11 dec 2012
The liberated prisoner Ashraf Abu Dhri’a goes into a coma
Head of the Palestinian Prisoners' Society in al-Khalil, Amjad Najjar, confirmed that the liberated captive Ashraf Abu Dhri'a went into a coma in al-Ahli Hospital in al-Khalil.
Najjar said in a statement on Monday that Abu Dhri'a was a disabled prisoner in Ramla prison hospital where he suffered from muscular dystrophy and he was released in November 15 after he had served his sentence, about six and a half years.
He explained that the liberated prisoner's difficult health condition is "due to medical neglect, which was exercised against him and against hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, where some of them died several weeks after being released such as the liberated prisoners Zuhair Lapada and Zakaria Issa, and others were martyred inside the Israeli jails.
Najjar called on human rights organizations to investigate how Palestinian prisoners are being treated at "Ramla prison hospital".
Najjar said in a statement on Monday that Abu Dhri'a was a disabled prisoner in Ramla prison hospital where he suffered from muscular dystrophy and he was released in November 15 after he had served his sentence, about six and a half years.
He explained that the liberated prisoner's difficult health condition is "due to medical neglect, which was exercised against him and against hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, where some of them died several weeks after being released such as the liberated prisoners Zuhair Lapada and Zakaria Issa, and others were martyred inside the Israeli jails.
Najjar called on human rights organizations to investigate how Palestinian prisoners are being treated at "Ramla prison hospital".
Issawi taken to hospital in critical condition
The administration of the Israeli Ramle prison hospital took detained hunger striker Samer Al-Issawi to Assaf Harofeh Medical Center on Tuesday after his health badly worsened.
Samer’s sister, Shireen, said that her brother was taken in a very bad health condition, adding that he started to suffer serious symptoms lately.
Samer, who has been on 135 days of hunger strike, was suffering sharp decline in heart rate, bone erosion, difficulty in breathing, and nervous system disorders, Shireen said.
Issawi, from Issawiye in occupied Jerusalem, has also refrained from drinking water for the past 18 days and was protesting his unjust administrative detention, without trial or charge.
Calls to save the lives of hunger-strikers Issawi and al-Sharawna
The families of the two strikers Ayman Sharawna and Samer al-Issawi called on the official and popular parties to move urgently to save the lives of their two sons "before it is too late", while criticizing the lack of solidarity events with the striking prisoners in Israeli jails.
Tarek al-Issawi told Quds Press that the health condition of his son Samer is very bad, where he was recently transferred to Assaf Harovih Israeli hospital after sharp deterioration in his health, adding that his son went "on hunger strike since 136 days and he refused to take water and vitamins since four days along with the striking prisoner Ayman Sharawna.
Issawi said that his son boycotted Ramla prison hospital in which he was receiving treatment after giving him a drug that caused loss of consciousness, adding that he is determined to continue the strike until his release.
The father criticized the lack of both official and popular reactions towards his son and strikers' issue, calling to prosecute the occupation internationally for its crimes against the Palestinian prisoners.
It is noted that the prisoner Samer Issawi, from the city of Jerusalem, was released within the recent prisoner exchange deal, but he has been re-arrested in the month of July last year by the occupation forces, while Ayman Sharawna, from the city of al-Khalil, was re-arrested in December last year, about two months after his release in a prisoner exchange deal, after spending ten years in the Israeli prisons.
Human rights body: death of any striking prisoner will exacerbate the situation
Head of the High Committee on Palestinian prisoners' affairs, Amin Shoman, held the Israeli occupation authorities responsible for the hunger striking prisoners' lives inside the jails.
Shoman warned in a statement to "Quds Press" on Wednesday of the Palestinian people's reaction and the negative results if any of the hunger striking prisoners dies in the occupation jails, adding that the death of any prisoner will lead to aggravating the situation inside and outside prison.
He also announced organizing public conference supporting the patient and hunger striking prisoners in Israeli jails in the city of Ramallah, in the central West Bank, on 22 December.
The head of the High Committee on Palestinian prisoners' affairs said that this conference aims to "develop mechanisms and concrete steps to support the hunger striking prisoners in Israeli jails at the mass popular level with the participation of all the factions of the Palestinian people."
He demanded the national factions to unite their efforts regarding the issue of prisoners in order to form real pressure on the occupation authorities and force them to release the patient and hunger striking prisoners.
Samer’s sister, Shireen, said that her brother was taken in a very bad health condition, adding that he started to suffer serious symptoms lately.
Samer, who has been on 135 days of hunger strike, was suffering sharp decline in heart rate, bone erosion, difficulty in breathing, and nervous system disorders, Shireen said.
Issawi, from Issawiye in occupied Jerusalem, has also refrained from drinking water for the past 18 days and was protesting his unjust administrative detention, without trial or charge.
