4 aug 2018
Swedish solidarity activist, Divina Levrini, one of the many international activists, who were attacked and detained by Israeli naval forces aboard the Freedom Flotilla ship last week, talked to Ma'an regarding the Israeli treatment of international activists inside the Israeli Givon (al-Ramla) prisons.
The international activists were deported to their national countries following two days of detention.
Levrini told Ma'an that when the ship was on 42 nautical miles in international waters, the ship was boarded by the Israeli navy, and "they had talked to our radio operator, who repeatedly told them that we were in international waters and had no intention to cross the border to Israel. That it is a right according to international law to travel in international waters."
"They tasered many of the peace activists. Some got tasered in both head and neck, which could be deadly," Levrini said.
"Our captain received a death threat and I witnessed him get brutally beaten by an Israeli soldier. Many, including myself got beaten. Some were thrown down a ramp and could have broken their necks. One got injured on his foot and there was a lot of blood. He was also punched in his stomach and chest."
Following their detention, the activists were taken to the Ashdod military camp, where they were interrogated on the pretext of "trying to illegally enter into Israel."
Levrini said that the activists refused to say anything before speaking to their lawyers.
"We were strip searched several times and all of our belongings were stolen," Levrini told Ma'an.
"After a while, they pushed me outside and I found all of our clothes, bags and stuff on the ground. Clothes were torn out from the bags and everything was mixed up. I was pushed by a soldier while others stood by and laughed as I was yelled at to collect my belongings and I got 20 seconds to take what was mine. I found two empty bags and my guitar, maybe some t-shirt or other clothing I don't remember because I am still traumatized about it all."
Levrini added that activists were "tortured" in various ways while at the Givon prison; "we were six women in one dirty cell with a hole in the ground."
The Swedish activist said that Israeli prison guards "would come in and yell every one to two hours" and bang on the walls with batons.
"The mind games were really awful. They would give me cigarettes but no lighter. They said that I can use the payphones outside whenever I want but would not give me my money to use them."
Levrini said that activists were separated from each other at some point, after they protested when one of the activists, identified as Larry, asked for a doctor as he was injured in the foot.
"One thing was sure, and that was that when they said something, 9 times of 10 they were lying."
Levrini said that Israeli forces hit one of the female activists, 75, who had a hip replacement surgery four months ago.
"They did not really beat us any time before or after that in jail so we thought that they are so used to beating Palestinians that they forgot our embassies were ready to act if something like that would happen."
The activists requested a doctor afterwards to check on the woman, the Israelis then had "certain conditions" which activists refused and were then told that they could not see the doctor if they do not agree to the conditions.
She added that they were able to see the doctor several hours later but were put in a "small outdoor cell in the scorching heat and hard benched where she couldn't sit."
Levrini said that after waiting for hours before finally seeing the doctor, the doctor told them "in perfect English" that he does not understand English. The 75-year-old female activist "had to Explain in Hebrew, she got no help."
Levrini was deprived of her prescribed medications for 36 hours. She then received half a dose of her only one "important" medicine after the Swedish embassy intervened. "The embassy yelled at a guard to give me my medicines and he said that I would get an appointment with the doctor, but he told me in perfect English that he doesn't understand English and I have to speak in Arabic," she said.
Israeli forces confiscated the activists' driving licenses, medicines, phones, money and credit cards; "most of our luggage is gone. I came home with only a small bag with random clothes I found. I was at sea for two-and-a-half months, so I had much more with me."
Levrini along with several other activists, who were detained by Israeli naval forces, commenced a hunger strike inside the Israeli prison until they received information that other activists, who were deported earlier than them, had safely arrived to their countries.
Levrini said that most of the peace activists did not know that they were being deported until minutes before they were.
Levrini said that the activists' message to the world is that their mission was never about us or the treatment received by the Israeli government; "what the Palestinians go through is much worse."
She pointed out that Israeli forces also confiscated a cargo full of medical supplies and the four ships they were aboard, which were meant to be a gift for Gazans; "of course there are two million souls living in Gaza and we only had four ships, but the symbolic act is important because the fishermen are shot in their own waters and the much needed medical supplies never reaches Gaza."
"There is a genocide going on by an apartheid regime and the world must act, even if it happens in small acts like these."
