Palestinian Prisoners Enter 21st Day of Hunger Strike

Palestinian Prisoners Enter 21st Day of Hunger Strike

Face Growing Threat to Their Health and Continuing Repression

By Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network

Global Research, May 09, 2017

In-depth Report: PALESTINE

 

 

 

On their 21st day of hunger strike, Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are facing an ever more serious health situation, as an increasing number of strikers experience loss of balance, muscle wasting and heavy fatigue, reported the strike’s Media Committee.

1500 Palestinian prisoners launched the strike on 17 April, Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, for a series of demands, including an end to the denial of family visits, the right to pursue higher education, appropriate medical care and treatment and an end to solitary confinement and administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial. Strikers have faced sharp repression, including frequent late-night raids by repressive forces, abusive transfers from prison to prison, solitary confinement, denial of legal and family visits and confiscation of personal belongings, sometimes including salt. Hunger strikers rely on consuming only salt and water to preserve their lives during the strike.

As the strike has grown and more prominent Palestinian prisoner leaders have joined the strike, repression has also intensified. Some prisoners have been transferred four times since the strike began. Today, the Israeli prison administration reportedly plans to transfer 100 prisoners from Ohli Kedar prison to section 10 in Eshel prison. Meanwhile, 30 of those prominent leaders, including imprisoned Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Secretary Ahmad Sa’adat, fellow PFLP leader Ahed Abu Ghoulmeh, Hamas leader Abbas al-Sayyed, longest-held Palestinian prisoner Nael Barghouthi and imprisoned journalist Mohammed al-Qeeq were transferred on Sunday morning to isolation in Ashkelon prison.  All of these transfers also involved barring legal visits for the transferred prisoners.


As the health crisis for hunger-striking prisoners looms ever larger, hunger striker William Rimawi was transferred on Sunday morning, 7 May, to the Ramla prison clinic, according to Ma’an News. The prisoners warned of the threat of forced feeding, especially as Israeli far-right Minister of Internal Security Gilad Erdan reportedly threatened to import doctors from other countries to forcibly feed Palestinian hunger strikers in military “field hospitals” set up in Israeli jails.

 

“This trend carries with it preparation for a targeted crime against the prisoners with the intention of murder. It is clear that we are in the next stage now, that of repression, abuse, and attempts to break the strike through threatening the lives of the prisoners. The ongoing preparations indicate that there is a decision taken against the prisoners to their deaths at the hands of a gang of fascists in Tel Aviv. This is what makes this confrontation an extraordinary moment,” wrote the prisoners in their statement.

Meanwhile, on Saturday evening, 6 May, the Media Committee of the Prisoners’ Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society stated that there were still no serious negotiations from the Israeli prison administration aiming to end the strike.

Israeli occupation police in Jerusalem are repeatedly attacking and forbidding events in support of the prisoners organized by their families in the occupied city. Amjad Abu Assab of the Committee of Families of Prisoners of Jerusalem said that the Israeli occupation police declared that they would not allow any event for the prisoners in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and threatened to forcibly disperse any assembly. In addition, on Saturday, 6 May, during a gathering outside the International Committee of the Red Cross building, the police surrounded the families of the prisoners and threatened them with attack as they supported the prisoners’ demands.

Events throughout Palestine and internationally are continuing in support of the prisoners, especially as the prisoners urged a “week of outrage” to demand implementation of their demands and support for the strikers facing harsh repression. Prominent figures like Palestinian resistance icon Leila Khaled and Catholic patriarch Gregory III Laham have joined students around the world on hunger strike in support of the prisoners; in addition, nine mothers of prisoners and a number of former prisoners are continuing their hunger strikes of support.

In Lebanon, four Palestinian youth in Nahr el-Bared camp and six youth from Beddawi refugee camp announced a hunger strike while events and rallies took place on Saturday, 6 May in the refugee camps and in the Khiam former prison in Southern Lebanon, in support of the prisoners’ strike.
Internationally, events and actions were organized in Istanbul, London, Birmingham, Whitstable, Norwich, Sheffield, Oxford, Bristol, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Inverness, Aberdeen, Uppsala, Dublin, Limerick, Newry, Derry, Berlin, Stuttgart, Cologne, Paris, Auckland and San Diego on Saturday, 6 May in support of the prisoners, while actions are planned on Sunday in Sydney, Amsterdam, Cagliari, Munich, Portland, Fremantle and Quito. Events around the world are available at Samidoun’s global event page.

