5 dec 2016
Khadija Abu Doula 75
Israeli police prevented on Monday the burial of a Palestinian woman in Bab al-Rahmah cemetery near to al-Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem, alleging that the grave is located on an Israeli-owned land.
According to Quds Press agency, the Israeli police forces besieged the cemetery and denied the burial of Khadija Abu Doula after the funeral prayer was performed in al-Aqsa Mosque.
Tension heightened in the area as Israeli policemen ordered the dead woman's family to find another grave since the grave prepared previously was now part of an Israeli land, the agency added.
It said that Israeli policemen arrested two Jerusalemite young men participating in the funeral and took them to Qishleh center for investigation.
The Israeli practice is part of dozens of attacks on the cemetery by either the Israeli police forces or the members of the Israel Nature and Parks Authority who regularly storm the cemetery and demolish its gravestones.
Israeli police prevented on Monday the burial of a Palestinian woman in Bab al-Rahmah cemetery near to al-Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem, alleging that the grave is located on an Israeli-owned land.
According to Quds Press agency, the Israeli police forces besieged the cemetery and denied the burial of Khadija Abu Doula after the funeral prayer was performed in al-Aqsa Mosque.
Tension heightened in the area as Israeli policemen ordered the dead woman's family to find another grave since the grave prepared previously was now part of an Israeli land, the agency added.
It said that Israeli policemen arrested two Jerusalemite young men participating in the funeral and took them to Qishleh center for investigation.
The Israeli practice is part of dozens of attacks on the cemetery by either the Israeli police forces or the members of the Israel Nature and Parks Authority who regularly storm the cemetery and demolish its gravestones.
Israeli soldiers abducted, overnight and on earlier Monday, at least twenty-three Palestinians, including nine children between the ages of nine and fifteen, during massive invasions and searches of homes in different parts of the occupied West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem.
In Jerusalem, the soldiers searched homes and abducted ‘Oweiss Husseini, Amin Hamed, Mohammad Salah, Odai Abu Sa’ad, Saleh Mheisin, Daoud al-Ghoul and Adam Dirbas.
Odai Abu Sa’ad, Daoud al-Ghoul and Mahmoud Salah are former political prisoners, while the latter is the brother of Ahmad Salah, who was killed by the army in October 2015, while al-Ghoul is a former political prisoner.
In the Old city of Jerusalem, the soldiers invaded many homes and assaulted Mousa Abdul-Salam Kamil and his family, while violently searching their property.
In Al-Jiftlik town, in the Jericho Governate, the soldiers abducted four siblings, and later released three of them, and took the fourth, identified as Jom’a Jahalin, to a detention and interrogation center.
In Jenin Governate, in the northern part of the West Bank, the soldiers abducted Luay Qassem Zakarna, Mahmoud Abu ar-Rob, Mahmoud Abu Ein, and Mousa Abdul-Salam Kamil.
The soldiers also invaded and ransacked many homes in Azzoun town, east of Jenin, and interrogated several Palestinians while searching their properties. Two of them have been identified as Ali Rasheed Radwan and Sufian Abu Sharaf.
It is worth mentioning that Azzoun has lately been subject to constant invasions by Israeli soldiers and illegal colonialist settlers, while the army also invaded shops and homes, causing significant damage, and abducted many Palestinians.
Furthermore, resident Ali Bassel Adwan, from Azzoun Atma town, was abducted while crossing a military roadblock installed by the soldiers at the main entrance of the town.
In Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, the soldiers abducted four Palestinians, identified as Ateyya az-Zaro Tamimi, 42, his son Kifah, 20, Anas Bilal Natsha, 16, who was injured after the soldiers assaulted him in his home, and field researcher Hasan Salameen, 45, while working in the Old City.
In Bethlehem, the soldiers abducted a Saher Nafeth Thawabta, from Beit Fajjar town, south of the city, after invading his home and searching it.
In addition, the soldiers abducted Abdul-Hakim Hamed, 27, from Silwad town in the Ramallah Governate, in central West Bank, as he was crossing the al-Karama border crossing with Jordan, on his way back home.