Calls to save the lives of hunger-strikers Issawi and al-Sharawna
The families of the two strikers Ayman Sharawna and Samer al-Issawi called on the official and popular parties to move urgently to save the lives of their two sons "before it is too late", while criticizing the lack of solidarity events with the striking prisoners in Israeli jails.
Tarek al-Issawi told Quds Press that the health condition of his son Samer is very bad, where he was recently transferred to Assaf Harovih Israeli hospital after sharp deterioration in his health, adding that his son went "on hunger strike since 136 days and he refused to take water and vitamins since four days along with the striking prisoner Ayman Sharawna.
Issawi said that his son boycotted Ramla prison hospital in which he was receiving treatment after giving him a drug that caused loss of consciousness, adding that he is determined to continue the strike until his release.
The father criticized the lack of both official and popular reactions towards his son and strikers' issue, calling to prosecute the occupation internationally for its crimes against the Palestinian prisoners.
It is noted that the prisoner Samer Issawi, from the city of Jerusalem, was released within the recent prisoner exchange deal, but he has been re-arrested in the month of July last year by the occupation forces, while Ayman Sharawna, from the city of al-Khalil, was re-arrested in December last year, about two months after his release in a prisoner exchange deal, after spending ten years in the Israeli prisons.
Human rights body: death of any striking prisoner will exacerbate the situation
Head of the High Committee on Palestinian prisoners' affairs, Amin Shoman, held the Israeli occupation authorities responsible for the hunger striking prisoners' lives inside the jails.
Shoman warned in a statement to "Quds Press" on Wednesday of the Palestinian people's reaction and the negative results if any of the hunger striking prisoners dies in the occupation jails, adding that the death of any prisoner will lead to aggravating the situation inside and outside prison.
He also announced organizing public conference supporting the patient and hunger striking prisoners in Israeli jails in the city of Ramallah, in the central West Bank, on 22 December.
The head of the High Committee on Palestinian prisoners' affairs said that this conference aims to "develop mechanisms and concrete steps to support the hunger striking prisoners in Israeli jails at the mass popular level with the participation of all the factions of the Palestinian people."
He demanded the national factions to unite their efforts regarding the issue of prisoners in order to form real pressure on the occupation authorities and force them to release the patient and hunger striking prisoners.
The family of the youngest child in Israeli jails calls for his release
Child Saddam al-Jaabari family, 13, appealed through Ahrar center for Prisoners studies and human rights, all human rights organizations and childhood institutions, to save the life of her son who has been detained by the Israeli occupation forces since five days.
Abu Rajai, the captive child's father, said to Ahrar center, that the Israeli occupation forces detained his son in Ofer prison, where his trial was postponed on Sunday.
For his part, Fuad Al-Khuffash, the center's director, denounced the Israeli heinous crimes against Palestinian children, and called on all institutions concerned with child rights to save the life of Saddam al-Jaabari, and protect all children detained by the Israeli occupation forces. Khuffash said that Saddam is the youngest child in Israeli prisons where he was detained under extremely harsh conditions and they did not allow him to wear the appropriate clothes in this cold weather.
Saddam was born on 1999, he is the seventh son in the family, where his family was surprised when the Israeli authorities informed them of his arrest on Saturday morning claiming that Saddam was near the Ibrahimi Mosque and that he threw a knife on one of the soldiers who were there.
Abu Rajai, the captive child's father, said to Ahrar center, that the Israeli occupation forces detained his son in Ofer prison, where his trial was postponed on Sunday.
For his part, Fuad Al-Khuffash, the center's director, denounced the Israeli heinous crimes against Palestinian children, and called on all institutions concerned with child rights to save the life of Saddam al-Jaabari, and protect all children detained by the Israeli occupation forces. Khuffash said that Saddam is the youngest child in Israeli prisons where he was detained under extremely harsh conditions and they did not allow him to wear the appropriate clothes in this cold weather.
Saddam was born on 1999, he is the seventh son in the family, where his family was surprised when the Israeli authorities informed them of his arrest on Saturday morning claiming that Saddam was near the Ibrahimi Mosque and that he threw a knife on one of the soldiers who were there.
Israeli soldiers arrest Jerusalemite woman, her two children
Inhabitants in a suburb in the Mount of Olives in occupied Jerusalem confronted Israeli occupation forces who tried to arrest a child for allegedly throwing stones at a settler’s car.
Eyewitnesses said that the confrontations on Monday night led to the arrest of Nabila Al-Sa’o, 38, and her two daughters Tamara, 16, and Tamrelin, 15, along with two other citizens.
They said that the soldiers tried to arrest the lady’s child but when she resisted they sprayed her with pepper gas and took her away along with her two daughters.
