[WCUSP] Fwd: [womeninblack] Urgent protest to PM Olmert on the hunger strike of Nura Jaber elHashlamon (sent today)

[Libby or Mort Frank]

This is awful.  But wouldn't we have to check with Israeli WILPF before we 
address their Prime Minister?

Libby

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Odile Hugonot Haber" <odilehh at gmail.com>
To: "National Middle East" <wcusp at wilpf.org>
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 5:32 PM
Subject: [WCUSP] Fwd: [womeninblack] Urgent protest to PM Olmert on the 
hunger strike of Nura Jaber elHashlamon (sent today)


> Do WILPF branches like to sign?
>
> Odile
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: lieve snellings <lieve.snellings at pandora.be>
> Date: Dec 28, 2007 8:39 AM
> Subject: [womeninblack] Urgent protest to PM Olmert on the hunger
> strike of Nura Jaber elHashlamon (sent today)
> To: womeninblack at listas.nodo50.org
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>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Paula Abrams-Hourani
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> Women in Black (Vienna)
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> Email:  WomenInBlack-Vienna at gmx.net
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> Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
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> Fax No. 00972 2 6546717
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>      28 December 2007
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> Sir,
>
>
>
> Nura Jaber el Hashlamon of Hebron, mother of six, was arrested on 17
> September 2006 by the Israeli occupation forces.
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>
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> She has been detained without charges or trial at the Detention
> Centres of Etzion and Ashkelon.  After having submitted to three tough
> and difficult interrogations, she was transferred to Hasharon Prison
> (Tel Mond) and placed in administrative detention for six months.
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> Since the moment of her arrest the Israeli authorities have constantly
> prolonged her administrative detention.
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> On 12 December 2007, Nur Jaber el Hashlamon began a hunger strike,
> demanding to be freed immediately and placing her life in danger.
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> The husband of Nura, Muhamed Sami el Hashlamon is also in
> administrative detention.  He has been imprisoned since 2005 in the
> Negev Prison (Ketziot) and, as in the administrative detention of
> Nura, his has constantly been prolonged by the Israeli authorities.
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> Mr. Prime Minister, Nura's administrative detention and that of her
> husband represent an attack on the human rights of an entire family.
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> The image which is thus given by the State of Israel is not that of a
> democracy but that of an occupying State which does not respect
> international law.  In this crucial period where the world is looking
> in the direction of Palestine, Women in Black (Vienna), together with
> other Women in Black groups and others opposing the Israeli
> occupation, are sending your Government their request to free Nura
> Jaber el Hashlamon immediately in order to permit her to take care of
> her six children who have not seen her since more than one year.
>
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> Yours faithfully,
>
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>
> Women in Black, Canberra
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> Women in Black, Hamburg
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> Women in Black, Los Angeles
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> Women in Black, Lyon
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> Women in Black, Netherlands
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> Women in Black, Paris
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> Women in Black, Rome
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> Women in Black, Strasbourg
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> Women in Black, Vienna
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> Jewish Women's Committee to End the Occupation  of Palestine, Toronto
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> Not in our Name, Toronto
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> cc:  International Committee of the Red Cross, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv
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>       Fax No. 00972 2 581 13 75
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> Email:  jerusalem.jer at icrc.org
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