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Massacre in Nablus: The Palestinian People’s Resistance Lives On!

On Wednesday, 22 February, Zionist forces invaded occupied Nablus and killed 10 Palestinians, including resistance fighters, elderly men, passers-by and a teen boy; they injured 97 more with their assault on the Palestinian people. As thousands of people have taken to the streets of Nablus in mourning for the martyrs, the Palestinian people and their resistance have affirmed that these ongoing crimes will not suppress or kill the Palestinian people and their resistance.

We salute and mourn the martyrs:
1. The elderly martyr Adnan Sabaa Baara (72 years old)
2. The martyr Mohammed Khaled Anbousi (25 years old)
3. The martyr Tamer Nimer Ahmed Minawi (33 years old)
4. The martyr Musab Munir Mohammed Awais (26 years old)
5. The martyr Hussam Bassam Aslim (24 years old)
6. The martyr Mohammed Omar Abu Bakr “Junaidi” (23 years old).
7. The martyr Walid Riyad Hussein Dakhil (23 years old)
8. The elderly martyr Abdelhadi Abdelaziz Ashqar (61 years old)
9. The child martyr Mohammed Farid Shaaban (16 years old)
10. The martyr Jasser Jamil Abdelwahhab Qaneer (23 years old)

The Palestinian Ministry of Health noted that there are 26 people injured with live bullets at the Rafidiyeh Government Hospital, including four seriously injured; 20 injured at the Nablus Specialist Hospital, including one critically injured; 7 injured at An-Najah Hospital from live bullets, including one critically injured; 9 injured with bullet wounds at the Women’s Union Hospital; and 9 more injured with bullet wounds at the Arab Specialist Hospital. These injured Palestinians were only transferred to hospital after evading occupation forces that continue to prevent medical crews from carrying out their work.

In fact, two of the nurses and paramedics called to evacuate the martyrs and save the wounded were Elias al-Ashqar, the son of Abdelhadi Ashqar, and Mohammed Baraa, the son of Adnan Baraa.

The massacre came as one of the notorious assassination raids carried out by occupation forces, as they stormed an area in Nablus’ Old City disguised in a civilian truck, surrounded a home, and battled with resistance fighters for over three hours before the occupation forces targeted the home with an anti-tank missile, causing plumes of smoke to rise from the home of the fighters. This was the home of Mohammed Omar Abu Bakr Junaidi, 23, and Hussam Bassam Aslim, 24, both resistance fighters and leaders in the Lion’s Den resistance brigade of Nablus.

All schools in the West Bank, Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip have announced they will close tomorrow for a day of mourning, part of a comprehensive commercial and labour strike. People have taken to the streets throughout Gaza to express their outrage, and the resistance factions have vowed that this crime must not be allowed to pass unpunished.

Imperialist powers like the United States, Canada, Britain, and the European Union countries are directly implicated in this latest crime against the Palestinian people. These countries continue to provide aid and cover to the Israeli occupation, and the U.S. provides over $4 billion each year in military aid — buying the arms and weaponry that go directly to kill Palestinians. Britain was initially responsible for the colonization of Palestine, the support of the Zionist movement and the infamous “Balfour Declaration.” Throughout 100 years of colonialism and 75 years of ongoing Nakba, Zionism and imperialism have been partners in arms. The United States has most recently been working avidly to streamline Palestinian Authority “security cooperation” with the occupation by demanding to set up a special unit to target the resistance in Jenin and Nablus.

This also comes as the Zionist state is witnessing its own internal crisis and dispute over judicial decisions and political power, amid the rise of overt fascists like Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich. In order to resolve this crisis and preserve “national unity” among colonialist forces, Zionist forces seek to externalize the crisis and unite by massacring Palestinians.

This attack is also partner to the assault on Palestinian prisoners in occupation jails, and these murderous raids are intended to have multiple outcomes: assassination and arrest, dual weapons of the colonizer to target the resistance. As the prisoners are rising up inside the prisons to demand their liberation, so too do the Palestinian people rise alongside them, confronting massacres, colonialism and ongoing Nakba.

