29 aug 2016
The media spokesman for Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies, Riyad al-Ashqar, revealed that over 350 students were deprived of their right of education because of being arrested in Israeli jails mostly in Ofer and Megiddo prisons.
Ashqar underlined that Israel forces have escalated arrest campaigns against Palestinian youths below 18 years old including school students.
This large number does include Palestinian university students who are arrested in Israeli jails, he added.
Ashqar called on institutions concerned with child rights to bear their responsibilities and to pressure Israeli occupation authorities for the release of Palestinian school students.
He perceived arresting children below 18 years of age as a blatant violation of all international conventions which prohibit the arrest of children.
Ashqar underlined that Israel forces have escalated arrest campaigns against Palestinian youths below 18 years old including school students.
This large number does include Palestinian university students who are arrested in Israeli jails, he added.
Ashqar called on institutions concerned with child rights to bear their responsibilities and to pressure Israeli occupation authorities for the release of Palestinian school students.
He perceived arresting children below 18 years of age as a blatant violation of all international conventions which prohibit the arrest of children.
Israeli home front commander handed the Palestinian lawyer Khaled Zabarqah a deportation extension order that bans him from staying in Occupied Jerusalem for the third time without specifying extension period.
Zabarqah said that the Israeli commander asked him to appeal the deportation order which ends first of September. He was deported after the charge of supporting the Muslims sit-inners at the Aqsa Mosque and constituting "danger to Israel’s security".
Lawyer Zabarqa who is concerned with issues of the Aqsa and Occupied Jerusalem described the deportation order as an arbitrary and racist practice. However, deportation orders increase Palestinians’ adherence to their rights in Occupied Jerusalem and the Muslims’ holy site, he said.
Zabarqah said that the Israeli commander asked him to appeal the deportation order which ends first of September. He was deported after the charge of supporting the Muslims sit-inners at the Aqsa Mosque and constituting "danger to Israel’s security".
Lawyer Zabarqa who is concerned with issues of the Aqsa and Occupied Jerusalem described the deportation order as an arbitrary and racist practice. However, deportation orders increase Palestinians’ adherence to their rights in Occupied Jerusalem and the Muslims’ holy site, he said.
Three Palestinian schoolchildren were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at noon Monday following violent clashes that rocked Ourif town, to the south of Nablus province.
A PIC journalist said the occupation troops rolled into Ourif’s eastern corners and closed the gates of the local secondary school, where Palestinian instructors were locked up for hours. Violent clashes burst out in the area.
The IOF attacked Palestinian protesters, schoolchildren, and teachers with randomly-shot spates of teargas canisters. The assault reportedly culminated in the abduction of three Palestinian schoolchildren.
A PIC journalist said the occupation troops rolled into Ourif’s eastern corners and closed the gates of the local secondary school, where Palestinian instructors were locked up for hours. Violent clashes burst out in the area.
The IOF attacked Palestinian protesters, schoolchildren, and teachers with randomly-shot spates of teargas canisters. The assault reportedly culminated in the abduction of three Palestinian schoolchildren.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out overnight raids and arrests in different areas of the West Bank and Jerusalem.
In Nablus, Israeli troops stormed at dawn Monday the southern town of Burin and arrested three young men from their homes.
The detainees were identified as Ahmed Tamim, Ahmed Amran and Ali al-Qaddafi. The IOF also arrested four young men from Jenin at a makeshift military checkpoint near Ramallah.
Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that Israeli soldiers intercepted the car the four young men were aboard, searched it and interrogated them before taking them handcuffed to an undeclared place.
The sources added that more than 10 citizens from different areas of Jenin had been taken prisoners at makeshift checkpoints during the past three days.
In Jenin refugee camp, the IOF kidnapped two young men from their homes. Violent clashes also broke out between the occupation troops and local young men during the IOF campaign in the camp.
Israeli military forces also stormed Jenin city and Ya'bad town at dawn, with no reported arrests.
In al-Khalil, violent clashes took place after midnight between local young men and occupation troops in Beit Ummar town. No arrests happened. In east Jerusalem, Israeli police troops at dawn broke into homes in Ras al-Amud neighborhood of Silwan district and kidnapped three teenagers under age 18.
