Bilal Diab launches hunger strike for freedom

21 July 2017

Re-arrested former Palestinian prisoner and long-term hunger striker Bilal Diab has launched a hunger strike to demand his freedom. Diab was seized by occupation forces in a pre-dawn raid on his home in the village of Kafr Ra’i near Jenin on Friday, 14 July.

The Mohja Al-Quds Association announced that Diab, 32, is entering his eighth day of hunger strike; he began refusing food on the same day he was seized by occupation forces, 14 July.

He has been seized and imprisoned by the Israeli occupation on multiple occasions, frequently being held without charge or trial under administrative detention. He has also been jailed under allegations of participation in a prohibited organization, the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine. He was last released from Israeli prison on 15 December 2015.

In 2012, he engaged in a 77-day open hunger strike alongside Thaer Halahleh to demand his freedom from administrative detention without charge or trial. Following his hunger strike, he was released on 9 August 2012.

24 July, Madrid, Castellon, Valencia: Protest to free Palestinian Prisoners

21 July 2017

MADRID:
Monday, 24 July
8:00 pm
Plaza de las Provincias

CASTELLON:
Monday, 24 July
8:00 pm
Placa de la Pescateria

VALENCIA:
Monday, 24 July
8:00 pm
Calle Colon 60

Two Palestinian feminist leaders, Khalida Jarrar and Khitam Saafin, are being imprisoned without charge or trial for six and three months under administrative detention, by the Israeli occupation forces.

Join us to demand their freedom.

Protests organized by Alkarama Palestinian Women’s Movement and the Solidarity Network Against the Occupation of Palestine

25 July, Berlin: Protest to Stop Hewlett-Packard (HP)

21 July 2017

Tuesday, 25 July
6:00 pm
Alexanderplatz
Berlin, Germany
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1468488509864039/

BDS Berlin is organizing a protest against Hewlett-Packard’s contracts with the Israeli occupation!

When: Tuesday, 25 July 2017 – 6 pm to 8 pm
Outside Saturn in Alexanderplatz, Berlin

This protest is part of the international campaign against Hewlett-Packard.

22 July, Berlin: Protest for Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa

21 July 2017

Saturday, 22 July
7:00 pm
Potsdamer Platz
Berlin, Germany

Stand with Palestinian and Arab organizations to defend Al-Aqsa, Jerusalem and Palestine from Israeli occupation attacks.

23 July, Montreal: End Colonial Detention! Fin à la détention coloniale!

21 July 2017

Sunday, 23 July
1:00 pm
IWC-CLE
4755 Van Horne, Suite 110
Montreal, Quebec
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1414722998607096/

The 32 CSM Montreal branch invites you to hear about colonial detention in Colonial Canada, and all over the world.

We will be having speakers who have direct experience with detention and supporting those in detention speak on how this use of locking people up perpetuates the colonial agenda of exploitation and oppression, and how to stand in solidarity with those who resist!

Free Tony Taylor from detention in Ireland!
Free Khalida Jarrar from detention in occupied Palestine!
Free Khitam Saafin from detention in occupied Palestine!
Free Mary Barsoum!
Free all colonised peoples from the prisons of the State!

Speakers include:

Julian Ichim, International Secretary of 32 County Sovereignty Movement. Julian has been organising for justice for prisoners in “Canada” and in Ireland for over 15 years. Julian will speak about the case of Tony Taylor.

Yafa Jarrar, daughter of recently arrested member of the Palestinian Legislative Council Khalida Jarrar, She has represented Palestine at the Arab League of Nations in Cairo in 2001 to speak on the effects of the Israeli occupation on the Palestinian educational process and then was elected to represent Palestine to speak at the United Nations, in the same year.

Freddy Barsoum, who was recently detained by the colonial state forces, works closely with the 32 CSM and has been fighting the colonial State to bring back his mother from the private nursing home she was taken to against her will at gunpoint 1 year ago.

More speakers to be annonced!

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La branche montréalaise du 32 CSM vous invite venir apprendre à propos des arrestations coloniales dans le Canada colonial et partout dans le monde.

