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  • Khalida Jarrar : « Je ne cesserai jamais de m’exprimer » | Agence Media Palestine
    Jaclynn Ashly - Traduction : J. Ch. pour l’Agence Média Palestine
    Source : The Electronic Intifada
    http://www.agencemediapalestine.fr/blog/2019/04/01/khalida-jarrar-je-ne-cesserai-jamais-de-mexprimer

    Cette éminente députée de gauche et personnage de la société civile, qui était en charge du comité des prisonniers au Conseil Législatif Palestinien quand le parlement était encore nominalement actif, a éclaté d’un grand fou-rire quand on lui a demandé si elle craignait qu’Israël puisse l’arrêter à nouveau.

    « Pourquoi est-ce que vous tous [journalistes] me posez cette question ? », s’est-elle enquise, avant de répondre :

    « Cette question concerne l’occupation, je pense », a-t-elle dit, agitant les mains sa cigarette entre les doigts. « L’occupation va-t-elle continuer à démolir les maisons palestiniennes ? Ont-ils prévu de continuer à nous dénier nos droits à l’autodétermination nationale ?

    « Si l’occupation continue, alors je ne cesserai jamais de m’exprimer sur ces sujets. »

  • Israel releases PFLP leading member Khalida Jarrar
    Feb. 28, 2019 12:25 P.M. (Updated : Feb. 28, 2019 12:25 P.M.)
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=782702

    JENIN (Ma’an) — The Israeli authorities released leading member of the PFLP and former Palestinian lawmaker, Khalida Jarrar, early Thursday, after being held under administrative detention for 20 months.

    Jarrar was released at the Salem Israeli military checkpoint, in the northern occupied West Bank district of Jenin, in the early morning hours to prevent family and activists from organizing a welcome ceremony for her.

    Israeli forces had detained Jarrar on July 2nd, 2017, a year after her release, and confiscated her personal belongings including a computer and a mobile phone; her detention was renewed four times.

    Jarrar, a leading member of the PFLP, deputy at the PLC (Palestinian Legislative Council), heads the PLC’s prisoners’ committee and acts as the Palestinian representative in the Council of Europe, an international organization promoting human rights and democracy around the world, was previously detained in 2015 and had spent 14 months in Israeli jails.

    #Khalida_Jarrar

    • Israël libère une députée palestinienne après vingt mois de détention
      Khalida Jarrar avait été arrêtée en 2017 pour des activités au sein du Front populaire de libération de la Palestine, mouvement considéré comme « terroriste » par Israël.
      Le Monde, le 28 février 2019
      https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2019/02/28/israel-libere-une-deputee-palestinienne-apres-vingt-mois-de-detention_542952

      #guillemets #Palestine #FPLP #détention_administrative #prison

    • Ashrawi: ’Israel’s administrative detention an assault on human rights’
      March 1, 2019 10:53 A.M. (Updated: March 1, 2019 10:53 A.M.)
      http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=782711

      RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Commenting on Israel’s release today of Palestinian lawmaker and prominent human rights defender Khalida Jarrar after spending 20 months in administrative detention, Hanan Ashrawi, Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee Member, said Israel’s administrative detention policy is “an assault on universal human rights.”

      Ashrawi said in a statement, on Thursday, “After twenty months in Israeli captivity, Khalida Jarrar is finally free. This imprisonment was yet another chapter in a lifetime of persecution and oppression from the Israeli occupation to this prominent human rights defender and elected representative, including several arrests, house arrest, and a ban on travel due to her activism against occupation and her work in defending the national and human rights of her people.”

      She added, “As we celebrate the release of Khalida, we must not lose sight that nearly 500 Palestinian citizens, including children and other elected officials, are languishing in Israeli prisons, without charge or trial, under so-called administrative detention.”

      “This form of open-ended detention is a tool of cruel punishment and oppression that the Israeli occupation regime has employed against thousands of Palestinian activists throughout the past fifty-two years of occupation. It is an abhorrent practice that violates international law, including international humanitarian law and international criminal law, as well as the basic rights and dignity of Palestinians.” (...)

    • Israël libère une députée palestinienne après 20 mois de détention
      Par RFI Publié le 28-02-2019 - Avec notre correspondante à Ramallah, Marine Vlahovic
      http://www.rfi.fr/moyen-orient/20190228-israel-libere-une-deputee-palestinienne-apres-20-mois-detention

      Khalida Jarrar avait été arrêtée en juillet 2017 à son domicile de Ramallah en Cisjordanie occupée par l’armée israélienne. Membre du Front populaire de libération de la Palestine (FPLP), un parti placé sur la liste des organisations terroristes par Israël, les Etats-Unis et l’Union européenne, cette députée palestinienne a passé près de deux ans en détention administrative, sans véritable procès, avant d’être finalement libérée ce jeudi 28 février. (...)

  • Reminder: Israel is still holding a Palestinian lawmaker as political prisoner indefinitely
    Haaretz.com - Palestinian lawmaker Khalida Jarrar has been incarcerated in an Israeli jail without a trial for 20 months. Another period of ‘administrative detention’ will soon expire. Will she come home?
    Gideon Levy and Alex Levac Feb 14, 2019 5:20 PM
    https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-reminder-israel-is-holding-palestinian-lawmaker-as-political-priso

    Ghassan Jarrar, the husband of Khalida Jarrar, holds a portrait of her on April 2, 2015 at their home in the West Bank city of Ramallah.AFP PHOTO / ABBAS MOMANI

    Ghassan Jarrar says his life is meaningless without Khalida. In his office at the children’s toys and furniture factory he owns in Beit Furik, east of Nablus, its chairs upholstered with red fake fur, the face of the grass widower lights up whenever he talks about his wife. She’s been incarcerated in an Israeli prison for 20 months, without trial, without being charged, without evidence, without anything. In two weeks, however, she could be released, at long last. Ghassan is already busy preparing himself: He knows he’s liable to be disappointed again, for the fourth successive time.

    Khalida Jarrar is Israel’s No. 1 female political prisoner, the leader of the inmates in Damon Prison, on Mt. Carmel, and the most senior Palestinian woman Israel has jailed, without her ever having been convicted of any offense.

    The public struggle for her release has been long and frustrating, with more resonance abroad than in Israel. Here it encounters the implacable walls of the occupation authorities and the startling indifference of Israeli public opinion: People here don’t care that they’re living under a regime in which there are political prisoners. There is also the silence of the female MKs and the muteness of the women’s organizations.

    Haaretz has devoted no fewer than five editorials demanding either that evidence against her be presented or that she be released immediately. To no avail: Jarrar is still in detention and she still hasn’t been charged.

    She’s been placed in administrative detention – that is, incarceration without charges or a trial – a number of times: She was arrested for the first time on April 15, 2015 and sentenced to 15 months in jail, which she served. Some 13 months after she was released from that term, she was again put under administrative detention, which kept getting extended, for 20 consecutive months, starting in mid-2017: two stints of six months each, and two of four months each.

    The latest arbitrary extension of her detention is set to end on February 28. As usual, until that day no one will know whether she is going to be freed or whether her imprisonment will be extended once again, without explanation. A military prosecutor promised at the time of the previous extension that it would be the last, but there’s no way to know. Typical of the occupation and its arbitrariness.

