FOR HAMMAM

 

What do you understand by human rights? Can you name any of them? Do people in Britain have all their human rights? And what about human rights in Palestine?

 

This book, which start with questions about Palestine (good to test your knowledge) has been written as part of human rights project. Youth from Abu Dis and Camden met to work together, discover British and Palestinian societies and trade about issues of anti-discrimination and human rights. This book (written in Arabic and English) is the result of their work.

For all those young people the biggest issue was the violation of the human rights of Palestinian people.

 

Nowadays, most of the human rights of Palestinian children are violated. That is why youth ambassadors have chosen to discuss on the follow human rights:

- The right to an identity

- The right to leave your country and return to it

- The right to feel safe

- The rights to freedom from arbitrary arrest + freedom from torture

- The right to move around your country

- The right for families to be protected

- The right to clothing and housing

- The right to health care

- The right to education

- The right to play

- The right not to be discriminated against.

 

Finally, youth from Abu Dis and Camden have discussed about what they can do. Young Palestinian people have also made different recommendations like:

-      Tell others what is happening in Palestine

-      Ask for the wall and checkpoints to be removed.

-      Boycott Israel. - Etc.

 

If you don't know basis about the issue in Palestine and human rights situation there, this book is made for you!

 

*You can order the book here: http://www.cadfa.org/shop/for-hammam/

Sign the petition for the hunger strikers please.

Please sign the petition to the International Committee of the Red Cross which you can find here. The words are copied below.

https://www.change.org/p/international-committee-of-the-red-cross-defend-the-rights-of-the-hunger-strikers

We call your attention to the suffering of around 1800 Palestinian prisoners who have been on hunger strike, most of them for more than 30 days.  Some are now refusing to take water.  The health of all of them is in grave danger. 

The prisoners are hunger striking for basic rights – the end of imprisonment without trial, decent treatment including family visits and their message must be listened to.

The Red Cross has a role in relation to prisoners in Palestine, but the families of prisoners are saying that they are not helping. The families of prisoners have issued a call for help and this is directed at the ICRC: they say..

“While Palestinian prisoners in “Israeli” occupation jails are fighting their battle and demanding their rights as political prisoners and human beings. the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) refuses to uphold its responsibility towards our prisoners.

ICRC has always bragged about its neutral nature and role in observing conditions of prisoners, however they remain silent while over 1500 prisoners mark their 31 days of hunger strike living only on water after the prison administrations have confiscated salt from them. This is not the first time where ICRC remains silent when prisoners are on hunger strike and being punished by “Israeli” prison administration. ICRC silence and refusal to meet with prisoners inside their sections and rooms can be only interpreted as collaboration and conniving with “Israeli” occupation forces.

“ICRC failure to attend to this cause contributes to the aggravation of the crisis and putting the lives of the prisoners at stake.”

We want to see family visits restored to Palestinian prisoners and believe that the ICRC must take a real stand to defend the rights of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. We are writing to ask for your immediate attention to this matter.

Students - Join the Palestine Summer School Sept 2017

Contact us at contact@cadfa.org for an application form and further information.

اللقاء الخامس لنادي توامة الطلاب 2/5/2017

في هذا اليوم اجتمع طلاب نادي التوامة وهم طلاب جامعة القدس 

لم نجد شيئا اهم في هذا اليوم من الحديث عنه ومناقشته أكثر من معركة الامعاء الخاوية التي يخوضها اسرانا البواسل في سجون الاحتلال الذين يخوضون اضرابهم لليوم الحادي عشر ..ضمن اوضاع خطيرة واقتحامات تعسفية تقوم بها قوات الاحتلال لاقسام السجن ..في هذا اليوم سحبت قوات الاحتلال الملح من السجون وهذا يشكل خطرا كبيرا على حياة الاسرى .

ادارة السجون لم تمتثل لغاية الان لطلبات الاسرى مما يبقي هذا الاضراب مفتوحا .

