Letter from Bethlehem: Mazin Qumsiyeh

 After 9 days in Rome where we networked and gave talks, Jessie and I are back in Palestine. We were welcomed with a large activity today at the institute where 270 children and 120 students of the education faculty at Bethlehem University, our staff and volunteers (over 500 in total) had a full day of environmental and fun activities. To see activities, please visit our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/PIBS.PMNH

Our friends and humanitarian activists Thiago Ávila and Saif Abu Keshek continue to be held in horrible conditions after being kidnapped from ships 1000 km away from Gaza. Tey are on hunger strike, and held in teh notorious torture areas called "Israeli prisons" (torture cells in which 80 Palestinians died in teh past three years and many were raped and suffered permanent disabilities). Thiago's mother died while he is being held. Dr. Husam Abusafiya (Palestinian paediatrician and neonatologist who served as the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Gaza Strip) is one of 737 medical workers also kidnapped by Israel in the past 2.5 years and is being tortured and faces imminent death. 11,000 political prisoners held as we speak (a total of over one million detained since 1948). Please write to your governments and continue to protest and engage in boycott, divestments and sanctions to end the genocide, the ethnic cleansing and the cruelty. For more actions you can do, see
http://qumsiyeh.org/whatyoucando

Now if you want to see things not shown on western media that explains the world to you, I post this link which includes also videos of inspiring people [This is a weekly compilationoflinks]
https://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2026/05/inspiring-people.html

Stay Humane, act, and keep hope and Palestine alive

Mazin Qumsiyeh
A bedouin in cyberspace, a villager at home