Peaceful Protesters Arrested Including Nine Internationals--Action Requested

Adam Shapiro--one of internationals arrested

August 8, 2002
Update
Thank you to all who are mobilizing on behalf of the peaceful protestors that were abused and arrested by the Israeli authorities yesterday in the Palestinian village of Huwwara. The two Palestinian young men that were taken were beaten then released last night:
Ahmed Omar Abelaziz – 19 years old from Huwwara
Walid Ata Baker - 37-year-old glass factory worker from Jama'een village

The nine foreign activists spent the night in jail in the illegal settlement of Ariel. This morning they were moved to the Ramle prison and are awaiting their deportation. Their only crime is speaking out against injustice and grave violations of international law being committed by the Israeli military and government. Again, they are:
Anne-Cecele Alligne - France
Benoit Granet - France
Pierre Coulon - France
Phillipe Armaug – France (very sick and needs medication that was left behind in Nablus)
Saquima Armaug-Khimoum - France
Adam Shapiro – Brooklyn, NY
Charles Williams – Central Vermont
Javier Cortez – Los Angeles, CA
Salah Afifi – Dublin, Ireland
I include the appropriate numbers and talking points again, below. Many thanks for your support. Despite the overwhelming violence and odds, we will continue to organize to resist the brutal Israeli occupation and to highlight to the world that the occupation is the root source of the violence in this region. We call on all good people to join us.
In solidarity & struggle,
THE INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT
www.palsolidarity.org
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For US citizens:
United States Embassy in Israel
Tel: +972-3-519-7575
Fax: +972-3-517-3227
United States Consulate in Jerusalem
Tel: +972-2-622-7230/50
Fax: +972-2-624-9462
Ask for American Citizen Services – Alison Dilworth
US Department of State
Bureau of Near East Affairs
Office of Public Affairs
Tel: 202-647-5150
Tel: 202-736-4995 Kim Richter
Israeli Ministry of Interior
Tel: +972-2-629-4701
Fax: +972-2-629-4750
Call/fax/write your congressional representatives! – www.congress.org for contact information.

For French citizens:
Embassy of France in Israel
Tel: +972-3-520-8300
Fax: +972-3-520-8340
French Consulate in Jerusalem
Tel: +972-2-625-9481
Fax: +972-2-625-9178
Israeli Ministry of Interior
Tel: +972-2-629-4701
Fax: +972-2-629-4750
Call/fax/write your Members of Parliament!

For Irish citizen:
Embassy of the United Kingdom
Tel: +972-3-725-1222
Fax: +972-3-527-8574
Israeli Ministry of Interior
Tel: +972-2-629-4701
Fax: +972-2-629-4750
Call/fax/write your Members of Parliament!

Some talking points:
- (For US citizens) M16 rifles used to shoot at and beat the peaceful protestors, over a dozen of which were US citizens, are supplied by the US government and paid for by US citizen taxpayer money.
- Internationals are frequently taken by force out of Palestinians cities, towns and villages and forced to leave the country – are deported. Since Israel controls all borders and access to the Occupied Palestinian Territories and the Palestinian people, this policy is meant to suffocate the Palestinian people and deny them access to the outside world.
- Internationals are treated violently, arrested and deported for marching nonviolently against oppression and for freedom, in a country that receives so much money from our various governments and sells itself as a democracy.
- Foreign civilians are in the Occupied Palestinian Territories trying to do what the United Nations and signatories to the Fourth Geneva Convention should be doing to uphold Palestinian rights under international law. What are our governments doing in this regard and what are they doing to protect the well-being of their citizens that are working for freedom, justice and human rights in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories?

For more information, please call
Huwaida - +972-67-473-308
ISM office - +972-2-626-4844
PCR - +972-2-277-2018
Jerome (for French) - +972-55-974-262