13 jan 2018
Palestinian detainee Israa Jaabis came before the Israeli occupation’s High Court of Justice on Thursday, 11 January in an appeal against her 11-year sentence, noting her severe injuries and poor overall health, with her suffering only intensified due to the conditions in HaSharon prison, where she is held.
Her lawyers have argued that she was subjected to a lengthy, arbitrary sentence with little concern for the reality of the charges against her or her intense pain and suffering.
Jaabis’ case has come to renewed attention on social media as well in the last week, with many activists highlighting #FreeIsraa, #انقذوا_اسراء and #HelpIsraa hashtags in support of her appeal and campaign for her liberation.
The court heard arguments from the defense and prosecution and did not set a date for issuing a decision.
The story of Israa Jaabis is a human tragedy brought about due to occupation, racism, oppression and injustice.
Jaabis, the mother of a 9-year-old child, was seized in October 2015 near the al-Zaim checkpoint at the entrance to Jerusalem. Jaabis holds a Jerusalemite identity card, but lived in the West Bank with her family and her son, who has a West Bank identity card.
Reportedly, she was informed that she would lose her Jerusalem identity unless she moved back to Jerusalem – part of the ongoing and systematic Israeli attempt to erase Palestinian existence in Jerusalem – and was being forced to live apart from her child.
She had rented an apartment in Jabal al-Mukabber and was in the process of moving her basic belongings to the apartment, including a gas cylinder to power a stove.
As she approached the checkpoint, the gas cylinder caught fire after an airbag popped open inside of her vehicle, burning Jaabis severely over 60 percent of her body while the situation was treated as a “terror attack” rather than a medical emergency by the occupation forces on the scene.
Rather than summoning an ambulance, security forces and police were brought to the scene. Despite initial reports that this was a traffic accident, Israeli media then reported that this was an operation targeting Israeli soldiers.
She was imprisoned while hospitalized and charged with “attempted murder” of the Israeli occupation forces at the checkpoint as eight of her fingers were amputated.
Israeli prosecutors alleged that social media posts expressing support of the Palestinian resistance and other political opinions merited this extreme sentence. Her story combines the terror of colonial imprisonment with the ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem and the constant violence against Palestinian families, particularly women and children, of Israeli colonialism.
Jaabis issued a message from prison through her sister Mona, translated below, saying that she urgently needs more than eight operations and that she suffers from intense pain and suffering in her hands and feet, especially after the amputation of her fingers, and that she is unable to care for herself properly.
Israa’s message follows:
“As for my health, it is as follows: I have severe cramps in my hands and feet and these prevent me from doing my daily tasks. I need help from other girls to do the simplest things. This hurts me and makes me feel less than others. I feel humiliated and ashamed. And I urgently need to have the operation to relieve these cramps and seizures so that I can do my own daily simple tasks. Since I was arrested, the administration here has always procrastinated. They say that the operation will happen each month, but nothing happens and my situation worsens every day.”
“Every day I look in the mirror and I feel silent and my soul is shattered every day. I need treatment to face this painful reality. I am scared from my face when I look at myself in the mirror. How about others? What does my child say when he sees me? Do you feel scared of me?
Thousands of questions pass through my head every day and I cannot find an answer. I feel scared, humiliated and anxious. I try to help myself, but to no avail.”
“I need treatment, I need surgery so that I can live with this difficult situation…..I must live with these near-fatal injuries and I could live if operations were conducted with humane treatment. Now I cannot even wear a brace which covers the burns because I have a hard time wearing it as it is torn and the prison administration will not help me.”
“I have bleeding in my eye and I feel great pain whenever it is exposed to the air or I wash my eyes with water. I urgently need eye treatment and again there is no answer. My nose was burned from the inside and so I must breathe from my mouth or a very small hole in my nose. My nose bleeds and I receive no treatment although my condition worsens every day.”
“My teeth are very weak, they have broken and I asked for outside treatment. After a long hassle, the management agreed to allow an outside dentist to enter, but he came only once and no longer. I cannot raise my arms up, I have limited movement in my arms because the skin is fused to the armpit, and the management and doctors here are not trying to help me. My feet itch painfully, my right ear is almost non-existent and I often have severe infections. I urgently need an ear operation and everyone ignores the situation.”
