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20 more Palestinian prisoners join hunger strike to end administrative detention

On Sunday, 9 October, 20 additional Palestinian prisoners joined the mass hunger strike launched by 30 administrative detainees demanding an end to detention without charge or trial. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society announced that the 20 prisoners include Palestinians jailed arbitrarily under administrative detention as well as people serving sentences imposed by Israeli occupation military courts and people awaiting trial. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges people around the world to take action and mobilize to support the 50 hunger strikers inside occupation prisons, 30 of whom enter their third week of hunger strike today.

They include 10 Palestinians held in Ofer prison — where 900 prisoners returned their meals on Thursday, 6 October in solidarity with the administrative detainees — and 10 in the Naqab desert prison.

The 10 Palestinian strugglers in Ofer prison are:

  1. Abdel-Razzaq Farraj
  2. Mohammed Wael
  3. Saqr Raqban
  4. Mohammed Farraj
  5. Udai Obayat
  6. Hamza Sweiti (administrative detainee)
  7. Basil Daamsa (administrative detainee)
  8. Ahmed Adawi (administrative detainee)
  9. Mohammed Atallah al-Lahham
  10. Ruwaid al-Hindi

The 10 strikers in the Naqab desert prison are:

  1. Yahya Mohammed Ali Zahran
  2. Hassan Ali Ahmad
  3. Mohammed al-Jabri (administrative detainee)
  4. Ashraf al-Sajdi (administrative detainee)
  5. Ahmad Mohammed al-Khatib
  6. Shafiq Saabneh
  7. Mohammed Saabneh
  8. Rani Qawar
  9. Ahmed Abdel-Karim
  10. Fadi Abdullah Khaizaran

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There are currently approximately 800 Palestinian prisoners jailed under administrative detention orders out of a total of approximately 4,650 total Palestinian prisoners in occupation jails. Administrative detention was first introduced to Palestine by the British colonial mandate before being adopted by the Zionist project. Detention orders can be issued for up to six months at a time on the basis of “secret evidence” denied to both the detainee and their lawyer. These orders are indefinitely renewable, with many Palestinians spending years at a time jailed under administrative detention, and neither they nor their families and communities are ever sure when they will be released, an additional form of collective punishment and psychological torture.

The first 30 administrative detainees who began the strike are listed below, with 20 joining today and additional prisoners scheduled to join in the battle as it continues. They include community leaders like Nidal Abu Aker and Ghassan Zawahreh, who have spent years in administrative detention; French-Palestinian lawyer and human rights defender Salah Hammouri, student organizers like Zaid Qaddoumi, and a number of others:

1. Nidal Abu Aker, 54, of Dheisheh refugee camp, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 1 August 2022.
2. Ehab Masoud, 50, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 17 October 2021.
3. Asim Al Kaabi, 44, of Balata refugee camp, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 24 August 2022.
4. Ahmed Hajjaj, 44, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 24 August 2022.
5. Thaer Taha, 43, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 1 May 2022.
6. Rami Fadayel, 43, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 5 September 2022.
7. Lotfi Salah, 43, of Bethlehem
8. Salah Hammouri, 37, of Jerusalem, imprisoned without charge or trial since 7 March 2022.
9. Ghassan Zawahreh, 40, of Dheisheh refugee camp, imprisoned without charge or trial since 19 August 2022.
10. Kanaan Kanaan, 30, of Hizma, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 3 August 2022.
11. Ashraf Abu Aram, 36, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 7 June 2021.
12. Ghassan Karajah, 32, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 11 August 2022.
13. Saleh Abu Alia, 32, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 4 March 2022.
14. Awad Kanaan, 32, of Hizma, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 2 February 2022.
15. Leith Kassaberah, 31, of Beit Anan, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 1 February 2022
16. Saleh Al-Jaidi, 30, of Dheisheh refugee camp, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 4 August 2022.
17. Basil Mezher, 29, of Dheisheh refugee camp, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 12 November 2021.
18. Majd Al-Khawaja, 28, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 14 June 2022.
19. Jihad Shreiteh, 28, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 8 May 2022.
20. Haitham Siyaj, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 3 November 2021.
21. Mustafa Al-Hasanat, 29, of Bethlehem, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 3 February 2022.
22. Azmi Shreiteh al Barghouthi, 23, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 8 May 2022.
23. Muhammad Abu Ghazi, 22, of Arroub refugee camp, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 13 March 2022.
24. Ahmed Al-Kharouf, 22 of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 13 June 2022.
25. Nasrallah Barghouti, 22 of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention.
26. Muhammad Fuqaha, 22, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 15 March 2022.
27. Tamer Al-Hajouj, 22, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 15 March 2022.
28. Raghad Shamroukh, of Dheisheh refugee camp, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 12 September 2022.
29. Zaid Qaddoumi, of Beit Jala, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 16 September 2022.
30. Senar Hamad, 20, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 18 April 2022.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all supporters of Palestine and the prisoners’ struggle to join the campaign to end administrative detention and to support these valiant prisoners putting their bodies and lives on the line to resist and struggle for a liberated Palestine, through their hunger strike for freedom.

Download these distributable flyers and posters to highlight the struggle to free Palestinian prisoners:

1. Mobilize actions, demonstrations and creative interventions – Take to the streets to defend the Palestinian people and their resistance! As was made clear during the Unity Intifada/Seif al-Quds in May 2021, 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.

2. 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.

