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Palestinian Prisoners’ Day
Healthcare workers and community members will gather to mark Palestinian Prisoners’ Day and to demand the immediate release of thousands of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.
WHEN: Friday, April 17, 2026 at 5:00PM
WHERE: Human Rights Monument, Ottawa, ON
WHO: Health Workers Alliance for Palestine (HAP), alongside the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), Ottawa Healthcare Professionals for Palestine (OHCP4P), Doctors Against Genocide (DAG), Jews Say No to Genocide (JSNTG), GLIA Equal Care, and community supporters are organizing this vigil to demand immediate action.
The zionist settler colonial entity has long used incarceration, forced disappearance and imprisonment as a way to break up Palestinian families and communities. Political prisoners, who face colonial violence every day are at the forefront of resistance, and are at the centre of the struggle for liberation.
Over 9500 Palestinian political prisoners are currently detained, including over 350 children. Palestinian children are the only children in the world who are prosecuted in military courts without due process or held in administrative detention with no charge at all. There are at least 91 health care workers, many of whom were abducted directly from hospitals and ambulances, seized while treating patients and refusing to abandon the wounded. While in prison, Palestinian political prisoners are subject to torture, and neglect at the hands of zionist captors including health care workers. Canada and its institutions including the health sector are complicit through diplomatic and material support to Israel.
The urgency is compounded by a bill advancing in the Israeli Knesset that seeks to legalize the execution of Palestinian prisoners.
We demand
* Immediate release of all Palestinian political prisoners, including healthcare workers
* An end to administrative detention, torture, and medical abuse
* An end to Canada’s complicity in Israeli occupation and genocide
We also demand immediate access to legal representation, family visits, health care, and access to water, food and hygiene.