    In any event, Ghassan is repainting their house, replacing air conditioners and the water heater, hanging new curtains, planting flowers in window boxes, ordering food and sweets in commercial quantities, and organizing a reception at one checkpoint and cars to await her at two other checkpoints – you can never know where exactly she will be released. A big celebration will take place in the Catholic church of Ramallah, which Ghassan has rented for three days on the last weekend of the month. Still, it’s all very much a matter of if and when.

    Reminder: On April 2, 2015, troops of the Israel Defense Forces raided the Jarrar family’s home in El Bireh, adjacent to Ramallah, and abducted Khalida, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council.

    She was placed in administrative detention. In the wake of international protests over Israel’s arrest without charges of a lawmaker who was elected democratically, the occupation authorities decided to try her. She was indicted on 12 counts, all of them utterly grotesque, including suspicion of visiting the homes of prisoners’ families, suspicion of attending a book fair and suspicion of calling for the release of Ahmad Saadat, a leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine who has been in prison for years.

    The charge sheet against Jarrar – an opponent of the occupation, a determined feminist and a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s executive committee – will one day serve as the crushing proof that there is not even the slightest connection between “military justice” and actual law and justice.

    We saw her in the military court at Ofer base in the summer of 2015, proud and impressive, as her two daughters, Yafa and Suha, who returned from their studies in Canada after their mother’s arrest, wept bitterly with their father on the back benches of the courtroom. No one remained indifferent when the guards allowed the two daughters to approach and embrace their mother, in a rare moment of grace and humanity, as their father continued to cry in the back. It was a scene not easily forgotten.

    Three months ago, she was transferred, along with the other 65 female Palestinian prisoners, from the Sharon detention facility where she’d been incarcerated to Damon, where the conditions are tougher: The authorities in Damon aren’t experienced in dealing with women and their special needs, Ghassan says. The showers are separate from the cells, and when a prisoner is menstruating, the red fluid flows into the yard and embarrasses the women. But at the same time, he says, the prison authorities are treating Khalida’s health situation well: She suffers from a blood-clotting problem and needs weekly medications and tests, which she receives regularly in her cell.

    “You are my sweetheart” is inscribed on some of the synthetic-fur toys in the production room in Beit Furik. There are dolls of Mickey Mouse and of other characters from the cartoon world, sporting bold colors, along with padded rocking chairs and lamps for children’s rooms, all designed by Ghassan and all bespeaking sweet innocence and creativity. He’s devoted much less time to his factory since his wife’s incarceration. Of the 19 employees he had, only seven remain, one of whom, a deaf woman, is his outstanding worker. It’s a carpentry shop, an upholstery center and a sewing workshop all under one roof. Ghassan sells most of his products to Israel, although he’s been denied entry to the country for years.

    Now his mind is focused on his wife’s release. The last time he visited her in prison was a month ago, 45 minutes on a phone through armor-plated glass. During her months in prison, Jarrar became an official examiner of matriculation exams for the Palestinian Education Ministry. The exam papers are brought to the prison by the International Red Cross. Among others that she has graded were Ahed Tamimi and her mother, Nariman. Ahed called Ghassan this week to ask when Khalida’s release was expected. She calls her “my aunt.”

    The clock on the wall of Ghassan’s office has stopped. “Everything is meaningless for me without Khalida,” he says. “Life has no meaning without Khalida. Time stopped when Khalida was arrested. Khalida is not only my wife. She is my father, my mother, my sister and my friend. I breathe Khalida instead of air. Twenty months without meaning. My work is also meaningless.”

    A business call interrupts this love poem, which is manifestly sincere and painful. What will happen if she’s not released, again? “I will wait another four months. Nothing will break me. I don’t let anything break me. That is my philosophy in life. It has always helped me.”

    Ghassan spent 10 years of his life in an Israeli prison, too. Like his wife, he was accused of being active in the PFLP.

    In the meantime, their older daughter, Yafa, 33, completed her Ph.D. in law at the University of Ottawa, and is clerking in a Canadian law firm. Suha, 28, returned from Canada, after completing, there and in Britain, undergraduate and master’s degrees in environmental studies. She’s working for the Ramallah-based human rights organization Al-Haq, and living with her father.

    Both daughters are mobilized in the public campaign to free their mother, particularly by means of the social networks. Khalida was in jail when Yafa married a Canadian lawyer; Ghassan invited the whole family and their friends to watch the wedding ceremony in Canada on a large screen live via the Internet. Ghassan himself is prohibited from going abroad.

    During Khalida’s last arrest, recalls her husband, IDF soldiers and Shin Bet security service agents burst into the house by force in the dead of night. They entered Suha’s room and woke her up. He remembers how she shouted, panic-stricken at the sight of the rifles being brandished by strange men in her bedroom wearing black masks, and how the soldiers handcuffed her from behind. As Ghassan replays the scene in his mind and remembers his daughter’s shouts, he grows distraught, as if it had happened this week.

    Not knowing know what the soldiers were doing to her there, and only hearing her shouts, he tried to come to his daughter’s rescue, he recalls. He says he was almost killed by the soldiers for trying to force his way into Suha’s bedroom.

    After the soldiers took Khalida, preventing Ghassan from even kissing her goodbye, despite his request – he discovered his daughter, bound by plastic handcuffs. After he released her, she wanted to rush into the street to follow the soldiers and her captive mother. He blocked her, and she went to the balcony of the house and screamed at them hysterically, cries of unfettered fury.

    Last Saturday was Khalida’s 56th birthday. It wasn’t the first birthday she’d spent in prison, maybe not the last, either. Ghassan’s face positively glows when he talks about his wife’s birthday. He belongs to a WhatsApp group called “Best Friends” that is devoted to Khalida, where they posted his favorite photograph of her, wearing a purple blouse and raising her arms high in the courtroom of the Ofer facility. The members of the group congratulated him. Umar quoted a poem about a prisoner who is sitting in his cell in complete darkness, unable even to see his own shadow. Hidaya wrote something about freedom. Khamis wrote a traditional birthday greeting, and Ghassan summed up, “You are the bride of Palestine, renewing yourself every year. You are the crown on my head, al-Khalida, eternal one.”

    #Khalida_Jarrar

  • Une diplomatie honteuse - [UJFP]
    mardi 11 décembre 2018 par le Bureau national de l’UJFP
    http://www.ujfp.org/spip.php?article6834

    En cette fin d’année 2018, quand on fait le bilan de tout ce qu’a fait la France en tant qu’État à propos de la Palestine et d’Israël, on ne peut qu’être consterné.

    Salah Hamouri, citoyen français, a passé plus d’un an en prison en Israël sans procès. Aucune protestation publique. Au contraire, pendant cette détention, le président Macron a donné plusieurs fois l’accolade à son « cher Bibi ».

    Pas plus de réaction face aux arrestations massives d’enfants, à la détention d’Ahed Tamimi ou de la députée Khalida Jarrar qui est en prison sans jugement depuis juillet 2017.

    Depuis le 30 mars 2018, l’armée israélienne assassine comme dans un stand de tir des manifestant-e-s désarmé-e-s dans la bande de Gaza. Il y a à ce jour 230 mort-e-s et des milliers d’estropié-e-s, victimes des balles explosives, armes formellement interdites. Pas un mot de la France contre ce carnage prémédité. Ce silence permet que le crime continue et se renouvelle régulièrement chaque vendredi. (...)