The detained teens are Noaman Faraj, 16, Omar Shuwaiki, 16, and Ahmed al-Razem 17. In another context, an Israeli court extended the detention of Badr Haidar and Haiman, who were arrested last Wednesday. Both of them are from Iraq Burin town in Nablus.
In Nablus, Israeli troops stormed at dawn Monday the southern town of Burin and arrested three young men from their homes.
The detainees were identified as Ahmed Tamim, Ahmed Amran and Ali al-Qaddafi. The IOF also arrested four young men from Jenin at a makeshift military checkpoint near Ramallah.
Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that Israeli soldiers intercepted the car the four young men were aboard, searched it and interrogated them before taking them handcuffed to an undeclared place.
The sources added that more than 10 citizens from different areas of Jenin had been taken prisoners at makeshift checkpoints during the past three days.
In Jenin refugee camp, the IOF kidnapped two young men from their homes. Violent clashes also broke out between the occupation troops and local young men during the IOF campaign in the camp.
Israeli military forces also stormed Jenin city and Ya'bad town at dawn, with no reported arrests.
In al-Khalil, violent clashes took place after midnight between local young men and occupation troops in Beit Ummar town. No arrests happened. In east Jerusalem, Israeli police troops at dawn broke into homes in Ras al-Amud neighborhood of Silwan district and kidnapped three teenagers under age 18.
The detained teens are Noaman Faraj, 16, Omar Shuwaiki, 16, and Ahmed al-Razem 17. In another context, an Israeli court extended the detention of Badr Haidar and Haiman, who were arrested last Wednesday. Both of them are from Iraq Burin town in Nablus.
The Palestinian commission for detainees' and ex-detainees' affairs has said that seven prisoners in Ashkelon jail suffer from very difficult health conditions as a result of their exposure to deliberate medical neglect.
"The policy of medical neglect and deprivation is an intentional and systematic measure pursued by the occupation prison authority to kill the prisoners one way or another," the commission stated Sunday.
It added that those seven prisoners are not provided with proper health care or medication, appealing to international health and human rights organizations to pressure Israel to stop its medical neglect policy against the detainees in its jails.
55 Palestinian prisoners with medical conditions have died in different Israeli jails. Eight others died following their release.
Their death was attributed to the medical neglect policy pursued by Israel against Palestinian prisoners in its prison, according to local human rights reports.
"The policy of medical neglect and deprivation is an intentional and systematic measure pursued by the occupation prison authority to kill the prisoners one way or another," the commission stated Sunday.
It added that those seven prisoners are not provided with proper health care or medication, appealing to international health and human rights organizations to pressure Israel to stop its medical neglect policy against the detainees in its jails.
55 Palestinian prisoners with medical conditions have died in different Israeli jails. Eight others died following their release.
Their death was attributed to the medical neglect policy pursued by Israel against Palestinian prisoners in its prison, according to local human rights reports.
Israeli navy ships attacked, earlier Monday, a number of Palestinian fishing boats in Gaza territorial waters, in the Sudaniyya Sea area, northwest of Gaza city, kidnapped two fishers and confiscated their boat.
The WAFA Palestinian News Agency said the navy opened fire on several boats, before attacking one of them, and kidnapped two fishers identified as Mahdi Mohammad Abu Ryala and Nafeth Mahdi Abu Ryala.
The navy took the two fishers, and their boat, to the Ashdod port, close to Gaza.
The attack is the latest of frequent Israeli violations against Gaza fishers, farmers, and workers, in border areas, in different parts of the coastal region.
The WAFA Palestinian News Agency said the navy opened fire on several boats, before attacking one of them, and kidnapped two fishers identified as Mahdi Mohammad Abu Ryala and Nafeth Mahdi Abu Ryala.
The navy took the two fishers, and their boat, to the Ashdod port, close to Gaza.
The attack is the latest of frequent Israeli violations against Gaza fishers, farmers, and workers, in border areas, in different parts of the coastal region.
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Monday at dawn, six Palestinians from the northern West Bank district of Jenin, four of them after stopping them at a military roadblock on the Nablus-Ramallah road.