30 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike for 14 days: 900 prisoners return meals in solidarity

Thirty Palestinian prisoners are continuing their hunger strike to end administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial, as the prisoners’ movement as a whole has acted to show solidarity and stand with the strikers. They are now on their 14th day of hunger strike, which they launched on 25 September. Zakaria Zubaidi, one of the six heroes of the Freedom Tunnel, who liberated themselves from the infamous Gilboa prison in September 2021, announced he would go on a five-day hunger strike in solidarity with the striking detainees fighting to end detention without charge or trial.

This comes after 900 prisoners in Ofer prisons returned their meals on Thursday, 6 October in solidarity with the hunger strikers, all of whom are jailed without charge or trial. They are among approximately 800 Palestinians held under administrative detention out of 4,650 total Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation jails. As the prisoners’ movement behind bars has escalated its solidarity with the 30 strikers, so too have people throughout Palestine and around the world.

Nidal Abu Aker, one of the strikers and a leader in Dheisheh refugee camp, sent a message from his prison cell to his daughter on the occasion of her engagement:

“With the finest and most tender human feelings that fill my soul to bring back memories o our journey with all the love, joy and happiness that we have made together, and at the same time, pain, sorrows and separation from our loved ones by the fascist enemy, which believes that it can kill our dreams, joy and happiness that reach and embrace the sky.

I am addressing you from my cell as I and my comrades are waging a battle of empty stomachs, demanding our right to freedom and claiming the joy that we snatch from the teeth of the colonizers. We believe that our happiness lies in the struggle to break our chains and put an end to the arbitrary, immoral policy of administrative detention.

How beautiful it is to share our joy and happiness in the engagement of Dalia and Haitham! How beautiful is your embrace of and support for them! I feel as if I am present among you despite my enforced absence, through my friends and family, close and extended. I look forward to continuing our joy with Dalia and Haitham, as we celebrated for Mohammed’s graduation after years of imprisonment, and for Carmel, who is about to graduate from university. She inspires hope in the soul, a model of giving, a symbol of the camp and its luminous future.

My strength during this battle of empty stomachs is strengthened by you. You are my family, the people of the camp, and all of my friends. You are the compass that I follow, the seed of growth in the earth. The oppression of the occupiers will not prevent us from singing, joy and love.

We have all the joy, we have a future that will be bright, without the colonizers. And here I recall the words of the leftist Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, ‘Our enemies can cut all the roses, but they will never be the masters of spring.’ I congratulate you, dearest Dalia, I congratulate you, Haitham and your beloved family, I am sure that happiness will always be our companion. My love, sincere greetings and warm kisses to all of you.”

There is an ongoing public sit-in organized by the Palestinian national forces in Dheisheh refugee camp. On Friday, 7 October, a letter from Ghassan Zawahreh, another long-term leader in Dheisheh camp, was read out to the gathering:

“In these days, previous strikes, names and images pass through my mind. I see my comrades on strike, I remember the story of each one of them. I see all the details that others do not see, I see their aches, pains and suffering. I see their bodies losing weight daily, and those aches that cannot be assuaged except by their will. The merciless aches of their bodies, headaches, and general emaciation, and even the sound of pain that emits from their bones, which I can almost hear, even though I am at this spatial distance from them. I see all those details in their aches and pains, but it is a fleeting picture, which soon goes away. In its place is occupied by another image, the image of the fighter and the resistance struggler, the revolutionary.

The image of will, steadfastness and defiance, which does not fade. These men refuse simply follow the current, but rather form and make the current themselves. I see them and tell you all, that their real pain is not the hunger strike, nor all their pain, aches, and atrophy of their bodies, in this battle they are waging. Indeed, I see them happy more than ever, because they raise their voices high.”

Palestinians in Gaza rallied in a large march on Saturday, 8 October in support of the prisoners on hunger strike, demanding their release in a rally organized by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

This came alongside multiple gatherings in the refugee camps in Lebanon and Syria as well as rallies and actions in Berlin, Vancouver, Toulouse, Paris, New York City and elsewhere around the world. The Bahrain Society for Resisting Normalization with the Zionist Entity held a solidarity event to support the prisoners in Zionist jails on hunger strike on 8 October.

There are currently approximately 800 Palestinian prisoners jailed under administrative detention orders out of a total of approximately 4,650 total Palestinian prisoners in occupation jails. Administrative detention was first introduced to Palestine by the British colonial mandate before being adopted by the Zionist project. Detention orders can be issued for up to six months at a time on the basis of “secret evidence” denied to both the detainee and their lawyer. These orders are indefinitely renewable, with many Palestinians spending years at a time jailed under administrative detention, and neither they nor their families and communities are ever sure when they will be released, an additional form of collective punishment and psychological torture.

