20 july 2015
The Israeli Magistrate’s Court in Occupied Jerusalem sentenced on Monday 33-year-old Anwar Abdul Kareem Jamjoum to 17 months in jail.
The Israeli Magistrate’s Court sentenced Anwar to a 17-month prison-term on charges of protesting the sacrilegious break-ins carried out by Israeli extremist settlers at Muslims’ holy al-Aqsa Mosque.
Anwar was arrested by the Israeli occupation forces on November 16, 2014 in an arbitrary abduction campaign targeting peaceful Muslim worshipers and sit-inners at al-Aqsa.
Scores of Jerusalemite Palestinians are incarcerated in Israeli jails on charges of protesting settler break-ins at such a holy shrine.
The Israeli Magistrate’s Court sentenced Anwar to a 17-month prison-term on charges of protesting the sacrilegious break-ins carried out by Israeli extremist settlers at Muslims’ holy al-Aqsa Mosque.
Anwar was arrested by the Israeli occupation forces on November 16, 2014 in an arbitrary abduction campaign targeting peaceful Muslim worshipers and sit-inners at al-Aqsa.
Scores of Jerusalemite Palestinians are incarcerated in Israeli jails on charges of protesting settler break-ins at such a holy shrine.
Saharonim Prison for infiltrators
Be'er Sheva District Court rejects a petition to freeze the controversial policy; Human Rights groups appealed against the new policy but to no avail; there are about 47,000 asylum seekers in Israel, mostly Sudanese and Eritrean nationals
The Be’er Sheva District Court rejected Sunday a petition for an interim order to freeze the Administration of Population and Immigration 's new policy, which allows the indefinite detention without trial of asylum seekers who refuse to leave Israel via the procedure known as "voluntary departure".
The decision means that from now on, the Administration of Population and Immigration can carry out its policy that was frozen after the court stopped it with a temporarily order. Another hearing on the petition filed by human rights organizations on behalf of two asylum seekers against the new policy was scheduled for September.
According to the policy, announced by former interior minister Gilad Erdan last April, asylum seekers who have not applied for asylum or whose application was rejected and who have refused to leave Israel within 30 days as part of the procedure, will be detained at Saharonim Prison after a hearing, but without a trial, for an unlimited period and this is as per Israel's Entry Law.
Human rights groups, including the Refugee Rights Program at the University of Tel Aviv's law department and the Center for Refugees and Migrants appealed earlier this month once again against the new policy after an earlier petition was rejected by the same court. In the earlier decision, the Court accepted the state's argument that the petition was premature, as the decision as to whom among the petitioners would be transferred to detention had yet to be decided.
In her decision Monday, Judge Rachel Barkai wrote that "the concern of petitioners to leave Israel after many years, to another country that is unknown to them, is a legitimate concern, but in the absence of any alleged basis of real danger to their liberty, there is nothing to hinder the action taken today by the State."
"Dubious secret cloak"
Anat Ben Dor and Elad Kahana of the Refugee Rights Clinic at University of Tel Aviv's law department, who filed the petition, said that "it is very regrettable to see proven that the court is satisfied with the State's weak answers regarding the fate of those who leave to a third country under the dubious secret cloak of the agreement, whereas the concrete evidence provided which indicate that those who leave are arrested and required to leave the country was not satisfactorily taken into consideration."
The lawyers added that "the responsibility to pass on information and to monitor the situation of all those leaving is the state's. We hope that after the deliberation on the petition itself the court will overturn the unlawful arrangement, which allows the imprisonment of people without restriction, only because they are concerned, and rightly so, about the dangers awaiting them in a country that has not committed at all to ensure their security."
In recent years, the judges of High Court of Justice rejected two amendments to the Prevention of Infiltration Law enacted by the Knesset, which would allow for asylum seekers to be detained without trial for a period of one year up to an unlimited period of time. The first amendment was rejected after judges ruled that detention without trial and for an indefinite period of time disproportionately harms the basic right of "human dignity and liberty." In the next two months the judges are expected to decide the fate of the law's third amendment which allows detention without trial for a limited period.
According to the Administration of Population and Immigration, there are about 47,000 asylum seekers in Israel, mostly Sudanese and Eritrean nationals, which Israel is avoiding expelling because of its obligations to international law and the 1951 Refugee Convention. Owing to this, Israel has pursued a policy of protection and temporary restraining orders against these asylum seekers.
Human rights organizations and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) criticized the procedure known as "voluntary departure" even before the new policy was implemented, arguing that it is not a voluntary departure when the only alternative is to be detained in the Holot Center . Currently, those who refuse will be to be transferred to Saharonim Prison.
