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Showing posts with label prisoners. Show all posts

Sunday, May 13, 2012

“Molkho’s” Visit to Occupied Ramallah in Light of the Prisoners Strike


May,13,2012
Occupied Ramallah- Local and international news agencies informed us last night, 12 May, that the Palestinian political establishment met with the representative of the Israeli apartheid regime, Isaac Molkho, in Ramallah to deliver the latter’s response to a previous letter that was sent by the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) on 17 April. 

This visit coincides with the ongoing open-ended hunger strike waged by Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons for 27 consecutive days, in a crucial and strategic battle in which the role of the prisoners’ movement in the Palestinian national struggle is restored.  This movement is raising fair demands to guarantee the treatment of political prisoners and detainees according to international humanitarian law, especially the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions.

Rather than boycott and isolate the Israeli apartheid regime for their unrelenting crimes against our people, and foremost against our prisoners, the Palestinian political establishment decided to receive and honor the representative of the Israeli apartheid regime, the same regime our prisoners are fighting against, as if the  crimes committed against our prisoners are perpetrated by someone else.

Our political prisoners are waging an immense battle on their own, because they have no illusions that the "peace process" can set them free or guarantee their dignity. They are armed only with their willpower and unity. Neither we nor they expected the PLO to choose Palestinian Prisoners Day, 17 April, which also coincided with the day of the beginning of the hunger strike, to deliver a letter to the Israeli prime minister nor to receive a representative of the apartheid regime. 

Molkho's “visit” comes at a time when, Bilal Diab and Thaer Halahleh, have gone for 76 days without food in protest of the Israeli administrative detention policy.  Additionally, Hasan Al-Safadi has gone without food for 70 days, Omar Abu Shallal for 68 days, Mahmoud Al-Sarsak for 56 days, Mohammad Taj for 57 days, Jafar Ezzedine for 53 days, and Abdullah Al-Barghouthi for 32 days. 

Our political prisoners have struggled for our dignity and have sacrificed their lives to make the PLO the sole representative of the Palestinian people, and they deserve that we stand honorably to support them.   
Therefore, we demand that the PLO:

          ·         Stop all negotiations and meetings with the Israeli apartheid regime.
·         Use its political, economical and moral weight in support of the prisoners’    strike and formulate a national strategy to liberate the prisoners.
·         Respect and protect, at the next PLO Executive Committee, the free will of our political prisoners and the sovereignty of the prisoners’ movement in its decisions.

Palestinians for Dignity

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Urgent - Action Call for Palestinian Hunger Striker Khader Adnan


Copied from Samidoun


On the 17th of December 2011 (53 days ago), Khader Adnan began his hunger strike in protest of his ill-treatment in Israeli detention and his arbitrary detention without charge or trial (known as Administrative Detention). 
He is in danger of dying at any moment. His wife, Randa, who saw him for the first time since his detention today described his condition as rapidly deteriorating and that he has lost a third of his weight and his hair.
TAKE ACTION NOW!
1.Call and demand the release of Khader Adnan, who has not been charged with any crime but instead is being held under Administrative Detention. 
Call the Israeli Embassy in Washington DC (
1-202-3645500 OR your local Embassy (for a list, click here).
Call the office of Jeffrey Feltman, Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs (1-202-6477209
Demand that Jeffrey Feltman bring this issue urgently to his counterparts in Israel and raise the question of Khader Adnan’s administrative detention.
2. Organize a protest outside your local Israeli Embassy (for a list, click here).
Post your local actions to the Khader Adnan facebook page here 
Help us spread the word with social media after you take action.
Download this photo of Khader Adnan to use for your social media profile pictures and click on the suggested messages below and they will be automatically tweeted.  
3. Other Actions
To contact the authorities within Israel, see Addameer’s appeal.
Other ideas for actions and a letter-writing template can be found on this action alert from Samidoun (The Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network).
See Amnesty International’s report and appeal to action.
Khader Adnan, the father of two daughters and with a third child on the way, is a baker, a Masters student in Economics at Birzeit University, and a political activist. Khader, was arrested on December 17, 2011 by masked soldiers who raided his home in the middle of the night (the village of Arrabe near Jenin in the occupied West Bank). Between the 18th and the 29th of January 2012, he was subjected to almost daily cruel and inhumane interrogations. During interrogations, he was shackled to a crooked chair with his hands tied behind his back in a position that caused him back pain. He said that interrogators threatened him constantly and verbally abused him and his family.
Khader was given a four-month administrative detention order on January 8, 2012. Khader’s interrogation period has ended but he refuses to accept the unjust system of administrative detention [more details], continuing his strike on the principle that such detention is a violation of his rights and identity. Administrative detention, a regular practice of the Israeli occupation, violates the internationally-recognized right to a fair trial. International standards for fair trial must be upheld for all political detainees, including those accused of violence, even under states of emergency. A military judge reviewed the administrative detention order on February 1, 2012 and is expected to inform lawyers of her decision later on this week.
Meanwhile, Khader’s health is deteriorating rapidly and doctors don’t expect him to be able to survive for much longer.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