The Jenin office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said the soldiers invaded the Jenin refugee camp, searched homes, and kidnapped a young man identified as Mohammad al-Othman.
The soldiers also kidnapped a former political prisoner, identified as Ramzi al-Qneiri, from his home in the Jenin refugee camp.
The invasion into the camp led to clashes between the soldiers and local youths, who hurled stones and empty bottles at the army vehicles, while the soldiers fired gas bombs, concussion grenades, and rubber-coated steel bullets.
In addition, the soldiers kidnapped four Palestinians from Jenin and nearby Qabatia town, after stopping them at a military roadblock on the main Ramallah-Nablus road, and took them to an interrogation center.
The PPS said the kidnapped young men have been identified as Mohammad Taiseer Nazzal, Ahmad Waleed Sa’adi, Waleed Mohammad Sa’adi and Ghassan ad-Dablah.
On Monday morning, the soldiers installed a roadblock at the western entrance of Hebron city, in the southern part of the West Bank, stopped and searched dozens of cars, and inspected the ID cards of the passengers.
The Jenin office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said the soldiers invaded the Jenin refugee camp, searched homes, and kidnapped a young man identified as Mohammad al-Othman.
The soldiers also kidnapped a former political prisoner, identified as Ramzi al-Qneiri, from his home in the Jenin refugee camp.
The invasion into the camp led to clashes between the soldiers and local youths, who hurled stones and empty bottles at the army vehicles, while the soldiers fired gas bombs, concussion grenades, and rubber-coated steel bullets.
In addition, the soldiers kidnapped four Palestinians from Jenin and nearby Qabatia town, after stopping them at a military roadblock on the main Ramallah-Nablus road, and took them to an interrogation center.
The PPS said the kidnapped young men have been identified as Mohammad Taiseer Nazzal, Ahmad Waleed Sa’adi, Waleed Mohammad Sa’adi and Ghassan ad-Dablah.
On Monday morning, the soldiers installed a roadblock at the western entrance of Hebron city, in the southern part of the West Bank, stopped and searched dozens of cars, and inspected the ID cards of the passengers.
Palestinian detainee Raed Mohammad al-Saadi entered his 28th year in Israeli custody on Sunday, making him one of a number of Palestinians currently detained the longest by Israel.
Al-Saadi, a 49-year-old native of the village of Silat al-Harithiya, in the northern occupied West Bank district of Jenin, was detained on Aug. 28, 1989, according to Ma’an News Agency.
He was sentenced to two life sentences in prison for carrying out attacks during the First Intifada which led to the deaths of Israeli soldiers and settlers.
Al-Saadi is the longest held Palestinian prisoner from the Jenin district. He was supposed to be released as part of a prisoner swap deal in conjunction with US-mediated peace talks with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 2014, along with a number of fellow Palestinian prisoners held since before the 1993 Oslo Accords.
However, the deal was later suspended following the disappearance of three Israeli teenagers in June, which led to a crackdown in the occupied West Bank and a devastating Israeli offensive in the besieged Gaza Strip.
A massive arrest campaign allegedly targeting Hamas affiliates, who were unsubstantially implicated in the crime, was launched. Yet, no evidence to support the claim was ever produced.
According to Palestinian prisoners rights group Addameer, 7,000 Palestinians were detained by Israel as of July, 458 of whom were serving life sentences.
Al-Saadi is one of 30 prisoners detained since before the Oslo Accords, with 15 Palestinians serving more than 25 years in Israeli prisons.
Al-Saadi, a 49-year-old native of the village of Silat al-Harithiya, in the northern occupied West Bank district of Jenin, was detained on Aug. 28, 1989, according to Ma’an News Agency.
He was sentenced to two life sentences in prison for carrying out attacks during the First Intifada which led to the deaths of Israeli soldiers and settlers.
Al-Saadi is the longest held Palestinian prisoner from the Jenin district. He was supposed to be released as part of a prisoner swap deal in conjunction with US-mediated peace talks with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 2014, along with a number of fellow Palestinian prisoners held since before the 1993 Oslo Accords.
However, the deal was later suspended following the disappearance of three Israeli teenagers in June, which led to a crackdown in the occupied West Bank and a devastating Israeli offensive in the besieged Gaza Strip.