Graphic by Hafez Omar

The original source of this article is Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network

Copyright © Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, 2017

PFLP Prison Branch urges to support Palestinian prisoners

PFLP Prison Branch urges action and unity to support Palestinian prisoners engaged in the battle for dignity
 Apr 16 2017
Palestinian Prisoners’ Day is a day of challenge and confrontation, emphasizing the issue of prisoners
On the occasion of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, we salute every prisoner, the heroes and heroines of the battles of will and steadfastness, to every flower and cub, to the sick prisoners,
administrative detainees and imprisoned leaders, led by the imprisoned General Secretary, Comrade Ahmad Sa’adat, Marwan Barghouthi, Hassan Salameh, Wajdi Jawdat, Anas Jaradat, Bassam Kandaji and the long line of leaders who represent the national struggle and the prisoners’ cause.

On this occasion, we make a particular salute to the martyrs of the prisoners movement and to all of those engaged in confrontation and the struggle for victory. We are firmly committed to see each battle of confrontation with the Prison Service and its instruments of repression and intelligence agencies as a collective battle. Every action initiated by any faction is all of our battle.

We also congratulate the longest-serving woman prisoner, Lena Jarbouni, on this occasion of her freedom after 15 years in Israeli jails.

In this context, we affirm that we stand hand in hand and shoulder to shoulder in any struggle waged by the prisoners, and we consider the decision to engage in the battle of dignity and honor against the jailer, beginning on Monday, April 17, Palestinian Prisoners’ Day 2017, to be one which we support and which we are part of. This comes in two ways, both through the decisions and guidelines for the comrades to engage in the battle, and through approving a program of support for the strike in all prisons and among our comrades outside.

In this context of high appreciation and support for this battle and all the heroic prisoners who will engage in it, we affirm our continued struggle for the unity of the prisoners’ movement and the escalation of confrontation against the prison administration.

Thus, we call on all the Palestinian people and their supporters and friends around the world to stand side by side with the prisoners in their continuing battles inside the prisons, escalating the mass movement to support the battle of wills, challenge and confrontation, and to once again reaffirm the centrality of the cause of the prisoners.

We also call upon all human rights, humanitarian and media institutions to support our prisoners in order to develop a unified national program at all levels for more effective results.

We call upon the leaders of the Palestinian people to make unremitting efforts to uphold their responsibility for the prisoners and the martyrs and do everything possible to defend them and support their steadfastness until victory in the ongoing battles against the prison service, through all forms of action for their liberation.

On this occasion, we urge all to close ranks in the field of national unity and urge our Front, all of the national and Islamic forces and factions and the masses of our people to devote their efforts and time in service of the cause of the prisoners.

We hope that the culmination of all of these battles waged by the prisoners inside the prisons, with the popular support inside and outside Palestine, will be to unify the prisoners’ movement, in light of the traditions and norms established by the prisoners’ movement for over 50 years, of prisons as revolutionary schools which unite all forces behind revolutionary national ideals.

We urge all actions and intensified work in the Palestinian, Arab and international arenas, everyhere in the world in support of the prisoners’ cause.

Salutes of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day – Glory to the martyrs – Freedom for the prisoners of freedom

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Prison Branch
April 16, 2017

French Presidential Election 2017

French Presidential Election 2017: Nothing Succeeds Like Success. Macron “Selected”. Billionaires and Bankers Rejoice

By Diana Johnstone

Global Research, May 08, 2017

Region: Europe

 

 

 

There is great rejoicing tonight in places accustomed to rejoicing. The best champagne must be flowing in places that have plenty of it, chez Bernard Arnault, for example, first fortune in France (eleventh in the world), owner among so much else of the newspapers Parisien, Aujourd’hui France and Echos, all fervent supporters of Emmanuel Macron. The glasses should be clinking also wherever the peripatetic billionaire Patrick Drahi finds himself, born in Morocco, double French-Israeli nationality, resident of Switzerland, owner of a vast media and telecom empire, including the epitome of post-May ’68 turncoatism, the tabloid Libération, which ran a headline calling on voters to cast their ballots for Macron a day after the public campaign was legally over.
The list is long of billionaires, bankers and establishment figures who have a right to rejoice at the extraordinary success of a candidate who got elected President of the French Republic on the claim to be “an outsider”, whereas nobody in history has ever been so unanimously supported by all the insiders you can name.

There should also be satisfaction in the embassies of all the countries whose governments openly interfered in the French election – the U.S. of course, but also Germany, Belgium, Italy and Canada, among others, who earnestly exhorted the French to make the right choice: Macron, of course. All these champions of Western democracy can all join in gloating over the nonexistent but failed interference of Russia – for which there is no evidence, but part of the fun of a NATOland election these days is to accuse the Russians of meddling.

As for the French, abstention was nearly record-breaking, as much of the left could not vote for the self-proclaimed enemy of labor law but dared not vote for the opposition candidate, Marine Le Pen, because one just cannot vote for someone who was labeled “extreme right” or even “fascist” by an incredible campaign of denigration, even though she displayed no visible symptom of fascism and her program was favorable to lower income people and to world peace. Words count in France, where the terror of being accused of sharing World War II guilt is overwhelming.