Be'er Sheva District Court rejects a petition to freeze the controversial policy; Human Rights groups appealed against the new policy but to no avail; there are about 47,000 asylum seekers in Israel, mostly Sudanese and Eritrean nationals
The Be’er Sheva District Court rejected Sunday a petition for an interim order to freeze the Administration of Population and Immigration 's new policy, which allows the indefinite detention without trial of asylum seekers who refuse to leave Israel via the procedure known as "voluntary departure".
The decision means that from now on, the Administration of Population and Immigration can carry out its policy that was frozen after the court stopped it with a temporarily order. Another hearing on the petition filed by human rights organizations on behalf of two asylum seekers against the new policy was scheduled for September.
According to the policy, announced by former interior minister Gilad Erdan last April, asylum seekers who have not applied for asylum or whose application was rejected and who have refused to leave Israel within 30 days as part of the procedure, will be detained at Saharonim Prison after a hearing, but without a trial, for an unlimited period and this is as per Israel's Entry Law.
Human rights groups, including the Refugee Rights Program at the University of Tel Aviv's law department and the Center for Refugees and Migrants appealed earlier this month once again against the new policy after an earlier petition was rejected by the same court. In the earlier decision, the Court accepted the state's argument that the petition was premature, as the decision as to whom among the petitioners would be transferred to detention had yet to be decided.
In her decision Monday, Judge Rachel Barkai wrote that "the concern of petitioners to leave Israel after many years, to another country that is unknown to them, is a legitimate concern, but in the absence of any alleged basis of real danger to their liberty, there is nothing to hinder the action taken today by the State."
"Dubious secret cloak"
Anat Ben Dor and Elad Kahana of the Refugee Rights Clinic at University of Tel Aviv's law department, who filed the petition, said that "it is very regrettable to see proven that the court is satisfied with the State's weak answers regarding the fate of those who leave to a third country under the dubious secret cloak of the agreement, whereas the concrete evidence provided which indicate that those who leave are arrested and required to leave the country was not satisfactorily taken into consideration."
The lawyers added that "the responsibility to pass on information and to monitor the situation of all those leaving is the state's. We hope that after the deliberation on the petition itself the court will overturn the unlawful arrangement, which allows the imprisonment of people without restriction, only because they are concerned, and rightly so, about the dangers awaiting them in a country that has not committed at all to ensure their security."
In recent years, the judges of High Court of Justice rejected two amendments to the Prevention of Infiltration Law enacted by the Knesset, which would allow for asylum seekers to be detained without trial for a period of one year up to an unlimited period of time. The first amendment was rejected after judges ruled that detention without trial and for an indefinite period of time disproportionately harms the basic right of "human dignity and liberty." In the next two months the judges are expected to decide the fate of the law's third amendment which allows detention without trial for a limited period.
According to the Administration of Population and Immigration, there are about 47,000 asylum seekers in Israel, mostly Sudanese and Eritrean nationals, which Israel is avoiding expelling because of its obligations to international law and the 1951 Refugee Convention. Owing to this, Israel has pursued a policy of protection and temporary restraining orders against these asylum seekers.
Human rights organizations and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) criticized the procedure known as "voluntary departure" even before the new policy was implemented, arguing that it is not a voluntary departure when the only alternative is to be detained in the Holot Center . Currently, those who refuse will be to be transferred to Saharonim Prison.
Mourners carry the body of Mohammed al-Kasbeh, 17, during his funeral in Qalandiya refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Ramallah on July 3, 2015
The evidence in an Israeli colonel’s fatal shooting of a Palestinian boy on July 3, 2015, indicates that the shooting violated international standards on the use of lethal force in policing, and possibly also Israel’s own open-fire regulations. A recently released video supports witness accounts and forensic evidence that Col. Israel Shomer killed Mohammad al-Kasbeh, 17, while al-Kasbeh was fleeing, apparently contradicting the military’s initial statement exonerating the colonel on the grounds that he faced a “mortal danger.”
Video footage obtained by B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization, supports accounts by Palestinian witnesses that Shomer, a brigade commander, shot al-Kasbeh in the back as he and others were fleeing after he threw a rock at close range at the windshield of a vehicle carrying the colonel. While a rock directed at a moving vehicle can pose a mortal danger, the fatal shooting appears to have occurred after the colonel left the vehicle and pursued the fleeing rock-thrower.
“A proper investigation into this killing should examine mounting evidence that Colonel Shomer shot Mohammad al-Kasbeh in the back as he fled, and not because he posed any ongoing mortal threat,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director.
Palestinian witnesses to the confrontation near the Qalandiya checkpoint south of Ramallah told the media and B’Tselem that they saw two or three soldiers get out of a military vehicle and chase stone-throwing youths, pause, and then shoot at their backs. Human Rights Watch obtained photographs of al-Kasbeh’s body from B’Tselem showing what appear to be three bullet entry wounds – in the upper back, side torso, and jaw. Israel has not performed an autopsy, B’Tselem said.
