23 apr 2015
Israeli forces on Thursday detained five people after raiding a building in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem.
Witnesses said Israeli forces raided the al-Sumoud building and closed down the roads leading to it claiming rocks were thrown at a police car from inside.
Hassan Geith, Mohammad al-Rashq, Jawad Burqan, Iyad Burqan and an unidentified woman were detained. Elsewhere Israeli forces detained three Palestinians after raiding a house in al-Tur village.
Witnesses said Israeli forces raided the house of Khalid Abu Ghannam and detained him and his two sons Ismail and Imad.Earlier Thursday, Israeli police detained three Palestinian women as they were leaving the al-Aqsa mosque.
Sources told Ma'an that the Israeli police detained Alaa Taha, Tasnim Ayyashi and Sumayya Taha and took them to a police station for interrogation.
The Israeli police also detained a youth from the Kabul town in Israel identified only as Muhammad.
Witnesses said Israeli forces raided the al-Sumoud building and closed down the roads leading to it claiming rocks were thrown at a police car from inside.
Hassan Geith, Mohammad al-Rashq, Jawad Burqan, Iyad Burqan and an unidentified woman were detained. Elsewhere Israeli forces detained three Palestinians after raiding a house in al-Tur village.
Witnesses said Israeli forces raided the house of Khalid Abu Ghannam and detained him and his two sons Ismail and Imad.Earlier Thursday, Israeli police detained three Palestinian women as they were leaving the al-Aqsa mosque.
Sources told Ma'an that the Israeli police detained Alaa Taha, Tasnim Ayyashi and Sumayya Taha and took them to a police station for interrogation.
The Israeli police also detained a youth from the Kabul town in Israel identified only as Muhammad.
The lawyer of Palestinian Prisoner Society quoted, on Thursday, Palestinian captives in Negev jail as complaining about the procrastination in the provision of treatment by Israeli Prison Service (IPS).
The lawyer who visited the sick detainees in Negev prison revealed that captive Issa al-Tarayrah, 50, is suffering from cysts on the kidneys, ulcer in the stomach, and high blood pressure in addition to severe joint pain which prevents him from walking unless he takes medications.
Captive Tarayra complained that transferring him to hospital for doing medical examination takes more than seven months. He added that the transfer via the so called “Bosta” increases his suffering.
The Bosta is an iron unfurnished vehicle by which Palestinian prisoners get transferred between jails and hospitals or courts while cuffed in hands and feet. The journey lasts for long hours amid extreme cold in winter and extreme heat in summer.
Detainee Tarayrah is sentenced to ten years; he has already served nine of them.
Captive Salaheddin Abu Rabi, 43, complained of prison doctors’ procrastination in providing him with treatment and even diagnosis. He said that he suffers from severe pain due to shrapnel inside his body as he was shot twice in the knee and back before arrest.
Captive Abu Rabi has already served fourteen years out of his sixteen years sentence.
The lawyer who visited the sick detainees in Negev prison revealed that captive Issa al-Tarayrah, 50, is suffering from cysts on the kidneys, ulcer in the stomach, and high blood pressure in addition to severe joint pain which prevents him from walking unless he takes medications.
Captive Tarayra complained that transferring him to hospital for doing medical examination takes more than seven months. He added that the transfer via the so called “Bosta” increases his suffering.
The Bosta is an iron unfurnished vehicle by which Palestinian prisoners get transferred between jails and hospitals or courts while cuffed in hands and feet. The journey lasts for long hours amid extreme cold in winter and extreme heat in summer.
Detainee Tarayrah is sentenced to ten years; he has already served nine of them.
Captive Salaheddin Abu Rabi, 43, complained of prison doctors’ procrastination in providing him with treatment and even diagnosis. He said that he suffers from severe pain due to shrapnel inside his body as he was shot twice in the knee and back before arrest.
Captive Abu Rabi has already served fourteen years out of his sixteen years sentence.
A new statistics report by QPress media center showed that the number of detainees who were arrested from inside the Aqsa Mosque has reached more than 100 since the beginning of 2015 until Monday (20-April) on charges of shouting Takbeer or standing up for the settlers' break-ins into the holy site.
The report also mentioned that the Israeli police have lately escalated the deportation policy in al-Aqsa Mosque against men, women, and minors and even the endowment laborers, the guards and the employees were not spared this cruel policy.
Before 2010, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) imposed deportation orders from al-Aqsa Mosque against religious and national figures including Sheikh Ikrima Sabri, head of the Supreme Islamic Council in Jerusalem, Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Islamic Movement in 48 occupied Palestine, Sheikh Yousuf al-Baz from Lod city, Ali Abu Sheikha and others, in addition to deporting many Jerusalemites and worshipers of the 1948-occupied lands.
The escalated arrests and deportations coincided with launching projects to seek knowledge and maintain vigil in al-Aqsa Mosque leading to an intensive presence of Muslim worshipers in the Mosque's courtyards from the early morning hours until afternoon, which Israel considers a "stumbling block" before the settlers.
The report also clarified that worshipers are mostly targeted after Dhuhr (noon) and Asr (afternoon) prayers and forcibly taken to Beit Eliyahu police station where they are exposed to physical abuse and then interrogated at Qashla police station in al-Khalil and after hours of interrogation they are either released or their remands are extended until the next day, and in most cases the court rules to deport the detainees away from al-Aqsa for periods that vary from 15 to 90 days in addition to a fine of 500 - 2,000 shekels.
In 2011, 70 worshipers were nabbed, others were summoned for investigation and many Jerusalemite youths were targeted. In 2012 there were more than 15 arrest and deportation cases while 21 cases were reported in 2013.
