Samidoun Albuquerque will be participating in the following rally:
Solidarity rally for a Free Palestine! End all U.S. Aid to Israel – Solidarity with Palestinians in Jenin!
Saturday, July 8
11 am
UNM Bookstore, Albuquerque, NM
Organized by PSL (Party for Socialism and Liberation) and Stop the War Machine
Samidoun NY/NJ will be joining the Palestinian Youth Movement and many other organizations this Friday, July 7th at 4:30pm at the UN Headquarters, Ralph Bunche Park, to demand the immediate release of Walid Daqqah!
The Zionist entity is killing Walid Daqqah in an act of deliberate medical negligence. Walid has been imprisoned for over 37 years and has had his sentence extended despite his dire medical condition and cancer diagnosis!
Despite these flagrant abuses, Daqqah’s spirit has not been stifled–he remains a guiding light in the Palestinian prisoner’s movement. Join us to amplify Walid’s case and demand action from international actors like the UN.
FREE WALID DAQQAH. FREE THEM ALL.
On Wednesday, 5 July, Samidoun Vancouver and friends took to the streets for a banner drop for Palestine in support of the people and the valiant resistance of Jenin, and to denounce the Canadian government’s complicity in and support for ongoing Zionist war crimes and crimes against humanity in occupied Palestine.
Participants in the action dropped banners over the busy Georgia Viaduct, seen by drivers below, SkyTrain riders and the many residents of high-rise buildings in the area, receiving many honks and visual expressions of support from drivers and passers-by.
In the early morning hours of 3 July, Zionist forces began invading and assaulting Jenin city and refugee camp with a massive military presence involving 1,000 soldiers and at least 150 armored Caterpillar bulldozers, armed drones, armored vehicles and aerial military equipment. The aim of these attacks is to target the growing Palestinian resistance with deep roots in Jenin, that has created a new reality on the ground in the northern West Bank of occupied Palestine that is no longer under the control of the Zionist occupation or the proxy Palestinian Authority.
The invasion of Jenin took the lives of 12 martyrs in the occupied city and refugee camp, but the occupation forces were never able to enter the center of the camp as the heroic resistance defended their people and pushed forward toward liberation. Once again, the occupation failed to achieve its objective and was defeated by the power of the resistance and its popular cradle in Jenin. They were unable to enter the center of the camp — and the resistance remains vigilant, defending their land and people and advancing towards liberation.
As Randa Musa, the widow of the martyr Khader Adnan – Palestinian prisoner who rose to martyrdom after 86 days of hunger strike – said: “Jenin camp has always been a flame of anger and uprising in the face of the occupation. This is why the occupier seeks to destroy this revolutionary arena…We are all proud of Jenin and its Brigade, which is an honorable model for all resistance fighters and confronts the enemy with full vigor & strength. Palestine is ours from the river to the sea despite the bloody invasion.”
This action in Vancouver comes to emphasize that the actions of the Canadian state are linked with those of the occupation regime, so long as it continues to provide military, diplomatic, economic and political support to Israel. In addition to demanding that Canada cut ties with the occupation, justice-seeking people in Canada are demanding that Scotiabank, one of Canada’s largest banks, immediately divest from Elbit Systems, the notorious Israeli weapons manufacturer of armed drones like the ones used to assassinate Palestinians and attack homes in Jenin. Scotiabank is the largest foreign investor in Elbit.
Samidoun Vancouver is organizing an evening for Palestine in honour of Ghassan Kanafani, the Palestinian revolutionary intellectual, writer and leader assassinated by the Mossad in 1972, on Saturday, 8 July 2023, the 51st anniversary of his assassination. The event will take place at 7 pm at Grandview Church at 1803 E 1st Ave in Vancouver, and all are welcome to attend.
To get involved with Samidoun Vancouver, contact us at vancouver@samidoun.net, on Instagram at @samidounvan or on Twitter at @samidounvan.
