On September 1, almost ten days after launching a collective civil disobedience movement in Israeli Prisons, Palestinian political prisoners unite against inhumane prison conditions and snatch a victory from the Israeli Prison Service.
In the months following the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, Palestinian journalists have faced intensified repression from both Israeli forces and the Palestinian Authority.
Those mourning at the funerals of the Nablus and Tubas martyrs are calling for resistance.
Israel’s continued detention of Bassam al-Saadi and Khalil Awawdeh is part of its larger campaign to quell Palestinian resistance in recent months.
The ways in which we allow our work to impact us is also a necessary recognition that the echoes of all the stories we report on will inevitably become parts of us.
Wasim Abu Khalifa, 19, was killed by Israeli forces in Nablus on Thursday as hundreds of settlers descended on the city under military protection to make a provocative visit to Joseph’s Tomb.
On Tuesday, an Israeli District court extended the solitary confinement of 20-year-old Palestinian detainee, Ahmad Manasra, for an additional six months. Israeli Prison Services and authorities attempt to justify Manasra’s isolation by claiming that he poses a threat to his own life, but Manasra’s lead defense lawyer, Khaled Zabarqa, told Amnesty that “the repeated extensions of his solitary confinement are destroying him.”
Mariam Barghouti travels to Nablus to meet the family of Ibrahim al-Nablusi, who was assassinated by Israeli forces on August 9. Al-Nablusi became a legend in the Palestinian generation born at the peak of the Second Palestinian Intifada. Although news reports hailed the young fighter as a “top commander” and “senior militant,” al-Nabulsi lived another life with his friends and family. “When we used to ask him why he kept going, he would reply, ‘I am reviving the spirit of resistance of an entire generation’,” Ibrahim’s sister Shahd al-Nabulsi tells Mondoweiss.
Palestinian political prisoner Salah Hammouri writes from Ofer prison, “I know that the love of a homeland is an unrequited love, bringing only hurt, pain, and loss. It has robbed me of the most beautiful years of my life and stolen from me my adolescence and youth. It forced me to grow up quickly, living always beyond my years. Yet I love my homeland still, knowing that even if we do everything we can for it, our country will still only ask “what more can you give?”
It is a zero-sum-equation in the calculations of most people, and I understand this. But for me (my preference), a real life is not waiting at the station for the train of freedom to arrive, but being on the train itself, no matter the sacrifice.”
On August 9, Israeli forces killed four Palestinians in the West Bank, including notable Palestinian resistance fighter Ibrahim Nabulsi, “the lion of Nablus,” during a daytime military raid. Nabulsi’s killing is also connected to the ongoing struggle of hunger striker Khalil Awawdeh, who continues to be held under administrative detention in Ramleh Prison. All of these incidents are part of the same story — the Israeli campaign to eradicate Palestinian resistance.