Escalation
In 2014, the number notably increased as 150 cases were reported, 45 of whom were women, and since the beginning of 2015 until today 100 cases were reported most of them are Jerusalemite women of different ages.
Taha Shawahna, 69, who is the 100th prisoner, was arrested at al-Aqsa Mosque and the court issued a 30-day entry-ban against him.
Legal follow-up
Head of Qudsuna Center, lawyer Omar Khamaisi, said that the Israeli arrest policy against worshipers inside the Mosque is a desperate attempt to empty al-Aqsa Mosque of the Palestinians. He also affirmed to QPress that the Israeli arrests and prosecutions are illegal and that detentions are unjustly extended to days and months under the pretext that these arbitrary measures are based on secret evidences.
Position of the Islamic Movement
Zahi Nujeidat, spokesman of the Islamic Movement, said: "We are willing to pay any price to protect our Aqsa, and the huge number of Palestinian detainees indicates the Israeli hysterical escalation."
He added: "we condemn the Israeli arrests, and it is natural that the Islamic Movement is also paying the price of protecting the holy mosque as it had raised the slogan " al-Aqsa is in danger" in its annual festival to show that it is one of the first defenders of it."
Expectations
The lawyer Khalid Zabarqa, who has been banned from entering al-Aqsa Mosque for 6 months, expected that the Israeli harassment policy will be escalated in the coming days.
He added that the Palestinians have proven that they can never be defeated and “the occupation will definitely end soon."
The report also mentioned that the Israeli police have lately escalated the deportation policy in al-Aqsa Mosque against men, women, and minors and even the endowment laborers, the guards and the employees were not spared this cruel policy.
Before 2010, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) imposed deportation orders from al-Aqsa Mosque against religious and national figures including Sheikh Ikrima Sabri, head of the Supreme Islamic Council in Jerusalem, Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Islamic Movement in 48 occupied Palestine, Sheikh Yousuf al-Baz from Lod city, Ali Abu Sheikha and others, in addition to deporting many Jerusalemites and worshipers of the 1948-occupied lands.
The escalated arrests and deportations coincided with launching projects to seek knowledge and maintain vigil in al-Aqsa Mosque leading to an intensive presence of Muslim worshipers in the Mosque's courtyards from the early morning hours until afternoon, which Israel considers a "stumbling block" before the settlers.
The report also clarified that worshipers are mostly targeted after Dhuhr (noon) and Asr (afternoon) prayers and forcibly taken to Beit Eliyahu police station where they are exposed to physical abuse and then interrogated at Qashla police station in al-Khalil and after hours of interrogation they are either released or their remands are extended until the next day, and in most cases the court rules to deport the detainees away from al-Aqsa for periods that vary from 15 to 90 days in addition to a fine of 500 - 2,000 shekels.
In 2011, 70 worshipers were nabbed, others were summoned for investigation and many Jerusalemite youths were targeted. In 2012 there were more than 15 arrest and deportation cases while 21 cases were reported in 2013.
Escalation
In 2014, the number notably increased as 150 cases were reported, 45 of whom were women, and since the beginning of 2015 until today 100 cases were reported most of them are Jerusalemite women of different ages.
Taha Shawahna, 69, who is the 100th prisoner, was arrested at al-Aqsa Mosque and the court issued a 30-day entry-ban against him.
Legal follow-up
Head of Qudsuna Center, lawyer Omar Khamaisi, said that the Israeli arrest policy against worshipers inside the Mosque is a desperate attempt to empty al-Aqsa Mosque of the Palestinians. He also affirmed to QPress that the Israeli arrests and prosecutions are illegal and that detentions are unjustly extended to days and months under the pretext that these arbitrary measures are based on secret evidences.
Position of the Islamic Movement
Zahi Nujeidat, spokesman of the Islamic Movement, said: "We are willing to pay any price to protect our Aqsa, and the huge number of Palestinian detainees indicates the Israeli hysterical escalation."
He added: "we condemn the Israeli arrests, and it is natural that the Islamic Movement is also paying the price of protecting the holy mosque as it had raised the slogan " al-Aqsa is in danger" in its annual festival to show that it is one of the first defenders of it."
Expectations
The lawyer Khalid Zabarqa, who has been banned from entering al-Aqsa Mosque for 6 months, expected that the Israeli harassment policy will be escalated in the coming days.
He added that the Palestinians have proven that they can never be defeated and “the occupation will definitely end soon."
Israeli soldiers attacked dozens of Palestinian worshipers near the Chain Gate, one of the Gates of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem, and kidnapped two young men. Army invades a village near Nablus, while settlers storm area of the former colony near the city.
Local sources said the police, and undercover officers, assaulted dozens of women and men, punched, kicked and clubbed a number of worshipers, and prevented them from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
The sources added that the police denied the Muslim worshipers access to the mosque while groups of Israeli extremists marched in its yards carrying Israeli flags, and chanting against the Arabs and Palestinians.
The Police accompanied the extremists while preventing the Muslim worshipers from entering the mosque compound, and kidnapped two young men identified as Tamer Shala’ta and Taher Sheikh Khalil.
On Thursday at dawn, several army vehicles invaded Beta town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and fired rounds of live ammunition, concussion grenades and flares.
The Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA) said the soldiers invaded various neighborhoods, while more troops were deployed around the village, and conducted military searches.
It added that the invasion took place after the soldiers stormed, and searched, areas close to the Beta and Huwwara Junction.
In related news, dozens of Israeli fanatics invaded the area of the former Homesh colony, northwest of Nablus, and marched in the early dawn hours carrying Israeli flags and chanting anti-Palestinian slogans.
Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official in charge of Israeli Settlements File in the northern part of the West Bank, said the invasion is part of a series of violations against the Palestinians and their land.
He added that the violations are carried out despite a ruling by the Israeli Supreme Court, denying the settlers access to the evicted settlement.
Daghlas added that the settlers conduct frequent attempts to occupy Palestinian lands, and install illegal outposts, near the village, and in the al-Mas’oudiyya area that belongs to Borqa village, northwest of Nablus.
Local sources said the police, and undercover officers, assaulted dozens of women and men, punched, kicked and clubbed a number of worshipers, and prevented them from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
The sources added that the police denied the Muslim worshipers access to the mosque while groups of Israeli extremists marched in its yards carrying Israeli flags, and chanting against the Arabs and Palestinians.
The Police accompanied the extremists while preventing the Muslim worshipers from entering the mosque compound, and kidnapped two young men identified as Tamer Shala’ta and Taher Sheikh Khalil.
On Thursday at dawn, several army vehicles invaded Beta town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and fired rounds of live ammunition, concussion grenades and flares.
The Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA) said the soldiers invaded various neighborhoods, while more troops were deployed around the village, and conducted military searches.
It added that the invasion took place after the soldiers stormed, and searched, areas close to the Beta and Huwwara Junction.
In related news, dozens of Israeli fanatics invaded the area of the former Homesh colony, northwest of Nablus, and marched in the early dawn hours carrying Israeli flags and chanting anti-Palestinian slogans.
Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official in charge of Israeli Settlements File in the northern part of the West Bank, said the invasion is part of a series of violations against the Palestinians and their land.
He added that the violations are carried out despite a ruling by the Israeli Supreme Court, denying the settlers access to the evicted settlement.
Daghlas added that the settlers conduct frequent attempts to occupy Palestinian lands, and install illegal outposts, near the village, and in the al-Mas’oudiyya area that belongs to Borqa village, northwest of Nablus.
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) stormed the family home of two prisoners in Yatta town to the south of al-Khalil, Prisoners Media Office reported.
The IOF brutally broke into the home of the two brothers Zaid and Amer Abu Fanar who are currently held in Israeli jails, family sources said.
The sources pointed out that the Israeli officer asked the two prisoners’ father not to celebrate his son Amer’s upcoming release.
Prisoners Media Office stated that the Israeli night raid fell as part of Israeli deliberate targeting of and tightened restrictions on prisoners’ families.
Such assaults aim at putting more pressures on the prisoners to sign particular confessions, the center explained.
Amer Abu Fanar is scheduled to be released within few days after spending eight months in Israeli jails, while his brother Zaid is still held in administrative detention for the past two years.
The IOF brutally broke into the home of the two brothers Zaid and Amer Abu Fanar who are currently held in Israeli jails, family sources said.
The sources pointed out that the Israeli officer asked the two prisoners’ father not to celebrate his son Amer’s upcoming release.
Prisoners Media Office stated that the Israeli night raid fell as part of Israeli deliberate targeting of and tightened restrictions on prisoners’ families.
Such assaults aim at putting more pressures on the prisoners to sign particular confessions, the center explained.
Amer Abu Fanar is scheduled to be released within few days after spending eight months in Israeli jails, while his brother Zaid is still held in administrative detention for the past two years.
22 apr 2015
Human rights sources disclosed that the Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan threatened to go on open hunger strike in case the Israeli Occupation Authority (IOA) renewed the administrative detention against him which is supposed to end on May 5.
In a statement on Wednesday, the Prisoner Voice radio station called on all the Palestinian administrative detainees to continue the battle of hunger strike in order to transform it from an individual effort to a strategic collective step to put an end to the Israeli policy of detention without charge or trial.
This followed the Israeli neglect of the latest hunger strike waged by Palestinian administrative prisoners.
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Khader Adnan is from Arabah town in Jenin. He is held in Israeli jails for the tenth time. He is the first who started the battle of “empty stomachs” against administrative detention in December 2011.
As a result, he was released in April 2012 before the Israeli forces rearrested him again.
In a statement on Wednesday, the Prisoner Voice radio station called on all the Palestinian administrative detainees to continue the battle of hunger strike in order to transform it from an individual effort to a strategic collective step to put an end to the Israeli policy of detention without charge or trial.
This followed the Israeli neglect of the latest hunger strike waged by Palestinian administrative prisoners.
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Khader Adnan is from Arabah town in Jenin. He is held in Israeli jails for the tenth time. He is the first who started the battle of “empty stomachs” against administrative detention in December 2011.
As a result, he was released in April 2012 before the Israeli forces rearrested him again.
The Israeli military court of Salem, to the west of Jenin, extended the detention, in absentia, of the 18-year-old Palestinian injured Hamam Aqel, from Kafr Qadoum, for six days.
Palestinian sources revealed that the wounded young man is still receiving treatment in the Israeli Schneider Hospital. He was shot in the head by IOF soldiers who arrested him while quelling the weekly march of Kafr Qadoum on Friday April 17.
The coordinator of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) in the town Murad Shtaiwi pointed out, on Wednesday, that the young man underwent a surgery in the head. Despite his critical health condition, the Israeli prison service is determined to transfer him to jail after his detention had been extended.
For his part, the lawyer of the young man, Adel Samara, revealed that the court extended the detention of Aqel in absentia for charges of throwing stones and participation of what it called “unpermitted” marches. Besides, it refused to release him on bail in spite of his serious health condition.
Aqel’s family underlined that its son was held in hospital under tight security watch by IOF soldiers along with prison wardens. He was questioned while he was tied to hospital bed, they pointed out.