All photos credit: Michael Y.C. Tseng
In the early morning hours of Monday, 3 July 2023, Zionist forces began invading and assaulting Jenin city and refugee camp with a massive military presence involving 1,000 soldiers and at least 150 armored Caterpillar bulldozers, armed drones, armored vehicles and aerial military equipment. The aim of these attacks is to target the growing Palestinian resistance with deep roots in Jenin, that has created a new reality on the ground in the northern West Bank of occupied Palestine that is no longer under the control of the Zionist occupation or the proxy Palestinian Authority.
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network joins with our comrades in the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, in calling upon “all solidarity forces and liberation movements around the world to begin organizing activities and demonstrations to support our Palestinian people and their heroic resistance in Jenin camp and city. The Palestinian people in the homeland and in exile and diaspora are united around the valiant resistance that is currently confronting the brutal Zionist-U.S. aggression, and is confirming with its blood and bullets its ability to confront the attack.”
This attack on Jenin has so far claimed the lives of 11 Palestinian martyrs:
The strugglers of the resistance are fighting and sacrificing their very lives not only to defend Jenin camp but to advance Palestinian liberation.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, over 100 Palestinians have been wounded in Jenin. Occupation bulldozers have cut deep swaths through the streets of Jenin, destroying vehicles and property, while over 500 Palestinian families — already refugees — have been forcibly evacuated from their homes in the Jenin refugee camp. The Red Crescent stated that this includes over 3,000 individuals, who have continued to come under attack by occupation forces amid this example of ongoing Nakba.
Occupation forces have rounded up hundreds of Palestinians from the streets of Jenin, throwing them into jeeps and cars and interrogating them, and engaging in mass arrests in an effort to target the resistance. Palestinians seized by occupation forces in such an attack are frequently subjected to physical and psychological torture and abuse.
The occupation forces have blocked Palestinian ambulances from reaching the wounded, while their drones have targeted homes and residences, mosques, and the Freedom Theatre of Jenin.
At the same time, the resistance — who have dubbed this battle, “Fury of Jenin” — continues to fight back and to hold their ground in the besieged Jenin camp. Several Israeli military drones have been shot down, occupation soldiers have been ambushed by resistance fighters, and multiple military vehicles have been exploded, damaged and destroyed by explosives and roadside bombs of the resistance forces. As in Gaza, the escalated use of aerial bombing and assassination indicates that the resistance has in many ways made it impossible for occupation soldiers to enter on the ground.
Inside Palestine, demonstrators have taken to the streets in cities throughout the West Bank, Gaza Strip and occupied Palestine ’48. Palestinians are confronting occupation forces at areas throughout the West Bank, while resistance forces unleashed explosions on the so-called colonial “border fence” surrounding Gaza.
Emergency demonstrations are being organized in cities and towns around the world to demand an end to this aggression. In the meantime, the full complicity and involvement of imperialist powers — particularly the United States — in the attack on Jenin is perhaps best made clear by Zionist prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as he spoke to the 4th of July celebration at the U.S. embassy in occupied Jerusalem today, declaring:
“America has provided Israel with moral and political backing against those who would wipe us out, the only Jewish state..Security cooperation has never been better, intelligence sharing has never been deeper.” He boasted about the attack on Jenin and its civilian refugee population: “As I speak, our troops are battling the terrorists…There are no sanctuaries for terrorists – not in Gaza, not in Judea and Samaria, not anywhere.”
The United States provides the Israeli regime with over $4 billion in military aid annually, and is joined in this economic, military, diplomatic and political aid by its imperialist cohorts in the United Kingdom, the European Union states, Canada, Australia and elsewhere, which continue to maintain trade privileges and military alliances with the occupation while suppressing organizing for justice in Palestine in their own countries.
As always, the prisoners’ movement is in the heart of the resistance. Jenin is home to many martyrs and prisoners who have sacrificed dearly for the liberation of Palestine and continue to do so on a daily basis. Jenin is, of course, home to the six Palestinian prisoners of the Freedom Tunnel operation, who liberated themselves from the occupation’s high security Gilboa prison in 2021. The self-liberation of these prisoners is deeply connected to the ongoing resistance in Jenin, with the name “Jenin Brigade” applying to both.