The witnesses said that the soldiers savagely broke into the woman’s home after firing stun grenades and teargas canisters inside it. They added that the soldiers broke the windows of many houses in the suburb and assaulted a number of citizens.
Eyewitnesses said that the confrontations on Monday night led to the arrest of Nabila Al-Sa’o, 38, and her two daughters Tamara, 16, and Tamrelin, 15, along with two other citizens.
They said that the soldiers tried to arrest the lady’s child but when she resisted they sprayed her with pepper gas and took her away along with her two daughters.
The witnesses said that the soldiers savagely broke into the woman’s home after firing stun grenades and teargas canisters inside it. They added that the soldiers broke the windows of many houses in the suburb and assaulted a number of citizens.
IOF soldiers storm Al-Khalil suburbs, arrest student
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed a number of suburbs in Al-Khalil city on Monday night and arrested a university student.
Human rights sources said that IOF soldiers manning the Container roadblock on the road between Al-Khalil and Bethlehem arrested the student Karam Al-Zaghir, who is studying accountancy at Al-Khalil Polytechnic university.
They said that Zaghir, 23, is a liberated prisoner and had served one and a half years in Israeli occupation jails and could not complete his university studies due to repeated arrests on the part of the IOF.
The IOF troops roamed Beit Kahel and Doura towns near Al-Khalil and installed roadblocks at the entrances to three other villages and searched vehicles and commuters.
Human rights sources said that IOF soldiers manning the Container roadblock on the road between Al-Khalil and Bethlehem arrested the student Karam Al-Zaghir, who is studying accountancy at Al-Khalil Polytechnic university.
They said that Zaghir, 23, is a liberated prisoner and had served one and a half years in Israeli occupation jails and could not complete his university studies due to repeated arrests on the part of the IOF.
The IOF troops roamed Beit Kahel and Doura towns near Al-Khalil and installed roadblocks at the entrances to three other villages and searched vehicles and commuters.
10 dec 2012
Prisoner Mutassim Raddad in poor shape because of bowel cancer
The prisoner committee of the national and Islamic forces said Palestinian prisoner Mutassim Raddad, 28, suffers from very serious health problems and acute intestinal bleeding.
The prisoner committee added in a press release on Monday that Raddad, in detention since 2006, was admitted to the Ramla prison infirmary where the doctors diagnosed him with bowel cancer and anemia.
The doctor had to give him units of blood to make up the shortfall he suffered from because of the ongoing bleeding.
As a result, the committee held the Israeli regime and its prison authority fully responsible for the life of prisoner Raddad and the lives of other prisoners who are in very bad shape because of their hunger strike.
It appealed to international human rights groups and the Red Cross to urgently intervene and save the lives of Raddad and many hunger strikers who are struggling with death.
The prisoner committee added in a press release on Monday that Raddad, in detention since 2006, was admitted to the Ramla prison infirmary where the doctors diagnosed him with bowel cancer and anemia.
The doctor had to give him units of blood to make up the shortfall he suffered from because of the ongoing bleeding.
As a result, the committee held the Israeli regime and its prison authority fully responsible for the life of prisoner Raddad and the lives of other prisoners who are in very bad shape because of their hunger strike.
It appealed to international human rights groups and the Red Cross to urgently intervene and save the lives of Raddad and many hunger strikers who are struggling with death.
Prisoners refuse Gilboa prison transfer decision
The administration of Gilboa prison has decided to transfer all Palestinian prisoners in section one to Nafha desert prison by Wednesday.
The prisoners told the Palestinian prisoner’s club in a message on Monday that all prisoners in that section were from the northern areas of Palestine and their transfer to Nafha in the south was an oppressive decision.
The prisoners said that they refuse their transfer and were prepared for a confrontation with the prison administration. They said they were studying escalatory protest steps if the administration insisted on its decision.
The prisoners told the Palestinian prisoner’s club in a message on Monday that all prisoners in that section were from the northern areas of Palestine and their transfer to Nafha in the south was an oppressive decision.
The prisoners said that they refuse their transfer and were prepared for a confrontation with the prison administration. They said they were studying escalatory protest steps if the administration insisted on its decision.
Hadarim prisoners on one-day hunger strike in solidarity with Sharawna and Issawi
Ahrar Center for the Studies of Prisoners and Human Rights said that the Palestinian captives in the Hadarim prison waged a one-day hunger strike, yesterday, in solidarity with the captives Sharawna and Issawi, on hunger strike since more than five months.
Fouad Khuffash, the director of the Ahrar Center said that "the national leaderships in the prison decided to take solidarity steps, to urge the factions, the leaders and the members of the captive movement to effectively express solidarity with the hunger striking prisoners Sharawna and Issawi."