Palestinian sources revealed that the wounded young man is still receiving treatment in the Israeli Schneider Hospital. He was shot in the head by IOF soldiers who arrested him while quelling the weekly march of Kafr Qadoum on Friday April 17.
The coordinator of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) in the town Murad Shtaiwi pointed out, on Wednesday, that the young man underwent a surgery in the head. Despite his critical health condition, the Israeli prison service is determined to transfer him to jail after his detention had been extended.
For his part, the lawyer of the young man, Adel Samara, revealed that the court extended the detention of Aqel in absentia for charges of throwing stones and participation of what it called “unpermitted” marches. Besides, it refused to release him on bail in spite of his serious health condition.
Aqel’s family underlined that its son was held in hospital under tight security watch by IOF soldiers along with prison wardens. He was questioned while he was tied to hospital bed, they pointed out.
As dozens of Israeli extremists stormed the yards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem, chanting and raising Israeli flags, and trying to raise the flags on the mosque, Israeli soldiers kidnapped a young Palestinian man.
Media sources said the soldiers kidnapped Omar Odeh, from Qalansawe, in the Southern Triangle Area.
Odeh was beaten and cuffed, before being moved to an Israeli police station in Jerusalem’s Old City.
The abduction took place after scores of Israeli fanatics stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, through the al-Magharba gate, on Wednesday morning, and conducted provocative tours under heavy police and army protection.
Several fanatic groups called for massive marches into the mosque compound, Wednesday and Thursday to mark “Israel’s Memorial Day."
Massive Processions are also planned to take place on Thursday starting at 7:30 in the morning, until 6 in the evening, the WAFA Palestinian News Agency said.
Various fanatic groups, and far right-wing politicians, intend to raise Israeli flags not only around the Al-Aqsa mosque but also inside the holy site.
Although the provocative marches have been ongoing for a long while, yet; the main processions are planned for Wednesday and Thursday, with the declared slogan “The Temple Is In Our Hands.”
Media announcements made by a number of fanatic Israeli groups, far-right leaders, states the main event includes “special prayers from the Al-Aqsa, and a mourning of fallen Israelis, in addition to using loud speakers to provide testimonies.”
WAFA said an audio segment would be played on loud speakers documenting the voice of General Rabbi Shlomo Goren, the Chaplin of the Israeli army who, on June 7 1967, sounded the Shofar at the Western Wall, and said, “the Temple Mount is in our hands…” referring to occupying the Al-Aqsa Mosque and East Jerusalem.
Israel started the Memorial Day celebration Wednesday by sounding the two-minute siren at 11 before noon, following with a speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Media sources said the soldiers kidnapped Omar Odeh, from Qalansawe, in the Southern Triangle Area.
Odeh was beaten and cuffed, before being moved to an Israeli police station in Jerusalem’s Old City.
The abduction took place after scores of Israeli fanatics stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, through the al-Magharba gate, on Wednesday morning, and conducted provocative tours under heavy police and army protection.
Several fanatic groups called for massive marches into the mosque compound, Wednesday and Thursday to mark “Israel’s Memorial Day."
Massive Processions are also planned to take place on Thursday starting at 7:30 in the morning, until 6 in the evening, the WAFA Palestinian News Agency said.
Various fanatic groups, and far right-wing politicians, intend to raise Israeli flags not only around the Al-Aqsa mosque but also inside the holy site.
Although the provocative marches have been ongoing for a long while, yet; the main processions are planned for Wednesday and Thursday, with the declared slogan “The Temple Is In Our Hands.”
Media announcements made by a number of fanatic Israeli groups, far-right leaders, states the main event includes “special prayers from the Al-Aqsa, and a mourning of fallen Israelis, in addition to using loud speakers to provide testimonies.”
WAFA said an audio segment would be played on loud speakers documenting the voice of General Rabbi Shlomo Goren, the Chaplin of the Israeli army who, on June 7 1967, sounded the Shofar at the Western Wall, and said, “the Temple Mount is in our hands…” referring to occupying the Al-Aqsa Mosque and East Jerusalem.
Israel started the Memorial Day celebration Wednesday by sounding the two-minute siren at 11 before noon, following with a speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Center for the Defense of Liberties and Civil Rights—Hurriyet on Tuesday urged the human rights institutions and prisoners’ committee to form a legal commission to keep tabs on the situation of Palestinian minor captives inside of Israeli jails.
The Hurriyet center slammed, in a statement issued following a visit paid by its lawyer to the minors section at the Ofer lock-up, Israel’s ongoing violations of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child both in the detention and post-detention phases.
The center called on the international community and human rights organizations, namely the Red Cross, the UNICEF, and the Human Rights Council, to immediately step in and take up their legal and ethical responsibilities vis-à-vis the flagrant infringements of Palestinian children’s rights in Israeli penitentiaries.
The group further quoted detainees held in the Ofer prison as reporting a striking upsurge in the number of Palestinian minor captives, estimated at some 105 children, 13 among whom reportedly below the age of 16.
The Ofer prison administration transferred over 13 children to the minors’ section in the Megiddo jail, the group further documented.
The number of Palestinian children incarcerated in different Israeli lock-ups has hit 200 so far, it added.
At least 23 Palestinian minors have been detained during the month of April, mostly from their own homes, on charges of capturing anti-Israel rallies on film and taking live snapshots of the event.
The Hurriyet center slammed, in a statement issued following a visit paid by its lawyer to the minors section at the Ofer lock-up, Israel’s ongoing violations of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child both in the detention and post-detention phases.