On Sunday evening, the soldiers abducted six children from occupied Jerusalem, and later released two identified as Jihad Haddad, 9, and Suleiman Kanaan, 9.
The four children who remained in custody have been identified as Qussai Dirbas, 12, Anas Mahmoud, 12, Yazan Nouri, 13, and Yacoub Dabbagh, 15.
In Jerusalem, the soldiers searched homes and abducted ‘Oweiss Husseini, Amin Hamed, Mohammad Salah, Odai Abu Sa’ad, Saleh Mheisin, Daoud al-Ghoul and Adam Dirbas.
Odai Abu Sa’ad, Daoud al-Ghoul and Mahmoud Salah are former political prisoners, while the latter is the brother of Ahmad Salah, who was killed by the army in October 2015, while al-Ghoul is a former political prisoner.
In the Old city of Jerusalem, the soldiers invaded many homes and assaulted Mousa Abdul-Salam Kamil and his family, while violently searching their property.
In Al-Jiftlik town, in the Jericho Governate, the soldiers abducted four siblings, and later released three of them, and took the fourth, identified as Jom’a Jahalin, to a detention and interrogation center.
In Jenin Governate, in the northern part of the West Bank, the soldiers abducted Luay Qassem Zakarna, Mahmoud Abu ar-Rob, Mahmoud Abu Ein, and Mousa Abdul-Salam Kamil.
The soldiers also invaded and ransacked many homes in Azzoun town, east of Jenin, and interrogated several Palestinians while searching their properties. Two of them have been identified as Ali Rasheed Radwan and Sufian Abu Sharaf.
It is worth mentioning that Azzoun has lately been subject to constant invasions by Israeli soldiers and illegal colonialist settlers, while the army also invaded shops and homes, causing significant damage, and abducted many Palestinians.
Furthermore, resident Ali Bassel Adwan, from Azzoun Atma town, was abducted while crossing a military roadblock installed by the soldiers at the main entrance of the town.
In Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, the soldiers abducted four Palestinians, identified as Ateyya az-Zaro Tamimi, 42, his son Kifah, 20, Anas Bilal Natsha, 16, who was injured after the soldiers assaulted him in his home, and field researcher Hasan Salameen, 45, while working in the Old City.
In Bethlehem, the soldiers abducted a Saher Nafeth Thawabta, from Beit Fajjar town, south of the city, after invading his home and searching it.
In addition, the soldiers abducted Abdul-Hakim Hamed, 27, from Silwad town in the Ramallah Governate, in central West Bank, as he was crossing the al-Karama border crossing with Jordan, on his way back home.
On Sunday evening, the soldiers abducted six children from occupied Jerusalem, and later released two identified as Jihad Haddad, 9, and Suleiman Kanaan, 9.
The four children who remained in custody have been identified as Qussai Dirbas, 12, Anas Mahmoud, 12, Yazan Nouri, 13, and Yacoub Dabbagh, 15.
Palestinian hunger-striking prisoner Ahmad Abu Fara briefly slipped into a coma on Sunday evening after his health gravely deteriorated , the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs said in a statement on Sunday evening.
Israeli doctors in Assaf Harofeh medical center tried to force feed him, when he went into coma, by giving him fluid through a vein.
However, the hunger striker suddenly woke up after few minutes in coma and refused his force feeding.
The committee pointed out that the two hunger-striking prisoners Ahmad Abu Fara and Anas Shadeed have entered a very critical stage after 71 days of hunger strike.
Pressures on two Palestinian prisoners to take vitamin supplements
Doctors in the Israeli Assaf Harofeh hospital are exerting intense pressures on the hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners Ahmad Abu Farah and Anas Shadid to suspend their 72-day open hunger strike and to take vitamins, the Quds foundation for prisoners said.
The foundation mentioned in a statement on Monday that the hospital administration moved prisoner Shadid to a crowded ward where patients keep screaming all the time denying him rest and sleep.
Shadid's deteriorating health condition is causing him a great difficulty in moving, speaking, and seeing other than the suffering he goes through when sleeping due to the excruciating pains in his back and abdomen. He is also no longer able to recognize his visitors due to an extreme weakness in memory.
