IPS FORCES RAID RAMON CELLS, ISOLATE THREE PFLP PRISONERS

Israeli forces carried out raids on cells in Ramon jail and transferred three Palestinian prisoners to solitary confinement on Monday morning.

According to the Palestinian Prisoner Society, special forces from the Israeli prison service (IPS) stormed sections 5 and 7 in Ramon jail, where there are prisoners from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and searched cells.

Later, they took PFLP officials Ahmed Saadat, Ahed Abu Qais and Walid Hanatsha to interrogation rooms and then to isolation cells.

Since the appointment of Itamar Ben Gvir as security minister, IPS has transferred hundreds of Palestinian prisoners to other jails and taken harsh incarceration measures against them.

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PFLP WARNS OF PAINFUL RESPONSE TO ANY HARM COMING TO ITS LEADERS

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has held the Israeli occupation state fully responsible for any harm coming to its imprisoned leaders, especially its secretary-general Ahmed Saadat.

In a statement on Monday, PFLP warned that there would be a painful response to any folly committed against its leaders in Israeli jails....

Israeli forces carried out raids on cells in Ramon jail and transferred three PFLP officials, including Saadat, to solitary confinement on Monday morning, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society.

The Israeli intelligence service, Shin Bet, also claimed today that it had arrested in Bethlehem members of a PFLP-affiliated military cell, who attempted to carry out a bombing attack last March and planned other attacks in the West Bank.

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PFLP warns of painful response to any harm coming to its leaders

21ST ANNIVERSARY OF THE ABDUCTION OF AHMAD SA’ADAT: PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY IMPRISONMENT AND “SECURITY COOPERATION” CONTINUING CRIMES

15 January 2023 marks the 21st anniversary of the abduction of Palestinian leader Ahmad Sa’adat by the Palestinian Authority — at the behest of and as part of “security coordination” with the Israeli occupation in 2002. Sa’adat, the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, has now been imprisoned consistently since that time — first by PA security, then under US, British, Canadian and Turkish guard in a PA prison in Jericho, and now, for the past 17 years, inside Israeli jails alongside 4,750 fellow Palestinian political prisoners after occupation forces’ deadly siege on Jericho and the kidnapping of Sa’adat and his comrades in 2006.

The arrest of Sa’adat on 15 January 2002 was emblematic of the deep damage the crime of “security cooperation” has done to the Palestinian people and their national cause. “Security cooperation” has meant nothing but attacks on the Palestinian resistance at the behest of Israel, committed by Palestinian Authority hands. The abduction of Ahmad Sa’adat, and his imprisonment – and that of his comrades – in the PA prison in Jericho, under U.S. and British guard, was a clear example of the PA’s status as fundamentally beholden to the interests of Israel, the U.S. and other international powers, at the expense of the Palestinian people and the Palestinian resistance....

Today, as in the case of Sa’adat — who was ordered released by a Palestinian Authority high court but remained held in Jericho until the Israeli assault — Palestinians continue to be locked up by PA security forces despite Palestinian courts ordering their release, another indication of the lack of meaningful sovereignty or self-determination of the PA.

More: 21st anniversary of the abduction of Ahmad Sa’adat: Palestinian Authority imprisonment and “security cooperation” continuing crimes

A MESSAGE FROM PALESTINIAN PRISONERS TO INTERNATIONALISTS IN THE WEEK OF ACTION TO FREE AHMAD SA’ADAT AND ALL PALESTINIAN PRISONERS

In recent years, many people have been told that we have reached the end of the revolutionary era, that the time of revolutionaries is over, and only liberalism, individualism and selfishness are dominant in this world. However, proof that this world is still turbulent with revolutionary spirit is found in the international campaign of solidarity with the leader Ahmad Sa’adat, Abu Ghassan. He is a revolutionary shout that reminds the world that revolution is not only an idea and a choice, but a human duty as well.

The voice of Abu Ghassan, the imprisoned leader, is a revolutionary shout from the depths of the dungeons of the enemy, reminding us of the revolution’s symbols and goals, including lifting injustice and oppression from people wherever they are. Palestine is not an imagined geography, it is part of this world and still represents the destination of revolutionaries everywhere.

To all comrades in the international campaign spread throughout the world…To the free people of the world…Your support for the leader Ahmad Sa’adat is an integral and important part of all efforts calling for and promising revolutionary upsurge to confront the forces of occupation and injustice. Continue your struggle, support and solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners’ movement and with freedom fighters around the world. These efforts remain a source of pride for all of us.

Finally, this brief message of ours does not come only to support Abu Ghassan, but rather what he embodies and represents: steadfastness, dignity and humanity in the face of injustice. The cause of the prisoners transcends borders, geographies, walls and parallel time. It is a revolution confronting injustice in which our prisoners unite with all of the revolutionary prisoners around the world in the dungeons of oppression and persecution, especially Comrade Georges Abdallah and many other sons and daughters of the revolution.

Until we meet one day on the land of liberated Palestine...

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A message from Palestinian prisoners to internationalists in the Week of Action to Free Ahmad Sa’adat and All Palestinian Prisoners

PFLP: THE PRISONERS ARE FIGHTING AN OPEN BATTLE IN ISRAELI JAILS

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has said that the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are fighting an open battle with the Israeli occupation and may sacrifice their lives to defend their human dignity.