The grainy video from a nearby surveillance camera appears to show a figure approaching the vehicle as it drives by, throwing an object at its windshield, and fleeing on foot. The vehicle stops immediately, two soldiers get out and pursue the figure, while a third waits by the vehicle. The two soldiers return less than 30 seconds later to the vehicle, which then drives away.
Maj. Gen. Roni Numa, who is the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) commander of the area in which the incident occurred, concluded on the day of the shooting that Shomer had acted appropriately, according to a statement published on the IDF website. “I fully back the brigade commander and his handling of the situation,” Numa said. Shomer, according to the website, “felt in imminent mortal danger, left his vehicle, and conducted an arrest of a suspect.”
The evidence in an Israeli colonel’s fatal shooting of a Palestinian boy on July 3, 2015, indicates that the shooting violated international standards on the use of lethal force in policing, and possibly also Israel’s own open-fire regulations. A recently released video supports witness accounts and forensic evidence that Col. Israel Shomer killed Mohammad al-Kasbeh, 17, while al-Kasbeh was fleeing, apparently contradicting the military’s initial statement exonerating the colonel on the grounds that he faced a “mortal danger.”
Video footage obtained by B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization, supports accounts by Palestinian witnesses that Shomer, a brigade commander, shot al-Kasbeh in the back as he and others were fleeing after he threw a rock at close range at the windshield of a vehicle carrying the colonel. While a rock directed at a moving vehicle can pose a mortal danger, the fatal shooting appears to have occurred after the colonel left the vehicle and pursued the fleeing rock-thrower.
“A proper investigation into this killing should examine mounting evidence that Colonel Shomer shot Mohammad al-Kasbeh in the back as he fled, and not because he posed any ongoing mortal threat,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director.
Palestinian witnesses to the confrontation near the Qalandiya checkpoint south of Ramallah told the media and B’Tselem that they saw two or three soldiers get out of a military vehicle and chase stone-throwing youths, pause, and then shoot at their backs. Human Rights Watch obtained photographs of al-Kasbeh’s body from B’Tselem showing what appear to be three bullet entry wounds – in the upper back, side torso, and jaw. Israel has not performed an autopsy, B’Tselem said.
The grainy video from a nearby surveillance camera appears to show a figure approaching the vehicle as it drives by, throwing an object at its windshield, and fleeing on foot. The vehicle stops immediately, two soldiers get out and pursue the figure, while a third waits by the vehicle. The two soldiers return less than 30 seconds later to the vehicle, which then drives away.
Maj. Gen. Roni Numa, who is the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) commander of the area in which the incident occurred, concluded on the day of the shooting that Shomer had acted appropriately, according to a statement published on the IDF website. “I fully back the brigade commander and his handling of the situation,” Numa said. Shomer, according to the website, “felt in imminent mortal danger, left his vehicle, and conducted an arrest of a suspect.”
Colonel Shomer
Echoing this claim, Education Minister Naftali Bennett, Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben Dahan, and the Chairman of the centrist Yesh Atid Party Yair Lapid all publicly came to the support of Shomer, saying he had acted in self-defense.
International standards governing the use of force by security officers during policing provide that the “intentional lethal use of firearms may only be made when strictly unavoidable in order to protect life.” IDF open-fire orders allow soldiers to use lethal force only as a last resort to counter a threat to life or serious injury.
Israeli law also permits soldiers, as a last resort and under specific conditions, to fire at the legs of fleeing suspects who refuse to stop when ordered to do so. However, any attempt to justify the shooting on the basis of the regulations on apprehending a fleeing suspect should explain why the three bullets that struck el-Kasbeh, which were fired from close range, hit him in his upper body rather than his legs.
International standards also require governments and law enforcement agencies to establish an “effective review process” by “independent administrative or prosecutorial authorities” for its officials’ use of force, and to allow victims or their families “access to an independent process, including a judicial process.”
Notwithstanding Numa’s defense of Shomer, the military police announced a criminal investigation into the killing and questioned Shomer following release of the video, the Times of Israel reported.
The Israeli military has a poor record of bringing soldiers to justice for such acts, Human Rights Watch said. In a recent report, B’Tselem identified 304 cases in which soldiers killed Palestinians between 2000 and 2011, yet found the military investigated only 73 of them, with 9 ending in an indictment. In 2011, in response to a lawsuit brought by B’Tselem and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, the military changed its procedure to automatically investigate all cases in which people not taking part in hostilities were killed.