Among other targets, occupation forces invaded the home of Zakaria Zubeidi, one of the six strugglers of the Freedom Tunnel. The attack on and occupation of Zakaria Zubeidi’s home is a deliberate attack on Palestinian prisoners and an attempt to hit the morale of the resistance.
Randa Musa, the widow of Khader Adnan, the Palestinian prisoner movement martyr from Jenin whose life was taken on 2 May 2023 after 86 days of hunger strike, said: “There is a generation in Jenin seeking to avenge their fathers; children whose fathers were killed by the occupation in 2002 who have now grown up.” She emphasized the importance of supporting the resistance in Jenin, emphasizing that the people in resistance will not be defeated and are engaged in an exceptionally heroic battle. “What is happening is a test for all of our people in the West Bank.”
Mustafa Sheta, former Palestinian prisoner and director of the Freedom Theatre, echoed this sentiment: ” Buildings may crumble, cars may be reduced to wreckage, and countless individuals may be detained, wounded and even martyred. However,these actions will only serve to breed a new generation that will carry the torch of resistancepassed down by those who came before them, as we do today, and as our children will do in the future. It is a relentless pursuit, driven by the aspiration to reclaim our land and restore the dignity of every human being.”
The Israeli regime has attempted to shatter the Palestinian resistance and its broad, nurturing popular cradle in Jenin through massacres and colonial violence. It has been shaken by the reality that it is losing its grip over Jenin and the entire northern West Bank as the resistance has grown, developed itself and enhanced its capacities to defend their people and fight for freedom. Further, the fascist forces around Netanyahu, Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir are attempting to displace the ongoing internal crisis of the Zionist project into yet another brutal assault on the Palestinian people.
While the Zionist assault and the regime’s fascist leadership are backed by imperialist forces, the Palestinian Authority has remained subservient, issuing statements of condemnation while directing its security forces to stand aside and allow the occupation forces to invade and rampage against Jenin. PA forces have even arrested Murad Malaysheh and Mohammed Brahmeh, leaders of the Al-Quds Brigades, as they atempted to travel to Jenin to support the resistance; despite the PA’s claims that it is protecting Malaysheh, he rejects his arrest and has launched a hunger strike for his release. The PA was created in the Oslo accords to serve as a proxy for the occupation and to engage in security coordination, not to represent or defend the Palestinian people — and these moments reveal that reality with exceptional clarity.
The occupation is attempting to strike at the beating heart of the growing Palestinian resistance in the West Bank through its assault on Jenin and, in particular, Jenin refugee camp. It is clear that 75 years of ongoing Nakba have failed to break the spirit or conquer the will of Palestinian resistance, and the same is just as true today. The resistance has the capacity to confront these massacres, to fight back, and to move forward toward liberation; in fact, the fighters holding their ground in Jenin today represent a true hope for humanity, and that justice can prevail over the oppressor and exploiter.
At this moment, we must not leave the brave people of Jenin and of Palestine alone to confront this military machine of colonialism and occupation. Just as the Zionist regime relies on its imperialist partners in crime to continue to attack the Palestinian people, and they rely upon it to deny sovereignty and self-determination to the Arab nation and all nations of the region, the resistance in Palestine also finds its support in the regional forces and alliance of resistance and in the international camp of resistance and revolution. In the imperial core, our popular movements must organize, take to the streets, hold emergency actions and build power that is capable of boycotting and isolation the occupation regime, and breaking the bonds of military cooperation, diplomatic alliance and security collaboration targeting the Palestinian people.
From the posters of resistance on the streets of Berlin that sparked the condemnation and demands for criminalization by the Israeli Ambassador to Germany, to the direct actions of Palestine Action that have shut down two of Israeli war profiteer Elbit Systems’ sites in Britain, we can and must organize and take action to defend Jenin, defend Palestine, and stand with the Palestinian people and their brave resistance as they fight for a free Palestine, from the river to the sea.
