Palestinian astrophysicist Imad Barghouthi released after over six months in Israeli prison

5 November 2016

Palestinian astrophysics professor Imad Ahmad Barghouthi, 54, was released after over six months of imprisonment by the Israeli occupation on Friday, 4 November.

Barghouthi, who teaches at Al-Quds University in Abu Dis and is a former NASA employee, had been accused of “incitement” for posting political messages and statements on his personal Facebook page. The indictment against him cited the number of “likes” and “shares” his posts received as “evidence” for the charges. These charges were levied against him following initially being ordered to administrative detention without charge or trial when he was arrested at an Israeli occupation checkpoint on 24 April.

The administrative detention order was met with an outcry of hundreds of international academics and scientists who protested the arbitrary imprisonment of their colleague, whose scientific work is internationally known. Following the scientists’ protests, Barghouthi’s administrative detention was ordered reduced to one month, with his release to come on 29 May. However, instead of being released, he was instead transferred to the military courts and charged with “incitement.” He is among hundreds of Palestinians to face similar charges simply for posting public political messages on Facebook or other social media outlets. One particularly infamous case is that of poet Dareen Tatour, who is threatened with years of imprisonment for posting her poetry on YouTube.

Barghouthi had been arrested once before, in December 2014; he was ordered to administrative detention without trial after being seized en route to an academic conference in the United Arab Emirates. As in the later case, an international outcry helped to shorten his administrative detention and secure his release.

Five Palestinian prisoners continue on hunger strike after three prisoners conclude strikes with agreements

4 November 2016

Five Palestinian prisoners are continuing their hunger strikes against administrative detention, medical neglect, the denial of family visits and other abuses against prisoners in Israeli jails after three strikers suspended their hunger strikes in agreements on Thursday, 3 November.

Majd Abu Shamla and Hasan Rubayah, who had been on hunger strike for 30 days, and Musab Manasra, who had refused food for 10 days, ended their strikes after an agreement with the Israeli prison administration, which committed to non-renewal of their administrative detention upon the expiration of their current detention period. Issa Qaraqe of the Prisoners Affairs Commission called the agreement a “new victory achieved by Palestinian detainees in their fight for freedom and struggle against the administrative detention policy.”

Meanwhile, five more Palestinian prisoners continue on hunger strike: Ahmad Abu Fara and Anas Shadid, on hunger strike for 41 days; Samer Issawi and Munther Snobar, on strike for 11 days; and Ahmad Salatna, on hunger strike for five days.

Abu Fara, Shadid and Salatna are all on hunger strike in protest of their administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial on the basis of so-called secret evidence. Issawi, the former long-term hunger striker, and Snobar are on strike for a series of collective demands related to the conditions of the prisoners, in particular those who are located very far from the military courts, including the women prisoners in Damon prison; those denied proper medical care; and those denied family visits.

Abu Fara, 29, and Shadid, 19, were moved from isolation in the Ramle prison to the Assaf Harofe hospital on 1 November after over a full month of consuming only water and witnessing serious deterioration in their health conditions, including vomiting blood, dizziness, sharp pain and inability to move without a wheelchair. A hearing on Abu Fara’s administrative detention had been scheduled for 1 November but was continued to 9 November considering the severity of his health condition.

Events and actions are continuing throughout occupied Palestine in support of the hunger strikers’ battle for justice. Two events in Gaza City focused on support for the hunger strikers, demanding action and attention for their struggle. Palestinian women protested in Gaza, noting the demand of Issawi and Snobar for the movement of women prisoners to a location that is not so distant from the military courts; the “bosta” transport system is physically dangerous and abusive. Protests and actions have continued in Ramallah, Dura, Surif, al-Khalil and elsewhere in Palestine.

Samidoun is protesting in New York City today, Friday 4 November, outside the offices of G4S, the global security corporation that provides security systems and equipment to the Israeli prison service, and is subject to a global campaign for boycott, in support of the hunger strikers and their demand for an end to administrative detention.