Palestinian figures and leaders also participated in the strike; including the MP and Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, the head of the leadership body of Hamas prisoners in Israeli jails Abbas al-Sayed, and former minister of Prisoners' Affairs Wasfi Kabaha.
The detained leaders expressed their anger and condemnation at the Israeli policy refusing to meet the demands of the hunger striking captives and to immediately release them, especially after the deterioration of their health conditions.
The occupation forces have been trying to prevent the hunger strike and any form of solidarity with the striking prisoners, through escalating their repressive measures against the prisoners, and transferring a number of them to the solitary confinement.
Tunis: Executive Office for supporting the prisoners starts to operate soon
The Executive Office for supporting the Palestinian and Arab prisoners in the occupation jails is scheduled to start its activities in the next few days.
The executive office emerged from the International Conference for supporting the prisoners, which had been held in Tunis a month ago on November 10 under the auspices of the Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki and which was called for by the Tunisian, Arab, European and international civil society assemblies.
The preparatory committee for the conference confirmed that the Executive Office is expected to effectively start operating in the coming days, in cooperation with a number of European, Tunisian and Palestinian institutions.
For his part; the spokesman for the Executive Office for supporting the prisoners said that the office will be open to all ideas that may support the Palestinian prisoners in the occupation jails, and will launch media campaigns that "expose the Israeli crimes committed against the captives."
The International Conference for supporting the prisoners in Israeli jails had decided a month ago to form an executive office in Tunisia to follow up the prisoners' affairs.
The Conference's closing statement had emphasized the need to form a legal committee inside the Tunisian office to follow up the prisoners' affairs in order to monitor the legal status of prisoners inside the Israeli jails and to search for the possible legal ways to defend them and improve their living conditions.
Hundreds march in Nablus in solidarity with prisoners
Hundreds of citizens took part in the march organized in Nablus city on Monday in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation jails.
The marchers, including relatives of prisoners and representatives of official institutions, walked in the streets of the city calling for freedom for the prisoners and unity for the Palestinian people.
Speakers at the rally at conclusion of the march called for backing prisoners in their struggle against the Israeli prison authority and mentioned in particular the names of those on hunger strike.
They asked all factions and institutions to support the prisoners and urged the Baghdad conference on Palestinian prisoners to adopt resolutions supporting steadfastness of prisoners and their relatives.
Fouad Khuffash, the director of the Ahrar Center said that "the national leaderships in the prison decided to take solidarity steps, to urge the factions, the leaders and the members of the captive movement to effectively express solidarity with the hunger striking prisoners Sharawna and Issawi."
Palestinian figures and leaders also participated in the strike; including the MP and Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, the head of the leadership body of Hamas prisoners in Israeli jails Abbas al-Sayed, and former minister of Prisoners' Affairs Wasfi Kabaha.
The detained leaders expressed their anger and condemnation at the Israeli policy refusing to meet the demands of the hunger striking captives and to immediately release them, especially after the deterioration of their health conditions.
The occupation forces have been trying to prevent the hunger strike and any form of solidarity with the striking prisoners, through escalating their repressive measures against the prisoners, and transferring a number of them to the solitary confinement.
Tunis: Executive Office for supporting the prisoners starts to operate soon
The Executive Office for supporting the Palestinian and Arab prisoners in the occupation jails is scheduled to start its activities in the next few days.
The executive office emerged from the International Conference for supporting the prisoners, which had been held in Tunis a month ago on November 10 under the auspices of the Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki and which was called for by the Tunisian, Arab, European and international civil society assemblies.
The preparatory committee for the conference confirmed that the Executive Office is expected to effectively start operating in the coming days, in cooperation with a number of European, Tunisian and Palestinian institutions.
For his part; the spokesman for the Executive Office for supporting the prisoners said that the office will be open to all ideas that may support the Palestinian prisoners in the occupation jails, and will launch media campaigns that "expose the Israeli crimes committed against the captives."
The International Conference for supporting the prisoners in Israeli jails had decided a month ago to form an executive office in Tunisia to follow up the prisoners' affairs.
The Conference's closing statement had emphasized the need to form a legal committee inside the Tunisian office to follow up the prisoners' affairs in order to monitor the legal status of prisoners inside the Israeli jails and to search for the possible legal ways to defend them and improve their living conditions.
Hundreds march in Nablus in solidarity with prisoners
Hundreds of citizens took part in the march organized in Nablus city on Monday in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation jails.
The marchers, including relatives of prisoners and representatives of official institutions, walked in the streets of the city calling for freedom for the prisoners and unity for the Palestinian people.
Speakers at the rally at conclusion of the march called for backing prisoners in their struggle against the Israeli prison authority and mentioned in particular the names of those on hunger strike.
They asked all factions and institutions to support the prisoners and urged the Baghdad conference on Palestinian prisoners to adopt resolutions supporting steadfastness of prisoners and their relatives.