The first 30 administrative detainees who began the strike are listed below, with additional prisoners scheduled to join in the battle as it continues. They include community leaders like Nidal Abu Aker and Ghassan Zawahreh, who have spent years in administrative detention; French-Palestinian lawyer and human rights defender Salah Hammouri, student organizers like Zaid Qaddoumi, and a number of others:

1. Nidal Abu Aker, 54, of Dheisheh refugee camp, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 1 August 2022.
2. Ehab Masoud, 50, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 17 October 2021.
3. Asim Al Kaabi, 44, of Balata refugee camp, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 24 August 2022.
4. Ahmed Hajjaj, 44, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 24 August 2022.
5. Thaer Taha, 43, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 1 May 2022.
6. Rami Fadayel, 43, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 5 September 2022.
7. Lotfi Salah, 43, of Bethlehem
8. Salah Hammouri, 37, of Jerusalem, imprisoned without charge or trial since 7 March 2022.
9. Ghassan Zawahreh, 40, of Dheisheh refugee camp, imprisoned without charge or trial since 19 August 2022.
10. Kanaan Kanaan, 30, of Hizma, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 3 August 2022.
11. Ashraf Abu Aram, 36, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 7 June 2021.
12. Ghassan Karajah, 32, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 11 August 2022.
13. Saleh Abu Alia, 32, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 4 March 2022.
14. Awad Kanaan, 32, of Hizma, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 2 February 2022.
15. Leith Kassaberah, 31, of Beit Anan, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 1 February 2022
16. Saleh Al-Jaidi, 30, of Dheisheh refugee camp, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 4 August 2022.
17. Basil Mezher, 29, of Dheisheh refugee camp, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 12 November 2021.
18. Majd Al-Khawaja, 28, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 14 June 2022.
19. Jihad Shreiteh, 28, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 8 May 2022.
20. Haitham Siyaj, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 3 November 2021.
21. Mustafa Al-Hasanat, 29, of Bethlehem, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 3 February 2022.
22. Azmi Shreiteh al Barghouthi, 23, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 8 May 2022.
23. Muhammad Abu Ghazi, 22, of Arroub refugee camp, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 13 March 2022.
24. Ahmed Al-Kharouf, 22 of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 13 June 2022.
25. Nasrallah Barghouti, 22 of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention.
26. Muhammad Fuqaha, 22, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 15 March 2022.
27. Tamer Al-Hajouj, 22, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 15 March 2022.
28. Raghad Shamroukh, of Dheisheh refugee camp, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 12 September 2022.
29. Zaid Qaddoumi, of Beit Jala, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 16 September 2022.
30. Senar Hamad, 20, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 18 April 2022.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all supporters of Palestine and the prisoners’ struggle to join the campaign to end administrative detention and to support these valiant prisoners putting their bodies and lives on the line to resist and struggle for a liberated Palestine, through their hunger strike for freedom.

Download these distributable flyers and posters to highlight the struggle to free Palestinian prisoners:

1. Mobilize actions, demonstrations and creative interventions – Take to the streets to defend the Palestinian people and their resistance! As was made clear during the Unity Intifada/Seif al-Quds in May 2021, 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.

2. 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.

#ElbitEight trial delayed – keep up the fight to #ShutElbitDown!

We are republishing the following statement from Palestine Action on the delay of the Elbit Eight criminal trial in Britain — in which eight Palestine Action activists are being prosecuted on felony charges for taking direct action to disrupt the production of weapons at Israeli arms factories — until November 2023. Please note: the demonstration this Sunday, 9 October, in New York City to #ShutElbitDown is going forward! We encourage everyone to join the NYC action and to continue to support Palestine Action’s ongoing campaigns to #ShutElbitDown once and for all. Learn more about how you can support and get involved with Palestine Action’s important work at their website.

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“Resistance against Elbit is a duty, a duty that will be answered regardless of what the British courts have to say.”

The landmark case of the Elbit Eight has been delayed to November 2023, it was decided in a court hearing earlier this week. The charges still stand and are highly politically motivated – an act of calculated lawfare levelled at the movement that shut down an Israeli arms factory. Its delay follows on from three prior delays to the trial over two years – most notably in May 2021, when Gaza was under attack by Israel.

In addition to this, the trial of the Kingsway 3 entered court this week. On the third day it was announced by the judge that the trial would be put on hold to a further date, after Elbit Systems failed to provide necessary evidence pertaining to the company’s activities. Once again, Elbit are shying away from the courts and the prospect of scrutiny they offer.

A number of cases faced by members of Palestine Action have faced significant delay, whilst many have walked free after charges being dropped, owing to “unrealistic prospects of conviction” and the repeated failures of Elbit to provide evidence to the courts. Last month, five activists saw all charges dropped following action taken in July at Elbit subsidiary ‘UAV Engines’, where combat drone parts and engines are manufactured.

Nevertheless, the campaign to prove #ElbitIsGuilty continues, comprising all our ongoing and upcoming legal battles. Regardless of legal outcomes, we know that history will vindicate our actions, whilst Elbit and the international arms trade will be condemned to the dustbin of history. Resistance against Elbit is a duty, a duty that will be answered regardless of what the British courts have to say.

Support activists who #ShutElbitDown in London. Mobilise at Highbury Corner Magistrates Court from 9:30 am on the 11th, 12th and 13th October next week.

October 2022: Take Action to free Georges Abdallah – from Lannemezan to Brussels and beyond!

On 24 October 2022, Georges Abdallah, the Lebanese Arab communist struggler with the Palestinian resistance, will enter his 39th year in French prison. He has been imprisoned since 1984 and eligible for release since 1999, yet remains held behind French bars because he will not relinquish his political convictions and commitment to the liberation of Palestine and the peoples of the world.

Today, he is one of the longest-held political prisoners in Europe, recognized by the Palestinian prisoners’ movement as part of its ranks. In 2007, the DST, the French secret service, said: “As an emblematic personality of the anti-Zionist struggle, the release of Georges Abdallah would undoubtedly constitute an event in Lebanon. He will likely be celebrated as a hero on his return to his country, and also by different movements engaged in the revolutionary struggle.” While they used this observation to justify his continued imprisonment, it is for exactly this reason that we must struggle for his liberation. Supporting the campaign to free Georges Abdallah is part and parcel of supporting the Palestinian people and their resistance to colonialism!