The two prisoners were detained from their houses in Hebron on 2nd August 2016 and held in administrative detention which made them start a hunger strike on 25th September 2016.
Ahmad Abu Farah, 29, from Surif town in al-Khalil, has been married for less than a year and previously spent two years in the Israeli jails, while Anas Shadid, 19, is a single young man from Dura also in al-Khalil.
Israeli doctors in Assaf Harofeh medical center tried to force feed him, when he went into coma, by giving him fluid through a vein.
However, the hunger striker suddenly woke up after few minutes in coma and refused his force feeding.
The committee pointed out that the two hunger-striking prisoners Ahmad Abu Fara and Anas Shadeed have entered a very critical stage after 71 days of hunger strike.
Pressures on two Palestinian prisoners to take vitamin supplements
Doctors in the Israeli Assaf Harofeh hospital are exerting intense pressures on the hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners Ahmad Abu Farah and Anas Shadid to suspend their 72-day open hunger strike and to take vitamins, the Quds foundation for prisoners said.
The foundation mentioned in a statement on Monday that the hospital administration moved prisoner Shadid to a crowded ward where patients keep screaming all the time denying him rest and sleep.
Shadid's deteriorating health condition is causing him a great difficulty in moving, speaking, and seeing other than the suffering he goes through when sleeping due to the excruciating pains in his back and abdomen. He is also no longer able to recognize his visitors due to an extreme weakness in memory.
The two prisoners were detained from their houses in Hebron on 2nd August 2016 and held in administrative detention which made them start a hunger strike on 25th September 2016.
Ahmad Abu Farah, 29, from Surif town in al-Khalil, has been married for less than a year and previously spent two years in the Israeli jails, while Anas Shadid, 19, is a single young man from Dura also in al-Khalil.
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested at dawn Monday 13 Palestinians during a large-scale raid and search campaign throughout Jerusalem and West Bank.
Israeli military sources claimed that eight “wanted” Palestinians were arrested early today for being allegedly involved in anti-occupation attacks.
Three arrests were carried out in Qabatia town near Jenin, while a young man was arrested in Beit Fujar town, south of Bethlehem. Four other youngsters were detained in the Jordan Valley.
According to Quds Press, 13 Palestinians were detained during Israeli raids into their homes.
Four Jerusalemites were arrested during the campaign, including two ex-prisoners and a minor.
Two others were detained in Qabatia while a third one was rounded up in Bethlehem after Israeli forces broke into their houses, the sources added.
Several houses were violently stormed and searched in Beit Fujar town which led to the outbreak of violent clashes.
A 17-year-old boy was also arrested in al-Khalil after being brutally attacked and beaten at the hands of IOF soldiers.
Similar provocative raids were reported in Jenin and Qalqilia.
Israeli forces carry out raid and arrest campaigns throughout occupied West Bank and Jerusalem almost on daily basis.
Israeli military sources claimed that eight “wanted” Palestinians were arrested early today for being allegedly involved in anti-occupation attacks.
Three arrests were carried out in Qabatia town near Jenin, while a young man was arrested in Beit Fujar town, south of Bethlehem. Four other youngsters were detained in the Jordan Valley.
According to Quds Press, 13 Palestinians were detained during Israeli raids into their homes.
Four Jerusalemites were arrested during the campaign, including two ex-prisoners and a minor.
Two others were detained in Qabatia while a third one was rounded up in Bethlehem after Israeli forces broke into their houses, the sources added.
Several houses were violently stormed and searched in Beit Fujar town which led to the outbreak of violent clashes.
A 17-year-old boy was also arrested in al-Khalil after being brutally attacked and beaten at the hands of IOF soldiers.
Similar provocative raids were reported in Jenin and Qalqilia.
Israeli forces carry out raid and arrest campaigns throughout occupied West Bank and Jerusalem almost on daily basis.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Monday kidnapped three Palestinians from Qabatiya at the same time as violent clashes rocked Qalqilya province.
A PIC news correspondent said the IOF kidnapped the Palestinian civilian Luay Kassem Zakarneh after they stormed Qabatiya town and wreaked havoc on his family home.