  • La détention administrative de Khalida Jarrar prolongée ! - Coup Pour Coup 31
    http://www.couppourcoup31.com/2018/10/la-detention-administrative-de-khalida-jarrar-prolongee.html

    Nous reproduisons ci-dessous de larges extraits du communiqué d’Addameer (organisation palestinienne de défense des prisonniers palestiniens) au sujet du prolongement de 4 mois de la détention administrative de la féministe et parlementaire Khalida Jarrar .

    Le 25 octobre 2018, nous avons appris que l’ordonnance de détention administrative de Khadlida Jarrar serait renouvelée pour quatre mois supplémentaires. Cette nouvelle est déchirante et dévastatrice, mais pas hors de l’ordinaire. Son audience de confirmation aura lieu la semaine prochaine. La nouvelle ordonnance prolongera sa détention de quatre mois supplémentaires, ce qui signifie qu’elle expirerait le 28 février 2019.

    Cela signifierait que Khalida était emprisonné, sans inculpation ni jugement, depuis 20 mois, puisqu’il s’agit de la quatrième ordonnance de détention pour elle.

    Comme nous l’avons déjà dit, Khalida est une défenseuse des droits de l’homme intrépide qui s’est engagée à utiliser tous les outils juridiques disponibles pour réaliser les droits fondamentaux du peuple palestinien.

    source : http://addameer.org/news/urgent-action-help-free-human-rights-defender-khalida-jarrar
    #Khadlida_Jarrar

  • Meet Ahed Tamimi, 17-Year-Old West Bank Activist Jailed for 8 Months for Slapping Israeli Soldier
    Democracy Now! - August 06, 2018
    https://www.democracynow.org/2018/8/6/meet_ahed_tamimi_17_year_old

    (...) AMY GOODMAN: The classes you took, you finished high school in an Israeli prison? What are the classes you took? Who taught you? What kind of discussions did you have behind the bars.

    AHED TAMIMI: [translated] We were taught by the prisoner Khalida Jarrar, and we would learn mathematics, Arabic, English, history, geography, science. We used to take international law classes, as well. We took a lot of these different classes.

    AMY GOODMAN: And did you discuss your own imprisonment as a child and discuss the issues of international law and occupation?

    AHED TAMIMI: [translated] Khalida Jarrar used to teach us about the international law and about all the different conventions within it. We would go through all the violations that happened to us. I didn’t have a female soldier with me during my interrogation, but, according to the convention, there was supposed to be a female soldier with me during the interrogation. So we would always tie these things together. (...)

  • In a democracy, Palestinian lawmaker Khalida Jarrar would be free - Haaretz.com | Gideon Levy | Jun 21, 2018 1:13 AM

    https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-in-a-democracy-palestinian-lawmaker-khalida-jarrar-would-be-free-1

    The continued detention of Palestinian parliament member Khalida Jarrar can no longer be presented as a worrisome exception on Israel’s democratic landscape. Nor can the incredible public apathy and almost total absence of media coverage of her plight be dismissed any longer as a general lack of interest in what Israel does to the Palestinians. The usual repression and denial cannot explain it either.

    Jarrar’s detention doesn’t only define what is happening in Israel’s dark backyard, it is part of its glittering display window. Jarrar defines democracy and the rule of law in Israel. Her imprisonment is an inseparable part of the Israeli regime and it is the face of Israeli democracy, no less than its free elections (for some of its subjects) or the pride parades that wind through its streets.

    Jarrar is the Israeli regime no less than the Basic Law on Human Dignity and Liberty. Jarrar is Israeli democracy without makeup and adornments. The lack of interest in her fate is also characteristic of the regime. A legislator in prison through no fault of her own is a political prisoner in every way, and political prisoners defined by the regime. There can be no political prisoners in a democracy, nor detention without trial in a state of law. Thus Jarrar’s imprisonment is not only a black stain on the Israeli regime; it’s an inseparable part of it.

    A Palestinian legislator has been imprisoned for nothing for months and years, and no one in Israel cares about her fate; only a very few protest. None of her Israeli counterparts in the Knesset say anything, not even those from the hypocritical Zionist left; no jurist groups or even the enlightened High Court of Justice are working to get her freed.

    There’s no point in reporting on the trivialities that the Shin Bet security service attributes to her, or to explain that she is innocent until proven guilty. There is no point in writing again and again about parliamentary immunity, lest this be considered delusional – how can a Palestinian have immunity? – nor is there any point in wasting words to describe her courage, though she is perhaps the bravest woman living today under Israeli control.

    All these things fall on deaf ears. There are no charges and no guilt, just a freedom fighter in jail. The Shin Bet is the investigator, the prosecutor and the judge, three positions in one in the land of unlimited possibilities, in which a state can define itself as a democracy, even the only one in the Middle East, and most Israelis are convinced that this is the case, while the world accepts it.

    Jarrar could end up spending the rest of her life in prison; there is no legal impediment to this since all the pathetic arguments used to justify her continued detention could be deemed valid indefinitely. If she’s dangerous today, she’s dangerous forever. Political prisoners, detention without trial and unlimited imprisonment define tyranny.

    Of course, Jarrar is not an exceptional case; she isn’t even the only Palestinian MP in an Israeli prison. So the pretentious talk about Israeli democracy must be halted, given her imprisonment. Israel with Jarrar in prison is at most a half-democracy.

    Therefore, the resistance should no longer be directed solely against the occupation. The resistance is to the regime in place in Israel. Her imprisonment is the regime and she opposes the regime under whose boots she lives. Many of the Palestinian resistance organizations, which are always defined as “terror organizations,” solely because of their means, rather than their goals, are opponents of the regime under which they were forced to live. Their goals are similar to those of others who resisted tyranny, from the Soviet Union to South Africa to Argentina. Just like the handful of Israelis who want to support Jarrar. They are not expressing only human solidarity or opposition to the occupation; they are opponents of the regime.

    All those who support her continued detention, anyone who is silent while she remains in jail, and all those who make her detention possible are saying: Forget democracy. That’s not what we are. Get used to it.

    #Khalida_Jarrar

  • Israel renews detention of Palestinian lawmaker Khalida Jarrar
    June 16, 2018 3:01 P.M.
    https://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=780244

    RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The Israeli authorities renewed the administrative detention of leading member of the PFLP Khalida Jarrar for three months for the third consecutive time.

    The Israeli military court of Ofer approved the renewal order that would keep Jarrar in detention for three more months.

    The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) said that the renewal of Jarrar’s detention would not stop her from continuing her initial role in resisting the occupation.

    The PFLP said in a statement that “this is an attempt to absent influential leaders from events and developments in Palestine.

    The renewal of her detention comes two weeks before Jarrar’s release date. (...)

    #Khalida_Jarrar

    • 17 juin 2018
      La détention administrative de Khalida Jarrar a été prolongée – Poursuivons la campagne pour sa libération !
      Par Samidoun
      http://www.ism-france.org/campagnes/La-detention-administrative-de-Khalida-Jarrar-a-ete-prolongee-Poursuivon

      16.06.2018 - Selon les médias palestiniens, l’ordonnance de détention administrative de la dirigeante, parlementaire, féministe et militante de gauche palestinienne, Khalida Jarrar, a été renouvelée dans la soirée du jeudi 14 juin, soit deux semaines avant la date prévue pour sa libération après un an d’emprisonnement sans accusation ni procès. Elle avait été kidnappée par les forces d’occupation israéliennes qui avaient fait irruption dans sa maison familiale à El-Bireh le 2 juillet 2017, à peine une semaine après sa libération d’un précédent emprisonnement politique.