Over 700 Palestinians are held in administrative detention without charge or trial, on the basis of secret evidence. 120 administrative detention orders were issued by a military commander or the Minister of Defense in October 2016 alone. These orders are issued for one to six month periods, and are indefinitely renewable. Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association issued a new report on the subject of administrative detention this week, in the context of international law.

Samidoun salutes the hunger strikers who ended their strikes on the occasion of their victory and urges escalated international support and action for the five striking Palestinian prisoners, and all 7,000 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails struggling for liberation and justice.

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Balfour Declaration: 99 years of colonialism, 99 years of resistance

3 November 2016

balfour-and-dec On the 99th anniversary of the British empire’s infamous colonial Balfour Declaration ostensibly proclaiming the right to a “Jewish national home” in colonized Palestine, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network joins in with grassroots Palestinian campaigns and the Palestinian liberation movement inside and outside Palestine to demand justice and accountability from the British state and its international allies as we approach a century of Palestinian resistance, struggle and revolution.

balfour-jordan The Balfour Declaration, British Foreign Secretary and former Prime Minister Lord Alfred Balfour’s letter directed to Lord Walter Rothschild, a prominent Zionist leader in Britain in 1917, pledged to support a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine – which at the time remained part of the Ottoman Empire. The Balfour Declaration was part and parcel of the imperial and colonial plans in the region. It came nearly simultaneously with the Sykes-Picot accords laying out the colonial division of the Arab world for the benefit of Britain and France. Support for the Zionist project fit firmly into this category. Theodor Herzl himself appealed to Cecil Rhodes for support for the Zionist project in Palestine as “something colonial,” while Chaim Weizmann pledged to “form a very effective guard for the Suez Canal.” And far from an advocate of the rights of Jews facing oppression and hatred in Europe, Balfour as Prime Minister in 1905 passed the Aliens Act, specifically intended to exclude Eastern European Jews from Britain.

The Zionist project proudly asserted its own status as part of the European colonialist project in the region, and colonial powers responded in kind, not with some form of support or protection for European Jews, but with a deeply racist colonial partnership. In 1919, Balfour wrote, “Zionism, be it right or wrong, good or bad, is rooted in age-long traditions, in present needs, in future hopes, of far profounder import than the desires and prejudices of the 700,000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land.”

Thus, the rights and existence of the indigenous people of the land, the Palestinian Arab people of all religious backgrounds, including Christians, Muslims and Jews, were dismissed and erased as expendable, in a chilling re-statement of the settler colonial logics seen in the United States, Canada and Australia.

Today, the Israeli state remains a colonial project in Palestine and the region and a key partner, defender and strategic partner of U.S. imperialism and its European colonial allies. And the Balfour Declaration has remained for 99 years an infamous, purely colonial justification of the theft of indigenous land and resources and the expulsion of millions of indigenous people. Palestinians today throughout historic Palestine continue to suffer through racism, apartheid, settler colonialism, occupation and oppression as a direct and unbroken line from the Balfour Declaration to Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Balfour Declaration also marked another milestone, however: the birth of the modern Palestinian resistance movement. For 99 years, Palestinians have been organizing, struggling and rising up, relentlessly, to throw off colonial oppressors and build a revolutionary movement for liberation and return. The Palestinian resistance, rising up again and again, in 1922, 1929, 1936, 1948 and on and on until today, has inspired and built deep bonds with its fellow anti-colonial and liberation movements around the world, an example of resistance and revolutionary struggle continuing in the face of the most powerful imperial forces aligned against their struggle.

At the same time, Zionist forces were empowered and actively supported by British colonial power, especially as a mechanism to suppress Palestinian resistance, including arming and training the Zionist militias and Israeli forces who expelled nearly a million Palestinians from their homes and lands in the Nakba of 1948.

