Calendar of Ongoing Global Actions To Support Palestine

5 August 2016

– Please take action wherever you are, and support the many campaigns taking place around the world to Free Palestine, including the ongoing global protests to liberate Bilal Kayed and other Palestinian prisoners, and to stop G4S.

As Bilal Kayed enters his 52nd day of hunger strike shackled to his hospital bed, hundreds of Palestinian prisoners are now on an open hunger strike demanding Kayed’s freedom and an end to administrative detention and repressive attacks on Palestinians in Israeli prisons.

Following a series of raids and attacks on prisoners, mostly affiliated with Hamas, in Nafha prison and the transfer of multiple prisoners throughout the Israeli prison system, over 285 prisoners launched a collective hunger strike on Thursday, 4 August, demanding an end to the assaults and attacks of repressive forces in the prison. Today, 80 prisoners from Ramon prison are joining the collective strike.

They joined over 100 prisoners collectively engaged in an open hunger strike to demand an end to Kayed’s administrative detention. Bilal Kayed was ordered to six months in indefinitely-renewable administrative detention rather than being released on 13 June, after completing a 14.5-year sentence in Israeli prisons. His case represents a dangerous precedent for all Palestinian prisoners threatened with indefinite detention following the expiration of their sentences.

Global actions in support of Palestine are updated weekly in our calendar below.