      La détention administrative de Khalida Jarrar a été prolongée – Poursuivons la campagne pour sa libération !

  • L’emprisonnement de Khalida Jarrar sans accusation ni procès prolongé de six mois supplémentaires
    Publié le 28/12/2017 sur Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network Traduction : Jean-Marie Flémal
    http://www.pourlapalestine.be/urgent-lemprisonnement-de-khalida-jarrar-sans-accusation-ni-proces-p

    Ce mercredi 27 décembre 2017, l’armée israélienne d’occupation a émis une ordonnance prolongeant la détention administrative arbitraire de la parlementaire et dirigeante nationale palestinienne Khalida Jarrar pour une période de six mois, et ce, quatre jours avant que ne se termine sa détention actuelle. Jarrar a été arrêtée par les militaires de l’occupation qui ont fait irruption chez elle, à El-Bireh, le 2 juillet 2017. Dirigeante palestinienne bien connue, Jarrar est membre du Conseil législatif palestinien, elle est responsable du Comité des prisonniers et vice-présidente du conseil de l’association Addameer des droits de l’homme et de soutien aux prisonniers.

  • For the women under Israeli occupation, it’s time for #AnaKaman (#MeToo)

    The next global social media campaign should bring the stories of Palestinian women who live (or were killed) under the Israeli occupation

    Gideon Levy Oct 22, 2017 4:21 AM
    read more: https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.818426

    When the #MeToo global campaign against sexual harassment and assault ebbs, a different campaign, no less just and no less important, can begin.
    #MeToo was launched on social media in response to the allegations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and it brought testimony from Hollywood. It reached Israel due to the generosity of Yedioth Ahronoth, a newspaper that holds nothing dearer than women’s equality, body and soul. The 12 million women around the world who have joined the campaign have described their own sexual assault experiences and expressed solidarity with Beverly Hills celebrities.
    The next campaign should also address respect for women and their bodies, their fates, their rights, their life and death. It must start in Israel and spread throughout the world. A single Weinstein will not ignite this campaign. It will accuse an entire state. And the testimonies will not come only from the rich and famous. They will come from female victims who never dreamed of Hollywood, or even of the beach in Tel Aviv.
    The next campaign should be called #وأنا كمان, ana kaman, “me too” in Arabic. Let’s see how the world responds to this campaign, especially Israelis – the same Israelis who took part in #MeToo and are now tut-tutting in the streets of Ramat Hasharon and Ramat Aviv over the painful testimonies of Limor Livnat, Meital Dohan, Orna Banai and Yael Abecassis.
    #AnaKaman will bring the testimonies of Palestinian women who live (or were killed) under the Israeli occupation. We provide the first ones below. All are from this summer, a relatively quiet one in the history of the occupation.

    Nazzal Abu Kharma’s wife, Asma, and their 7-month-old son, Ilian. Alex Levac
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    “Me too,” Zeinab Salhi of the Deheisheh refugee camp will write despairingly. She is 52, a single mother who for years cleaned the homes of Jews in Jerusalem, until illness forced her to quit. She lives in the West Bank refugee camp in nearly indescribable poverty and neglect. Her live-in partner, an Israeli Jew from Jerusalem, suffers from cancer.
    One night this summer, she watched as soldiers fired seven bullets into her son Raad Salhi, 22, as he tried to flee. As he lay dying in Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Karem, she sought to see him one last time, but soldiers stationed outside his room chased her away.

    • A week after Raad was shot, soldiers came and arrested his brother Mohammed, again in the middle of the night and with the brutality of those who snatch people from their bed. Raad died a few days later; his mother never had a chance to say goodbye.

      “Me too,” Asma Abu Kharma, a young mother from Kafr Ein, will say. Because her musician husband, Nazzal, was involved in recording a song praising July’s terror attack in Halamish, Israeli forces raided the family’s home on two consecutive nights, first to arrest her husband and then to confiscate his electric organ.

      “Me too,” the Israeli voice of Raba Abu al-Kiyan will chime in. For nearly a year, she has been living in a tent with her 10 children, after Israeli police killed her husband Yakub, a teacher, while demolishing their home in Umm al-Hiran in order to build the Jewish town of Hiran there.

      “Me too,” Palestinian parliamentarian Khalida Jarrar will write from prison, where she was ordered to remain for six months, without trial, on account of her political activity. That, after serving a 15-month sentence for a series of ridiculous offenses, including participating in a book fair and paying a condolence call.

      Nouf Enfeat won’t be able to participate in the campaign. She was just 15 when she was shot to death after brandishing a knife at the Mevo Dotan checkpoint. “Die, suffer, you kahba [whore, in Arabic],” shouted soldiers and settlers who celebrated around her as she lay dying on the road.

      The same is true of Fatima Hajiji. “Mother, please don’t be angry,” said a note the 16-year-old girl left in her bookbag. She, too, brandished a knife at a checkpoint, wearing her school uniform. Israeli soldiers fired some 20 bullets into her, even after she was already lying on the ground, bleeding.

      All this is just the start of the campaign that will never happen, certainly not in Israel.

  • Detention period of Addameer’s field researcher Salah Hamouri extended | Addameer
    http://www.addameer.org/news/detention-period-addameers-field-researcher-salah-hamouri-extended

    27 August 2017

    Addameer’s field researcher and human rights defender Salah Hamouri, had his detention period extended by an Israeli judge at the Magistrate Court in Jerusalem for an additional three days for further interrogation. Addameer’s attorney, Mahmoud Hassan, has submitted an appeal against the judge’s decision to extend Hamouri’s detention period. Hamouri, who was arrested by occupation forces in a pre-dawn raid on 23 August 2017, has been under interrogation for five days.

    #Salah_Hamouri

    • Israël. Salah Hamouri placé en isolement jusqu’à mardi
      Pierre Barbancey
      Lundi, 28 Août, 2017 | L’Humanité
      https://www.humanite.fr/israel-salah-hamouri-place-en-isolement-jusqua-mardi-641015

      La détention du Franco-Palestinien a été prolongée. Son avocat a précisé à l’Humanité que les charges n’ont pas été communiquées.

      Arrêté mercredi à son domicile de Jérusalem-Est, Salah Hamouri devait sortir dimanche. Mais les autorités israéliennes en ont décidé autrement. Présenté devant un juge, hier, le Franco-Palestinien a vu sa détention prolongée jusqu’à mardi, et ce malgré l’appel interjeté immédiatement par son défenseur, Mahmoud Hassan.