In a statement on Saturday, the PFLP stressed that the prisoners would not hesitate to sacrifice their lives to confront the Israeli jailers’ Nazi and fascist practices.

The PFLP called on its cadres and all the prisoners to prepare for the coming confrontation in Israeli jails, expressing its belief that the Captive Movement would win the battle against the jailers.

Source: PFLP: The prisoners are fighting an open battle in Israeli jails

PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE LEADER KILLED IN APPARENT ASSASSINATION

One of the leaders of the recently formed ‘Lion’s Den’ resistance organization in Nablus was killed Sunday morning at 1:30 am when he was walking in the old city of Nablus.

According to local sources, Tamer Zeid al-Kilani, 33, a senior member of the Lion’s Den resistance group, was walking past a motorcycle that had been loaded with explosives when the bicycle exploded, killing him.

Tamer, from the Fatayer Mountain neighborhood in Nablus city, was a married father of two children: a baby boy only two years of age and an infant girl of five months.

Palestinian sources said the bicycle with explosives was planted by an Israeli undercover force, and that the Israeli army was behind the operation to target and assassinate al-Kilani....

The Lion’s Den issued a statement mourning the slain Palestinian, the fifth of its leaders to be killed by the army in recent months, and vowed to retaliate and continue its resistance to this illegal Israeli occupation, regardless of its offensives and assassinations.

The Lions Den announced that there would be an immediate and severe response to the assassination of one of its senior leaders.

The group said that al-Kilani’s funeral would be held on Sunday afternoon in Nablus. He was 33 years old, and had helped establish the resistance group after having lost friends to the Israeli military occupation, and having spent 8 years in Israeli prisons without any formal charges being made against him. He had been suspected of being a member of the armed wing of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

The PFLP issued a statement condemning his death, which they said was a targeted assassination due to his affiliation with the Palestinian resistance. In their statement, the PFLP said that “the assassination operation will not succeed in stopping the revolutionary tide that our fellow hero helped launch together with his brothers and committed comrades.”

The statement continued, “The answer will be through further escalation of the resistance and confrontation with the occupation on all fronts and axes, and hitting all agents, traitors and infiltrators with an iron fist.”

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30 PALESTINIAN PRISONERS LAUNCH HUNGER STRIKE TO END #ADMINISTRATIVEDETENTION

The first 30 administrative detainees who began the strike today are listed below, with additional prisoners scheduled to join in the battle as it continues. They include community leaders like Nidal Abu Aker and Ghassan Zawahreh, who have spent years in administrative detention; French-Palestinian lawyer and human rights defender Salah Hammouri, student organizers like Zaid Qaddoumi, and a number of others:

1. Nidal Abu Aker, 54, of Dheisheh refugee camp, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 1 August 2022.

2. Ehab Masoud, 50, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 17 October 2021.

3. Asim Al Kaabi, 44, of Balata refugee camp, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 24 August 2022.

4. Ahmed Hajjaj, 44, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 24 August 2022.

5. Thaer Taha, 43, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 1 May 2022.

6. Rami Fadayel, 43, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 5 September 2022.

7. Lotfi Salah, 43, of Bethlehem

8. Salah Hammouri, 37, of Jerusalem, imprisoned without charge or trial since 7 March 2022.

9. Ghassan Zawahreh, 40, of Dheisheh refugee camp, imprisoned without charge or trial since 19 August 2022.

10. Kanaan Kanaan, 30, of Hizma, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 3 August 2022.

11. Ashraf Abu Aram, 36, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 7 June 2021.

12. Ghassan Karajah, 32, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 11 August 2022.

13. Saleh Abu Alia, 32, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 4 March 2022.

14. Awad Kanaan, 32, of Hizma, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 2 February 2022.

15. Leith Kassaberah, 31, of Beit Anan, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 1 February 2022

16. Saleh Al-Jaidi, 30, of Dheisheh refugee camp, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 4 August 2022.

17. Basil Mezher, 29, of Dheisheh refugee camp, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 12 November 2021.

18. Majd Al-Khawaja, 28, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 14 June 2022.

19. Jihad Shreiteh, 28, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 8 May 2022.

20. Haitham Siyaj, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 3 November 2021.

21. Mustafa Al-Hasanat, 29, of Bethlehem, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 3 February 2022.

22. Azmi Shreiteh al Barghouthi, 23, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 8 May 2022.

23. Muhammad Abu Ghazi, 22, of Arroub refugee camp, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 13 March 2022.

24. Ahmed Al-Kharouf, 22 of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 13 June 2022.

25. Nasrallah Barghouti, 22 of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention.

26. Muhammad Fuqaha, 22, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 15 March 2022.

27. Tamer Al-Hajouj, 22, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 15 March 2022.

28. Raghad Shamroukh, of Dheisheh refugee camp, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 12 September 2022.

29. Zaid Qaddoumi, of Beit Jala, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 16 September 2022.

30. Senar Hamad, 20, of Ramallah, imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention since 18 April 2022.

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