Mohammed’s mother, Fatema al-Kasbeh, told Human Rights Watch that her son was in love and they were preparing for his engagement. Mohammed is her third son killed by Israeli soldiers. Soldiers fatally shot her son, Yasser, in 2001 after he threw rocks. He was 11 years old at the time. Forty days later soldiers killed another son, Samer, who was then 15, during the siege on Yasser Arafat’s compound. “They kill because they know the justice system covers for them,” she said.
“The military and senior politicians rushed to support Shomer before considering all the evidence,” Whitson said. “Even if the new video pushes the IDF advocate-general to prosecute, it underscores the need, in any credible investigation, to collect and weigh all evidence, including, wherever possible, Palestinian eyewitness accounts.”
Echoing this claim, Education Minister Naftali Bennett, Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben Dahan, and the Chairman of the centrist Yesh Atid Party Yair Lapid all publicly came to the support of Shomer, saying he had acted in self-defense.
International standards governing the use of force by security officers during policing provide that the “intentional lethal use of firearms may only be made when strictly unavoidable in order to protect life.” IDF open-fire orders allow soldiers to use lethal force only as a last resort to counter a threat to life or serious injury.
Israeli law also permits soldiers, as a last resort and under specific conditions, to fire at the legs of fleeing suspects who refuse to stop when ordered to do so. However, any attempt to justify the shooting on the basis of the regulations on apprehending a fleeing suspect should explain why the three bullets that struck el-Kasbeh, which were fired from close range, hit him in his upper body rather than his legs.
International standards also require governments and law enforcement agencies to establish an “effective review process” by “independent administrative or prosecutorial authorities” for its officials’ use of force, and to allow victims or their families “access to an independent process, including a judicial process.”
Notwithstanding Numa’s defense of Shomer, the military police announced a criminal investigation into the killing and questioned Shomer following release of the video, the Times of Israel reported.
The Israeli military has a poor record of bringing soldiers to justice for such acts, Human Rights Watch said. In a recent report, B’Tselem identified 304 cases in which soldiers killed Palestinians between 2000 and 2011, yet found the military investigated only 73 of them, with 9 ending in an indictment. In 2011, in response to a lawsuit brought by B’Tselem and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, the military changed its procedure to automatically investigate all cases in which people not taking part in hostilities were killed.
Mohammed’s mother, Fatema al-Kasbeh, told Human Rights Watch that her son was in love and they were preparing for his engagement. Mohammed is her third son killed by Israeli soldiers. Soldiers fatally shot her son, Yasser, in 2001 after he threw rocks. He was 11 years old at the time. Forty days later soldiers killed another son, Samer, who was then 15, during the siege on Yasser Arafat’s compound. “They kill because they know the justice system covers for them,” she said.
“The military and senior politicians rushed to support Shomer before considering all the evidence,” Whitson said. “Even if the new video pushes the IDF advocate-general to prosecute, it underscores the need, in any credible investigation, to collect and weigh all evidence, including, wherever possible, Palestinian eyewitness accounts.”
17 july 2015
Israeli authorities ordered the demolition of around half of the homes, in a village south of Hebron, to be carried out after Ramadan, Israeli watchdogs said on Wednesday.
Rabbis for Human Rights and B'Tselem said, in a statement, that pressure from Israeli settlers had led to the decision to carry out demolition orders in the village of Khirbet Susiya after Ramadan, although a high court hearing regarding the case is currently scheduled for August 3.
The Israeli Civil Administration, the Israeli army, and the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) office announced the demolition order to the villagers in a meeting, Sunday. Khirbet Susiya has been under imminent threat of demolition since May, when the Israeli High Court approved the demolition of the villagers' homes and tents and possible relocation of the villages around 300 Bedouin residents.
The court case has been ongoing since 2012, when residents of Khirbet Susiya applied for the Israeli Civil Administration to approve an outline plan for northern part of the village.
Susiya villagers reportedly built homes in 1986 on agricultural land they owned, after being evicted by Israel from their previous dwellings on land declared as an archaeological site.
Situated in Area C, an area covering 60 percent of the West Bank which is under full Israeli control, villagers of Khirbet Susiya must apply for construction permits from the Israeli Civil Administration.
In practice only a handful of Palestinian applications for construction or expansion on existing structures are approved, with only six percent of Palestinian building permit requests granted by Israel between 2000 and 2012.
Unable to get "legal" permission, Palestinians are faced with either leaving or building illegally.
Since 1988 Israeli forces have issued more than double the amount of demolition orders to Palestinians in Area C than they have to illegal Israeli settlements in the area.
Israeli settlers living illegally in the area according to international law already control over 300 hectares of Khirbet Susiya's land, B'Tselem reports.
Rabbis for Human Rights alleges that the newest threat is a form of coercion that aims to expel residents of the area already before the court hearing.