1929-rebellion Throughout the history of 100 years of Palestinian struggle, political imprisonment has been a tool of colonial control directed against the Palestinian people. From administrative detention to land confiscation, identity stripping to home demolitions, the tools of terror and military rule used by today’s Zionist state were introduced to Palestine by British colonial authorities as a means of suppressing indigenous revolt for liberation.

Over a million Palestinians have been imprisoned in colonial prisons since Balfour’s letter in 1917. Many of the traditions of Palestinian prisoners’ struggle and the famous cultural legacy of the poetry of resistance born in the prisons date from the day of the British colonial mandate. The British execution of Fouad Hejazi, Mohammed Jamjoum and Atta al-Zeir in 1930 in Akka prison inspired a famous song of Palestinian resistance that is still sung today.

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In 1938, during the great Palestinian uprising of 1936-1939, as Ghassan Kanafani noted, “Britain sentenced about 2,000 Palestinian Arabs to long terms of imprisonment, demolished more than 5,000 houses and executed by hanging 148 persons in Acre prison, and there were more than 5,000 in prison for varying terms.”

Today, over seven million Palestinians are actively expelled and denied their right to return to their homes and lands. Palestinians are subject to racism and oppression throughout the land of Palestine; to siege, occupation, apartheid, land confiscations, home demolitions, mass imprisonment, killing and massacre: an entire range of Zionist settler colonial crimes against the entire Palestinian people, inside and outside Palestine. And Britain not only continues to evade its fundamental responsibility for the colonization of Palestine. It continues its active complicity and support for the ongoing Nakba and Zionist colonial project. British officials and politicians threaten to prohibit the use of “Zionism” as a negative term and attempt to suppress the growing popular movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions in support of the Palestinian people, while acting in the United Nations and other international arenas to actively defend the Israeli state against accountability for its continuous crimes.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network joins in the demand for accountability, recognition, apology and reparations for the Palestinian people for the damages caused by the Balfour Declaration over nearly 100 years of struggle, as well as an end to Britain’s ongoing and active complicity and support for the Zionist colonization of Palestine and the Nakba of the Palestinian people. An apology is not sufficient to address the ongoing colonial crime. Every Palestinian denied the right to return home, imprisoned in occupation prisons, stripped of their self-determination and sovereignty is a victim of the Balfour Declaration.

As we mark nearly 100 years of Palestinian liberation struggle, we pledge to intensify our struggle, activity and organizing in support of Palestinian prisoners and the Palestinian people’s struggle for the total liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea.

October 2016 report: 554 Palestinians arrested, including 130 children

2 November 2016

Palestinian prisoners’ affairs institutions (the Prisoners’ Affairs Commission, Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights and the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association) issued the following monthly joint report on Wednesday, 2 November, reviewing the situation of Palestinian prisoners in October 2016. Translation into English by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network.

The prisoners’ affairs institutions stated that 554 Palestinians were arrested in October 2016 in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, including 130 children and 11 women, including one minor girl.

During this time, 216 arrests took place in Jerusalem governorate, including 91 children, a high rate marking an escalation over the past several months. The second highest number of arrests was found in al-Khalil with 60 arrests, followed by 54 arrests in Nablus, 48 arrests in Bethlehem, 30 in Jenin, 27 in Ramallah and El-Bireh, 26 in Tulkarem, 23 in Qalqilya, nine in Tubas, eight in Jericho, four in Salfit and four from the Gaza Strip.

The total number of Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails remains approximately 7,000 prisoners, including 64 women prisoners, 13 of which are minor girls. There are a total of approximately 400 child prisoners, mostly in Megiddo and Ofer prisons. There are approximately 700 Palestinian prisoners held under administrative detention; 120 orders were issued in the last month, including 34 new administrative detention orders.

