Khawla Hammad has been a stateless refugee in Lebanon for 69 years. At the age of sixteen, she was expelled from her village of Kabri, in Palestine. Now she is 84 years old, and and still a refugee in Lebanon, with no citizenship in any country at all. Israel expelled most of the population in 1948, and has prevented them from returning to their homes. Kabri and hundreds of other towns and villages were levelled to the ground, a crime that Palestinians call al-Nakba (the Catastrophe).
But Israel did not stop there. It repeatedly attacked Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, killing three of Khawla’s children among many others. Before the Nakba, Khawla’s father also lost his life as a Palestinian freedom fighter. Khawla has a message that she wants to bring to North America. So does 23-year-old Palestinian refugee, journalist and translator Amena Elashkar, whom many of you know from the 2016 Nakba Tour. She and her parents were born as stateless refugees in Lebanon and have never lived in their own country.
Khawla and Amena have a different message from other Palestinians. They are not living under Israeli occupation. Israel does not allow them to visit their homes, much less live there. As exiles, they have a different perspective from Palestinians in Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza and the part of Palestine that became Israel.
Hear Khawla and Amena speak!
This is an event of the North America Nakba Tour
This event is co-sponsored by:
NYU Students for Justice in Palestine
NYC Students for Justice in Palestine
NYU Law Students for Justice in Palestine
NYU Law National Lawyers Guild
Al Awda – NY
Students for Justice in Palestine @ St. Joseph’s College
Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Labor for Palestine
American Muslims for Palestine — Upper NY
American Muslims for Palestine — NJ
To learn more about the North America Nakba Tour in your city visit http://nakbatour.com
Palestinian human rights defender Issa Amro, who is facing 18 charges by an Israeli military court for his popular advocacy against illegal settlements in al-Khalil, was also jailed on September 4 by Palestinian authority security after posting critical commentary about the PA to Facebook, before his release on bail on September 10.
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ManiFiesta is an annual celebration of solidarity held at Bredene Sur Mer in Ostende, Belgium. There are a number of events and activities for Palestine taking place at the 2017 ManiFiesta.
Samidoun will be participating in tabling at the event along with the Boycott Israel tent and Plate-Forme Charleroi-Palestine as well as tabling for Raj’een Dabkeh Troupe and other Palestinian community initiatives.
In addition to constant tabling throughout the festival, events for Palestine at ManiFiesta include:
All day – Making a giant pie for Palestine to sell to support the “Medicine for the People” partner clinics in Gaza and Batir, which partner with clinics in Molenbeek and Schaerbeek https://www.facebook.com/events/1470080676408998/
A number of events will be taking place at the annual Fete de l’Humanite in La Corneuve – Paris, especially highlighting the cases of French-Palestinian lawyer and human rights defender Salah Hamouri and imprisoned Lebanese struggler for Palestine, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah.
Many organizations, including AFPS, CAPJPO-EuroPalestine, AFD, UJFP, BDS France and others, will be hosting tables and tents at the festival, as will Palestinian chef Rania. Events of particular interest are highlighted in bold below.
Some of the events for Palestine and Georges Abdallah taking place at the festival include:
Friday, 15 September:
6:30 pm, Village du Monde: Solidarity Evening with Political Prisoners in Palestine, Turkey, the United States, Morocco and Djibouti. With speakers: Palestine (Elsa Lefort, wife of Salah Hamouri; Taoufik Tahani, former president of the Association France-Palestine Solidarite; Yasser Qous, former prisoner and Addameer activist); Turkey (Sylvie Jan); United States (Johanna Fernandez); Djibouti (Berenger Tourne); Morocco (Ouadie El Hankouri, Olfa Ouled)
Saturday, 16 September:
11:00 am, Stand of Loiret: Solidarity with the Palestinian people, with Fadwa Khader of the Sunflower Association
11:30 am – 12:30 pm, AFPS Stand: Solidarity event with Salah Hamouri, featuring a discussion with Elsa Lefort, activist and the wife of Salah Hamouri.
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm, BDS stand: UJFP and cinema – 10 clips about racism
2:00 pm, Stand for Jeunes Communistes 94: The role of women in struggles in France and internationally. Speakers include Elsa Lefort and Fadwa Khader.
