Palestinian Prisoners Score Heroic Victory

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Written by Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)
Published: 15 May 2012 15 May 2012
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Palestinian Prisoners Score Heroic Victory
Struggle to End Israel’s Oppression and International Complicity Continues

15 May 2012 -- Nearly a month into the Palestinian prisoners' hunger strike, a historic victory has been achieved, as Israeli authoritieswere forced to comply with the prisoners’ main demands. Coinciding with the Palestinian commemoration of the 64th anniversary ofthe Nakba, the systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing that uprooted most Palestinians from their homeland around 1948, theprisoners’ victory has heightened hope about the prospects for Palestinian freedom, justice, self determination and the return of refugees.

This important triumph for the Palestinian popular struggle could not have been reached without the unwavering resolve of theprisoners themselves, grassroots mobilization in their support in Palestine, and the immense wave of effective solidarity and calls for holding Israel accountable that the strike has triggered around the world.

More than a thousand people around the globe have pledged to undertake a 24-hour hunger strike in solidarity with the prisoners, totake place this Thursday. While the solidarity hunger-strike has been called off, due to the prisoners' victory, injustice and illegal repression continue in Israeli prisons.

Emphasizing imprisonment as a critical component of Israel’s system of occupation, colonialism and apartheid practiced against thePalestinian people, Palestinian civil society and human rights organizations have called for intensifying the global Boycott, Divestmentand Sanctions (BDS) campaign to target corporations profiting directly from the Israeli prison system. In particular, we call for action tobe taken to hold to account G4S, the world’s largest international security corporation, which helps to maintain and profit from Israel’s prison system, for its complicity with Israeli violations of international law.

Please click here to demand G4S ends its involvement in the Israeli prison system and its complicity in violations of Palestinianhuman rights.

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Popular Struggle Coordination Committee
Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)

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