WE ARE ALL SAMIDOUN! 🇵🇸 (1/2)
16 October 2024 – Solidarity statement by Unity of Fields:
unityoffields.org/we-are-all-samidoun

On 15 October 2024, the US baselessly designated the Samidoun Palestinian Political Prisoner Solidarity Network (Samidoun) as a Specially Designated National (SDN) by summarily adding it to the Treasury Department’s list of sanctioned organizations and individuals. At the same time, Canada designated Samidoun as a “terrorist entity” under Canada’s Criminal Code. Samidoun, a longtime target of state repression and liberal zionist counterinsurgency from within the movement, is a principled and unyielding international voice for thousands of Palestinian political prisoners. We categorically reject this illegitimate “terrorist” designation, and we call for international progressive forces to stand with Samidoun.

Imperialists have always weaponized “terrorist” labels to delegitimize liberation movements, but the designation of Samidoun, an unarmed solidarity movement, is a qualitative escalation. Whether it is Cuba being designated as a “state sponsor of terrorism,” Stop Cop City protestors facing domestic terrorism charges, or material support to terrorism (MST) charges being weaponized against anti-zionists, these terror lists and designations must be totally rejected and abolished. The US, Canada, and the zionist entity are the real “terrorists,” the genocidal settler states built on mountains of corpses and rivers of blood, at this very moment burning Palestinians alive in hospital tents, and slandering as “terrorists” those who dare to resist them.

As the US-backed zionist genocide intensifies in Palestine and Lebanon, the counterinsurgency intensifying against the anti-imperialist movement is no surprise. Make no mistake, fascism is already here. This attack on Samidoun is an attack on the entire anti-imperialist movement, and marks the beginning of a wave of broader criminalization and repression of pro-resistance speech, weaponizing laws like MST and RICO to break solidarity. Anti-imperialist forces must rigorously adapt our strategies to this new phase of repression. It is more crucial than ever to voice support for the resistance because the more of us that do, the harder it is for the state to divide and disorganize us. By cowering now, by withholding critical solidarity, by allowing the state to isolate organizations through lawfare and phony “terrorist” designations, we only relinquish our collective power. We must affirm the righteousness of the Axis of Resistance, and also the righteousness of militant resistance in the imperial core...

WE ARE ALL SAMIDOUN! 🇵🇸 (2/2)
16 October 2024 – Solidarity statement by Unity of Fields:
unityoffields.org/we-are-all-samidoun

As Samidoun’s international coordinator Charlotte Kates said in 2023, “We should understand that the reason why terror laws exist, is to maintain imperialist domination in the region and to provide a criminal mechanism of undermining the connection of the diaspora to their own liberation struggle, of cutting off any form of meaningful international solidarity to those who are on the front lines confronting and making a fundamental political change in the way that people advocate and speak about Palestine and other liberation movements…

We’ve got to fight to get resistance organizations off the list, but we’ve got to fight to bring down these structures altogether because the only reason they exist is to extend imperial power. They don’t exist for any other reason. They exist to destroy our movements. They exist to demobilize us, they exist to separate us from one another, and we have to resist that separation, that splitting, that attempt to create an acceptable alternative of the future within imperialism.”

As Samidoun said in their statement, “We Keep Resisting: US and Canada sanction Samidoun,” on 16 October: “As Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, we reiterate our support for the Palestinian people, the prisoners and the Palestinian, Arab and Islamic resistance, who are confronting the genocide and occupation on a daily basis.

At the same time, we want to stress that Samidoun does not have any material or organizational ties to entities listed on the terrorist lists of the United States, Canada or the European Union.

We reiterate our words upon German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’ announcement of the demand to ban Samidoun: In Arabic, the word “Samidoun,” means those who are steadfast. We use this name to refer to the Palestinian prisoners, who remain behind bars, struggling for freedom. Today we affirm that we shall remain steadfast and committed to the Palestinian people, until victory, return and liberation.”

An attack on one of us is an attack on us all.

We are all Samidoun!

Abolish the “terrorist” lists!

Let repression breed more resistance.

🚨 The IOF claims to have intercepted a drone in the Mediterranean Sea, without providing further details about the two Iraqi drones that penetrated southern occupied Palestine.

🚨🟡🟢 Hezbollah:
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
"Permission [to fight] has been granted to those who are being fought, because they were wronged. And indeed, Allah is competent to give them victory."
This is the truth of Allah, the Most High, the Almighty.