IOF kidnap nine Palestinians in Nablus city
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Monday kidnapped nine Palestinian citizens during raids on homes in different areas of Nablus city.
Head of the municipal council in Qaryut village Abdul Naser Badawi told Quds Press that Israeli troops stormed the village at one o'clock in the morning, ransacked homes and kidnapped six young men accused of participating in marches against Israel's settlement activities.
Palestinian security sources also told Quds Press that the IOF stormed Assira town and Dahiya neighborhood in Nablus and kidnapped three young men from their homes.
All the detainees were taken in chain to Hawara military camp south of the city.
On the same day at dawn, local sources in Beit Liqya town, west of Ramallah city, reported that a large force of Israeli troops violently broke into several homes in the town at the pretext of looking for a wanted young man.
A municipal official in Beit Liqya said Israeli troops with armored vehicles encircled and stormed a neighborhood in the town and broke into the house of Mohamed Asi.
They fired stun grenades and shots when they stormed the house without any regard for the presence of children and innocent people inside.
The official added violent clashes broke out between young men from the town and the invading Israeli soldiers who fired indiscriminately bullets and tear gas grenades over the houses.
Local sources said the IOF might have been looking for a young man from the town accused of being responsible for the bombing of a bus in Tel Aviv during the last war on Gaza, but the young man cannot be found anywhere.
Head of the municipal council in Qaryut village Abdul Naser Badawi told Quds Press that Israeli troops stormed the village at one o'clock in the morning, ransacked homes and kidnapped six young men accused of participating in marches against Israel's settlement activities.
Palestinian security sources also told Quds Press that the IOF stormed Assira town and Dahiya neighborhood in Nablus and kidnapped three young men from their homes.
All the detainees were taken in chain to Hawara military camp south of the city.
On the same day at dawn, local sources in Beit Liqya town, west of Ramallah city, reported that a large force of Israeli troops violently broke into several homes in the town at the pretext of looking for a wanted young man.
A municipal official in Beit Liqya said Israeli troops with armored vehicles encircled and stormed a neighborhood in the town and broke into the house of Mohamed Asi.
They fired stun grenades and shots when they stormed the house without any regard for the presence of children and innocent people inside.
The official added violent clashes broke out between young men from the town and the invading Israeli soldiers who fired indiscriminately bullets and tear gas grenades over the houses.
Local sources said the IOF might have been looking for a young man from the town accused of being responsible for the bombing of a bus in Tel Aviv during the last war on Gaza, but the young man cannot be found anywhere.
IOA orders house arrest of Jerusalemite after one year detention
The Israeli central court in occupied Jerusalem ordered the release of Ihab Al-Jallad from Issawiye in occupied Jerusalem but after imposing cruel conditions.
Sources close to the family told the PIC reporter on Monday that Jallad was released after paying a bail and on condition he should be under house arrest in his father-in-law’s house and not his own home until conclusion of court procedures.
Jallad was arrested a year ago along with a group of youths on charges of launching social activities in occupied Jerusalem. Jallad is married and has two children and was held in Nafha desert prison along with his brother Wasim who is serving a 15-year sentence.
Sources close to the family told the PIC reporter on Monday that Jallad was released after paying a bail and on condition he should be under house arrest in his father-in-law’s house and not his own home until conclusion of court procedures.
Jallad was arrested a year ago along with a group of youths on charges of launching social activities in occupied Jerusalem. Jallad is married and has two children and was held in Nafha desert prison along with his brother Wasim who is serving a 15-year sentence.
IOF soldiers arrest student
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested a Palestinian student in the eastern suburbs of Yabad village, south of Jenin, at dawn Monday after bursting into his home and searching it.
Local sources said that IOF soldiers questioned Ya’eesh Qabaha, 22, before arresting him, adding that he is a student at the Arab American University in Jenin.
Locals said that other IOF units stormed three villages to the east of Jenin after midnight and combed them after firing flare bombs in the process.
Local sources said that IOF soldiers questioned Ya’eesh Qabaha, 22, before arresting him, adding that he is a student at the Arab American University in Jenin.
Locals said that other IOF units stormed three villages to the east of Jenin after midnight and combed them after firing flare bombs in the process.
9 dec 2012
The occupation arrests 3 Jerusalemites including a child
The Israeli occupation forces arrested on Saturday evening three Jerusalemites, including a boy following a march in solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli occupation jails.
Jerusalemite sources said that the soldiers detained two youths and a 15-years-old boy, Omar Obeid, after attacking him while he was trying to reach the area of the Damascus Gate, causing him injuries and bruises.
The sources also pointed out that the Jerusalemite citizens staged a solidarity march with the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, especially the prisoner Samer al-Issawi who has been on hunger strike since more than 130 days, amid intensive Israeli police deployment.