      Tout est désormais à craindre

      C’est bien l’arbitraire le plus total. « On ne sait pas trop ce qu’ils font, explique l’avocat. C’est un dossier secret qui a été remis au juge et on ne sait pas quelles sont les charges. » Salah Hamouri a été interrogé pendant une vingtaine de minutes immédiatement après son arrestation et c’est tout. Il est, depuis, à l’isolement dans une cellule, à Jérusalem. « Il ne peut voir personne. Il est complètement coupé du monde extérieur, à part quand il est présenté devant le juge et que nous pouvons le voir », souligne Mahmoud Hassan. La police israélienne serait particulièrement intéressée par le téléphone de Salah Hamouri et par des dossiers saisis chez lui. Il serait soupçonné d’appartenir à une organisation ennemie ou illégale.Au vu des pratiques israéliennes, tout est désormais à craindre. Certes, le consulat général de France à Jérusalem suivrait le dossier et tenterait d’apporter une aide consulaire à Salah Hamouri, mais ses démarches ne semblent pas avoir abouti pour l’heure. On sait également que la pratique du « dossier secret », si chère à la « justice » israélienne, est un prétexte pour masquer le manque de preuves, mais ouvre la voie à la détention administrative. Une pratique héritée du mandat britannique et perpétuée par Israël. Elle permet de détenir un Palestinien pendant six mois renouvelables sans que les éléments du dossier constitué ne soient révélés. Plusieurs députés palestiniens, dont Khalida Jarrar, se trouvent dans ce cas, parmi les 450 détenus administratifs.

  • Palestiniennes en détention illimitée
    https://diasp.eu/p/5924343

    Palestiniennes en détention illimitée

    Khalida Jarrar, députée palestinienne, et Khitam Saafin, dirigeante d’une organisation de femmes, sont détenues sans inculpation ni jugement depuis 41 jours. Elles risquent toutes deux une détention illimitée sans inculpation ni jugement. Les ordres de mise en détention administrative émis à leur encontre peuvent être renouvelés indéfiniment et sans préavis. #pétition : https://www.cyberacteurs.org/cyberactions/palestiniennesendetentionadministra-1627.html#signsans #injustice #Palestine

  • Israël condamne la présidente de l’union des femmes palestiniennes à la détention administrative
    Ma’an News | Le 9 juillet 2017 | Traduction : J. Ch. pour l’Agence Média Palestine |
    http://www.agencemediapalestine.fr/blog/2017/07/11/israel-condamne-la-presidente-de-lunion-des-femmes-palestinienn

    RAMALLAH (Ma’an) – Les autorités israéliennes ont condamné dimanche Khitam al-Saafin , présidente de l’Union du Comité des Femmes Palestiniennes, à trois mois de prison administrative, politique israélienne hautement contestée d’internement sans procès ni charges.

    Le chef de l’unité juridique de l’association pour les droits des prisonniers Addameer, Mahmoud Hassan, a dit qu’une audience se tiendrait mercredi au tribunal du centre de détention d’Ofer pour confirmer la sentence.

    Les forces israéliennes ont arrêté al-Saafin le 2 juillet dans le village de Beituniya, au centre de la Cisjordanie occupée, le même jour que celui où elles ont arrêté la députée palestinienne Khalida Jarrar, autre éminente féministe et défenseure des droits de l’Homme.

    Le tribunal d’Ofer a rallongé lundi la détention et d’al-Saafin et de Jarrar afin d’inspecter les ordinateurs qui avaient été confisqués chez elles au cours des raids d’arrestation et pour donner au procureur israélien le temps nécessaire à son argumentation en faveur de la détention administrative.

    Les militaires israéliens ont dit à ce moment là que leurs arrestations à toutes les deux étaient dues à leur rôle majeur dans le Front Populaire de Libération de la Palestine (FPLP) – parti palestinien de gauche bien connu qu’Israël déclare être un groupe terroriste. (...)

    #Khitam_Saafin
    #Khalida_Jarrar

  • Des députés européens exigent la libération de Khalida Jarrar, Khitam Saafin et de prisonniers palestiniens
    11 juillet | Samidoun |Traduction J.Ch. pour l’AURDIP
    http://www.aurdip.fr/des-deputes-europeens-exigent-la.html

    Le 5 juillet à Strasbourg, des députés européens et des députés espagnols de Izquierda Unida (la Gauche Unie et le Parti Communiste Espagnol) se sont rassemblés en solidarité avec Khalida Jarrar et Khitam Saafin et d’autres Palestiniens emprisonnés. Des députés d’un certain nombre de pays du GUE/NGL (Gauche Unie européenne/Gauche Verte des pays du Nord) ont participé à cette action de solidarité.

    #Khalida_Jarrar
    #Khitam_Saafin

  • Liberez Khalida Jarrar et Khitam Saafin
    4 juillet | Samidoun |Traduction J.Ch. pour l’AURDIP
    http://www.aurdip.fr/liberez-khalida-jarrar-et-khitam.html

    Aux premières heures du dimanche 2 juillet 2017, des soldats de l’armée d’occupation israélienne ont fait irruption au domicile de la députée palestinienne Khalida Jarrar, éminente dirigeante de gauche, féministe et défenseure des droits de l’Homme, l’ont arrêtée et ont confisqué ses biens. Au même moment, les forces d’occupation armées ont fait irruption dans la maison de la famille de Khitam Saafin, présidente de l’Union des Comités des Femmes Palestiniennes et remarquable combattante pour la libération des femmes palestiniennes et du peuple palestinien. Nous exigeons leur libération immédiate.

    Signez la pétition ici : https://www.change.org/p/israeli-occupation-forces-free-khalida-jarrar-and-khitam-saafin-now

    La pétition

    adressée à
    Forces d’Occupation Israéliennes
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Ministère de la Justice

    Nous exigeons la libération immédiate de Khalida Jarrar et Khitam Saafin, dirigeantes féministes palestiniennes et combattantes pour la justice et la liberté internationalement renommées. Khalida Jarrar, membre du Conseil Législatif palestinien, et Khitam Saafin, présidente de l’Union des Comités des Femmes Palestiniennes, ont été arrêtées lors de descentes à leur domicile familial le 2 juillet 2017.

    Nous considérons ces arrestations comme une tentative de répression contre le mouvement pour la liberté des femmes palestiniennes et du peuple palestinien. Ce sont des arrestations injustes et illégitimes qui visent à réprimer un mouvement populaire pour la liberté, et nous exigeons la libération immédiate de ces éminentes dirigeantes du mouvement des femmes palestiniennes.(...)

  • 13 PLC members held by Israel after Khalida Jarrar detained in overnight raidsJuly 2, 2017 10:49 A.M. (Updated: July 2, 2017 5:07 P.M.)
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=777878

    BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained Palestinian parliamentarian Khalida Jarrar during predawn military raids carried out across the occupied West Bank on Sunday — just over a year after she was released from Israeli prison — bringing the number of Palestinian lawmakers imprisoned by Israel to 13.

    At least 11 other Palestinians were detained in the raids, included the chairwoman of the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees.

    Israeli forces detained Jarrar, a deputy at the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) for the leftist faction the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), after raiding her home in Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank.

    She was released from Israeli prison on June 3, 2016 on a suspended sentence of 12 months within a five-year period.

    Following her detention 14 months prior, she was initially sentenced to six months of administrative detention — internment without trial or charge — though international pressure forced Israeli authorities to bring charges against her, all 12 of which focused on her political activism.

    Jarrar was charged with security-related offenses related to her membership and activities with the PFLP — a Palestinian political party Israel considers a “terrorist” organization, along with the majority of other Palestinian political factions — and accused of inciting violence.

    At the time, Jarrar accused the Israeli military prosecution of working to keep her in jail as long as possible, adding that she “did not expect anything from military courts. They are a joke, it’s like a big theater, I do not trust them and my detention has been political since the beginning.”