Levrini concluded that "it was and has always been about raising awareness, making politicians act and making sure that the Palestinians know that we will never forget them. The ships will continue to sail until Gaza is free."
The international activists were deported to their national countries following two days of detention.
Levrini told Ma'an that when the ship was on 42 nautical miles in international waters, the ship was boarded by the Israeli navy, and "they had talked to our radio operator, who repeatedly told them that we were in international waters and had no intention to cross the border to Israel. That it is a right according to international law to travel in international waters."
"They tasered many of the peace activists. Some got tasered in both head and neck, which could be deadly," Levrini said.
"Our captain received a death threat and I witnessed him get brutally beaten by an Israeli soldier. Many, including myself got beaten. Some were thrown down a ramp and could have broken their necks. One got injured on his foot and there was a lot of blood. He was also punched in his stomach and chest."
Following their detention, the activists were taken to the Ashdod military camp, where they were interrogated on the pretext of "trying to illegally enter into Israel."
Levrini said that the activists refused to say anything before speaking to their lawyers.
"We were strip searched several times and all of our belongings were stolen," Levrini told Ma'an.
"After a while, they pushed me outside and I found all of our clothes, bags and stuff on the ground. Clothes were torn out from the bags and everything was mixed up. I was pushed by a soldier while others stood by and laughed as I was yelled at to collect my belongings and I got 20 seconds to take what was mine. I found two empty bags and my guitar, maybe some t-shirt or other clothing I don't remember because I am still traumatized about it all."
Levrini added that activists were "tortured" in various ways while at the Givon prison; "we were six women in one dirty cell with a hole in the ground."
The Swedish activist said that Israeli prison guards "would come in and yell every one to two hours" and bang on the walls with batons.
"The mind games were really awful. They would give me cigarettes but no lighter. They said that I can use the payphones outside whenever I want but would not give me my money to use them."
Levrini said that activists were separated from each other at some point, after they protested when one of the activists, identified as Larry, asked for a doctor as he was injured in the foot.
"One thing was sure, and that was that when they said something, 9 times of 10 they were lying."
Levrini said that Israeli forces hit one of the female activists, 75, who had a hip replacement surgery four months ago.
"They did not really beat us any time before or after that in jail so we thought that they are so used to beating Palestinians that they forgot our embassies were ready to act if something like that would happen."
The activists requested a doctor afterwards to check on the woman, the Israelis then had "certain conditions" which activists refused and were then told that they could not see the doctor if they do not agree to the conditions.
She added that they were able to see the doctor several hours later but were put in a "small outdoor cell in the scorching heat and hard benched where she couldn't sit."
Levrini said that after waiting for hours before finally seeing the doctor, the doctor told them "in perfect English" that he does not understand English. The 75-year-old female activist "had to Explain in Hebrew, she got no help."
Levrini was deprived of her prescribed medications for 36 hours. She then received half a dose of her only one "important" medicine after the Swedish embassy intervened. "The embassy yelled at a guard to give me my medicines and he said that I would get an appointment with the doctor, but he told me in perfect English that he doesn't understand English and I have to speak in Arabic," she said.
Israeli forces confiscated the activists' driving licenses, medicines, phones, money and credit cards; "most of our luggage is gone. I came home with only a small bag with random clothes I found. I was at sea for two-and-a-half months, so I had much more with me."
Levrini along with several other activists, who were detained by Israeli naval forces, commenced a hunger strike inside the Israeli prison until they received information that other activists, who were deported earlier than them, had safely arrived to their countries.
Levrini said that most of the peace activists did not know that they were being deported until minutes before they were.
Levrini said that the activists' message to the world is that their mission was never about us or the treatment received by the Israeli government; "what the Palestinians go through is much worse."
She pointed out that Israeli forces also confiscated a cargo full of medical supplies and the four ships they were aboard, which were meant to be a gift for Gazans; "of course there are two million souls living in Gaza and we only had four ships, but the symbolic act is important because the fishermen are shot in their own waters and the much needed medical supplies never reaches Gaza."
"There is a genocide going on by an apartheid regime and the world must act, even if it happens in small acts like these."
Levrini concluded that "it was and has always been about raising awareness, making politicians act and making sure that the Palestinians know that we will never forget them. The ships will continue to sail until Gaza is free."
Palestinian detainee Anas Shadid continues his open hunger strike in Israeli jails for the 17th day in a row amid deliberate medical negligence by the Israel Prison Service.
