4 jan 2018
Israeli soldiers abducted, earlier Thursday, seven Palestinians in various parts of the occupied West Bank, after invading their homes and violently searching them.
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said the soldier invaded many homes in Nablus governorate, in northern West Bank, and abducted three Palestinians, identified as Rabea’ Abdul-Karim Issa, Nawras Fakhreddin Hamdan, and Jalal Fahmi Hamdan.
In Jenin, in northern West Bank, the soldiers abducted Taher Fawzi Qteit and Osama Ezzeddin Najm.
In Bethlehem, the soldiers abducted Ma’ali Issa Ma’ali, and shot ten Palestinians, in Deheishe refugee camp, south of the city.
In Hebron, in southern West Bank, the soldiers abducted Mohammad Medhat Ayyoub, from his home.
It is worth mentioning that the soldiers have abducted around 750 Palestinians, including 190 children and three women, since U.S. President Donald Trump made his illegal recognition of occupied Jerusalem as the unified capital of Israel, on December 6th, 2017.
The soldiers also killed sixteen Palestinians, and injured hundreds, including many who suffered moderate or serious wounds.
On Wednesday evening, January 3rd, the soldiers killed a Palestinian teenage boy, identified as Mos’ab Firas Tamimi, 17, in Deir Nitham village, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah.
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said the soldier invaded many homes in Nablus governorate, in northern West Bank, and abducted three Palestinians, identified as Rabea’ Abdul-Karim Issa, Nawras Fakhreddin Hamdan, and Jalal Fahmi Hamdan.
In Jenin, in northern West Bank, the soldiers abducted Taher Fawzi Qteit and Osama Ezzeddin Najm.
In Bethlehem, the soldiers abducted Ma’ali Issa Ma’ali, and shot ten Palestinians, in Deheishe refugee camp, south of the city.
In Hebron, in southern West Bank, the soldiers abducted Mohammad Medhat Ayyoub, from his home.
It is worth mentioning that the soldiers have abducted around 750 Palestinians, including 190 children and three women, since U.S. President Donald Trump made his illegal recognition of occupied Jerusalem as the unified capital of Israel, on December 6th, 2017.
The soldiers also killed sixteen Palestinians, and injured hundreds, including many who suffered moderate or serious wounds.
On Wednesday evening, January 3rd, the soldiers killed a Palestinian teenage boy, identified as Mos’ab Firas Tamimi, 17, in Deir Nitham village, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah.
The Palestinian prisoner Haj Rizk Rajoub, 61, has declared n open hunger strike for 12 days in protest against his illegal detention without charge or trial.
Speaking to the PIC reporter, Rajoub’s brother said that his brother is currently held in a solitary confinement amid unbearable detention conditions.
He started suffering different health problems after declaring the hunger strike in rejection of his administrative detention and Israel’s attempts to deport him to Sudan, he added.
Few months after his release from Israeli jails where he spent 25 years, Rajoub was re-arrested and held in administrative detention.
Speaking to the PIC reporter, Rajoub’s brother said that his brother is currently held in a solitary confinement amid unbearable detention conditions.
He started suffering different health problems after declaring the hunger strike in rejection of his administrative detention and Israel’s attempts to deport him to Sudan, he added.
Few months after his release from Israeli jails where he spent 25 years, Rajoub was re-arrested and held in administrative detention.
Israeli soldiers abducted, earlier Thursday, one Palestinian from his home, in the al-‘Arroub refugee camp, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
The Hebron office of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said the soldiers invaded and violently searched homes in the refugee camp, and abducted Mohammad Medhat Ayyoub, before taking him to Etzion military base, north of Hebron.
It added that the soldiers invaded Yatta town, and Hadab al-Fawwar village, south of Hebron, and violently searched many homes.
Among the invaded properties are the home of former political prisoner, Nafeth Mohammad A’mar, in addition to the homes of his father and brothers, and the property of Mousa Asfour.
Nafeth said the soldiers interrogated him, and his family, while violently searching their homes.
The Hebron office of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said the soldiers invaded and violently searched homes in the refugee camp, and abducted Mohammad Medhat Ayyoub, before taking him to Etzion military base, north of Hebron.
It added that the soldiers invaded Yatta town, and Hadab al-Fawwar village, south of Hebron, and violently searched many homes.
Among the invaded properties are the home of former political prisoner, Nafeth Mohammad A’mar, in addition to the homes of his father and brothers, and the property of Mousa Asfour.
Nafeth said the soldiers interrogated him, and his family, while violently searching their homes.
Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, the Deheishe refugee camp, south of Bethlehem, shot ten young men, and abducted one, in addition to abducting three Palestinians near Nablus, and two near Jenin.
Media sources in Bethlehem said dozens of soldiers, and undercover officers, invaded the Deheishe refugee camp, and initiated violent searches of homes.
They added that many youngsters hurled stones at the invading army jeeps, while the soldiers fired many live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets and gas bombs, wounding ten Palestinians, including four with live fire.