The center called on the international community and human rights organizations, namely the Red Cross, the UNICEF, and the Human Rights Council, to immediately step in and take up their legal and ethical responsibilities vis-à-vis the flagrant infringements of Palestinian children’s rights in Israeli penitentiaries.
The group further quoted detainees held in the Ofer prison as reporting a striking upsurge in the number of Palestinian minor captives, estimated at some 105 children, 13 among whom reportedly below the age of 16.
The Ofer prison administration transferred over 13 children to the minors’ section in the Megiddo jail, the group further documented.
The number of Palestinian children incarcerated in different Israeli lock-ups has hit 200 so far, it added.
At least 23 Palestinian minors have been detained during the month of April, mostly from their own homes, on charges of capturing anti-Israel rallies on film and taking live snapshots of the event.
The Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) on Tuesday went back on earlier pledges to release the Palestinian detainee Aref al-Fakhuri, recaptured last June after he was unshackled by the Wafa al-Ahrar prisoner swap deal.
According to the Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies, the IOA, represented by the military objections committee, issued a decision a couple of days ago to immediately release the detainee after he had been acquitted of charges of violating the law.
The Israeli prosecution appealed the acquittal issued by objections committee at the Salem court and sentenced the detainee to a one-year prison-term, in effect since the day of his arrest on 18 July, 2014.
Prisoner al-Fakhouri had spent nine years, out of a 28-year sentence, in Israeli jails, before he was released in the Wafa al-Ahrar prisoner swap deal.
According to the Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies, the IOA, represented by the military objections committee, issued a decision a couple of days ago to immediately release the detainee after he had been acquitted of charges of violating the law.
The Israeli prosecution appealed the acquittal issued by objections committee at the Salem court and sentenced the detainee to a one-year prison-term, in effect since the day of his arrest on 18 July, 2014.
Prisoner al-Fakhouri had spent nine years, out of a 28-year sentence, in Israeli jails, before he was released in the Wafa al-Ahrar prisoner swap deal.
Violent clashes were reported Tuesday afternoon when Israeli forces brutally broke into Tur town in occupied Jerusalem.
Sound bombs and tear gas canisters were randomly fired during the clashes that erupted while students were leaving their schools which led to a state of panic among the students.
Meanwhile, a Palestinian young man was arrested in Beit Ummar town to the north of al-Khalil.
The 25-old-year Taqi al-Din Jawabra was nabbed Tuesday after being summoned for investigation at Etizon military camp, WAFA news agency quoted the local activist Mohamed Awad as stating.
Jawabra was earlier summoned for investigation after breaking into his home.
Sound bombs and tear gas canisters were randomly fired during the clashes that erupted while students were leaving their schools which led to a state of panic among the students.
Meanwhile, a Palestinian young man was arrested in Beit Ummar town to the north of al-Khalil.
The 25-old-year Taqi al-Din Jawabra was nabbed Tuesday after being summoned for investigation at Etizon military camp, WAFA news agency quoted the local activist Mohamed Awad as stating.
Jawabra was earlier summoned for investigation after breaking into his home.
Searched Home, Sinjel Village
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday at dawn, five Palestinians in a village near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and one near Ramallah; soldiers also invaded several villages and towns in Hebron.
Several army vehicles invaded Toura village, near Ya’bad, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, kidnapped five Palestinians, and detained another on a nearby military roadblock.
The soldiers stormed into several homes, and violently searched them, before kidnapping Mo’taz Mwaffaq Qabaha, 22, Abdullah Sami, 23, Ayham Mohammad Fayez, 22, Mohammad Sobhi, 26, and Abdullah Saleh Ahmad, 23 years of age.
Local sources said the soldiers broke into the Palestinian homes, and violently searched them, causing excessive property damage, before kidnapping the five Palestinians.
In addition, soldiers detained Fayez Mohammad Qabaha, 31, on a military roadblock installed near Toura village, and released a few hours later.
Soldiers also invaded Sinjel village, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and kidnapped one Palestinian after detonating the front door of his family home.
Eyewitnesses said the soldiers kidnapped Ahmad Sami Tawafsha, and took him to an unknown destination.
The army further invaded neighborhoods in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, in addition to several surrounding villages and towns, and conducted military searches of homes.
The soldiers were heavily deployed in Hebron city, and around it, especially around Yatta town, south of the city, and Halhoul, north of Hebron, before invading them.
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday at dawn, five Palestinians in a village near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and one near Ramallah; soldiers also invaded several villages and towns in Hebron.
Several army vehicles invaded Toura village, near Ya’bad, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, kidnapped five Palestinians, and detained another on a nearby military roadblock.
The soldiers stormed into several homes, and violently searched them, before kidnapping Mo’taz Mwaffaq Qabaha, 22, Abdullah Sami, 23, Ayham Mohammad Fayez, 22, Mohammad Sobhi, 26, and Abdullah Saleh Ahmad, 23 years of age.
Local sources said the soldiers broke into the Palestinian homes, and violently searched them, causing excessive property damage, before kidnapping the five Palestinians.
In addition, soldiers detained Fayez Mohammad Qabaha, 31, on a military roadblock installed near Toura village, and released a few hours later.
Soldiers also invaded Sinjel village, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and kidnapped one Palestinian after detonating the front door of his family home.
Eyewitnesses said the soldiers kidnapped Ahmad Sami Tawafsha, and took him to an unknown destination.
The army further invaded neighborhoods in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, in addition to several surrounding villages and towns, and conducted military searches of homes.
The soldiers were heavily deployed in Hebron city, and around it, especially around Yatta town, south of the city, and Halhoul, north of Hebron, before invading them.