Throughout massacres and mass imprisonment, under colonization, in exile and diaspora, the Palestinian people and their resistance have made clear that the struggle continues for the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea, just as Nablus is once again affirming today as it mourns and honours its beloved martyrs. This crime must impel all of us to act, to organize, to engage in direct actions, to isolate the occupier, to build our collective resistance and to support the Palestinian people and their revolutionary movement on the front lines of struggle for justice and liberation.

 

 

Khader Adnan on hunger strike for freedom for 17th day

Leading Palestinian prisoner and multiple long-term hunger striker Khader Adnan is once again on hunger strike for the 17th day as he resists yet another arrest by Israeli occupation forces.

He launched his hunger strike immediately after his arrest on 5 February. He is being held in isolation in harsh, cold winter conditions without blankets to protect him from the weather in retaliation for his hunger strike.

Khader Adnan has been detained 12 times by occupation forces and spent 8 years in Israeli jails, mostly in administrative detention — imprisonment without charge or trial — or accused of membership in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement.

He has launched five hunger strikes, including four to reject administrative detention, and participated in collective hunger strikes. His first hunger strike was in 2004, when he went on strike for 25 days to protest his isolation. Eight years later, in 2012, his 66-day hunger strike captured the attention of people in Palestine and around the world, as he challenged his administrative detention with no charge or trial and won his freedom. Adnan’s hunger strike helped to kick off a wave of individual and collective hunger strikes, particularly those challenging administrative detention. There are currently approximately 900 Palestinians jailed in administrative detention out of 4,750 total Palestinian prisoners.

In 2015, he again went on strike against his detention for 56 days and again in 2018 for 58 days. In 2021, he was once again arrested and ordered to administrative detention, and he went on hunger strike for 25 days. In each of these occasions, he was able to obtain his freedom and confront the jailer, breaking the chains of arbitrary administrative detention.

Jamil Elayan of the Muhja al-Quds Foundation for Martyrs and Prisoners responded to statements by occupation officials that they plan to indict Adnan before the military courts, saying that this is an attempt to undermine his hunger strike. Instead, Elayan emphasized that the prisoners’ movement is moving toward further confrontation: “We expect that the Palestinian prisoners’ strike in the coming month of Ramadan, in addition to Sheikh Khader Adnan continuing his strike, will burst in the Palestinian arena and lead to greater unity and strength for the Palestinian cause.” He urged that all tools and mechanisms that the Palestinian people have must be put in the service of the prisoners and their struggle.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network expresses our strongest solidarity with Khader Adnan and all Palestinian prisoners struggling for freedom. We call for his immediate release and the release of all imprisoned Palestinians in Zionist, Palestinian Authority and imperialist jails. Khader Adnan is a symbol of Palestinian courage, steadfastness and commitment to the struggle for freedom; he has become an international symbol of prisoners’ resistance. We will organize until the prisoners are free — and until Palestine is free, from the river to the sea! 

Palestinian prisoners confront repression with resistance: Rise up with the prisoners of Palestine!

Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation jails are in their eighth day of rising up in a collective call to action, demanding justice and liberation. They have announced an escalating program of struggle leading up to 22 March, the first day of Ramadan, when prisoners have declared they will launch a collective hunger strike.

The prisoners’ movement has risen up in response to repeated attacks by the occupation regime aimed at rolling back everything that has been won by the prisoners through decades of struggle, from preparing their own food in bakeries to having more than four minutes to shower. Further, these daily attacks inside the prison are combined with escalating political assaults, including the passage by the Zionist Knesset of a law designed to strip citizenship from Palestinians from occupied Palestine ’48 and force them into statelessness if they receive financial support from Palestinian entities. Even this new legislation pushed by Zionist far-right forces was an act of revenge after the Palestinian people and the world witnessed the joyous homecoming of Karim and Maher Younes after 40 years behind Zionist bars, as Karim raised the Palestinian flag high in Ara, occupied Palestine ’48.