Follow up-to-date news in English from the Resistance at https://t.me/PalestineResist
The following events and actions are organized by groups and organizations around the world. We urge all to contact the organizers for more information:
As part of the Palestinian Coordination Group Göteborg, Samidoun Sweden is involved in organizing the following activity:
Welcome to a cultural afternoon in memory of Ghassan Kanafani!
Time: Saturday 8 July 14:00
Place: Syndikalistisk Forum, Linnégatan 21, Göteborg (entrance under Hagabion’s stairs, call the intercom to the right of the door).
Marking 51 years since the assassination of Ghassan Kanafani by the Israeli occupation, we invite you to an afternoon of revolutionary culture. We will show films about and from Palestine and we will exhibit art by the international revolutionary and artist Marc Rudin (1945-2023) who worked in the spirit of Ghassan in all arenas of liberation.
On July 8, 1972, the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad detonated a car bomb on a street in Beirut. Ghassan Kanafani and his 17-year-old niece Lamis were in the car. Both perished instantly.
Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian revolutionary liberation leader, a prominent member of the PFLP, and a non-fiction and fiction writer. Besides being a clear and distinct voice for a progressive and radical approach to the liberation of Palestine, as a struggle against the imperialist world system, the Zionist movement and reactionary forces in the region, Ghassan Kanafani stood for something that Palestinians and oppressed peoples have known and practiced in all times: culture, the hearts, minds and creative abilities of the people, are battlefields and weapons in the struggle for liberation.
“The Palestinian question is not only a question for Palestinians, but for every revolutionary, wherever he is, as a question that belongs to the exploited and oppressed masses of our time.” – Ghassan Kanafani
Som del av Palestinska samordningsgruppen Göteborg är vi med och ordnar följande aktivitet:
Välkomna till en kultureftermiddag till minne av Ghassan Kanafani!
Tid: Lördag 8 juli 14:00
Plats: Syndikalistiskt Forum, Linnégatan 21, Göteborg (ingång under Hagabions trappa, ring på porttelefonen till höger om dörren).
För att uppmärksamma att 51 år har gått sedan ockupationsmakten Israels mord av Ghassan Kanafani bjuder vi in till en eftermiddag i revolutionens och kulturens tecken. Vi visar filmer om och från Palestina och vi ställer ut konst av internationella revolutionären och konstnären Marc Rudin (1945-2023) som verkade i Ghassans anda i befrielsens alla arenor.
8 juli 1972 sprängde israeliska underrättelsetjänsten Mossad en bilbomb på en gata i Beirut. I bilen satt Ghassan Kanafani och hans 17-åriga systerdotter Lamis. Båda omkom direkt.
Ghassan Kanafani var en palestinsk revolutionär befrielseledare, en framstående medlem i PFLP och en fack- och skönlitterär skribent. Förutom att vara en klar och tydlig röst för en progressiv och radikal ramp för Palestinas befrielse, som en kamp mot det imperialistiska världssystemet, den sionistiska rörelsen och reaktionära krafter i regionen, så stod Ghassan Kanafani för något som palestinier och förtryckta folk har vetat och utövat i alla tider: kulturen, människors hjärtan, sinnen och kreativa förmågor, är arenor och vapen i kampen för befrielse.
”Den palestinska frågan är inte enbart en fråga för palestinier, utan för varje revolutionär, var hen än befinner sig, som en fråga som hör till de exploaterade och förtryckta massorna i vår tid.” – Ghassan Kanafani
Saturday, July 8
7 pm
Grandview Church
1803 E 1st Ave
Vancouver
Join us on Saturday, 8 July for an evening of solidarity for Palestine in Vancouver to mark the 51st anniversary of the assassination of Palestinian writer, leader and revolutionary, Ghassan Kanafani, build the struggle for the freedom of the 5,000 Palestinian prisoners behind Zionist bars and organize for the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea.
