Reality check on Palestinian prisoners: Hunger for Dignity & Freedom V
Autor: Mariângela Berquó | Publicado: 2017-05-21T00:03:00-07:00







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BDS CALL: As Palestinian political prisoners end the 40th day of the Strike of Freedom and Dignity,
 their largest mass hunger strike in five years, rally to support their demands for an end to Israel’s policies of 
“administrative detention,” or indefinite internment of Palestinians 
without charge or trial, and solitary confinement, as well as improved 
access to health care, family visits, and education.
Join a global day of action&nbsp;to
 support the hunger strike and demand a comprehensive military embargo 
of Israel over its political imprisonment and other crimes against 
Palestinians.
Call on Hewlett Packard to end its contracts
 with Israeli prisons and detention centers, occupation and security 
forces, and checkpoints and settlements&nbsp;and build a growing boycott of the company.
Support
 the Palestinian people, the Palestinian prisoners, the Palestinian 
Resistance, and the liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea.


Global Schedule of Events to Support Palestinian hunger strikers 



As Palestinian policital prisoners entered their fith week of hunger striking, ninety per cent show significant health deterioration. The Palestinian Committee of Prisoners' Affairs demanded, in vain, for those who have been hunger strinking for more than 30 days to be hospitalised, under the supervision of Red Cross doctors, as their health continue to decline. But Israeli authorities' refused, choosing instead to continue holding them in solitary confinement under inhumane conditions, which represents another violation of international law.
Furthermore, on Friday 19 May, as the Palestinian prisoners entered their 33rd day of the collective&nbsp;hunger strike&nbsp;launched by&nbsp;1500 Palestinian&nbsp;prisoners on 17 April,&nbsp; instead of allowing treatment, to break their will, Israel Prison Service&nbsp; me&nbsp; transferred large numbers of strikers fto Beersheva, Shatta and Ramle prisons. The transfers were carried out via the "bosta" through the arduous transfer process that has been used again and again to put additional stress o the weakend bodies of the strikers in an attempt to undermine the strike.
Meanwhile, Palestinians commemorated the 69th anniversary of the Nakba - Catastrophe, during which over 750.000 Palestinians were forcibly evicted from their homes in 1948, as Israel was declared a state.
While the Right of Return for the refugees is generally at the center of all Nakba day commemoration, this year Palestinian prisoners took the front seat.
With an estimated 1.300 policital prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli prisons, thousands of Palestinians participated in marches across the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip holding signs demanding negotiations, highlighting the strength of their countrymen and women, and quoting Marwan Barghouthi: "Our chains will be broken before we are".
IDF response was violent, with soldiers shooting live bullets that left many wounded, besides tear gas used in large amounts, thrown straight into people, Israel's form of crowd control.
Face to global indifference towards prisoners' ordeal, more and more Palestinian mothers are refusing food in solidarity with the strikers. 
Global Palestinian Refugee and IDF Network released the followuing statement:" The resounding silence and lack of practical action by international community in response to the Palestinian prisoners' demands for dignified treatment, including access to health care, education, lawyers, families' visits and tools of communication which constitute the most basic human rights is profound. The lack of international response to the mass hunger strikers who are in need of immediate intervention and protection symbolizes the dehumanization and demonization of the Palestinian people in their struggle for dignity, justice and freedom."



 They are right. International indifference is becoming disturbing not only for Palestinians, but even for us, journalists.

That is why internationalist activists called for a global one-day hunger strike on 25 May in support of&nbsp; hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners. 

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Beyond the Walls








On
 18 May, an Israeli settler murdered Muataz Hussein Bani Shamsa, 23, 
shot in the head, and wounded another Palestinian, journalist Majdi 
Eshtayya.

The settler drove by a group of young protesters 
near the village of Huwwara, district of Nablus, in the northern 
occupied West Bank, stepped out of his car and opened fire on a march 
that was being held in solidarity with hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners.
Speaking of which, to this date, during 2017, Israeli occupation forces have already killed six Palestinian under 16 in the West Bank.
PS. Israel civil sphere is dangerously over-armed. This condition has been 'normalized' within mainstream Jewish Israeli society.&nbsp;
The 'democratic" state of Israel does not disclose the data on gun crime or gun related crime, as really democratic nations do. Nevertheless,
 the NGO "Gun Free Kitchen Tables" has been gathering data and has just 
issued a report that&nbsp; says that there is around 330.000 licenced guns permeating 
Isareli civil society; most of them, military weapons given to thousands of 
settlers in the West Bank.

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Na
 quinta-feira passada, um colono israelense assassinou a sangue frio um 
palestino de 23 anos, Muataz, com um tiro na cabeça, e feriu o 
jornalista Majdi Eshtayya que cobria uma demonstração de apoio aos presos políticos palestinos há&nbsp; mais de um mês em greve de fome.
Falando em assassinato, até hoje, durante 2017, as forças israelenses de ocupação mataram seis palestinos de menos de 16 anos.
PS. Israel não disponibiliza informação sobre o número de crimes por arma de fogo ou relacionados, mas uma ONG israelense vem investigando o problema há anos e concluiu que cerca de 330.000 autorizações de porte de arma foram dadas; a maioria destas, armamento militar fornecido a milhares de colonos/invasores na Cisjordânia. E os colonos atiram nos palestinos como se fossem animais e eles caçadores. E raramente são julgados e um em mil é condenado a uma pena mínima por assassinato.

Zuheir a-Rajabi heads the residents' council of Batan al-Hawa, a 
Palestinian neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem. He has been 
documenting the daily violence Palestinian residents have suffered ever 
since the takeover began. Check out the video. It's very short.


