14 feb 2018
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on Wednesday stormed a cave in Ellar town north of the West Bank city of Tulkarem and blasted high explosives in the area.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that IOF soldiers brought two Palestinian prisoners of the town and forced the detainees while being chained to show them the site of bombs.
A few weeks ago, IOF troops arrested a large number of Palestinians from the town and the nearby villages after the Palestinian Authority security forces had found a minefield in the area.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that IOF soldiers brought two Palestinian prisoners of the town and forced the detainees while being chained to show them the site of bombs.
A few weeks ago, IOF troops arrested a large number of Palestinians from the town and the nearby villages after the Palestinian Authority security forces had found a minefield in the area.
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested five Palestinian university students in the West Bank over the past two days. Meanwhile, Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces rounded up two others.
In An-Najah National University in Nablus, IOF soldiers captured a student of Faculty of Communication. The PA preventive security forces arrested another student in the Faculty of Law at the same university.
In Polytechnic University in al-Khalil, the IOF arrested a student of the Faculty of Applied Professions. Meanwhile, the PA intelligence apparatus apprehended another student after storming his home in Yatta town near the city.
IOF troops also grabbed two students of Birzeit University near Ramallah in addition to a third student of al-Quds University in Abu Dis town in Occupied Jerusalem.
In An-Najah National University in Nablus, IOF soldiers captured a student of Faculty of Communication. The PA preventive security forces arrested another student in the Faculty of Law at the same university.
In Polytechnic University in al-Khalil, the IOF arrested a student of the Faculty of Applied Professions. Meanwhile, the PA intelligence apparatus apprehended another student after storming his home in Yatta town near the city.
IOF troops also grabbed two students of Birzeit University near Ramallah in addition to a third student of al-Quds University in Abu Dis town in Occupied Jerusalem.
The Israeli Occupation Authorities (IOA) released on Wednesday the Palestinian prisoner Khalil Abu Heshiya, 40, after 15 years in prison.
Abu Heshiya, from Balata refugee camp east of Nablus, was warmly welcomed by his family and friends.
The newly-released prisoner was arrested in 2002 and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for being affiliated to Hamas’ armed wing.
While in prison, he was transferred more than once between Israeli jails and subjected to several punitive measures including banning family visits for years.
Abu Heshiya, from Balata refugee camp east of Nablus, was warmly welcomed by his family and friends.
The newly-released prisoner was arrested in 2002 and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for being affiliated to Hamas’ armed wing.
While in prison, he was transferred more than once between Israeli jails and subjected to several punitive measures including banning family visits for years.
Sheikh Raed Salah, Head of the Islamic Movement in 1948 Occupied Palestine, will be brought to Beersheba district court on Thursday. it is expected to extend his isolation to six new months.
“Israeli forces have been fearing Salah even when he is under arrest”, Khaled Zabarqah, the lawyer of Sheikh Salah, said in a statement posted on Facebook after visiting him in prison.
Israeli police rounded up Sheikh Salah after storming his home in Umm al-Fahm city for the charge of practicing incitement and supporting an event held by a banned “illegal” organization, referring to the Islamic Movement.
“Israeli forces have been fearing Salah even when he is under arrest”, Khaled Zabarqah, the lawyer of Sheikh Salah, said in a statement posted on Facebook after visiting him in prison.
Israeli police rounded up Sheikh Salah after storming his home in Umm al-Fahm city for the charge of practicing incitement and supporting an event held by a banned “illegal” organization, referring to the Islamic Movement.
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) raised on Wednesday alarm bells over the deteriorating health condition of prisoner Emad al-Saraj, held in an Israeli jail.
PPS spoke out against the medical neglect which prisoner al-Saraj has been subjected to in the Israeli Nafha lock-up.
Al-Saraj said he has been waiting for over a couple of months to undergo medical checks. The Israeli prison authorities reneged on their promises to bring him a doctor.
Sentenced to life and 30 years in jail, prisoner al-Saraj, a native of the blockaded Gaza Strip, has been diagnosed with a high stomach acid level that affected his vocal cords due to a hunger strike he had undergone in April 2017.
Al-Saraj has lost his ability to speak and is communicating with fellow inmates through writing.
PPS spoke out against the medical neglect which prisoner al-Saraj has been subjected to in the Israeli Nafha lock-up.
Al-Saraj said he has been waiting for over a couple of months to undergo medical checks. The Israeli prison authorities reneged on their promises to bring him a doctor.