    Jarrar also said that she refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of the court, stating that all charges pressed against her were “ridiculous” and related to completely legal activities, including social and political work as a member of parliament.

    A statement released by the Israeli army Sunday morning claimed that Jarrar was detained for activities within PFLP and that her detention was not related to her post as member of the PLC.

    Jarrar is also the head of the Prisoners’ Commission in the PLC, and vice-chairperson of the board of directors of Palestinian prisoners’ rights group Addameer.

    Addameer said in a statement Sunday morning that “the arrest of Khalida Jarrar constitutes an attack against Palestinian political leaders and Palestinian civil society as a whole. It also constitutes one arrest in the context of continuous arrest campaigns against Palestinians.”

    #Khalida_Jarrar

    • Israël arrête de nouveau une députée palestinienne
      18h03, le 02 juillet 2017 | Par Rédaction Europe1.fr avec AFP
      http://www.europe1.fr/international/israel-arrete-de-nouveau-une-deputee-palestinienne-3377807

      Khalida Jarrar, figure du Front populaire de libération de la Palestine (FPLP), a de nouveau été arrêtée par l’armée israélienne. Elle était sortie des prisons israéliennes il y a tout juste un peu plus d’un an.

      L’armée israélienne a annoncé avoir de nouveau arrêté la députée palestinienne Khalida Jarrar, accusée d’activités au sein d’une organisation considérée comme « terroriste » par Israël. Une arrestation qui intervient 13 mois après la sortie de prison de la députée.

      La députée arrêtée 13 mois après sa sortie de prison. Khalida Jarrar (54 ans), une des figures les plus connues du Front populaire de libération de la Palestine (FPLP), avait été libérée en juin 2016 après avoir passé 14 mois dans une prison israélienne pour avoir, selon l’Etat hébreu, encouragé des attaques contre des Israéliens. Elle a été arrêtée dans la région de Ramallah en Cisjordanie.

      Le FPLP est une formation de la gauche historique palestinienne considérée comme terroriste par Israël. De nombreux responsables de cette organisation d’inspiration marxiste ont été arrêtés à de multiples reprises.

      Khalida Jarrar arrêtée pour avoir « repris ses activités au FPLP ». Selon l’armée israélienne, « après sa libération, Khalida Jarrar a repris ses activités au sein de l’organisation terroriste du FPLP » dont elle serait une des dirigeantes en Cisjordanie. « Elle a été appréhendée parce qu’elle a repris ses activités au FPLP et non en raison de son statut de membre » du Conseil législatif palestinien (Parlement), a ajouté l’armée israélienne.

      Khalida Jarrar est membre du Parlement palestinien élu en 2007. Plusieurs députés palestiniens sont actuellement détenus par Israël.

      Une dizaine d’autres arrestations. L’ONG palestinienne Addameer a précisé qu’au cours du même raid, une dizaine d’autres personnes avaient été arrêtées par les forces israéliennes, dont Khitam Saafin, présidente de l’Union des comités pour les femmes palestiniennes.

    • Cinq partis de gauche palestiniens dans les Territoires occupés ont annoncé qu’ils s’associaient pour former une liste commune en vue des prochaines élections municipales. Ces élections devraient se tenir le 8 octobre dans plus de 300 municipalités, conseils de village et conseils régionaux en Cisjordanie et dans la Bande de Gaza. Ces partis, dont la liste portera le nom de « Alliance démocratique, n’ont pas exclu qu’il puisse s’agir d’un premier pas dans la formation d’alliances du même genre à une échelle nationale.

      Les responsables des cinq partis souhaitent que ce bloc de gauche puisse devenir une alternative au Fatah et au Hamas. Il donnera priorité à l’unité de la lutte des Palestiniens contre l’occupation et à la justice sociale, en particulier à l’égalité entre hommes et femmes – l’Alliance s’est engagée à assurer qu’au moins 30% de ses représentants seront des femmes – ainsi qu’à combattre la corruption. (...)

      La nouvelle « Alliance démocratique » est composée du Front populaire de libération de la Palestine (c’est le parti le plus important de l’alliance), du Front démocratique pour la libération de la Palestine, de l’Initiative nationale palestinienne (créée récemment et focalisée sur la lutte contre la corruption et le soutien aux luttes nationales contre le mur), du Parti du peuple palestinien (un minuscule parti communiste allié au Parti communiste israélien), et de l’Union démocratique (FIDA, qui s’est séparée du Front démocratique au début des années 1990). Ces partis seront rejoints par des militants politiques indépendants qui s’identifient avec la plateforme de l’Alliance.

      « Dans notre société il y a un grand besoin d’une alliance démocratique de gauche qui offre une alternative à d’autres forces politiques et défende un programme d’égalité entre les hommes et les femmes », explique Khalida Jarrar, une membre du Conseil législatif palestinien pour le Front populaire de libération de la Palestine.

  • What a Palestinian Parliament Member Learned in an Israeli Prison

    Khalida Jarrar knew a lot about prisoner issues, but her 14 months behind bars offered plenty of surprises.
    Amira Hass Jun 19, 2016 5:18 PM
    http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.725721

    Palestinian lawmaker Khalida Jarar after her release from prison.Majdi Mohammed/AP

    In her first few days after being released from prison on June 2, Khalida Jarrar still described things in the present tense.

    “We go to the yard twice a day, from 10:30 A.M. to 1 P.M. and from 2:30 to 5 P.M.,” she told friends. Or: “We are 61 women and girls, minors, in prison — 41 in Hasharon Prison and 20 in Damun Prison.”

    The women who are still awaiting trial are in Damun Prison, while those who have been sentenced, the minors and the wounded — usually by Israeli bullets while they were waving a knife or trying to stab a soldier (one was seriously burned by a gas-cylinder explosion) — are in Hasharon.

    Ten wounded prisoners were with Jarrar in the wing, five adults and five minors. At the press conference immediately after her release she didn’t explain what that meant — to live with the shooting victims in the same room or wing.

    In personal conversations she said a little more, always careful not to infringe on the privacy of the women. And she constantly praised the longtime prisoner Lena Jerboni, who took on the difficult and sensitive jobs such as washing the wounded, accompanying them to the infirmary and to physiotherapy, and cooking.

    Jarrar, a Palestinian member of parliament, also spoke in the plural. She didn’t speak of her own difficulties during her 14 months in prison. The cameras and journalists focused on her, the “famous” one, but she spoke in the name of the collective, where the intensive living gave her the chance to use her abilities, political experience and status as a public figure.

    As part of this status, for example, she and Jerboni demanded from a prisoner who was an Israeli citizen and who supported the Islamic State organization to keep her dangerous opinions and thoughts to herself and not share them with the other women.

    After she was convicted on two of 12 charges (relating to incitement and providing services to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine), Jarrar used the last five months of her term to conduct a field study of her fellow inmates, from the perspective of gender.

    Palestinian society, which estimates that some 800,000 of its sons and daughters have been imprisoned in Israel since 1957, doesn’t lack research on and testimonies from prison. But mostly this research describes the experience from the perspective of the prison majority: men.