Mishaal: exchange deals is the way to liberate the prisoners
The head of the political bureau of Hamas, Khaled Mishaal, pledged to release the Palestinian prisoners from Israeli occupation jails through capturing Israeli soldiers and implementing prisoners' exchange deals.
This came in a speech delivered by Mishaal, on Sunday, during his meeting with dozens of families of prisoners, martyrs and wounded as well as national figures in Gaza.
Mishaal called on the different Palestinian parties to cooperate in bearing the responsibility in order to end the division and achieve reconciliation based on respecting the resistance and the Palestinian national constants, as he pointed out in his speech.
The Hamas leader stressed that the division weakens the Palestinian people, and that each Palestinian should shoulder his/her responsibility for achieving reconciliation.
He stressed that the resistance in Gaza does not only support Hamas, but also supports the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and all the Palestinians, pointing to the need for holding free and fair elections and a national partnership for taking on the responsibility."
He added that there is a difference between the use of wisdom and the graduation in achieving goals, and the renunciation of the rights which is unacceptable.
Khaled Mishaal also stressed on his movement's adherence to the resistance as the only way to liberate the land and hailed the role of all the Palestinian factions in the path to the liberation.
Jerusalemite sources said that the soldiers detained two youths and a 15-years-old boy, Omar Obeid, after attacking him while he was trying to reach the area of the Damascus Gate, causing him injuries and bruises.
The sources also pointed out that the Jerusalemite citizens staged a solidarity march with the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, especially the prisoner Samer al-Issawi who has been on hunger strike since more than 130 days, amid intensive Israeli police deployment.
Mishaal: exchange deals is the way to liberate the prisoners
The head of the political bureau of Hamas, Khaled Mishaal, pledged to release the Palestinian prisoners from Israeli occupation jails through capturing Israeli soldiers and implementing prisoners' exchange deals.
This came in a speech delivered by Mishaal, on Sunday, during his meeting with dozens of families of prisoners, martyrs and wounded as well as national figures in Gaza.
Mishaal called on the different Palestinian parties to cooperate in bearing the responsibility in order to end the division and achieve reconciliation based on respecting the resistance and the Palestinian national constants, as he pointed out in his speech.
The Hamas leader stressed that the division weakens the Palestinian people, and that each Palestinian should shoulder his/her responsibility for achieving reconciliation.
He stressed that the resistance in Gaza does not only support Hamas, but also supports the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and all the Palestinians, pointing to the need for holding free and fair elections and a national partnership for taking on the responsibility."
He added that there is a difference between the use of wisdom and the graduation in achieving goals, and the renunciation of the rights which is unacceptable.
Khaled Mishaal also stressed on his movement's adherence to the resistance as the only way to liberate the land and hailed the role of all the Palestinian factions in the path to the liberation.
18 prisoners in Israeli jails in critical condition due to medical negligence
Tadamun Foundation for Human Rights stated that the sick prisoners in Ramle prison hospital suffer from very difficult health condition due to the Israeli deliberate medical negligence.
The foundation's lawyer Muhammad Abid stated that the disabled prisoner Nahidh Faraj Aqra, 41, from Gaza Strip, whose right leg is amputated, is threatened with amputating his left leg at any moment due to the wound inflammation, where he suffers from severe and unbearable aches.
The Israeli occupation forces have arrested Aqra in 2000 while returning from a hospital in Jordan and sentenced him to three life terms where he is prohibited from family visits since the day of his arrest.
The lawyer, who visited the sick prisoners, pointed out to the case of the prisoner Ayman Talib Abu Sitta from the Gaza Strip, who suffers acute inflammation of the liver, where he stayed at the Soroka Hospital in Be'er Sheva for 40 days before being transferred recently to Ramle hospital, noting that he was detained since 1994.
The Foundation's lawyer presented the case of the prisoner Ahmed Awad from the town of Beit Ummar in al-Khalil district who was injured at the time of his arrest three weeks ago by four bullets fired by Israeli soldiers, wounding his hand, abdomen and thigh, where he suffers very difficult health condition.
The captive Mutassim Talib Raddad, sentenced to 20 years, is still suffering from severe pain in his stomach as a result of being wounded at the time of his arrest in 2006. He needs an injection each month worth 14,000 shekels.
He stated that 18 sick prisoners resided permanently in the prison Ramle prison hospital.
Tadamun Foundation for Human Rights called for the closure of this prison, which is called falsely a hospital, which comprises several cramped and ill-equipped rooms, where the prisoners suffer from deliberate medical negligence and periodical inspections by the Israeli prisons administration.
12 Palestinian prisoners with cancer still held in Israeli jails
The Palestinian Prisoners Studies Center (PPSC) confirmed that the occupation is still detaining in its jails 12 prisoners suffering from cancer, with its different forms.
