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Israeli authorities examine the tunnel used by six Palestinian prisoners to escape the Israeli Gilboa Prison on Monday, September 6th, 2021. (Photo: Social media)

The Tunnel for Freedom, when six Palestinians escaped from Israel’s notorious Gilboa prison, has become an iconic moment in modern Palestinian history. One year later, the six prisoners have been re-arrested but the unity their daring action inspired lives on. 

“Those days of freedom,” Aymen Kamamji’s father tells Mondoweiss, “they were some of the happiest days of our lives.” 

The U.S. State Department welcomed Israel’s statement on the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, and Rep. Marie Newman and reporters Said Arikat and Matt Lee promptly rejected the American stance. “That’s not what accountability is, unless you guys have a different definition of it than the dictionary does,” Matt Lee mocked.

'Ambassadors of freedom - Palestine' on a bottle used for smuggled sperm at Razan clinic, Ramallah. Photo credit: Izzeddin Araj

A new rule that forces visitors who fall in love with Palestinians to inform Israeli authorities shows that the right to intimacy serves as both a realm of domination as well as a form of resistance under Israeli settler-colonialism.