Learn about the history of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, equality and justice by exploring major events in the history of their oppression on this day of the year.
14 March
UK 
TREACHERY FACILITATED ISRAELI SEIZURE OF PALESTINIANS
On this day in 2006, British and US wardens left their posts monitoring Palestinian political figures and resistance members in a Palestinian Authority prison in Jericho under the terms of a deal negotiated with Israel and the US in 2002. The British and the US monitors left for an Israeli military facility immediately before Israeli soldiers raided the prison. The prisoners resisted but after ten hours were overcome and taken to Israel. A series of riots and kidnapping of foreigners ensued throughout the Palestinian territories.
خيانة المملكة المتحدة سهلت الاستيلاء الإسرائيلي على الاسرى الفلسطينيين
14 مارس
في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 2006 ، ترك حراس بريطانيون وأمريكيون مناصبهم وهم يراقبون الشخصيات السياسية الفلسطينية وأعضاء المقاومة في سجن تابع للسلطة الفلسطينية في أريحا بموجب شروط صفقة تم التفاوض عليها مع إسرائيل والولايات المتحدة عام 2002. غادر المراقبون البريطانيون والأمريكيون اماكنهم في سجن اريحا الى منشأة عسكرية إسرائيلية مباشرة قبل اقتحام جنود الاحتلال السجن. قاوم الأسرى ولكن بعد عشر ساعات تم التغلب عليهم واقتيدوا إلى إسرائيل. واندلعت سلسلة من أعمال الشغب واختطاف الأجانب في جميع أنحاء الأراضي الفلسطينية.
A tale of British treachery.
Six weeks after the Israeli assassination of its Secretary General Abu Ali Mustafa in September 2001, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) assassinated the far right Israeli Tourism Minister, Rehavam Ze'evi. Ex-General Ze'evi was a strong advocate of assassinating Palestinians and publicly advocated the ethnic cleansing of all Palestinians remaining under Israeli control - Ze'evi was "the loudest advocate for the ethnic cleansing of three million Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza".
"Zeevi’s killing by gunmen in a Jerusalem hotel in 2001 was about as close as the Palestinians have managed to get to emulating an Israeli-style targeted assassination - with the difference that, in the Palestinian operation, no bystanders were killed."
Israel accused the PFLP's new leader Ahmed Sadat, of organising the assassination of Ze'evi. Sadat took refuge in Yasser Arafat's compound in Ramallah, which the Israelis besieged.
Under a deal worked out between US President, George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, in April 2002, Sadat and other prisoners sought by Israel were arrested by the Palestinian Authority and transferred to the PA jail in Jericho. The prisoners there were placed inder the supervision of US and British military monitors.
Saadat was elected to the Palestinian legislature in the Palestinian elections of January 2006, and the election victors, Hamas, announced the intention of the newly elected Palestinian government to release Sadat and the other prisoners. Under popular pressure, the PA announced they would allow the release of the prisoners.
On the morning of 14th March, about 9.30am, British monitors claimed they had to get their vehicles serviced and drove away from the Jericho jail and their task of supervising the prisoners' confinement under the agreement between Israel, the Palestinians and the international community. They drove directly to the Israeli lines and passed through.
Immediately afterwards the Israeli Army army attacked the prison and demanded that the 200 Palestinian guards and prisoners come out. Fighting continued until after sunset and final surrender of the last of the prisoners.
From within the rubble of the prison, the Israelis' key target, Ahmed Saadat, had taunted his heavily armed attackers with calls to al-Jazeera television on a mobile phone. "Maybe they will take us alive or dead. We will not surrender," he said. "Our morale is high and we will die as men."
Israeli army giant bulldozers crushed the prison walls and pushed the last of the wanted men, including Ahmed Saadat, deeper into its remains until they had no choice but to surrender.
Palestinian fury at British deception led to attacks across the West Bank and the British Council office being burned down in Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Ohlmert said of the thuggish Ze'evi the following day: "Rehavam Ze'evi, Israel has restored your honor with the operation we carried out yesterday"
Given a 30-year prison sentence by an Israeli military court, Ahmed Saadat is currently being tortured by being kept in solitary confinement in an Israeli prison. His health has deteriorated after frequent hunger strikes.
Britain's treachery in Jericho is a microcosm of the withdrawal in 1948, leaving Palestinians at the mercy of Jewish ethnic cleansing militias.
2-minute video: the funeral in Ramallah of assassinated Abu Ali Mustafa drew huge crowds. Two US-supplied Israeli Apache helicopters fired rockets through the windows, as he sat at his desk in his office in Al-Bireh city