15 jan 2015
Israel releases Palestinian detainee after 10 years in jail
Israeli authorities on Thursday released a Palestinian detainee who had spent 10 years in an Israeli jail.
Mutasem Jamil Abd al-Al, 32, from Balata refugee camp in Nablus was freed from Megiddo jail.
He was detained in an Israeli arrest raid in which his friend Muhammad al-Assi was killed.
Israeli authorities on Thursday released a Palestinian detainee who had spent 10 years in an Israeli jail.
Mutasem Jamil Abd al-Al, 32, from Balata refugee camp in Nablus was freed from Megiddo jail.
He was detained in an Israeli arrest raid in which his friend Muhammad al-Assi was killed.
Palestinian detainees held in the Israeli Ofer prison complained of the inadequacy to meet the winter season needs.
They filed complaints about lack of winter clothes and bed sheets, overcrowding as well as installation of jamming devices.
Prisoners said, in a statement published by the Palestinian Prisoner Society on Thursday, the latest cold spell came heavily down on them as the prison is lacking sufficient coverlets and winter clothes.
They also complained about overcrowding resulted from dramatically increased numbers of detainees since mid of last year.
In the same context, Ofer prisoners complained of the jamming devices which have been fixed by the Israeli Prison Service since the beginning of January. Severe cases of headache have been reported among captives who expressed their serious concerns about future health complications.
They filed complaints about lack of winter clothes and bed sheets, overcrowding as well as installation of jamming devices.
Prisoners said, in a statement published by the Palestinian Prisoner Society on Thursday, the latest cold spell came heavily down on them as the prison is lacking sufficient coverlets and winter clothes.
They also complained about overcrowding resulted from dramatically increased numbers of detainees since mid of last year.
In the same context, Ofer prisoners complained of the jamming devices which have been fixed by the Israeli Prison Service since the beginning of January. Severe cases of headache have been reported among captives who expressed their serious concerns about future health complications.
Israeli troops shot and injured a young Palestinian man during a raid on Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank at early Thursday morning.
Palestinian security sources and locals told Ma'an that fierce clashes broke out between the Israeli soldiers and local youths when the soldiers stormed the camp and detained four young men.
During the clashes, an Israeli soldier shot and injured 23-year-old Ahmad Jarbou who works at Jenin public hospital.
Young Palestinians hurled stones and empty bottles at the invading soldiers who fired tear-gas canisters, stun grenades and rubber-coated bullets as well as live ammunition.
The sources added that Israeli soldiers detained Alaa Addin Abd al-Hafith, 20, Yahya Bassam al-Saadi in his 20s, Ahmad Said al-Saadi, 37, and Raed Ahmad Tawalbah in his 20s. Qasim Ragheb al-Saadi was detained and released a few hours later.
An Israeli army spokeswoman did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
IOF storms Jenin, arrests 5 Palestinians
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) stormed at dawn Thursday Jenin refugee camp to the north of the West Bank and nabbed five Palestinian youths.
The PIC reporter quoted eyewitnesses as stating that nearly 200 Israeli soldiers in dozens of army vehicles broke into the camp at 2 am and violently raided several homes belonging to members of Jihad movement.
Most of the home owners are relatives of Sheikh Bassam Saadi, an influential Islamic Jihad leader who is currently being pursued by Israeli forces.
The IOF soldiers also stormed and searched Sheikh Saadi’s home, where his family members were questioned about his whereabouts.
Five youths were detained during the raid, including Saadi’s son and his brother-in-law.
Sheikh Saadi, who was detained for 12 years and whose wife and one of his sons are prisoners and two other sons have been killed, has been wanted by the IOF for ten months under the pretext of being affiliated to Jihad movement.
Along the same line, a live bullet injury was reported at dawn today during clashes that erupted in different parts of Jenin.
Local sources reported that the clashes broke out when Israeli forces stormed a number of neighborhoods in Jenin camp.
Over the past year, the Jenin camp has witnessed multiple armed clashes with Israeli forces, which constantly raid the camp.
Meanwhile, four other Palestinians were rounded up in Nablus and al-Khalil.
Palestinian security sources and locals told Ma'an that fierce clashes broke out between the Israeli soldiers and local youths when the soldiers stormed the camp and detained four young men.
During the clashes, an Israeli soldier shot and injured 23-year-old Ahmad Jarbou who works at Jenin public hospital.
Young Palestinians hurled stones and empty bottles at the invading soldiers who fired tear-gas canisters, stun grenades and rubber-coated bullets as well as live ammunition.
The sources added that Israeli soldiers detained Alaa Addin Abd al-Hafith, 20, Yahya Bassam al-Saadi in his 20s, Ahmad Said al-Saadi, 37, and Raed Ahmad Tawalbah in his 20s. Qasim Ragheb al-Saadi was detained and released a few hours later.
An Israeli army spokeswoman did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
IOF storms Jenin, arrests 5 Palestinians
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) stormed at dawn Thursday Jenin refugee camp to the north of the West Bank and nabbed five Palestinian youths.