2:30 pm – 4:30 pm, AFPS Stand: The role of French businesses with the Israeli colonization project
Canadian teacher Nadia Shoufani has won a significant free-speech victory after a year-long battle and a prolonged campaign by pro-apartheid Zionist organizations attacking her and attempting to have her fired from her job for speaking about Palestinian prisoners at a public rally in 2016.
“A victory for myself, for the Palestine solidarity movement, for freedom of expression! A victory for the Palestinian cause and the struggle of Palestinians!” said Shoufani in a Facebook post on 8 September offering thanks to friends, colleagues and supporters for their consistent support throughout a year of struggle. Shoufani kept her job and defeated the allegations that targeted her as well as ongoing racist campaigns of harassment carried out by far-right groups and individuals. Organizations including B’nai Brith Canada, the Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) and the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center Canada were actively involvedi in the campaign to silence Shoufani.
“Their goal was to destroy my reputation and livelihood and ultimately make me lose my job, but they were defeated! It’s true they targeted me but their ultimate goal was to send a silencing message to intimidate and scare anyone who speaks in support of Palestinians and to put a chill on people,” Shoufani wrote, but the attack in fact led to “more support and created more awareness of the Palestinian cause.”
“The attack that I was put through was not just an attack against me, it was ultimately against every voice that speaks and calls for the freedom and justice of Palestinians who are living under and suffering daily from a brutal occupation and apartheid, with the ultimate aim to silence them and silence any criticism of ‘Israel’, the occupying power,” Shoufani wrote in her social media post.
Shoufani quoted Ghassan Kanafani, the Palestinian writer, political leader in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and intellectual assassinated by Israel on 8 July 1972: “The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary…a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era.”
“On this day…we need to salute and acknowledge, stand in solidarity and demand the release of prisoners, Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons,” said Shoufani in her speech. “We salute and demand the freedom of Bilal Kayed…who was scheduled to be released on June 13th after 14 and one-half years of imprisonment. Instead of being released, he was ordered to six extra months of adminsitratioe detention without charge or trial…Bilal Kayed has launched an open hunger strike demanding his freedom. This illegal Israeli order of administrative detention is seen as an attempt to set a precedent of the future indefinite detention of Palestinian prisoners after the completion of their sentence.”
She linked the attack on Kayed and fellow Palestinian prisoners to the imprisonment of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, Lebanese Arab struggler for Palestine, imprisoned in French jails for 33 years, demanding his immediate release.
“I urge you to speak up, to resist this occupation, and support the steadfastness of Palestinians, support their resistance, in any form that is possible. I urge you to support BDS – boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israel. This is the least we can do here in Canada,” said Shoufani, closing with a rousing chant, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!”
Shoufani was defended after being suspended with pay by her Toronto-area Catholic school board by her trade union, the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association. Union activists, Palestine solidarity organizers, professors and organizers collectively spoke out in support of Shoufani and against the attacks from right-wing organizations attempting to silence her and force her from her teaching position.
The attack on Shoufani has come in the context of ongoing attacks on freedom of speech about Palestine in Canada, including attempts to legislate against BDS and parliamentary resolutions denouncing boycott campaigns. This comes amid an ongoing, relentlessly pro-Zionist policy pursued by the Liberal government under Justin Trudeau, continuing the notoriously anti-Palestinian policy of Conservative Stephen Harper. Canadian support for Israeli occupation didn’t begin with Harper, but dates back to the Balfour Declaration and Lester Pearson’s recommendation to the United Nations to create the Israeli state. This role has always been distinctly related to the Canadian state’s own settler colonial nature, based on the continuing dispossession and genocide of Indigenous peoples.
Recently, Niki Ashton, a leading candidate for the leadership of the New Democratic Party (NDP) in Canada, was attacked by B’nai Brith and other pro-apartheid organizations for participating in a rally commemorating the Nakba and in support of Palestinian political prisoners.
In particular, right-wing Zionist organizations attacked Ashton for speaking in front of a sign urging freedom for imprisoned Palestinian leader Ahmad Sa’adat, the General Secretaty of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Following the attacks, rather than backing down, Ashton reiterated her support for Palestinian rights and noted that it was “powerful to join many at a rally in solidarity with those on hunger strike in Palestine.” Ashton is one of the front-runners in the NDP leadership campaign and has won support from many youth and progressive voices.
