The European Union, the United Nations, and all signatories to the Geneva Conventions must now answer: Will you uphold the laws you claim to defend, or will you look away while one of your own is disappeared at sea?

@RimaHas   French-Palestinian Member of the European Parliament and refugee from 1948, now stands before an Israeli court in al-Ramleh. Israel offered her deportation and a 100-year ban. She refused to sign. She chose prison over submission.

 

The European Union, the United Nations, and all signatories to the Geneva Conventions must now answer: Will you uphold the laws you claim to defend, or will you look away while one of your own is disappeared at sea?

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

@FranceskAlbs

·@RimaHas , a Member of the @EUparliament is illegally detained by Israel. Seized in international waters while part of a humanitarian convoy, she was taken by the Israeli army to Israel, which she had not tried to enter — and is now deprived of her liberty for refusing to sign a document pledging never to return to the land of her ancestors. This is the essence of Israel’s apartheid: institutionalized anti-Palestinian racism at work. It is also an affront to France, Europe and its institutions, history and all of us.

 

 The Right of Return 

UN Resolution 194 from 1948 "The refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should be permitted to do so..."