PALESTINE- SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
FREEDOM FOR AL- ARAY, HAITHAM SIYAJ, MOHAMMED HARB, MOHAMMED AL-SALAMEEN, SEIF AL-IDRISSI y ALI DAR AL-SHEIK, young fighters against the Zionist occupation, prisoners in the jails of the Palestinian Authority!
FREEDOM FOR MORE THAN 7,000 PALESTINIAN PRISONERS IN THE DUNGEONS OF ZIONISM!
Down with the Oslo agreements of Zionism, imperialism and the government of the Palestinian Authority! For the destruction of the Zionist fascist state of Israel!
Last September 3 a rally was held in Ramallah to demand the release of six young Palestinians who are in the prison of the Palestinian Authority (Beitunia). The six, Basil al - Araj Siyaj Haitham Mohammed Harb, Mohammed al - Salameen, Seif al-Idrissi and Ali Dar al Sheikh, have been jailed in the prison of the Palestinian Authority since early April 2016.
The six launched a hunger strike on August 28 to demand their immediate release from prison of the PA. Their detention has been extended repeatedly without charges against them, while officials of the Palestinian Authority have publicly bragged about the importance of their "security coordination" with the Israeli occupation, protecting the safety of the invaders. Thus, PA officials show themselves true keep jailers of their own people putting in jail young fighters who fight against the occupation.
Dozens of relatives and friends gathered outside the Mukata, the presidential building of the Palestinian Authority, demanding the release of the six fighters, while police sounded their sirens to block the songs. Different actions were held in in Rabat, Morocco; Tunis, Tunisia; and in the Beddawi refugee camp in Lebanon on September 3. They all demanded the immediate release of the six young prisoners in PA jails, in solidarity with their hunger strike and the end of the security coordination with the Israeli occupation. These actions are a big step forward. But the struggle for the freedom of these 6 young people should be part of the struggle for freedom of all Palestinian prisoners in the occupation dungeons. This fight cannot be separated from the fight to stop the genocide carried out against the Syrian and Palestinian masses in Syria by Assad and Putin on behalf of the imperialist powers.
This struggle carried out by Palestinian prisoners and their relatives should be taken by all the workers' and student organizations in the world, even within Palestine. Let’s organize actions, rallies, pickets against the Zionist occupation who steals the Palestinian land and repress them and against anyone who represses and imprisons the fighters who stand up against the occupation.
Down with the Oslo Agreemwents of the Palestinian confined in ghettoes!
Out the collaborationist bourgeoisie with Zionism and Wall Street!
Dissolution of the police of the Palestinian Authority which only exists to repress the Palestinians who fight against the Zionist occupation!
For a free, secular, democratic and non-racist Palestine from the Red Sea to the River Jordan!
Bellow a statement issued by the relatives of the six detained youths urging action to free them:
“Our children have been and are detained in inhumane conditions
We are the families of six Palestinian youth arrested by the PA security services (Basil al-Araj, Mohammed Harb, Haitham Siyaj, Seif al-Idrissi, Mohammed al-Salameen, Ali Dar al-Sheikh), calling upon the conscience of Palestinian society as our children are struggling since the evening of 28 August 2016 in an open hunger strike. They are demanding their freedom from unjust arrest; their arrest in April is without any legal justification.
In the first period of their detention, our children were subject to cruel methods of torture at the hands of Palestinian intelligence, causing harm to themselves and their bodies and requiring treatment on several occasions for the effects. Since their arrest until the date of this statement, the arrest of our sons has bee n extended repeatedly and arbitrarily by the Palestinian Authority courts without providing any indictment or charges against them. Our children are well-known to all for their strong morals and high patriotism, and some of them have experience in occupation prisons and have been detained on several occasions.
Today our six children are being held in inhumane conditions in Beitunia prison west of Ramallah. When our children announced they were taking this step of hunger strike, the prison administration escalated arbitrary punishments aainst them, including depriving us of family visits for us to check on them and their health, isolating them in tiny dirty cells lacking the minimum needs for human habitation, with nothing but a mattress provided only for the night with no blanket and withdrawn in the morning, in addition to a toilet inside the cell, adding further danger to their health.
We are the family of these detainees that today are screaming as the conscience of Palestinian society. Our children are facing the deterioration of their health as they conduct this strike and some of them already suffer from diseases that threaten their lives in the event of their continued hunger strike.
We want to preserve the lives of our children and protect them like all Palestinian families work to protect their children from any harm. Their ongoing continued detention threatens their future and their lives. So we call on all parties, official and unofficial, to work urgently for the release of our detained children. We hold the Palestinian security entities responsible in case of any consequences to their health or lives as a result of this hunger strike.
We call on the legal institutions and at the forefront, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, to work and pressure for the release of our children as soon aspossible. We also call upon international institutions to act immediately in order to secure their release.
Every minute that passes for us, the family of the six hunger strikers, are minutes of hell and heartache, of constant worry and fear for our children. Nothing reassures our hearts but lawyers’ visits, which confirmed their drastic conditions.
Stand with us and our children!
Families of the six hunger strikers held in Beitunia prison.” |