The Palestinians, who were shot with live fire, were rushed to Beit Jala Governmental hospital for treatment.
The soldiers also invaded and violently searched many homes in the refugee camp, and abducted Ma’ali Issa Ma’ali, 34.
In related news, many army jeeps invaded Salem village, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, searched many homes and abducted three Palestinians, identified as Rabea’ Abdul-Karim Issa, 27, Nawras Saqer Hamdan, 24, and Shaker Sabri Jabr, 45. Siris
Furthermore, the soldiers invaded Siris village, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, searched homes, and abducted two Palestinians, identified as Taher Fawzi Qteit, 36, and Osama Ezzeddin Najm, 34.
Also in Jenin, the soldiers invaded the villages and towns of Um at-Toot, az-Zababda and Methaloon, and installed many roadblocks in various parts of the governorate.
Palestinians severely injured as Israeli forces roll into Bethlehem
At least 10 Palestinians were injured on Thursday in violent clashes with the Israeli occupation forces in al-Duheisheh refugee camp, south of Bethlehem province.
Reporting from the city, a PIC news correspondent said heavily-armed Israeli forces rolled into al-Duheisheh camp in a Benz car at 07:00 a.m. shortly before dozens of Israeli soldiers cordoned off residential neighborhoods. Moments later, army patrols showed up in the area and kidnapped 23-year-old Palestinian youth Maali Maali.
Fierce clashes burst out across the camp, where the Israeli patrols attacked Palestinian anti-occupation youth with randomly-unleashed live rounds, rubber bullets, and teargas canisters.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said 10 Palestinians were left injured by the occupation forces in the clashes, seven among them after they were shot with live ammunition in their lower body parts.
A Palestinian youth was rushed to an operating room after a bullet penetrated his back, leaving him seriously wounded.
At the same time, three Palestinian young men were hit with rubber bullets.
The 10 injured protesters were evacuated to the Beit Jala public hospital in private cars after ambulances were prevented from reaching the scene.
Beit Jala medics and paramedics appealed for urgent blood donation to save the injured Palestinians who had been left bleeding at the confrontations scene for so long.
Media sources in Bethlehem said dozens of soldiers, and undercover officers, invaded the Deheishe refugee camp, and initiated violent searches of homes.
They added that many youngsters hurled stones at the invading army jeeps, while the soldiers fired many live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets and gas bombs, wounding ten Palestinians, including four with live fire.
The Palestinians, who were shot with live fire, were rushed to Beit Jala Governmental hospital for treatment.
The soldiers also invaded and violently searched many homes in the refugee camp, and abducted Ma’ali Issa Ma’ali, 34.
In related news, many army jeeps invaded Salem village, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, searched many homes and abducted three Palestinians, identified as Rabea’ Abdul-Karim Issa, 27, Nawras Saqer Hamdan, 24, and Shaker Sabri Jabr, 45. Siris
Furthermore, the soldiers invaded Siris village, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, searched homes, and abducted two Palestinians, identified as Taher Fawzi Qteit, 36, and Osama Ezzeddin Najm, 34.
Also in Jenin, the soldiers invaded the villages and towns of Um at-Toot, az-Zababda and Methaloon, and installed many roadblocks in various parts of the governorate.
Palestinians severely injured as Israeli forces roll into Bethlehem
At least 10 Palestinians were injured on Thursday in violent clashes with the Israeli occupation forces in al-Duheisheh refugee camp, south of Bethlehem province.
Reporting from the city, a PIC news correspondent said heavily-armed Israeli forces rolled into al-Duheisheh camp in a Benz car at 07:00 a.m. shortly before dozens of Israeli soldiers cordoned off residential neighborhoods. Moments later, army patrols showed up in the area and kidnapped 23-year-old Palestinian youth Maali Maali.
Fierce clashes burst out across the camp, where the Israeli patrols attacked Palestinian anti-occupation youth with randomly-unleashed live rounds, rubber bullets, and teargas canisters.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said 10 Palestinians were left injured by the occupation forces in the clashes, seven among them after they were shot with live ammunition in their lower body parts.
A Palestinian youth was rushed to an operating room after a bullet penetrated his back, leaving him seriously wounded.
At the same time, three Palestinian young men were hit with rubber bullets.
The 10 injured protesters were evacuated to the Beit Jala public hospital in private cars after ambulances were prevented from reaching the scene.
Beit Jala medics and paramedics appealed for urgent blood donation to save the injured Palestinians who had been left bleeding at the confrontations scene for so long.
3 jan 2018
The Israeli Knesset approved, on Wednesday, a first reading of death penalty bill, which would allow Israel to execute Palestinian prisoners accused of taking part in “operations” against an Israeli target.
Right-wing leader of the Jewish Home party Naftali Bennett proposed the bill, which was approved by a vote of 52 to 49 but needs a second and third reading before it becomes law.
Extremist Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli Moldovan-born defense minister, endorsed the bill, which he said would increase Israel’s deterrence effect.