Fin à la détention coloniale! La branche montréalaise du 32 CSM vous invite venir apprendre à propos des arrestations coloniales dans le Canada colonial et partout dans le monde. Nous aurons des présentateurs qui ont de l’expérience directe en ce qui est des arrestations et du support de ceux qui sont en arrestation qui vont parler sur comment les détentions des personnes reproduit l’agenda colonial de l’exploitation et de l’oppression et comment se tenir en solidarité avec ceux qui y résistent !

Libérons Tony Taylor de son arrestation en Irlande !
Libérons Khalida Jarrar de son arrestation en Palestine occupée ! Libérons Khitam Saafin de son arrestation en Palestine occupée ! Libérons Mary Barsoum ! Liberté pour tous les peuples colonisés enfermés dans les prisons des États !

Les présentateurs sont :

Julian Ichim, Secrétaire international du 32 County Sovereignty Movement. Julian travaille pour la justice des prisonniers au « Canada » et en Irlande depuis plus de 15 ans. Il parlera à propos du cas de Tony Taylor.
Yafa Jarrar, fille du membre de la Législature palestinienne nouvellement arrêtée Khalida Jarrar. Elle a représenté la Palestine à la Ligue arabe des nations au Caire en 2001 pour parler des effets de l’occupation israélienne sur le processus d’éducation palestinienne. Yafa Jarrar a été élue représentante de la Palestine pour parler aux Nations Unies la même année.

Freddy Barsoum qui a récemment été détenu par les forces de l’état colonial travaille avec le 32 CSM et combat l’état colonial pour emmener sa mère de la maison de retraite privée dans laquelle elle a été forcée de vivre sans son consentement, forcée sous menace de mort. Plus de présentateurs seront annoncés !

22 July, Manchester: Emergency Protest Against Aggression in Jerusalem

21 July 2017

Saturday, 22 July
1:00 pm
Manchester Piccadilly Gardens
Manchester, England
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/114470255862410/

Emergency Protest:
HANDS OFF AL-AQSA MOSQUE
Please join us to protest against the Israeli brutal aggression against AL-AQSA Mosque in Jerusalem
One of the Holiest places on earth.
Israeli government has closed AL-AQSA Mosque and imposed a tight security check on worshippers as part of a plan to seize the Holy Islamic Site
Time of protest: Saturday 22nd 1.00pm – 3.00pm
Location:
Piccadilly Gardens
Manchester City Centre
Bring Palestine flag with you if you have one

22 July, London: Protest for Jerusalem

21 July 2017

Saturday, 22 July
4:00 pm
Outside the Israeli Embassy
2 Kensington Palace Green
London, UK
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/476865926000173/

London: Emergency Protest against Israeli aggressions in Jerusalem

Palestinian Forum in Britain (PFB) invites you to take part in the emergency Picket to be held in solidarity with Jerusalem and Alaqsa Mosque.

Israeli Government has closed Al Aqsa Mosque, imposed tight security check on Worshippers as part of its plans to seize the holy Muslim site.

Join us

When?

🕡Saturday 22/7/2017

4:00- 6:00 PM

📣Where? Israeli Embassy in London

2 Palace Green, Kensington, London W8 4QB

Nearest station: High Street Kensington Station

*دعوة لوقفة غضب تليق بمقام الأقصى السبت القادم امام سفارة الاحتلال في لندن*

يدعو المنتدى الفلسطيني في بريطانيا الفلسطينيين والعرب والمسلمين واحرار الانسانية الى وقفة غضب احتجاجاً على الإجراءات التعسفية الاجرامية الإسرائيلية بحق المسجد الأقصى.

إننا إذ نناشد كل الضمائر الحية لتلبية النداء والحشد لهذه الوقفة لنؤكد أن هذا التضامن من ” أضعف الإيمان” رداً على ما يجري في بيت المقدس من انتهاكات لشرائع السماوات وقوانين الارض على أيدي سلطات الاحتلال.

*الزمان*: السبت 22/7/2017 الساعة الرابعة وحتى السادسة بعد الظهر.