The PIC reporter quoted eyewitnesses as stating that nearly 200 Israeli soldiers in dozens of army vehicles broke into the camp at 2 am and violently raided several homes belonging to members of Jihad movement.
Most of the home owners are relatives of Sheikh Bassam Saadi, an influential Islamic Jihad leader who is currently being pursued by Israeli forces.
The IOF soldiers also stormed and searched Sheikh Saadi’s home, where his family members were questioned about his whereabouts.
Five youths were detained during the raid, including Saadi’s son and his brother-in-law.
Sheikh Saadi, who was detained for 12 years and whose wife and one of his sons are prisoners and two other sons have been killed, has been wanted by the IOF for ten months under the pretext of being affiliated to Jihad movement.
Along the same line, a live bullet injury was reported at dawn today during clashes that erupted in different parts of Jenin.
Local sources reported that the clashes broke out when Israeli forces stormed a number of neighborhoods in Jenin camp.
Over the past year, the Jenin camp has witnessed multiple armed clashes with Israeli forces, which constantly raid the camp.
Meanwhile, four other Palestinians were rounded up in Nablus and al-Khalil.
Israeli troops stationed in towers along the borders with the southern Gaza Strip near Khan Younis opened fire on Thursday at Palestinian fields while farmers were tending their lands, witnesses told Ma’an.
The Israeli soldiers reportedly fired from heavy machine guns at Palestinian fields in the outskirts of Khuza, al-Farahin and al-Qarara in eastern Khan Younis. No injuries have been reported but the farmers were forced to immediately leave their fields.
Israeli soldiers open fire across the borders almost every day because Palestinians allegedly come too close to a border fence. In many cases Palestinian farmers have been killed or injured.
Separately, Israeli soldiers at Erez crossing in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip detained a Gaza merchant as he tried to pass through the crossing. Locals identified him as Hassan Shirafi.
The Israeli soldiers reportedly fired from heavy machine guns at Palestinian fields in the outskirts of Khuza, al-Farahin and al-Qarara in eastern Khan Younis. No injuries have been reported but the farmers were forced to immediately leave their fields.
Israeli soldiers open fire across the borders almost every day because Palestinians allegedly come too close to a border fence. In many cases Palestinian farmers have been killed or injured.
Separately, Israeli soldiers at Erez crossing in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip detained a Gaza merchant as he tried to pass through the crossing. Locals identified him as Hassan Shirafi.
Longest-serving Palestinian administrative detainee has initiated an open-ended hunger strike in protest at being sentenced to 13 renewed prison terms with neither charge nor trial.
Prisoner Mahmoud Shalatwa, 31, has notified his family during a hearing at the Ofer lock-up of his intent to start an open-ended hunger strike in protest at his arbitrary administrative detention, a PIC correspondent quoted Mahmoud’s brother, Thaer Shalatwa, as reporting Wednesday.
The detainee reportedly rejected a release deal to be struck with the Israeli prison service (IPS) under conditions that he would be banished from the Palestinian territories.
Head of the Ahrar Center for Prisoner Studies and Human Rights, Fouad al-Khuffash dubbed the proposed deal a bargaining chip bartering the lives and freedom of Palestinian detainees.
The Ofer military court re-sentenced Mahmoud administratively to six new months, though earlier issues outlawed any such renewals.
Prisoner Shalatwa was arrested by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) early May 2011, just one week after he got married. He has spent a total of 18 years in the Israeli occupation jails.
Meanwhile, the IOF transferred prisoner Mohamed Adib Mousa, 31, and three unidentified Palestinian inmates to solitary confinement in the Israeli occupation jail of Eshel, in Beersheba, Mohamed’s family told the PIC.
Mahmoud is set to be locked up in a solitary cell for at least one week and denied family-visits for two months.
The decision was issued following a protest move launched by the detainees in objection to the humiliating searches an inmate’s sister was subjected to at the hands of the Israeli wardens during a visit she paid to her brother Monday. The IPS took off the lady’s Hijab (veil) and slapped a visit-ban on her.
Prisoner Mohamed has been locked up for over five years at Israeli prisons due to his alleged affiliation with Hamas.
Prisoner Mahmoud Shalatwa, 31, has notified his family during a hearing at the Ofer lock-up of his intent to start an open-ended hunger strike in protest at his arbitrary administrative detention, a PIC correspondent quoted Mahmoud’s brother, Thaer Shalatwa, as reporting Wednesday.
The detainee reportedly rejected a release deal to be struck with the Israeli prison service (IPS) under conditions that he would be banished from the Palestinian territories.
Head of the Ahrar Center for Prisoner Studies and Human Rights, Fouad al-Khuffash dubbed the proposed deal a bargaining chip bartering the lives and freedom of Palestinian detainees.
The Ofer military court re-sentenced Mahmoud administratively to six new months, though earlier issues outlawed any such renewals.
Prisoner Shalatwa was arrested by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) early May 2011, just one week after he got married. He has spent a total of 18 years in the Israeli occupation jails.