The number of the prisoners with cancer has decreased after the release of the captive Nabil Naim Natsheh, from the city of al-Khalil, who suffers from the disease and who had served 15 months in the Negev desert prison.
The Director of the PPSC, researcher Riyad al-Ashqar, pointed out that prisoners with cancer are exponentially suffering from custody, the prisons' harsh conditions, the occupation violations and the deprivation of all their rights, in addition to their illness and the policy of medical neglect.
Ashqar pointed out that the health of the prisoner Mutassim Raddad, 27, from Tulkarem, who suffers from cancer, has recently seriously deteriorated.
Mutassim, who has been held in Ramla prison hospital, started suffering cardiac problems, chronic intestinal inflammations, and severe and continuous bleeding, which caused him anemia. The doctors decided that he has to undergo surgery to remove all his intestines, to which Mutassim has approved after consulting a medical committee from abroad.
The researcher Ashqar also noted that the health of prisoner Khalil Ibrahim Abu Hadrous, who also suffers from cancer has deteriorated, adding that he had undergone surgery to romove a cancerous tumor a year ago and that he is receiving chemotherapy and in constant need for medication.
Ashqar demanded all the international institutions and bodies, in particular the World Health Organization and Doctors Without Borders, to urgently send medical committees to visit the Israeli prisons in order to see for themselves the conditions of the patient prisoners and to intervene to save their lives and release them.
The foundation's lawyer Muhammad Abid stated that the disabled prisoner Nahidh Faraj Aqra, 41, from Gaza Strip, whose right leg is amputated, is threatened with amputating his left leg at any moment due to the wound inflammation, where he suffers from severe and unbearable aches.
The Israeli occupation forces have arrested Aqra in 2000 while returning from a hospital in Jordan and sentenced him to three life terms where he is prohibited from family visits since the day of his arrest.
The lawyer, who visited the sick prisoners, pointed out to the case of the prisoner Ayman Talib Abu Sitta from the Gaza Strip, who suffers acute inflammation of the liver, where he stayed at the Soroka Hospital in Be'er Sheva for 40 days before being transferred recently to Ramle hospital, noting that he was detained since 1994.
The Foundation's lawyer presented the case of the prisoner Ahmed Awad from the town of Beit Ummar in al-Khalil district who was injured at the time of his arrest three weeks ago by four bullets fired by Israeli soldiers, wounding his hand, abdomen and thigh, where he suffers very difficult health condition.
The captive Mutassim Talib Raddad, sentenced to 20 years, is still suffering from severe pain in his stomach as a result of being wounded at the time of his arrest in 2006. He needs an injection each month worth 14,000 shekels.
He stated that 18 sick prisoners resided permanently in the prison Ramle prison hospital.
Tadamun Foundation for Human Rights called for the closure of this prison, which is called falsely a hospital, which comprises several cramped and ill-equipped rooms, where the prisoners suffer from deliberate medical negligence and periodical inspections by the Israeli prisons administration.
12 Palestinian prisoners with cancer still held in Israeli jails
The Palestinian Prisoners Studies Center (PPSC) confirmed that the occupation is still detaining in its jails 12 prisoners suffering from cancer, with its different forms.
The number of the prisoners with cancer has decreased after the release of the captive Nabil Naim Natsheh, from the city of al-Khalil, who suffers from the disease and who had served 15 months in the Negev desert prison.
The Director of the PPSC, researcher Riyad al-Ashqar, pointed out that prisoners with cancer are exponentially suffering from custody, the prisons' harsh conditions, the occupation violations and the deprivation of all their rights, in addition to their illness and the policy of medical neglect.
Ashqar pointed out that the health of the prisoner Mutassim Raddad, 27, from Tulkarem, who suffers from cancer, has recently seriously deteriorated.
Mutassim, who has been held in Ramla prison hospital, started suffering cardiac problems, chronic intestinal inflammations, and severe and continuous bleeding, which caused him anemia. The doctors decided that he has to undergo surgery to remove all his intestines, to which Mutassim has approved after consulting a medical committee from abroad.
The researcher Ashqar also noted that the health of prisoner Khalil Ibrahim Abu Hadrous, who also suffers from cancer has deteriorated, adding that he had undergone surgery to romove a cancerous tumor a year ago and that he is receiving chemotherapy and in constant need for medication.
Ashqar demanded all the international institutions and bodies, in particular the World Health Organization and Doctors Without Borders, to urgently send medical committees to visit the Israeli prisons in order to see for themselves the conditions of the patient prisoners and to intervene to save their lives and release them.
IOF kidnap two senior PA officers, two citizens in Yatta town
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed at dawn Sunday Yatta town south of Al-Khalil and kidnapped two officers from the Palestinian authority intelligence agency and handed two other citizens summonses for interrogation from the Shabak.