Sentenced to life and 30 years in jail, prisoner al-Saraj, a native of the blockaded Gaza Strip, has been diagnosed with a high stomach acid level that affected his vocal cords due to a hunger strike he had undergone in April 2017.
Al-Saraj has lost his ability to speak and is communicating with fellow inmates through writing.
The Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday arrested three Palestinian young men near the Salem military court, west of Jenin province, on claims that they were holding an explosive device.
According to Israel’s Channel 7, an Israeli army patrol cordoned off the Salem court shortly before explosives experts showed up in the area to inspect the alleged device.
The three young men were dragged to an Israeli detention center pending intensive questioning.
According to Israel’s Channel 7, an Israeli army patrol cordoned off the Salem court shortly before explosives experts showed up in the area to inspect the alleged device.
The three young men were dragged to an Israeli detention center pending intensive questioning.
Turkish Foreign Ministry on Tuesday said that Israel's Shin Bet accusations that the Turkish academic Cemil Tekeli is involved in providing military assistance to Hamas are "incompatible with reality".
Spokesman for the Ministry Hami Aksoy said, "We reject the unrealistic allegations introduced by the Israeli intelligence on the basis of some statements obtained from our detained citizen under ambiguous circumstances."
The Israeli authorities on Sunday released Tekeli, who is a professor from Istanbul Medeniyet University, after detaining him for 26 days.
Tekeli, who arrived in Turkey through Istanbul Atatürk Airport, said that he was ill-treated, stripped of his clothes and held handcuffed in a very cold room.
The Shin Bet on Monday released information about the arrest of Cemil Tekeli and a Palestinian from the 1948 occupied Palestine and claimed that they were recruited by Zaher Jabarin, a senior Hamas figure who was released from Israeli jails in the Wafa al-Ahrar prisoner swap deal, to transfer funds to Hamas.
The Shin Bet said that Tekeli revealed during interrogation that Turkey sends large amounts of money to Hamas through SADAT company, which was established by Adnan Basha, who is closely connected to Turkish government officials, to help establish a Palestinian army to fight Israel.
Spokesman for the Ministry Hami Aksoy said, "We reject the unrealistic allegations introduced by the Israeli intelligence on the basis of some statements obtained from our detained citizen under ambiguous circumstances."
The Israeli authorities on Sunday released Tekeli, who is a professor from Istanbul Medeniyet University, after detaining him for 26 days.
Tekeli, who arrived in Turkey through Istanbul Atatürk Airport, said that he was ill-treated, stripped of his clothes and held handcuffed in a very cold room.
The Shin Bet on Monday released information about the arrest of Cemil Tekeli and a Palestinian from the 1948 occupied Palestine and claimed that they were recruited by Zaher Jabarin, a senior Hamas figure who was released from Israeli jails in the Wafa al-Ahrar prisoner swap deal, to transfer funds to Hamas.
The Shin Bet said that Tekeli revealed during interrogation that Turkey sends large amounts of money to Hamas through SADAT company, which was established by Adnan Basha, who is closely connected to Turkish government officials, to help establish a Palestinian army to fight Israel.
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, 28 Palestinians from their homes, in several parts of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has confirmed.
The PPS said the soldiers stormed and violently searched dozens of homes, across the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, and interrogated many Palestinians before abducting 28.
The abducted Palestinians have been identified as:
Arrests, break-ins in IOF overnight campaigns in West Bank
About 18 Palestinians were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in predawn campaigns launched in the West Bank and Jerusalem.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that the IOF arrested the Palestinian youth Marwan Amawi after raiding his family house in Beit Dajan town east of Nablus.
In another context, Israeli settlers at daybreak Wednesday attacked Palestinian homes in Asira al-Qibliya town south of Nablus.
Eyewitnesses said that dozens of settlers from Yitzhar illegal settlement stormed al-Khanadeq neighborhood and hurled rocks toward Palestinian homes causing partial damages.
The PIC reporter said, quoting local sources, that the IOF soldiers arrested two Palestinian young men in Jenin, erected temporary checkpoints at Jenin-Ya'bad road and launched a search campaign against Palestinian vehicles.
The IOF also raided Kafr Thulth town in Qalqilya and arrested the ex-prisoner Diaa Shawahneh, while two other Palestinian citizens were arrested in Ramallah.
Five Palestinians were arrested in different areas of Bethlehem while six others were arrested in Jerusalem.