Meanwhile, the IOF transferred prisoner Mohamed Adib Mousa, 31, and three unidentified Palestinian inmates to solitary confinement in the Israeli occupation jail of Eshel, in Beersheba, Mohamed’s family told the PIC.
Mahmoud is set to be locked up in a solitary cell for at least one week and denied family-visits for two months.
The decision was issued following a protest move launched by the detainees in objection to the humiliating searches an inmate’s sister was subjected to at the hands of the Israeli wardens during a visit she paid to her brother Monday. The IPS took off the lady’s Hijab (veil) and slapped a visit-ban on her.
Prisoner Mohamed has been locked up for over five years at Israeli prisons due to his alleged affiliation with Hamas.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) afternoon Wednesday kidnapped four Palestinian civilians, including two children, from Occupied Jerusalem.
Head of the Wadi Helwa Information Center, Jawad Seyam, said the IOF troops nabbed the 12-year-old child Youssef Salah and the 15-year-old Alaa Salah from Jerusalem’s town of Silwan moments before they dragged them to an Israeli police station.
Two Palestinian young men were abducted from Jerusalem’s Bab al-Amoud in the process.
By-standers at the scene said the IOF soldiers cordoned off Bab al-Amoud area and scoured Palestinians’ vehicles shortly before they apprehended the two Palestinian civilians Amar Abu Sbeih and Haitham al-Jamal.
Head of the Wadi Helwa Information Center, Jawad Seyam, said the IOF troops nabbed the 12-year-old child Youssef Salah and the 15-year-old Alaa Salah from Jerusalem’s town of Silwan moments before they dragged them to an Israeli police station.
Two Palestinian young men were abducted from Jerusalem’s Bab al-Amoud in the process.
By-standers at the scene said the IOF soldiers cordoned off Bab al-Amoud area and scoured Palestinians’ vehicles shortly before they apprehended the two Palestinian civilians Amar Abu Sbeih and Haitham al-Jamal.
Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Wednesday evening, a Palestinian teenager from Yatta town, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and kidnapped his friend, while walking near the Etzion Junction, south of Bethlehem.
Medical sources said the soldiers shot Osama ‘Ali Mohammad Abu Jundiyya, 17 years of age, seriously wounding him, and prevented a Palestinian ambulance that rushed to the scene from reaching him, before he died of his wounds.
The soldiers also kidnapped Jundiyya’s friend, Mousa Jibrin an-Najjar, 20 years of age, and took him to the Etzion military base.
The Israeli Police alleged the slain Palestinian, and his friend, attempted to attack a car of an Israeli settler at the junction, and that one of the soldiers opened fire at them.
Police spokesperson Micky Rosenfed told the Maan News Agency that the two were part of what he called “a criminal incident”, and that the Police opened fire on them after they “attempted to escape.”
Medical sources said the soldiers shot Osama ‘Ali Mohammad Abu Jundiyya, 17 years of age, seriously wounding him, and prevented a Palestinian ambulance that rushed to the scene from reaching him, before he died of his wounds.
The soldiers also kidnapped Jundiyya’s friend, Mousa Jibrin an-Najjar, 20 years of age, and took him to the Etzion military base.
The Israeli Police alleged the slain Palestinian, and his friend, attempted to attack a car of an Israeli settler at the junction, and that one of the soldiers opened fire at them.
Police spokesperson Micky Rosenfed told the Maan News Agency that the two were part of what he called “a criminal incident”, and that the Police opened fire on them after they “attempted to escape.”
14 jan 2015
The health condition of prisoner Mutasem Raddad has suddenly worsened which required his immediate transfer to hospital. Family members and prison mates expressed serious concern about his status.
The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-detainees said, in a report on Wednesday, the 32-year-old captive Raddad has been suffering intestinal bleeding for several years. Bleeding and pain have dramatically been increasing, it added.
Raddad, who is from Tulkarem, is sentenced to 20 years and is considered one of the most critically ill inmates in Israeli jails.
He has been suffering from intestinal cancer since 2009. This resulted in acute weight loss, osteoporosis and emaciation. His left hand is semi-paralyzed as well.
Raddad has been receiving a chemotherapy injection once monthly along with four medications for the heart.
The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-detainees said, in a report on Wednesday, the 32-year-old captive Raddad has been suffering intestinal bleeding for several years. Bleeding and pain have dramatically been increasing, it added.
Raddad, who is from Tulkarem, is sentenced to 20 years and is considered one of the most critically ill inmates in Israeli jails.
He has been suffering from intestinal cancer since 2009. This resulted in acute weight loss, osteoporosis and emaciation. His left hand is semi-paralyzed as well.
Raddad has been receiving a chemotherapy injection once monthly along with four medications for the heart.
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) called on the international community, along with the signatories of the Fourth Geneva Convention, to put an end to the Israeli violations against Palestinian prisoners.
The DFLP Deputy Secretary General Qais Abu Laila said the Israeli Occupation Authority had escalated the administrative detention policy during the past year. 500 Palestinians were held in administrative detention with no trials or charges brought against them. The increase was estimated at 245% compared to the previous year, he added.