In televised comments last week, Lieberman said that the law would specifically target Palestinians convicted of attacking Israeli civilians and soldiers.
Last year, at a rally following the death of three Israeli police officers, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced his support for the death penalty for Palestinians, whom he described as “terrorists with blood on their hands.”
Israel applies civilian law to illegal Jewish settlers in the occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Palestinians, however, face military courts and military law.
The proposed death penalty would only be applicable in military courts. In the already unlikely event of an Israeli being convicted for killing a Palestinian, the accused would never face the death penalty.
“The fact that Israel lacks a constitution allows its prime ministers to enact legislation that serves the interests of their respective racist governments,” explained Mohammed Dahleh, a Palestinian expert on Israeli affairs.
“Israel refuses to adopt a constitution. This also allows it to create laws — or modify them — to suit its expansionist tendencies,” he added.
According to international lawyer Yasser al-Amouri, the proposed Israeli law violates basic international legal tenets.
“The conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis is not criminal in nature but nationalist,” he pointed out. “This means Israel cannot sentence Palestinian prisoners to death under the provision of the Fourth Geneva Convention relating to the treatment of prisoners of war.”
One commentator in London suggested that this legal nicety would not make any difference. “Israel already treats international laws and conventions with contempt,” said MEMO’s senior editor Ibrahim Hewitt, “so why would it sit up and take notice of this point?”
Hewitt added: “The state is guilty of the crime of apartheid, and this bill demonstrates that fact.”
Right-wing leader of the Jewish Home party Naftali Bennett proposed the bill, which was approved by a vote of 52 to 49 but needs a second and third reading before it becomes law.
Extremist Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli Moldovan-born defense minister, endorsed the bill, which he said would increase Israel’s deterrence effect.
In televised comments last week, Lieberman said that the law would specifically target Palestinians convicted of attacking Israeli civilians and soldiers.
Last year, at a rally following the death of three Israeli police officers, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced his support for the death penalty for Palestinians, whom he described as “terrorists with blood on their hands.”
Israel applies civilian law to illegal Jewish settlers in the occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Palestinians, however, face military courts and military law.
The proposed death penalty would only be applicable in military courts. In the already unlikely event of an Israeli being convicted for killing a Palestinian, the accused would never face the death penalty.
“The fact that Israel lacks a constitution allows its prime ministers to enact legislation that serves the interests of their respective racist governments,” explained Mohammed Dahleh, a Palestinian expert on Israeli affairs.
“Israel refuses to adopt a constitution. This also allows it to create laws — or modify them — to suit its expansionist tendencies,” he added.
According to international lawyer Yasser al-Amouri, the proposed Israeli law violates basic international legal tenets.
“The conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis is not criminal in nature but nationalist,” he pointed out. “This means Israel cannot sentence Palestinian prisoners to death under the provision of the Fourth Geneva Convention relating to the treatment of prisoners of war.”
One commentator in London suggested that this legal nicety would not make any difference. “Israel already treats international laws and conventions with contempt,” said MEMO’s senior editor Ibrahim Hewitt, “so why would it sit up and take notice of this point?”
Hewitt added: “The state is guilty of the crime of apartheid, and this bill demonstrates that fact.”
Israeli Attorney General on Wednesday refrained from releasing a Palestinian female captive, Haneyya Sharaya, from Balata refugee camp to the east of Nablus city, disregard a court decision that stipulates for her release.
Prisoner Sharaya was arrested one week ago from Salem military court following an altercation between her and a female Israeli soldier who attacked the detainee at court.
The arrested woman was attending along with her son, Walid, the trial for her son, Hassan, who has been arrested for two months.
She was arrested after defending her son, Walid, while being assaulted by an Israeli soldier. Then, she was rounded up along with her son, making the three family members prisoners in Israeli jails.
The mother was brought to court and sentenced to seven days with a fine estimated at 5500 shekels. However, the Attorney General refused to release her in full disregard to serving the sentence period and paying the fine.
The detainee, who is the oldest female prisoner in Israeli jails and suffers from several diseases, was transferred to Ramleh prison. However, she has not been provided with treatment.
Prisoner Sharaya was arrested one week ago from Salem military court following an altercation between her and a female Israeli soldier who attacked the detainee at court.
The arrested woman was attending along with her son, Walid, the trial for her son, Hassan, who has been arrested for two months.
She was arrested after defending her son, Walid, while being assaulted by an Israeli soldier. Then, she was rounded up along with her son, making the three family members prisoners in Israeli jails.
The mother was brought to court and sentenced to seven days with a fine estimated at 5500 shekels. However, the Attorney General refused to release her in full disregard to serving the sentence period and paying the fine.
The detainee, who is the oldest female prisoner in Israeli jails and suffers from several diseases, was transferred to Ramleh prison. However, she has not been provided with treatment.
An Israeli court sentenced the Palestinian woman Jihan Hsheima, aged 36, to four years in prison.