Mohjat al-Quds Foundation said that Shadid had previously launched a two-month hunger strike in Israeli jails.
It called on official and non-official organizations to urgently intervene and pressure Israel to save the life of Shadid and other hunger-striking prisoners and enable them regain their legitimate rights to freedom and dignity.
A resident of al-Khalil, Shadid, 21, was arrested on 2nd August 2016, and he has been held in Israeli lock-ups without charge or trial ever since.
Mohjat al-Quds Foundation said that Shadid had previously launched a two-month hunger strike in Israeli jails.
It called on official and non-official organizations to urgently intervene and pressure Israel to save the life of Shadid and other hunger-striking prisoners and enable them regain their legitimate rights to freedom and dignity.
A resident of al-Khalil, Shadid, 21, was arrested on 2nd August 2016, and he has been held in Israeli lock-ups without charge or trial ever since.
Palestinian prisoner Hasan Shouka has been able, following two months of open-ended hunger strike, to impose his own terms on his Israeli jailers and extract a pledge to release him in a few months, according to his lawyer.
His lawyer Ahlam Haddad told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that the Israeli high court of justice agreed to release prisoner Shouka on December 1st.
Haddad said that Shouka managed to impose a set of conditions on the jailers before he suspended his hunger strike, including his ability to contact and see his family.
Accordingly, the Israeli prison service will allow him to make a video call to his family and see his wife and newborn child as well as his mother next Sunday.
His lawyer Ahlam Haddad told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that the Israeli high court of justice agreed to release prisoner Shouka on December 1st.
Haddad said that Shouka managed to impose a set of conditions on the jailers before he suspended his hunger strike, including his ability to contact and see his family.
Accordingly, the Israeli prison service will allow him to make a video call to his family and see his wife and newborn child as well as his mother next Sunday.
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Friday arrested a Palestinian merchant from the Gaza Strip as he was passing through Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing.
Head of the studies and documentation unit of the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Commission Abdul-Naser Farwana said that the IOF arrested Mohammed al-Astal at Beit Hanoun crossing.
Farwana said in a press statement that the detainee left Gaza on Thursday for business purposes, adding that his whereabouts remained unknown for a while before the Palestinian Liaison informed the Commission Friday evening that he was detained without giving reasons.
Since the beginning of 2018, Israeli forces have arrested 8 Palestinians at Beit Hanoun crossing. In 2017, 17 Palestinians were arrested while trying to leave or enter the Gaza Strip through the same crossing, according to al-Mezan Center for Human Rights.
Israeli authorities allow less than 4% of the Gaza Strip residents to travel through Beit Hanoun crossing after they obtain the approval of the Israeli Intelligence Service. Most of them are patients, students, foreigners, employees of foreign organizations, merchants and businessmen.
The Gaza Strip has been living under a crippling blockade for 12 years with all crossings connecting the enclave with the outside world through Egypt or the 1948 occupied territories closed. They might be opened partially from time to time for the entry of some goods and passengers.
Head of the studies and documentation unit of the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Commission Abdul-Naser Farwana said that the IOF arrested Mohammed al-Astal at Beit Hanoun crossing.
Farwana said in a press statement that the detainee left Gaza on Thursday for business purposes, adding that his whereabouts remained unknown for a while before the Palestinian Liaison informed the Commission Friday evening that he was detained without giving reasons.
Since the beginning of 2018, Israeli forces have arrested 8 Palestinians at Beit Hanoun crossing. In 2017, 17 Palestinians were arrested while trying to leave or enter the Gaza Strip through the same crossing, according to al-Mezan Center for Human Rights.
Israeli authorities allow less than 4% of the Gaza Strip residents to travel through Beit Hanoun crossing after they obtain the approval of the Israeli Intelligence Service. Most of them are patients, students, foreigners, employees of foreign organizations, merchants and businessmen.
The Gaza Strip has been living under a crippling blockade for 12 years with all crossings connecting the enclave with the outside world through Egypt or the 1948 occupied territories closed. They might be opened partially from time to time for the entry of some goods and passengers.
IDF intercepts a second Gaza-bound activist boat, which is part of the 'Freedom Flotilla,' in less than a week; Swedish-flagged ship with 12 activists on board was taken to the Port of Ashdod and the those on board had been taken in for 'further inquiry'; On Sunday, the Israeli navy intercepted a Norwegian-flagged activist boat that was part of the flotilla.