A massive arrest campaign allegedly targeting Hamas affiliates, who were unsubstantially implicated in the crime, was launched. Yet, no evidence to support the claim was ever produced.
According to Palestinian prisoners rights group Addameer, 7,000 Palestinians were detained by Israel as of July, 458 of whom were serving life sentences.
Al-Saadi is one of 30 prisoners detained since before the Oslo Accords, with 15 Palestinians serving more than 25 years in Israeli prisons.
28 aug 2016
Israeli Occupation forces (IOF) on Sunday arrested a 17-year-old minor from Shufat refugee camp in Occupied Jerusalem at Shufat barrier after allegedly finding a knife in his possession.
Israeli police said in a statement that the minor was transferred to an investigation center. No injuries were documented among policemen, the statement added.
IOF arrested another twelve Palestinians in Occupied Jerusalem including 9 youths from al-Ram village and two others from Qalandya refugee camp.
The last one was arrested from his work place in al-Abbasiah neighborhood in Silwan town in the West Bank. Israeli forces arrested on Saturday a 20-year-old Palestinian girl at Qalandya barrier after the same claim of holding a knife.
Israeli police said in a statement that the minor was transferred to an investigation center. No injuries were documented among policemen, the statement added.
IOF arrested another twelve Palestinians in Occupied Jerusalem including 9 youths from al-Ram village and two others from Qalandya refugee camp.
The last one was arrested from his work place in al-Abbasiah neighborhood in Silwan town in the West Bank. Israeli forces arrested on Saturday a 20-year-old Palestinian girl at Qalandya barrier after the same claim of holding a knife.
An Israeli court has renewed the administrative detention of Murad Fashafisha, from Jaba village in Jenin, for another four months.
A local radio station said on Saturday that the same court had already extended the detention of Fashafisha twice before. He has been an internee in the Negev jail since October 29, 2015.
The prisoner had already spent a total of four years in Israeli jails following previous arrests.
A local radio station said on Saturday that the same court had already extended the detention of Fashafisha twice before. He has been an internee in the Negev jail since October 29, 2015.
The prisoner had already spent a total of four years in Israeli jails following previous arrests.
A Palestinian civilian was kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Sunday morning near the Israeli illegal settlement of Haggai, in southern al-Khalil, on allegations that he was holding a knife.
Israeli officers claimed they found the knife after they searched the youth.
The captive was reportedly intending to carry out an anti-occupation stabbing attack.
The youth was dragged to an Israeli detention center pending further interrogation.
Israeli officers claimed they found the knife after they searched the youth.
The captive was reportedly intending to carry out an anti-occupation stabbing attack.
The youth was dragged to an Israeli detention center pending further interrogation.
27 aug 2016
The Israeli occupation navy on Saturday morning kidnapped two Palestinian fishermen off the coast of Beit Lahia district, north of the Gaza Strip.
According to a local committee documenting Israel's violations against Gaza fishermen, Israeli gunboats opened machinegun fire at Palestinian fishing boats, chased two of them and rounded up two fishermen after destroying the boat they were aboard.
The Israeli navy also confiscated the boat of the two detained fishermen, who were identified as Abdul-Latif Taroush and Ahmed Abu Ihsan.
In another incident, the Israeli army opened fire at Palestinian farmers as they were working their lands to the east of Azzeitun and Shuja'iyya neighborhoods in Gaza City. Luckily, none of the farmers was hurt in the gunfire attack.
According to a local committee documenting Israel's violations against Gaza fishermen, Israeli gunboats opened machinegun fire at Palestinian fishing boats, chased two of them and rounded up two fishermen after destroying the boat they were aboard.
The Israeli navy also confiscated the boat of the two detained fishermen, who were identified as Abdul-Latif Taroush and Ahmed Abu Ihsan.
In another incident, the Israeli army opened fire at Palestinian farmers as they were working their lands to the east of Azzeitun and Shuja'iyya neighborhoods in Gaza City. Luckily, none of the farmers was hurt in the gunfire attack.
Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, Saturday, a young Palestinian man, and a young woman, in two separate incidents in Hebron, and the Qalandia terminal north of occupied Jerusalem, allegedly for carrying knives.
