🇵🇸 Remembering Theresa Halasa: Revered Veteran of the Palestinian Resistance
As an 18-year-old Palestinian fighter in 1972, Theresa was one of four militants who hijacked a Belgian Sabena plane, Flight 571, en route to Tel Aviv. Their demand: freedom for 315 Palestinian and Arab prisoners in Israeli jails.
The four Palestinian fighters, #ThereseHalasa, #RimaTannous *(a young Jordanian woman*), Ali Taha Abu Sneineh and Abdel-Aziz al-Atrash, and the plane were attacked by Israeli forces after landing in Palestine, disguised as Red Cross workers and aircraft technicians. The forces that attacked the plane and killed Abu Sneineh and al-Atrash – as well as a 22-year-old passenger, Miriam Anderson – included Ehud Barak and Benjamin Netanyahu; Netanyahu himself was shot in the shoulder, and Therese Halasa was severely injured.
#Palestine #Resistance #Hijacking #SabenaHijacking #History
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As an 18-year-old Palestinian fighter in 1972, Theresa was one of four militants who hijacked a Belgian Sabena plane, Flight 571, en route to Tel Aviv. Their demand: freedom for 315 Palestinian and Arab prisoners in Israeli jails.
The four Palestinian fighters, #ThereseHalasa, #RimaTannous *(a young Jordanian woman*), Ali Taha Abu Sneineh and Abdel-Aziz al-Atrash, and the plane were attacked by Israeli forces after landing in Palestine, disguised as Red Cross workers and aircraft technicians. The forces that attacked the plane and killed Abu Sneineh and al-Atrash – as well as a 22-year-old passenger, Miriam Anderson – included Ehud Barak and Benjamin Netanyahu; Netanyahu himself was shot in the shoulder, and Therese Halasa was severely injured.
#Palestine #Resistance #Hijacking #SabenaHijacking #History
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🇵🇸 14/8/1972 SABENA HIJACK TRIAL
Rima Tannous and Therese Halasa were brought before an Israeli military court and sentenced to life imprisonment, but they continued to educate themselves and struggle behind prison bars. Rima Tannous told her story of torture under Israeli interrogation in an account published after her release from Israeli prisons in 1979 in a prisoner exchange; Therese Halasa was released four years later in 1983 in another prisoner exchange with the Palestinian resistance. At the time of her release, she was engaged with other prisoners in a collective hunger strike.
Video footage : 14 Aug 1972 The final session of the trial of two Sabena airline hijackers.
#Palestine #Resistance #Hijacking #SabenaHijack
#History #RimaTannous #ThereseHalasa
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Rima Tannous and Therese Halasa were brought before an Israeli military court and sentenced to life imprisonment, but they continued to educate themselves and struggle behind prison bars. Rima Tannous told her story of torture under Israeli interrogation in an account published after her release from Israeli prisons in 1979 in a prisoner exchange; Therese Halasa was released four years later in 1983 in another prisoner exchange with the Palestinian resistance. At the time of her release, she was engaged with other prisoners in a collective hunger strike.
Video footage : 14 Aug 1972 The final session of the trial of two Sabena airline hijackers.
#Palestine #Resistance #Hijacking #SabenaHijack
#History #RimaTannous #ThereseHalasa
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🇵🇸 Remembering Therese Halasa, Palestinian revolutionary: Rima Tannous’ prison story | Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
After her release, Therese Halasa was expelled from occupied Palestine. She lived the rest of her life in #Jordan, marrying and working as a #nurse caring for patients with disabilities. She continued to tell her story, including to documentarians and filmmakers researching the history of the Sabena hijacking and the Palestinian #revolution. Despite her illness and battle with lung cancer, she continued to be present at countless sit-ins and demonstrations for Palestine in Jordan.
#Palestine #Resistance #History #Hijacking #SabenaHijacking
#Testimonies #Book #Detention #Prisoners #RimaTannous #ThereseHalasa
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After her release, Therese Halasa was expelled from occupied Palestine. She lived the rest of her life in #Jordan, marrying and working as a #nurse caring for patients with disabilities. She continued to tell her story, including to documentarians and filmmakers researching the history of the Sabena hijacking and the Palestinian #revolution. Despite her illness and battle with lung cancer, she continued to be present at countless sit-ins and demonstrations for Palestine in Jordan.
#Palestine #Resistance #History #Hijacking #SabenaHijacking
#Testimonies #Book #Detention #Prisoners #RimaTannous #ThereseHalasa
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🇵🇸 Remembering Therese Halasa, Palestinian revolutionary: Rima Tannous’ prison story | Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Rima Tannous, Therese’s comrade-in-arms, shared her story of involvement, resistance, torture and oppression inside Israeli prisons in a statement published in 1979 after her release as part of a collection, Palestinian Political Prisoners: Struggle Behind Iron Bars, published by the PLO’s Unified Information Department and the Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails.
Rima’s story includes a detailed description of her and Therese’s reunification behind bars, as well as their interaction with international political prisoners jailed by Israel for their involvement in the Palestinian struggle.
#Palestine #Resistance #Prisoners #Detention #Torture #Testimonies #History #Book
#RimaTannous #ThereseHalasa
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Rima Tannous, Therese’s comrade-in-arms, shared her story of involvement, resistance, torture and oppression inside Israeli prisons in a statement published in 1979 after her release as part of a collection, Palestinian Political Prisoners: Struggle Behind Iron Bars, published by the PLO’s Unified Information Department and the Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails.
Rima’s story includes a detailed description of her and Therese’s reunification behind bars, as well as their interaction with international political prisoners jailed by Israel for their involvement in the Palestinian struggle.
#Palestine #Resistance #Prisoners #Detention #Torture #Testimonies #History #Book
#RimaTannous #ThereseHalasa
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🇵🇸 Therese Halasa: Crossing the Border from 1948 Palestine to #Lebanon and Joining the #Revolution | Learn Palestine 2016
#Palestine #Resistance #ThereseHalasa #RimaTannous
#SabenaHijacking #History #Testimonies
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#Palestine #Resistance #ThereseHalasa #RimaTannous
#SabenaHijacking #History #Testimonies
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