Samidoun is joining with over 60 organizations to call for a month of international mobilization to demand Georges Abdallah’s immediate release. The month of action will reach its peak on Saturday, 22 October at 2 p.m. with a major demonstration in Lannemezan, France, marching from the train station to the prison where Georges Abdallah is being held. Last year, more than 1,000 people were present for a large demonstration in support of Georges Abdallah and the Palestinian resistance. This year again, we will make clear that Palestine and its prisoners are not alone!

Following the major march in Lannemezan, join us one week later in Brussels, where the March for Return and Liberation on 29 October, marching at 2 pm from Lumumba Square to the European Parliament, will include the liberation of Georges Abdallah as a major demand.

Take action!

We urge all supporters of Palestine to join activities in your city or organize initiatives to highlight the case of Georges Abdallah and demand his liberation. Here are some examples:

  • Print, distribute and post these posters (image above and downloadable here) calling for the liberation of Georges Abdallah in your community.
  • Organize a screening of the film, Fedayin, the Struggle of Georges Abdallah in your community. The film is fully subtitled and available in English, French, Arabic, Italian, Spanish, and German. To organize a screening, please contact vacarmesfilms@gmail.com
  • Protest or deliver a letter demanding Georges Abdallah’s release at the French consulate or embassy in your city.
  • Include Georges Abdallah’s liberation – and the liberation of Palestinian prisoners – in demonstrations, actions and vigils for Palestine and the boycott of Israel in your city.
  • Participate in the mobilization on social networks using the hashtags #MacronLibérezAbdallah and #FreeGeorgesAbdallah. Use the Facebook profile decor to draw attention to the case.
  • Write Georges Abdallah and send him solidarity messages (individually or as a collective action of your group). Send letters to:

Monsieur Georges Ibrahim ABDALLAH
2388/A221 CP de Lannemezan
204 rue des Saligues
BP 70166
65307 LANNEMEZAN
France

  • Buy the “Freedom for Georges Abdallah!” t-shirt from the Collectif Palestine Vaincra.
  • Order the flag “Freedom for Georges Abdallah!” Freedom for Palestine!” from the Collectif Palestine Vaincra.

Contact us at samidoun@samidoun.net for more information or to let us know about your action or send us a message on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram)

Who Is Georges Ibrahim Abdallah?

A Lebanese Arab struggler for Palestine, Georges Abdallah has been imprisoned in French prisons since 1984, convicted on charges of participation in armed actions by the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Faction, working to fight off colonialist and Zionist invasions in Lebanon.

From his youth, Georges Abdallah was an activist, working first with the Syrian Social Nationalist party and then with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). With the PFLP, he resisted and was injured by Israeli forces invading Lebanon in 1978. A committed Communist and internationalist, he views the Arab struggle for liberation from Zionism and imperialism as part and parcel of the international workers’ struggle for liberation from capitalism.

The Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Faction (LARF) was formed to fight off and resist U.S., Israeli and other imperialist attacks on Lebanon. Georges Abdallah was accused of participating in attacks on U.S. and Israeli military officials in France.

He has been eligible for release since 1999 yet continues to be denied parole, despite having parole requests approved several times by French judges. The Lebanese government has officially asked for his release, and he is asking to be deported to Lebanon. Yet the French state has intervened at the highest levels, alongside the U.S and Israeli regimes, to deny Georges Abdallah’s parole requests.

In fact, in 1985, the French government agreed to a prisoner exchange – to release Abdallah in exchange for a captured French diplomat. Instead, the diplomat was released – and Abdallah remained in prison. His own original lawyer was in fact a spy working for the French state and reporting on him to the highest levels of French intelligence; all of which was used against him in court.

People throughout France and around the world have campaigned for his freedom for decades. His brothers and loved ones in Lebanon lead the International Campaign to Free Georges Ibrahim Abdallah. He is considered to be part of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.

His case represents also the coherence of U.S., Israeli and European colonialist interests in the imprisonment of Palestinian and Arab strugglers for liberation and the attack on the Palestinian people.

  • Order stickers and flyers at a low price (or to pick up for free during our initiatives)
  • Offer posters and/or flyers of the mobilization month to merchants in your neighborhood by asking us for a few
  • Participate in the mobilization on social networks using the hashtag #FreeGeorgesAbdallah
  • Register for the free-price bus to participate in the demonstration on Saturday October 22 from the station to the Lannemezan prison

For any request, send us an email to  collectivepalestinevaincra@gmail.com  or a message on our various social networks ( Facebook ,  Twitter  or  Instagram ).

 

7 Οκτώβρη: Πρώτη προβολή της ταινίας για τη ζωή και τον αγώνα του Georges Abdallah

Studio New Star Art Cinema (Σταυροπούλου 33, πλ. Αμερικής) – Παρασκευή 7 Οκτώβρη στις 21:00

Ως Aντιιμπεριαλιστικό Μέτωπο και Samidoun – Δίκτυο για τους Παλαιστίνιους Κρατούμενους, διοργανώνουμε την πρώτη προβολή της ταινίας Fedayin, ντοκιμαντέρ για τη ζωή και τον αγώνα του μακροβιότερου πολιτικού κρατούμενου στην Ευρώπη, 38 χρόνια κρατούμενος στις γαλλικές φυλακές, του αλύγιστου Λιβανέζου κομμουνιστή, μαχητή της Παλαιστινιακής υπόθεσης, Georges Abdallah.

