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<h1 class="title">Take Action: Samer Issawi Arrested: End the Mass
Arrests!</h1>
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<p>Samer Issawi, long-term hunger striker and freed Palestinian
prisoner, has been <a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/patrick-strickland/israeli-forces-rearrest-hunger-striker-samer-issawi"
target="_blank">re-arrested by occupation forces on June 23</a>,
part of a massive attack on Palestinians in the West Bank and
Gaza, including hundreds of raids and arrests. <strong><a
href="http://samidoun.ca/2014/06/take-action-samer-issawi-arrested-end-the-mass-arrests-support-hunger-strikers/#letter">Take
action now to demand his freedom, end the mass arrests and
raids!</a> </strong></p>
<p>Issawi’s 266 day hunger strike captured the attention of the
world. Released from Israeli prisons in the “Wafa al-Ahrar”
prisoner exchange with over 1000 other Palestinians in exchange
for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, he had been re-arrested
for allegedly leaving the municipal borders of Jerusalem, which
the occupation charged violated his release. Following his 277 day
hunger strike, pressure due to his strike pushed the Israeli state
to concede its attempt to re-impose his original sentence, and
after serving 17 months in prison, he was released in December
2013.</p>
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<p>The occupation has not stopped its harassment of the Issawi
family following Samer’s widely-publicized hunger strike. Shireen
Issawi, a Palestinian lawyer, Samer’s sister and the spokesperson
for his campaign during his hunger strike, is currently imprisoned
and awaiting a military trial in a case targeting Palestinian
lawyers. Shireen’s case, which has also included threats to
Samer’s brothers and a number of Palestinian lawyers who represent
prisoners, is attempting to cut prisoners’ communications to the
outside world by prosecuting lawyers for allegedly passing
information between prisoners and Palestinian political and
resistance organizations outside.</p>
<p>Since June 14, occupation authorities have arrested at least 471
Palestinians in raids and mass arrests throughout the West Bank.
Former political prisoners have been particularly targeted, and at
least 52 of the prisoners released in the Wafa al-Ahrar exchange
have now been re-arrested. Five Palestinians have been killed,
universities raided and Gaza bombed under the pretext of the
disappearance of three settlers near occupied al-Khalil.</p>
<p><strong>Take Action!</strong></p>
<p style="color: #333333;">1. <a
href="http://samidoun.ca/2014/06/take-action-samer-issawi-arrested-end-the-mass-arrests-support-hunger-strikers/#letter"
target="_blank">Sign on to the petition to demand freedom for
Samer Issawi and the victims of mass raids!</a></p>
<p style="color: #333333;">2. Write to the International Committee
of the Red Cross and demand it fulfill its responsibilities to
Palestinian prisoners and publicly condemn the mass arrest raids,
attacks and the policy of administrative detention which is in
clear violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, as stipulated by
the ICRC mandate to protect international humanitarian law. Email
the ICRC, whose humanitarian mission includes monitoring the
conditions of prisoners, at <a style="color: #0088cc;"
href="mailto:JER_jerusalem@icrc.org" target="_blank">JER_jerusalem@icrc.org</a>.</p>
<p style="color: #333333;">3. Organize a protest or action in your
city against the attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank and
Gaza. <a style="color: #0088cc;"
href="http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/abouttheministry/pages/web%20sites%20of%20israeli%20missions%20abroad.aspx"
target="_blank">Demonstrate outside an Israeli consulate or
embassy in your city.</a></p>
<p style="color: #333333;">4. Share this alert via email, <a
href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http://samidoun.ca/2014/06/take-action-samer-issawi-arrested-end-the-mass-arrests-support-hunger-strikers/"
target="_blank">Facebook</a> and <a href="http://ctt.ec/X8oID"
target="_blank">Twitter</a> with your colleagues, comrades,
friends and contacts.</p>
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