Israeli occupation forces continue policy of arbitrary detention in the Gaza Strip

Israeli occupation forces continued their policy of arbitrary detention against the civilian population in the Gaza Strip, in dereliction of clear legal obligations under international humanitarian law and human rights law, as Palestinians continue to be held by occupation forces without charges and proper legal procedures are not followed for arrests. Moreover, there are systematic violations of fair trial rights as laid out in international standards and instruments, including depriving Palestinian detainees of their right to access information about their own case, including the reasons for their detention, and the right to legal counsel before trial. Contact with lawyers can be prohibited by the occupation state for over 21 days. This comes in addition to denying their right to communicate with the outside world, especially for the detainee to inform a third party of their arrest and detention. In addition, the occupying power routinely uses excessive force during arrest operations, as in the exposure of Palestinian fishermen at sea to heavy gunfire with no reason and in violation of the code of conduct for law enforcement of 1979. The Israeli practices against the civilian population of the Gaza Strip amount to the crimes of torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment, and causes the multiplication of human suffering.

In addition, the institutions noted that three incidents took place in October resulting in the arrest of four Palestinians, including two fishermen arrested at sea and two traders arrested at the Beit Hanoun/Erez crossing.

Battle of the Empty Stomachs

At the end of October, eight prisoners were engaged in an open hunger strike, in protest of administrative detention, isolation and the denial of family visits to Palestinian prisoners. The prisoners Majd Abu Shamla, Hasan Rubayah, Anas Shadid, Ahmad Abu Fara, Musab Manasra and Ahmad Salatna are on strike against administrative detention, while Samer Issawi and Munther Snobar are demanding that prisoners be transferred to locations near the military courts, and an end to medical neglect and the denial of family visits.

Abu Fara and Shadid began their strike on 25 September and have been moved from isolation in Ofer prison, to isolation in Ramle prison, and now to the Assaf Harofeh hospital. Abu Shamla and Rubayah have been on strike since 5 October and have been moved from isolation in the Negev desert prison to isolation in Ashkelon to isolation in Ela prison, in cells lacking the minimum standards for health and life. Their health condition is deteriorating daily and some are vomiting blood. The other strikers began their strike on 25 October.

The prisoners Jawad Jawarish, Maher Abayat, Yousef Abu Saeed, Majed Owaidat and Mohammed Khattab, who were on strike against isolation and mistreatment, ended their hunger strikes with transfer to regular prison sections.

After the release decision: Renewal of administrative detention of Shaher al-Rai

The policy of administrative detention has become one of the central punitive and collective policies used by the occupation forces against Palestinian rights, and is in fact a form of systematic psychological warfare and torture used by the occupation against the prisoners and their families.

For example, the case of the prisoner Shaher al-Rai, 46, from the city of Qalqilya. He has been detained administratively since 3 June 2015, when a detention order was issued against him for six months. His detention has been renewed repeatedly and immediately since that time. On the date of 25 October, his last detention order expired and had not been renewed. The prison administration in the Negev prison told him to prepare for release; he gathered his belonging and informed his fellow prisoners that he was being release. He left his prison section to complete release procedures, and was then informed of yet another decision to renew his administrative detention.

Said Manal al-Rai, the wife of Shaher, in an interview with the prisoners’ affairs institution, that the family received the news that his detention had been extended while they were on the way to the checkpoint near al-Khalil to receive him. She added that the news shocked his family as they had prepared to receive him after his absence of over a year in the occupation prisons and said that their son Kanaan, 5, has not stopped crying since the news was received.

Al-Rai has spent nearly 20 years away from his family due to imprisonment and being “wanted”, and Manal said that “We were married 25 years ago but have lived only five years together.” Al-Rai’s case is among dozens that have been similarly impacted by this policy.

11 November, Cambridge: Justice for Rasmea Odeh! PTSD, Asylum, and Political Prosecution

2 November 2016

Friday, 11 November
12:00 pm
Harvard Law School
1585 Massachussetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/410084972448900/

Please join the Harvard Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild and Harvard Justice for Palestine, as we hear from Suzanne Adely, a practicing attorney with the NLG. Ms. Adely will discuss the case of Rasmea Odeh, who was sexually abused and tortured into a false confession by the Israeli military, fled to the United States after 10 years in prison for a crime she did not commit, and is now facing prison for immigration fraud in one of the most overtly political prosecutions since Angela Davis.