Abu Laila said, in a press release on Wednesday, that quick action should have been taken regarding this issue, including addressing the international organizations in order to halt the policy of administrative detention adopted by Israel.
He stressed the need for the formulation and implementation of a Palestinian strategy to internationalize the issue of Palestinian prisoners and to mobilize international solidarity campaigns in this regard.
He called for the enforcement of the related provisions of the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions in order to ensure the rights of Palestinian civilians held in Israeli jails, especially women, children, the elderly as well as Palestinian MPs.
The DFLP Deputy Secretary General Qais Abu Laila said the Israeli Occupation Authority had escalated the administrative detention policy during the past year. 500 Palestinians were held in administrative detention with no trials or charges brought against them. The increase was estimated at 245% compared to the previous year, he added.
Abu Laila said, in a press release on Wednesday, that quick action should have been taken regarding this issue, including addressing the international organizations in order to halt the policy of administrative detention adopted by Israel.
He stressed the need for the formulation and implementation of a Palestinian strategy to internationalize the issue of Palestinian prisoners and to mobilize international solidarity campaigns in this regard.
He called for the enforcement of the related provisions of the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions in order to ensure the rights of Palestinian civilians held in Israeli jails, especially women, children, the elderly as well as Palestinian MPs.
15 Palestinian sick prisoners are facing life-threatening conditions in Ramla prison hospital due to the Israeli deliberate medical neglect, Prisoners’ Affair Ministry said Tuesday.
After her visit to Ramla clinic, lawyer of the ministry Heba Musalha confirmed that most of the sick prisoners are semi-permanently held in the clinic as they are physically unable to move.
Despite their very serious health deterioration, the sick prisoners are only receiving painkillers and sedatives that do not give any relief, she added.
“They found themselves obliged to sleep almost 22 hours per day to avoid the unbearable pains.”
The lawyer warned of the sharp deterioration in the prisoner Jafar Awad’s health situation as doctors failed to accurately diagnose his illness so far.
She pointed out that he slipped into a coma about a month ago, where doctors said that he suffers from a strange and rare disease without diagnosing the illness.
Meanwhile, Israeli authorities extended the administrative detention of the prisoner Shadi Badawna, 28, for four months for the third time in a row.
Badawna was nabbed during the Israeli summer arrest campaign in the West Bank following the kidnapping of three Israeli soldiers in al-Khalil.
He spent seven years in Israeli jails and was arrested more than once by PA security apparatuses under the pretext of being affiliated to Hamas Movement.
After her visit to Ramla clinic, lawyer of the ministry Heba Musalha confirmed that most of the sick prisoners are semi-permanently held in the clinic as they are physically unable to move.
Despite their very serious health deterioration, the sick prisoners are only receiving painkillers and sedatives that do not give any relief, she added.
“They found themselves obliged to sleep almost 22 hours per day to avoid the unbearable pains.”
The lawyer warned of the sharp deterioration in the prisoner Jafar Awad’s health situation as doctors failed to accurately diagnose his illness so far.
She pointed out that he slipped into a coma about a month ago, where doctors said that he suffers from a strange and rare disease without diagnosing the illness.
Meanwhile, Israeli authorities extended the administrative detention of the prisoner Shadi Badawna, 28, for four months for the third time in a row.
Badawna was nabbed during the Israeli summer arrest campaign in the West Bank following the kidnapping of three Israeli soldiers in al-Khalil.
He spent seven years in Israeli jails and was arrested more than once by PA security apparatuses under the pretext of being affiliated to Hamas Movement.
An Israeli central court in Nazareth on Wednesday rejected an appeal on behalf of six Jerusalem-area prisoners who were rearrested after they had been freed in the Gilad Shalit prisoner swap in 2011.
Speaker of the East Jerusalem committee of prisoners' families Amjad Abu Asab told Ma'an that the Israeli forces claimed that Alaa al-Din al-Bazyan, Nasser Abed Rabbo, Jamal Abu Salih, Rajab al-Tahhan, Ismail Hijazi and Adnan Maragha had violated the terms of the deal upon which they were freed.
As a result, they were rearrested and the Israeli intelligence decided that they would complete the original lifetime sentences they were serving before they were freed.
The six, along with more than 50 others freed as part of Shalit deal, were rearrested in June 2014 during an Israeli military operation to locate three teenage boys who disappeared near Gush Etzion south of Bethlehem.
Israeli police earlier notified the prisoners' families that they were being interrogated on charge of membership in a "terror" organization as well as violating the terms of Shalit deal.
However, the families were notified that the case had been closed and that the six won't be tried because enough evidence was not found.
Surprisingly, the six were sent to a central court in Haifa to be tried in front of a special judicial committee composed of Israeli government officials which decided that they were guilty and must serve the original sentences.
Speaker of the East Jerusalem committee of prisoners' families Amjad Abu Asab told Ma'an that the Israeli forces claimed that Alaa al-Din al-Bazyan, Nasser Abed Rabbo, Jamal Abu Salih, Rajab al-Tahhan, Ismail Hijazi and Adnan Maragha had violated the terms of the deal upon which they were freed.