To Mustafa's Mothers

In the name of God the Merciful the Compassionate.

O beautiful mothers who have waited for their sons to return,
My beautiful sisters, which gave to the country what is most dear to the heart,
O most beautiful women dressed in mourning cloth,
For what do you want to sing and cry, what do you want of respect, loyalty, and order,
For when he gave the most precious, when the tender met the land’s call,
With tournament and sacrifice,
His soul went up to the heavens in splendor.
For this is the way of the free among the strain of the martyrs,
Of those who proceeded on the altar of freedom and redemption for Palestine.
For our belle Palestine the spirit pays a tribute and drenches the land with blood.
We comfort you and mourn you because you left like folding clouds in the sky,
So be our symbol who we seek its light.

Perhaps, my dearest sister, perhaps you are grasped in the perturbing sadness and in the numbness wounds,
Our blood defiled above the ground is a rose shining from behind the blockade,
A rose that lights the way for us to renew our path.
Mustafa’s blood writes; on the ground pregnant with the beloved; the opening anthem,
It is for Palestine that martyr fell after martyr, and when his hand captured the stone of the intifada (uprising) and victory,
The spirit of Umm Nizar ululated and Bakr sang.

We wont write about him or enrich him. As the doors of the heart leading to him and the reluctance of his songs with their hopes and aspirations announces his presence in us, and seek our presence in him.
On the walls we see his leaps,
On the ground we trace his footsteps,
In the fields we hear his whispering cry followed by a blessed stone that calls upon him,
We will remember him and will not forget him as he enriches us and we don’t enrich him.

God will bring him closer and purify him and grant him long life.

On our land pigmented with blood, in the village of redemption, the town of martyrs, the village of Nabi Saleh, the intifada of loyalty (uprising) opens the death laden.
Barbarians scatter snipers, invaders of death on the place and on the living,
To steal life and spread grief.
Earth groaned, when the murderers instilled the gas canister in Mustafa’s fragile flesh.
Leading his soul to the sky, to befriend the companions and prophets.

The seventh sky lights up and our mother, earth opens her heart to embrace his pure body to scent its ground with his blood.
On this day resistance is announced on the slopes, on the hills singing songs of revolutionaries for the land,
The voice announcing “we die for our people to live, Long live Palestine!”.

Do not shed tears Umm Mustafa, his soul embraces us to the spectra of freedom,
Through his eyes we will look on the horizon to our victory, the victory of blood over the sword. Dearest sister, it's not easy or easy to self stand in such a situation, but with patience and faith you will come out from the circle of grief to reverence and honor that befit the presence of a martyr. So sleep in the skies Mustafa, and send Umm Nizar my greeting and tell her verily here we stay, like our olives trees resisting until we continue to be. Until we write the statement of victory, of a long desired life - humanitarian up to all the meanings of living of freedom, democracy, justice, human dignity and peace.

‘Peace be upon you the day you were born, the day you departed and the day you will be alive again’.

Greetings of peace to your mother and your father.
With warmth in my heart I dedicate this to you and to them.

Bassem Tamimi
Ofer prison.


