Watching live as Israeli army broke into the French hospital in Jerusalem and attacked the funeral of Shireen Abu Aqleh. They almost knocked down her casket. She was put in a hearse & the army is ripping flowers and Palestinian flags off the hearse… I am in shock…
500 Palestinian administrative detainees have been boycotting Israeli military courts since Jan 1st.
Administrative detainees are political prisoners held by the israeli regime without charge or trial, indefinitely. So what does a boycott mean? 1/5
As part of the boycott, detainees & their lawyers refuse to attend court proceedings. Admin detainees don't get trials, but they do have judicial reviews where their detention orders are confirmed, upheld, appealed... this is what 500 detainees have boycotted for over a month 2/5
The boycotting detainees are across three Israeli prisons: Ofer, Mejiddo, and Naqab, and we've seen the detainees begin to add other collective actions like refusing food for the day. The boycott is disrupting and challenging the farcical Israeli military judicial system. 3/5
I work w @Addameer, an internationally respected human rights org & key source of support for Palestinian political prisoners.
Friday we found out Israel outlawed us & 5 other Palestinian orgs. Our offices could be closed, our funds seized & us the staff arrested #StandWithThe6
We wont stop working. As long as Israeli violence continues we have to keep challenging, documenting & exposing it. That's what @Addameer does daily.
And as Palestinians we're used to being threatened & smeared by our colonizer. They call us criminals w their hands on our necks.
Israel shouts "terrorist" & relies on racism instead of evidence to make it stick. They think they can scare us out of exposing their crimes. They think they can scare our supporters away & isolate us.
But Israel is a bully & bullies lose power when we refuse to bow to them.
In Palestine, first thing we do under fire is identify the type of weapons israeli cops/soldiers are holding. This defines your strategy for resisting + trying to be safe. Here’s a thread on identifying weaponry for those out there fighting across Turtle Island♥️
PEPPER SPRAY
The most common is handheld from bottles that are handheld to fire extinguisher sized. The spray is usually white or orange.
Attaching images of police using pepperspray in Memphis, Minneapolis & Boston. Also Defense Technology's line of peppersprays.
DIFFERENT TYPES OF PEPPER SPRAY
- Pepperball pellets shot from a gun. Attached photo shows it used in Denver (the gun usually has a compartment above)
- Backpacks with a hose that sprays pepperspray
- Pepper fog generators (looks like a leaf blower)