The Israeli navy intercepted a Swedish-flagged activist boat bent on breaching its more than decade-long blockade of Gaza, the second in less than a week, the military said on Saturday.
"The ship was monitored and was intercepted in accordance with international law," the army said in a statement, before the vessel, named Freedom for Gaza and carrying 12 people, was taken to the Port of Ashdod.
"The (military) clarified to the ship's passengers that they are violating the legal naval blockade and that any humanitarian merchandise can be transferred to Gaza through the Port of Ashdod," the statement said.
The people on board were taken for "further inquiry".
Freedom was the second boat of the "Freedom Flotilla" to be intercepted en route to "break the blockade" on Gaza, organisers said.
The boat was carrying medical equipment.
Four boats left from Scandinavia in mid-May and stopped in some 28 ports along the way, with two remaining behind after a recent stop in the Italian port of Palermo.
On Sunday, the Israeli navy intercepted a Norwegian-flagged activist boat that was part of the flotilla.
Israel has fought three wars with Palestinian militants in Gaza since 2008 and says the blockade is necessary to keep them from obtaining weapons or materials that could be used for military purposes.
UN officials have called for the blockade to be lifted, citing deteriorating humanitarian conditions in the Palestinian enclave run by Islamist movement Hamas where 80 percent of the two million population are dependent on aid.
Swedish-flagged Flotilla Vessel Intercepted by Israel
The Israeli army Saturday morning said that it had taken over a European ship, the Swedish-flagged “Freedom,” captained by John Turnbull of Vancouver, that was aimed at breaking the naval blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip by the occupation forces 12 years ago.
After the brutal violence and theft that the Norwegian-flagged Al Awda was subjected to, just days before, Captain Turnbull had stated that the participants and crew of the Freedom will not resist if boarded.
On its website, Ship To Gaza – Sweden, published the following statement;
“We now have confirmed information that S/Y Freedom to Gaza have been boarded on international waters, by Israeli navy. Latest reported position was about 40 nautical miles of the coast of Gaza at 8.06 pm.
Onboard Freedom for Gaza was a crew of twelve persons from five different countries. They are now captured and taken to Israel against their will (For full list follow this link). The boat also carries a cargo of medical supplies.
In this situation, the demands of Ship to Gaza are that the ship with its crew and cargo will be returned to the site of the boarding, and that they will be allowed to go in peace through international and Palestinian waters in accordance to international law.
In effect, this is a demand that the eleven years-long illegal and destructive blockade on Gaza will be lifted at last. The government of Sweden have repeatedly stood behind demands on a lifting of the blockade.
We now expect that the same government, in the capacity of flag nation of the attacked vessel, will also support our specific demands regarding the ship, crew and cargo.”
Spokesman for the Israeli army stated the ship was under surveillance, and that the military had made it clear, to the activists on the ship, that they were violating the maritime blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip and that “any humanitarian aid could be transferred to Gaza through the port of Ashdod.”
The ship was towed to a military base in Ashdod, and the activists were detained on board.
The spokesman added that the operation ended without any exceptional events.
The head of the International Committee to Break the Siege on Gaza, Zaher Birawi, stated that he had lost contact with the Swedish-flagged “Freedom,” at 10 pm on Friday, when it was approximately 40 nautical miles from the Gaza Strip.
In a statement to the press on Friday, Birawi said that the Israeli navy intercepted and seized the ship.
He holds the occupation accountable for the safety of international solidarity activists aboard the Freedom ship.
The freighter is carrying 12 international activists, mostly from Sweden, including the crew of the London-based Press TV.
In related news, elder and former Chief of the Stó:lō Nation Larry Commodore has returned to Turtle Island after joining the Freedom Flotilla to challenge the illegal blockade of Gaza, in late July. Along with 21 other international participants on board the Norwegian-flagged Al Awda (The Return), Commodore was brutally attacked and kidnapped by Israeli forces in international waters, last Sunday, and unlawfully detained for four days, in Israel.
Upon his return home, he was greeted with traditional gifts of tobacco, sweetgrass and sage at Toronto Airport, on the ancestral lands of Haudenosaunee and Anishnaabe peoples, where he rested overnight. He will arrive this afternoon in Vancouver, unceded Coastal Salish territory, where he will be welcomed by family, community and friends who share his deep concern for the ongoing suffering of Palestinians in Gaza and indigenous rights everywhere.