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes Nadia Shoufani and all of those involved in the campaign to defend her right to speak and right to teach. Her clear and principled voice in defense of Palestinian rights and freedom – and the struggle of Palestinian prisoners in particular – is one that cannot be silenced. As she noted, “Our fight for justice and a free Palestine will not be over and the path ahead will always have obstacles and difficulties, but as long as we believe in a cause so embedded in us, we will persevere! No such attacks will stop us, nor will they intimidate or silence us. On the contrary this will make us stronger believers in our fight for justice and freedom. We will never be silent until we win and justice prevails!”
After 10 years of litigation by forcibly displaced Palestinians and human rights organizations, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday, 13 September, that the Israeli interior minister cannot revoke Palestinian Jerusalemite parliamentarians’ Jerusalem ID and residency for “breach of loyalty.” However, despite the ruling, the court gave a six-month delay in its implementation for the Knesset to consider new legislation to legitimize the stripping of the residency of Jerusalemite PLC members – and two of the parliamentarians in question are currently imprisoned by Israel without charge or trial under administrative detention orders.
The case was filed by Palestinian Jerusalemites Mohammed Abu Teir, Ahmed Attoun, Mohammed Totah and Khaled Abu Arafeh. Abu Teir, Attoun and Totah were elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council in January 2006 as part of the Change and Reform Bloc, while Abu Arafeh was a minister in the PA government formed through that election. In June of that year, Israeli interior minister Roni Bar-On moved to revoke their residency permits, claiming that they were in “breach of loyalty” for sitting in the PLC and association with Hamas.
The four were arrested in June 2006 and imprisoned until 2010. After their release, they were given one month to leace Jerusalem; after that period ended, Abu Teir was seized by occupation forces. Attoun, Totah and Abu Arafeh engaged in a sit-in in the offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Jerusalem, which was invaded twice by special units to arrest them on 23 January 2012 and forcibly displace them to Ramallah.
Since that time, the four have been repeatedly arrested and imprisoned by Israeli forces, often held without charge or trial under administrative detention. Currently, Abu Teir and Attoun are among 12 PLC members imprisoned by Israel. Both are held under indefinitely-renewable administrative detention orders without charge or trial.
Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel submitted an amicus brief in the case, “emphasizing that Interior Minister Bar On’s decision gravely violates their rights, and that the law does not give the minister any legal authority to cancel permanent residency for ‘breach of trust’ or due to membership in a foreign parliament.”
While the Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 majority decision that the revocation was not legal, it also suspended the resumption of their Jerusalem residency for six months, creating time for the Knesset to change the law to allow the revocation of residency. If such a new law is not passed, the decision authorizes the four to return to their homes after six months, said lawyer Fadi al-Qawasmi.
Abu Arafeh posted on Facebook that the six-month delay indicares that the court does not intend to allow the parliamentarians to return, saying “We are likely to enter into a new spiral with the prosecution an the court..”
Adalah and ACRI argued that Bar On’s decision violated the legislators’ constitutional right to continue to live in their place of residence and homeland without the threat of expulsion. The expulsion of a person from his place of permanent residence violates his constitutional rights to dignity, personal liberty and property.
Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem, ACRI and Adalah stressed, never entered Israel and acquired the status of immigrants. Therefore, their residency status was never made conditional to any terms, and there is no justification for its cancellation.
The human rights organizations also stressed that the issue entails a particularly complex status, because East Jerusalem is occupied territory under international law and the East Jerusalem residents are protected civilians. Moreover, Israel itself recognized that East Jerusalem Palestinians are part of the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and consequently permitted them to vote and be elected in the PLC elections. Only after the petitioners were elected, and because the election results were not welcomed by the Israeli government, did Israel decide to cancel their residency status in severe violation of their rights.
Palestinian Jerusalemite teacher Khadija Khweis remains behind bars despite a decision to release her on bail, after the Israeli occupation prosecution appealed the decision for her release.
She was seized by Israeli forces on Wednesday, 5 September after being summoned to a police station in Jerusalem and questioned about her involvement in activism to defend Al-Aqsa Mosque, extending her detention for continued interrogation.