The prisoners’ movement calls for action

In a statement, the Higher National Emergency Committee of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Movement declared: “In light of these challenges, we have decided to embark on a series of steps that begin with disobedience and end with an open hunger strike on the first day of Ramadan, bearing freedom as our sole demand. Everyone must carry this message of ours and our voice, as we can no longer tolerate the continued abuse against us day and night, the attack on our dignity and the dignity of our women prisoners…This strike is titled, ‘Freedom or Martyrdom,’ will be waged by every capable prisoner of all factions, and we will engage in this strike with unified demands and unified leadership — which we also want to see outside — and this unity is the main guarantor of the success of our struggle.”

Another statement followed on Saturday, 18 February by the prisoners serving life sentence: “As we go through this battle of dignity, we raise an open appeal to our people, all of our people, from the guns of the resistance and the revolution to the leadership ranks, to all of the factions, parties, forces and movements, to respond to our voice and break our chains by standing behind us and supporting us. While we are ready to take steps of struggle….the main solution to our issue is liberation by the same means by which the resistance and the revolution have liberated hundreds who preceded us in the path of pain we continue to walk, carrying the stake of our just cause with our chains for many years, which for most of us have reached two, three or even four decades. These have been a march in which we have increased our faith in the justice of the cause, and we hope we will soon reach the achievement of our freedom and emancipation at the hands of our people who we have never forsaken, a revolution that we have never abandoned and a resistance that lives within us.”

The Higher National Emergency Committee of the prisoners’ movement called for a day of anger this coming Friday, 24 February, in support of the prisoners and the struggle of Palestinians in Jerusalem fighting back against ongoing attacks, confiscation of their property and demolition of their homes. “Our battle has begun and will not stop except with our freedom…The jailer wanted to fight us for our most basic rights, and we will respond to him by demanding our complete freedom,” they said. Samidoun Deutschland has announced a protest in Berlin, Germany, at 6 pm on Friday, 24 February, gathering at Sonnenallee 36 to rally with the prisoners on this day of action.

Repression and resistance

Last Friday, 17 February, the prisoners engaged in a sit-in following Friday prayers in all the prison yards, announcing that the state of alert and mobilization was intensifying. The prisoners have begun wearing their brown prison uniforms, refusing to exit their rooms for counts and security checks, banging on the windows and bars of the rooms and refusing to go out to the exercise yards. Sick prisoners have begun boycotting the prison clinics, themselves notorious for medical neglect and inappropriate treatment.

Palestinian women prisoners in Damon prison have also taken protest steps, with six women prisoners wearing the brown prison uniforms, sat down in the prison yard and raised a handmade banner reading: “No bread or water, we want freedom.” The six Palestinian women and girls who were subjected to penalties by the occupation included Nafeth Hammad, Shatila Abu Ayada, Tahrir Abu Sariya, Falasteen Nijim, Azhar Assaf and Aseel al-Titi. Their fellow women prisoners pledged to continue to close the sections until all penalties imposed on the six are lifted, and emphasized that they are an integral part of the prisoners’ movement.

As the mobilization of the prisoners escalates, the Zionist prison administration is attempting to suppress their struggle by further intensifying the repression directed afainst the prisoners. On Monday, 20 February, a large force of repressive units invaded several sections in Gilboa Prison, confiscating electrical appliances from inside the prisoners’ room. These repressive units are notorious for provoking the prisoners, ranscking their belongings and turning the rooms upside down, often in the middle of the night, in a deliberate exercise of repression.

On Tuesday, 21 February, repressive units stormed section 3 in Ramon prison, firing stun grenades, tear gas and rubber-coated metal bullets at the prisoners before forcibly transferring 80 prisoners to other areas, including isolation cells, while others were transferred to section 10 in Nafha prison.