صحة الاسرى في تدهور كبير فقدو الكثير من الوزن وظهرت عليهم علامات الاعياء الشديد والهزال وهذا مما ينذر بكارثة ستحدث ان استمر الاضراب وخاصة ان الاسرى يرفضون ان يأخذو المدعمات الغذائية وهددو بعدم شرب الماء قريبا ان لم تستجيب لهم ادارة السجون. 

PALESTINE SUMMER SCHOOL 2017

Dates have been set in early September for the next CADFA student exchange to Palestine! LEAFLET COMING SOON...contact us for details!!

Palestinian Prisoners' Day Demonstration in Trafalgar Square

We know that a lot of Palestinians are arrested and jailed unfairly. We know that the conditions of imprisonment are very bad. We also know that Israeli soldiers tend to jail children. We must organise actions to make people aware and to protest against those facts.

On the 20th of May, we went to Trafalgar Square, on the stairs of St-Martin-in-the-Fields to protest against the way Palestinians are treated regarding the imprisonment.

We were about 15 people, almost all CADFA's volunteers, but we also had two people from the International Jewish Antizionist Network (IJAN) who brought their own placards. Before the event, we made several signs with CADFA's volunteers and we gave them to the people who wanted to demonstrate. They were about the different injustices Palestinians have to face within this issue. Some of us were blindfolded. We also distributed around 500 leaflets to people in the street (the one you can see in the last article of this blog).

Trafalgar Square is always very busy and we decided to set up at 4:30pm, when people begin to go out the offices. So we reached a lot of them and the reacts were, as always, very disparate. Some were insensitive (but at least they have been reminded or educated), other were aggressive. One woman insulted us. But we have been given support by lots of people as well and we held very interesting discussions. We also met Palestinian people, very recently arrived from Palestine. They very happy about what we were doing.

We think that action was effective. We plan to organise another one very soon, about the same topic.

Here are some pictures from this demonstration.

Palestinian Prisoners' National Day 17th April 2017

(Written in Arabic by the student twinning group in Abu Dis and translated - the leaflet from the prisoner demo in London today)























Every year on 17th April, all Palestinian people everywhere hold a day of solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners. This year specifically, the prisoners inside Israeli jails decided to start an open hunger strike, calling for their basic human rights. This is happening at a time when we have around 6500 prisoners inside Israeli jails, among them 300 children (under 18) and 57 women.

This year, on the morning of 17th April the Palestinian prisoner Leena al-Jarbooneh was released after spending 17 years in Israeli jail. She said she was sad to leave another 50 women behind her, some of whom are joining the hunger strike.

The hunger strike started with 1500 prisoners and in its first stage did not include children or people who are sick.

For us as Al Quds University students and people from Abu Dis, we have between us around 50 friends and relatives inside jail. Many of them are university students, and some of them are on hunger strike now, for example Islam Rabiyeh who is a first-year university student who was recently arrested and has joined the strike. 

We all started peaceful solidarity campaigns, beginning with a march on 17th April through Abu Dis. Mothers of prisoners and children of prisoners carried their photos and we started to walk towards the University Street. The Israeli army attacked this march and started to throw tear gas directly towards the middle of the demo, where children and women were walking. Many young people were wounded by rubber bullets and even journalists who came to cover the activity were attacked by the army and were kicked out from the area because the army don't want journalists to take the facts and send them to the outside world.

The army shot towards an ambulance, which stopped them reaching and rescuing people who were wounded.

On the next morning, 18th April in the morning, the army came to the area of the university and the schools. They surrounded them and stopped students from getting to their study. We didn't manage to go to University that day. They managed to stop and activity in solidarity with prisoners that was due to happen inside the university.

Among Al Quds University students in jail who are joining the hunger strike now, we have
ISLAM RABIYEH (19 years old)
AHMED AL HAJ HASSAN (22 years old)
EHSAN OTHMAN (22 years old)

We call the international community to raise this issue and to support the demands that our friends and brothers inside jail are asking for, and also to be in touch with the families of the prisoners who are meeting in solidarity tents in many towns in Palestine.