    Jarrar focused on gender in the process of arrest and imprisonment from two perspectives: the prisoner’s and the jailer’s. She interviewed 36 women at length and about many aspects: the period before the imprisonment, the arrest (and injury), the investigation, the trial and the imprisonment. Some told her she was the first to ask them about their lives and listen so attentively.

    She can suggest some generalizations because of the dramatic rise in the number of Palestinian women who entered Israeli prisons during her own term. This is the rise of the phenomenon of women who were pushed into being arrested for “social reasons.” This is also what brought a delegation of four representatives of Israel’s Justice Ministry to Hasharon Prison, Jarrar told Haaretz.

    “They asked what could be done for those women,” she said. “I told them their place wasn’t in prison; they should be freed, and our role in Palestinian society was to treat and take care of them and the issues that motivated them.”

    Women activists are certain that if these women are not sent to prison, the “social reasons” phenomenon would be reduced.

    An example of “social reasons” could be heard last week at the military court in Ofer, near Ramallah. A woman we will identify only by her initials, A.B., was arrested early in the week near a checkpoint in Hebron. She had a 15-centimeter-long knife in her bag and did not resist arrest.

    In her interrogation and at two detention hearings (on Monday and Tuesday), the circumstances were brought up: She quarreled with her husband, who does not help to provide for their children.

    Nitza Aminov, a left-wing activist who monitors the Ofer military court, reported that the prosecutor, Capt. Elhanan Dreyfus, said the prosecution knows that many women come to the checkpoints with knives because of problems at home. Nonetheless, he requested that A.B. remain in custody.

    The judge, Maj. Naftali Shmulevich, agreed and wrote in his ruling that the understanding in the region was that “possessing a knife outside the home is for purposes of carrying out a crime.”

    Rocky ride in the bosta

    Even before her arrest, Jarrar devoted a great deal of time to political and social activities relating to Palestinian prisoners. She ran Addameer, a human rights group supporting Palestinian prisoners. She was elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council in 2006 as a member of the left-wing slate of Abu Ali Mustafa, the Popular Front’s secretary-general assassinated by Israel in August 2001. And she heads the monitoring committee on prisoners.

    Asked whether anything surprised her in prison, Jarrar told Haaretz: “I was surprised there were things that various [prisoners’ rights] institutions hadn’t managed to solve,” she said, emphasizing the transportation of detainees to court, hospitals and other prisons.

    “Why is it impossible to solve this problem? After all, all the prisoners complain about it — Jewish and Palestinian, criminal and security [prisoners] — and Israeli institutions have criticized it too.”

    Unequivocally, prisoner transport was the most difficult experience for Jarrar during her arrest and imprisonment, and the only one for which she occasionally mixes an “I” into the description.

    For the eight months of her trial she was transported in a bosta, as the prison vehicles are known, about 40 times. She joked that she knew all the members of Nahshon, the security unit that accompanies prisoners.

    But with serious tone she said, switching from “I” to the collective: “If we, the healthy ones, were sick for two or three days after every transport, what can we say about those wounded by gunfire?”

    The medical treatment for the wounded and sick women prisoners is good, said Jarrar, as opposed to the initial treatment in Israeli hospitals immediately after their arrest. One of the seriously injured women fell ill one night, was rushed from her cell to a civilian hospital and the next day was brought to a court hearing. And all of it in the bosta.

    The bosta is a kind of bus or truck whose passenger cabin is divided into several two-person compartments. They leave the prison at about 2 A.M. The iron benches are not padded, and every rock, pothole and bend in the road sends waves of pain through the bouncing body of each passenger.

    A guards cuff the prisoners’ hands and feet before they enter the vehicle, so they must hop carefully up the steps. When they also have baggage, such as when being transferred between prisons, this maneuvering becomes an art.

    After a few trips, Jarrar stopped reminding the guards that the prison doctor had instructed that she not be placed in restraints because of her chronic blood-vessel disease.

    Jews, Arabs, common criminals, religious people, women and men, all may ride together in the bosta. Jerboni has filed a number of complaints with the prison service on behalf of women who complained of sexual harassment and racist abuse during these rides, Jarrar said.

    After the prisoners are placed in the iron cells, they are driven to the prison in Ramle, where the “transfer center” is located, the place where inmates are gathered from various detention facilities on their way to the military courts, hospitals and other prisons. They wait three, four, five hours, which feel like 50. They are kept shackled in the bosta, without being able to go to the bathroom. As a result, many women prefer not to eat or drink before the transport.

    One can decide to spend the waiting time at Ramle Prison, in a room divided into iron cells, instead of in the boosta. The humiliating search before entering a waiting “cage” in Ramle prison, instead of waiting in the bosta, discourages many women from choosing this option.

    Time in the ‘refrigerator’

    At the Ofer military court, southeast of Ramallah, the detainees are kept for hours in a sort of cell they call the zinzana or the “refrigerator,” until they are taken to the prefab building that serves as the military courtroom. It’s cold there even in summer. In the winter it’s freezing and “we all shiver,” Jarrar said. It’s also filthy.

    After the court session, the detainees are returned to the “refrigerator” and wait for the return trip, first via Ramle, where the shackled human cargo waits again in the bosta for hours. Then they are returned to the prison — sometimes at midnight, sometimes at 2 A.M.

    Jarrar began to learn Hebrew in prison, so she could understand the guards and communicate her requests and protests.

    In the “refrigerator” she met other Palestinian women who were detained in Ashkelon or Ramle prisons, for lack of space in the women’s prisons.

    It was clear they had not been allowed to shower for days or change out of the clothes they were wearing at the time of their arrest. Some had bloodstained pants, as they were not provided with menstrual products.

    “I was shocked. I didn’t expect to witness such prison conditions in the 21st century,” Jarrar said. Jerboni informed the prison authorities that the Hasharon prisoners were willing to sleep on mattresses on the floor if they would only transfer the other prisoners there, said Jarrar.

    Later the wing in Damun was opened, with its own problems — over 10 prisoners in a cell, with a single toilet, and for a long time, until a female deputy was assigned, a male warden. The overcrowding problem was partially solved, and in March the women at Hasharon were moved to a different wing.

    It was in an old building and it was filthy, crawling with roaches, dripping with water and lacking essentials such as shelves and wardrobes. There were also bees, and everyone was stung.

    Jarrar said that when the women complained that the place was unfit for human habitation, they were told “everything is fine.” They returned their lunches in protest, and workers were sent immediately to fix the situation.

    “All told, the time in prison wasn’t particularly difficult,” Jarrar said. She got the impression that the administration at Hasharon didn’t want to increase tensions, and some problems could be solved through negotiation. Jerboni was the main negotiator for the prisoners.

    The administration also allowed a Palestinian teacher from Israel to teach the minors for a few hours, three days a week. Jarrar taught them English and instructed the adults on how to prepare youths for the matriculation exams. They were also busy cataloguing the books they had.

    Near the end of her sentence, Jarrar met with one of the senior wardens. Jarrar said she told her that the problem was the occupation, and will end with its end. Her impression was that the warden agreed.

  • How will Palestinians resolve internal divisions?
    Adnan Abu Amer Posted June 14, 2016
    http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/06/pflp-member-khalida-jarrar-release-israeli-prisons.html
    _ Khalida Jarrar , a member of the political bureau of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), said in an interview with Al-Monitor that the gateway to resolving the contentious issue of Palestinian reconciliation and electing a new president lies in revitalizing the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and holding democratic elections_

    Al-Monitor: What is your opinion concerning the effort that France is leading to resume negotiations? Can a breakthrough be achieved in light of the political atmosphere that prevails in Israel today?

