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Stop the Wall activist Hassan Kharajeh vowed to keep working for justice. "If we stand up united, we can win, step by step, our freedom and national self-determinination," he said.
Popular struggles build momentum. Participants derive energy from each other. International support is mobilized. Pressure gets results.
Stop the Wall youths draw support "from many different political traditions within Palestine." Its mission is opposing Israel's "apartheid wall."
It's also part of a vast network of Palestinian civil society organizations. They struggle on many fronts against colonization and occupation. Settlement lawless is targeted. So are prisoner rights, including why they're detained in the first place.
Popular committees interact throughout Palestine. Youths and many others are involved. Jerusalem presents special problems. Total Israeli control is ruthless. Palestinian rights are shamelessly denied. Daily security force violence and bureaucratic suffocation confronts them. Only besieged Gaza is worse.
Nonetheless, organizing continues. It confronts daily repression, intimidation and state terror. Strength comes through growing numbers united to live free. Sustained energy persists for it.
Stop the Wall and like-minded groups distance themselves from PA complicity with Israel. They oppose status quo occupation. They struggle on two fronts - against repressive Israeli occupation and supportive PA enforcers.
Activists won't be silent. They won't sit home while their land is stolen, their rights denied, their freedom to live free destroyed by a ruthless occupier. Their voices resonate for change. Their bodies remain on streets in protest. Their identity attracts others. Israel's notion of normal won't be tolerated.
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