Celebration of the Struggles of Working People in Palestine

Feryal Abu Haikal and Mohammed Khatib live in communities that are immediately threatened with destruction and expulsion by the Israeli military and settlers. They will speak of their personal experiences mobilizing their communities to nonviolently resist these measures.

MOHAMMED KHATIB is a leading member of Bil’in’s Popular Committee Against the Wall and the Secretary of the Bil’in Village Council. He has been a principal organizer of Bil’in’s two- year creative, nonviolent struggle to prevent the construction of Israel’s Wall on Bil’in’s land and to block the expansion of neighboring illegal Israeli settlements. Mohammed has frequently been arrested and injured by the Israeli military for participating in nonviolent protests. He is quoted frequently in the Palestinian, Israeli and international media.

FERYAL ABU HAIKAL, an educator and a 60 year-old mother of eleven children, recently retired after eleven years as the headmistress at the Qurtuba School in Hebron’s old city. The school serves 100 Palestinian children. Some of the most extreme Israeli settlers have taken up residence in Hebron's old city, and they regularly attack Palestinian residents in order to drive them from their homes. By continuing to function despite Israeli attacks on students and staff, the Qurtuba School has served as a model of nonviolent resistance. Feryal and her family also remain in their family home in nearby Tel Rumeida despite continual Israeli attacks.

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