“I am very tired of all of this inside, and my permanent need for everything causes me pain. I feel insulted, embarrassed and my situation worsens day after day. May times I shout and scream and erupt about my situation and I need psychological help as well. My psychological state has taken away my desire to eat. I almost do not eat and I do not want to eat. I have so much pressure in my head, and I do not understand what others talk about in front of me, and I lose focus.”
“The administration told me they would prevent me from visits from my son. I am told I have to receive blood tests, but they never happen. I hope everyone reads my message. I’m not a normal prisoner, who only suffers from prison. I suffer from much more than the injustice of the jailer, my condition is very difficult for those who are in their homes, let alone being in prison.”
Her lawyers have argued that she was subjected to a lengthy, arbitrary sentence with little concern for the reality of the charges against her or her intense pain and suffering.
Jaabis’ case has come to renewed attention on social media as well in the last week, with many activists highlighting #FreeIsraa, #انقذوا_اسراء and #HelpIsraa hashtags in support of her appeal and campaign for her liberation.
The court heard arguments from the defense and prosecution and did not set a date for issuing a decision.
The story of Israa Jaabis is a human tragedy brought about due to occupation, racism, oppression and injustice.
Jaabis, the mother of a 9-year-old child, was seized in October 2015 near the al-Zaim checkpoint at the entrance to Jerusalem. Jaabis holds a Jerusalemite identity card, but lived in the West Bank with her family and her son, who has a West Bank identity card.
Reportedly, she was informed that she would lose her Jerusalem identity unless she moved back to Jerusalem – part of the ongoing and systematic Israeli attempt to erase Palestinian existence in Jerusalem – and was being forced to live apart from her child.
She had rented an apartment in Jabal al-Mukabber and was in the process of moving her basic belongings to the apartment, including a gas cylinder to power a stove.
As she approached the checkpoint, the gas cylinder caught fire after an airbag popped open inside of her vehicle, burning Jaabis severely over 60 percent of her body while the situation was treated as a “terror attack” rather than a medical emergency by the occupation forces on the scene.
Rather than summoning an ambulance, security forces and police were brought to the scene. Despite initial reports that this was a traffic accident, Israeli media then reported that this was an operation targeting Israeli soldiers.
She was imprisoned while hospitalized and charged with “attempted murder” of the Israeli occupation forces at the checkpoint as eight of her fingers were amputated.
Israeli prosecutors alleged that social media posts expressing support of the Palestinian resistance and other political opinions merited this extreme sentence. Her story combines the terror of colonial imprisonment with the ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem and the constant violence against Palestinian families, particularly women and children, of Israeli colonialism.
Jaabis issued a message from prison through her sister Mona, translated below, saying that she urgently needs more than eight operations and that she suffers from intense pain and suffering in her hands and feet, especially after the amputation of her fingers, and that she is unable to care for herself properly.
Israa’s message follows:
“As for my health, it is as follows: I have severe cramps in my hands and feet and these prevent me from doing my daily tasks. I need help from other girls to do the simplest things. This hurts me and makes me feel less than others. I feel humiliated and ashamed. And I urgently need to have the operation to relieve these cramps and seizures so that I can do my own daily simple tasks. Since I was arrested, the administration here has always procrastinated. They say that the operation will happen each month, but nothing happens and my situation worsens every day.”
“Every day I look in the mirror and I feel silent and my soul is shattered every day. I need treatment to face this painful reality. I am scared from my face when I look at myself in the mirror. How about others? What does my child say when he sees me? Do you feel scared of me?
Thousands of questions pass through my head every day and I cannot find an answer. I feel scared, humiliated and anxious. I try to help myself, but to no avail.”
“I need treatment, I need surgery so that I can live with this difficult situation…..I must live with these near-fatal injuries and I could live if operations were conducted with humane treatment. Now I cannot even wear a brace which covers the burns because I have a hard time wearing it as it is torn and the prison administration will not help me.”