The PPS said the soldiers stormed and violently searched dozens of homes, across the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, and interrogated many Palestinians before abducting 28.
The abducted Palestinians have been identified as:
- Dia’ Shawahna, former political prisoner from Kafr Thulth – Qalqilia.
- ‘Ala Abu ar-Ron, Jenin.
- Wisam Hannoun, Jenin refugee camp.
- Marwan Ammawi Abu Thabet, Beit Dajan – Nablus.
- Mahmoud Marshoud, al-Am’ari refugee camp, Ramallah.
- Mahmoud Ahmad Taqatqa, Beit Fajjar – Bethlehem.
- Shadi al-Badawna, Aida refugee camp – Bethlehem.
- Daoud al-Bom, Bethlehem.
- Mohammad Sameeh Aziyya, Doha town – Bethlehem.
- Mohammad ‘Adel al-‘Kamel, Bethlehem.
- Qussai Mustafa Abu Alia, al-Mughayyir, Ramallah.
- Haitham Mahmoud Ayyad, Abu Dis – Jerusalem.
- Adham Nader Jaffal, Abu Dis – Jerusalem.
- Mohammad Khaled Jaffal, Abu Dis – Jerusalem.
- Mohammad Morad Abu Hilal, Abu Dis – Jerusalem.
- Anas Abu ‘Assab, al-‘Isawiya – Jerusalem.
- Ahmad Yousef ‘Obeid, al-‘Isawiya – Jerusalem.
- Khaled ‘Awni Abu Ghosh, al-‘Isawiya – Jerusalem.
- Mohammad Mousa Mustafa, al-‘Isawiya – Jerusalem.
- Samir Akram ‘Atiya, al-‘Isawiya – Jerusalem.
- Husam Sameeh ‘Oleyyan, al-‘Isawiya – Jerusalem.
- Mohammad Bassam ‘Oleyyan, ,al-‘Isawiya – Jerusalem.
- Laith Darwish, al-‘Isawiya – Jerusalem.
- Tamer Darwish, al-‘Isawiya – Jerusalem.
- Amir Darwish, al-‘Isawiya – Jerusalem.
- Ahmad Daoud Mheisin, al-‘Isawiya – Jerusalem.
- Odai Mitwer, ar-Ram – Jerusalem.
- Mohammad Idrees, ar-Ram – Jerusalem.
Arrests, break-ins in IOF overnight campaigns in West Bank
About 18 Palestinians were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in predawn campaigns launched in the West Bank and Jerusalem.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that the IOF arrested the Palestinian youth Marwan Amawi after raiding his family house in Beit Dajan town east of Nablus.
In another context, Israeli settlers at daybreak Wednesday attacked Palestinian homes in Asira al-Qibliya town south of Nablus.
Eyewitnesses said that dozens of settlers from Yitzhar illegal settlement stormed al-Khanadeq neighborhood and hurled rocks toward Palestinian homes causing partial damages.
The PIC reporter said, quoting local sources, that the IOF soldiers arrested two Palestinian young men in Jenin, erected temporary checkpoints at Jenin-Ya'bad road and launched a search campaign against Palestinian vehicles.
The IOF also raided Kafr Thulth town in Qalqilya and arrested the ex-prisoner Diaa Shawahneh, while two other Palestinian citizens were arrested in Ramallah.
Five Palestinians were arrested in different areas of Bethlehem while six others were arrested in Jerusalem.
13 feb 2018
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The Israeli press reported recently that Knesset member Michael Oren had conducted a “secret parliamentary investigation” into the Tamimi family, suspecting that their “blond hair, freckles and Western clothes” proved that they were not “real”' Palestinians but part of the “Pallywood' industry”.
Dr. Oren is a former ambassador to the US. He should have sufficient intellectual ability to behave differently. This is because the oddity of his feat and subsequent crass remarks invite not only derision and ridicule but create a lasting impression that the man is a real ignoramus. The fact that he holds a Ph.D., was ambassador in Washington and had |
audience with the likes of Daniel Pipes and other Israel Firsters on the American arena seems to make no difference.
What else would one conclude after examining Oren’s childish ranting that “because their appearance-including “blond-haired, freckled” children in “Western clothes”-made them seem less like “real” Palestinians?
Predictably, the brazenly racist comments by Oren, a deputy minister, drew accusations of racism from the Tamimi family-the latest twist in a case that has turned into a public relations disaster for the apartheid Jewish state.