Surveys indicate that as much as 40% of Macron voters chose him solely to “block” the alleged danger of voting for Marine Le Pen.

Others on the left voted for Macron vowing publicly that they will “fight him” once he is elected. Fat chance.

There may be street demonstrations in coming months, but that will have little impact on Macron’s promise to tear up French labor law by decree and free labor and management to fight it out between themselves, at a time when management is powerful thanks to delocalizations and labor is disorganized and enfeebled by the various effects of globalization.

As Jean Bricmont put it, outgoing French President François Hollande deserves a Nobel Prize for political manipulation.

At a time when he and his government were so unpopular that everyone was looking forward to the election as a chance to get rid of them, Hollande, with zealous assistance from of the major media, leading banks and oligarchs of various stripes, succeeded in promoting his little-known economic advisor into the candidate of “change”, neither left nor right, a totally fresh, new political star – supported by all the old politicians that the public wanted to get rid of.

This is quite an amazing demonstration of the power of “communications” in contemporary society, a triumph for the advertising industry, mainstream media and the billionaires who own all of that.
France was perceived as a potential weak link in the globalization project of eliminating national sovereignty in favor of the worldwide reign of capital. Thanks to an extraordinary effort, this danger has been averted. At least for now.
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Copyright © Diana Johnstone, Global Research, 2017

Human species will have to populate a new planet within 100 years if it is to survive -SH

Professor

 

Stephen Hawking thinks the human species will have to populate a new planet within 100 years

if it is to survive!

 

As if Monday isn't depressing enough, you'll might as well know what English theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has to say about humanity's fate on Earth.

Back in November Hawking – who lives with Lou Gehrig's Disease – predicted that we have a solid 1,000 years.

 

Now, in his forthcoming documentary for the BBC, Expedition New Earth, he's gone and revised it down a bit - to 100 years.

 

"Professor Stephen Hawking thinks the human species will have to populate a new planet within 100 years if it is to survive," the BBC confirmed.
 

 

"With climate change, overdue asteroid strikes, epidemics and population growth, our own planet is increasingly precarious."

 

Stephen Hawking Just Offered A Depressing Prediction Of How Long We Have Left On Earth©

 

 According to Hellogiggles, Hawking's new documentary looks at evolving science and technology regarding biology, astronomy and human hibernations, as well as the possibilities of life on Mars and how we could go about colonising the planet – something he refers to as, 'Planet B'.

 

Over the years, Hawking has been increasingly vocal about our need to find a 'Planet B', once calling for humans to colonise the moon and find a way to settle Mars which he called the 'obvious next target' in 2008, according to New Scientist.

 

In addition, he's pointed out how the rapid development of artificial intelligence will significantly contribute to the downfall of planet Earth and the human race.

 

"I think the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race," Hawking told the BBC in a 2014 interview.

 

"Once humans develop artificial intelligence, it will take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate," he warned. "Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete and would be superseded."

 

So there you go. The countdown has started.
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* அமெரிக்க ஏகாதிபத்தியத்தின் தலைமையில் நாடு கடந்த நிதியாதிக்க புல்லுருவிக் கும்பல்கள், ஏகாதிபத்திய உச்ச இலாப,சமூகவிரோத,அபரிமித அராஜக உற்பத்தி முறையின் நெருக்கடிக்கு தீர்வாக, உலகை மறு பங்கீடு செய்யும் நோக்கில் திட்டமிடும் மூன்றாம் உலகப் போரை தடுக்க குரல் எழுப்புவோம்!

* அமெரிக்க,பிரித்தானிய ஏகாதிபத்தியவாதிகள் வடகொரியா மீதும்,சிரியா மீதும் ஏவும் உலகமறுபங்கீட்டு ஆக்கிரமிப்பு அநீதி யுத்தங்களை எதிர்ப்போம்!

* அகண்ட ஐரோப்பியக் கனவின் நிமித்தம் கிரேக்கம் உள்ளிட்ட சிறிய ஐரோப்பிய ஜூனியன் நாடுகளை,ஜேர்மானிய ஆளும் கும்பல் ஒட்டச் சுரண்டி சுடுகாடாக மாற்றுவதை எதிர்ப்போம்!

*ஆப்கானிஸ்தான்,ஈராக்,லிபியா,சிரியாவில் இருந்து அனைத்து அந்நியத் துருப்புகளையும் வெளியேறக் கோருவோம்! விரட்டியடிக்கும் நீதியான போராட்டங்களை ஆதரிப்போம்!