Thematically appropriate lunch will be provided!

Time: Friday, noon-1pm
Location: Pound Hall 101, Harvard Law School

Free and open to the public.

Six Palestinian fishermen seized of Gaza coast by Israeli gunboat

1 November 2016

Six Palestinian fishers in Gaza were fired upon and seized by the Israeli occupation navy this morning, Tuesday 1 November. Despite an announcement last week that the Palestinian fishing zone was being “expanded” by the occupation’s naval forces to nine nautical miles, the two fishing boats were attacked by Israeli gunboats in four nautical miles of the coast of Beit Lahiya, in the north of Gaza, the same day the “expanded” fishing zone was to go into effect. It should be noted that this “expanded” fishing zone is less than half of even the provisions of the 1993 Oslo agreement.

Under gunfire, the six fishermen were forced to undress, jump into the water and swim to the naval gunboat; their two boats and 55 nets were captured and the six fishermen: Mohammed Khalil Abu Riyalah, 35; Shaher Muhsen Abu Riyalah, 20; Khaled Khaled Abu Riyalah, 22; Ali Hasan Khalil Abu Riyalah, 19; Bilal Hasan Khalil Abu Riyalah, 14; and Hasan Hasan Abdel-Rahman Abu Sama’an, 55, all of whom are Palestinian refugees from the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, reported the Palestinian Center for Human Rights. The six seized fishers were taken to Ashdod, as was their boat.

Over 120 Palestinian fishers and their boats have come under fire by Israeli naval forces off the coast of Gaza so far in 2016. The naval closure imposed on Gaza and the cordoning off of the fishing zone has created massive poverty in Gaza’s once-wealthy fishing industry, upon which 70,000 Palestinians rely. Palestinian fishermen have repeatedly been shot by gunboats, causing serious and sometimes life-altering injuries, and further contributing to economic and social devastation. Boats are rarely returned to their Palestinian owners after being confiscated by the occupation navy.

Sick prisoner Jalal al-Faqih’s surgery repeatedly delayed: medical neglect continues in Israeli jails

1 November 2016

Palestinian prisoner Jalal al-Faqih has been repeatedly denied a necessary surgical procedure by the Israeli prison administration as a form of retaliation for his participation in the collective hunger strike and protest in support of Bilal Kayed several months ago, reported the Handala Center for Prisoners and Former Prisoners.

Kayed, 34, engaged in a hunger strike for 71 days against an administrative detention order imposed upon him for imprisonment without charge or trial following the expiration of his 14.5-year sentence in Israeli jails. Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners joined in strikes and protests in solidarity with Kayed, a leader in the Palestinian prisoners’ movement generally and the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. As a result of the hunger strike, Kayed will be released on 14 December.

Faqih, also involved in the PFLP and serving a 35-year sentence for his involvement in Palestinian armed resistance to Israeli occupation soldiers and settlers, was transferred to Afula hospital on 20 August following his own hunger strike when he suffered severe pain and developed a heart condition; following his release, his condition continued to deteriorate and he was informed that surgery was necessary. However, all attempts to schedule this surgery have been postponed since that time.

Al-Faqih is one of over 300 Palestinian prisoners suffering from chronic diseases as well as over 100 Palestinian prisoners with serious medical issues requiring attention, including 30 cancer patients. The issue of the medical neglect and mistreatment of Palestinian prisoners has been a consistent issue raised by the Palestinian prisoners’ movement over the years and decades, especially highlighted by the deaths of current and former prisoners shortly following their release and the lack of adequate treatment for heart disease, cancer and other serious illnesses.

The cases of Bassam al-Sayeh and Yousry al-Masri are two examples of Palestinian prisoners suffering from advanced cancer requiring chemotherapy yet continue to be denied access to independent physicians or Palestinian specialists. Sayeh was denied visits from his wife for over six months while fighting cancer and was transferred on multiple occasions between prisons during that time.