Στο ντοκιμαντέρ περιγράφεται ο ηρωικός αγώνας του Παλαιστινιακού λαού, από τη Νάκμπα, 15 Μαϊου 1948 μέρα της μεγάλης καταστροφής μέχρι και σήμερα. Περιγράφεται η ένταξη του Αbdallah ως σάρκα από τη σάρκα της Αντίστασης, μέσα από τις αφηγήσεις των αδερφών του καθώς και των συντρόφων και συντροφισσών που παλέψανε μαζί. Καθώς επίσης και η φυλάκιση του από το γαλλικό κράτος το 1984 και η τελείως εκδικητική μη αποφυλάκισή του, ενορχηστρωμένη από τον ιμπεριαλισμό και το κράτος δολοφόνο του Ισραήλ. Δικαιούται να αποφυλακιστεί από το 1999, αλλά δεν τον αποφυλακίζουν γιατί δηλώνει ακόμα απερίφραστα αμετανόητος αγωνιστής, στρατευμένος στο πλευρό των εκατομμυρίων ξεριζωμένων και δολοφονημένων Παλαιστινίων. Γιατί δε μετανοεί γι’ αυτό και τον εκδικούνται ΗΠΑ-Γαλλία-Ισραήλ.

Ο Abdallah αποτελεί φωτεινό σηματοδότη όλων των κινημάτων ανά τον κόσμο, ένα υπόδειγμα διεθνιστή αγωνιστή που μετεμψύχωσε πλήρως με τη στάση του τη φράση μια ζωή δοσμένη στον αγώνα. Όσο κρατείται στις φυλακές θα μας θυμίζει πάντα πως δεν υπάρχει ειρήνη χωρίς δικαιοσύνη.

Η προβολή της ταινίας γίνεται στο πλαίσιο του συνεδρίου για τα 20 χρόνια του Αντι Ιμπεριαλιστικού Μετώπου και την προβολή θα προλογίσει ο Mohammed Khatib, ομιλητής στο ντοκιμαντέρ και συντονιστής του Samidoun Ευρώπης. Η ταινία είναι παραγωγή της Κολλεκτίβας Vacarmes Films και υποτιτλίστηκε στα ελληνικά από το Αντιιμπεριαλιστικό Μέτωπο.

Μεταξύ άλλων στο ντοκιμαντέρ συμμετέχουν ο παλαιστίνιος αγωνιστής και συγγραφέας Khaled Barakat, η Charlotte Kates συντονίστρια του Samidoun- Διεθνές, ο Mohammed Khatib συντονιστής Samidoun- Ευρώπης, οι πρώην πολιτικοί κρατούμενοι ο Jean-Marc Rouillan and ο Bertrand Sassoye , ο δικηγόρος Jean-Louis Chalanset, τα αδέρφια του Georges Abdallah’s Robert και Maurice Abdallah και η δικηγόρος για την απελευθέρωση του Georges Abdallah Suzanne Le Manceau.

Συνέβαλε καθοριστικά το κίνημα αλληλεγγύης στη δημιουργία, την υλοποίηση και εν τέλει στο να γίνει πραγματικότητα το ντοκυμαντέρ.

Ας παρεβρεθούμε στην πρώτη προβολή ενώνοντας τις φωνές μας για λευτεριά στον Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, για λευτεριά στην Παλαιστίνη, για να νικήσει η αντίσταση…

Anti-Imperialist Front

Samidoun – Δίκτυο Αλληλεγγύης για τους Παλαιστίνιους Κρατούμενους

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network

Against the EU-Israel Association Council: Samidoun letter to MEPs, gatherings in Brussels and Gothenburg

Photo: Hbaash Awaad

On 3 October, the “EU-Israel Association Council” convened in Brussels, Belgium, with the participation of 27 European foreign ministers, EU foreign affairs head Josep Borrell, and the Israeli Intelligence Minister Elizar Stern, with prime minister Yair Lapid appearing over video call. This was the first meeting of this council in 10 years after meetings were suspended over settlement expansion. Read our statement calling for an end to the EU-Israel Association Agreement, which rewards the occupation for its war crimes and crimes against humanity with preferential trade status and EU funding, here.

In line with our statement, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network sent a letter to all Members of European Parliament in protest of the meeting. In the letter, Samidoun draws attention to the letter of 47 MEPs which called for the meeting to be cancelled due to ongoing Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people, as well as the press conference and letter by the National and Islamic Forces in Gaza, occupied Palestine, demanding an end to the EU-Israel Association Council.

The Samidoun letter focuses on the situation of Palestinian prisoners, particularly the 30 Palestinian prisoners currently on hunger strike to end administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial. It draws particular attention to the case of French-Palestinian lawyer Salah Hamouri, an EU citizen currently on hunger strike and held in isolation to end his detention.

Click here to download our letter to all MEPs.

Letter to MEPs on EU-Israel Association

 

Photo: Hbaash Awaad

In Brussels, several organizations, including the Association Belgo-Palestinienne, organized a rally outside the headquarters of the European Commission, with the participation of Samidoun members and others, who shared information about the 29 October March for Return and Liberation from Lumumba Square to the European Parliament, and the Week of Action for Palestinian Liberation.