The head of the Susiya village council Jihad al-Nawajaa said the residents have been asked to be evacuated on the pretext that the village lacks sufficient infrastructure for living.
Meanwhile, the Israeli government provides the necessary services to the nearby Israeli settlement of Susiya. Last year Israel demolished 590 Palestinian-owned structures in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, displacing 1,177 people, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
The upcoming demolition of Khirbet Susiya comes while member of Israel's right wing government are pushing a plan to forcibly relocate tens of thousands of Palestinian Bedouins.
Approved without any consultation with the Bedouin community, the plan would evict nearly 40,000 Bedouins from their villages and force them to live in concentrated areas that critics called "reservations." Israel currently refuses to recognize 35 Bedouin villages in the Negev, which collectively house nearly 90,000 people.
Rabbis for Human Rights and B'Tselem said, in a statement, that pressure from Israeli settlers had led to the decision to carry out demolition orders in the village of Khirbet Susiya after Ramadan, although a high court hearing regarding the case is currently scheduled for August 3.
The Israeli Civil Administration, the Israeli army, and the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) office announced the demolition order to the villagers in a meeting, Sunday. Khirbet Susiya has been under imminent threat of demolition since May, when the Israeli High Court approved the demolition of the villagers' homes and tents and possible relocation of the villages around 300 Bedouin residents.
The court case has been ongoing since 2012, when residents of Khirbet Susiya applied for the Israeli Civil Administration to approve an outline plan for northern part of the village.
Susiya villagers reportedly built homes in 1986 on agricultural land they owned, after being evicted by Israel from their previous dwellings on land declared as an archaeological site.
Situated in Area C, an area covering 60 percent of the West Bank which is under full Israeli control, villagers of Khirbet Susiya must apply for construction permits from the Israeli Civil Administration.
In practice only a handful of Palestinian applications for construction or expansion on existing structures are approved, with only six percent of Palestinian building permit requests granted by Israel between 2000 and 2012.
Unable to get "legal" permission, Palestinians are faced with either leaving or building illegally.
Since 1988 Israeli forces have issued more than double the amount of demolition orders to Palestinians in Area C than they have to illegal Israeli settlements in the area.
Israeli settlers living illegally in the area according to international law already control over 300 hectares of Khirbet Susiya's land, B'Tselem reports.
Rabbis for Human Rights alleges that the newest threat is a form of coercion that aims to expel residents of the area already before the court hearing.
The head of the Susiya village council Jihad al-Nawajaa said the residents have been asked to be evacuated on the pretext that the village lacks sufficient infrastructure for living.
Meanwhile, the Israeli government provides the necessary services to the nearby Israeli settlement of Susiya. Last year Israel demolished 590 Palestinian-owned structures in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, displacing 1,177 people, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
The upcoming demolition of Khirbet Susiya comes while member of Israel's right wing government are pushing a plan to forcibly relocate tens of thousands of Palestinian Bedouins.
Approved without any consultation with the Bedouin community, the plan would evict nearly 40,000 Bedouins from their villages and force them to live in concentrated areas that critics called "reservations." Israel currently refuses to recognize 35 Bedouin villages in the Negev, which collectively house nearly 90,000 people.
16 july 2015
Itmar Zimir
The District Court in Jerusalem postponed the trail of the murderers of Mohammad Abu Khdeir on (15 – 07 – 2015) until 22 – 10 – 2015.
The decision to postpone came to be until the hearing of the psychiatrist in charge of the third suspect named “Itmar Zimir” from “Bet Shemesh” in the case “Kidnapping, Burning and killing Abu Khdeir”, and in the coming session oral summaries from the defense and public prosecution will be presented in regards to the case.
The court attempted to hold a “closed session” for the three settlers accused of murdering Abu Khdeir, under the pretext that the session is specialized to hear the minor suspect “Itmar Zimir” and forced the people present to leave the hall, and when his father and mother arrived at Court they strongly objected to be taken out.
The Martyrs Father … the court is trying to draft an agreement to exonerate the murderers
The martyrs’ father accused the courts committee of trying “to fabricate and draft an agreement behind closed doors to exonerate the murderers the settlers or to mitigate their sentences, denouncing stopping them from attending the session of the murderers of their child Mohammad, and he described it as racism and stressing that he is going to go to the International Criminal Court to prosecute the settlers.
Both (the martyrs father and mother) don’t expect justice from the court, it is postponing and procrastinating condemning the settlers and trialing them even thought one year has passed on the crime the case is at a standstill.
After the martyrs family waited for about half an hour and after the Lawyer Muhannad Jbara -the family’s’ lawyer – intervened the court allowed them entry while stopping the journalists from entering under the pretext that “the suspect is a minor”.
The settler Itmar: I suffer from psychological and family problems!!