The Israeli occupation prison administration informed the prisoners that they would be subject to various collective punishments in response to their disobedience, including the closing of the canteen (prison store), cutting off hot water in the bathrooms, locking the showers, closing morning exercise yards and shacking prisoners leaving their sections for any reason, including those in need of medical care. In Megiddo, Ofer and other prisons, basic electrical tools and heating coils have been confiscated from the prisoners’ rooms and their exercise time has been cut. In Nafha prison, a large number of ill prisoners were denied their medications, including diabetics who need insulin.

Take action!

The prisoners’ own calls have made clear that they are calling on the Palestinian people and all friends and supporters of Palestine to take action to stand with them as they put their bodies and lives on the line to struggle for freedom. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all to join in taking action to stand up with the Palestinian prisoners as they rise up and resist for freedom. The prisoners are doing everything they can to confront the occupation attacks — now is the time to show that they are not isolated, and that we stand with these imprisoned strugglers and leaders as they resist a vicious onslaught of repression. 

1. Mobilize actions, demonstrations, direct actions and creative interventions – Take to the streets to defend the Palestinian people and their resistance. Join with Samidoun Deutschland’s action in Berlin this Friday — and keep organizing up to and beyond 22 March. 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. 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.

27 February, Vancouver: Art and Banner Making Party for Palestine

Monday, 27 February
6:00 pm
Grandview Church
1803 E 1st Ave
Vancouver

Join Samidoun Vancouver on Monday, 27 February for a banner and art-making party for Palestine! Our banner drops, mural events, demonstrations and actions all involve eye-catching images.

Join us to make banners to drop and leave, permanent banners for use in multiple events, signs to bring to the next Palestine demonstration and more! Express yourself and volunteer to help paint and design new banner and sign ideas.

Vancouver banner drops, public interventions highlight Palestinian struggle for liberation

Samidoun Vancouver joined in the Days of Rage and Resistance – organized by the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement — with a banner drop in a busy area of the city on Sunday, 12 February 2023. Participants carried and waved Palestinian flags and hung banners with slogans including “Free All Palestinian Prisoners,” “Free Palestine: Return, Resistance, Liberation” and “End Israeli Apartheid.”

Participants emphasized that they were continuing to ensure that Palestine is visible in public space in Vancouver, especially after the right-wing City Council adopted the infamous IHRA definition of anti-Semitism over the objection of the vast majority of speakers in November 2022. (The next month, the neighbouring city of Richmond took the IHRA definition off the agenda after pushback.)

Other activists in Vancouver also responded to the call for the Days of Rage and Resistance by dropping their own banner at the Burrard Street Bridge with an anti-colonial message from Vancouver to Palestine.

Several days later, Samidoun Vancouver members posted images of Palestinian prisoners serving lengthy sentences in Israeli occupation prisons in a busy area of the city, part of the Over 30 Years: Pre-Oslo Prisoners campaign. Posters of Walid Daqqa, Mohammed Abu Tus and Ibrahim Abu Mokh were posted along Commercial Drive as part of the campaign’s first week.

These interventions in public space followed several other actions, including the posting of a large mural of imprisoned Palestinian leftist leader Ahmad Sa’adat as part of the international Week of Action to Free Ahmad Sa’adat.

The mural posting was followed by another banner drop by Quebec Street highlighting Palestinian prisoners and solidarity with the Palestinian people and their resistance on 18 January.

The mural and banner drop came one day after an evening event on the case of Ahmad Sa’adat, where Samidoun member Nadia provided an overview of the Sa’adat’s case and the role of various forces, including the Israeli occupation, the Palestinian Authority and the United States, Britain and Canada (all of which sent international forces responsible for keeping Sa’adat and his comrades imprisoned and colluded with the Israeli occupation to allow for his kidnapping).

Palestinian writer and activist Khaled Barakat provided an analysis of the Palestinian situation today, including the struggle of Palestinian prisoners and the meaning of the far-right Zionist forces and escalating attacks targeting Palestinians.

Samidoun Vancouver is continuing its activities in solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners, the Palestinian people and their resistance. On Monday, 27 February, Samidoun Vancouver is organizing a banner and art-making party for Palestine at 6 pm at 1803 E 1st Ave in Vancouver and all are invited to attend.