Youngster Mahmoud Abu Ein was also kidnapped by the IOF in the assault.
The occupation soldiers cordoned off the eastern corners of the town and ravaged the home of Palestinian citizen Moussa Abdul Salam before they aggressively attacked the family members.
Heavy spates of sound grenades were discharged by the IOF all the way through the assault.
The IOF also rummaged into Palestinian family homes in Qalqilya’s eastern town of Azzoun.
The occupation troops closed off the main entrance to the town, blocking Palestinians’ access out of and into the area.
The campaign culminated in the abduction of youngster Bassil Ali Wajih Udwan from Azzoun as he tried to pass through a military checkpoint pitched in the area overnight.
A few days earlier, Israeli news outlets said Azzoun town is a permanent target for the Israeli intelligence because it is located between three illegal settlement outposts.
A PIC news correspondent said the IOF kidnapped the Palestinian civilian Luay Kassem Zakarneh after they stormed Qabatiya town and wreaked havoc on his family home.
Youngster Mahmoud Abu Ein was also kidnapped by the IOF in the assault.
The occupation soldiers cordoned off the eastern corners of the town and ravaged the home of Palestinian citizen Moussa Abdul Salam before they aggressively attacked the family members.
Heavy spates of sound grenades were discharged by the IOF all the way through the assault.
The IOF also rummaged into Palestinian family homes in Qalqilya’s eastern town of Azzoun.
The occupation troops closed off the main entrance to the town, blocking Palestinians’ access out of and into the area.
The campaign culminated in the abduction of youngster Bassil Ali Wajih Udwan from Azzoun as he tried to pass through a military checkpoint pitched in the area overnight.
A few days earlier, Israeli news outlets said Azzoun town is a permanent target for the Israeli intelligence because it is located between three illegal settlement outposts.
32 Palestinian prisoners suffering from different disabilities are being held in Israeli detention centers without receiving suitable medical care, according to a report released by the Palestinian Prisoners’ Center for Studies (PPCS) on Sunday.
Center spokesperson Riyad al-Ashqar stated according to Ma’an News Agency, that Israeli use of torture against Palestinian prisoners had dramatically increased the number of disabled prisoners, with many suffering from permanent disabilities, due to injuries sustained during violent interrogations.
The statement noted that Israel Prison Service (IPS) authorities routinely did not provide disabled and injured prisoners with necessary equipment such as wheelchairs for those.
According to the center, 35 year-old Palestinian prisoner Luay Sati al-Ashqar, from the northern occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem, suffered complete paralysis in his left leg, as a result of injuries he sustained during a violent interrogation by Israeli officials.
After spending three years in prison, Luay Al-Ashqar was then released, only to be redetained by Israeli forces three more times, despite his medical condition.
Palestinian prisoner Nader Abd al-Qader Masalma, from the southern West Bank city of Hebron, had suffered a complete paralysis in both of his legs due to “torture” during interrogations, according to the statement.
Al-Ashqar said that Israeli forces “don’t hesitate to detain disabled Palestinians and torture them,” highlighting that, more often than not, Israeli officials refuse to provide injured and disabled Palestinian prisoners with medications or wheelchairs during detention.
He noted that 48-year-old Palestinian prisoner Adnan Yassin Hamarsha, from the northern city of Jenin, was detained for the second time in November of 2015, and sentenced to six months in administrative detention — the Israeli policy of internment without charge or trial, allowing detention for up to six months in renewable intervals, and based on undisclosed evidence.
Hamarsha’s administrative detention order was renewed several times, according to al-Ashqar, who said the sentence renewals were ordered “without taking into consideration that Hamarsha is in a wheelchair and suffered from a stroke during his first detention.”
In the statement, al-Ashqar added that Israeli forces detained Nahid Faraj al-Aqraa at the Allenby bridge border crossing, while he was traveling from Jordan back to the Gaza Strip.
Al-Aqraa’s right leg was amputated before he was detained, and due to medical neglect inside the Israeli prison where he was being held, the Palestinian also lost his left leg.
The statement concluded by highlighting that many Palestinian prisoners suffer from disabilities and injuries, while their situations are made worse by medical neglect inside Israeli prisons.