The District Court in Jerusalem postponed the trail of the murderers of Mohammad Abu Khdeir on (15 – 07 – 2015) until 22 – 10 – 2015.
The decision to postpone came to be until the hearing of the psychiatrist in charge of the third suspect named “Itmar Zimir” from “Bet Shemesh” in the case “Kidnapping, Burning and killing Abu Khdeir”, and in the coming session oral summaries from the defense and public prosecution will be presented in regards to the case.
The court attempted to hold a “closed session” for the three settlers accused of murdering Abu Khdeir, under the pretext that the session is specialized to hear the minor suspect “Itmar Zimir” and forced the people present to leave the hall, and when his father and mother arrived at Court they strongly objected to be taken out.
The Martyrs Father … the court is trying to draft an agreement to exonerate the murderers
The martyrs’ father accused the courts committee of trying “to fabricate and draft an agreement behind closed doors to exonerate the murderers the settlers or to mitigate their sentences, denouncing stopping them from attending the session of the murderers of their child Mohammad, and he described it as racism and stressing that he is going to go to the International Criminal Court to prosecute the settlers.
Both (the martyrs father and mother) don’t expect justice from the court, it is postponing and procrastinating condemning the settlers and trialing them even thought one year has passed on the crime the case is at a standstill.
After the martyrs family waited for about half an hour and after the Lawyer Muhannad Jbara -the family’s’ lawyer – intervened the court allowed them entry while stopping the journalists from entering under the pretext that “the suspect is a minor”.
The settler Itmar: I suffer from psychological and family problems!!
The settler Itmar was interrogated by his lawyer and the second settler ” Yaer Ben David’s” lawyer, and from the public prosecutor; the suspect denied through the session his initial confessions that he gave to the police and intelligence, he said that they planned to execute a kidnapping operation and beat up an Arab only and he was shocked when the boy was burnt and murdered.
He said: “we planned to kidnap and Arab and beat him and tie him to a tree in the forest, we used a car that belongs to “Yousef Ben David” wife to conduct this, the cars size is big and we removed booster seat in order to be capable of executing the “kidnapping”, the petrol that we bought was set fires in shops or vehicles or Arab houses as a retaliation to the killing of the settlers in Hebron”
During his interrogation he talked about hitting and tying the child Mohammad Abu Khdeir while detained inside the car, but he denied participating in burning him, (contradicting his initial confessions).
During the session the suspect claimed that he suffered from family problems before executing the operation and participating in the kidnapping and murdering of the child Abu Khdeir, he said: due to a problem with my father I went to my uncle “Yousef Ben David”, and I became very close to him; one day he showed me a film for the funeral of the settlers that were killed in Hebron and decided to kidnap and Arab as a retaliation to that”.
And during the session – A teacher of the suspect Itmar – said that Itmar suffers from severe psychological conditions and takes 3 types of medication, he had advised his parents to take him to a Psychiatrist.
The public prosecutor.. “Itmar” confessed to all the charges
The public prosecutor – whom represents the family – showed a recording to the settlers in a medical eyeglasses shop owned by “Yousef Ben David” that showed them training to execute the kidnapping and assault operation.
The public prosecutor stressed that “Itmar” confessed the charges aginst him and confessed to planning to execute an operation that involved “kidnapping and killing an Arab”.
Judges object to questions from the prosecutor to the suspect!!
The judges objected to some questions asked by the public prosecutor and directed to the suspect “Itmar”, the asked him in some cases to withdraw his questions, the Family saw in this “sympathy with one of the murderers and an attempt to reduce his sentence or acquit him of the crime”.
Medical Report: “Yousef Ben David” is Ineligible for trial!!
In early July of this month the suspect “Yousef Ben David” was viewed by foreign psychiatrist and according to the report ” Yousef is ineligible for trial because he suffers from mental problems”, and that comes in contradiction to the claims of the Israeli psychiatrist that examined the suspect and assured that he was mentally sound”.
He said: “we planned to kidnap and Arab and beat him and tie him to a tree in the forest, we used a car that belongs to “Yousef Ben David” wife to conduct this, the cars size is big and we removed booster seat in order to be capable of executing the “kidnapping”, the petrol that we bought was set fires in shops or vehicles or Arab houses as a retaliation to the killing of the settlers in Hebron”
During his interrogation he talked about hitting and tying the child Mohammad Abu Khdeir while detained inside the car, but he denied participating in burning him, (contradicting his initial confessions).
During the session the suspect claimed that he suffered from family problems before executing the operation and participating in the kidnapping and murdering of the child Abu Khdeir, he said: due to a problem with my father I went to my uncle “Yousef Ben David”, and I became very close to him; one day he showed me a film for the funeral of the settlers that were killed in Hebron and decided to kidnap and Arab as a retaliation to that”.
