Tag: Hunger strike
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Gaza rallies in support of critically ill prisoner
9th February 2014 | The Electronic Intifada, Joe Catron | Gaza City, Occupied Palestine Sit-ins to support Palestinian prisoners — held every week since 1995 in the courtyard of the International Committee of the Red Cross’ Gaza office — have recently been followed by rallies outside for Ibrahim Bitar, a sick detainee in Israel’s Nafha prison. “We’ve garnered internal support for my…
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Photos: Gaza children hold march and candlelight vigil to free Ahmad Sa’adat
19th October 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Team | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Dozens of Palestinian children marched in Gaza Friday evening before holding a candlelight vigil outside the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). The event was the first in a global week of action to free Ahmad Sa’adat and other Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. Sa’adat, an…
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Photo: A freed detainee joins his mother at the Gaza protest she began 18 years ago
18th October 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Team | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Ibrahim Baroud joined his mother, Ghalia Baroud, or Um Ibrahim, at Gaza’s weekly sit-in for Palestinian prisoners, which she co-founded, on Monday morning. Baroud, a former Palestinian detainee, was captured by Israeli forces on 9 April 1986, at the age of 23.…
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Photos: Gaza supporters rally for Alaa Hammad, keep weekly vigil for Palestinian detainees
16th October 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Team | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Palestinians rallied outside Gaza’s International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) office Monday morning to support Alaa Hammad, a Palestinian-Jordanian on hunger struck since May 2 against the conditions of his detention by Israel, and other Palestinian detainees. Families and supporters also…
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Wife of kidnapped Palestinian engineer Dirar Abu Sisi holds Gaza press conference
27th August 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Team | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Yesterday Veronika Abu Sisi, the wife of Palestinian electrical engineer Dirar Abu Sisi, spoke with media and supporters in the Gaza Strip to denounce the international kidnapping, summary detention and solitary confinement of her husband. “We won’t give up until Dirar Abu Sisi…