As a result, they were rearrested and the Israeli intelligence decided that they would complete the original lifetime sentences they were serving before they were freed.
The six, along with more than 50 others freed as part of Shalit deal, were rearrested in June 2014 during an Israeli military operation to locate three teenage boys who disappeared near Gush Etzion south of Bethlehem.
Israeli police earlier notified the prisoners' families that they were being interrogated on charge of membership in a "terror" organization as well as violating the terms of Shalit deal.
However, the families were notified that the case had been closed and that the six won't be tried because enough evidence was not found.
Surprisingly, the six were sent to a central court in Haifa to be tried in front of a special judicial committee composed of Israeli government officials which decided that they were guilty and must serve the original sentences.
At least 19 Palestinian civilians were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) during raids launched across the southern West Bank province of al-Khalil Wednesday and Tuesday.
Sources based in Beit Ummar village, north of al-Khalil, said 18 Palestinians were rounded up by the IOF at dawn Wednesday while others were heavily beaten up moments after they were forced out of their homes and left shivering in cold air.
Media spokesman for the anti-settlement committee in Beit Ummar, Mohamed Awad, said a large-scale military campaign targeted the town, resulting in a round of assaults on the natives’ family homes and the abduction of 18 Palestinians.
At least three minors have been detected among the newly-captured citizens, mostly ranging between the ages of 16 and 28.
Five Palestinian citizens, including a girl, sustained rubber bullet injuries and others were heavily assaulted in the violent confrontations that burst out during the campaign.
Earlier on Tuesday, the IOF kidnapped a Palestinian youth following raids launched across al-Khalil.
The IOF troops stormed the city via a drove of military jeeps and scoured Issa village moments before they broke into al-Mascoubiya church, in al-Jalda, locals told the PIC.
The Israeli occupation patrols further raided al-Karmel village, east of Yatta town, where Palestinians’ IDs were provocatively inspected at a checkpoint randomly pitched by the IOF north of the village.
The incursions culminated in the abduction of the Palestinian youth Saleh Ismail al-Badareem at the hands of the IOF, shortly after they scoured his family home and summoned the youth, along with his father and brother Mohamed, for interrogation.
Over 12 Palestinian young men have reportedly been captured by the IOF throughout in a mass-abduction campaign launched across al-Samou’ town over the past few days.
The IOF further broke into the Fawar refugee camp, south of al-Khalil city, using more than 20 army jeeps, allegedly after an explosion was heard near the Israeli illegal Hagai settlement.
Four Palestinian young men were heavily beaten up by the Israeli army troops deployed at the main entrance of the camp.
Sources based in Beit Ummar village, north of al-Khalil, said 18 Palestinians were rounded up by the IOF at dawn Wednesday while others were heavily beaten up moments after they were forced out of their homes and left shivering in cold air.
Media spokesman for the anti-settlement committee in Beit Ummar, Mohamed Awad, said a large-scale military campaign targeted the town, resulting in a round of assaults on the natives’ family homes and the abduction of 18 Palestinians.
At least three minors have been detected among the newly-captured citizens, mostly ranging between the ages of 16 and 28.
Five Palestinian citizens, including a girl, sustained rubber bullet injuries and others were heavily assaulted in the violent confrontations that burst out during the campaign.
Earlier on Tuesday, the IOF kidnapped a Palestinian youth following raids launched across al-Khalil.
The IOF troops stormed the city via a drove of military jeeps and scoured Issa village moments before they broke into al-Mascoubiya church, in al-Jalda, locals told the PIC.
The Israeli occupation patrols further raided al-Karmel village, east of Yatta town, where Palestinians’ IDs were provocatively inspected at a checkpoint randomly pitched by the IOF north of the village.
The incursions culminated in the abduction of the Palestinian youth Saleh Ismail al-Badareem at the hands of the IOF, shortly after they scoured his family home and summoned the youth, along with his father and brother Mohamed, for interrogation.
Over 12 Palestinian young men have reportedly been captured by the IOF throughout in a mass-abduction campaign launched across al-Samou’ town over the past few days.
The IOF further broke into the Fawar refugee camp, south of al-Khalil city, using more than 20 army jeeps, allegedly after an explosion was heard near the Israeli illegal Hagai settlement.
Four Palestinian young men were heavily beaten up by the Israeli army troops deployed at the main entrance of the camp.
Families of the Palestinian prisoners held in the Israeli occupation jails rallied in front of the Red Crescent headquarters in Tulkarem in protest at the dire detention circumstances endured by their sons and daughters with the advent of the freezing weather conditions.
The demonstrators raised alarm bells over the unbearable state of affairs suffered by their imprisoned relatives, held in cells unsupplied with proper heating infrastructure.
The prisoners’ families further spoke out against the acute shortages in blankets and warm garments in the Israeli prison cells, exacerbating a situation already hit by a frosty storm rocking the occupied Palestinian territories.