Prisoner Hsheima, a native of Jerusalem’s al-Issawiya, was shot with three bullets in her left leg by the Israeli soldiers at Qalandiya checkpoint on December 30, 2016. Shortly afterwards, she was transferred to an Israeli investigation center.
Hsheima has been accused of attempting to stab an Israeli soldier near Qalandiya checkpoint. The occupation authorities adjourned her trail for over 10 times.
The detainee is mother of three children. Traces of Israeli-inflicted wounds still figure on her vulnerable body and continue to cause her excruciating pains.
Prisoner Hsheima, a native of Jerusalem’s al-Issawiya, was shot with three bullets in her left leg by the Israeli soldiers at Qalandiya checkpoint on December 30, 2016. Shortly afterwards, she was transferred to an Israeli investigation center.
Hsheima has been accused of attempting to stab an Israeli soldier near Qalandiya checkpoint. The occupation authorities adjourned her trail for over 10 times.
The detainee is mother of three children. Traces of Israeli-inflicted wounds still figure on her vulnerable body and continue to cause her excruciating pains.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, dozens of homes in the occupied West Bank, and conducted violent searches while interrogating scores of Palestinians, and abducted twenty-two.
Dozens of soldiers also invaded the al-‘Arroub refugee camp, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and conducted military drills, while invading homes and interrogating the inhabitants.
In addition, the soldiers invaded Beit Fajjar town, south of Bethlehem, confiscated eight cars, and posted warnings leaflets, threatening further invasions should protests continue.
The army also claimed to locate homemade weapons, in Kafr Ni’ma village, northwest of Ramallah, in central West Bank.
Furthermore, the soldiers invaded dozens of homes in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, abducted one Palestinian, and searched many homes looking for what the army called “illegal possessions.”
The PPS identified Twenty of the abducted Palestinians as:
Dozens of soldiers also invaded the al-‘Arroub refugee camp, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and conducted military drills, while invading homes and interrogating the inhabitants.
In addition, the soldiers invaded Beit Fajjar town, south of Bethlehem, confiscated eight cars, and posted warnings leaflets, threatening further invasions should protests continue.
The army also claimed to locate homemade weapons, in Kafr Ni’ma village, northwest of Ramallah, in central West Bank.
Furthermore, the soldiers invaded dozens of homes in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, abducted one Palestinian, and searched many homes looking for what the army called “illegal possessions.”
The PPS identified Twenty of the abducted Palestinians as:
- Mohammad Nour Abu M’allah, Qabatia – Jenin.
- Hussein Amin Samadi, Qabatia – Jenin.
- Mahmoud al-Hardi, Qabatia – Jenin.
- Mahmoud Bassam Kamil, Qabatia – Jenin.
- Saher Emad Kamil, Qabatia – Jenin.
- Mahmoud Ahmad Abu ar-Rob, Jenin.
- Mohammad Fathi Mitanni, Jenin.
- Anas Eshteyya, Nablus.
- Malek Qais Hamdan, Nablus.
- Hamza Emad al-Hadthi, al-Am’ari refugee camp, Ramallah.
- Saddam Hussein Sharaka, al-Jalazoun, Ramallah.
- Abdullah Jamal Mubarak, al-Jalazoun, Ramallah.
- Fayez Shehda Tiwari, al-Jalazoun, Ramallah.
- Shadi Khaled Rimawi, Beit Rima, Ramallah.
- Karim Saleh, Nabi Saleh, Ramallah.
- ‘Ebada Azzam Refa’ey, Anata, Jerusalem.
- Fares ‘Oweisat, Jerualem.
- Islam ‘Oweistat, Jerusalem.
- Admiral ‘Oweisat.
- Ayman Majed al-Atrash, Halhoul, Hebron.
Several Palestinians were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at daybreak Wednesday in abduction sweeps launched across the West Bank and Jerusalem.
Clashes burst out in Jenin’s southern town of Qabatiya shortly after the IOF stormed the area and ransacked civilian homes.
The occupation forces showered residential neighborhoods with spates of bullet fire and teargas grenades, resulting in injuries.
Heavy material damage was wrought on civilian homes in the assault.
At least five Palestinians were kidnapped by the IOF from the area.
Tension has been running high in Qabatiya in anticipation of the demolition of the home of the Palestinian citizen Yousef Abu al-Rub, whose son has been accused by the occupation authorities of involvement in an anti-occupation attack.
Another Palestinian youth was kidnapped by the IOF from Jenin’s southern town of Yabad.
At the same time, six Palestinians were kidnapped by the occupation soldiers from Ramallah province, in the central West Bank.
At predawn time, Israeli military troops stormed Salem town, east of Nablus, and rummaged into civilian homes, before they kidnapped Anas Eshtih, 19, and Malek Hamdan, 18, from their family homes.
20-year-old Aymen al-Atrash was kidnapped by the Israeli forces from his home in al-Khalil province.
Israeli army troops also showed up across al-Khalil’s towns of Dura, Yatta, and Beit Ummar and carried out a round of military maneuvers.
Overnight, Palestinian civilians had been denied access out of and into al-Arroub refugee camp, in al-Khalil, after the occupation soldiers sealed it off with metal gates.