Al-Ashqar called upon international human rights organizations to intervene and pressure Israel to release Palestinian prisoners suffering from physical and psychological disabilities.
Palestinian officials and rights groups have long accused the IPS of medical negligence towards injured Palestinian prisoners.
Last month, Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs director Issa Qaraqe said that IPS did not properly treat injured Palestinians when they were in Israeli custody, and that “there is a deliberate policy of medical negligence against injured and sick Palestinian prisoners.”
Prisoners rights group Addameer said, in a January report, that the policy of medical neglect in Israel manifested in IPS “denying their responsibility in providing appropriate health care, and periodic medical checkups for prisoners and detainees.”
According to the group, since the beginning of the Second Intifada in 2000 and until 2008, 17 Palestinian prisoners died in Israeli prisons and detention centers, as a result of medical negligence.
During the year 2014, the number of ill persons among the prisoners and detainees increased to over 1,000, an increase compared with 800 sick cases in 2013.
Center spokesperson Riyad al-Ashqar stated according to Ma’an News Agency, that Israeli use of torture against Palestinian prisoners had dramatically increased the number of disabled prisoners, with many suffering from permanent disabilities, due to injuries sustained during violent interrogations.
The statement noted that Israel Prison Service (IPS) authorities routinely did not provide disabled and injured prisoners with necessary equipment such as wheelchairs for those.
According to the center, 35 year-old Palestinian prisoner Luay Sati al-Ashqar, from the northern occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem, suffered complete paralysis in his left leg, as a result of injuries he sustained during a violent interrogation by Israeli officials.
After spending three years in prison, Luay Al-Ashqar was then released, only to be redetained by Israeli forces three more times, despite his medical condition.
Palestinian prisoner Nader Abd al-Qader Masalma, from the southern West Bank city of Hebron, had suffered a complete paralysis in both of his legs due to “torture” during interrogations, according to the statement.
Al-Ashqar said that Israeli forces “don’t hesitate to detain disabled Palestinians and torture them,” highlighting that, more often than not, Israeli officials refuse to provide injured and disabled Palestinian prisoners with medications or wheelchairs during detention.
He noted that 48-year-old Palestinian prisoner Adnan Yassin Hamarsha, from the northern city of Jenin, was detained for the second time in November of 2015, and sentenced to six months in administrative detention — the Israeli policy of internment without charge or trial, allowing detention for up to six months in renewable intervals, and based on undisclosed evidence.
Hamarsha’s administrative detention order was renewed several times, according to al-Ashqar, who said the sentence renewals were ordered “without taking into consideration that Hamarsha is in a wheelchair and suffered from a stroke during his first detention.”
In the statement, al-Ashqar added that Israeli forces detained Nahid Faraj al-Aqraa at the Allenby bridge border crossing, while he was traveling from Jordan back to the Gaza Strip.
Al-Aqraa’s right leg was amputated before he was detained, and due to medical neglect inside the Israeli prison where he was being held, the Palestinian also lost his left leg.
The statement concluded by highlighting that many Palestinian prisoners suffer from disabilities and injuries, while their situations are made worse by medical neglect inside Israeli prisons.
Al-Ashqar called upon international human rights organizations to intervene and pressure Israel to release Palestinian prisoners suffering from physical and psychological disabilities.
Palestinian officials and rights groups have long accused the IPS of medical negligence towards injured Palestinian prisoners.
Last month, Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs director Issa Qaraqe said that IPS did not properly treat injured Palestinians when they were in Israeli custody, and that “there is a deliberate policy of medical negligence against injured and sick Palestinian prisoners.”
Prisoners rights group Addameer said, in a January report, that the policy of medical neglect in Israel manifested in IPS “denying their responsibility in providing appropriate health care, and periodic medical checkups for prisoners and detainees.”
According to the group, since the beginning of the Second Intifada in 2000 and until 2008, 17 Palestinian prisoners died in Israeli prisons and detention centers, as a result of medical negligence.
During the year 2014, the number of ill persons among the prisoners and detainees increased to over 1,000, an increase compared with 800 sick cases in 2013.