Earlier, “Free Palestine” graffiti had been sprayed in the vicinity of the EU buildings with slogans highlighting European complicity in Israeli crimes.

In Gothenburg, Sweden, organizations in the Palestine Coordination, including Samidoun Gothenburg, gathered together to send a solidarity message declaring that Lapid and the EU-Israel Association Council are not welcome:

On October 29, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network will join with our comrades in the Masar Badil (Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement), CAPJPO-EuroPalestine, Collectif Palestine Vaincra, Plate-Forme Charleroi-Palestine, Classe Contre Classe, Secours Rouge and many more to march from Lumumba Square to the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium. The March for Return and Liberation will begin at 2 pm, calling for the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea, and including demands to end the EU-Israel Association Agreement and kick the occupation regime out of EU bodies and agreements. This march is the culmination of the Week for Palestinian Liberation in Brussels, from 24-29 October. Join us! 

9 October, NYC: Solidarity With Palestine Action and the Elbit Eight Rally

WHAT: Solidarity With Palestine Action and the Elbit Eight Rally
WHEN: Sun, Oct 09 at 2pm
WHERE: 200 Park Ave, NY, NY, at East 45th St.

Come through and show your support for the activists physically confronting the Zionist war machine

On Monday October 10th eight activists from Palestine Action (@pal_action) known as the #ElbitEight will be facing down the zionist entity’s largest arms manufacturer – Elbit Systems – in the courts as they stand trial on trumped up political charges in the UK for putting their bodies on the line and carrying out direct action protests to disrupt Elbit’s operations and #ShutElbitDown.

In the last 24 hours alone, four activists from Palestine Action shut down a factory for 9 hours after locking themselves to a car at the front gate, in the latest act of confrontation and disruption with the zionist war machine in the UK. From the UK to Palestine the people continue to resist by any means necessary! 🇵🇸

Join us in NYC next Sunday October 9th the day before their trial begins as we take to the streets to stand in solidarity with the #EblitEight and protest against the financial institutions in NYC that are invested in Elbit and profiting off of the ongoing genocide of the Palestine people.

For more info and to receive future updates:
➡️ Follow @pal_action on Twitter and Instagram
➡️ Visit www.palestineaction.org/elbitisguilty

Organized by Samidoun NY/NJ, Within Our Lifetime and the Palestinian Youth Movement

Al Falasteniyeh: New Palestinian media network committed to return and liberation

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes Al Falasteniyeh Media Network, a new Palestinian media initiative that aims to link Palestinians inside occupied Palestine and everywhere in exile and diaspora together with Arab and international liberation movements, with a clear and principled commitment to anti-normalization, return and liberation.

With the slogan, “From the River to the Sea to the World,” Al Falasteniyeh illustrates its commitment to Palestine as an indivisible unit, and the Palestinian people everywhere they are. Among its core principles is a commitment to amplify the voices and narratives of Palestinian prisoners, leaders of the Palestinian resistance locked behind colonial bars and subjected to torture, abuse and isolation. The Media Network will launch on 29 October at the March for Return and Liberation. We urge all to follow and share Al Falasteniyeh on Twitter and Instagram, and share their mission statement below:

Al Falasteniyeh is an independent English and Arabic language media network with in-country Palestinian journalists collaborating with staff around the globe.

Mission

Al Falasteniyeh aims to be an independent Palestinian media network that reports and produces unique creative content on all matters relating to the Palestinian people in Palestine and around the globe.

We wish to develop a contemporary and forward looking news network that uplifts the voices of Palestinians in the world today and resists the racist and oppressive narratives of Western and Zionist mainstream and state sponsored outlets. Our mission is to inform the world of the vast plurality of the Palestinians people, to share the richness of their history, and to highlight the present realities of their resistance and struggle for freedom.

Stance

Our political, ethical, and intellectual allegiance is with Palestinians living under israel occupation Palestine, from the river to sea, struggling for their liberation and seeking justice. Also, with Palestinians around the globe who engage in this struggle and who are striving for return to their homeland. We wish to empower the people of Palestine by spreading awareness, preserving their identity, amplifying their calls for organizing, and documenting their global movements for freedom.

Al Falasteniyeh recognizes and respects comprehensive resistance to occupation, imperialism and colonialism. As a media network we will amplify and highlight the militant, cultural, popular, political resistance of the Palestinian, Arab and international struggle for social and national liberation. We respect the political diversity of our region and will depict that in our programming. We respect the necessity for discussion, debate, and greater understanding.

We stand firmly against normalization with zionist occupation regime and its institutions and will support those struggling against occupation, racism, colonialism and western interventionism.

We reject the false designations and defamation by the occupying state and reactionary regimes that wish to silence the work of organizations working for prisoners rights, workers rights, woman’s right, access to healthcare, judicial rights, and freedom from journalistic oppression in Palestine , the Arab world, and all over the globe. We will expose these deceptions and untruths propagated by zionist media and their false portyal of the Palestinian peoples struggle.

Our network will also be a strong voice for gender equality within our movement and we will actively work against systems of racism, patriarchy and sexism that marginalize and bias within our movement.

We recognize the central role that the younger generations play in our movement and we wish to humbly follow this generation’s energy, vision, and leadership into the future.