Israeli authorities, Tuesday, issued administrative detention orders against 41 Palestinian prisoners, including 26 Palestinians from Hebron district, according to the Palestine Prisoners’ Society (PPS).
The detainees were sentenced for a period ranging between two months and six months, with twelve of the detainees receiving detention orders without charge or trial for the first time, whereas the remaining 29 detainees had their administrative detention sentence renewed for the second or third time.
Administrative detention is the imprisonment of Palestinians without charge or trial and on the basis of secret evidence for up to six month periods, indefinitely renewable by Israeli military courts.
The use of administrative detention dates from the “emergency laws” of the British colonial era in Palestine, said the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, who states: “Israel’s use of administrative detention violates international law; such detention is allowed only in individual circumstances that are exceptionally compelling for “imperative reasons of security.”
Israel uses administrative detention routinely as a form of collective punishment and mass detention of Palestinians, and frequently uses administrative detention when it fails to obtain confessions in interrogations of Palestinian detainees.
There are around 500 detainees serving administrative detention in several Israeli jails, including Palestinian Legislative Council member Khalida Jarrar who has been recently sentenced to six-months of administrative detention.
Jarrar is not the only lawmaker to be imprisoned; 18 of the Palestinian Legislative Council members are currently held in Israeli detention without charge or trial.
Palestinian detainees have continuously resorted to open-ended hunger strikes as a way to protest their illegal administrative detention and to demand an end to this policy which violates international law.
WAFA Palestinian News & Info Agency has provided the names of the 41 detainees who received administrative detention orders:
Mahmoud Fasfous, ‘Abdullah Sha‘ban, Amir Shammas, Nour Dudin, Bajes Swaiti, Raed al-‘Amla, Murad Shqaiqat, Mustafa Braija, Muhammad al-Habal, Ahmad al-Qiq, Hasan Shihada, Tareq Hamed, Suhaib Jidan, Ayman Za‘aqiq, Nour Jaffal, Nedal al-Boum, Muhammad Abu Ras, Sa‘id al-‘Asafra, Sufian al-Wahaddin, Fawzi Talahma, ‘Issa ‘Awawda, Bashar Da‘na, Anas Dweik, Isma‘il Slaibi, ‘Ala’ Za‘aqiq, ‘Abdul-Qader Sharawna, Nedal Jaber, Munther Abu ‘Atwan, Firas Masalama, ‘Abdullah Bani Odeh, Arqam Ahmaro, Muhammad al-Khatib, ‘Imad Isma‘il, Shaher Abu Ghalyoun, Ahmad Huraimi, Mustafa Shawer, Mahmoud ‘Ayyash, As‘ad Imam, Raed Sharbati, Muhammad Abu Ghalya, Tamer Qawasmah
The detainees were sentenced for a period ranging between two months and six months, with twelve of the detainees receiving detention orders without charge or trial for the first time, whereas the remaining 29 detainees had their administrative detention sentence renewed for the second or third time.
Administrative detention is the imprisonment of Palestinians without charge or trial and on the basis of secret evidence for up to six month periods, indefinitely renewable by Israeli military courts.
The use of administrative detention dates from the “emergency laws” of the British colonial era in Palestine, said the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, who states: “Israel’s use of administrative detention violates international law; such detention is allowed only in individual circumstances that are exceptionally compelling for “imperative reasons of security.”
Israel uses administrative detention routinely as a form of collective punishment and mass detention of Palestinians, and frequently uses administrative detention when it fails to obtain confessions in interrogations of Palestinian detainees.
There are around 500 detainees serving administrative detention in several Israeli jails, including Palestinian Legislative Council member Khalida Jarrar who has been recently sentenced to six-months of administrative detention.
Jarrar is not the only lawmaker to be imprisoned; 18 of the Palestinian Legislative Council members are currently held in Israeli detention without charge or trial.
Palestinian detainees have continuously resorted to open-ended hunger strikes as a way to protest their illegal administrative detention and to demand an end to this policy which violates international law.
WAFA Palestinian News & Info Agency has provided the names of the 41 detainees who received administrative detention orders:
Mahmoud Fasfous, ‘Abdullah Sha‘ban, Amir Shammas, Nour Dudin, Bajes Swaiti, Raed al-‘Amla, Murad Shqaiqat, Mustafa Braija, Muhammad al-Habal, Ahmad al-Qiq, Hasan Shihada, Tareq Hamed, Suhaib Jidan, Ayman Za‘aqiq, Nour Jaffal, Nedal al-Boum, Muhammad Abu Ras, Sa‘id al-‘Asafra, Sufian al-Wahaddin, Fawzi Talahma, ‘Issa ‘Awawda, Bashar Da‘na, Anas Dweik, Isma‘il Slaibi, ‘Ala’ Za‘aqiq, ‘Abdul-Qader Sharawna, Nedal Jaber, Munther Abu ‘Atwan, Firas Masalama, ‘Abdullah Bani Odeh, Arqam Ahmaro, Muhammad al-Khatib, ‘Imad Isma‘il, Shaher Abu Ghalyoun, Ahmad Huraimi, Mustafa Shawer, Mahmoud ‘Ayyash, As‘ad Imam, Raed Sharbati, Muhammad Abu Ghalya, Tamer Qawasmah
21 apr 2015
Journalist Abu Wardeh
The Israeli Occupation Authority (IOA) issued administrative orders without trials or charges against six Palestinians including a journalist on Tuesday.
The IOA issued administrative detention orders for six months against four men from Nablus including the journalist Amin Abu Wardeh.
The IOA also issued a three-month order against one detainee and extended the remand of two others for 72 hours to look into detaining them administratively.