“I have bleeding in my eye and I feel great pain whenever it is exposed to the air or I wash my eyes with water. I urgently need eye treatment and again there is no answer. My nose was burned from the inside and so I must breathe from my mouth or a very small hole in my nose. My nose bleeds and I receive no treatment although my condition worsens every day.”
“My teeth are very weak, they have broken and I asked for outside treatment. After a long hassle, the management agreed to allow an outside dentist to enter, but he came only once and no longer. I cannot raise my arms up, I have limited movement in my arms because the skin is fused to the armpit, and the management and doctors here are not trying to help me. My feet itch painfully, my right ear is almost non-existent and I often have severe infections. I urgently need an ear operation and everyone ignores the situation.”
“I am very tired of all of this inside, and my permanent need for everything causes me pain. I feel insulted, embarrassed and my situation worsens day after day. May times I shout and scream and erupt about my situation and I need psychological help as well. My psychological state has taken away my desire to eat. I almost do not eat and I do not want to eat. I have so much pressure in my head, and I do not understand what others talk about in front of me, and I lose focus.”
“The administration told me they would prevent me from visits from my son. I am told I have to receive blood tests, but they never happen. I hope everyone reads my message. I’m not a normal prisoner, who only suffers from prison. I suffer from much more than the injustice of the jailer, my condition is very difficult for those who are in their homes, let alone being in prison.”
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on Saturday afternoon rounded up a Palestinian juvenile because of his existence near the Separation Wall at the outskirts of Jayyous town to the east of Qalqilya in the northern West Bank.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that IOF soldiers, in large numbers, closed the entrances to the town with military checkpoints and blocked the traffic.
The sources added that IOF troops gave chase to a child of the town and assaulted him by severe beating before arresting him for the charge of being close to the Separation Wall.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that IOF soldiers, in large numbers, closed the entrances to the town with military checkpoints and blocked the traffic.
The sources added that IOF troops gave chase to a child of the town and assaulted him by severe beating before arresting him for the charge of being close to the Separation Wall.
Official human rights statistics on Saturday revealed that the number of Palestinian prisoners included in the list of the longest-serving prisoners increased to 48.
According to the statistics issued by the Studies and Documentation Unit at the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission, 29 prisoners were arrested before the establishment of the Palestinian Authority in 1994 and they were supposed to be released in March 2014 under a US-brokered Palestinian-Israeli agreement.
It pointed out that 25 of the prisoners were arrested over a quarter of a century ago including 11 prisoners who have been held in Israeli jails for more than 30 years, the longest-serving of whom are Karim and Maher Younis who have been detained for 36 years now.
Some prisoners spent 20-25 years in Israeli jails, while others spent more than 30 years, in two rounds. Those are the prisoners who were re-arrested after being freed in the 2011 Wafa al-Ahrar prisoner swap deal including Nael al-Barghouti, who spent a total of 37 years in Israel jails, and Alaa al-Baziyan, who spent nearly 35 years.
The Palestinian Commission stressed the need to keep the prisoners issue a top priority and give it more media attention.
There are 6,500 Palestinian prisoners languishing in Israeli jails including 56 female prisoners, 350 children, 12 MPs and 500 administrative detainees.
According to the statistics issued by the Studies and Documentation Unit at the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission, 29 prisoners were arrested before the establishment of the Palestinian Authority in 1994 and they were supposed to be released in March 2014 under a US-brokered Palestinian-Israeli agreement.
It pointed out that 25 of the prisoners were arrested over a quarter of a century ago including 11 prisoners who have been held in Israeli jails for more than 30 years, the longest-serving of whom are Karim and Maher Younis who have been detained for 36 years now.
Some prisoners spent 20-25 years in Israeli jails, while others spent more than 30 years, in two rounds. Those are the prisoners who were re-arrested after being freed in the 2011 Wafa al-Ahrar prisoner swap deal including Nael al-Barghouti, who spent a total of 37 years in Israel jails, and Alaa al-Baziyan, who spent nearly 35 years.