On Sunday, 10 September, the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court ordered her released in exchange for 5,000 NIS bail (approximately $1400 USD). The Israeli prosecution objected to her release and appealed the decision, which in turn postponed her release and turned the case over to the Jerusalem central court.
Khweis has been arrested several times and has been subject to bans from the ground of Al-Aqsa Mosque and house arrest by the Israeli occupation. She was banned from Jerusalem and from traveling outside occupied Palestine.
She and her family’s national insurance allowance was revoked after her involvement in defending Al-Aqsa Mosque from Israeli settler and military attacks, and was one of a group of Palestinian women attacked by Israeli forces after being denied entry, accused of involvement with the Murabitat, a group of women who gather at Al-Aqsa to protest Israeli control over the occupied holy site. In September 2015, Israeli defense minister Moshe Yaalon officially banned the Murabitat.
Khweis was last arrested in June 2017 before being ordered to 10 days under house arrest and a 60-day ban from Al-Aqsa Mosque and the old city of Jerusalem, as well as a 180-day ban from entering the West Bank. She is the mother of five children and married to academic Ibrahim Abu Aliya, who was forcibly removed to the West Bank from Jerusalem.
The Israeli Supreme Court convened in occupied Jerusalem on Wednesday, 13 September in a hearing on the case of Palestinian families demanding the release of their imprisoned family members’ bodies, which have been held captive by the Israeli occupation since they were shot dead by occupation forces.
Often called the “cemeteries of numbers,” these unnamed graves have been used to secretly bury Palestinians killed by occupation forces over years. There are at least 249 Palestinians’ bodies that have been buried in the “cemeteries of numbers” and remain missing.
Lawyer Mohammed Abu Sneineh emphasized that the burial of these four bodies does not cancel or make the petition moot; “any court decision will include the bodies of the martyrs that were buried,” he noted.
“I cannot begin to imagine how the families whose sons’ bodies have been held in the cemeteries of numbers for decades feel,” said Azhar Abu Srour, the mother of Abdel-Hamid Abu Srour, in an interview with the Electronic Intifada. “But it is our duty – as mothers of martyrs and as Palestinians – to fight for our right to bury our sons in their land and among their loved ones.”
Protesters gathered near Manhattan’s Union Square on Monday, 11 September in New York City to demand freedom for imprisoned French-Palestinian lawyer, activist and human rights defender Salah Hamouri. Hamouri, 32, is a former Palestinian prisoner released in the Wafa al-Ahrar prisoner exchange in 2011 and a field researcher at Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association. He was seized on 23 August in a pre-dawn raid on his Jerusalem home, only three days after passing the Palestinian bar examination to practice as a lawyer.
Organized by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, the protest joined dozens of others that have taken place across France and internationally urging freedom for Hamouri. Hamouri was originally ordered to six months in administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial, in an order signed by Israeli ultra-right Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman. Following international outrage, the judge at the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court ordered him instead to three months’ imprisonment – the amount remaining in his first prison sentence when he was released in 2011, in an attempt to legitimize the baseless detention of Hamouri.
Photo: Bud Korotzer/Desertpeace
Israeli prosecutors have instead appealed the three-month sentence, demanding Hamouri instead be held for six months without charge or trial under the indefinitely renewable administrative detention order. A ruling was expected on 14 September, but has now been delayed once more. However, the campaign to free Hamouri and to pressure the French government to take a clear stand for his release has continued to grow. Several women from France joined the New York City protest, noting that they knew Salah and his family and urging his immediate release.
Protesters in New York carried signs and posters highlighting Hamouri’s case and that of his fellow over 6,200 Palestinians imprisoned in Israeli jails, demanding their release. They also supported the growing international campaign for boycott of Hewlett-Packard products like laptops, tablets, printers and ink due to HP corporations’ extensive contracts with the Israeli military, prison system and checkpoint and identity management system.
Protesting outside of the Best Buy electronics store, participants in the event handed out information to shoppers and passers-by about HP complicity in Israeli human rights violations and profiteering from Israeli apartheid. A growing number of churches and labor unions are declaring themselves HP-free zomes in protest of the company’s continued involvement in some of the most repressive institutions of the Israeli occupation.
