16 year old Palestinian girl Ahed Tamimi born under occupation https://teifidancer-teifidancer.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/free-ahed-al-tamimi-and-palestinian.html who has been called the Rosa Parks of Palestine, on December 19, 2017 was taken in the dead of night by Israeli soldiers. She was arrested after a video that her mother, Narimam, took went viral, showing an alteration with soldiers trying to eter their house. The incident took place on the same day that Ahed's cousin, 15 year old Mohammad Taimi, was hit in the head at close range by a rubber bullet fired by an Israeli soldier, His family told Amnesty International that he required surgery that involved the removal of part of his left skull.
Ahed is a high school student preparing for college. As a young girl , Ahed rose to headlines for her bravery to confront the Israeli soldiers who enter her village on a regular basis.The Tamimis are well known in their village of Nabih Salleh,( which is 20 kilometres from Ramallah) for their weekly nonviolent protests against Israeli occupation and apartheid. This village is also famous for women's leadership in resistance to their occupation.Since 2009, the residents, from children to the aged, have marched every Friday from the entrance of their village to a military barrier.They are protesting against attacks from settlers. from the nearby village of Halamish against the settlments continuing expansion on privately owned Palestinian land, and against the settler's take-over of the village spring. The Israeli army has countered these marches, which are often accompanied by protestors throwing stones against the highly armed fores of occupation, who carry ter gas, rubber coated steel bullets, and also live ammunition.
Now Ahed is currently facing up to 14 years in prison. Israel refuses to release Ahed pending trial."The court said that because she is so dangerous there is no possibility of bail," said her lawyer,
Gaby Lasky. Dangerous because she refused to accept the suffering and repression by the Israeli State. Court proceedings against her will begin on Janury 31, the day of her 17th birthday. Rather than celebrating with family and friends, eating cake. She will sleep that night in a cold prison cell of 1x2 metres, with no windows, comfort or proper bedding. She has been placed with Israeli adults rather than fellow Palestinians and children, specifically so that she will be all the more abused, harassed and frightened by those around her, who wish her great harm. Lets show some love for this brave girl. We cannot let the spotlight fade.
The continued visbility of her case puts pressure on the Israeli authorities to ensure a fair trial, without such visibility the chances of a fair trial are virtually nil.The military court she will be facing though is not a court of justice in the regular sense, but an organ of the occupation, in which both the judge and the prosecution will be wearing the same uniform , and are part of the same system, whereby the defense is not.
Ahed's case also sheds light on the hundreds of other Palestinian children held in Israeli detention centres in direct violation of international law.She is one of 350 children currently imprisoned by Israel. Israel remains the only country that prosecutes children in military courts. Ill-treatment of Palestinian child detainess is widespread, systematic and institionalzed throughout the Israel military detention system. Three out of four Palestinian children experience some form of physical violence following arrest. Children like Ahed do not receive fair trial guarantees, such as having an attorney present during interrogation, and are prosecuted in Israeli military courts that have a 99 percent conviction rate.
Keep up the pressure and offer some solidarity, write her a letter- Ahed Tamimi, Ha Sharon Prison, Ben Yehuda, PO Box 740 330 Israel. Join the global call to action and events taking place around the world to mark Ahed's 17th birthday on 31January while she is held behind Israeli bars. Around the world, actions and demonstrations have highlighted Ahed's courage and commitment and that of of thousands of fellow Palestinian strugglers. 26-30 January was announced as global days of action for Ahed'd freedom and people of the world to highlight Ahed's birthday in order to demand her release. Also if you have not joined over one million people asking for her freedom, please add your name to the following petitions, lend your voice against this injustice. Share and tell your friends.
" We demand the release of Ahed and all Palestinian children wrongly held in military prisons.
The international community must put an end to the detention and ill-treatment of children in these prisons. Enough is enough.
To Ahed and all the children in Israeli military jails. We stand by your side, and are holding ou in our hearts. We will not give up until you are free. You are not alone."
https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/free_ahed_global_loc/
https://www.amnesty.org/en/get-involved/take-action/release-16-year-old-palestinian-activist-ahed-tamimi/
Schedule of International Events: Take action to free Ahed Tamimi ann all Palestinian prisoners.
http://samidoun.net/2018/01/schedule-of-international-events-take-action-to-free-ahed-tamimi-and-all-palestinian-prisoners/
" We should extend our struggles to one another in order to end all the world's injustices. "
- Ahed Tamimi
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