The forces that stormed the town composed of more than 20 military vehicles and some intelligence jeeps, according to eyewitnesses.
At about one o'clock after midnight, the forces closed the northern town entrance known as Zayf junction and encircled two houses in Karaj area belonging to two senior PA officers before taking them to an unknown destination.
The PA officers were director of the intelligence office in Yatta Khalil Abu Eid and director of the intelligence operations in Al-Khalil Ahmed Bahis.
According to the Palestinian information center (PIC) reporter in Al-Khalil city, the IOF also raided two houses in Ruq'ah area near Assadeq Al-Amin Mosque and handed them summonses to meet a Shabak officer in Etzion detention center.
The kidnapped citizens were Ra'ed Mohamed and Ahmed Al-Amour, an ex-detainee in Israeli and PA jails.
The forces that stormed the town composed of more than 20 military vehicles and some intelligence jeeps, according to eyewitnesses.
At about one o'clock after midnight, the forces closed the northern town entrance known as Zayf junction and encircled two houses in Karaj area belonging to two senior PA officers before taking them to an unknown destination.
The PA officers were director of the intelligence office in Yatta Khalil Abu Eid and director of the intelligence operations in Al-Khalil Ahmed Bahis.
According to the Palestinian information center (PIC) reporter in Al-Khalil city, the IOF also raided two houses in Ruq'ah area near Assadeq Al-Amin Mosque and handed them summonses to meet a Shabak officer in Etzion detention center.
The kidnapped citizens were Ra'ed Mohamed and Ahmed Al-Amour, an ex-detainee in Israeli and PA jails.
Family of child appeals for his release
The family of the 13-year-old child Saddam Al-Jabari appealed for his release from Israeli custody in a message to human rights groups on Saturday.
The family’s message also sent to organizations concerned with childhood said that it lost contact with its child afternoon Friday near the Ibrahimi mosque in downtown Al-Khalil.
The message said that eyewitnesses informed family members that they saw Israeli occupation forces taking away the child.
Fuad Al-Khafsh, the director of Ahrar center for prisoners’ studies and human rights that received the message, expressed concern about the fate of Jabari.
He said that the detention of a 13-year-old child ran contrary to all international laws and doctrines that incriminate the arrest of children in his age.
Khafsh pointed out that Palestinian children are subject to illegal practices ever since the moment of their arrest at the hands of Israeli soldiers including their detention and interrogation.
The family’s message also sent to organizations concerned with childhood said that it lost contact with its child afternoon Friday near the Ibrahimi mosque in downtown Al-Khalil.
The message said that eyewitnesses informed family members that they saw Israeli occupation forces taking away the child.
Fuad Al-Khafsh, the director of Ahrar center for prisoners’ studies and human rights that received the message, expressed concern about the fate of Jabari.
He said that the detention of a 13-year-old child ran contrary to all international laws and doctrines that incriminate the arrest of children in his age.
Khafsh pointed out that Palestinian children are subject to illegal practices ever since the moment of their arrest at the hands of Israeli soldiers including their detention and interrogation.
Hunger striker Issawi can no longer move
The sister of hunger striker Samer Al-Issawi has denied reports about martyrdom of her brother who has been on hunger strike for 133 days in Israeli occupation jails.
Shireen, a lawyer, said that her brother, who has refrained from drinking water for the past 16 days, was alive despite being in a critical health condition.
She said that the Red Cross told the family on Sunday that Samer was in a very difficult condition but was alive.
Shireen said that Samer was taken to solitary confinement a few days ago away from the other hunger striker Ayman Sharawne, who has been on hunger strike for 163 days.
She said that Samer could not move and could not even go to the toilet, adding that he was being harassed in detention. She said that Samer fell on the floor several times in hospital and was being left unattended in such a condition.
Samer was released in the prisoners exchange deal Wafa Al-Ahrar but Israel re-arrested him and held him in administrative detention, without trial or charge, prompting him to go on hunger strike demanding his release.
Shireen, a lawyer, said that her brother, who has refrained from drinking water for the past 16 days, was alive despite being in a critical health condition.
She said that the Red Cross told the family on Sunday that Samer was in a very difficult condition but was alive.
Shireen said that Samer was taken to solitary confinement a few days ago away from the other hunger striker Ayman Sharawne, who has been on hunger strike for 163 days.
She said that Samer could not move and could not even go to the toilet, adding that he was being harassed in detention. She said that Samer fell on the floor several times in hospital and was being left unattended in such a condition.
Samer was released in the prisoners exchange deal Wafa Al-Ahrar but Israel re-arrested him and held him in administrative detention, without trial or charge, prompting him to go on hunger strike demanding his release.