Photo: Bud Korotzer/Desertpeace
Following the protest, a number of participants joined the New York City Jericho Movement’s dinner gathering to write letters to political prisoners in U.S. jails. The evening focused on Herman Bell, who was assaulted last week by prison guards. His family has urged supporters to write to him and show support.
Herman Bell, 69, is a Black Panther Party political prisoner who was attacked by guards at the Great Meadow Correctional Facility on 5 September. Bell was struck in the face by a guard, causing his glasses to fall to the ground. Five to six guards joined in the attack and Herman was repeatedly punched and sprayed all over the face with mace. He has fractured ribs, bruising to his boy and damage to his left eye. He is now being held in the Special Housing Unit, accused of “assault on staff,” claiming that Bell slapped the guard escorting him entirely out of view of all other inmates.
This incident comes after Bell – an elderly man – has not had a disciplinary violation in 20 years and only days before he was scheduled to start a three-day family visit with his wife, their first in over two and one-half years, as reported by the Jericho Movement.
Photo: Bud Korotzer/Desertpeace
Robert Boyle, Bell’s attorney, has written to the New York State Department of Corrections commissioner Anthony J. Annucci, protesting his assault and mistreatment. Boyle noted that Bell has not received proper medical treatment or a CT scan despite a probable concussion. “The instant incident was not only a racist attack. It was elder abuse. Moreover, there is certainly probable cause to believe these guards committed assault in the first degree, P.L. §120.04 and/or gang assault in the first degree, P.L § 120.07. The law applies to everyone. When prison guards commit violent crimes, they should be prosecuted like anyone else,” Boyle wrote, urging proper, independent medical care for Bell, his return to general population, and the suspension and prosecution of the guards responsible.
Samidoun joins Jericho Movement’s call for people to write to Herman Bell or send him a get-well card so that it is clear that people are aware of his situation and supporting his recovery. His address is:
Herman Bell 79 C 0262
Five Points Cor. Fac.
P.O. Box 119
Romulus, N.Y. 14541
Bell is a Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Movement veteran who is committed to struggles for justice and liberation. He has repeatedly expressed his solidarity with the Palestinian people, including participating in a book of writings for Palestinian political prisoners.
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network will be protesting again next week, on 18 September, outside Hewlett-Packard in Chelsea. Protesters will gather at 4:30 pm and focus on the case of Issa Amro, facing 18 charges before Israeli military courts and recently detained by the Palestinian Authority under the new repressive “Electronic Crimes Act.” The protest will demand freedom for all Palestinian prisoners and urge the boycott of HP. All supporters of justice for Palestine are invited to attend.
French-Palestinian lawyer and human rights activist Salah Hamouri is still waiting on a decision from a higher Israeli court after prosecutors appealed a judge’s order for him to be imprisoned for three months instead of six months without charge or trial under administrative detention.
On 13 September, the Israeli high court judge ruled that his decision on Hamouri’s sentence will be presented in the Jerusalem district court at the beginning of the next week, without specifying the day. Earlier, the ruling had been scheduled for 14 September.
The campaign for Salah Hamouri’s freedom noted that “the Israeli authorities are delaying the process and leaving Salah Hamouri totally uncertain about his own fate. Amplify the mobilization: the French authorities must intervene and stop this attack as quickly as possible and obtain the immediate release of Salah Hamouri!”
He has been subject to ongoing harassment by the Israeli occupation, including being barred from entering the West Bank, delaying his law school classes. His pregnant French wife, Elsa Lefort, was denied entry and is now banned from Palestine. On 23 August, armed Israeli forces invaded Hamouri’s Jerusalem home in a pre-dawn raid. He was shortly thereafter ordered to administrative detention without charge or trial – almost immediately after he had initially been ordered released on bail.
For Jerusalemite Palestinians like Hamouri, administrative detention orders must be issued directly by the ultra-right racist Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman. The six-month order is indefinitely renewable. There are currently nearly 500 Palestinians jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention on the pretext of a “secret file.” Many Palestinians have spent years at a time jailed under administrative detention orders.
His arrest was met with a growing outcry in Palestine, France and internationally, as Hamouri is not only personally known and beloved to many but an international spokesperson for the Palestinian cause and, in particular, the struggle of Palestinian prisoners. He has spoken on campuses across Europe and at the World Social Forum in Brazil, as well as at many large events across France, including the annual Fete de l’Humanite, on the situation of Palestinian prisoners seeking freedom. Across France, prominent politicians, trade unionists and activists urged the French government to take a stand for Hamouri, a French-Palestinian citizen.
