3 aug 2020
Palestinian detainee Khalil Abu Aram has started an open hunger strike in Ashkelon Prion, the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) said on Monday.
The PPS said that the strike came in response to the Israel Prison Service’s deliberate delay in allowing Abu Aram to meet his son Ahmad, who has been imprisoned administratively since September 2019 in Negev Prison.
According to the PPS, this is the only chance Abu Aram, who has been detained since 2002 and is serving a life sentence, could meet his son, whom he has not seen in years and whose release is scheduled for next September.
Abu Aram, a father of five, has been able to produce a number of books and studies during his incarceration years.
Palestinian prisoners usually resort to the open hunger strike when different methods of dialogue with the Israeli occupation authorities fail. Despite the psychological and physical dangers it poses to the life of detainees, it remains their only way to obtain their rights.
The PPS said that the strike came in response to the Israel Prison Service’s deliberate delay in allowing Abu Aram to meet his son Ahmad, who has been imprisoned administratively since September 2019 in Negev Prison.
According to the PPS, this is the only chance Abu Aram, who has been detained since 2002 and is serving a life sentence, could meet his son, whom he has not seen in years and whose release is scheduled for next September.
Abu Aram, a father of five, has been able to produce a number of books and studies during his incarceration years.
Palestinian prisoners usually resort to the open hunger strike when different methods of dialogue with the Israeli occupation authorities fail. Despite the psychological and physical dangers it poses to the life of detainees, it remains their only way to obtain their rights.
Palestinian prisoner Maher al-Akhras, from Silat al-Dhahr town in Jenin, has been on open-ended hunger strike for eight days in protest at his arbitrary detention, with no guilt.
According to the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs, prisoner Akhras was kidnaped last Monday, July 27, from his home in Jaba town.
An Israeli military court extended his detention last Thursday for another six days at the pretext of giving the Shin Bet more time to interrogate him.
Dozens of Palestinian citizens last night participated in a solidarity sit-in outside the house of Akhras and denounced the arbitrary detention policy pursued by the Israeli occupation forces against Palestinian ex-detainees.
According to the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs, prisoner Akhras was kidnaped last Monday, July 27, from his home in Jaba town.
An Israeli military court extended his detention last Thursday for another six days at the pretext of giving the Shin Bet more time to interrogate him.
Dozens of Palestinian citizens last night participated in a solidarity sit-in outside the house of Akhras and denounced the arbitrary detention policy pursued by the Israeli occupation forces against Palestinian ex-detainees.
The Israeli military court of Salem, near Jenin in the occupied West Bank, approved yesterday a request by the so-called Israeli Internal Security (Shin Bet) to extend the detention of the Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions (BDS) coordinator in Palestine, Mahmoud Nawajaa, by 15 days.
The BDS Movement said in a press release that no charges or evidence were shared with Nawajaa or his lawyer, assigned by Addameer-Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association.
According to Addameer, Shin Bet told the court that they “suspected” Nawajaa’s membership in a prohibited party and his provision of services to it, claims that he vehemently denied when questioned by the military judge.
Nawajaa told the judge via videoconference (due to COVID-19 restrictions) that he is in good health.
Nawajaa, a prominent Palestinian human rights defender, has been dragged away from his family by Israeli occupation forces in a night raid on July 30, and is currently held in Israel’s Jalameh interrogation center.
Reacting to the Israeli military court decision, BDS co-founder Omar Barghouti said: "Today’s hearing followed precisely the Israeli Shin Bet playbook of repression, which is reminiscent of apartheid South Africa’s.
Without charges or a shred of evidence, they throw outrageous lies at Palestinian human rights defenders, like Mahmoud, to smear them and to make it easier for the rubber-stamp military courts to extend their detention, ill treatment and, often, cruel interrogation."
"Israel knows that despite its massive investment of financial, political, diplomatic, media and intelligence services resources in its desperate war on the peaceful BDS movement for Palestinian rights, it is failing to slow down the movement’s growth and impact worldwide," he continued.