The Israeli navy intercepted a Swedish-flagged activist boat bent on breaching its more than decade-long blockade of Gaza, the second in less than a week, the military said on Saturday.
"The ship was monitored and was intercepted in accordance with international law," the army said in a statement, before the vessel, named Freedom for Gaza and carrying 12 people, was taken to the Port of Ashdod.
"The (military) clarified to the ship's passengers that they are violating the legal naval blockade and that any humanitarian merchandise can be transferred to Gaza through the Port of Ashdod," the statement said.
The people on board were taken for "further inquiry".
Freedom was the second boat of the "Freedom Flotilla" to be intercepted en route to "break the blockade" on Gaza, organisers said.
The boat was carrying medical equipment.
Four boats left from Scandinavia in mid-May and stopped in some 28 ports along the way, with two remaining behind after a recent stop in the Italian port of Palermo.
On Sunday, the Israeli navy intercepted a Norwegian-flagged activist boat that was part of the flotilla.
Israel has fought three wars with Palestinian militants in Gaza since 2008 and says the blockade is necessary to keep them from obtaining weapons or materials that could be used for military purposes.
UN officials have called for the blockade to be lifted, citing deteriorating humanitarian conditions in the Palestinian enclave run by Islamist movement Hamas where 80 percent of the two million population are dependent on aid.
Swedish-flagged Flotilla Vessel Intercepted by Israel
The Israeli army Saturday morning said that it had taken over a European ship, the Swedish-flagged “Freedom,” captained by John Turnbull of Vancouver, that was aimed at breaking the naval blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip by the occupation forces 12 years ago.
After the brutal violence and theft that the Norwegian-flagged Al Awda was subjected to, just days before, Captain Turnbull had stated that the participants and crew of the Freedom will not resist if boarded.
On its website, Ship To Gaza – Sweden, published the following statement;
“We now have confirmed information that S/Y Freedom to Gaza have been boarded on international waters, by Israeli navy. Latest reported position was about 40 nautical miles of the coast of Gaza at 8.06 pm.
Onboard Freedom for Gaza was a crew of twelve persons from five different countries. They are now captured and taken to Israel against their will (For full list follow this link). The boat also carries a cargo of medical supplies.
In this situation, the demands of Ship to Gaza are that the ship with its crew and cargo will be returned to the site of the boarding, and that they will be allowed to go in peace through international and Palestinian waters in accordance to international law.
In effect, this is a demand that the eleven years-long illegal and destructive blockade on Gaza will be lifted at last. The government of Sweden have repeatedly stood behind demands on a lifting of the blockade.
We now expect that the same government, in the capacity of flag nation of the attacked vessel, will also support our specific demands regarding the ship, crew and cargo.”
Spokesman for the Israeli army stated the ship was under surveillance, and that the military had made it clear, to the activists on the ship, that they were violating the maritime blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip and that “any humanitarian aid could be transferred to Gaza through the port of Ashdod.”
The ship was towed to a military base in Ashdod, and the activists were detained on board.
The spokesman added that the operation ended without any exceptional events.
The head of the International Committee to Break the Siege on Gaza, Zaher Birawi, stated that he had lost contact with the Swedish-flagged “Freedom,” at 10 pm on Friday, when it was approximately 40 nautical miles from the Gaza Strip.
In a statement to the press on Friday, Birawi said that the Israeli navy intercepted and seized the ship.
He holds the occupation accountable for the safety of international solidarity activists aboard the Freedom ship.
The freighter is carrying 12 international activists, mostly from Sweden, including the crew of the London-based Press TV.
In related news, elder and former Chief of the Stó:lō Nation Larry Commodore has returned to Turtle Island after joining the Freedom Flotilla to challenge the illegal blockade of Gaza, in late July. Along with 21 other international participants on board the Norwegian-flagged Al Awda (The Return), Commodore was brutally attacked and kidnapped by Israeli forces in international waters, last Sunday, and unlawfully detained for four days, in Israel.
