NEW COURT DATE FOR MAHMOUD SULLEIMAN AL SAADI! Beit El Military Court, Ramallah, Friday May 9th

Mahmoud will be appearing in Beit El Military Court in Ramallah on Friday where a decision will finally be reached on whether he will be deported to Gaza or not. Mahmoud told his brother that he was aware of is file being held at Erez, which in general means that he will be deported, trial or no trial, the decision to deport him is assumed to have already been made. But that might might change!

However, as nothing has been officially decided, there is still time to hassle the authorities and badger them will emails and phonecalls. Lobbying is not always futile, international pressure focusing on one person's oppressive situation Can make a difference.


The deportation hearing of Mahmood Sulleiman Al Saadi from Jenin Camp was
held last Tuesday April 30 in Beit El military court, Ramallah. The
hearing was suspended and a secret decision reached a few days ago to
simply deport him. His file is at Erez Checkpoint/Border Control now and
he is expected to be transfered from the West Bank to Gaza within the
next few days. He will be forced to remain there for the next 2 years.

Mahmood Sulleiman Saadi, aged 29, was arrested on June 19 along with
thousands of other men from Jenin camp during a major IOF operation.
Every man aged between 15 and 50 was ordered to leave their homes,
rounded up and herdered into the Camp's school. Men were then taken to
various prisons and detained from 2 days to the present day and perhaps
beyond. Mahmood is still being held without charge in Ofar prison, Israel
until his deportation in a few days. There has been no reason given for
the decision to deport him.

Mahmood has three children (two girls aged 10 and 8, and one boy aged 3)
and a wife waiting for him in Jenin Camp.

Mahmoud's brother Ali was one of the military heads of Islamic Jihad in
the West Bank. Ali is now in prison for the rest of his life after being
arrested during the April invasion and massacre in the Camp last year.

Mahmoud and his family are being punished as part of the Israeli
government's enduring policy of collective punishment - illegal under the
4th geneva convention - which targets the families of fighters, martyr
bombers and political leaders and demolishes their homes and arrestes,
tortures and imprisons their relatives.

Please try to either hold a solidarity demonstration or picket with
Mahmoud and his family or contact the following:


Tips when emailing or calling

*Maybe* you work for a local paper, college magazine, underground zine,
corporate news agency or peace organisation? It's always good to call up
and ask for a formal statement on why exactly Mahmood is facing potential
deportation to Gaza. What purpose does this service? Where did the order
come from? What is the evidence for supporting the deportation on
Mahmood? If it's classified then why so? And the rest you can just thrash
out independently. Being from a paper or independent media outlet always
helps as it shows the IOF and Israeli State that their policies and their
effects on the lives of ordinary people are going to transmitted and
spread far and wide. That the news will travel and influence and inform.

If you are calling or emailing as a concerned individual then it's
important to stress that you heard about his case from a media source -
Indymedia or something or a local newsletter or maybe just from a
circulating email from a friend - it helps to have the authorities
responsible know that there is information out there circulating widely
and that Mahmood's case is well known.

Information you will need to quote to the relevant authorities

Name: Mahmood Sulleiman Saadi
DOB: 2/11/73
ID Card Number: 927293019
Prison he has been held in so far: Ofer

Sample Letter to cut and paste and fax/email:

Dear ............,

I am writing to express my concern about the deportation of Mahmood
Sullieman Saadi (ID card number 927293019/ DOB 2/11/73) to Gaza this
week. I feel it is unfair and unjustified to send Mahmood to Gaza. He
also has a three young children and wife waiting for him in Jenin who
miss him very much. Mahmood has not committed an offence but was arrested
during the June round-up of men in Jenin Camp aged 15-50. Thus far, he
has not been told of the charges against him. He is being targetted
becuase his brother, currently serving multiple life sentences, was
military head of Jihad Islami in the West Bank.

I strongly advise you to let Mahmood go back to his family following his
release from Ofer and not to Gaza which will be yet another form of
supplementary imprisonment for him and in effect a further collective
punishment of Mahmood's family who have now been missing him for almost a
year.

Sincerely





ADDRESSES

Ariel Sharon
Prime Minister and Minister
of Immigration Absorption
Office of the Prime Minister
3 Kaplan Street
P O Box 187
Kiryat Ben-Gurion
Jerusalem 91919, Israel
Fax: +972 2 651 2631
Telex: 25279 MPRES IL
E-mail:  rohm@pmo.gov.il


Uzi Landau
Minister of Public Security
Ministry of Public Security (Police)
Kiryat Hamemshala
PO Box 18182
Jerusalem 91181, Israel
Fax: +972 2 584 7872

Meir Sheetrit
Minister of Justice
Ministry of Justice
29 Salah al-Din Street
Jerusalem 91010, Israel
Fax: +972 2 628 8618
E-mail:  sar@justice.gov.il


Eli Yishai
Minister of the Interior and
Deputy Prime Minister
Ministry of Interior
2 Kaplan Street
PO Box 6158
Kiryat Ben Gurion
Jerusalem 91061, Israel
Fax: +972 2 670 1628
E-mail:  sar@moin.gov.il


Elyakim Rubinstein
Attorney-General/Legal
Advisor to the Government
Ministry of Justice
29 Salah al-Din Street
Jerusalem 91010, Israel
Fax: +972 2 628 5438


Israeli Defense Forces

(IDF) tel: (00972) 36 080 339

Fax: 00972 36 080 343

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Military Court in Beit El, which prosecutes hundreds of Palestinians each
month for ÒviolationsÓ against the Israeli military occupation, and also
detains Palestinians under interrogation:

Beit El (Ramallah and Northern West Bank) Military Court

Fax: 011-972-2-9970641
Tel: 011-972-2-9970117


For info of your nearest Israeli embassy, have a look at:

 http://www.embassyworld.com/embassy/israel1.htm