Tag: Prisoner Hunger Strike
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In Ramallah Palestine tastes freedom at release of prisoners
18 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank It was the third time that Omar, 21, tried to write his name and cell number on a piece of paper in vain. His hands were shaking and the fingers, pale as the face, could barely hold the pen. On the fifth try he was able to write…
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The anthem of Nabi Saleh: “Release our prisoners or arrest us all”
15 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The Friday demonstration in Nabi Saleh celebrated the release of three long term prisoners but protested the continued imprisonment of the remaining 5,000. The demonstration started out by visiting the house of prisoner Said Tamimi. Tamimi has been in prison since 1993, but his fellow prisoners…
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Beit Ummar collectively punished for peaceful demonstration
15 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank October 14th was the seventeenth day of the hunger strike of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. People took to the streets for a solidarity demonstration in the village of Beit Ummar, Hebron. This is the second such demonstration in this village, a similar march last week…
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The lonely olive tree of Bil’in
14 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Near the concrete wall which separates Bil’in from Modiin Illit colony, occupied by ultra-Orthodox Jews, there is an olive tree. It is impossible to know how it survived the construction of the wall and how it continues to resist to the lack of a few cares that the specie demands – a lack caused by the Israeli barbed wire fence that prevents the access of the residents…
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Nablus enters sixth day of hunger strike as concern for exile looms
by Alistair George 13 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Six protesters in Nablus completed their fifth day on open hunger strike today in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails. Palestinian prisoners in several Israeli jails began open hunger strikes, taking only water with salt, on the 27 September…