Brother of the Palestinian detainee Hatem Jabousi, sentenced to six back-to-back life-sentences, said the Israeli prison service (IPS) has turned down appeals to supply Hatem with winter clothes and blankets.
The IPS has denied other Palestinian prisoners the right to receive warm clothes during prison-visits, forcing them to purchase rotten garments from the canteens at inflated prices.
The families appealed to the human rights groups and world’s activists to immediately step in and work on salvaging their oppressed sons and daughters from the grips of the Israeli occupation wardens.
Meanwhile, a sworn affidavit by the ex-prisoner Basel Khaled Dweikat, who was released last Thursday, reported that the Israeli detainees in the Negev desert jail have been shivering with cold all along the blizzard that swept through the region.
“Four newly-pitched Prison tents sunk in the floods of torrential rains bucketing down across the jail and were ravaged by rough winds,” Dweikat told the PIC.
Every group of six Palestinian detainees has been crammed in a caravan whose windows are not sealed, he added as he corroborated his testimonies with live snapshots.
Dweikat further pointed out the acute shortages in healthy meals inside of the Negev prison.
Prisoners have also been subjected to medical negligence at the Negev jail, where large prisoner batches are in need of urgent medical check-ups, the ex-prisoner confirmed, adding; “Over 33 inmates in the section where I was held have been diagnosed with chronic diabetes and cardio-vascular diseases.”
He urged the human rights organizations to pay emergency visits to the detainees, internationalize the prisoners’ cause, and work on bringing Israel’s policies of psycho-physical torture to a halt.
The demonstrators raised alarm bells over the unbearable state of affairs suffered by their imprisoned relatives, held in cells unsupplied with proper heating infrastructure.
The prisoners’ families further spoke out against the acute shortages in blankets and warm garments in the Israeli prison cells, exacerbating a situation already hit by a frosty storm rocking the occupied Palestinian territories.
Brother of the Palestinian detainee Hatem Jabousi, sentenced to six back-to-back life-sentences, said the Israeli prison service (IPS) has turned down appeals to supply Hatem with winter clothes and blankets.
The IPS has denied other Palestinian prisoners the right to receive warm clothes during prison-visits, forcing them to purchase rotten garments from the canteens at inflated prices.
The families appealed to the human rights groups and world’s activists to immediately step in and work on salvaging their oppressed sons and daughters from the grips of the Israeli occupation wardens.
Meanwhile, a sworn affidavit by the ex-prisoner Basel Khaled Dweikat, who was released last Thursday, reported that the Israeli detainees in the Negev desert jail have been shivering with cold all along the blizzard that swept through the region.
“Four newly-pitched Prison tents sunk in the floods of torrential rains bucketing down across the jail and were ravaged by rough winds,” Dweikat told the PIC.
Every group of six Palestinian detainees has been crammed in a caravan whose windows are not sealed, he added as he corroborated his testimonies with live snapshots.
Dweikat further pointed out the acute shortages in healthy meals inside of the Negev prison.
Prisoners have also been subjected to medical negligence at the Negev jail, where large prisoner batches are in need of urgent medical check-ups, the ex-prisoner confirmed, adding; “Over 33 inmates in the section where I was held have been diagnosed with chronic diabetes and cardio-vascular diseases.”
He urged the human rights organizations to pay emergency visits to the detainees, internationalize the prisoners’ cause, and work on bringing Israel’s policies of psycho-physical torture to a halt.
13 jan 2015
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Tuesday kidnapped eight Palestinians and handed others summonses from the Shin Bet during raids in different West Bank areas.
According to local sources, the IOF stormed at an early hour today Asira village, north of Nablus city, and kidnapped four young men from their homes.
The detainees were identified as Jamal al-Borini, Ahmed Shawli and the brothers Abbas and Amir Hamadneh.
Meanwhile, another Israeli military force invaded different areas of Nablus city, and locals reported that Israeli soldiers fired stun and tear gas grenades with no known reason in some neighborhoods.
The IOF also broke into and ransacked homes belonging to al-Shawahin family in al-Karmal area near Yatta town in al-Khalil province and forced their residents outdoors in the cold before withdrawing from the area without making arrests.
In al-Khalil city, local sources reported that one young man named Abdul-Muti Abu Asab was kidnapped by Israeli soldiers after a dawn raid on his house in al-Ram district.
Israeli media said the Israeli army arrested four wanted young men in al-Khalil and Bethlehem at dawn and took them in for interrogation.
In other incidents, the IOF at an early morning hour stormed Silat al-Harithiya town, west of Jenin, and conducted field interrogations with citizens in its central zone.
Israeli troops also stormed at dawn Jenin city and handed 23-year-old Mohamed Abu Alya and 21-year-old Mustafa Natour summonses for interrogation from the Shin Bet.
The IOF campaign in Jenin city lasted for long hours during which the invading troops patrolled different neighborhoods and stormed homes.
According to local sources, the IOF stormed at an early hour today Asira village, north of Nablus city, and kidnapped four young men from their homes.