Israeli military sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, said the soldiers detained a young Palestinian man near the Ibrahimi Mosque in the city, for “carrying a knife.”
The sources claimed that the young man “confessed under interrogation” that he intended to carry out a stabbing attack against the soldiers “to avenge the death of his cousin” who was killed by the army nearly six months ago.
In addition, the army also kidnapped a young woman while trying to cross the Qalandia military terminal, north of Jerusalem, reportedly for “locating a knife in her bag.”
The woman was cuffed and blindfolded before the soldiers took her to an interrogation facility in Jerusalem.
Israeli military sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, said the soldiers detained a young Palestinian man near the Ibrahimi Mosque in the city, for “carrying a knife.”
The sources claimed that the young man “confessed under interrogation” that he intended to carry out a stabbing attack against the soldiers “to avenge the death of his cousin” who was killed by the army nearly six months ago.
In addition, the army also kidnapped a young woman while trying to cross the Qalandia military terminal, north of Jerusalem, reportedly for “locating a knife in her bag.”
The woman was cuffed and blindfolded before the soldiers took her to an interrogation facility in Jerusalem.
Four hunger-striking Palestinian detainees are reportedly in critical condition at Israel’s Assaf Harofeh Hospital, according to a statement released on Saturday by the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs, as 120 other Palestinian prisoners continued hunger strikes, in a mass solidarity movement.
The four hunger strikers were identified by the committee as Muhammad and Mahmoud Balboul, who have been on strike for 51 and 53 days respectively, and Ayyad al-Hreimi and Malek al-Qadi who have both been on strike for more than 40 days. All of the hunger strikers remained handcuffed to their hospital beds, according to the statement.
According to Ma’an, each of the prisoners declared a hunger strike in protest of being placed in administrative detention — an Israeli policy of detention without charge or trial almost exclusively used against Palestinians.
The committee said, in the statement, that the hunger strikers were in “dire health conditions,” as they have lost a significant amount of weight and have been suffering from pains and numbing in their bodies.
The committee warned of the critical nature of their health conditions and demanded popular, legal, and political efforts to help save their lives.
The committee added that 120 Palestinian prisoners have continued their solidarity strikes first launched in support of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) member Bilal Kayed, who ended his 71-day hunger strike on Wednesday, saying that Israel Prison Service (IPS) has continued to impose punishments on the prisoners, including group confinement, banning visits, and imposing fines.
A meeting was reportedly held between the prisoners and IPS officials to discuss the situation, but they did not reach an agreement, the committee said in the statement.
The current hunger strikers declared their strikes amid a mass movement that spread across Israel’s prisons when Kayed announced his strike on June 14 after being sentenced to administrative detention on the day he was expected to be released after serving a 14-and-half-year sentence.
Kayed was one of the most high-profile hunger strikers since Palestinian journalist Muhammad al-Qeeq came near death during a 94-day hunger strike protesting his administrative detention order, before he was finally released in May.
Israel’s policy of administrative detention, which allows Israel to detain someone without trial or charge, is almost exclusively used against Palestinians and has been widely criticized by rights group which have accused Israel of using the policy to erode Palestinian political and social life by detaining scores of Palestinians without proof of wrongdoing.
According to Addameer, as of July, 7,000 Palestinians were being held in Israeli prisons, 750 of whom were being held under administrative detention.
The four hunger strikers were identified by the committee as Muhammad and Mahmoud Balboul, who have been on strike for 51 and 53 days respectively, and Ayyad al-Hreimi and Malek al-Qadi who have both been on strike for more than 40 days. All of the hunger strikers remained handcuffed to their hospital beds, according to the statement.
According to Ma’an, each of the prisoners declared a hunger strike in protest of being placed in administrative detention — an Israeli policy of detention without charge or trial almost exclusively used against Palestinians.
The committee said, in the statement, that the hunger strikers were in “dire health conditions,” as they have lost a significant amount of weight and have been suffering from pains and numbing in their bodies.
The committee warned of the critical nature of their health conditions and demanded popular, legal, and political efforts to help save their lives.