Bassem Tamimi, Ahd’s father, called Oren’s remarks “silly, ignorant, and scandalously racist”
Ahd Tamimi, 15, was arrested on December 19 for “physically resisting” two Israeli occupation soldiers outside her West Bank home a few days earlier. She faces charges that carry up to 14 years in prison.
Oren claimed that the Tamimi family had a long history of leading protests against the brutal practices of the Israeli occupation army.
What is wrong with that? Resisting oppression is more than just a basic human right; it is an honorable national duty as well. In America, where Oren served as ambassador for several years, they still teach their school kids Patrick Henry’s famous slogan “give me freedom or give me death”! Does Oren think that Palestinians are children of a lesser God that they don’t deserve freedom and human rights?
Oren said his investigation looked into whether the protests were genuine or whether the family members were provocateurs, paid to send children to clash with soldiers.
"The Tamimi family and those claiming to be part of the Tamimi family have been provoking Israeli soldiers for many, many years now," he said. "The children were chosen on the basis of their appearance, to look Western, freckled, and blond-haired."
Well, I don’t want to dignify Oren’s repugnant drivels by commenting on them. However, I believe that Oren and like-minded Zionist supremacists should understand that a foreign military occupation is a real act of rape, and that all people, regardless of the color of their hair or skin, have the right to resist evil.
Hence, it would be a sign of mental illness or moral dishonesty or both to claim that it is these innocent and innocuous kids, resisting rather symbolically the hateful Israeli occupation that provoked the occupation soldiers not the other way around.
The kids would have been “provocateurs” had they stormed the Israeli army’s barracks in Israel proper, but not when they chose to put up a symbolic resistance to heavily armed crack-soldiers storming, savaging and raping their neighborhoods, schools and homes.
In fact, Oren’s twisted logic prompts us to borrow analogy from the Nazi era. We all know that many European Jews resisted the Nazis and were martyred by them just as Palestinians have been and are resisting Zionist occupiers and are martyred by them, nearly on a daily basis.
Now a question for Oren: How would you respond to a propaganda liar like you if he or she claimed that the Nazis had to send the Jews to Treblinka and Dachau because the Jews were paid to provoke the SS and Gestapo!?
Mr. Oren. I know that no matter how hard you try to obfuscate the ugly reality of your decades-old occupation of my country, you won’t succeed.
The brutal ugliness of your hateful, diabolic and satanic occupation transcends reality. It can only be matched by the brutal ugliness of your racist mindset and immorality.
What you lack is more than intellectual honesty and rectitude, you lack basic human decency.
- Khalid Amayreh is a veteran Palestinian journalist living in Dura
What else would one conclude after examining Oren’s childish ranting that “because their appearance-including “blond-haired, freckled” children in “Western clothes”-made them seem less like “real” Palestinians?
Predictably, the brazenly racist comments by Oren, a deputy minister, drew accusations of racism from the Tamimi family-the latest twist in a case that has turned into a public relations disaster for the apartheid Jewish state.
Bassem Tamimi, Ahd’s father, called Oren’s remarks “silly, ignorant, and scandalously racist”
Ahd Tamimi, 15, was arrested on December 19 for “physically resisting” two Israeli occupation soldiers outside her West Bank home a few days earlier. She faces charges that carry up to 14 years in prison.
Oren claimed that the Tamimi family had a long history of leading protests against the brutal practices of the Israeli occupation army.
What is wrong with that? Resisting oppression is more than just a basic human right; it is an honorable national duty as well. In America, where Oren served as ambassador for several years, they still teach their school kids Patrick Henry’s famous slogan “give me freedom or give me death”! Does Oren think that Palestinians are children of a lesser God that they don’t deserve freedom and human rights?
Oren said his investigation looked into whether the protests were genuine or whether the family members were provocateurs, paid to send children to clash with soldiers.
"The Tamimi family and those claiming to be part of the Tamimi family have been provoking Israeli soldiers for many, many years now," he said. "The children were chosen on the basis of their appearance, to look Western, freckled, and blond-haired."
Well, I don’t want to dignify Oren’s repugnant drivels by commenting on them. However, I believe that Oren and like-minded Zionist supremacists should understand that a foreign military occupation is a real act of rape, and that all people, regardless of the color of their hair or skin, have the right to resist evil.
Hence, it would be a sign of mental illness or moral dishonesty or both to claim that it is these innocent and innocuous kids, resisting rather symbolically the hateful Israeli occupation that provoked the occupation soldiers not the other way around.