Upon his return home, he was greeted with traditional gifts of tobacco, sweetgrass and sage at Toronto Airport, on the ancestral lands of Haudenosaunee and Anishnaabe peoples, where he rested overnight. He will arrive this afternoon in Vancouver, unceded Coastal Salish territory, where he will be welcomed by family, community and friends who share his deep concern for the ongoing suffering of Palestinians in Gaza and indigenous rights everywhere.
3 aug 2018
Israeli forces detained at least three Jerusalemites, including teens, while exiting the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound following Friday prayers.
Local sources told Ma'an that Israeli forces stationed at the entrance gates of the Al-Aqsa Mosque detained three Jerusalemites as they were leaving the compound.
Amjad Abu Assab, head of Jerusalem Committee for Families of Prisoners, said that Israeli forces detained minors (a minor is a person under the age of full legal responsibility) Muhammad Wahbeh and Mahdi Abu Assab.
The third detainee was identified as youth Muhib al-Qutub.
Reasons for their detention are not yet known.
According to prisoners rights group Addameer, there are 5,900 Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli prisons, of whom 291 are children, and 49 of them are under the age of 16.
Local sources told Ma'an that Israeli forces stationed at the entrance gates of the Al-Aqsa Mosque detained three Jerusalemites as they were leaving the compound.
Amjad Abu Assab, head of Jerusalem Committee for Families of Prisoners, said that Israeli forces detained minors (a minor is a person under the age of full legal responsibility) Muhammad Wahbeh and Mahdi Abu Assab.
The third detainee was identified as youth Muhib al-Qutub.
Reasons for their detention are not yet known.
According to prisoners rights group Addameer, there are 5,900 Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli prisons, of whom 291 are children, and 49 of them are under the age of 16.
Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission on Friday said that prisoner Hasan Shouka, 30, decided to suspend his hunger strike after an agreement had been reached between his lawyer and the Israeli prosecution.
Following two months of hunger strike, Shouka clinched an agreement to be released in December, the Commission said in a statement.
Shouka was arrested on 28th August 2017 and received a six-month administrative detention order. On 11th October 2017, he started a hunger strike that lasted for 35 days.
Shouka ended his first strike because the Israeli authorities vowed to file an indictment against him. He was supposed to be released on 3rd June 2018, but his detention was renewed for four months.
Shouka has served over 12 years in Israeli jails, 8 of which are in administrative detention only. He is one of 500 Palestinians held in Israeli lock-ups without charge or trial.
Following two months of hunger strike, Shouka clinched an agreement to be released in December, the Commission said in a statement.
Shouka was arrested on 28th August 2017 and received a six-month administrative detention order. On 11th October 2017, he started a hunger strike that lasted for 35 days.
Shouka ended his first strike because the Israeli authorities vowed to file an indictment against him. He was supposed to be released on 3rd June 2018, but his detention was renewed for four months.
Shouka has served over 12 years in Israeli jails, 8 of which are in administrative detention only. He is one of 500 Palestinians held in Israeli lock-ups without charge or trial.
Israeli forces detained at least nine Palestinians and confiscated weapons and money during overnight raids across the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli army said, in a statement, that three weapons were found and confiscated during a search raid of a Palestinian house in the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
A Ma'an reporter said that Israeli forces detained three Palestinians identified as Hussam Ragheb al-Eweiwi, Said al-Nammoura and Wael Ribie from Dura City in the Hebron district.
Israeli forces delivered a summon notice to meet with the Israeli intelligence to former prisoner al-Ghadanfar Abu Atwan from Hebron.
Israeli forces also detained four Palestinians from occupied East Jerusalem on Friday dawn.
Sources identified them as Mahmoud al-Tiryaqi, Rashiq al-Rashq, Abdullah al-Joulani and Mahdi Abu Diab.
Locals said that Israeli forces detained a Palestinian youth, identifying him as Yahiya Taqi al-Din Hutari, from his family house in the Kafr Saba neighborhood of Qalqiliya City in the northern West Bank.
Meanwhile, a Palestinian youth identified as Saad Taysir Islim from the Azzun town in the same district, turned himself in to Israeli forces at a military checkpoint set up at the entrance of the town.
Islim has been wanted and chased by Israeli forces for several months; Israel has also been reportedly threatening and assaulting his family if he does not turn himself in.
The Israeli army said, in a statement, that three weapons were found and confiscated during a search raid of a Palestinian house in the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
A Ma'an reporter said that Israeli forces detained three Palestinians identified as Hussam Ragheb al-Eweiwi, Said al-Nammoura and Wael Ribie from Dura City in the Hebron district.
