Today, May 22, a general strike takes place across the occupied West Bank, Gaza and the diaspora, in support of the over 1,500 hunger striking prisoners who have passed the one-month mark of their open-ended hunger strike for freedom and dignity.
The Freedom Theatre started the day by attending the sit-in at the protest tent in Jenin town centre and artist Vaimoana Niumeitolu who is volunteering with The Freedom Theatre began working on a mural close to the protest tent, in honour of the hunger strikers.
Later The Freedom Theatre’s team visited the family of Mohammad Abu Sakha, circus artist with our partners The Palestinian Circus School مدرسة سيرك فلسطين, who is one of the more than 1,500 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike for 36 consecutive days. Abu Sakha’s mother Raja’a is also on hunger strike in support of her son and all other prisoners, and insists on continuing despite the deterioration of her health. The Freedom Theatre’s general secretary Mustafa Sheta expressed the theatre’s full support and solidarity with the Abu Sakha family as well as the other prisoners, and spoke of Mohammad as a colleague in the movement of cultural resistance in Palestine.