Eyewitness: Palestinian refugees in Shatila struggle for liberation
NOVANEWS
By Estevan Hernandez
Richard Becker of ANSWER Coalition speaks at rally in Shatila.
On May 15, a delegation from the Third Annual International Conference for Justice for Palestine joined a solidarity rally with the Palestinian hunger strike in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon. Delegates from 35 countries attended the conference. I was invited to attend representing the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
At the rally, held on the 28th day of the mass hunger strike of more than 1300 Palestinian political prisoners, organizers from a wide range of Resistance organizations spoke of the state of the Palestinian liberation movement and called for the people to rise up in further support. They proclaimed their support for the hunger strikers in Israeli prisons fighting ...