The detainees were identified as Jamal al-Borini, Ahmed Shawli and the brothers Abbas and Amir Hamadneh.
Meanwhile, another Israeli military force invaded different areas of Nablus city, and locals reported that Israeli soldiers fired stun and tear gas grenades with no known reason in some neighborhoods.
The IOF also broke into and ransacked homes belonging to al-Shawahin family in al-Karmal area near Yatta town in al-Khalil province and forced their residents outdoors in the cold before withdrawing from the area without making arrests.
In al-Khalil city, local sources reported that one young man named Abdul-Muti Abu Asab was kidnapped by Israeli soldiers after a dawn raid on his house in al-Ram district.
Israeli media said the Israeli army arrested four wanted young men in al-Khalil and Bethlehem at dawn and took them in for interrogation.
In other incidents, the IOF at an early morning hour stormed Silat al-Harithiya town, west of Jenin, and conducted field interrogations with citizens in its central zone.
Israeli troops also stormed at dawn Jenin city and handed 23-year-old Mohamed Abu Alya and 21-year-old Mustafa Natour summonses for interrogation from the Shin Bet.
The IOF campaign in Jenin city lasted for long hours during which the invading troops patrolled different neighborhoods and stormed homes.
Israeli Special Forces violently stormed at dawn Tuesday Raymond prison and carried out a search campaign after transferring the prisoners into other cells, the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said.
In its statement, the PPS reported that the Israeli forces prevented Palestinian prisoners from wearing their winter clothing despite the very low temperatures at the early morning hours in the Negev desert.
On the other hand, Sheikh Khader Adnan has suspended his warning hunger strike that lasted for a whole week in protest against his renewed administrative detention for the second consecutive time.
Family sources said Tuesday that Sheikh Adnan suspended his strike after an Israeli court postponed his trial till next Monday.
Sheikh Adnan threatened to declare an open-ended hunger strike if he was not released next week, the family added.
Sheikh Adnan was arrested during the Israeli summer offensive on Gaza, where he was held in administrative detention according to which hundreds of Palestinian prisoners are being held without charge or trial in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
In its statement, the PPS reported that the Israeli forces prevented Palestinian prisoners from wearing their winter clothing despite the very low temperatures at the early morning hours in the Negev desert.
On the other hand, Sheikh Khader Adnan has suspended his warning hunger strike that lasted for a whole week in protest against his renewed administrative detention for the second consecutive time.
Family sources said Tuesday that Sheikh Adnan suspended his strike after an Israeli court postponed his trial till next Monday.
Sheikh Adnan threatened to declare an open-ended hunger strike if he was not released next week, the family added.
Sheikh Adnan was arrested during the Israeli summer offensive on Gaza, where he was held in administrative detention according to which hundreds of Palestinian prisoners are being held without charge or trial in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
Hunger striking Palestinian detainee Khader ‘Adnan, held by Israel without charges, said he has suspended his strike, that lasted for one week, after a court date has been set for this coming Monday.
‘Adnan, from ‘Arraba town southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, started a warning hunger strike a week ago after Israel renewed his detention order, without charges or trial.
His family informed the WAFA Palestinian News Agency, on Tuesday, of their son’s decision to suspend his strike, and said that, should the Israeli court approve the arbitrary Administrative Detention order again, ‘Adnan would then resume his strike.
‘Adnan, 37 years of age decided to hold a hunger strike after Israel slapped a second Administrative Detention order on him.
The detainee held his first hunger strike when he was imprisoned under Administrative Detention in 2012, and was released in April the same year.
He agreed to end his 62-day hunger strike when the Israeli Authorities promised his release.
On July 8 2014, the army kidnapped ‘Adnan and slapped a six-month Administrative Detention on him, and on December 11 2014, the Salem Israeli Military Court ordered his immediate release, but the Israeli prosecution appealed the decision.
‘Adnan, from ‘Arraba town southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, started a warning hunger strike a week ago after Israel renewed his detention order, without charges or trial.
His family informed the WAFA Palestinian News Agency, on Tuesday, of their son’s decision to suspend his strike, and said that, should the Israeli court approve the arbitrary Administrative Detention order again, ‘Adnan would then resume his strike.
‘Adnan, 37 years of age decided to hold a hunger strike after Israel slapped a second Administrative Detention order on him.
The detainee held his first hunger strike when he was imprisoned under Administrative Detention in 2012, and was released in April the same year.
He agreed to end his 62-day hunger strike when the Israeli Authorities promised his release.
On July 8 2014, the army kidnapped ‘Adnan and slapped a six-month Administrative Detention on him, and on December 11 2014, the Salem Israeli Military Court ordered his immediate release, but the Israeli prosecution appealed the decision.
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Monday at night and Tuesday at dawn, three Palestinians in the southern West bank city of Hebron and the Sammoa’ nearby town, and kidnapped three Palestinians. Soldiers also invaded several Palestinians communities in Ramallah and Jenin.
Local sources said several military vehicles invaded Hebron city and kidnapped one Palestinian after breaking into his home and violently searching it. The kidnapped resident has been identified as Abdul-Mo’ty Abu Shanab.