*المكان*: امام سفارة الاحتلال في لندن
2 Palace Green, Kensington, London W8 4QB

أقرب محطة قطارات: High Street Kensington Station

22 July, NYC: All Out for Al-Aqsa!

21 July 2017

Saturday, 22 July
1:00 pm
Times Square, NYC
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/109598029698346/

AMP is alarmed by the recent developments at the Al Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem. Israeli authorities closed the mosque for Friday prayers last week. When it reopened, worshipers were greeted with metal detectors and checkpoints outside the mosque’s gates.
Israel is using the current situation in Jerusalem as a pretext to implement long-standing plans to divide Al Aqsa mosque like they did to the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron. This new move violates international law, restricts freedom of religion and violates the internationally agreed upon status quo of the Al Aqsa compound.

Join us THIS Saturday as we protest these Israeli aggressions!

21 July, NYC: The Struggle of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon with Jana Nakhal

21 July 2017

Friday, 21 July
5:30 pm
147 W. 24th Street, 2nd Floor
New York City
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/663054143885579/

Join NYCSJP for a presentation on the current situation of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon with Jana Nakhal. Together we will explore the economic and social conditions that Palestinians in the diaspora are faced with as well as the movements and political formations that have formed in Lebanon to combat Zionism and oppression.

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A feminist communist researcher and organizer from Beirut and Sour, Jana is an urban planner and designer who specializes in slums and refugee camps and with different marginalized communities. For four years, she lived and conducted anthropological research in villages and Palestinian camps in the south of Lebanon. Her writings in the local newspapers and magazines are one way of producing a body of work which can be accessed by the communities she works with. Jana writes in Al-Akhbar newspaper and Al-Adab magazine, on art, politics, women, refugee camps and the city.

Solidarity Center
147 W 24th Street, 2nd Floor
R/N/1/2/3/A/C Trains

Shireen Issawi remains in isolation after attack on Palestinian women prisoners

15 July 2017

Palestinian prisoner Shireen Issawi is currently being held in isolation in the Jalameh interrogation center since 22 June 2017, when the Damon prison administration stormed the women prisoners’ section and assaulted them, reported Palestinian lawyer Hanan al-Khatib. Issawi, of the Jerusalem village of Issawiya, has been detained since 3 June 2014 and is serving a four-year sentence on allegations of assisting Palestinian prisoners and their families to provide money to their canteen (prison store) accounts inside Israeli prisons.

Issawi is the sister of former long-term hunger striker and re-imprisoned released prisoner Samer Issawi as well as her brother Medhat Issawi, who was tried alongside Shireen on similar charges. She told al-Khatib that prison guards had beaten the prisoners with batons, including herself, and that she was bleeding with bruises all over her body after the incident. Tear gas was used on the prisoners in the area, and the prison director is the one who handcuffed the women with their hands behind their backs.

Some of her fellow women prisoners were also subject to sanctions by the prison administration, including administrative detainee Sabah Faraoun, Dalal Abu Hawa and Ataya Abu Aisha. Abu Hawa was isolated with Issawi in Jalameh, but has since been returned to Damon prison. She also said that after the attack, internal hearings were held for a number of prisoners, depriving them of family visits, denying them access to the canteen and subjecting them to financial penalties.

Issawi told al-Khatib that if the current situation continues, she will begin an open hunger strike. She noted that cameras are kept inside the room, violating the privacy of detainees, and that the room is tiny with the window covered in plastic. She is denied access to all electrical appliances in what she described as a dirty and filthy cell and is treated badly by racist jailers who scream and yell frequently.

She has been subject to solitary confinement five times so far in 2017. Palestinian women prisoners are mainly held in two prisons, Damon and HaSharon. Women prisoners in HaSharon have also reported poor conditions due to overcrowding, where some women have been forced to sleep on the floor without mattresses. HaSharon is where the 10 minor girls are imprisoned as well as prominent leaders Khalida Jarrar and Khitam Saafin, recently ordered to administrative detention without charge or trial.

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