Clashes burst out in Jenin’s southern town of Qabatiya shortly after the IOF stormed the area and ransacked civilian homes.
The occupation forces showered residential neighborhoods with spates of bullet fire and teargas grenades, resulting in injuries.
Heavy material damage was wrought on civilian homes in the assault.
At least five Palestinians were kidnapped by the IOF from the area.
Tension has been running high in Qabatiya in anticipation of the demolition of the home of the Palestinian citizen Yousef Abu al-Rub, whose son has been accused by the occupation authorities of involvement in an anti-occupation attack.
Another Palestinian youth was kidnapped by the IOF from Jenin’s southern town of Yabad.
At the same time, six Palestinians were kidnapped by the occupation soldiers from Ramallah province, in the central West Bank.
At predawn time, Israeli military troops stormed Salem town, east of Nablus, and rummaged into civilian homes, before they kidnapped Anas Eshtih, 19, and Malek Hamdan, 18, from their family homes.
20-year-old Aymen al-Atrash was kidnapped by the Israeli forces from his home in al-Khalil province.
Israeli army troops also showed up across al-Khalil’s towns of Dura, Yatta, and Beit Ummar and carried out a round of military maneuvers.
Overnight, Palestinian civilians had been denied access out of and into al-Arroub refugee camp, in al-Khalil, after the occupation soldiers sealed it off with metal gates.
On Monday, one day after her 21 year old cousin Nour was charged with assaulting an Israeli soldier, 16-year old Ahed was also charged with the same crime, along with ‘interfering with a soldier’s duties’ and stone throwing.
The charges came after Ahed, her cousin and her mother were seen on a video posted on the internet pushing a soldier off their property, just after 14-year old Mohammed Tamimi was shot point-blank in the face by a rubber-coated steel bullet, losing an eye and part of his face, and requiring surgery to remove part of his skull.
This is the video that led to the abduction of the three female family members, and their charges – which carry potential sentences of many years in prison:
Activists supporting Ahed and her family say that the message from the Israeli government is that Israeli soldiers should be allowed to invade the village, take their land, construct a Wall in the middle of the town, shoot the children of the village, and the Palestinian villagers should just sit back and allow the soldiers to do these things with complete impunity, without resisting or protesting in any way.
The Tamimi family has been at the forefront of the non-violent resistance movement in Palestine, leading weekly protests in the village of Nabi Saleh for over a decade.
A prominent Israeli journalist called for raping Ahed Tamimi, while Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman called for her to spend all of her life in prison.
Born in Moldova, Avigdor Lieberman is one of the only foreign ministers in the world who does not live in territory officially recognized as his own country. Originally under suspicion over charges of money-laundering and bribery, Lieberman was formally indicted in December of 2012, on lesser charges of fraud and breach of trust. His party was recently the focus of a corruption probe within the Israeli political spectrum.
During the weekly non-violent protests, the Nabi Saleh residents are joined by international supporters and sometimes Israelis who march together to the site of the construction of the Israeli Annexation Wall on village land.
As Jaclynn Ashly pointed out in an Al Jazeera article in September 2017, “Ahed Tamimi was just 14 when she rose to international prominence through the release of a video and a series of photos capturing her desperate attempts to save her 11-year-old brother, Mohammad, from the grips of an Israeli soldier in 2015.
“In the video, filmed during one of the weekly protests that had been staged in Nabi Saleh for years, Ahed is seen hitting and biting the hand of the masked soldier as her mother and aunt hit and tug at his clothes, struggling to pull the soldier away from Mohammad.
“Afterwards, scores of journalists rushed to the village to interview Ahed, with NBC News describing the blond-haired, blue-eyed teenager as the ‘poster child’ for the Palestinian struggle.
“However, while her newfound fame cast a spotlight on the village’s violent experiences with the Israeli occupation, it also made Ahed an easily recognisable figure among Israeli forces stationed in the West Bank.
“The harassment began immediately following the video’s release, as Israelis called her a “terrorist” on social media and threatened to kill her, the family says. Bassem, Ahed’s father and a long-standing leader in the village, said that her 19-year-old brother, Waed, was detained after the release of the video.
At the start of his 10-month stay in Israeli jail, Ahed’s mother, Nariman, received permission to enter Israel to visit him, and Ahed tagged along.
“’When we passed a checkpoint near Jerusalem, the Israeli soldiers got on the bus and immediately singled her out’, Nariman told Al Jazeera. ‘While everyone else was permitted to pass, Ahed was pulled off the bus and told she wouldn’t be allowed into Israel.’
“During the village’s protests, Israeli forces would often scream Ahed’s name and shout curses at her. ‘Look! It’s Ahed Tamimi. Shoot her!’ Bassem recalled one soldier as saying.
“The family was often scared for their daughter, he added: ‘Whenever the soldiers recognise her, they do something to make her life difficult. Every time she left the house, we were scared something would happen to her.’ Ahed was even forced to stay at her cousin’s home in Ramallah, where she attends school, to avoid the danger of passing through Israeli checkpoints on her way from Nabi Saleh.”