Ghassan Kanafani and Walid Daqqah: Two Palestinian writers, two Palestinian freedom fighters; decades apart, yet sharing one common struggle for liberation and a powerful language of creative mobilization to advance that cause. 51 years ago, the Mossad assassinated Ghassan Kanafani and his niece, Lamis. Today, the Israeli regime seeks to assassinate Walid Daqqah through systematic medical neglect.
Join us to hear from Palestinian writer Khaled Barakat (co-founder of the Masar Badil) on the continuing legacy of Ghassan Kanafani in the Palestinian, Arab and international revolutionary struggle; BDS Vancouver – Coast Salish on Scotiabank’s investment in Elbit Systems and Zionist war crimes; and Samidoun Vancouver speakers on the case of Walid Daqqah, the outcome of the Ottawa Liberation Conference in May 2023, and the campaign to free Palestine Action prisoners in Britain.
“Imperialism has laid its body over the world. Wherever you strike it, you damage it, and you serve the world revolution.” – Ghassan Kanafani
“Qui sème la Hagra récolte l’Intifada !” (Those who sow injustice reap the uprising!)
On Tuesday, 27 June in Nanterre, France, a police officer murdered a 17-year-old teenager with a shot to the chest, encouraged by his colleague, who was shouting “Shoot him!” This scene, captured on video by witnesses, has aroused a surge of anger and solidarity following the latest racist crime committed by French police. Nahel, the victim’s first name, has become a new symbol of France’s structural inequalities and state violence.
In an attempt to contain the surging wave of legitimate indignation, the political and media machine was set in motion to smear the memory of the young man by reversing the obvious responsibility for the crime: he was portrayed as having a “criminal record,” while the police officer was said to practice “self-defense.” This lie has been widely disproven; however, even this smear campaign does nothing to justify the state murder of a teenager.
For several days, uprisings and revolts have taken place in multiple cities across France, affirming the rejection of police crimes and racism, and echoing the slogan, “No justice, no peace.” The sole response from the government has been repression: the mobilization of tens of thousands of police officers, nearly 1,000 arrests, curfews and restrictions on freedom of movement in various neighborhoods.
This latest racist police crime is far from an isolated case. Since 1977, nearly 900 people have died as a result of the action of the police, the overwhelming majority of whom are Black and Arab men from working-class and immigrant neighborhoods. This state violence is particularly rooted in the history of French colonialism. The tactics developed in the French counter-insurgency against the war of liberation in Algeria and the colonial repression of May 1967 in Gwadloup were also used and reinvested in France, in particular in the neocolonial control of the Arab and black populations in the popular immigrant neighborhoods immigration segregated from the large cities.
The Collectif Palestine Vaincra, Samidoun Paris Banlieue and Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, send their condolences to Nahel’s mother, Mounia M., to her friends and to the inhabitants of her neighborhood. As Palestinian movements and anti-colonialist and anti-racist organizations committed to supporting the Palestinian resistance, we know that state racism and police repression are the arm of French imperialism, which is a strategic ally of the Zionist regime oppressing the Palestinian people. More than ever, the mobilizations, from France to Palestine, represent our united struggle for justice, liberation and dignity!
The Zionist occupation routinely attacks the Palestinian student movement. There are hundreds of Palestinian students locked behind occupation bars, including over 60 from Bir Zeit University alone. As noted in the #FreePalestinianStudents solidarity statement, supported by hundreds of international organizations, “The work of student organizing, from holding book fairs to organizing events and participating in student elections, is criminalized by the Israeli occupation. Still more students are detained for joining demonstrations or posting on their social media profiles.
Palestinian students have been seized by Israeli occupation forces and abducted for their participation in the student movement in their homes, at their workplaces and on their campuses…The charge sheets often refer to these standard activities of campus life, which are widely interpreted as a barometer for broader Palestinian political opinion.
The targeting of Palestinian students is an attack on Palestinian futures. It is a systematic attempt to undermine the capacity of young Palestinians to organize with one another for a liberated future for their people: One free of colonization, apartheid and occupation.”
For example, Bir Zeit University student Layan Kayed has been detained by Israeli occupation forces since 7 June 2023, denied access to her lawyer this entire time; on 26 June, she was ordered to eight more days in interrogation.