The kids would have been “provocateurs” had they stormed the Israeli army’s barracks in Israel proper, but not when they chose to put up a symbolic resistance to heavily armed crack-soldiers storming, savaging and raping their neighborhoods, schools and homes.
In fact, Oren’s twisted logic prompts us to borrow analogy from the Nazi era. We all know that many European Jews resisted the Nazis and were martyred by them just as Palestinians have been and are resisting Zionist occupiers and are martyred by them, nearly on a daily basis.
Now a question for Oren: How would you respond to a propaganda liar like you if he or she claimed that the Nazis had to send the Jews to Treblinka and Dachau because the Jews were paid to provoke the SS and Gestapo!?
Mr. Oren. I know that no matter how hard you try to obfuscate the ugly reality of your decades-old occupation of my country, you won’t succeed.
The brutal ugliness of your hateful, diabolic and satanic occupation transcends reality. It can only be matched by the brutal ugliness of your racist mindset and immorality.
What you lack is more than intellectual honesty and rectitude, you lack basic human decency.
- Khalid Amayreh is a veteran Palestinian journalist living in Dura
The Ofer military occupation court decided, on Tuesday, to extend the detention of teenager Ahed Tamimi until next month. The court session was set for 11 March.
The military judge tried Tamimi in a closed session, and ordered all media and journalists to leave the courtroom.
Tamimi is being tried over 12 charges, including assault and incitement and obstructing the work of soldiers, in addition to “participating in violence.”
The 17-year-old, who comes from a leading Palestinian family known for its political activism and popular resistance, was filmed slapping an Israeli soldier trying to storm her family home in Nabi Saleh village.
Tamimi has been under arrest since 2 December, 2017, over the video.
On the same day, according to the PNN, Israeli forces detained Ahed’s mother, Nariman, while she was trying to visit her daughter.
The trial of Ahed and her mother Nariman has been postponed several times and their detention extended to today.
The military judge tried Tamimi in a closed session, and ordered all media and journalists to leave the courtroom.
Tamimi is being tried over 12 charges, including assault and incitement and obstructing the work of soldiers, in addition to “participating in violence.”
The 17-year-old, who comes from a leading Palestinian family known for its political activism and popular resistance, was filmed slapping an Israeli soldier trying to storm her family home in Nabi Saleh village.
Tamimi has been under arrest since 2 December, 2017, over the video.
On the same day, according to the PNN, Israeli forces detained Ahed’s mother, Nariman, while she was trying to visit her daughter.
The trial of Ahed and her mother Nariman has been postponed several times and their detention extended to today.
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Palestinian children who had been detained by Israeli occupation forces say that they were beaten and humiliated inside Israeli prisons, according to Days of Palestine.
Defence for Children International – Palestine (DCIP) is concerned that Israeli military arrests are not only violent, but that children often lack proper legal representation during the court process, and that the impact of detention lasts well into adulthood. Fawzi al-Junaidi, the 16-year-old Palestinian boy whose detention, while blindfolded by a group of Israeli soldiers in occupied Al-Khalil, was captured in a photo that went viral, spoke to Al Jazeera about how he was treated in Israeli custody. |
Palestinian detainee Mabrouk Jarrar was transferred on Tuesday evening to Rafidia Hospital in Nablus, hours after he was released from an Israeli jail.
Jarrar requires treatment for injuries sustained during his arrest when he was attacked by Israeli police dogs on February 3 during a manhunt to chase down slain activist Ahmed Jarrar.
Speaking with a PIC news correspondent, Jarrar’s family said the Israeli occupation forces left their son bleeding for hours
Jarrar requires treatment for injuries sustained during his arrest when he was attacked by Israeli police dogs on February 3 during a manhunt to chase down slain activist Ahmed Jarrar.
Speaking with a PIC news correspondent, Jarrar’s family said the Israeli occupation forces left their son bleeding for hours
after he was brutally assaulted by police dogs. Severe injuries were inflicted on Jarrar’s shoulder, hand, and left leg. He was reportedly dragged by the occupation soldiers down to the bottom floor of his family house while his body was covered in blood.
A couple of days ago, the occupation authorities decided to release Jarrar but kept him in the Afoula Hospital, where he had received medical treatment.
Prisoner Jarrar, a native of Jenin’s western town of Berkin, had spent several years in Israeli lock-ups on account of his affiliations with Hamas resistance movement.
