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Support Samer Issawi
After more than 8 months on hunger strike against his illegal detention, Ayman Sharawna has been removed by Israel to Gaza where he has been reunited with family members.
Samer Issawi is continuing to fight his imprisonment and has been on hunger strike for 244 days. Despite the urgency, Ofer Military Court has decided to hold 3 court sessions for Samer in April. He refused Israel’s offer to ‘deport’ him to Gaza. Follow his campaign on twitter and facebook and please continue to protest against his imprisonment to the Foreign Office.
 Samer Issawi
Take action: Palestinian prisoners’ day
Join the global campaign to Stop Administrative Detention, a form of detention without charge or trial. Adameer – the prisoners’ rights organisation in Palestine – have launched a campaign against administrative detention to coincide with Palestinian Prisoners’ Day – 17th April. Visit the PSC website for information on protests and events.
Administrative detention empowers Israel’s military commanders to detain an individual for up to six months. This process can be continued indefinitely. Detainees are not informed of the reasons of their detention; neither are their lawyers
Please ask your MP to sign this EDM or write to the Foreign Secretary to urge the UK Government to pressure Israel to release administrative detainees and to put an end to such an unjust, arbitrary and cruel system of incarceration without trial.

 Stop Administrative Detention poster
Gaza Conference: live link to Gaza
Saturday 13th April 10am-4.30pm
Brunei Gallery, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG
Pre-registration required. Book your place at the conference today.
Lessons from Gaza
Join us for a live-link up with Gazaduring PSC’s major conference on Saturday 13th April. We will be linking to:Dr Mona Al Farra,Director of Gaza Projects, a physician by training and a human rights and women’s rights activist.Raji Sourani, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, which he founded in 1995 with a group of fellow lawyers and human rights activists

Khalil Abu Shamallah, Head of Al Dameer human rights centre and Palestinian Non_Government Organisation Network
Jamal El Khoudary, an independent MP in Gaza
President Obama: welcome to racism!
As President Obama visits Israel and the occupied West Bank, the UN committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has called on Israel to repeal all discriminatory laws and discriminatory bills to ensure non-Jewish communities’ equal access to work and social benefits and political participation “enshrined in the Convention.” This comes following news that hate speech from Israeli public figures doubled in 2012. Human Rights group, Adalah have produced a new database of the more than 60 discriminatory Israeli laws.
No Arabs though - attribution DC Atty
attribution: D C Atty
News and events
Video: Israeli Forces detain minors |
B’t Selem
Beyond E1| IRIN NewsAnalysis shows E1 only one of many problemmatic new settlement projects
No championship plea | Inside Football
Top female Palestinian footballer, Honey Thaljieh, sets out a congent case why Israel shouldn’t host UEFA under 21s.
‘You promised hope – you gave us apartheid’ | Mondoweiss
Palestinians highlight the colonisation and apartheid at a new protest camp.
23 March | Sodastream protest|Brighton
23 March | Launch of Abu Bakr Rauf Memorial Scholarship Fund | Bradford
24 March | Palestinian culture & Christianity| Walthamstow
26 March | 5 Broken Cameras | Barnstaple
3 April | When I saw you + Director Q&A | central London
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