"We call on all human rights supporters everywhere to intensify pressure on Israel’s regime of oppression to immediately release Mahmoud and all Palestinian human rights defenders and prisoners of conscience in Israel’s dungeons. It is high time, in particular, to cut all military-security trade and ties with apartheid Israel."
The BDS Movement said in a press release that no charges or evidence were shared with Nawajaa or his lawyer, assigned by Addameer-Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association.
According to Addameer, Shin Bet told the court that they “suspected” Nawajaa’s membership in a prohibited party and his provision of services to it, claims that he vehemently denied when questioned by the military judge.
Nawajaa told the judge via videoconference (due to COVID-19 restrictions) that he is in good health.
Nawajaa, a prominent Palestinian human rights defender, has been dragged away from his family by Israeli occupation forces in a night raid on July 30, and is currently held in Israel’s Jalameh interrogation center.
Reacting to the Israeli military court decision, BDS co-founder Omar Barghouti said: "Today’s hearing followed precisely the Israeli Shin Bet playbook of repression, which is reminiscent of apartheid South Africa’s.
Without charges or a shred of evidence, they throw outrageous lies at Palestinian human rights defenders, like Mahmoud, to smear them and to make it easier for the rubber-stamp military courts to extend their detention, ill treatment and, often, cruel interrogation."
"Israel knows that despite its massive investment of financial, political, diplomatic, media and intelligence services resources in its desperate war on the peaceful BDS movement for Palestinian rights, it is failing to slow down the movement’s growth and impact worldwide," he continued.
"We call on all human rights supporters everywhere to intensify pressure on Israel’s regime of oppression to immediately release Mahmoud and all Palestinian human rights defenders and prisoners of conscience in Israel’s dungeons. It is high time, in particular, to cut all military-security trade and ties with apartheid Israel."
Israeli occupation forces detained five Palestinians today after raiding the village of Asira ash-Shamaliya, north of Nablus city in the occupied West Bank, said a local source.
Hazem Yasin, the village's mayor, told WAFA that five Palestinian citizens were detained during a campaign by the Israeli occupation forces against the village.
The forces reportedly raided and searched the homes of the five detainees during the campaign.
Army Abducts Five Palestinians In Nablus, One Near Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers abducted, earlier Monday, five Palestinians near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and one near Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem.
Several army jeeps invaded ‘Aseera ash-Shamaliya town, north of Nablus, before the soldiers stormed and violently searched many homes.
The soldiers then abducted five Palestinians, identified as Ja’far Rawajba, Aqaba Fayez Shouli, Fares Bassam Shouli, Bassem Hamid Shouli, and Mohammad Ahmad Sawalma.
In addition, the soldiers abducted a young man, identified as Husam Hasan Abu Hussein, while crossing the Container Roadblock, southeast of occupied East Jerusalem. video
Hazem Yasin, the village's mayor, told WAFA that five Palestinian citizens were detained during a campaign by the Israeli occupation forces against the village.
The forces reportedly raided and searched the homes of the five detainees during the campaign.
Army Abducts Five Palestinians In Nablus, One Near Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers abducted, earlier Monday, five Palestinians near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and one near Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem.
Several army jeeps invaded ‘Aseera ash-Shamaliya town, north of Nablus, before the soldiers stormed and violently searched many homes.
The soldiers then abducted five Palestinians, identified as Ja’far Rawajba, Aqaba Fayez Shouli, Fares Bassam Shouli, Bassem Hamid Shouli, and Mohammad Ahmad Sawalma.
In addition, the soldiers abducted a young man, identified as Husam Hasan Abu Hussein, while crossing the Container Roadblock, southeast of occupied East Jerusalem. video
2 aug 2020
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Sunday kidnaped two Palestinian citizens in al-Khalil city and Bethlehem.
According to local sources, the IOF kidnaped 37-year-old Omar Maher after ransacking his home in al-Khalil city.
Another citizen called Na’eim Abu Turk was kidnaped as he stopped at the Container checkpoint in the northeast of Bethlehem.
According to local sources, the IOF kidnaped 37-year-old Omar Maher after ransacking his home in al-Khalil city.
Another citizen called Na’eim Abu Turk was kidnaped as he stopped at the Container checkpoint in the northeast of Bethlehem.
