My dad, day 37

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Published on Friday, 06 June 2014 14:00

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Action Alert

My father has always been my hero.

L to R: my mother Lamis, brother Wadea, father Abdul, & me.

Help free him and other Palestinians indefinitely detained by Israel.

My name is Basil Farraj, and my father has always been my hero.

I am 22 years old and I recently graduated from Earlham College in Indiana with a B.A in Peace and Global Studies.

But unlike most other young people my age, I’m counting every second, every minute, every hour and every day until I can hug my father again, which is why I’m asking for your help.

My dad, Abdul-Razeq Farraj, is the Administrative Director of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, a grassroots group that helps Palestinian men and women small farmers survive under the Occupation.

But because of his tireless work for basic fairness for farmers, he has been indefinitely detained in an Israeli prison, without charge or trial. In fact, he has spent a total of 8 years detained without trial. On May 1st, he joined nearly 125 other Palestinian administrative detainees in an open-ended hunger strike to protest administrative detention.

It is now day 37.

Please help me free my father and the other detainees.

Click here to send a letter to the Israeli Military Judge Advocate General to demand an end to administrative detention, and the release of all detainees.

Administrative detention is a practice used by the Israeli occupation to detain Palestinians from one to six months - repeated as many times as Israel wants. They are held without charge or trial, based on a “secret file” that neither the prisoners nor their lawyers have access to, and the charges can be renewed—indefinitely.

If this outrages you as much as it outrages our family, and the many Palestinian sons and daughters like me who haven’t seen our parents or siblings in months or years, please click here to send en email now.

The hunger strikers are putting their lives on the frontline not for themselves but for all Palestinians – including myself, so that none of us have to go through what they are going through.

We continue to wait and count but there is no doubt that my father, and the other hunger strikers’ determination and love for life, is what makes my family and other families stronger.

The love for life and freedom that these hunger strikers have should, at the least, be a cause of reflection and thought for all of us. With their determination and resilience, these prisoners are a cause of inspiration and motivation to many of the Palestinians and their supporters.

These prisoners are free despite the Israeli chains.

Please show them your support and click here to send a letter to Brigadier General Danny Efroni, Military Judge Advocate General, asking for their release.

Write to the Israeli government, its military and legal authorities and demand an end to administrative detention and the release of all detainees.

Justice will prevail, and soon.

Basil Farraj

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