Meath Palestine Campaign public meeting tonight in the Dan Shaw Centre

Meath Palestine Solidarity Campaign is hosting a public meeting with French-Palestinian human rights defender, Mr Salah Hammouri tonight (20th April) in the Dan Shaw SIPTU Centre at 7pm as part of his national speaking tour.

The meeting will be opened by Mayor of Navan, Cllr Eddie Fennessy, and will provide information on the cruel system of incarceration and administrative detention of opponents of the Israeli occupation.

Currently, there are 118 minors under the age of 18 – some as young as 12 years – in administrative detention.

Last December, Mr Salah Hammouri, made international headlines when he was deported from Israel following nine months in ‘administrative detention’ without charge or trial, and stripped of his East Jerusalem residency status.

Mr Hammouri’s detention followed the designation by Israel in November 2021 of six Palestinian human rights organisations, including Addameer -a legal aid and prisoners’ rights NGO which Mr Hammouri works for as a lawyer and researcher, as ‘terrorist organisations.

This designation was immediately rejected by then Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney, who underlined that previous terrorist allegations against Palestinian civil society organisations had not been substantiated.

Later, in July 2022, Ireland along with Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden said they had not received substantial information from Israel that would justify reviewing their policy of providing aid to Palestinian humanitarian and human rights organisations, including Addameer.