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As the bigot, racist and uncultured israeli minister of "culture" Miri Regev shows in Cannes the destination of Macron's administration, subservient to the zionist lobby, I share with you a piece of information about how democratically filthy her country is. Shame on Cannes Festival organizers!

"Here are 10 human rights listed, among others, in the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights.&nbsp;
Nine of these human rights are violated by Israel
when it comes to Palestinians, and one is fully respected:

1. Right to Equality.

2. Right to Equality before the Law.

3. Right to Life, Liberty, Personal Security.
4. Freedom from Torture and Degrading Treatment.
5. Right to Remedy by Competent Tribunal.
6. Freedom from Arbitrary Arrest and Exile.
7. Right to Free Movement in and out of the Country.
8. Right to Marriage and Family.
9. Right to Own Property.

10. Right of Peaceful Assembly and Association.

Which one is the outlier here? look for the answer below.

Okay, I tricked you. Israel violates them all.

Here’s how:

1.&nbsp;Right to Equality:&nbsp;In the West Bank, Jewish
settlers&nbsp;enjoy privileges&nbsp;that
their Palestinian neighbors do not. Within the Green Line territories, some
laws&nbsp;give preference
to Jews, as some practices do (one example is the Law of Return).

2.&nbsp;Right to Equality before the Law:&nbsp;Here, criminal law is
one example, wherein Palestinians get more severe sentences. Also, police and
military misconduct is rarely scrutinized (see this&nbsp;illuminating series&nbsp;and&nbsp;this)
when the victim is Palestinian, and if they are held accountable, their punishments
are often ridiculously&nbsp;light. Also,&nbsp;“Facebook
arrests” of Palestinians&nbsp;based on posts deemed to be either
supportive of terrorism or inciting it, while only very few Jews are held to
the same standards.

3.&nbsp;Right to Life, Liberty, Personal Security:&nbsp;Palestinians’
lives do not matter as much as Israeli Jews’ lives do. Both police and military
forces tend to&nbsp;shoot to kill&nbsp;(PDF)
more frequently when it comes to Palestinian suspects in comparison with
Israeli-Jewish suspects.

4.&nbsp;Freedom from Torture and Degrading Treatment:&nbsp;Come on!
Does&nbsp;actual torture&nbsp;fit
this bill? Or maybe&nbsp;extortion of gay
Palestinians into becoming informants&nbsp;under the threat of
outing them? Maybe the threat expressed to Palestinian minors arrested by the
military of having their mothers and sisters raped if they do not
cooperate/confess during their interrogation? Or, more generally, the
whole&nbsp;detention
procedure&nbsp;of Palestinian minors? Just pick your favorite.

5.&nbsp;Right to Remedy by Competent Tribunal:&nbsp;While in Israel,
Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza are allowed to file lawsuits against
the state for compensation in some contexts, namely if their damages are attributable
to military actions that are not the result of “war operation,” many lawsuits
are dismissed because&nbsp;Israel prohibits
the plaintiffs’ entry to Israel&nbsp;so that they could testify and
basically live up to the civil procedure code and other requirements, leading
judges to simply throw out these lawsuits on the technicality of “Plaintiff’s
absence.”

6.&nbsp;Freedom from Arbitrary Arrest and Exile:&nbsp;East Jerusalem
(revoking of
residency status&nbsp;for Palestinians) and the very-frequently
utilized legal institution of&nbsp;administrative
arrests.

7.&nbsp;Right to Free Movement in and out of the Country:&nbsp;Well,
the siege on Gaza comes to mind. But also politically-based&nbsp;entry bans&nbsp;to
Israel.

8.&nbsp;Right to Marriage and Family: As of 1998, Israel no longer
allows West Bank/Gaza Palestinian spouses of citizens of Israel to acquire
citizenship, basically&nbsp;barring family
unification. One Supreme Court justice in the case submitted against
this law proclaimed that while Palestinian citizens’ right to family is indeed
a constitutional right, the exercise of that right in Israel is not.

9.&nbsp;Right to Own Property:&nbsp;The key words here are
confiscations, appropriation, land grabs, absentees’ properties and&nbsp;settlements.

10.&nbsp;Right of Peaceful Assembly and Association:&nbsp;Palestinian
peaceful protests in the West Bank are&nbsp;violently
dispersed&nbsp;by the military forces. Within the Green Line, the
militarized Israeli police force often treats Palestinian protestors more
harshly than it does their Jewish counterparts, executing&nbsp;mass arrests&nbsp;and
using violence to suppress demonstrations. More recently, the March of Return,
which takes place every year to commemorate the Nakba, was&nbsp;almost canceled
by the police. They&nbsp;claimed technical issues, when in reality,
the reasons were more likely political, as the Nakba and its commemoration are
considered a taboo in Israeli political culture."&nbsp;

Fady Khoury is a human rights lawyer and a doctoral candidate at Harvard Law School.


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.&nbsp; Jordan Stapleton: My first trip to Palestine.

. Jonathan Cook: Israel Tutors Children in Fear and Loathing. 

. Asa Winstanley: Refugee return to Palestine is practical as well as just.

.&nbsp; Ylenia Gostoli:  How Israel is targeting Palestinian institutions.



B'Tselem: Israel controls all West Bank entrance and exit points, so any Palestinian departure from the West Bank requires Israeli approval. As Israel autjorities by and large deny Palestinians international travel via its sea ports or its airport, the only avenu available to them is the Allenby Bridge Border Crossing, located about 5 km east of Jericho. Even with the free pass, no Palestinian can be sure of being able to cross. Afterwards, the Palestinian traveller meets trouble to come back home. Many never manage.


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