Israeli forces delivered a summon notice to meet with the Israeli intelligence to former prisoner al-Ghadanfar Abu Atwan from Hebron.
Israeli forces also detained four Palestinians from occupied East Jerusalem on Friday dawn.
Sources identified them as Mahmoud al-Tiryaqi, Rashiq al-Rashq, Abdullah al-Joulani and Mahdi Abu Diab.
Locals said that Israeli forces detained a Palestinian youth, identifying him as Yahiya Taqi al-Din Hutari, from his family house in the Kafr Saba neighborhood of Qalqiliya City in the northern West Bank.
Meanwhile, a Palestinian youth identified as Saad Taysir Islim from the Azzun town in the same district, turned himself in to Israeli forces at a military checkpoint set up at the entrance of the town.
Islim has been wanted and chased by Israeli forces for several months; Israel has also been reportedly threatening and assaulting his family if he does not turn himself in.
The Israeli military court of Salem on Thursday extended the detention of Palestinian journalist Mohamed Manna, a Quds Press reporter, for seven days.
The journalist’s brother, Abdul-Kareem, told Quds Press that the court extended the detention of Manna in order to subject him to further interrogation.
He added that his brother could be transferred to Megiddo prison in the 1948 occupied lands.
Journalist Manna was kidnapped two days ago from his home in Zawata town in Nablus.
The journalist’s brother, Abdul-Kareem, told Quds Press that the court extended the detention of Manna in order to subject him to further interrogation.
He added that his brother could be transferred to Megiddo prison in the 1948 occupied lands.
Journalist Manna was kidnapped two days ago from his home in Zawata town in Nablus.
The Israeli military court in Ashkelon on Thursday extended the detention of Palestinian writer Lama Khater, 42, for another eight days in order to subject her to further interrogation.
A lawyer from the Palestinian Prisoner Society said that Lama is being exposed to long hours of cruel interrogation that continue into the night.
Israeli soldiers kidnapped Khater, a mother of five children, on July 24 because of her writings.
A lawyer from the Palestinian Prisoner Society said that Lama is being exposed to long hours of cruel interrogation that continue into the night.
Israeli soldiers kidnapped Khater, a mother of five children, on July 24 because of her writings.
Karim Ajwa, a lawyer with the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee, has reported Thursday that a Palestinian detainee is ongoing with hunger strike for the 15th consecutive day, protesting abuse and bad conditions during his continued detention and interrogation.
Ajwa stated that Mohammad Nimir Dar Sattouf, 27, from Beit Rima town, in the central West Bank governorate of Ramallah, stated his strike 15 days ago protesting his illegal extended interrogation, abuse and bad conditions at Asqalan prison.
He added that Sattouf is only drinking water, without any type of vitamins, and developed a sharp migraine and fatigue but is determined to continue his strike.
It is worth mentioning that the detainee was sent to Asqalan military court, last Monday, and was ordered under interrogation for eight additional days.
He is a former political prisoner who was held by Israel for three years, and was only released six months ago, before he was taken prisoner again on July 19, 2018.
Several days ago, the soldiers abducted his father, Nimir, 55, from his home, and are still holding him captive.
On Thursday, detainee Ahmad Mousa al-Bolbol, received a fourth consecutive Administrative Detention order, without charges or trial, shortly before he was supposed to be released.
Ajwa stated that Mohammad Nimir Dar Sattouf, 27, from Beit Rima town, in the central West Bank governorate of Ramallah, stated his strike 15 days ago protesting his illegal extended interrogation, abuse and bad conditions at Asqalan prison.
He added that Sattouf is only drinking water, without any type of vitamins, and developed a sharp migraine and fatigue but is determined to continue his strike.
It is worth mentioning that the detainee was sent to Asqalan military court, last Monday, and was ordered under interrogation for eight additional days.
He is a former political prisoner who was held by Israel for three years, and was only released six months ago, before he was taken prisoner again on July 19, 2018.
Several days ago, the soldiers abducted his father, Nimir, 55, from his home, and are still holding him captive.
On Thursday, detainee Ahmad Mousa al-Bolbol, received a fourth consecutive Administrative Detention order, without charges or trial, shortly before he was supposed to be released.