The committee added that 120 Palestinian prisoners have continued their solidarity strikes first launched in support of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) member Bilal Kayed, who ended his 71-day hunger strike on Wednesday, saying that Israel Prison Service (IPS) has continued to impose punishments on the prisoners, including group confinement, banning visits, and imposing fines.
A meeting was reportedly held between the prisoners and IPS officials to discuss the situation, but they did not reach an agreement, the committee said in the statement.
The current hunger strikers declared their strikes amid a mass movement that spread across Israel’s prisons when Kayed announced his strike on June 14 after being sentenced to administrative detention on the day he was expected to be released after serving a 14-and-half-year sentence.
Kayed was one of the most high-profile hunger strikers since Palestinian journalist Muhammad al-Qeeq came near death during a 94-day hunger strike protesting his administrative detention order, before he was finally released in May.
Israel’s policy of administrative detention, which allows Israel to detain someone without trial or charge, is almost exclusively used against Palestinians and has been widely criticized by rights group which have accused Israel of using the policy to erode Palestinian political and social life by detaining scores of Palestinians without proof of wrongdoing.
According to Addameer, as of July, 7,000 Palestinians were being held in Israeli prisons, 750 of whom were being held under administrative detention.
The Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission said that at least 750 Palestinians are currently being held without charge or trial in Israeli detention facilities.
The commission said, in a press statement, that the Israeli government continues to violate the Fourth Geneva Conventions related to administrative detention, an archaic Israeli policy, dating back to the time of British Mandate, in which detainees are held, for renewable periods of up to 6 months, without charge or trial.
The commission noted that the month of October, 2015, witnessed an unprecedented and significant increase in this procedure; by almost 50%, in the number of Palestinians who were placed under administrative detention by the Israeli authorities. The center recorded a 100 percent increase in the number of Palestinians placed by Israel under administrative detention, when compared to the year 2014.
It further noted, according to WAFA correspondence, that, since the year 2000, the total number of administrative detention orders has reached 25 thousand.
On April 10th, the United Nations Human Rights Office (OHCHR) expressed concern by the continued and increasing use of administrative detention by Israeli authorities against Palestinians, who are being held without charge or trial, often on the basis of secret evidence, for periods of up to six months.
According to the UN news Centre, “the Israeli practice of administrative detention has been condemned on numerous occasions by the UN Human Rights Office and the Human Rights Committee that oversees implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which Israel has ratified.’
“OHCHR reiterates it call on Israel to end its practice of administrative detention and to either release without delay or to promptly charge all administrative detainees and prosecute them with all the judicial guarantees required by international human rights law, said OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani.
Addameer Human Rights Center has stated, “Administrative detention is the most extreme measure that international humanitarian law allows an occupying power to use against residents of occupied territory. As such, states are not allowed to use it in a sweeping manner. To the contrary, administrative detention may be used against protected persons in occupied territory only for “imperative reasons of security” (Fourth Geneva Convention, Art.78).
“In practice, Israel routinely uses administrative detention in violation of the strict parameters established by international law. Tellingly, Israel has claimed to be under a continuous state of emergency sufficient to justify the use of administrative detention since its inception in 1948. In addition, administrative detention is frequently used – in direct contravention to international law – for collective and criminal punishment rather than for the prevention of future threat.”
In practice, Israel’s administrative detention regime violates numerous other international standards as well. For example, administrative detainees from the West Bank are deported from the occupied territory and interned inside Israel, in direct violation of Fourth Geneva Convention prohibitions (Articles 49 and 76), added the center.
Furthermore, ‘administrative detainees are often denied regular family visits in accordance with international law standards, and Israel regularly fails to separate administrative detainees from the regular prison population as required by law. Moreover, in the case of child detainees, Israel regularly fails to take into account the best interests of the child as required under international law’.
According to International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Article 9, “Although international human rights law permits some ed use of administrative detention in emergency situations, the authorities are required to follow basic rules for detention, including a fair hearing at which the detainee can challenge the reasons for his or her detention. Moreover, to use such detention, there must be a public emergency that threatens the life of the nation, and detention can only be ordered on an individual, case-by-case basis without discrimination of any kind.”