On 5 September, an Israeli judge ordered Hamouri sentenced to three months in prison – the remainder of his sentence when he was released in the 2011 exchange – rather than the six month administrative detention order. Addameer, the campaign for his freedom, his family, Samidoun and many other organizations denounced this sentence as an attempt to legitimize Hamouri’s detention while maintaining the same repressive threat.
However, the Israeli prosecution appealed the sentence in order to demand that the six-month administrative detention order be imposed. The high court has now postponed its ruling until next week.
Protests are continuing for Hamouri’s release. Contingents in protests in Paris against the state of emergency and proposed labor law changes demanded freedom for Hamouri, while this years Fete de l’Humanite will feature numerous events highlighting Hamouri’s case.
Member of European Parliament Patrick Le Hyaric spoke on Hamouri’s case in the parliament on Monday, 11 September, urging action for his release:
Le Hyaric said:
“I want to tell you about a 32-year-old man. He is a French-Palestinian citizen, lives in Jerusalem and has just become a lawyer. A few days after he graduated as a lawyer, he was arrested on 23 August for no reason. And after a lot of dithering of the Israeli justice, like thousands of Palestinians he has been placed in administrative detention, apparently on the basis of a secret file, because it is totally empty.
His name is Salah Hamouri.
This reveals the relentlessness and total lack of respect for the law by a state that is constantly proclaiming itself one of our closest partners. Our External Action Service can not let this go and must demand the release of Salah Hamouri without condition and without delay. It is high time for the European Union to put the issue of fundamental rights and respect for international law and conventions as a condition for its cooperation with the State of Israel, as it does with so many other States.
In the immediate future, freedom for Salah Hamouri!”
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Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network reiterates its urgent demand for the immediate release of Salah Hamouri and all Palestinian prisoners and call for the French state to defend the rights of their citizen and take action for Salah Hamouri’s freedom. It is no less critical now; it must be made clear that it is unacceptable to imprison Hamouri – or any other Palestinian – without charge or trial. This is clearly an attempt on the part of the Israeli state to target an effective, local and international human rights defender working for Palestinian freedom.
The French state must take real action to demand freedom for Salah Hamouri, the Palestinian human rights defender. From the jails and the courts of the occupation to the cities and campuses of the world, he is a consistent and clear voice against oppression and for liberation. Free Salah Hamouri! Libérez Salah Hamouri!
3. LIKE AND SHARE the Facebook page for Salah Hamouri, which will be regularly updated with news and actions to demand Salah’s freedom: https://www.facebook.com/freesalahhamouri/
4. ORGANIZE protests and actions to demand Salah’s release and that of his fellow Palestinian prisoners. Events are scheduled in multiple cities – add your own! Email us at samidoun@samidoun.net
Khawla Hammad has been a stateless refugee in Lebanon for 69 years. At the age of sixteen, she was expelled from her village of Kabri, in Palestine. Now she is 84 years old, and and still a refugee in Lebanon, with no citizenship in any country at all. Israel expelled most of the population in 1948, and has prevented them from returning to their homes. Kabri and hundreds of other towns and villages were levelled to the ground, a crime that Palestinians call al-Nakba (the Catastrophe).
ManiFiesta is an annual celebration of solidarity held at Bredene Sur Mer in Ostende, Belgium. There are a number of events and activities for Palestine taking place at the 2017 ManiFiesta.
A number of events will be taking place at the annual Fete de l’Humanite in La Corneuve – Paris, especially highlighting the cases of French-Palestinian lawyer and human rights defender Salah Hamouri and imprisoned Lebanese struggler for Palestine, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah.
Canadian teacher 
After 10 years of
Palestinian Jerusalemite teacher Khadija Khweis 
The Israeli Supreme Court convened in occupied Jerusalem on Wednesday, 13 September in a hearing on the case of Palestinian families demanding the release of their imprisoned family members’ bodies, which have been held captive by the Israeli occupation since they were shot dead by occupation forces.
French-Palestinian lawyer and human rights activist 