Rotterdam marches for Palestine on the Days of Rage and Resistance

Samidoun Netherlands and the Masar Badil — the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path — held a march and rally in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on Friday, 11 February, as part of the Days of Rage and Resistance. Protesters rallied against the massacres in Palestine, including the recent massacre in Jenin, against the crimes of the occupation and in support of the Palestinian people and their heroic resistance.

The rally included the participation of Turkish, Kurdish and Filipino comrades as well as the Palestinian Community in the Netherlands, Revolutionaire Eenheid and Socialisten 010. It came alongside other events in Toulouse, Brussels, Madrid, Vancouver, Gothenburg, Berlin, Paris, Turcuman and other cities and communities around the world.

Participants marched through working-class neighbourhoods in Rotterdam, where passers-by raised their hands in support and honked their horns to show solidarity with Palestine.

The marchers chanted for the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea, freedom for all Palestinian prisoners and the boycott of Israel.

They carried signs and posters for martyrs like Ibrahim al-Nabulsi and for Palestinian prisoners, especially the women prisoners who have come under attack by occupation forces in recent weeks, including Israa Jaabis and Amani al-Hashem.

Gothenburg stands in solidarity with Palestine

Samidoun Göteborg joined fellow Palestine organizations in Gothenburg, Sweden, on Friday, 10 February for a stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

The action came as part of the Days of Rage and Resistance organized by the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement. Participants also expressed their solidarity with the peoples living, struggling and resisting imperialism and Zionist colonialism in Syria, Turkey and Kurdistan, especially amid the dire humanitarian emergency caused by the earthquakes and exacerbated by sanctions and imperialist attacks.

Participants came out in cold and rainy weather to distribute information and show solidarity with Palestine, the Palestinian cause and the Palestinian resistance. They especially highlighted the recent massacre in Jenin and ongoing attacks on the Palestinian prisoners’ movement.

This mobilization was organized alongside actions in Rotterdam, Brussels, Vancouver, Madrid, Toulouse, Paris, Turcuman, Berlin and many other cities and communities around the world.

Samidoun Brussels event highlights Palestinian liberation from the river to the sea

Photos by Abdullah Awad

On Saturday, 11 February, Samidoun Brussels organized a symposium, “From the River to the Sea: Visions of Palestinian Liberation,” with a discussion about the future of the Palestinian liberation struggle starting from the point of the necessity of the total liberation of Palestine.

A full room greeted speakers at DK, where activists and organizers from a variety of organizations shared their perspectives on the Palestinian liberation struggle and the next steps forward. The event also served as the public launch event for the Brussels chapter of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network.

Photos by Abdullah Awad

Speakers included Mohammed Khatib, coordinator of Samidoun in Europe and member of the executive committee of the Masar Badil (Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement), Myriam De Ly of Plate-forme Charleroi-Palestine, Nermin Hwaihi of the Palestinian Refugees Movement for Rights and Justice, Eitan Bronstein of De-Colonizer and the Union of Progressive Jews in Belgium and representatives of two organizations, Classe Contre Classe and Bruxelles Pantheres.

During his presentation, Mohammed Khatib noted that the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea has always been a central position of the Palestinian liberation movement and especially at the height of the Palestinian revolution. He emphasized that the need for an alternative now is against the path of liquidation of the Palestinian cause as represented by Oslo and the PA, and that this alternative is actually a return to the principles of the liberation movement.

Photos by Abdullah Awad

He also emphasized the importance of Palestinians in diaspora working together with the solidarity movement and all forces working for Palestine for the liberation of Palestine, rejecting the so-called “two-state solution.” The battleground of ideas in Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa and elsewhere is particularly important, and the Zionist forces also see these sites as central, particularly the imperial core in North America and Europe. In this context, he also noted the need to build ties between liberation struggles and peoples fighting against imperialism and oppression, with every victory for these movements also being a victory for Palestine.