As Israeli human rights group B’Tselem affirms, the right to liberty is one of the pillars of human rights, and prolonged arbitrary detention constitutes a breach of international customary law.
The commission said, in a press statement, that the Israeli government continues to violate the Fourth Geneva Conventions related to administrative detention, an archaic Israeli policy, dating back to the time of British Mandate, in which detainees are held, for renewable periods of up to 6 months, without charge or trial.
The commission noted that the month of October, 2015, witnessed an unprecedented and significant increase in this procedure; by almost 50%, in the number of Palestinians who were placed under administrative detention by the Israeli authorities. The center recorded a 100 percent increase in the number of Palestinians placed by Israel under administrative detention, when compared to the year 2014.
It further noted, according to WAFA correspondence, that, since the year 2000, the total number of administrative detention orders has reached 25 thousand.
On April 10th, the United Nations Human Rights Office (OHCHR) expressed concern by the continued and increasing use of administrative detention by Israeli authorities against Palestinians, who are being held without charge or trial, often on the basis of secret evidence, for periods of up to six months.
According to the UN news Centre, “the Israeli practice of administrative detention has been condemned on numerous occasions by the UN Human Rights Office and the Human Rights Committee that oversees implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which Israel has ratified.’
“OHCHR reiterates it call on Israel to end its practice of administrative detention and to either release without delay or to promptly charge all administrative detainees and prosecute them with all the judicial guarantees required by international human rights law, said OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani.
Addameer Human Rights Center has stated, “Administrative detention is the most extreme measure that international humanitarian law allows an occupying power to use against residents of occupied territory. As such, states are not allowed to use it in a sweeping manner. To the contrary, administrative detention may be used against protected persons in occupied territory only for “imperative reasons of security” (Fourth Geneva Convention, Art.78).
“In practice, Israel routinely uses administrative detention in violation of the strict parameters established by international law. Tellingly, Israel has claimed to be under a continuous state of emergency sufficient to justify the use of administrative detention since its inception in 1948. In addition, administrative detention is frequently used – in direct contravention to international law – for collective and criminal punishment rather than for the prevention of future threat.”
In practice, Israel’s administrative detention regime violates numerous other international standards as well. For example, administrative detainees from the West Bank are deported from the occupied territory and interned inside Israel, in direct violation of Fourth Geneva Convention prohibitions (Articles 49 and 76), added the center.
Furthermore, ‘administrative detainees are often denied regular family visits in accordance with international law standards, and Israel regularly fails to separate administrative detainees from the regular prison population as required by law. Moreover, in the case of child detainees, Israel regularly fails to take into account the best interests of the child as required under international law’.
According to International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Article 9, “Although international human rights law permits some ed use of administrative detention in emergency situations, the authorities are required to follow basic rules for detention, including a fair hearing at which the detainee can challenge the reasons for his or her detention. Moreover, to use such detention, there must be a public emergency that threatens the life of the nation, and detention can only be ordered on an individual, case-by-case basis without discrimination of any kind.”
As Israeli human rights group B’Tselem affirms, the right to liberty is one of the pillars of human rights, and prolonged arbitrary detention constitutes a breach of international customary law.
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Friday evening, two Palestinians in the northern West Bank districts of Nablus and Jenin.
Adel Amer, secretary of the Local Council in Orif village, south of Nablus, said dozens of fanatic Israeli colonists invaded the village, before the local intercepted them, leading to clashes.
Amer added that Israeli soldiers also invaded the village, and attacked dozens of locals after breaking into their homes and searching them, and kidnapped a young man, identified as Jihad Shehada.
The soldiers did not attack any of the fanatic Israeli colonists who invaded the village, and did not remove them.
In addition, soldiers stationed at a military roadblock, southwest of Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, kidnapped a young Palestinian man and confiscated his car.
The Palestinian, who remained unidentified until the time of this report, was stopped at the Kafrit village junction, southwest of Jenin, before the soldiers kidnapped him, and took him, along with his car, to an unknown destination.
Adel Amer, secretary of the Local Council in Orif village, south of Nablus, said dozens of fanatic Israeli colonists invaded the village, before the local intercepted them, leading to clashes.
