From Occupied Palestine

George Habash
DAVID HIRST
Guardian, 27 January 2008

A sudden exit, a jail is stormed - and Israel's long wait is over
CHRIS McGREAL
Guardian, 15 March 2006

[see also, STEVE BELL cartoon]

Jericho -- With explosions and gunfire echoing across Jericho yesterday, Colonel Ronnie Blekin finally got the men for whom he and his army had waited for four years: the Palestinians accused of one of the most audacious political killings in Israeli history - the assassination of a cabinet minister in a Jerusalem hotel in 2001.

My 20th year
GIDEON LEVY
Ha'aretz, 15 May 2005

Our age in this parallel time is the age of the revolution, before the birth of some of its factions. Before the Arab satellite stations and the spread of the hamburger culture in our capital cities. We are even from before the invention of mobile phones, modern communications systems and the Internet. We are part of history, and history is a situation and the root of a past that is no longer. But we are the roots of a past that continues and has not ended. We speak to you in the present tense, in order not to turn into your future.

The two intifadas: Interview with a PLO activist
KAMEL JABER
FromOccupiedPalestine.org, 4 November 2003

Jenin, West Bank -- Because of the constant threat of arrest or assassination, the setting for most of our interviews with activists has been dramatic: a secluded cemetery, an abandoned office, or a house on the outskirts of the city with the requisite gunfire in the background, and the roar of tanks. This time was different. We interviewed Kamel Jaber in the baby supplies store that he manages; to make room for our recorder he cleared the desk of crib-assembly instructions.

At 54 years-old, Kamel's history reads like the standard rap-sheet of a Palestinian Liberation Organization activist.

An interview with imprisoned PFLP General Secretary Ahmad Saadat
Fight Back!, 20 May 2003

Fight Back! interviewed the imprisoned General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Ahmad Saadat, on May 20. At a time when the eyes of the world are focused on the Middle East, we are grateful for the opportunity to bring you, our readers, the thoughts of one of the key leaders of the Palestinian resistance in his own words.

Amnesty demands PFLP chief's release; new PA cabinet meets
AMIRA HASS and AMOS HAREL
Ha'aretz, 14 June 2002

The Palestinian Authority must release the leader of a radical Palestinian faction that claimed responsibility for the killing of cabinet minister Rehavam Ze'evi in October, the human rights group Amnesty International said in a statement Thursday.

Ahmad Sa'adat must be released and his safety ensured
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
Public Statement, 13 June 2002

Israel/Occupied Territories/Palestinian Authority

Following the decision of the Palestinian High Court of Justice in Gaza ordering that Ahmad Sa'adat be released immediately, Amnesty International is calling on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to respect this decision and free him from detention without further delay. Amnesty International is also calling on Israel to publicly guarantee that Ahmad Sa'adat will not be subjected to any extrajudicial measures, including assassination.

Palestinians ignore court call to free faction leader
SUZANNE GOLDENBERG
Guardian, 4 June 2002

Jerusalem -- The Palestinian Cabinet last night countermanded the decision of its own supreme court to release a Palestinian faction leader held under British and American guard.

Israel had vowed harsh retribution yesterday if Ahmed Saadat, the leader of the leftwing Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), had walked free from a Jericho jail, after a ruling by a court in Gaza to free him.

Arafat jails suspected assassins
CHRIS McGREAL
Guardian, 26 April 2002

Bethlehem -- Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat moved yesterday to end his month-long incarceration within his Ramallah headquarters by putting on trial and sentencing four Palestinian militants wanted by Israel for assassinating a cabinet minister last year.

PFLP threatens to kill Arafat aides if leader is not freed
GRAHAM USHER
Guardian 18 January 2002

Jerusalem -- The spectre of a Palestinian civil war loomed yesterday when the military wing of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine threatened to kill Palestinian Authority security chiefs if its leader, Ahmed Saadat, and other PFLP political prisoners were not "immediately released" from authority jails.