Photos by Abdullah Awad

In her presentation, Myriam de Ly of Plate-forme Charleroi-Palestine (also an affiliate of the Samidoun Network), spoke about the history of the Palestinian revolution and how the armed struggle became a symbol of the dignity of the Palestinian people. She also discussed the history of the anti-imperialist workers’ struggle and of delegations to Lebanon and Palestine from social movements in Europe. Drawing from this history, she denounced the so-called “peace process” of Oslo and noted that the resistance continues, as reflected in the Great March of Return, the Unity Intifada/Battle of Seif al-Quds and the growth of armed resistance in the West Bank. She emphasized the need to take inspiration from the martyrs and the prisoners in building solidarity with Palestine.

Photos by Abdullah Awad

Classe Contre Classe spoke about the Palestinian revolution as a vanguard of the Arab nation and the world. They recalled the history of the Palestinian militant struggle outside Palestine, noting that the involvement of European strugglers in the Palestinian revolutionary movement amid the plane hijackings of the early 1970s reflected a two-way solidarity and a mutual struggle. They emphasized the need for a continuous anti-imperialist movement coming forward to the present day, resisting the EU as a machine for crushing peoples.

Photos by Abdullah Awad

The Bruxelles Panthères spoke about their solidarity with Samidoun and the Palestinian people, and their commitment to fighting imperialism and colonialism as central to anti-racist struggle. They emphasized that they supported the Algerian and Vietnamese resistance and now it is essential to support the Palestinian resistance by all means.

Photos by Abdullah Awad

Nermin Hwaihi emphasized the struggle of Palestinian refugees in Europe, noting the high level of scrutiny and surveillance that they face in order to remain at the same time that they are struggling to return to their homes and lands. She noted that the right to return is central to the struggle for Palestine and a commitment that continues from generation to generation for all Palestinians.

Eitan Bronstein spoke about the need to defeat Zionism and reject it entirely in order to imagine a different relationship in Palestine. He also noted that the current far-right government of the Israeli regime may in some ways portend the fall of Zionism, recalling earlier examples such as the French extreme violence that led to the victory of the Algerian anti-colonial liberation movement.

Days after this event, on 16 February, Samidoun Brussels joined Classe Contre Class and Bruxelles Panthères for an event organized by ZIN TV at Ciné Coop. The event focused on videos recorded that memorialize social struggles, including the ZIN TV report on the March for Return and Liberation in Brussels on 29 October.

Samidoun Brussels is organizing for the liberation of Palestine. To get involved with Samidoun Brussels, reach out on Instagram or email brussels@samidoun.net.

Second Week of the Educational Campaign: Over 30 years – pre-Oslo Prisoners

“Deans of prisoners” is a term used by the Palestinian people for those who have been imprisoned by the Zionist occupation for more than 20 years continuously. Over the years, many Palestinian prisoners were liberated through prisoner exchange deals or other forms of political concession, such as those released in 1995 after the Oslo Accords; the prisoner exchange deal imposed by Hezbollah in 2004 with which 400 Palestinian prisoners were freed; the Wafa al-Ahrar prisoner exchange in 2011, where 1027 Palestinian prisoners were liberated in exchange for the release of the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit captured by the resistance; or in 2013 when the occupation announced the release of 104 Palestinian prisoners coinciding with the return of the Palestinian Authority to negotiations and the continuation of its security coordination with the occupier under the terms of Oslo and its corollaries.

However, there are many prisoners who played leading roles in the Palestinian resistance and revolution, especially prisoners from the territories occupied in 1948, whom the occupation refuses to include in these deals because of “security concerns” or under the pretext that the prisoner holds the “Israeli” nationality, trying in vain to separate our Palestinian people from the occupied lands in 1948 from the rest of the Palestinian people.

With that, Samidoun  Palestinian Prisoners Solidarity Network is pleased to publish the materials for the second week of the educational campaign on the prisoners, Ibrahim Bayadseh, Ahmed Abu Jaber, and Ibrahim Abu Nima. You can print the posters and hang them in your cities, and share them on the e-mail samidoun@samidoun.net

Ibrahim Bayadseh

Palestinian prisoner Ibrahim Abdel-Razzaq Ahmad Bayadseh, 62 years old,  is from Baqa’s al-Gharbiyeh in occupied Palestine ’48.