Soldiers invaded various neighborhoods in the city, installed a roadblock on its northern entrance, in addition to installing roadblocks on the main entrances of Sa’ir and Halhoul towns, before stopping and searching dozens of cars, and interrogated the passengers while inspecting their ID cards.
Army also invaded Yatta nearby town, before breaking into the homes of Hussein Mohammad Hussein Shawaheen, his brother Ja’far, in addition to the homes of Issa Mohammad Mahmoud Shawaheen, and his brother Khalil.
The soldiers violently searched the homes causing property damage before withdrawing from the area.
On Monday evening, soldiers kidnapped Ahmad Mousa al-Khalayla and Ma’moun Mohammad al-Khalayla, in the Etzion Military Base, north of Hebron.
The army initially invaded the homes of the two Palestinians, handed them military warrants for interrogation in Etzion, and kidnapped them after they arrived in the base.
In related news, soldiers invaded on Tuesday at dawn, several neighborhoods in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and clashed with dozens of local youths who hurled stones and empty bottles at them, especially in Ramallah at-Tehta area.
The soldiers also invaded Deir Qaddis town, west of Ramallah, in addition to the northern West Bank city of Jenin, Sielet al-Harethiyya and al-Yamoun nearby towns, and handed two Palestinians military warrants for interrogation, after breaking into their homes and ransacking them.
Local sources said several military vehicles invaded Hebron city and kidnapped one Palestinian after breaking into his home and violently searching it. The kidnapped resident has been identified as Abdul-Mo’ty Abu Shanab.
Soldiers invaded various neighborhoods in the city, installed a roadblock on its northern entrance, in addition to installing roadblocks on the main entrances of Sa’ir and Halhoul towns, before stopping and searching dozens of cars, and interrogated the passengers while inspecting their ID cards.
Army also invaded Yatta nearby town, before breaking into the homes of Hussein Mohammad Hussein Shawaheen, his brother Ja’far, in addition to the homes of Issa Mohammad Mahmoud Shawaheen, and his brother Khalil.
The soldiers violently searched the homes causing property damage before withdrawing from the area.
On Monday evening, soldiers kidnapped Ahmad Mousa al-Khalayla and Ma’moun Mohammad al-Khalayla, in the Etzion Military Base, north of Hebron.
The army initially invaded the homes of the two Palestinians, handed them military warrants for interrogation in Etzion, and kidnapped them after they arrived in the base.
In related news, soldiers invaded on Tuesday at dawn, several neighborhoods in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and clashed with dozens of local youths who hurled stones and empty bottles at them, especially in Ramallah at-Tehta area.
The soldiers also invaded Deir Qaddis town, west of Ramallah, in addition to the northern West Bank city of Jenin, Sielet al-Harethiyya and al-Yamoun nearby towns, and handed two Palestinians military warrants for interrogation, after breaking into their homes and ransacking them.
Palestinian female prisoners locked up in the Israeli occupation jail of HaSharon sounded distress signals over the dire detention circumstances they have been subjected to with the advent of a frosty storm.
A report issued by the Prisoners Society said the Palestinian female detainees are held in cells unsupplied with proper heating infrastructure and whose windows are not well sealed.
The report further documented acute shortages in blankets and warm garments in the cold prison cells, exacerbating a situation already hit by a frosty storm rocking the occupied Palestinian territories.
One of the female prisoner patients, Amal Taqatqa, who was arrested last month after being severely injured by the Israeli occupation forces, was transferred to the HaSharon jail without finishing her urgent medical check-ups.
The Israeli prison service has been paying no heed to Amal’s exacerbated health status. The prisoner has reportedly been bound to a wheel chair ever since.
Bushara al-Tawil’s health status has been no better as the latter suffers from severe backaches and foot pains due to medical negligence at the Israeli occupation jail. The situation has gone from bad to worse due to the sub-zero temperatures rocking the region.
There are currently 22 Palestinian female prisoners in HaSharon prison, including four minors ranging between the ages of 14 and 17.
A report issued by the Prisoners Society said the Palestinian female detainees are held in cells unsupplied with proper heating infrastructure and whose windows are not well sealed.
The report further documented acute shortages in blankets and warm garments in the cold prison cells, exacerbating a situation already hit by a frosty storm rocking the occupied Palestinian territories.
One of the female prisoner patients, Amal Taqatqa, who was arrested last month after being severely injured by the Israeli occupation forces, was transferred to the HaSharon jail without finishing her urgent medical check-ups.
The Israeli prison service has been paying no heed to Amal’s exacerbated health status. The prisoner has reportedly been bound to a wheel chair ever since.
Bushara al-Tawil’s health status has been no better as the latter suffers from severe backaches and foot pains due to medical negligence at the Israeli occupation jail. The situation has gone from bad to worse due to the sub-zero temperatures rocking the region.
There are currently 22 Palestinian female prisoners in HaSharon prison, including four minors ranging between the ages of 14 and 17.