A couple of days ago, the occupation authorities decided to release Jarrar but kept him in the Afoula Hospital, where he had received medical treatment.
Prisoner Jarrar, a native of Jenin’s western town of Berkin, had spent several years in Israeli lock-ups on account of his affiliations with Hamas resistance movement.
Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies stated on Tuesday that the Palestinian captive Iyyad Abu Hashem, 41, of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip, has entered the 22nd year of imprisonment in Israeli jails, which is the last year of his sentence.
The spokesman of the Center, Riyad al-Ashqar, said that Abu Hashem was arrested on February13, 1997 after the charge of stabbing a Jewish settler at Rafah border crossing. As a result, he was sentenced to actual imprisonment to 16 years.
Ashqar elaborated that Israeli courts issued an additional sentence to 6 years against detainee Abu Hashem for hitting one of the Israeli jailers in Nafha prison, which made him serving a sentence to 22 consecutive years of which he has already spent 21 years.
The spokesman of the Center, Riyad al-Ashqar, said that Abu Hashem was arrested on February13, 1997 after the charge of stabbing a Jewish settler at Rafah border crossing. As a result, he was sentenced to actual imprisonment to 16 years.
Ashqar elaborated that Israeli courts issued an additional sentence to 6 years against detainee Abu Hashem for hitting one of the Israeli jailers in Nafha prison, which made him serving a sentence to 22 consecutive years of which he has already spent 21 years.
An Israeli military court on Tuesday issued an administrative detention order against detainee Asem Eshtaya, from Tel town west of Nablus, for four months after failing to convict him with any charge.
The family of the prisoner told the PIC reporter that several trials have been held to rule against their son since he was arrested on December 11, within an arrest campaign that affected Hamas members and ex-detainees.
Eshtaya who is a university student has been subjected to repeated arrests in Israeli and Palestinian Authority jails which have prevented him from graduation.
The family of the prisoner told the PIC reporter that several trials have been held to rule against their son since he was arrested on December 11, within an arrest campaign that affected Hamas members and ex-detainees.
Eshtaya who is a university student has been subjected to repeated arrests in Israeli and Palestinian Authority jails which have prevented him from graduation.
Sixty per cent of Palestinian children who were detained by Israeli occupation forces were verbally, physically or psychologically tortured, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) revealed on Sunday.
In a statement, the PPS said that Palestinian minors detained by the Israeli occupation were beaten, prevented from sleeping,and threatened by interrogators in order to confess.
The statement also said, according to Days of Palestine, that the Palestinian children were prevented from eating and drinking for long periods and were insulted. They were also subjected to hours of interrogations.
Accounts of three Palestinian minor prisoners, who are currently inside Israeli prisons, were included in the PPS’ report.
Mustafa al-Badan, 17, Faisal al-Shaer, 16, and Ahmed al-Shalaldeh, 15, told the PPS that they were tortured when they were investigated.
There are currently more than 6,500 Palestinians being held in the Israeli occupation’s jails, including 57 women and girls and 350 children.
In a statement, the PPS said that Palestinian minors detained by the Israeli occupation were beaten, prevented from sleeping,and threatened by interrogators in order to confess.
The statement also said, according to Days of Palestine, that the Palestinian children were prevented from eating and drinking for long periods and were insulted. They were also subjected to hours of interrogations.
Accounts of three Palestinian minor prisoners, who are currently inside Israeli prisons, were included in the PPS’ report.
Mustafa al-Badan, 17, Faisal al-Shaer, 16, and Ahmed al-Shalaldeh, 15, told the PPS that they were tortured when they were investigated.
There are currently more than 6,500 Palestinians being held in the Israeli occupation’s jails, including 57 women and girls and 350 children.
The Israeli prison service (IPS) transferred Palestinian hunger-striking prisoner Rizq al-Rajoub, 61, to Ramon jail in the Negev Desert.
The prisoner’s son, Ahmed, said that the lawyer who visited his father on Sunday told him that he was transferred to Ramon jail, affirming that his father is determined to continue his hunger strike, which he started about nine days ago in protest at his administrative detention.
Ahmed al-Rajoub told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that his father would never accept the Israeli offer to exile him to Sudan and would continue his hunger strike until his martyrdom unless he was released or indicted.
According to the lawyer, the Israeli jailers put prisoner Rajoub in very harsh incarceration conditions, which increased his health suffering.