* மூன்றாம் உலகப் போரில் அமெரிக்காவின் யுத்ததந்திரக் கூட்டாளியான இந்திய விரிவாதிக்க அரசு, சிறீலங்காவினதும்,தமிழீழத்தினதும்,உள்விவகாரங்களில் தொடர்ந்து அத்துமீறி தலையிடுவதை நிறுத்த 1987 இந்திய இலங்கை ஒப்பந்தத்தை கிழித்தெறியப் போராடுவோம்! 

  * ஈழத்தில் இந்தியா இழைத்த போர்க்குற்றங்களுக்கு தண்டனை அளிப்போம்! மோடி வருகையை   எதிர்ப்போம்!

* அமெரிக்க இந்திய ஆட்சிக்கவிழ்ப்பின் மூலம் ஆட்சி அதிகாரத்தைக் கைப்பற்றிய போர்க்குற்ற, ரணில் மைத்திரி,பொன்சேகா கும்பலுக்கு தண்டனை வழங்க ஈழப்பிரிவினைக்கு பொது வாக்கெடுப்பு கோருவோம்!

* அரசியல் அமைப்புத் திருத்தம் என்கிற போர்வையில்,நாடு தழுவிய வாக்கெடுப்பு மூலம்,சிங்கள  ஆதிக்கத்தை ஈழம் மீது திணிக்கும் சதியை முறியடிப்போம்!
 
* இச்சதிக்கு துணை நிற்கும் கூட்டமைப்பு (TNA) துரோகிகளுக்கு தேர்தலைப் புறக்கணித்து பாடம் புகட்டுவோம்!

* `அகிம்சை,சமஸ்டி,அதிகாரப்பகிர்வு` பேசும் சமரசவாத ஏகாதிபத்திய `வர்ணப் புரட்சி`
NGO க்களைத் தனிமைப்படுத்துவோம்!

* முள்ளிவாய்க்காலுக்கு பின்னால் நிராயுதபாணியாக்கப்பட்ட ஈழ தேசம் மீது சிங்களம் கட்டவிழ்க்கும் தேசிய அபகரிப்பை,ஆக்கிரமிப்பை எதிர்த்து கிழர்ந்தெழுந்து தன்னியல்பாகப் போராடும், ஈழமக்களுக்கு, _ பிரிவினைப் பொது வாக்கெடுப்பை உயர்த்திப் பிடித்து _ புரட்சிகர தலைமை அளிப்போம்!

* ஈழப்பிரிவினை அரசியல் பிரச்சாரத்தை சட்டவிரோதமாக்கியுள்ள சிறிலங்கா அரசியல் யாப்ப்பின் ஆறாவது திருத்தத்தை நீக்கப் போராடுவோம்!

*ஈழப் புரட்சியின் ஆதார அடித்தளமான,மலையக,இஸ்லாமிய,வட கிழக்கு தமிழர் ஒற்றுமையைக் கட்டிக்காக்க அயராது பாடுபடுவோம்!

*சிங்களம்,  சிங்கள மாணவர்கள், உழைக்கும் மக்கள் மீது தொடுக்கும் பாசிச உலக மய நல அடக்குமுறைகளை முன்னின்று கண்டிப்போம்!

* புலம்பெயர் ஏகாதிபத்திய தாச சமரசவாதிகளைத் தனிமைப்படுத்துவோம்!

*அரசியல் கைதிகள்- யுத்தக்கைதிகள் விடுதலை, களவாடி காணாமல் ஆக்கப்பட்டோர் பிரச்சனை, நிலமீட்பு விவசாயப் பிரச்சனை, உள்ளிட்ட போர் மீண்ட தேசத்தின் மறுவாழ்வு உரிமைக்குப் போராடுவோம்!

*நாசகார,அராஜக, ஏகாதிபத்திய உற்பத்தி முறையின் காவலர்கள், கோடான கோடி ஆண்டுகளாக மானுடம் வாழப் பண்படுத்திய பூமிக் கிரகத்தின்  இருப்பை நூறே ஆண்டுகள் என்றாக்கி விட்டார்கள், சந்திரன் கிரக்கத்தில் தங்கம் தேடுகிறார்கள், பூமிக் கிரகம் காப்போம்!

* அணு ஆயுத உரிமையை அனைவருக்கும் இல்லாதாக்குவோம்!

* தற்கால கருத்துச் சுதந்திரம், தகவல் சுதந்திரம்,பிரச்சார சுதந்திரம் காப்போம்!

         * ஜூலியன் அசான், டேவிட் சுனோடன் சுதந்திரத்துக்குப் போராடுவோம்! 

ரசிய ஒக்ரோபர் புரட்சி நூற்றாண்டு மே நாள் வாழ்க!

மே 18 ஈழ நாள் வாழ்க!

 

இறுதி வெற்றி ஈழ மக்களுக்கே.

 

புதிய ஈழப் புரட்சியாளர்கள்

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