In response to the abduction of Ahed and her mother, the Palestinian prisoner support organization Samidoun issued a statement which read, in part, “Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network denounces the arrest of Ahed Tamimi and Nariman Tamimi, the latest of over 450 Palestinians arrested by Israeli occupation forces following U.S. President Donald Trump’s declaration of recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Issa Qaraqe of the Palestinian Prisoners Affairs Commission stated that approximately half of those detained, like Ahed, Abdul-Khalik Burnat and Fawzi al-Junaidi, are children. There are hundreds of Palestinian children jailed by Israel and frequently subject to beatings, abuse, and interrogations without parents or lawyers present in violation of the law.
We urge people of conscience around the world to take action to demand freedom for Ahed and her fellow detained and jailed Palestinian children in occupation detention centers, interrogation centers and prisons – and for Nariman Tamimi and all detained and imprisoned Palestinians.”
The charges came after Ahed, her cousin and her mother were seen on a video posted on the internet pushing a soldier off their property, just after 14-year old Mohammed Tamimi was shot point-blank in the face by a rubber-coated steel bullet, losing an eye and part of his face, and requiring surgery to remove part of his skull.
This is the video that led to the abduction of the three female family members, and their charges – which carry potential sentences of many years in prison:
Activists supporting Ahed and her family say that the message from the Israeli government is that Israeli soldiers should be allowed to invade the village, take their land, construct a Wall in the middle of the town, shoot the children of the village, and the Palestinian villagers should just sit back and allow the soldiers to do these things with complete impunity, without resisting or protesting in any way.
The Tamimi family has been at the forefront of the non-violent resistance movement in Palestine, leading weekly protests in the village of Nabi Saleh for over a decade.
A prominent Israeli journalist called for raping Ahed Tamimi, while Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman called for her to spend all of her life in prison.
Born in Moldova, Avigdor Lieberman is one of the only foreign ministers in the world who does not live in territory officially recognized as his own country. Originally under suspicion over charges of money-laundering and bribery, Lieberman was formally indicted in December of 2012, on lesser charges of fraud and breach of trust. His party was recently the focus of a corruption probe within the Israeli political spectrum.
During the weekly non-violent protests, the Nabi Saleh residents are joined by international supporters and sometimes Israelis who march together to the site of the construction of the Israeli Annexation Wall on village land.
As Jaclynn Ashly pointed out in an Al Jazeera article in September 2017, “Ahed Tamimi was just 14 when she rose to international prominence through the release of a video and a series of photos capturing her desperate attempts to save her 11-year-old brother, Mohammad, from the grips of an Israeli soldier in 2015.
“In the video, filmed during one of the weekly protests that had been staged in Nabi Saleh for years, Ahed is seen hitting and biting the hand of the masked soldier as her mother and aunt hit and tug at his clothes, struggling to pull the soldier away from Mohammad.
“Afterwards, scores of journalists rushed to the village to interview Ahed, with NBC News describing the blond-haired, blue-eyed teenager as the ‘poster child’ for the Palestinian struggle.
“However, while her newfound fame cast a spotlight on the village’s violent experiences with the Israeli occupation, it also made Ahed an easily recognisable figure among Israeli forces stationed in the West Bank.
“The harassment began immediately following the video’s release, as Israelis called her a “terrorist” on social media and threatened to kill her, the family says. Bassem, Ahed’s father and a long-standing leader in the village, said that her 19-year-old brother, Waed, was detained after the release of the video.
At the start of his 10-month stay in Israeli jail, Ahed’s mother, Nariman, received permission to enter Israel to visit him, and Ahed tagged along.
“’When we passed a checkpoint near Jerusalem, the Israeli soldiers got on the bus and immediately singled her out’, Nariman told Al Jazeera. ‘While everyone else was permitted to pass, Ahed was pulled off the bus and told she wouldn’t be allowed into Israel.’
“During the village’s protests, Israeli forces would often scream Ahed’s name and shout curses at her. ‘Look! It’s Ahed Tamimi. Shoot her!’ Bassem recalled one soldier as saying.
“The family was often scared for their daughter, he added: ‘Whenever the soldiers recognise her, they do something to make her life difficult. Every time she left the house, we were scared something would happen to her.’ Ahed was even forced to stay at her cousin’s home in Ramallah, where she attends school, to avoid the danger of passing through Israeli checkpoints on her way from Nabi Saleh.”
In response to the abduction of Ahed and her mother, the Palestinian prisoner support organization Samidoun issued a statement which read, in part, “Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network denounces the arrest of Ahed Tamimi and Nariman Tamimi, the latest of over 450 Palestinians arrested by Israeli occupation forces following U.S. President Donald Trump’s declaration of recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Issa Qaraqe of the Palestinian Prisoners Affairs Commission stated that approximately half of those detained, like Ahed, Abdul-Khalik Burnat and Fawzi al-Junaidi, are children. There are hundreds of Palestinian children jailed by Israel and frequently subject to beatings, abuse, and interrogations without parents or lawyers present in violation of the law.
