Following a weekly sit-in by the families of Palestinian political prisons inside Gaza’s International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), hundreds rallied outside to welcome former administrative detainee and hunger striker Hana Shalabi to Gaza.
(Photo: Joe Catron)
(Photo: Joe Catron)
Shalabi, age 30, was exiled to the besieged Gaza Strip from her home in Burqin, Jenin for three years by Israel, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention and following Israel’s denial of her access to legal counsel and medical advice, as part of an agreement ending her 43-day hunger strike.
(Photo: Joe Catron)
After her arrival, Shalabi told government officials, “I am in my country and among my family.” Today’s rally illustrated the broad support she and her hunger strike enjoy in Gaza, with visible participation by every major Palestinian party.
(Photo: Joe Catron)
(Photo: Joe Catron)
(Photo: Joe Catron)
(Photo: Joe Catron)
In addition to praising Shalabi’s struggle against administrative detention and denouncing her exile, speakers addressed the urgent need to build Palestinian and international support for Ahmad Al-Hajj Ali, a 72-year-old Member of Parliament and administrative detainee now on the 14th day of his hunger strike, and to mobilize on April 17, Palestinian Prisoners’ Day.
(Photo Joe Catron)
Sending her to Gaza is a disgrace.
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/top-banishment-gaza-israel-uses-twitter-further-violate-hana-al-shalabis-rights
“Today, Hana al-Shalabi, who spent 43 days on hunger strike to protest her detention without charge or trial by Israel, was banished to the Gaza Strip for three years, under a highly controversial deal that Addameer and Physicians for Human Rights- Israel have said is illegal under international law, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949.
In the course of this appalling act, Israeli occupation forces used Twitter to commit an additional breach of international law and Hana al-Shalabi’s rights.”
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Joe–Great photo work! Please post this album on Google+ too as you did ‘Gaza Joins the March to Jerusalem’. Google+ is a great forum for photography.
she’s really beautiful. i thought perhaps they enhanced her beauty in the posters but it doesn’t look like it from that photo of her. she radiates.
Israel sent Hana into exile… Really? From one stolen piece of land to the next? As with the Kardashians, I hope [one day] I’ll be able to open my web browser and not have to read anything about either of them.