When he was arrested in March 1986, Bayadseh was accused of belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, possessing weapons and explosives, and participating in Palestinian armed resistance actions with a group that also included Walid Daqqa and Ibrahim and Rushdi Abu Mokh.

He has completed 37 years behind bars, and the hope of freedom hangs over every space surrounding him and his family. He was sentenced to a life sentence, which was later set for 45 years.

Ibrahim Bayadseh is one of the 30 veteran prisoners arrested before the Oslo agreement. The Zionist authorities refused to release them in any previous prisoner exchange or agreement with the occupation, despite widespread demand. As a Palestinian prisoner from occupied Palestine ’48, he was labeled an “internal Israeli matter.”

During his decades behind occupation bars, Ibrahim has suffered from multiple illnesses, including toothache, migraine, and high blood pressure, and he was a frequent visitor to the prison clinic, as he became familiar to staff there. His pains were always a concern of his comrades in captivity.

When Ibrahim recalls the most difficult situation that happened to him in prison, he recalls the death of his elderly mother, Umm Muhammad. Umm Muhammad Bayadseh was known to all the institutions working to free the prisoners and the families of his imprisoned comrades. She spent the last three decades of her life traveling between the occupation prisons and courts, accompanying her captive son. Despite her difficult circumstances, she remained steadfast and committed to bringing about the liberation of Ibrahim and all Palestinian prisoners.

Ahmad Abu Jaber

Palestinian prisoner Ahmed Ali Hussein Abu Jaber, 62, from Kafr Qassem, in occupied Palestine ’48 has been detained since 8/7/1986 and is sentenced to life imprisonment. He has spent 37 years in the occupation prisons. He is one of the veteran prisoners arrested before the Oslo Accords in 1993 whose release was promised in an agreement and then unilaterally rescinded by the Israeli occupation.  Abu Jaber is one of the leaders of the prisoners’ movement in the prisons of the occupation.  The occupation military court sentenced him to life imprisonment plus 10 years, after accusing him of killing an Israeli soldier and an agent of the occupation. He is married and has three children, two sons and a daughter, the youngest of whom was a month old when he was arrested. Abu Jaber has made many literary contributions in writing poetry, stories, and articles. Several years ago, the occupation authorities refused to set a time limit for the life sentence for Abu Jaber, unlike other Palestinians from occupied Palestine ’48, because he had been tried at the Nablus military court. At the same time, he has been excluded from all prisoner exchanges and agreements between the occupation and the Palestinian resistance.

Samir Abu Nima

The prisoner Samir Ibrahim Mahmoud Abu Nima, 62 years old, is a resident of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in the occupied city of Jerusalem. The occupation arrested Abu Nima on 10/20/1986 and held him under interrogation for nearly two months, before a life sentence was pronounced against him and he was transferred to Ramon prison. He had been a dedicated struggler in the Palestinian resistance and was involved in a number of armed resistance operations targeting Israeli occupation soldiers.

He has suffered from pain in his neck and spinal nerves since his torture under interrogation many years ago. The lacerations at the base of his neck affect his joints and cause him severe pain. He also has severe foot pain and is unable to stand for long periods of time. He has had over six surgeries during his time in prison and is still awaiting care for other serious medical problems. He has been transferred repeatedly among multiple prisons and detention centers, including al-Mascobiyeh interrogation center, Ramle prison clinic, and Ramon, Shatta and Ashkelon prison, where he is currently held.

Abu Nima is among 13 long-time, veteran prisoners of Jerusalem whose names have been consistently excluded by the occupation from prisoner exchanges with the resistance and other agreements for prisoner release. His mother died while still awaiting her son’s liberation.