However, the detention and imprisonment of Palestinian students, and particularly Palestinian student organizers, is not limited to the occupation alone. The Palestinian Authority has launched a series of arrests targeting student activists, particularly students affiliated with the Islamic Bloc at Bir Zeit and An-Najah Universities, where their student blocs recently won decisive victories in the annual campus elections with a strong pro-resistance platform.
These arrests are not merely a case of the Palestinian Authority detaining political rivals, or supporters of Hamas rather than Fateh. These attacks are part and parcel of the Palestinian Authority’s “security coordination” with the Israeli occupation — a primary reason for the PA’s creation and existence under the Oslo accords and its corollaries. In two recent meetings, in Aqaba and Sharm el-Sheikh, Palestinian Authority security representatives met with Israeli, U.S., Jordanian and Egyptian officials — and that security mandate has been followed by a series of arrests targeting the Palestinian youth and student movement throughout the West Bank.
Abdul-Majeed Hassan, the newly elected President of the Bir Zeit University Student Council, was seized from campus on 18 June in a violent attack. Fellow Student Council elected member, Yahya Farah Qasem, is also detained in Palestinian Authority jails, while Omar al-Kiswani, the former president of the Bir Zeit Student Council (who during his term in office was violently kidnapped by occupation forces from the center of campus in broad daylight) remains in PA prisons, despite his release being ordered by the judiciary. Hassan, Qasem and Kiswani were transferred on Monday, 26 June to the infamous Jericho detention center of the PA.
On 27 June, PA forces raided the home of Abdulrahman al-Jaraf, a medical student and a member of the Islamic Bloc at An-Najah University. He was not home during the raid and was therefore not arrested; in less than one hour later, Israeli occupation forces invaded Balata refugee camp, and raided the Al-Jaraf home, seizing Abdulrahman’s brother, Hamza.
This came only hours after, on 26 June, the PA abducted five more Islamic Bloc students from An-Najah University, Ameed Hijazi, Amir Shalhoub, Nasreddin Shtayyeh, Mohammed al-Khayyat and Anas al-Shunnar. They were seized by PA forces as they welcomed the release of Mohammed Salameh, freed from occupation prisons after a year of administrative detention. Ayman Darwish, economics student at An-Najah, has also been detained for 10 days by the PA security. Fellow Palestinian student Rafiq Qubbaj, a student at Al-Quds University in Abu Dis is also detained for his work in the student movement since 24 June.
The Bir Zeit University campus was closed by the student movement from 23 June to 26 June in a unified rejection of the PA’s attacks, part and parcel of the ongoing attacks of the occupation, including an ongoing seven-day hunger strike of protest by multiple students. On Wednesday, 28 June, a group of students held Eid al-Adha prayers at the university campus as part of their ongoing sit-in to demand the release of PA detainees.
Of course, PA political prisoners are not restricted to student activists; the security services are used to attack the resistance overall. Musaab Shtayyeh, the Palestinian resistance struggler from Nablus, has been jailed by the Palestinian Authority for over 280 days. These attacks on Palestinian students also come alongside the two-year anniversary of the assassination of anti-corruption struggler, the martyr Nizar Banat by PA security forces — for which justice is still delayed and institutionally denied — and recall the many Palestinian strugglers and resistance fighters imprisoned by the PA over the decades of Oslo as part of “security coordination”; that is, serving as an agent of the occupation.
From Ahmad Sa’adat and his comrades (jailed for four years by the PA under British, Canadian and U.S. guard), to Basil al-Araj, to Nizar Banat, to Musaab Shtayyeh, Abdul-Majeed Hassan and his fellow students, PA imprisonment is used on behalf of the occupation to target the Palestinian resistance, in its form of armed struggle and in its broader popular cradle of support.
Detention by the PA is routinely part of a “revolving door” with occupation prisons, whereby recently released prisoners are called for PA interrogation and detained, and detainees released by the PA are seized days later by Zionist occupation forces.
