:00 pm
Best Buy Union Square
52 E 14th St, NYC
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/133823153961352/
Abdul-Khalik Burnat, 17 years old, the son of Palestinian activist Iyad Burnat, an active leader of the Nonviolent Resistance Movement in the Palestinian village of Bil’in, was kidnapped, beaten and detained on the night of December 10, 2017 while getting pizza along with his friends Hamzah Al-Khatib and Malik Rahdi.
Their whereabouts were unknown until Abdul-Khalik’s mother and father recently learned that he and his friends are in Ofer Prison near the city of Ramallah.
Abdul-Khalik’s village of Bil’in is heavily targeted by Zionist colonizing forces for arrests, repression and persecution, especially because the people of the village continually and consistently organize well-coordinated weekly peaceful demonstrations which include visits and support from international activists to defend their land from illegal Israeli settlements and the infamous apartheid Wall.
Abdul-Khalik is a senior in high school. He was focused on completing his finals before his kidnapping. He is planning on going to college abroad after graduating high school.
This is not the first time that Abdul-Khalik has been targeted by Israeli colonizing forces. The last time was in January of 2017, when he was shot with a rubber bullet in his head. They also detained him in another night-time raid in March 2017, while he was under treatment for his injuries.
Iyad Burnat’s family has been repeatedly targeted and injured by the Israeli Occupation Forces. Burnat states, “All this violence that they use against me and my family is trying to stop us from what we’re doing” (samidoun.net/2017/12/
Abdul-Khalik faces his next military court hearing on Monday, December 18.
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