And during the session – A teacher of the suspect Itmar – said that Itmar suffers from severe psychological conditions and takes 3 types of medication, he had advised his parents to take him to a Psychiatrist.
The public prosecutor.. “Itmar” confessed to all the charges
The public prosecutor – whom represents the family – showed a recording to the settlers in a medical eyeglasses shop owned by “Yousef Ben David” that showed them training to execute the kidnapping and assault operation.
The public prosecutor stressed that “Itmar” confessed the charges aginst him and confessed to planning to execute an operation that involved “kidnapping and killing an Arab”.
Judges object to questions from the prosecutor to the suspect!!
The judges objected to some questions asked by the public prosecutor and directed to the suspect “Itmar”, the asked him in some cases to withdraw his questions, the Family saw in this “sympathy with one of the murderers and an attempt to reduce his sentence or acquit him of the crime”.
Medical Report: “Yousef Ben David” is Ineligible for trial!!
In early July of this month the suspect “Yousef Ben David” was viewed by foreign psychiatrist and according to the report ” Yousef is ineligible for trial because he suffers from mental problems”, and that comes in contradiction to the claims of the Israeli psychiatrist that examined the suspect and assured that he was mentally sound”.
14 july 2015
The District Court issued on Sunday a ruling of Actual imprisonment for 25 years on the young Jerusalemite Mohammad Mahmoud Al Salaymeh with charges of attempting to kill with a backdrop of “Nationalism” by executing a run over operation on Road number 1 in the city of Jerusalem.
The lawyer of Al-Damir institution Mohammad Mahmoud stated that the judge at the District Court sentenced his client Al Salaymeh actual imprisonment for 25 years, prison with two years suspended for 3 years.
The lawyer Mahmoud added the Courts Judge imposed his client a financial penalty of 240 thousand shekels, (a compensation for the 4 female soldiers that were injured during the run over operation), 200 thousand for two of the soldiers and 40 thousand for the other two.
The young man Al Salaymeh was arrested on 06 – 03 -2015 after getting injured with bullet fired from “the security of the Metro” after executing the run over operation on female soldiers and a settler on road number 1.
It is said that Al Salaymeh was hit with 3 bullets during his pursuit (a bullet in the hand, a bullet in the back and a bullet in his left foot), several surgeries were conducted on him and he was interrogated while he was in hospital and at the begging of his arrest several sessions were held in his absence due to his critical health situation.
The lawyer of Al-Damir institution Mohammad Mahmoud stated that the judge at the District Court sentenced his client Al Salaymeh actual imprisonment for 25 years, prison with two years suspended for 3 years.
The lawyer Mahmoud added the Courts Judge imposed his client a financial penalty of 240 thousand shekels, (a compensation for the 4 female soldiers that were injured during the run over operation), 200 thousand for two of the soldiers and 40 thousand for the other two.
The young man Al Salaymeh was arrested on 06 – 03 -2015 after getting injured with bullet fired from “the security of the Metro” after executing the run over operation on female soldiers and a settler on road number 1.
It is said that Al Salaymeh was hit with 3 bullets during his pursuit (a bullet in the hand, a bullet in the back and a bullet in his left foot), several surgeries were conducted on him and he was interrogated while he was in hospital and at the begging of his arrest several sessions were held in his absence due to his critical health situation.
Abu Sisi then
The Beersheba District court sentenced on Tuesday the Palestinian prisoner Dirar Abu Sisi to 21 years in jail after charging him of developing Hamas’s rockets.
The court charged Abu Sisi of being affiliated with Hamas’s armed wing, claiming that he is the top man responsible for its missile range and calling him the “father of rockets.”
Israeli authorities claimed that he admitted five charges filed against him including "conspiracy to commit murder, arms manufacture, membership in a terror organization, and possession of weapons."
The Beersheba District court sentenced on Tuesday the Palestinian prisoner Dirar Abu Sisi to 21 years in jail after charging him of developing Hamas’s rockets.
The court charged Abu Sisi of being affiliated with Hamas’s armed wing, claiming that he is the top man responsible for its missile range and calling him the “father of rockets.”
Israeli authorities claimed that he admitted five charges filed against him including "conspiracy to commit murder, arms manufacture, membership in a terror organization, and possession of weapons."
Abu Sisi now
The Palestinian-Ukrainian detainee Dirar Abu Sisi, 45, has been held in solitary confinement for four years since being kidnapped in the Ukraine by Israeli Mossad in February 2011.
Since his kidnapping, he has remained incarcerated in Israeli prisons under extremely poor conditions; he is currently suffering from debilitating health conditions and psychological trauma.
He has endured torture, humiliation and inhuman treatment from Israeli prison authorities. Israeli occupation authorities are also preventing his Ukrainian wife and children from visiting or speaking to him.