In support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, and in backing their valiant and honorable resistance, and in defense of Lebanon and its people, at 2:00 AM on Thursday, 17-10-2024, the fighters of the Islamic resistance targeted a second Merkava tank in Al-Labouneh heights with a guided missile, causing it to catch fire and leaving its crew between dead and injured.

"And victory is only from Allah, the Mighty, the Wise."

Thursday, 17-10-2024
13 Rabi' al-Thani 1446 Hijri

🚨 BREAKING: Missile sirens ring in "Karmiel," "Maalot-Tarshiha," Beit Jann, and several areas deep into northern occupied Palestine.

Scenes of explosions in the central Al-Jalil region after missile sirens rang in large parts of northern occupied Palestine.

🚨 Scenes of a large fire as a result of a rocket impact in central Al-Jalil moments ago.

🚨 American-British warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes on Sa'ada in northwestern Yemen as well as the capital of Sana'a.

Nasrallah's Promise:
On August 16th 2019, martyr Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warned:

"If you enter our land...your formations will be destroyed, your brigades will be destroyed, your battalions will be dissipated, your tanks will be demolished on television screens, under the cameras. I promise the whole world, you will watch a live feed of the destruction of the 'israeli' tanks, divisions, and brigades if they were ever to enter southern Lebanon."

Today, and with the ill-fated entry of the zionist army into Lebanon, the promise has been kept, whether in Ras Al-Naqoura or Al-Labouneh, where the Merkava turns to scrap and the soil of the south swallows the remains of their dissipated forces.

🚨🇮🇶 Islamic Resistance in Iraq:
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
“Permission [to fight] has been granted to those who are being fought, because they have been wronged. And indeed, Allah is able to give them victory.”
This is the truth of Allah, the Most High, the Almighty.

In continuation of our path to resisting the occupation, and in support of our people in Palestine and Lebanon, and in response to the massacres committed by the usurping entity against civilians, including children, women and the elderly, the fighters of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, on Thursday morning 17-10-2024, attacked a vital target in occupied Umm Al-Rashrash “Eilat,” by drone.

The Islamic Resistance confirms its continuation in striking the enemy's strongholds with increasing intensity.

"And victory is not but from Allah. Indeed, Allah is Exalted in Might and Wise.”

Islamic Resistance in Iraq
Thursday 13th Rabi' Al-Thani, 1446 Hijri

🚨 15 airstrikes targeted Sana'a (6 on the north and south) and Sa'ada (9 in the east) in western Yemen, where the US Air Force used B-2 stealth bombers for the first time in their bombing of Yemen.

🇸🇾 Syrian Ministry of Defense:
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At approximately 2:50 AM today, the "israeli" enemy launched an aerial aggression from the direction of the Mediterranean Sea, targeting one of the points near the southeastern entrance to the city of Latakia, which resulted in the injury of two civilians and material damage to the surrounding private property.

🚨 Missile sirens ring continuously in “Maalot Tarshiha,” “Fassuta,” “Kfar Vradim,” and surrounding settlements in northern occupied Palestine.

🟡🟢 Hezbollah:
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
"Permission [to fight] has been granted to those who are being fought, because they were wronged. And indeed, Allah is competent to give them victory."
This is the truth of Allah, the Most High, the Almighty.

In support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, and in backing their valiant and honorable resistance, and in defense of Lebanon and its people, at 8:30 AM on Thursday, 17-10-2024, the fighters of the Islamic resistance targeted a gathering of “israeli” enemy soldiers in the Sadana area in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa farms with a rocket barrage.

"And victory is only from Allah, the Mighty, the Wise."

Thursday, 17-10-2024
13 Rabi' al-Thani 1446 Hijri

🟡🟢 Hezbollah:
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
"Permission [to fight] has been granted to those who are being fought, because they were wronged. And indeed, Allah is competent to give them victory."
This is the truth of Allah, the Most High, the Almighty.

In support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, and in backing their valiant and honorable resistance, and in defense of Lebanon and its people, at 8:30 AM on Thursday, 17-10-2024, the fighters of the Islamic resistance targeted a gathering of “israeli” enemy soldiers in the Barkhta Farm in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa farms with a rocket barrage.

"And victory is only from Allah, the Mighty, the Wise."

Thursday, 17-10-2024
13 Rabi' al-Thani 1446 Hijri