Dear comrades, dear friends, 

After several hours of detention and intterogation, the chair of the Follow Up Committee comrade Mohammad Barakeh, was released without restrictions, all other members arrested at the protest were released with restrictions including a distancing from Nazareth for 14 days.  

At the same time, in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem the Israeli police was oppressing silent demonstrations and violently arresting our comrades and left activists protesting against the political persecution and this oppression, and over 30 demonstrators were arrested until now, some are injured.  

In Nazareth now, hundreds of the Party's members and supporters gathered in a public meeting to protest against the escalation of fascism and to demand an end to the war. I share here two quotes from the speeches this evening:  

Barakeh: "We are willing to defend our beliefs, and that will cost us. It is not the first time. Our stance has always combined internationalism and patriotism, and this is the humane and political stance that protects the peoples and ends wars. The Palestinian people will rise from the ashes and will enjoy his rights".  

Comrade Adel Amer, GS of the party: "the way to stand in the face of fascism is together, Arabs and Jews against fascism. We have to continue demanding the end of the war! If this demand will be the reason for arrests and charges - then we are all guilty!"; "today, when we shared the arrest of comrade Barakeh with our comrades in the fraternal parties, they took action immediately, denouncing and questioning this persecution and demanded a position on this from the European parliament - we also received many solidarity messages. I tell you this to assure the solidarity and support of our comrades in many places, we are not going through this long struggle all alone".