The Palestinian Commission stressed the need to keep the prisoners issue a top priority and give it more media attention.
There are 6,500 Palestinian prisoners languishing in Israeli jails including 56 female prisoners, 350 children, 12 MPs and 500 administrative detainees.
Israeli soldiers attacked, on Saturday evening, many Palestinian nonviolent protesters in Salahuddin Street, in occupied Jerusalem, in injured several Palestinians, including a medic, while marching against ongoing Israeli occupation, and the U.S. President’s illegal recognition of occupied Jerusalem as the unified capital of Israeli and his decision to move the U.S consulate to the city.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRC) said that it provided treatment to four Palestinians, including a medic who was shot with a concussion grenade while providing treatment to a wounded Palestinian. Video
One of the wounded Palestinians is Yasser Darwish, the secretary of Fateh movement in Jerusalem’s al-Isawiya town, who was shot with a rubber-coated steel bullet, before the soldiers abducted him.
The PRC added that the soldiers also injured a Palestinian journalist, after the army assaulted many reporters.
It is worth mentioning that today’s protest is part of weekly activities in Salahuddin Street, against the illegal U.S. recognition of occupied Jerusalem as the unified capital of Israel, and its decision to move the consulate to the city.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRC) said that it provided treatment to four Palestinians, including a medic who was shot with a concussion grenade while providing treatment to a wounded Palestinian. Video
One of the wounded Palestinians is Yasser Darwish, the secretary of Fateh movement in Jerusalem’s al-Isawiya town, who was shot with a rubber-coated steel bullet, before the soldiers abducted him.
The PRC added that the soldiers also injured a Palestinian journalist, after the army assaulted many reporters.
It is worth mentioning that today’s protest is part of weekly activities in Salahuddin Street, against the illegal U.S. recognition of occupied Jerusalem as the unified capital of Israel, and its decision to move the consulate to the city.
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Friday evening, a young Palestinian man, and inured at least thirteen, after attacking Palestinian protesters near two military roadblocks, installed on the southern and northern roads of Qalqilia city, in northern West Bank.
Media sources in Qalqilia said the soldiers attacked the protesters, and abducted a young man, identified as Hasan Tareq Sabri, 18, at the northern entrance of the city.
In addition, the head of the Emergency Department in Qalqilia, Monther Nazzal, said at least thirteen Palestinians suffered the severe effects of teargas inhalation, and received the needed treatment.
Media sources in Qalqilia said the soldiers attacked the protesters, and abducted a young man, identified as Hasan Tareq Sabri, 18, at the northern entrance of the city.
In addition, the head of the Emergency Department in Qalqilia, Monther Nazzal, said at least thirteen Palestinians suffered the severe effects of teargas inhalation, and received the needed treatment.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Saturday arrested two Palestinian young men during raids into Zabouba town, west of Jenin, and detained a child for a couple of hours near Ya'bad.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that the IOF soldiers stormed Zabouba, searched a number of houses and arrested Kamel Jaradat, 30, and Ahmad Jaradat, 16.
They added that the IOF combed the areas close to the separation wall in the town and assaulted citizens.
In another context, the IOF arrested the 13-year-old Hamad Atatra near Ya'bad at the pretext of approaching the separation wall. Atatra was transferred to Salem military camp, interrogated then released hours later.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that the IOF soldiers stormed Zabouba, searched a number of houses and arrested Kamel Jaradat, 30, and Ahmad Jaradat, 16.
They added that the IOF combed the areas close to the separation wall in the town and assaulted citizens.
In another context, the IOF arrested the 13-year-old Hamad Atatra near Ya'bad at the pretext of approaching the separation wall. Atatra was transferred to Salem military camp, interrogated then released hours later.
Palestinian prisoner Rizq al-Rajoub has been on hunger strike for 21 days in protest at an Israeli military court offer to exile him to Sudan rather than keeping him in administrative detention, with no indictment.
Rajoub, a resident of al-Khalil city, was transferred three days ago to the infirmary of the Ramla prison following a sharp decline in his health condition.
He, who has been in detention administratively since November 27, 2017, said he would not end his hunger strike unless he was released or officially charged and tried.