إلى آم المصطفى

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
يا أجمل الأمهات التي انتظرت ابنها وعاد يا أجمل الأخوات التي أعطت للوطن مهجة الفؤاد يا أجمل النساء التي ما نزوت في ثياب الحداد لكي ما تشائين من الغناء ومن البكاء لكي ما تشائين من الاحترام والوفاء ولكي ما تشائين من المديح ومن الثناء فحين أعطى أجزل العطاء لبى للأرض النداء بالبطولة والفداء فصعدت روحه إلى العلياء في بهاء فهذا نهج الأحرار من سلالة الشهداء من سبقوه ع...لى مذبح الحرية والفداء لا اجل فلسطيننا الحسناء تدفع الروح مهرا وتسقي الأرض بالدماء فلنا فيك العزاء لأنك رحلت كالغيم 
الملفع في السماء فكن شراعنا الذي نلتمس به الضياء .

لعلك يا أخت الروح في يقضة الحزن وغفوة الجراح ودمنا المستباح فوق الأرض وردة تلمع من خلف الحصار يضئ لنا الطريق لنجدد المسار فدم المصطفى يكتب على الأرض الحبلى بالأحباب الإحياء سفرا يقرأ فيه افتتاح النشيد فلأجل فلسطين سقط من الشهيد تلو الشهيد وحين قبضت كفه على حجرا الانتفاضة والنصر زغردت له روح ام نزار وغنى بكر لن نكتب عنه أو نرثيه فأبواب القلب تفضى إليه وتردد أغانيه وتحمل أماله وأمانيه تعلن حضوره فينا وتبحث عن حضورنا فيه فنرى على السور قفزته وعلى للأرض خطوته ونسمع في المدى صرخته حين يتبعه حجرا مباركا ينشده ويناديه سنذكره ولن ننساه فهو الذي يرثينا ولا نرثيه فالله يقربه 
ويصطفيه وامتداد الحياة يجزيه .

على راضنا المخضبة بدمنا في قرية الفداء بلدة الشهداء النبي صالح انتفاضة الوفاء تفتح كوة من حُسن الموت المحمل برابرة العصر
 ليوزع قناصة الغزاة الموت على المكان والإنسان ليهب الحياة وترسيخ المعاناة تراب يئن يخضبه دم مصطفى حين يغرس ألقتله قنبلة الغاز في لحمه الطري فتصعد روحه إلى العلياء رفيق الصديقين والأنبياء يضئ سمائنا السابعة وتفتح أمنا الأرض قلبها لا احتضان طهر جسده لتعطر التراب من مسك دمه وفي يومه صهلت جيادنا المسرجة بالمقاومة على الروابي والسفوح تغني للأرض أغاني الثوار وتعلن بصوت دمه نموت ليعيش شعبنا وتحيا فلسطين

لا تبكيه يا أم مصطفى فروحه تأخدنا لنعانق أطياف حريتنا الحائرة ونطل من فضاء عينيه على أفق انتصارنا انتصار الدم على السيف فيا أخت الروح ليس الأمر سهلا ولا هينا على النفس الوقوف في مثل هذا الموقف ولكن بالصبر والإيمان نخرج من دائرة الحزن والفجيعة إلى مستوى الإجلال والإكرام الذي يليق بحضرة الدم والشهداء فنم في عليائك قرير العين يا حمامة سلامنا وأقرئ آم نزار مني السلام واخبرها إنا باقون هنا كأشجار زيتوننا نقاوم حتى نستمر في إن نكون ولنكتب في الأحمر القاني بيان انتصارنا للحياة المشتهاة التي نستحقها من بابها الإنساني صعودا إلى كل المعاني الحية من الحرية والديمقراطية والعدالة والكرامة الإنسانية والسلام .
سلام عليك يوم ولدت ويوم رحلت ويوم تبعث حيا والسلام.

وسلام على أمك وأبيك ودفئ قلبي اهديهم وأهديك.

باسم التميمي 
سجن عوفر


Thursday, October 20, 2011

Throw Them Into The Sea

A friend send me this today, 

If she ever deleted it! 