The Palestinian-Ukrainian detainee Dirar Abu Sisi, 45, has been held in solitary confinement for four years since being kidnapped in the Ukraine by Israeli Mossad in February 2011.
Since his kidnapping, he has remained incarcerated in Israeli prisons under extremely poor conditions; he is currently suffering from debilitating health conditions and psychological trauma.
He has endured torture, humiliation and inhuman treatment from Israeli prison authorities. Israeli occupation authorities are also preventing his Ukrainian wife and children from visiting or speaking to him.
Israel's Ministerial Committee for Legislation has passed a controversial “Jewish State" bill that defines the country as Jewish national homeland, Israeli media reported Sunday.
According to Al Ray, Likud Party deputy Benny Begin submitted an amended version of the bill for debate in the ministerial committee. The bill will be submitted to the Israeli parliament known as Knesset following its approval by the committee, the Israeli Radio said.
The bill states that Israel is the nation state of Jewish people based on the foundations of liberty, justice, and peace in light of the vision of the prophets of Israel. It ads that it will uphold equal rights for all its citizens.
An Arabic deputy in the Knesset, Usame es-Sadi, told Anadolu Agency that the approval of the bill was not weird given the presence of a rightist Israeli government which was bent upon approving all racist laws against Arabs.
"As Arabs, we will prevent these laws which make Jews claim rights on everything and make Arabs a minority," es-Sadi said.
According to Al Ray, Likud Party deputy Benny Begin submitted an amended version of the bill for debate in the ministerial committee. The bill will be submitted to the Israeli parliament known as Knesset following its approval by the committee, the Israeli Radio said.
The bill states that Israel is the nation state of Jewish people based on the foundations of liberty, justice, and peace in light of the vision of the prophets of Israel. It ads that it will uphold equal rights for all its citizens.
An Arabic deputy in the Knesset, Usame es-Sadi, told Anadolu Agency that the approval of the bill was not weird given the presence of a rightist Israeli government which was bent upon approving all racist laws against Arabs.
"As Arabs, we will prevent these laws which make Jews claim rights on everything and make Arabs a minority," es-Sadi said.
13 july 2015
IDF Soldiers face Jewish settlers
Soldiers ordered to respond to Jewish stone-throwers just as they do to Palestinians - with riot control measures, Krav Maga.
Israel's security forces often find themselves in delicate situations that have led to harsh claims of racism and misconduct. But orders passed through the chain of command over the last year paint a different picture - one in which both Palestinian and Jewish rioters earn the same response.
"The command tells soldiers not to treat Palestinian or Jewish stone throwers differently," said a military source who expanded on the details of the order.
"In every case of Jewish attacks against Palestinians, the reaction has to be immediate," said the source, "And there are four red lines: One, damage to property or the body of a Palestinian; two, throwing stones at security forces; three, verbal violence against a soldier, police officer, or border police officer; four, damage to IDF property."
The order has been revised several times in the past, first appearing as a result of several incidents between right-wing activists and IDF soldiers. In many of these cases, soldiers stood by in instances of violence against Palestinians.
"We explain to combat soldiers that there is no difference between a Jewish and a Palestinian who breaks the law," said a senior officer. "There are no special regulations for firing on a Palestinian."
To that end, the command allows for soldiers to use riot control measure and Krav Maga techniques that are learned in training.
Over the last several years, Palestinians have produced clips of soldiers standing by while masked Jewish settlers throw stones at Palestinians.
Soldiers ordered to respond to Jewish stone-throwers just as they do to Palestinians - with riot control measures, Krav Maga.
Israel's security forces often find themselves in delicate situations that have led to harsh claims of racism and misconduct. But orders passed through the chain of command over the last year paint a different picture - one in which both Palestinian and Jewish rioters earn the same response.
"The command tells soldiers not to treat Palestinian or Jewish stone throwers differently," said a military source who expanded on the details of the order.
"In every case of Jewish attacks against Palestinians, the reaction has to be immediate," said the source, "And there are four red lines: One, damage to property or the body of a Palestinian; two, throwing stones at security forces; three, verbal violence against a soldier, police officer, or border police officer; four, damage to IDF property."
The order has been revised several times in the past, first appearing as a result of several incidents between right-wing activists and IDF soldiers. In many of these cases, soldiers stood by in instances of violence against Palestinians.
"We explain to combat soldiers that there is no difference between a Jewish and a Palestinian who breaks the law," said a senior officer. "There are no special regulations for firing on a Palestinian."
To that end, the command allows for soldiers to use riot control measure and Krav Maga techniques that are learned in training.
Over the last several years, Palestinians have produced clips of soldiers standing by while masked Jewish settlers throw stones at Palestinians.