The crimes of the Palestinian Authority are not simply independent “human rights violations.” They are carried out as part and parcel of the Oslo framework that created the PA as a subcontractor for the occupation; and the current Aqaba and Sharm el-Sheikh new security demands to attack the rising resistance in the West Bank and throughout Palestine from the river to the sea. These arrests are the responsibility of Israel, the United States, Canada, the European Union and all parties involved in creating, sustaining and propping up the “security coordination” framework, which benefits only the occupier and colonizer at the expense of the Palestinian people.
As we noted after the assassination of the martyr Nizar Banat: Now is the time to take action to confront the Palestinian Authority and all those responsible for imposing it upon the Palestinian people to the detriment of the Palestinian struggle for return and liberation. The PA and its funders and trainers must be held accountable for its ongoing betrayal of the Palestinian people and its collaboration with the occupation regime and Zionist colonialism. The Oslo project is backed by Zionism, imperialism and reactionary regimes – and it must and will fall on the road to the liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea.
Freedom for all Palestinian prisoners, in Zionist, PA, reactionary and imperialist regme prisons! Freedom for Palestine, from the river to the sea!
As part of the Göteborg Palestinian coordination group, Samidoun Sweden are involved in organizing the following action:
Friday 30 June
17:30
Brunnsparken, Göteborg
Israeli military attacks, pogroms and massacres continue to claim Palestinian lives, and those Palestinians who survive are maimed and traumatized.
But the Palestinian resistance shows the way! In Midsummer week, another Zionist raid, with armored vehicles and helicopter gunships, took the lives of several Palestinians, including children and journalists. But the armed Palestinian resistance neutralized several military vehicles and scared the occupying forces into fleeing with their tails between their legs.
The end of the massacres of Palestinians will only come in one way: An end to occupation, apartheid and settler colonialism throughout Palestine, for a free, united and democratic Palestine, from the river to the sea!
Friday 30 June
17:30
Brunnsparken, Göteborg
Som del av Palestinska samordningsgruppen Göteborg är vi med och ordnar följande aktivitet:
Manifestera med oss!
Fredag 30 juni
17:30
Brunnsparken, Göteborg
Israeliska militärangrepp, pogromer och massakrer fortsätter skörda palestinska liv, och de palestinier som överlever lemlästas och traumatiseras.
Men det palestinska motståndet visar vägen! I midsommarveckan kostade ännu en sionistisk räd, med pansarvagnar och stridshelikoptrar, flera palestiniers liv, däribland barn och journalister. Men det väpnade palestinska motståndet neutraliserade flera militärfordon och skrämde ockupationsstyrkorna på flykt med svansen mellan benen.
Slutet på massakrerna av palestinier stavas på ett sätt: Slut på ockupation, apartheid och bosättarkolonialism i hela Palestina, för ett fritt, enat och demokratiskt Palestina, från floden till havet!
Fredag 30 juni
17:30
Brunnsparken, Göteborg
Three Palestinian prisoners jailed without charge or trial in Israeli occupation prisons are on hunger strike for the 11th day, demanding their freedom. All three launched their hunger strikes on 18 June; they are held in the Ofer prison and reject their arbitrary administrative detention. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network stands with the Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike and urges all friends of Palestine around the world to organize actions and demand freedom for the three hunger strikers, for sick prisoner Walid Daqqah struggling for his freedom, and all nearly 5,000 Palestinians locked behind Zionist bars.
The three prisoners: Anas Shadid, Mahmoud Talahmeh, and Abdullah Abido, are all from the Al-Khalil area. They are jailed under administrative detention, an Israeli policy of imprisonment in which Palestinians are jailed without charge or trial under a so-called “secret file” that is denied even to their lawyers. They can be held for up to six months at a time, but administrative detention is indefinitely renewable, and Palestinians routinely spend years in prison under these orders. Administrative detention was first introduced to Palestine by the British colonial mandate and was enthusiastically adopted by the Zionist project. There are currently over 1,000 Palestinians held under administrative detention, a massive upswing in the past year in which the number of administrative detainees has essentially doubled since April 2022.