The lawyer explained that Rajoub was locked up in a very cold isolation cell provided with security cameras and his personal blankets were replaced with dirty ones not protecting him against the cold weather.
The prisoner is also deprived of getting his own clothing and only allowed to take a shower once a week, while prison soldiers storm his cell three times a day.
The prisoner’s son, Ahmed, said that the lawyer who visited his father on Sunday told him that he was transferred to Ramon jail, affirming that his father is determined to continue his hunger strike, which he started about nine days ago in protest at his administrative detention.
Ahmed al-Rajoub told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that his father would never accept the Israeli offer to exile him to Sudan and would continue his hunger strike until his martyrdom unless he was released or indicted.
According to the lawyer, the Israeli jailers put prisoner Rajoub in very harsh incarceration conditions, which increased his health suffering.
The lawyer explained that Rajoub was locked up in a very cold isolation cell provided with security cameras and his personal blankets were replaced with dirty ones not protecting him against the cold weather.
The prisoner is also deprived of getting his own clothing and only allowed to take a shower once a week, while prison soldiers storm his cell three times a day.
One of 30 minor girls held in Israeli jails, Ahed al-Tamimi is to appear on Tuesday before an Israeli military court for slapping two Israeli soldiers.
Assault and incitement are among 12 charges leveled against Ahed by Ofer court.
Ahed al-Tammi, 17, appeared in a video slapping two Israeli soldiers who were trying to break into her house during a protest in Nabi Saleh village in Ramallah.
Ofer court on Sunday decided to delay Ahed's trial until Tuesday to give the defense more time to study the case.
Since her arrest Ahed has been an icon of Palestinian popular resistance against the Israeli occupation.
Assault and incitement are among 12 charges leveled against Ahed by Ofer court.
Ahed al-Tammi, 17, appeared in a video slapping two Israeli soldiers who were trying to break into her house during a protest in Nabi Saleh village in Ramallah.
Ofer court on Sunday decided to delay Ahed's trial until Tuesday to give the defense more time to study the case.
Since her arrest Ahed has been an icon of Palestinian popular resistance against the Israeli occupation.
Several Palestinians were arrested by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at predawn Tuesday in abduction sweeps rocking the West Bank.
A PIC news correspondent said dozens of Israeli soldiers stormed Tulkarem’s refugee camp of Nour Shams, in the northern West Bank, and kidnapped four Palestinians from their homes.
The occupation forces have come down heavily on the locals and ransacked their homes.
The IOF also kidnapped two Palestinians from Qalandiya refugee camp, north of Occupied Jerusalem, and another from Ramallah’s northern town of Silwad.
Two Palestinian girls were kidnapped by the Israeli army on claims that they were dressed in military wears and holding a gun. The arrestees were dragged to an Israeli detention center.
The IOF further sealed off the main entrance to Madama and Tel Burin, in Nablus, with a metal gate.
At the same time, Israeli settlers vandalized Palestinian property and terrorized civilians near Nablus province, in the northern occupied West Bank.
Hundreds of Israeli settlers stormed Nablus’s eastern town of Ourata under heavy military shield and defiled holy shrines.
The settlers smashed windows of Palestinian cars parked in the area and punctured their tires.
Israeli settler hordes further broke into Nablus’s western town of Git, damaged the tires of Palestinian vehicles, and spray-painted racist graffiti.
A PIC news correspondent said dozens of Israeli soldiers stormed Tulkarem’s refugee camp of Nour Shams, in the northern West Bank, and kidnapped four Palestinians from their homes.
The occupation forces have come down heavily on the locals and ransacked their homes.
The IOF also kidnapped two Palestinians from Qalandiya refugee camp, north of Occupied Jerusalem, and another from Ramallah’s northern town of Silwad.
Two Palestinian girls were kidnapped by the Israeli army on claims that they were dressed in military wears and holding a gun. The arrestees were dragged to an Israeli detention center.
The IOF further sealed off the main entrance to Madama and Tel Burin, in Nablus, with a metal gate.
At the same time, Israeli settlers vandalized Palestinian property and terrorized civilians near Nablus province, in the northern occupied West Bank.
Hundreds of Israeli settlers stormed Nablus’s eastern town of Ourata under heavy military shield and defiled holy shrines.
The settlers smashed windows of Palestinian cars parked in the area and punctured their tires.
Israeli settler hordes further broke into Nablus’s western town of Git, damaged the tires of Palestinian vehicles, and spray-painted racist graffiti.