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Israeli soldiers abducted, on Saturday evening, a Palestinian mother along with her son and daughter after they helped free a child after she was assaulted by illegal colonialist settlers who tried to kidnap her.
According to human rights activist and a volunteer with the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (B’Tselem), Emad Abu Shamsiyya, a group of fanatic colonists tried to kidnap his granddaughter, Rateel Tannina, only 17 months of age, while she was with her family in Tal Romedia neighborhood in the center of Hebron city. video video video Abu Shamsiyya added that his son, ‘Awni, 22, his daughter, Marwa, 17, |
and his wife, Faiza, 44, were assaulted by the soldiers while trying to stop them from grabbing the child, causing various cuts and bruises. video
He also said that Israeli soldiers then rushed to the scene, abducted the family members instead of forcing the assailing colonists away, and moved detained Palestinians to the interrogation facility, which is built on private lands near the Ibrahimi Mosque.
Abu Shamsiyya stated that his family is subject to frequent assaults and violations by the colonists, and that the soldiers only intervene to provide protection to the assailants. video
It is worth mentioning that Emad Abu Shamsiyya and his family have been subject to frequency serious Israeli violations and assaults, especially after he captured on film the execution of Abdul-Fattah Sharif, on March 24 2016, after the Palestinian was already shot and seriously wounded.
Although they escalated after that incident, these serious violations were already taking place against him and his family for documenting assaults by the soldiers and the colonialist settlers.
He also said that Israeli soldiers then rushed to the scene, abducted the family members instead of forcing the assailing colonists away, and moved detained Palestinians to the interrogation facility, which is built on private lands near the Ibrahimi Mosque.
Abu Shamsiyya stated that his family is subject to frequent assaults and violations by the colonists, and that the soldiers only intervene to provide protection to the assailants. video
It is worth mentioning that Emad Abu Shamsiyya and his family have been subject to frequency serious Israeli violations and assaults, especially after he captured on film the execution of Abdul-Fattah Sharif, on March 24 2016, after the Palestinian was already shot and seriously wounded.
Although they escalated after that incident, these serious violations were already taking place against him and his family for documenting assaults by the soldiers and the colonialist settlers.
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Saturday evening, Ya’bad town, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, searched homes, and abducted three teenage boys.
The soldiers also invaded Zabbouba nearby village.
Media sources in Jenin said several army vehicles invaded Ya’bad, especially the al-Ba’ajwa neighborhood, before abducting three teenage boys identified as Ahmad Yousef Abu Bakr, 17, Nabil Na’el Abu Bakr, 17, and Islam Kamel Abu Shamla, 17.
The soldiers also stormed and ransacked many homes, causing damage, and interrogated several Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards.
In related news, the soldiers invaded Zabbouba village, west of Jenin, and drove around its various streets before withdrawing.
The soldiers also invaded Zabbouba nearby village.
Media sources in Jenin said several army vehicles invaded Ya’bad, especially the al-Ba’ajwa neighborhood, before abducting three teenage boys identified as Ahmad Yousef Abu Bakr, 17, Nabil Na’el Abu Bakr, 17, and Islam Kamel Abu Shamla, 17.
The soldiers also stormed and ransacked many homes, causing damage, and interrogated several Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards.
In related news, the soldiers invaded Zabbouba village, west of Jenin, and drove around its various streets before withdrawing.
1 aug 2020
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Saturday morning detained a Palestinian young man after he tried to infiltrate into Israel from the Gaza Strip.
According to a spokesperson for the Israeli army, soldiers arrested a Palestinian after he crossed through the security fence and walked towards Nahal Oz settlement, east of Gaza.
The young man was sent back to Gaza after the IOF interrogated him and did not find any weapon with him.
According to the authorities in Gaza, the young man has been put in quarantine and will undergo coronavirus tests.
According to a spokesperson for the Israeli army, soldiers arrested a Palestinian after he crossed through the security fence and walked towards Nahal Oz settlement, east of Gaza.
The young man was sent back to Gaza after the IOF interrogated him and did not find any weapon with him.
According to the authorities in Gaza, the young man has been put in quarantine and will undergo coronavirus tests.
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