Action Alert: Free Wa'el Al-Faqeeh

On the night of December 9th ,2009, over 200 Israeli soldiers entered
the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Their mission: to round up
local grassroots activists, whose promotion of popular struggle Israel
had no answer for. Amongst those taken was 45 year old Wa’el Al-
Faqeeh. Fifty soldiers stormed his home, pointing their weapons at him
and his family as though the man they had come to arrest embodied a
formidable threat. But those who know Al Faqeeh know that he worked
tirelessly – and on a largely voluntary basis – in defense of human
rights and the promotion of the strategies and philosophy of
Palestinian non-violent resistance.

Political prisoner Wa’el Al-Faqeeh has been detained without charge by
Israeli authorities for over a month, and is now facing trial in a
military court scheduled to begin on the 19th of January. The
abduction of Al-Faqeeh from his home, along with 4 other activists in
the Nablus region, marked the beginning of the recent surge in
Israel’s targeting of leaders of Palestinian popular resistance.

On the night of December 9th ,2009, over 200 Israeli soldiers entered
the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Their mission: to round up
local grassroots activists, whose promotion of popular struggle Israel
had no answer for. Amongst those taken was 45 year old Wa’el Al-
Faqeeh. Fifty soldiers stormed his home, pointing their weapons at him
and his family as though the man they had come to arrest embodied a
formidable threat. But those who know Al Faqeeh know that he worked
tirelessly – and on a largely voluntary basis – in defense of human
rights and the promotion of the strategies and philosophy of
Palestinian non-violent resistance.

Deprived of his liberty and his voice, we ask you to join us in
exercising our freedom of speech where he can not. Help us take
effective and public action to end his arrest by writing a letter to
your representative and demand they take action for his release.

   * To write write to the American Consul General in Jerusalem, see
http://www.popularstruggle.org/content/send-letter-consul-daniel-rubinstein.

   * To write to the High Representative of the European Union for
Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, see
http://www.popularstruggle.org/content/send-letter-baroness-catherine-ashton.