16 apr 2016
On the eve of the Palestinian Prisoner Day, the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said that 7,000 Palestinian prisoners are currently held behind Israeli bars including 400 children and 69 women.
Over 700 Palestinians are imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention, often targeting community leaders and activists, the PPS added.
700 other prisoners are held despite suffering different diseases, 23 of whom are held in Ramla prison hospital. 30 Palestinian prisoners spent more than 20 consecutive years in Israeli jails including Karim Younis, Maher Younis, and Nael al-Barghouthi.
Six Palestinian freely-elected MPs are also held in Israeli jails, while 18 Palestinian journalists suffer difficult detention conditions behind Israeli bars. On 17 April each year, the Palestinian people, the Arab world, and the free people around the world mark an international solidarity day with Palestinian prisoners.
Over 700 Palestinians are imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention, often targeting community leaders and activists, the PPS added.
700 other prisoners are held despite suffering different diseases, 23 of whom are held in Ramla prison hospital. 30 Palestinian prisoners spent more than 20 consecutive years in Israeli jails including Karim Younis, Maher Younis, and Nael al-Barghouthi.
Six Palestinian freely-elected MPs are also held in Israeli jails, while 18 Palestinian journalists suffer difficult detention conditions behind Israeli bars. On 17 April each year, the Palestinian people, the Arab world, and the free people around the world mark an international solidarity day with Palestinian prisoners.
The United Health Works Committee (UHRC), in occupied Palestine, has reported Friday that Israel is holding captive 1700 ailing detainees, including 25 who suffer from various types of cancer, and are in urgent need of specialized medical care.
The statement came in preparation for April 17, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, and revealed that the Israeli authorities are not providing the detainees with the needed medical treatment, and largely just give them painkilling pills, in addition to denying them the right to specialized treatment.
The UHRC urged the international community, and all related local, regional and international human right groups to intervene, and “to save the ailing detainees from the slow death they are facing”, as the Israeli Prison Authority denies them the basic right of access to specialized medical treatment.
It also called for heading to various international health, legal and human rights groups, to expose the serious Israeli violations against the detainees, and to Israel’s compliance with International Law, and all human rights treaties.
Israel is holding captive at least 7000 Palestinians in 22 prisons, detention and interrogation centers, including seven detainees who have been imprisoned since more than 30 years.
Among the detainees are 67 women, 400 children, 6 elected legislators and ministers, and 700 Palestinians who are held under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders, without charges or trial.
The statement came in preparation for April 17, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, and revealed that the Israeli authorities are not providing the detainees with the needed medical treatment, and largely just give them painkilling pills, in addition to denying them the right to specialized treatment.
The UHRC urged the international community, and all related local, regional and international human right groups to intervene, and “to save the ailing detainees from the slow death they are facing”, as the Israeli Prison Authority denies them the basic right of access to specialized medical treatment.
It also called for heading to various international health, legal and human rights groups, to expose the serious Israeli violations against the detainees, and to Israel’s compliance with International Law, and all human rights treaties.
Israel is holding captive at least 7000 Palestinians in 22 prisons, detention and interrogation centers, including seven detainees who have been imprisoned since more than 30 years.
Among the detainees are 67 women, 400 children, 6 elected legislators and ministers, and 700 Palestinians who are held under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders, without charges or trial.
Palestinian prisoners held in Nafha, Raymond, Eshel, and Negev declared a one-day hunger strike on Saturday, the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said.
The hunger strike came in protest against the Israeli brutal attack on Palestinian prisoners held in section 14 in Nafha jail, the PPS explained in a statement issued today.
Earlier Tuesday, dozens of Palestinian prisoners were injured after Israeli Special Forces stormed section 14 in Nafha prison. Several injured prisoners were transferred to Soroka Hospital while others were arbitrarily moved to solitary confinement.
The PA committee for prisoners and ex-prisoners affirmed that large numbers of heavily-armed Israeli Special Forces suddenly and violently stormed section 14 and attacked and sprayed the prisoners with pepper gas.
The hunger strike came in protest against the Israeli brutal attack on Palestinian prisoners held in section 14 in Nafha jail, the PPS explained in a statement issued today.
Earlier Tuesday, dozens of Palestinian prisoners were injured after Israeli Special Forces stormed section 14 in Nafha prison. Several injured prisoners were transferred to Soroka Hospital while others were arbitrarily moved to solitary confinement.
The PA committee for prisoners and ex-prisoners affirmed that large numbers of heavily-armed Israeli Special Forces suddenly and violently stormed section 14 and attacked and sprayed the prisoners with pepper gas.
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Friday, five Palestinians during various military invasions and attacks in different neighborhoods, in occupied Jerusalem, in addition to firing gas bombs and rubber-coated steel bullets, causing many injuries.
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic), in Jerusalem, said the soldiers invaded Bab Hatta neighborhood, in the Old City, searched homes and kidnapped two Palestinians.
The two kidnapped Palestinians, Gheith Abu Haidar and Mohammad Sharifa, were severely beaten by the soldiers before being the soldiers took them to an interrogation center in Jerusalem.
Silwanic added that the soldiers invaded the al-‘Eesawiyya town, in Jerusalem, and kidnapped three Palestinians, one of them has been identified as Samir ‘Obeid.
Mohammad Abu al-Hummus, member of the Follow-Up Committee in al-‘Eesawiyya, said the soldiers fired many rubber-coated steel bullets, and gas bombs, causing many Palestinians, including an elderly woman in her own home, to suffer severe effects of tear gas inhalation.
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic), in Jerusalem, said the soldiers invaded Bab Hatta neighborhood, in the Old City, searched homes and kidnapped two Palestinians.
The two kidnapped Palestinians, Gheith Abu Haidar and Mohammad Sharifa, were severely beaten by the soldiers before being the soldiers took them to an interrogation center in Jerusalem.
Silwanic added that the soldiers invaded the al-‘Eesawiyya town, in Jerusalem, and kidnapped three Palestinians, one of them has been identified as Samir ‘Obeid.
Mohammad Abu al-Hummus, member of the Follow-Up Committee in al-‘Eesawiyya, said the soldiers fired many rubber-coated steel bullets, and gas bombs, causing many Palestinians, including an elderly woman in her own home, to suffer severe effects of tear gas inhalation.