We urge people of conscience around the world to take action to demand freedom for Ahed and her fellow detained and jailed Palestinian children in occupation detention centers, interrogation centers and prisons – and for Nariman Tamimi and all detained and imprisoned Palestinians.”
The Israeli occupation military courts confirmed 41 more administrative detention orders against Palestinian political prisoners in the latter half of December 2017. There are currently over 450 Palestinians imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention orders.
Administrative detention orders are indefinitely renewable and are issued for one to six months at a time. Palestinians have spent years consecutively jailed with no charge and no trial under repeatedly renewed administrative detention orders. An artifact of the British colonial mandate over Palestine, Israeli administrative detention orders are used systematically to target community leaders and Palestinian activists.
Among the Palestinians subject to administrative detention orders in late December was Khalida Jarrar, the prominent Palestinian leftist leader and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, whose imprisonment without charge or trial was renewed for an additional six months.
Also among the Palestinian prisoners whose detention was renewed were two former long-term hunger strikers, Akram al-Fassisi and Anas Shadid.
The detention of Fassisi, 34, was renewed for the fourth time for four months; he has been imprisoned without charge or trial since 19 September 2016 – only months after his prior release, also from administrative detention without charge or trial. During previous administrative detentions, he won his freedom in two lengthy hunger strikes. Shadid, 21, was also subject to another six-month administrative detention order.
Detained for nine months without charge or trial, he won his release after an 88-day hunger strike in May 2017. He was re-arrested only 27 days after his release, on 14 June, and ordered jailed once more without charge or trial.
The following Palestinian prisoners were subject to administrative detention orders:
1. Mujahid Abdel-Qader Abdel-Fattah, Ramallah, 6 months, new order
2. Jihad Mohammed Suleiman, Ramallah, 3 months, new order
3. Mohammed Ahmed Shehadeh, Ramallah, 6 months, extension
4. Ibrahim Nasser Hammad, Ramallah, 4 months, extension
5. Mohammed Mahmoud Sahwil, Ramallah, 4 months, new order
6. Aseed Mohammed Mualla, Nablus, 4 months, extension
7. Mahmoud Mohammed Muteir, Jerusalem, 6 months, new order
8. Yazan Mohammed Tari, Jerusalem, 6 months, new order
9. Qais Fuad Kharma, Ramallah, 4 months, extension
10. Seif al-Deen Mahmoud Salameh, Jenin, 6 months, extension
11. Thaer Said Abu Roumim, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
12. Khalil Walid Suleiman, Nablus, 4 months, extension
13. Tamer Abdel-Karim Haj Ali, Nablus, 6 months, extension
14. Iyad Habib Mohammed, Bethlehem, 4 months, extension
15. Yousef Abed Rabbo Kawazbeh, al-Khalil, 6 months, extension
16. Mohammed Mahmoud Husseiniya, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
17. Tawfiq Faisal Nazzal, Jenin, 6 months, new order
18. As’ad Mohammed Marahil, Nablus, 4 months, extension
19. Ibrahim Issa Mansour, Ramallah, 4 months, new order
20. Mamoun Jamal Hamdan, al-Khalil, 6 months, new order
21. Suleiman Abdel-Karim Aghouz, Bethlehem, 4 months, extension
22. Mahmoud Farhan al-Dariyah, Bethlehem, 4 months, new order
23. Omar Ayed Taqatqa, Ramallah, 6 months, new order
24. Akram al-Fassisi, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
25. Basil Khaled Dweikat, Nablus, 4 months, new order
26. Mohammed Taleb Shawawreh, Bethlehem, 4 months, extension
27. Ayman Naim Mar’i, Ramallah, 4 months, extension
29. Khalida Kanaan Jarrar, Ramallah, 6 months, extension
30. Hashem Abdel-Qader Hijaz, Ramallah, 4 months, extension
31. Shadi Fayez Nammoura, al-Khalil, 6 months, new order
32. Mohammed Ahmed Salah, Tulkarem, 6 months, new order
33. Hussein Mohammed Mardawi, Nablus, 6 months, extension
34. Baraa Musa Zahiman, Nablud, 6 months, new order
35. Anas Ibrahim Shadid, al-Khalil, 6 months, extension
36. Yousef Faris Abu Arqoub, al-Khalil, 3 months, new order
37. Salah Awad al-Jawarish, Bethlehem, 6 months, new order
38. Murad Walid Malaisha, Jenin, 4 months, extension
39. Mujahid Ahmed Abu al-Izz, Jenin, 2 months, new order
40. Saud al-Araj, Ramallah, 4 months, extension
41. Suleiman Akram Abu Salha, Nablus, 6 months, extension
Via the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network.