The journalist Abu Wardeh was arrested last Wednesday after the IOF soldiers stormed and wreaked havoc in his house then questioned him for four hours.
The Israeli Occupation Authority (IOA) issued administrative orders without trials or charges against six Palestinians including a journalist on Tuesday.
The IOA issued administrative detention orders for six months against four men from Nablus including the journalist Amin Abu Wardeh.
The IOA also issued a three-month order against one detainee and extended the remand of two others for 72 hours to look into detaining them administratively.
The journalist Abu Wardeh was arrested last Wednesday after the IOF soldiers stormed and wreaked havoc in his house then questioned him for four hours.
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) launched storming campaigns into Palestinian houses in Jenin, arrested four Palestinians and destroyed crops in al-Khalil on Tuesday.
The IOF stormed at dawn on Tuesday the area of Abu Rumman mount in al-Khalil and carried out military exercises on Palestinians’ agricultural lands, which resulted in the damage of wheat crops.
The IOF soldiers arrested four Palestinian men at dawn Tuesday including two young men from al-Khalil and a third from a nearby town in addition to a university student.
The spokesman of the Popular Committee against Settlement in Beit Ummar Mohammad Awad said the Israeli forces stormed the town and handed summonses to two brothers of Jawabrah family along with their father.
The IOF raided the homes of Palestinians in Zabouba town in Jenin in the northern West Bank and searched it using police dogs. The soldiers made the residents go outside their homes and then assaulted them.
The citizens said the Israeli soldiers fired flare bombs during search operations which covered large areas including Salem military camp from which the Israeli forces came out.
The IOF stormed at dawn on Tuesday the area of Abu Rumman mount in al-Khalil and carried out military exercises on Palestinians’ agricultural lands, which resulted in the damage of wheat crops.
The IOF soldiers arrested four Palestinian men at dawn Tuesday including two young men from al-Khalil and a third from a nearby town in addition to a university student.
The spokesman of the Popular Committee against Settlement in Beit Ummar Mohammad Awad said the Israeli forces stormed the town and handed summonses to two brothers of Jawabrah family along with their father.
The IOF raided the homes of Palestinians in Zabouba town in Jenin in the northern West Bank and searched it using police dogs. The soldiers made the residents go outside their homes and then assaulted them.
The citizens said the Israeli soldiers fired flare bombs during search operations which covered large areas including Salem military camp from which the Israeli forces came out.
Khaled Kutina, who rammed his car into 2 Israelis killing one and seriously wounding another, admitted to committing attack as revenge for his 'miserable life'.
Khaled Kutina confessed to deliberately ramming his car at two Israelis waiting for the bus in Jerusalem last week, killing a man and wounding a woman, it was cleared for publication on Tuesday.
The investigation found that several hours before the attack, Kutina drove his family from 'Anata to East Jerusalem. At the exit from 'Anata, the car was held at a checkpoint, which Kutina said made him angry. He decided to commit the attack after dropping off his family. In his interrogation, 37-year-old Kutina admitted he was driving along Highway 1 looking for Jews to harm as revenge for his "miserable life."
The investigation found that several hours before the attack, Kutina drove his family from 'Anata to East Jerusalem. At the exit from 'Anata, the car was held at a checkpoint, which Kutina said made him angry. He decided to commit the attack after dropping off his family. In his interrogation, 37-year-old Kutina admitted he was driving along Highway 1 looking for Jews to harm as revenge for his "miserable life."
Jerusalem Police and Border Police forces that arrived at the scene apprehended him. Shalom Yohai Cherki, who was critically wounded, succumbed to his injuries at the hospital. The second victim, Shira Klein remains in serious condition at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem's Ein Karem.
Kutina's lawyer, Nasser Massis, said at a hearing on Thursday that the incident in Jerusalem was an accident that could've been caused due to mechanical failure in the car.
In his initial interrogation, Kutina told police investigators that he felt like he was "being chased by an Egged bus" which is why he had no choice but to veer off his lane. Later on he admitted to lying and said he gave his first version so police would think he was mentally ill. During the investigation he was sent to two psychiatric evaluations and was found fit to stand trial.
At Kutina's remand extension hearing on Thursday, a police representative said that after questioning the suspect and his relatives, it was revealed he was hospitalized at the Jerusalem Mental Health Center in the past. The initial investigation also found that Kutina has been taking anti-depressants for the past eight years.
According to the psychiatrist, the suspect was lucid, present and rejects having suicidal thoughts. The psychiatrist went on to say Kutina understands the different roles in the court as well as what he was arrested for, noting there is no evidence of a severe mental state that would require hospitalization.
While the judge extended Kutina's remand until Friday based on this psychiatric opinion, she recommended the prison doctor monitor him out of concern Kutina would hurt himself.
Police said Kutina is married and known as a very religious man who worked as a cleaner at a mosque in 'Anata. He used to send his friends text messages that were religious in nature, praising Prophet Muhammad.
Ynet reported Monday that a year and a half ago, the Health Ministry tried to suspend Kutina's driver's license pending the examination of his mental state. However, the move fell between the cracks due to the lack of coordination with the Transportation Ministry - which might have not received the Health Ministry's request at all.
He was also convicted in 2012 of intentionally causing damage to property.
Khaled Kutina confessed to deliberately ramming his car at two Israelis waiting for the bus in Jerusalem last week, killing a man and wounding a woman, it was cleared for publication on Tuesday.
The investigation found that several hours before the attack, Kutina drove his family from 'Anata to East Jerusalem. At the exit from 'Anata, the car was held at a checkpoint, which Kutina said made him angry. He decided to commit the attack after dropping off his family. In his interrogation, 37-year-old Kutina admitted he was driving along Highway 1 looking for Jews to harm as revenge for his "miserable life."