End the EU-Israel Association Agreement! #EndAdministrativeDetention

On Monday, 3 October, the EU-“Israel” Association Council convened in Brussels, Belgium, after a gap of 10 years. While the meeting was originally touted as including the participation of Zionist prime minister Yair Lapid — responsible just two months ago for the bombing of Gaza that took the lives of 49 Palestinians, including 17 children — Lapid did not attend the meeting in person, sending Intelligence Minister Elizar Stern and appearing instead over video link. The resumption of the EU-“Israel” Association Council, with the participation of 27 European foreign ministers alongside the occupation officials and EU foreign affairs head Josep Borrell, confirms once again that the European Union serves as a full partner in the Zionist crimes against the Palestinian people.

The resumption of this meeting clearly seems to signify that EU officials aim to bolster Lapid in the upcoming occupation elections. While the EU has paid lip service on various occasions to concern for Palestinian rights, the massive expansion of illegal colonial settlements, the ongoing imprisonment of Palestinians without charge or trial and the extrajudicial assassination and killing of Palestinians, its own memo for the meeting instead prioritizes pressuring Arab regimes to normalize with the occupation, opposes the boycott of Israel and touts “counterterrorism cooperation” — that is, the securitized targeting of Palestinians and Arabs in Europe and in occupied Palestine.

The resumption of the EU-Israel Association Council is particularly egregious, coming as it does while 30 Palestinian prisoners are on hunger strike to end the system of administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial. These 30 prisoners — including French-Palestinian citizen, lawyer Salah Hamouri — are putting their health and lives on the line to demand an end to this injustice. There are currently approximately 743 Palestinians jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention among over 4,600 Palestinian political prisoners in total.

On various occasions, EU representatives have criticized administrative detention. It is clear that Israel’s use of administrative detention is used as a routine practice to repress, silence and isolate Palestinian community leaders and organizers, in violation of international humanitarian and human rights law. Nonetheless, the EU-Israel Association Council proceeded forward, with condemnations of the boycott movement and praise for “counterterror” cooperation, highlighting the EU as a partner in the imprisonment and repression of Palestinians.

Of course, this comes in addition to the Israeli attack on Palestinian human rights and popular organizations, ostensibly condemned by the EU and initiated by Lapid’s government, yet which was not seen as any kind of barrier to resuming the meetings of this Council after 10 years. Not to mention the siege on Gaza for the past 16 years, the August assault on Gaza, the ongoing extrajudicial killings and assassinations, including of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh, the forced expulsion of thousands of Palestinians in Masafer Yatta, the attacks on holy sites in Jerusalem and throughout Palestine, the settlement construction and forced displacement in the Naqab, and the denial of Palestinian refugees’ right to return for the past 74 years. By launching and reinstituting the Association Council, the EU makes clear that it is fully lined up as a colonial ally of the occupation regime in Palestine.

Of course, this is not a single meeting; the EU-Israel Association Agreement itself provides the occupation with access to free-trade preferences for European markets, access to EU funding and joint research and development programs. Essentially, this agreement ties the European Union to all of Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people, not only as an ongoing legacy of colonialism but through active and ongoing alliance.

Today in Gaza, the National and Islamic Forces convened a press conference and delivered a letter of protest to the EU representative in Gaza. They affirmed: “We consider the statements of war criminal Lapid in his speech at the United Nations and his reference to the ‘two state solution’ came to facilitate precisely this event, because the Zionist entity wants to achieve economic gains and considers the European Union its first economic partner. The so-called ‘two-state solution’ is just a deceitful liquidationist slogan employed to achieve gains for Zionism and to provide excuses and justifications for the ‘friends of Israel’ in Europe to circumvent reality and European and international law.”

This meeting also comes amid plans between the European Union and the Zionist project to extract the wealth and resources of the Palestinian and Lebanese people in gas deals to Europe as the EU faces energy shortages due to the sanctions it imposed on Russia. The occupation regime is already planning to extract gas from the besieged Gaza Sea, while attempting to threaten Lebanon with the extraction of its resources. The Palestinian and Lebanese resistance have been very clear in rejecting the attempts of the occupier to steal their wealth and resources,. Rather than respecting Palestinian and Lebanese sovereignty, just as in Syria and Yemen, the EU is instead interested in extracting these resources in partnership with the colonial occupier and in bolstering a warm relationship facilitated by this trade.

In the leadup to the meeting, 47 Members of European Parliament signed a statement demanding the cancellation of the Council meeting, while a demonstration was organized outside the European Commission in Brussels. It is clear from the massive demonstrations that spread throughout Europe in 2021 during the Unity Intifada/Battle of Seif al-Quds and in 2022 during the attacks on Gaza/Battle of the Unity of the Fields that the popular movements, Arab and Palestinian communities and broad sectors of the population of Europe stand with Palestine and reject Zionism and racism. Meanwhile, European states — including Berlin banning Nakba commemorations in May 2022, German immigration officials targeting Palestinians for repression and deportation and France’s attempt to ban the Collectif Palestine Vaincra and other pro-Palestine associations — continue to engage in repressive actions in an attempt to deter this growing movement for the boycott and isolation of the Israeli regime and the liberation of Palestine, including all Palestinian prisoners. This comes in addition to the imprisonment of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, the Lebanese Arab struggler for Palestine, in France for the past 38 years.

On October 29, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network will join with our comrades in the Masar Badil (Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement), CAPJPO-EuroPalestine, Collectif Palestine Vaincra, Plate-Forme Charleroi-Palestine, Classe Contre Classe, Secours Rouge and many more to march from Lumumba Square to the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium. The March for Return and Liberation will begin at 2 pm, calling for the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea, and including demands to end the EU-Israel Association Agreement and kick the occupation regime out of EU bodies and agreements. This march is the culmination of the Week for Palestinian Liberation in Brussels, from 24-29 October. Join us! 