The blog (Bad Rachel) belong to Rachel Decter Abrams, a board member of the Emergency Committee on Israel, advocates for the extermination of Palestinians, including children. Abrams is married to former Assistant Secretary of State Elliot Abrams, and is the half-sister of Commentary editor John Podhoretz and step-daughter of Norman Podhoretz, founder of the neoconservative movement.


Now, who want to throw who into the sea?

You can read more about this topic, from my resources. 
Political correction and 972 


Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Palestinian Prisoners in Solitary confinement

1- Ahmad Saadat


Born in 1954. 
Became the Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine(PFLP) after the Assassination of Abu Ali Mustafa in 2001. 
After the Assassination of the right wing leader, and the Israeli minister of  tourism Rehaven Ze'evi, the Palestinian Authority arrested Ahmad Sa'adat, and held him in the presidential compound in Ramallah, before he was moved into a prison in Jericho under US/Britich guards. In March 2006, the Israeli kidnapped him in Operation Bringing Home the Goods
In December 25, 2008, the Israeli military court in offer, sentenced Sa'adat for 30 years.
He have been in solitary confinement since then.


2- Ahed Abu Gholmah


Born in 1968 
Joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine(PFLP). studied anthropology in BeirZaiet University, he was active during the first Intifada. In 1994 Israel put his name on its wanted list, he managed to stay free until the PA arrested him in 2002. 
From 1996 until 2001 Ahed worked with Al Dameer (concentrate on the Palestinian prisoners rights in the Israeli prisons).
Israel accused Ahed for providing armed and training for the PFLP cell that assassinated Rehaven Ze'evi.
Arrested by the PA in 2002, and later kidnapped by the Israeli in 2006 in Operation Bringing Home the Goods.
In December 25, 2008, an Israeli military court sentenced Ahed for 30 years.
He have been in solitary confinement since then.


3- Abdallah Barghoti




Born in 1972. 
was Born in Kuwait which he left with his family in 1991 to Jordan, where he finish his high school, before he move to South Korea to work and study Korean literature for 2 years, after that he returned to Jordan to study mechanical engineer. 
Barghoti returned into his village in Palestine in 1990, worked in Jerusalem until 2000, before the first Intifada start, he then started to work in Ramallah and then Nablus where he was recruited by Hamas.
In 2001, after the Sbaro restaurant suicide attack in Jerusalem held by Ez Al Deen Al Massri(Picture below) AlBarghoti became on the top of Israel's wanted list.




In  March 5th, 2003 while ALBarghoti was taking his daughter to the doctor he was arrested by the Israeli special force, few months later, an Israeli military court sentenced Al Barghoti for 1700 years.
He have been in solitary confinement since then.

4- Jamal Abu AlHaija

Born in 1959
ٍJamal returned to Palestine after the second Gulf war in 1990, after 11 years of teaching in Yemen and Saudi Arabia. As soon as he arrived to Palestine he participated in the first Intifada, he was arrested six times. 
During the Second Intifada he lead the Islamic movement in Jenin, in April 2002, Jamal fought with his brothers in Jenin camp against the Israeli invader where he lost his arm. 
He was arrested in August, 26, 2002. 
In April 11th, 2006 he was sentenced for 225 years. 
He have been in solitary confinement since then

5- Mahmoud Essa 

Born in 1968 "Not confirmed"
Mahmoud Essa was arrested in 3 Jun, 1993, after the kidnapping and killing of the Israeli officer Nassem Tolidano. 
"In response to this attack, Israel arrested and exiled 415 into Marj Al Zohor, they all returned a year later, as they refused to leave."
Mahmoud Essa was sentenced for 121 years. 
He have been in Solitary confinement for the last 12 years. 
He describe his solitary confinement 
"Life and Death are Equal in the solitary confinement, even death and grave are more merciful, as it hold internal comfort after the man passes away, but in those cells, its a continuous death, in every second, in every blink. Words can't describe, and human cant stand" 

Hope this gave you an Idea about some of the men who suffer from the Israeli fascist policies in its prisons industrial complex. Solitary confinement has no purpose but revenge from those men, who did nothing but standing in the face of the Israeli occupation.


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