Ibrahim Bayadseh Posters:

Ahmad Abu Jaber Posters:

Samir Abu Nima Posters:

Zionists out of the University! Demonstrators in Madrid confront Israeli ambassador, armed security, official complicity and police repression

On Wednesday, 8 February, students and activists for justice in Palestine gathered at the Complutense University of Madrid to protest the appearance of the Israeli ambassador to Spain, Rodica Radian-Gordon, at an event organized to “commemorate” the notorious Oslo Accords aiming toward the liquidation of the Palestinian cause. Student organizations and activists for justice in Palestine joined together to issue a call: “Zionists out of the university!” demanding that the university not invite the representative of a state engaged in war crimes and crimes against humanity targeting the Palestinian people.

After the university refused to cancel the invitation, students and Palestine organizations called for a demonstration outside the university. Demonstrators outside the building were kept far away from the entrance to the university and those with tickets who tried to enter found that those with Arab names or people known as political activists had their names marked in red on the attendance sheet and were denied entry.

Organizers noted in particular the dangerous precedent set by this action, as public universities in Spain, like the Complutense, are meant to be open to all without discrimination. The invitation of the Zionist ambassador was accompanied also by an invitation to impose racist, apartheid practices and policies of political censorship on the university and its students. This means that the Complutense University is accepting the racist, apartheid policies of the Zionist state for its own policy, something that is even more troubling given that academic credit was available for students attending the seminar, with a number blocked because of their names and ethnic backgrounds.

The demonstrators decided to enter the university at 10:50 am, when the ambassador was scheduled to speak, where they were beset by police as well as a man — an Israeli security agent — pointing a gun, marked with the standard yellow adhesive strip in the side for Israeli undercover agents, at student protesters before going inside the Assembly Hall, where Spanish police quickly withdrew the Israeli agent.

The Zionist press confirmed all of this: the man with the gun was a Israeli agent, the ambassador’s speech was interrupted during the protest and she was temporarily confined in a safe room.

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Riot police and university private security stormed the area, dragging protesters away, including one activist who was carried and dragged through the university, and another who was beaten in the face. They demanded identification from all of the protesters while arresting two women who were involved in the demonstration. The women were accused of resisting police — and their charges later amended to some form of “minor injury” against the heavily armed and shielded cops that arrested them.

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Spanish media later reported that university officials justified the presence of the extensive security and riot-geared police to students who complained, because a man had been reported carrying a weapon — that is, the Israeli security agent. However, the police attacked the protesters and forced them from the university, while there is no indication that the Zionist agent was ever detained or even questioned.

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The incident has drawn widespread attention and condemnation of the violence displayed against the students and organizers for justice in Palestine, while despite the repression the protesters have made clear that direct action to boycott the occupation works: the Zionist ambassador’s speech was interrupted, and she fled from protest and challenge, while the regime she represents continues its daily assault on the Palestinian people, including extrajudicial killings, mass incarceration, home demolitions, land theft, denial of the right to return and 75 years of ongoing Nakba. Rather than stopping the growing movement for justice in Palestine, the action in Madrid will only inspire further organizing and activity.

In this sense, this direct action has consolidated the anti-fascist, anti-Zionist and anti-imperialist movement at the university and in the streets of Madrid. The university now knows that the next time they want to invite the Zionist ambassador or other imperialist criminals, they will have to deploy much more security and resources, and even with that, they will encounter resistance among the student body.

The Wednesday action marked the second significant blow to the Israeli occupation from the area of the Spanish State on 8 February, as that date also marked the decision of the mayor of Barcelona, Catalonia, to cut relationships with Israel and suspend the “Barcelona-Tel Aviv” twinning relationship.

It was followed by another mobilization on Saturday, 11 Febuary, part of the Days of Rage and Resistance called by the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement. Organized by the Masar Badil, Samidoun Spain, Alkarama Palestinian Women’s Mobilization, Al Yudur Palestinian Youth Mobilization, and Unadikum, demonstrators gathered in a square in Madrid to stand with the Palestinian people and denounce the ongoing massacres and crimes, declaring that the struggle for return and liberation will continue.

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