Administrative detention orders are indefinitely renewable and are issued for one to six months at a time. Palestinians have spent years consecutively jailed with no charge and no trial under repeatedly renewed administrative detention orders. An artifact of the British colonial mandate over Palestine, Israeli administrative detention orders are used systematically to target community leaders and Palestinian activists.
Among the Palestinians subject to administrative detention orders in late December was Khalida Jarrar, the prominent Palestinian leftist leader and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, whose imprisonment without charge or trial was renewed for an additional six months.
Also among the Palestinian prisoners whose detention was renewed were two former long-term hunger strikers, Akram al-Fassisi and Anas Shadid.
The detention of Fassisi, 34, was renewed for the fourth time for four months; he has been imprisoned without charge or trial since 19 September 2016 – only months after his prior release, also from administrative detention without charge or trial. During previous administrative detentions, he won his freedom in two lengthy hunger strikes. Shadid, 21, was also subject to another six-month administrative detention order.
Detained for nine months without charge or trial, he won his release after an 88-day hunger strike in May 2017. He was re-arrested only 27 days after his release, on 14 June, and ordered jailed once more without charge or trial.
The following Palestinian prisoners were subject to administrative detention orders:
1. Mujahid Abdel-Qader Abdel-Fattah, Ramallah, 6 months, new order
2. Jihad Mohammed Suleiman, Ramallah, 3 months, new order
3. Mohammed Ahmed Shehadeh, Ramallah, 6 months, extension
4. Ibrahim Nasser Hammad, Ramallah, 4 months, extension
5. Mohammed Mahmoud Sahwil, Ramallah, 4 months, new order
6. Aseed Mohammed Mualla, Nablus, 4 months, extension
7. Mahmoud Mohammed Muteir, Jerusalem, 6 months, new order
8. Yazan Mohammed Tari, Jerusalem, 6 months, new order
9. Qais Fuad Kharma, Ramallah, 4 months, extension
10. Seif al-Deen Mahmoud Salameh, Jenin, 6 months, extension
11. Thaer Said Abu Roumim, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
12. Khalil Walid Suleiman, Nablus, 4 months, extension
13. Tamer Abdel-Karim Haj Ali, Nablus, 6 months, extension
14. Iyad Habib Mohammed, Bethlehem, 4 months, extension
15. Yousef Abed Rabbo Kawazbeh, al-Khalil, 6 months, extension
16. Mohammed Mahmoud Husseiniya, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
17. Tawfiq Faisal Nazzal, Jenin, 6 months, new order
18. As’ad Mohammed Marahil, Nablus, 4 months, extension
19. Ibrahim Issa Mansour, Ramallah, 4 months, new order
20. Mamoun Jamal Hamdan, al-Khalil, 6 months, new order
21. Suleiman Abdel-Karim Aghouz, Bethlehem, 4 months, extension
22. Mahmoud Farhan al-Dariyah, Bethlehem, 4 months, new order
23. Omar Ayed Taqatqa, Ramallah, 6 months, new order
24. Akram al-Fassisi, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
25. Basil Khaled Dweikat, Nablus, 4 months, new order
26. Mohammed Taleb Shawawreh, Bethlehem, 4 months, extension
27. Ayman Naim Mar’i, Ramallah, 4 months, extension
29. Khalida Kanaan Jarrar, Ramallah, 6 months, extension
30. Hashem Abdel-Qader Hijaz, Ramallah, 4 months, extension
31. Shadi Fayez Nammoura, al-Khalil, 6 months, new order
32. Mohammed Ahmed Salah, Tulkarem, 6 months, new order
33. Hussein Mohammed Mardawi, Nablus, 6 months, extension
34. Baraa Musa Zahiman, Nablud, 6 months, new order
35. Anas Ibrahim Shadid, al-Khalil, 6 months, extension
36. Yousef Faris Abu Arqoub, al-Khalil, 3 months, new order
37. Salah Awad al-Jawarish, Bethlehem, 6 months, new order
38. Murad Walid Malaisha, Jenin, 4 months, extension
39. Mujahid Ahmed Abu al-Izz, Jenin, 2 months, new order
40. Saud al-Araj, Ramallah, 4 months, extension
41. Suleiman Akram Abu Salha, Nablus, 6 months, extension
Via the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network.
The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) on Tuesday released Palestinian prisoner Alaa Hammoudha, a resident of Nablus city, after 10 years in jail.
A reporter for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) said that Hammoudha arrived at the Huwara checkpoint after his release from the Negev jail on Tuesday.
He added that dozens of citizens waited for the prisoner near the checkpoint before they took him around in a celebratory procession of cars until they stopped at al-Shuhada Square in the city.
The Israeli occupation army had arrested Hammoudha, a member of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, in 2008 after a long-time manhunt.
A reporter for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) said that Hammoudha arrived at the Huwara checkpoint after his release from the Negev jail on Tuesday.
He added that dozens of citizens waited for the prisoner near the checkpoint before they took him around in a celebratory procession of cars until they stopped at al-Shuhada Square in the city.
The Israeli occupation army had arrested Hammoudha, a member of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, in 2008 after a long-time manhunt.