    Jarrar: I do not think that French efforts will lead to palpable results. On the contrary, I view them as a waste of time and an attempt to circumvent international resolutions. Instead of the French or other similar efforts, it would be better to demand the convening of an international conference endowed with far-reaching powers, in keeping with international resolutions relevant to the Palestinian cause, which, above anything else, affirm the need to end the Israeli occupation.

    Al-Monitor: There are those who posit that Israel decided to punish you due to your strong support for joining the International Criminal Court [ICC]. Do you agree with this assessment, and are you satisfied with the pace of Palestinian efforts to join the court?

    Jarrar: Israeli authorities arrested me for many reasons, among them my membership on the Supreme National Committee for Coordination with the ICC and because I refused to abide by a decision of the Israeli occupation forces to send me to the city of Jericho [as banishment] in August 2014. Add to that the fact that I constantly visited Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails and participated in many of the political and cultural events held in the West Bank. As a result, occupation authorities wanted to distance me from my Palestinian community. As for Palestinian efforts to join the ICC, to date I have not witnessed any serious Palestinian efforts to follow-up on the dossier, which, in my opinion, demonstrates clear laxity on the part of the Palestinians.

    Al-Monitor: What are the latest developments concerning the relationship between the PFLP and the Palestinian Authority [PA] in light of the latest crisis subsequent to their dispute about the PA’s political conduct and [the] April 2016 decision [by Mahmoud Abbas, in his capacity as PLO chairman] to withhold funding to the PFLP, which exacerbated tensions between them to the point where PFLP members burned effigies of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Gaza?

    Jarrar: Irrespective of the details associated with these differences, it is clear that the situation of Palestinian division has preoccupied people with the multitude of its internal conflicts, sometimes between Fatah and Hamas and other times between other Palestinian factions that oppose one another. All these actions and practices emanate from a lack of national responsibility, particularly in light of the fact that Palestinians are passing through a critical historical and political period that requires drafting a unified strategy that transcends internal Palestinian tensions while maintaining the need for Palestinian factions to reassess their espoused political approach.

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  • Khalida Jarrar sera libérée en fin de semaine
    AFP et Times of Israel Staff 2 juin 2016,
    http://fr.timesofisrael.com/khalida-jarrar-sera-liberee-en-fin-de-semaine

    La membre du FPLP terroriste, condamnée pour « incitation à la violence et au terrorisme », sortira de prison vendredi après 14 mois de détention
    Khalida Jarrar sera libérée vendredi au checkpoint de Jubara, entre Israël et la Cisjordanie, près de Tulkarem, ont dit l’administration pénitentiaire israélienne et le Club des prisonniers palestiniens..

    • 3 Juin 2016
      Publié par Coup Pour Coup 31
      La résistante palestinienne Khalida Jarrar libérée !
      http://www.couppourcoup31.com/2016/06/la-resistante-palestinienne-khalida-jarrar-liberee.html

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      Israeli authorities release Palestinian parliament member Khalida Jarrar
      June 3, 2016 1:24 P.M. (Updated : June 3, 2016 8:59 P.M)

      RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities released imprisoned Palestinian parliament member Khalida Jarrar on Friday, after being held for 14 months in Israeli prison.

      The Israeli authorities released Jarrar at the Jbara checkpoint near the northern occupied West Bank district of Tulkarem.


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      La députée palestinienne Khalida Jarrar libérée par Israël après un an de prison
      Par RFI Publié le 03-06-2016

      La députée palestinienne Khalida Jarrar a été libérée ce vendredi 3 juin par Israël. Emprisonnée pendant plus d’un an pour « incitation à la violence et au terrorisme », elle a été accueillie par un petit comité d’accueil ce vendredi. La parlementaire, membre du Front populaire de libération de la Palestine (FPLP) a toujours plaidé non coupable mais la justice militaire israélienne assure que son appartenance à ce parti, considéré comme une organisation terroriste par Israël, l’avait condamnée à une peine de 15 mois de prison. Un emprisonnement qui avait mobilisé l’opinion publique palestinienne.

      De notre correspondant à Ramallah, Nicolas Ropert

    • La députée palestinienne Jarrar libérée après 14 mois de détention
      afp, le 03/06/2016 à 15h46
      http://www.la-croix.com/Monde/La-deputee-palestinienne-Jarrar-liberee-apres-14-mois-detention-2016-06-03

      Ghassan Jarrar, son mari, lui-même militant de la gauche et emprisonné à plusieurs reprises, a été interdit de visite durant sa détention et a affirmé à l’AFP ne l’avoir vue que lors des audiences de son procès devant un tribunal militaire israélien.

      « Cela a été très dur pour elle » mais, assure-t-il fièrement, cette militante des droits de la femme « a monté une école en prison et cinq jeunes filles ont pu passer leur baccalauréat grâce à elle ».

      Six parlementaires palestiniens sont toujours détenus par Israël, souligne le Club des prisonniers palestiniens.

      Le Parlement ne siège plus depuis 2007 et la quasi-guerre civile qui a opposé le Hamas islamiste à l’Autorité palestinienne du président Mahmoud Abbas.
      afp

  • Journée Internationale des Femmes : déclaration de Khalida Jarrar depuis la prison d’HaSharon -
    Samidoun, Réseau de Solidarité avec les Prisonniers Palestiniens, mardi 8 mars 2016
    http://www.france-palestine.org/Journee-Internationale-des-Femmes-declaration-de-Khalida-Jarrar-de

    Khalida Jarrar, la féministe palestinienne, parlementaire et dirigeante politique emprisonnée, a publié une déclaration depuis la prison d’HaSharon à l’occasion de la Journée Internationale des Femmes, saluant toutes les femmes en lutte dans le monde. Le message a été transmis par l’avocate palestinienne Hanan al-Khatib, qui a rendu visite à Jarrar dans sa prison ; elle purge une peine de 15 mois d’emprisonnement après avoir été arrêtée le 2 avril 2015. Voici sa déclaration :

    En ce jour, nous affirmons que nous sommes des prisonnières palestiniennes en lutte, que nous faisons partie du mouvement des femmes palestiniennes, et que la lutte nationale et sociale se poursuit sans cesse et de façon continue jusqu’a ce que nous atteignons notre libération de l’occupation, et, en tant que femmes, notre liberté de toutes les formes d’injustice, d’oppression, de violence et de discrimination à l’encontre des femmes. En ce jour, les femmes palestiniennes marquent cet évènement en mettant en évidence les crimes de l’occupant contre les femmes, les enfants, les personnes âgées et les jeunes de Palestine. Cette année, notre appel met l’accent sur la liberté et l’auto-détermination de notre peuple, et sur la liberté et l’auto-détermination des Palestiniennes : pour parvenir à l’égalité et à la libération, pour mettre fin à toutes les formes d’oppression et d’injustice commises contre elles. Nous constituons, avec tou-te-s les combattant-e-s dans le monde pour la liberté des femmes, une partie du combat mondial : contre l’injustice, l’exploitation et l’oppression.

    Traduit de l’anglais par Y. Jardin, membre du GT de l’AFPS sur les prisonniers

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