Palestinian Prisoners Score Heroic Victory
Struggle to End Israel’s Oppression andInternational Complicity Continues
15 May 2012 -- Nearly a month into the Palestinian prisoners' hunger strike, ahistoric victory has been achieved, as Israeli authorities were forced to complywith the prisoners’ main demands. Coinciding with the Palestiniancommemoration of the 64th anniversary of the Nakba, the systematic campaign ofethnic cleansing that uprooted most Palestinians from their homeland around1948, the prisoners’ victory has heightened hope about the prospects forPalestinian freedom, justice, self determination and the return of refugees.
This important triumph for the Palestinian popular struggle could not have beenreached without the unwavering resolve of the prisoners themselves, grassrootsmobilization in their support in Palestine, and the immense wave of effectivesolidarity and calls for holding Israel accountable that the strike has triggeredaround the world.
More than a thousand people around the globe have pledged to undertake a 24-hour hunger strike in solidarity with the prisoners, to take place this Thursday.While the solidarity hunger-strike has been called off, due to the prisoners'victory, injustice and illegal repression continue in Israeli prisons.
Emphasizing imprisonment as a critical component of Israel’s system ofoccupation, colonialism and apartheid practiced against the Palestinian people,Palestinian civil society and human rights organizations have called for intensifyingthe global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign to targetcorporations profiting directly from the Israeli prison system. In particular, we callfor action to be taken to hold to account G4S, the world’s largest internationalsecurity corporation, which helps to maintain and profit from Israel’s prison system, for its complicity with Israeli violations of international law.
Please click here to demand G4S ends its involvement in the Israeli prisonsystem and its complicity in violations of Palestinian human rights.
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