Amer added that Israeli soldiers also invaded the village, and attacked dozens of locals after breaking into their homes and searching them, and kidnapped a young man, identified as Jihad Shehada.
The soldiers did not attack any of the fanatic Israeli colonists who invaded the village, and did not remove them.
In addition, soldiers stationed at a military roadblock, southwest of Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, kidnapped a young Palestinian man and confiscated his car.
The Palestinian, who remained unidentified until the time of this report, was stopped at the Kafrit village junction, southwest of Jenin, before the soldiers kidnapped him, and took him, along with his car, to an unknown destination.
26 aug 2016
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday at dawn, the al-‘Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and kidnapped two Palestinians.
The Hebron office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that the soldiers surrounded the refugee camp before invading it, and initiated violent searches oh homes.
It added that the soldiers interrogated many Palestinians, while searching their homes, and kidnapped two young men, identified as Khalil Ezzat Banat, 19, and Salah Anan al-Kindawi.
The Hebron office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that the soldiers surrounded the refugee camp before invading it, and initiated violent searches oh homes.
It added that the soldiers interrogated many Palestinians, while searching their homes, and kidnapped two young men, identified as Khalil Ezzat Banat, 19, and Salah Anan al-Kindawi.
Several Israeli military jeeps invaded, on Friday at dawn, the Deheishe refugee camp, south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, shot and injured two Palestinians, and kidnapped a mother and her daughter.
The soldiers clashed with dozens of local youths, who hurled stones and empty bottles on the military vehicles, while the army fired many live rounds, gas bombs and concussion grenades.
Medical sources said two young men were shot with live rounds in their legs, before they were moved to a hospital for treatment. Many Palestinians, including children, suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation.
In addition, the army conducted extensive and violent searches of homes in the refugee camp, and kidnapped Nawal Mohammad Daoud, the mother of a detainee identified as Moath Sa’ifi, and her daughter Asma’.
The soldiers clashed with dozens of local youths, who hurled stones and empty bottles on the military vehicles, while the army fired many live rounds, gas bombs and concussion grenades.
Medical sources said two young men were shot with live rounds in their legs, before they were moved to a hospital for treatment. Many Palestinians, including children, suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation.
In addition, the army conducted extensive and violent searches of homes in the refugee camp, and kidnapped Nawal Mohammad Daoud, the mother of a detainee identified as Moath Sa’ifi, and her daughter Asma’.
The Israeli court in Ofer jail on Wednesday gave an 18-year-old female university student four months in jail in addition to another six months suspended for three years, and fined her 2,000 shekels.
The court verdict was issued against Raghad Shaw'aani, who still suffers from a bullet injury. About one month ago, Israeli soldiers at Qalandiya checkpoint north of Jerusalem opened fire at Shaw'aani and wounded her badly in her left leg on allegations of her attempt to carry out a stabbing attack.
The family of the prisoner held the Israeli prison authority fully responsible for the health and safety of its daughter, affirming that she needs special medical care unavailable in Israeli jails.
In a separate incident, the Israeli prosecution on Thursday filed an indictment against 19-year-old Ahmed Ashayer, who is accused of stabbing and wounding a Jewish settler near Azzeitun (Olives) Mount in east Jerusalem about two weeks ago.
Ashayer is also accused in the indictment of throwing Molotov cocktails and stones at policemen during skirmishes last April with them in the holy city.
The court verdict was issued against Raghad Shaw'aani, who still suffers from a bullet injury. About one month ago, Israeli soldiers at Qalandiya checkpoint north of Jerusalem opened fire at Shaw'aani and wounded her badly in her left leg on allegations of her attempt to carry out a stabbing attack.
The family of the prisoner held the Israeli prison authority fully responsible for the health and safety of its daughter, affirming that she needs special medical care unavailable in Israeli jails.
In a separate incident, the Israeli prosecution on Thursday filed an indictment against 19-year-old Ahmed Ashayer, who is accused of stabbing and wounding a Jewish settler near Azzeitun (Olives) Mount in east Jerusalem about two weeks ago.
Ashayer is also accused in the indictment of throwing Molotov cocktails and stones at policemen during skirmishes last April with them in the holy city.