Palestinian prisoners are engaged in collective struggle to confront the administrative detention policy; a mass hunger strike was postponed after several concessions by the occupation prison administration, but 1 July has been set as a deadline for meaningful action by the Palestinian prisoners’ movement. Currently, Shadid, Talahmeh and Abido have put their bodies, lives and health on the line to confront administrative detention and demand freedom.
Anas Shadid is a former long-term hunger striker; arrested three times previously and serving three years behind Israeli bars, all of his time in prison was as an administrative detainee. In 2016, he went on hunger strike for 90 days and in 2017 for 15 days. He has been detained since 22 March 2023 and ordered to six months under detention, indefinitely renewable; the occupation military court rejected his appeal.
Mahmoud Talahmeh is a lawyer and former prisoner who spent 2.5 years in occupation prisons. Married and the father of two, he has been jailed since 22 March 2023 and ordered to six months behind bars under administrative detention, indefinitely renewable.
Abdullah Abido has spent 5.5 years behind occupation bars, mostly under administrative detention. Married and the father of five, he was seized by occupation forces once again on 11 May 2023 and ordered jailed without charge or trial for four months, indefinitely renewable.
The three detainees sent a letter to Muhjat al-Quds highlighting their demands and conditions.
They confirmed that they are not taking supplements or vitamins and that they are determined to continue their strike. All three are held in isolation cells since they launched their hunger strike. Each of them is in a cell measuring 1.5 x 1.5 meters, with a window of 20×20 cm overlooking the recreation yard. The cells are dirty, with dingy mattress covers, without pillows, and “more like a toilet with a sleeping mattress inside.” They are monitored by cameras 24 hours a day inside the cells and are forced to perform ablutions to pray without access to proper sanitary conditions. These tiny cells are invaded, raided and searched up to four times a day, while the guards cook food outside the cell doors, all as a means of imposing psychological pressure on them to end their strike.
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges the immediate release of Anas Shadid, Mahmoud Talahmeh and Abdullah Abido, and all Palestinian prisoners in occupation jails. Administrative detention is a colonial weapon used against the Palestinian resistance, and the prisoners and strugglers continue to lead the struggle and resist from behind bars, using all means available to them.
We urge all to join in taking action to stand up with Anas Shadid, Mahmoud Talameh, Abdullah Abido and all Palestinian prisoners as they rise up and resist for freedom. Despite their physical circumstances, now is the time to show that they are not isolated, and that we stand with these imprisoned strugglers and the fight for freedom for Palestinian prisoners — and for Palestine, from the river to the sea.
1. Mobilize actions, demonstrations, direct actions and creative interventions – Take to the streets to defend the Palestinian people and their resistance. There is a vast depth of support for the Palestinian people everywhere around the world, including inside the imperialist powers. It is our responsibility to act and make it impossible to continue their support for the crimes against the Palestinian people. Direct actions like those taken by Palestine Action have already shut down multiple weapons facilities in Britain owned by Israeli arms companies, and even more action can provide further direct support to the Palestinian people.
2. Take a stand against “twinning” with Israeli occupation cities – Recently, the city of Barcelona took a strong stand against the normalization of occupation after years of campaign work by thousands of residents of the city, as all collaboration with the Israeli occupation and the “sister city” relationship with Tel Aviv were suspended by the Mayor. A similar victory was recently celebrated in Liege, Belgium. This important victory comes as the Collectif Palestine Vaincra is leading a campaign in Toulouse, France, to bring an end to that city’s “sister city” relationship with the apartheid capital. If your city has a twinning relationship with the occupation, launch your own campaign to bring that arm of complicity to an end!
3. Build the boycott of Israel – This is a critical moment to escalate the campaign to isolate the Israeli regime at all levels, including through boycott campaigns that target the occupation’s economic exploitation of the Palestinian land, people and resources as well as those international corporations, like HP and G4S, that profit from the ongoing colonization of Palestine.
