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Strikers Hungry for Freedom!</strong></a><br>
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Palestinian prisoner <a
href="http://samidoun.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca6966f2db7aa619c20875634&id=58c9e88336&e=8be79c19ae"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2BAADF;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;">Sami Janazrah</a> has now
been on hunger strike for 55 days to demand his freedom from
Israeli jails, where he is held under administrative detention
without charge or trial. On Thursday, 21 April – his 50th day of
hunger strike – he <a
href="http://samidoun.us8.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=ca6966f2db7aa619c20875634&id=d808a8147c&e=8be79c19ae"
target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #2BAADF;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">lost consciousness and suffered a head injury</a> as
he was transferred from isolation in the Naqab desert prison to
isolation in Ela prison. Moved to Soroka hospital at the time, he
was returned to solitary confinement on Monday, 25 April. Despite
significant weight loss, constant pains and fainting spells after
55 days of hunger strike, he is now being denied medical care and
oversight and has been returned to solitary confinement.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">Despite refusing food
and consuming only water since 3 March, he was held for 51 days in
solitary confinement in an attempt to pressure him to end his
hunger strike.A Palestinian refugee from Iraq al-Manshiyya living
in Al-Fuwwar refugee camp near al-Khalil, Janazra, 43, is married
with three children and has spent nearly nine years in Israeli
prisons in the past. He is reportedly suffering from low blood
pressure, seizures and fainting spells, and his weight has dropped
to 52 kg.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"><a
href="http://samidoun.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=ca6966f2db7aa619c20875634&id=a1b3ecb73c&e=8be79c19ae"
target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #2BAADF;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">Fellow Palestinian prisoners</a> held under
administrative detention without charge or trial, Fouad Assi and
Adib Mafarjah, have now been on hunger strike for 23 days, also
demanding their freedom and an end to the practice of
administrative detention. Approximately 700 Palestinians – out of
7,000 total Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails – are being
held on the basis of “secret evidence” in administrative
detention. Administrative detention orders are issued for up to
six months at a time and can be indefinitely renewed; some
Palestinian prisoners have spent years in administrative detention
without charge or trial.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">Both Assi and Mafarjah
are also held in isolation in Ela prison. Assi’s cell is inspected
every two hours; all of his electrical appliances have been
confiscated. He is the twin brother of Mohammed Assi, who was
killed by the Israeli occupation military on 22 October 2013. Assi
has been held without charge or trial since 9 August 2015.
Mafarjah is also held in solitary confinement, with all of his
appliances and clothing confiscated following his strike. He has
been imprisoned without charge or trial since 10 December 2014.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"><a
href="http://samidoun.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca6966f2db7aa619c20875634&id=8acabd76f0&e=8be79c19ae"
target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #2BAADF;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">Abdel-Razzaq Farraj</a>, Palestinian civil society
leader with the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, land
defender, and former administrative detainee, wrote that:</p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">“As soon as the first
six months pass by, you realize that this is only the beginning.
The snow boll rolls over and over, and gets bigger. Despite that,
the dream of freedom keeps renewing itself, and you hope for
freedom with the end of the new administrative detention period.
You start telling yourself; perhaps they no longer think I am a
danger to their safety and the safety of their public. ”They have
released many prisoners – I might be as lucky as them!”</p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">Your eyes never leave
the prison’s door. You look and wait. Every passing paper can be
your detention renewal order.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">As soon as your virtual
release date nears, you family begins to continuously ask,
“Anything knew?” You answer, not yet, but don’t be too hopeful. “A
renewed detention order is always a possibility.” Your hopes and
those of your families rise as days pass by. But a stroke of a pen
by the military commander is enough to renew your detention for
yet another undefined period.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">How do you tell your
family that you won’t be with them? How do you tell your children
that their hope for a release must be delayed for undefined months
to come?”</p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"><strong>Samidoun
Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges people of
conscience around the world, Palestine solidarity organizations
and supporters of justice to take action in support of these
Palestinian prisoners on the front lines in the struggle against
occupation and apartheid. Samidoun will be holding a protest in
New York on <a
href="http://samidoun.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca6966f2db7aa619c20875634&id=d40665e2f5&e=8be79c19ae"
target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #2BAADF;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">Friday, 29 April at 4:00 pm</a> outside G4S
offices at 19 W. 44th St in Manhattan for their freedom. We urge
people around the world to join us in protest, action, and
raising our voices to demand freedom for Sami Janazrah, Fouad
Assi, Adib Mafarjah and all Palestinian prisoners!</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"><a name="action"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2BAADF;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;"></a><strong>Take Action</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"><strong>1. Protest at
the Israeli consulate or embassy, public square, or G4S office
in your area.</strong> Bring posters and flyers about
administrative detention and Palestinian hunger strikers and hold
a protest, or join a protest with this important information. Hold
a community event or discussion, or include this issue in your
next event about Palestine and social justice. Please email us at <a
href="mailto:samidoun@samidoun.net" target="_blank"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2BAADF;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:samidoun@samidoun.net">samidoun@samidoun.net</a></a> to
inform us of your action – we will publicize and share news with
the prisoners.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"><strong>2. Contact
political officials in your country – members of Parliament or
Congress, or the Ministry/Department of Foreign Affairs or State</strong> –
and demand that they cut aid and relations with Israel on the
basis of its apartheid practices, its practice of colonialism, and
its numerous violations of Palestinian rights including the
systematic practice of administrative detention. Demand they
pressure Israel to free the hunger strikers and end administrative
detention.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"><strong>3. Boycott,
Divest and Sanction.</strong> Hold Israel accountable for its
violations of international law. Don’t buy Israeli goods, and
campaign to end investments in corporations that profit from the
occupation. <a
href="http://samidoun.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca6966f2db7aa619c20875634&id=60e32be1bd&e=8be79c19ae"
target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #2BAADF;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">G4S, a global security corporation,</a> is heavily
involved in providing services to Israeli prisons that jail
Palestinian political prisoners – there is a <a
href="http://samidoun.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca6966f2db7aa619c20875634&id=f6e28e81cc&e=8be79c19ae"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2BAADF;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;">global call to boycott it</a>. <a
href="http://samidoun.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca6966f2db7aa619c20875634&id=23306a882b&e=8be79c19ae"
target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #2BAADF;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;"><strong>Palestinian political prisoners have issued
a specific call urging action on G4S</strong>.</a> Learn more
about BDS at <a
href="http://samidoun.us8.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=ca6966f2db7aa619c20875634&id=e50c221458&e=8be79c19ae"
target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #2BAADF;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">bdsmovement.net</a>.</p>
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