PALESTINE - November 4th, 2016
Statement of the International network before the hunger strike of the Palestinian prisoners
From the dungeons of the Fascist Zionist state of Israel, five Palestinian prisoners are struggling with heroic hunger strikes ...
Freedom to Samer Issawi, Munther Snobar, Anas Shadid,
Ahmad Abu Fara, and Ahmad Salatneh!
Freedom to the more than 7,000 Palestinian political prisoners!
We are all Palestinians!
Down with the Fascist Zionist state of Israel!
For several days now, more than 30, several Palestinian political prisoners have launched a hunger strike against administrative detention, including Anas Shadid, Ahmad Abu Fara, Majd Abu Shamla and Hasan Rubayah.
On 25 October, other Palestinian political prisoners, Samer Issawi, Munther Snobar and Musab Manasrah, have joined the hunger strike, where they fight against administrative detention and add their demands: ending the mistreatment of Palestinian prisoners, allowing visits of doctors to sick Palestinian prisoners and the lifting of a security ban so that families and relatives can visit their children in prison, as some of them died without seeing their family for many years.
On 1/11 another prisoner, Ahmad Salatneh, joined the hunger strike.
Finally yesterday, three Palestinian prisoners, Majd Abu Shamla, Hasan Rubayah and Musab Manasra, laid down their measure after reaching an agreement that administrative detention will not be extended.
Today, there are 5 Palestinian political prisoners who are still on hunger strike in the Zionist prisons. |
November 1st, 2016
Message of Leila Issawi, mother of Samer (who is on a hunger strike), Medhat and Shireen Issawi, 3 Palestinian prisoners in the jail of the Zionist invader
“Samer al-Issawi owns the world's longest hunger strike. With patience, challenge and will, he has declared a hunger strike since Tuesday October 25, not for personal demands but for all prisoners. He was joined by the prisoner Munther Sunbur, sentenced to four times perpetual (4 life sentences) yesterday.
We must alleviate the suffering of the wounded and sick prisoners, and move forwards the treatment they need, and the transfer from Damon prison to a prison closer to the courts. This is also to the prisoners in Alashbal.
That the security prohibition be lifted so that the families and relatives can visit their children in prison, because some of them died without seeing their family for many years.
We ask God to attend their human demands and to have their rights according to international laws. "
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As we say this, we see the Palestinians standing up fighting for what is theirs, even within jails, as do the political prisoners who started their hunger strike at this time.
The heroic Palestinian political prisoners are an example. They give us a lesson indeed and in life itself that an oppressed people and a freedom fighter never kneel before their executioners.
The struggle for the freedom of all political prisoners of the world and of the Palestinians in particular who are facing a Zionist occupation is a task of all the workers and exploited of the world to fight in better conditions and that our fighters are not under the boot of the repressive states.
Joining our forces and coordinating our actions will be a thousand times stronger to free our fighters and take revenge from our oppressors.
Let us win the streets and march to the Zionist embassies for the freedom of our Palestinian brothers. It is a task of the entire international labor movement to fight for the freedom of all political prisoners in the world, and first of all for the freedom of Palestinian prisoners imprisoned for facing that real enclave, the fascist Zionist state of Israel.
Freedom to the more than 7000 Palestinian prisoners! Freedom to Georges Abdallah, fighter for the Palestinian cause in the dungeons of the 5th French imperialist republic! Freedom to Guantanamo prisoners! Freedom to the Basque prisoners, hostages in the prisons of the Bourbons and the Fifth French Republic! Freedom to Alfon, Nahuel and Bodalo, prisoners in the dungeons of the Monarchy of the Spanish state! Freedom to all the ones who fight! Judgment and punishment to all the repressors and murderers of the working class and the peoples!
The slave rebellion is not a crime but justice!
INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR THE FREEDOM OF THE POLITICAL PRISOENRS OF THE WORLD AND JUSTICE FOR OUR MARTYRS |
We publish the story of the 5 Palestinian prisoners who are today on hunger strike:
Samer Issawi, of Issawiyeh near Jerusalem, is on an open hunger strike since 25 October. Issawi’s hunger strike in 2012-2013 drew worldwide attention in protest of his detention and secured his release. One of the Palestinian prisoners released in the Wafa al-Ahrar exchange in 2011, Issawi was re-arrested and accused of traveling outside the municipal boundaries of Jerusalem. He was threatened with the re-imposition of his original sentence; following his hunger strike, he was released after 17 months. However, he was once again seized by occupation forces in 2014 as part of the mass arrest raids targeting former prisoners and alongside many of his fellow arrestees, his former 30-year sentence was arbitrarily re-imposed on the basis of secret evidence. Issawi’s sister and brother, Shireen and Medhat Issawi, are also imprisoned. He launched an open hunger strike with Munther Snobar to demand that women prisoners – especially in Damon prison – be moved to a location close to the military courts, an end to the medical neglect of sick prisoners and an end to the prohibition of family visits for Palestinian prisoners. He is held in solitary confinement in Nafha prison.
Ahmad Salatneh, a Palestinian refugee from the Jenin refugee camp held in Megiddo prison without charge or trial under administrative detention, has entered his third day of hunger strike demanding his release.
Anas Shadid, 19, of the village of Dura near al-Khalil, has been on hunger strike since 25 September against his imprisonment without charge or trial under administrative detention. Shadid has been imprisoned since 1 August and is on an open hunger strike, which he began jointly with Ahmad Abu Fara, demanding his immediate release and an end to administrative detention. On his 36th day of hunger strike, his health has deteriorated significantly; he suffers from severe abdominal and joint pain, shortness of breath and must use a wheelchair in order to move and walk. He is currently held in the Ramle prison clinic.
Ahmad Abu Fara, 29, of the village of Surif near al-Khalil, also has been on hunger strike since 25 September against his administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial. Abu Fara has been held under administrative detention since 2 August when his home was raided by occupation forces in a violent pre-dawn attack. His health has deteriorated significantly as he reaches his 36th day of hunger strike; he has severe neck and throat pain, numbness in his limbs, abdominal pain and blurred vision. Like Shadid, he must use a wheelchair to move. He is currently held in the Ramle prison clinic.
Munther Snobar, from Nablus, jointly launched his hunger strike on 25 October alongside Samer Issawi, with the same list of demands for an end to the mistreatment and abuse of Palestinian prisoners collectively. Held in solitary confinement in Nafha prison, he is serving a life sentence.
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