Sayeh, who is held in the infamous Ramle prison clinic with 23 of the sickest prisoners, also requires surgery; his wife Mona, herself a former political prisoner, has noted that his medicine protocol has changed and he will receive surgery, however, he has not be informed of a schedule for his treatment despite the changes and the severity of his illness.

Yousry al-Masri is suffering from cancer and multiple diseases; he received his cancer diagnosis five years ago, in Israeli jails. Despite his advanced illness and severe pain, he has been repeatedly transferred from prison to prison, including 12-hour trips while shackled in the “bosta.” Some of his scheduled chemotherapy treatments have been missed, despite the use of a clear protocol of timing and dosage being one of the most significant factors in cancer survival.

During this time he has had thyroid cancer as well as lymphoma, and continues to have enlarged lymph notes. Three tumors were found in his liver, yet he has not yet received treatment at all for his liver disease or a biopsy to determine whether the tumors are cancerous. Al-Masri said that doctors at Soroka hospital wished to perform a biopsy but that this was overriden by the prison administration.

Some of the most serious cases of sick prisoners, including the Palestinian prisoners held long-term in the Ramle prison clinic, include the following:

1. Khaled Shawish
2. Yousef Nawajaa
3. Mansour Moqtada
4. Ashraf Abu Huda
5. Mutassim Raddad
6. Jalal Sharawna
7. Qutaiba Shawish
8. Mamdouh Omar
9. Bahaaedin Odeh
10. Ayman al-Kurd
11. Osama Zaidat
12. Hasan Al-Qadi
13. Bassam Al-Sayeh
14. Mutawakkil Radwan
15. Nahed al-Aqra
16. Mohammed Bureish
17. Murad Saad
18. Yousry Al-Masri
19. Murad Abu Maliq
20. Sami Abu Diaq
21. Ashraf Abu Huda
22. Fuad Shobaki
23. Khalil Shawamreh
24. Jalal al-Faqih

Samidoun urges international action and solidarity in support of the sick prisoners, in particular those with urgent cases, to demand proper treatment, an end to medical neglect and the release of sick Palestinian political prisoners. We emphasize the full and complete responsibility of the Israeli occupation state for the health and lives of all Palestinian political prisoners.

43 administrative detention orders issued the last week of October

1 November 2016

The Israeli military occupation issued 43 administrative detention orders between 23 and 31 October. Among these orders were several renewals issued the morning the detainees were expected to leave and after they had made arrangements to do so, including the renewed detention of Shaher al-Rai and Sabah Faraoun.

Administrative detention is imprisonment without charge or trial, on the basis of an order issued by the military commander or the Minister of Defense, based on secret evidence. These orders are approved and essentially “rubber-stamped” by a judge. There are currently over 700 Palestinians held without charge or trial under administrative detention and over 7,000 total Palestinian political prisoners.

Of these orders, 11 were newly issued while 32 were renewals of already-imprisoned detainees’ orders. While administrative detention orders are issued for one to six months at a time, they are indefinitely renewable and Palestinians can remain in administrative detention for years.

The administrative orders were issued against the following:

1. Muatassim Mohammed Abeido, al-Khalil, 4 months
2. Shaher Ali Al-Rai, Qalqilya, 4 months
3. Obeida Adnan al-Barghouthi, Ramallah, 6 months, new order
4. Ahmed Abdel-Fatteh Shteiwi, Jerusalem, 3 months
5. Maher Nizar Suwayta, al-Khalil, 4 months, new order
6. Mohammed Ahmed Abu Fannouneh, al-Khalil, 3 months
7. Mohammed Yassin Shalaldeh, al-Khalil, 6 months, new order
8. Ali Ishaq Jammal, al-Khalil, two months
9. Ahmad Jamal Heraimi, Bethlehem, 6 months
10. Sharif Taher Tahayna, Jenin, 6 months
11. Mohammed Abdel-Rahman Mohammed, Salfit, 6 months, new order
12. Ahmed Yousef Awad, al-Khalil, 6 months
13. Bilal Hasan Mansour, Ramallah, 6 months, new
14. Thamer Abdul-Ghani Saba’aneh, Jenin, 3 months, new
15. Munir Yousef Kaddour, al-Khalil, 4 months, new order
16. Abdel-Salam Jamal Abu al-Hija, Jenin, 3 months, new order
17. Ahmed Salim Salatna, Jenin, 4 months, new order
18. Maher Jaradat, al-Khalil, 6 months
19. Abed Jarrar, Jenin, 6 months
20. Abbas Fatayer, Nablus, 4 months
21. Sami Abu Deit, Bethlehem, 6 months
22. Fadi Srour, al-Khalil, 6 months
23. Mohammed Janajreh, Tubas, 4 months
24. Ayed Heraimi, Bethlehem, 4 months
25. Tariq Heraimi, Bethlehem, 4 months
26. Diaa Abu Daoud, al-Khalil, 6 months
27. Fayez Rajabi, al-Khalil, 6 months
28. Fadi Alayan, Ramallah, 4 months
29. Sami Abu Baker, Nablus, 4 months
30. Alayan Mouqada, Qalqilya, 4 months
31. Mohammed Assaf, Bethlehem, 4 months
32. Haithem Ajaj, Ramallah, 4 months
33. Sabah Faraoun, Jerusalem, 4 months
34. Mohammed Hussein Elsalameen, al-Khalil, 6 months, new
35. Bilal Mohammed Abdelaziz, al-Khalil, 6 months
36. Samara Sami Hajir, Ramallah, 4 months
37. Ahmed Nazmi Maqar, Bethlehem, 4 months
38. Sa’ed Mohammed Abu Al-Baha’a, Ramallah, 6 months
39. Fadi Musa Ghneimat, al-Khalil, 4 months
40. Adnan Yasin Hamarsheh, Jenin, 4 months
41. Ali Mohammed Rashaida, Bethlehem, 6 months
42. Fayez Mohammed Atta, Ramallah, 6 months, new order
43. Kamil Mazen Boustah, Jenin, 4 months

4 November, NYC: Protest to end administrative detention and Stop G4S

1 November 2016

Friday, 4 November
4:00 pm
G4S Offices – New York City
19 W. 44th Street, NYC
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/893948097372735/

Five Palestinian political prisoners are on hunger strike against their “administrative detention” by Israel.

Anas Shadid and Ahmad Abu Fara launched their strikes September 25, Majd Abu Shamla and Hasan Rubayah began October 6, and Musab Manasrah started on October 25.

“Administrative detention” is a British colonial-era policy Israel uses to imprison 700 Palestinians indefinitely, without charge or trial.

Stand with Anas, Ahmad, Majd and Hasan, and Musab to demand that Israel release them, other administrative detainees, and all 7,000 Palestinian political prisoners immediately, and that occupation profiteer G4S end its contracts with Israeli prisons and detention centers, occupation and security forces, and checkpoints and settlements now.

Join us to answer a united appeal by Palestinian prisoners for escalated boycotts of G4S.

Support the Palestinian people, the Palestinian prisoners, the Palestinian Resistance, and the liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea.

8 November, Lille: Evening of Solidarity with Georges Ibrahim Abdallah

1 November 2016

Tuesday, 8 November
6 pm – 10:30 pm
Theatre de la Verriere
28 rue Alphonse Mercier
Lille, France
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/csrp59/

As part of the Palestine Festival in Lille, the Committee in solidarity with Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, the UJFP (French Jewish Union for Peace) and the Collective to Support the Palestinian Resistance are organizing an event and concert:

Speakers will include: Jean Louis Chalanset, lawyer for Georges Abdallah
Suzanne Le Manceau, Collective for the Freedom of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah

Solidarity concert with Dominique Grange, Artist, composer and activist, with Jonathan Malnoury and Franck Chenal.

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