The investigation found that several hours before the attack, Kutina drove his family from 'Anata to East Jerusalem. At the exit from 'Anata, the car was held at a checkpoint, which Kutina said made him angry. He decided to commit the attack after dropping off his family. In his interrogation, 37-year-old Kutina admitted he was driving along Highway 1 looking for Jews to harm as revenge for his "miserable life."
Jerusalem Police and Border Police forces that arrived at the scene apprehended him. Shalom Yohai Cherki, who was critically wounded, succumbed to his injuries at the hospital. The second victim, Shira Klein remains in serious condition at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem's Ein Karem.
Kutina's lawyer, Nasser Massis, said at a hearing on Thursday that the incident in Jerusalem was an accident that could've been caused due to mechanical failure in the car.
In his initial interrogation, Kutina told police investigators that he felt like he was "being chased by an Egged bus" which is why he had no choice but to veer off his lane. Later on he admitted to lying and said he gave his first version so police would think he was mentally ill. During the investigation he was sent to two psychiatric evaluations and was found fit to stand trial.
At Kutina's remand extension hearing on Thursday, a police representative said that after questioning the suspect and his relatives, it was revealed he was hospitalized at the Jerusalem Mental Health Center in the past. The initial investigation also found that Kutina has been taking anti-depressants for the past eight years.
According to the psychiatrist, the suspect was lucid, present and rejects having suicidal thoughts. The psychiatrist went on to say Kutina understands the different roles in the court as well as what he was arrested for, noting there is no evidence of a severe mental state that would require hospitalization.
While the judge extended Kutina's remand until Friday based on this psychiatric opinion, she recommended the prison doctor monitor him out of concern Kutina would hurt himself.
Police said Kutina is married and known as a very religious man who worked as a cleaner at a mosque in 'Anata. He used to send his friends text messages that were religious in nature, praising Prophet Muhammad.
Ynet reported Monday that a year and a half ago, the Health Ministry tried to suspend Kutina's driver's license pending the examination of his mental state. However, the move fell between the cracks due to the lack of coordination with the Transportation Ministry - which might have not received the Health Ministry's request at all.
He was also convicted in 2012 of intentionally causing damage to property.
The 30-year-old Palestinian detainee Firas Dabour, from Tulkarem, tied the knot with the 19-year-old Nasqa Abdullah Hamad, the Ahrar Center for Prisoner Studies and Human Rights said.
Prisoner Dabour, currently serving a 15-year prison-term at the Israeli Negev jail, has been suffering from an injury he sustained in his head after he was shot by the Israeli occupation army during the intifada (uprising) of al-Aqsa.
The Ahrar Center quoted the prisoner’s family as stating that the groom and the bride were joined in absentia in a typically Palestinian arranged marriage and with the consent of the to-be spouses. Procedures have been underway to carry out the binding marriage contract at the Islamic court.
Head of the Ahrar Center, Fuad al-Khuffash, said the engagement has not been the only one of its kind as other families have served as traditional broker parties between future grooms and brides, in a move aimed at uplifting the detainee’s self-esteem and boost their steadfastness in their fight for freedom.
Prisoner Dabour, currently serving a 15-year prison-term at the Israeli Negev jail, has been suffering from an injury he sustained in his head after he was shot by the Israeli occupation army during the intifada (uprising) of al-Aqsa.
The Ahrar Center quoted the prisoner’s family as stating that the groom and the bride were joined in absentia in a typically Palestinian arranged marriage and with the consent of the to-be spouses. Procedures have been underway to carry out the binding marriage contract at the Islamic court.
Head of the Ahrar Center, Fuad al-Khuffash, said the engagement has not been the only one of its kind as other families have served as traditional broker parties between future grooms and brides, in a move aimed at uplifting the detainee’s self-esteem and boost their steadfastness in their fight for freedom.
The Israeli Authorities decided, Tuesday, to deny access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, to two elderly men for 30 days, and a mosque guard for ten days.
The mosque guard, Hamza Khalaf, 24 years of age, was interrogated, Monday, in a police station in the Hebron Gate area, in Jerusalem’s Old City.
He was released a few hours later, and received the order Tuesday.
The Police accuses Khalaf of “incitement” for trying to prevent Israeli extremists from invading the mosque compound, and for “not preventing the Muslim worshipers from intercepting the Israelis while entering the mosque compound,” on Sunday.
On Monday, two Palestinian elders, identified as Taha Shawahna, 69, from Sakhnin, and Kheir ash-Shamy, 59, from the al-Makr village, received orders denying them access to the mosque for 30 days.
Israeli recently issued dozens of orders denying men and women, in addition to several guards of the Al-Aqsa, from entering the mosque compound for different periods.
The mosque guard, Hamza Khalaf, 24 years of age, was interrogated, Monday, in a police station in the Hebron Gate area, in Jerusalem’s Old City.
He was released a few hours later, and received the order Tuesday.
The Police accuses Khalaf of “incitement” for trying to prevent Israeli extremists from invading the mosque compound, and for “not preventing the Muslim worshipers from intercepting the Israelis while entering the mosque compound,” on Sunday.
On Monday, two Palestinian elders, identified as Taha Shawahna, 69, from Sakhnin, and Kheir ash-Shamy, 59, from the al-Makr village, received orders denying them access to the mosque for 30 days.
Israeli recently issued dozens of orders denying men and women, in addition to several guards of the Al-Aqsa, from entering the mosque compound for different periods.
