30 PFLP ADMINISTRATIVE DETAINEES START HUNGER STRIKE

30 Palestinian prisoners from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) started an open-ended hunger strike on Sunday in protest at their administrative detention.

In a statement, PFLP described the hunger strike as a new step taken by administrative detainees to pressure Israeli jailers to release them, pointing out that more administrative detainees would join the hunger strike gradually in the coming days...

In early January, about 500 administrative detainees announced a complete boycott of all judicial procedures related to their administrative detention.

The administrative detainees are being held in different Israeli prisons, mostly in Negev and Ofer jails.

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30 PFLP administrative detainees start hunger strike

PFLP RE-ELECTS DETAINED SECRETARY-GENERAL AHMED SA'ADAT

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) announced on Friday the re-election of Ahmed Sa'adat as its Secretary-General, who is serving a term of 30 years in Israeli jails, a press release confirmed.

In the press release, the PFLP announced that the eighth national conference re-elected Sa'adat as the group's secretary-general and Jamil Mezher from Gaza as his deputy....

It added: "They reiterated the historical Palestinian rights and rejected all the bargains that undermine these rights. They also reiterated the use of all means, including armed resistance, to defeat the Zionist state and liberate the land of Palestine."

Sa'adat (69) from the occupied West Bank city of Al-Bireh has been the PFLP secretary-general since 2001.

In 2006, he was arrested by the Israeli security occupation forces and accused of being behind the murder of late Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi in 2001.

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PFLP re-elects detained Secretary-General Ahmed Sa’adat – Middle East Monitor

FUSAKO SHIGENOBU, AN OPEN-ENDED REVOLUTION

Fusako had initially worked at Al Hadaf magazine, the public relations office of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), alongside its editor-in-chief Ghassan Kanafani. Her role there strengthened Japanese support for the Palestinian cause by keeping Japanese leftist activists informed of what was happening on the ground in the Palestinian struggle and the Middle East. She also provided logistical support to Japanese volunteers who arrived, connecting them to related Palestinian partners.

Some Japanese medics went to Lebanon to open clinics in refugee camps, or to train people in acupuncture; artists contributed artwork or co-produced plays, while writers wrote about or translated the writings of prominent Palestinians such as Kanafani.

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FUSAKO SHIGENOBU, AN OPEN-ENDED REVOLUTION

FUSAKO SHIGENOBU, IN HER OWN WORDS

Fusako Shigenobu is the former leader of the Japanese Red Army, a communist guerrilla organization which carried out attacks against the embassies of various Western states, the US military, and multinational corporations from the 1970’s until the late 1980s...

During the early 1970s, she and several comrades traveled to Lebanon to take up armed struggle in solidarity with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), eventually leading to the creation of the Japanese Red Army. In 1972, three Japanese volunteers for the PFLP executed an attack on Israel’s Lod Airport (later known as the Lydda Struggle) in an attempt to assassinate an Israeli scientist who was responsible for developing biochemical weapons for use against the Palestinian people. Although Fusako was not present at the attack, she was forced to go into hiding after the JRA was designated a “terrorist” organization and PFLP and JRA members became targeted for assassination by Israeli death squads.

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Fusako Shignenobu, in her own words

TWO PALESTINIANS KILLED BY IOF GUNFIRE IN BETHLEHEM AND JENIN

The slain young man was identified as 28-year-old Ayman [Mahmoud Muhaisen] al-Abwini, an ex-detainee affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

Local sources said that young men clashed with Israeli soldiers, who stormed the camp in large numbers, and showered them with stones, empty bottles and Molotov cocktails, adding that homemade explosive devices were detonated by youths during the events.

They also said that the IOF intensively fired live ammunition and tear gas canisters at the young men, injuring several of them.

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FUNERAL OF BADRAN JABER(1947-2022)

Veteran Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine leader and former political prisoner Badran Jaber was buried in the occupied city of Hebron, on Palestine's Israeli occupied West Bank, on Wednesday January 26th. Badran, who was last imprisoned by the Israeli occupation for eight months in 2019-20, was aged 74. 

Photo via Palestine 24 Online on Twitter.

REMEMBERING BADRAN JABER: A LIFE IN REVOLUTION

Jaber was born in al-Khalil in 1947. During his life, he was arrested over 20 times and spent around 15 years in interrogation cells and Israeli occupation prisons...

Not only did Israeli occupation forces attack him with physical torture; they also used psychological methods of torture in an attempt to extract a confession. He recalled one interrogation in 1985, where an Israeli interrogator showed him a forged document from the Red Cross declaring that his wife had died in childbirth. He had been under interrogation for a month and a half; he continued to refuse to confess or provide any information to the interrogators, and he later confirmed the health of his wife and newborn daughter...

During the 2000s, he was arrested by Israeli occupation forces on multiple occasions and frequently thrown in administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial. Indeed, he was last released from administrative detention on 21 May 2020, after eight months of imprisonment without charge or trial, at the age of 72. During his time behind bars, he participated in multiple hunger strikes and prisoners’ resistance actions, as active in struggle as always.

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