What does the hunger strike mean? The Battle of the Thirty Fighters – Munther Khalaf Mufleh

The following article was originally published in Arabic by the Handala Center. Munther Khalaf Mufleh is a Palestinian political prisoner, a member of the Central Committee of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He is director of the Handala Center for the Prisoners’ Movement Affairs and the spokesperson for the PFLP prison branch. He is a Palestinian writer and journalist, and was issued a membership by the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate while imprisoned in recognition of his work.

by Munther Khalaf Mufleh

The administrative detainees continue their hunger strike and their battle against administrative detention with the slogan: “Dare to struggle, dare to win,” carrying the banner of victory as the primary objective of their heroic battle. This is not only a battle against subjugation to the officers of the Zionist intelligence service and the military officers of the Zionist occupation state only. Rather, it bears in its content the same vision and slogan raised by the Vietnamese fighters in their revolution: “Dare to struggle, dare to win.”

It carries implications that mean, first, confronting and resisting the occupation, rejecting its repressive measures, delegitimizing its claims and dismantling its false value system. It is a general confrontation between two frameworks, one that seeks justice, freedom, human equality and true democracy, represented and demanded by the prisoners, and the other a system of racial discrimination between human beings on the basis of ethnic affiliation. In this system, “the Jews” are the category entitled to oppression, killing and domination in the name of their ethnic superiority based on religious affiliation, as represented by “the Jewish State,” according to the laws of this same state. These laws, when it wants to exercise its authority through the oppression of another people, include an entire regime of regressive and corrupt laws including the British colonial emergency laws extending from the Mandate era and the Jordanian emergency law since before 1967, during its control over Palestine, and a pile of military decisions issued by Zionist officers and soldiers, and the legalization of decisions by military courts that do not belong to the law of the state. Amid all this, the prisoners are subject to yet more laws and institutions of detention, with arbitrarily detained prisoners held in camps without charge or trial. The prisoners are exempted from the Zionist civil and criminal law and the mandates of the entity in the sense that their human and fundamental rights are confiscated, they are not recognized as political prisoners and freedom fighters, and they are even subjected to yet another layer of racist repression in these prisons and institutions between them and other prisoners within the legal jurisdiction of this colonial entity-state.

The battle of the administrative detainees’ strike exposes in its nature the falsehood of the Zionist judicial system, which is meant to be a law with a sharp division: that for masters, and those who are subjugated and enslaved. The master is represented by the court judges who wish to punish and detain them, reflecting the goals of the occupation military officers and intelligence agents. Administrative detention is an explicitly violent practice, representing the goal of the occupation officers to erase and remove the detainees physically, materially and morally by preventing them from practicing their lives and normal existence in their communities, in their families and their homes, and excluding and isolating them in prisons and camps for dozens of years with no charge.

Administrative detention is part of the Zionist apartheid system and, even more dangerously, part of the practice of ethnic, cultural and political cleansing by the Zionist movement and state against the Palestinian people. Genocide is a practice that extends to the deliberate destruction of a society, its culture and environment, in whole or in part. In this context, the colonial regime issued tens and even hundreds of thousands of administrative detention orders against Palestinians, including Palestinian children, depriving them of their lives, education and future; and Palestinian women, seeking to dismantle the family; and Palestinian men, seeking to destroy society and its relationships. It has administratively detained elderly people, doctors, engineers, professors, students, professionals, workers, businessmen, etc., and a large number of elected representatives, directors of institutions and community organizations, men and women, simply for exercising their professional or political role. Thus, administrative detention is a war crime, and a crime of systematic and quiet ethnic cleansing, adopted by the colonial regime to dismantle the Palestinian people, eliminate their society, control their environment, and demolish their culture and institutions.

The battle of the administrative detainees’ strike is not only a battle to oppose these measures by the occupation or to achieve specific demands, although it carries those demands. It is, in fact, a more comprehensive and broader battle than the demands. The strike is a message to the world, a reminder that there are crimes committed against the Palestinian people, and that despite the silence, “they are banging on the walls of the tank.” [in reference to Ghassan Kanafani’s Men in the Sun] Therefore, this battle bears in its content the spearhead or bridge to a more general, comprehensive confrontation between the occupation and the Palestinian people, between the colonizer and the colonized.

The battle of the hunger strike is an attempt to place the bones of the prisoners in the wheels and stop the occupation’s military jeeps, to gather bodies under the tracks of the occupations armored vehicles to stop the crimes of the occupation against the Palestinian people, against the world and its international institutions, against international law and humanitarian values. Occupation and colonization is itself the main crime, the basis for the practice of all of the other crimes in occupied Palestine, the “great prison.” The most heinous types of crimes are practiced inside the prisons, detention centers and camps, and this is a Palestinian and Arab national battle regardless of who is fighting it.

The battle of the 30 detainees is the battle of Palestine and the Palestinian people, and the people can join that victory by supporting this battle and standing up alongside the prisoners by all available means. The battle of the 30 prisoners is humanity’s battle against injustice, subjugation and oppression. Let all nations, peoples, forces, parties and institutions that love justice and peace join this victory.

The battle here is not resolved only by its demands or the fulfillment of these demands, but by raising the banner of the strikers, daring to struggle for human values and the values of justice, dignity and liberation.

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