[WCUSP] ALIYAH - please respond! Re: Fwd: [womeninblack] Urgent protest to PM Olmert on the hunger strike of Nura Jaber elHashlamon (sent today)

[Felicity Hill]

Dear Aliyah, 


US branches of WILPF and the international would like to sign this letter - can you please give the okay? 


thanks


felicity 



----- Original message -----
From: "Marlena Santoyo" <marlsan at cavtel.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:07:10 -0500
Subject: Re: [WCUSP] Fwd: [womeninblack] Urgent protest to PM Olmert on the	hunger strike of Nura Jaber elHashlamon (sent today)
To: "'Odile Hugonot Haber'" <odilehh at gmail.com>,         "'National Middle East'" <wcusp at wilpf.org>

>As a Woman in Black, one who stood with my Israeli sisters in Tel Aviv,
>I say YES.
>
>
>Marlena Santoyo
>515 Glen Echo Road
>Philadelphia, PA 19119
>Tel. (215)-247-4385
>marlsan at cavtel.net <mailto:marlsan at cavtel.net> 
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> 
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: wcusp-bounces at wilpf.org [mailto:wcusp-bounces at wilpf.org] On Behalf
>Of Odile Hugonot Haber
>Sent: 2007 December 28 Friday 5:33 PM
>To: National Middle East
>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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>
>
>----- 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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>
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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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>
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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,
>
>
>
>Women in Black, Canberra
>
>Women in Black, Hamburg
>
>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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