Rajoub, a resident of al-Khalil city, was transferred three days ago to the infirmary of the Ramla prison following a sharp decline in his health condition.
He, who has been in detention administratively since November 27, 2017, said he would not end his hunger strike unless he was released or officially charged and tried.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Saturday kidnapped a Palestinian young man from his home in Nablus city, north of the West Bank.
Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that Israeli troops aboard patrol vehicles entered the city from Jabal Attur area and deployed themselves in the neighborhoods of Ras al-Ain and Kashika and the vicinity of al-Gharbiya cemetery.
They added that soldiers broke into a house in Ras al-Ain neighbhrood and rounded up 28-year-old Yasin Shakhshir.
Nablus city and its nearby areas have been seeing frenzied IOF campaigns since resistance fighters shot dead a Jewish settler near an illegal settlement in the province.
Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that Israeli troops aboard patrol vehicles entered the city from Jabal Attur area and deployed themselves in the neighborhoods of Ras al-Ain and Kashika and the vicinity of al-Gharbiya cemetery.
They added that soldiers broke into a house in Ras al-Ain neighbhrood and rounded up 28-year-old Yasin Shakhshir.
Nablus city and its nearby areas have been seeing frenzied IOF campaigns since resistance fighters shot dead a Jewish settler near an illegal settlement in the province.
12 jan 2018
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The ongoing Israeli harassment and targeted oppression of the Tamimi family, organizers in the anti-colonial land defense and popular resistance in the Palestinian village of Nabi Saleh, continued in the pre-dawn hours of 11 January.
While 16-year-old activist Ahed Tamimi and her mother Nariman remain in Israeli prison, facing a series of charges before an Israeli military court, Israeli occupation forces raided the family home of Manal and Bilal Tamimi, seizing their 19-year-old son Mohammed. Manal, Mohammed’s mother, was released one week ago after nearly a week in Israeli prison. Mohammed smiled and raised his fingers in the “victory” sign as he was taken from his family home surrounded by occupation soldiers. Manal later reported on Facebook that her son is currently being held in the infamous Petah Tikva interrogation center. He is the latest member of the Tamimi family to be targeted in an ongoing series of raids and and arrests in the village of Nabi Saleh and the neighboring village of Deir Nizam, both near Ramallah. Nabi Saleh, a village of 600, has become a center of popular organizing and indigenous land defense after the illegal settlement of Halamish has stolen the village’s agricultural land as well as its spring. Ahed and Nariman’s imprisonment has drawn international |
attention; Ahed’s cousin Nour is also facing several charges before an Israeli military court. The military courts have a conviction rate of over 99 percent, and the two women are charged with incitement for political posts on social media, “assault” on an occupation soldier on their family’s land, and throwing stones, among other allegations.
The “assault” charges refer to the livestreamed interaction in which Ahed and Nour demand an occupation soldier leave their home; he was attempting to move to higher ground on the family’s land in order to position himself to shoot at demonstrators in the village. After being slapped by the soldier, Ahed slapped the occupation soldier with her bare hand.
Ahed’s 15-year-old cousin Mohammed was shot in the head by a rubber-coated metal bullet and was in a coma for days; he continues to struggle with serious injuries. Last week, another Tamimi cousin, Musa’ab, 17, was shot and killed by occupation forces in the village of Deir Nizam, the first Palestinian killed in 2018.
As the repression targeting the Tamimi family has continued and intensified, Palestinian and international support for Ahed Tamimi and her family has only grown. Ahed, who has traveled to South Africa, Europe, Lebanon and elsewhere to speak about the Palestinian struggle, is an internationally-known leader in the indigenous land defense movement. She has been involved in the movement in Nabi Saleh since she was only 11 years old.
Protests are continuing around the world to demand Ahed’s freedom and that of the other 6,200 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails. Upcoming protests are scheduled in London (on both 12 January and 13 January), Saint-Etienne, Brussels, Rosario, Montevideo, Sydney, Toulouse, Dublin, Braga, Porto, Lisbon, Rome, New York City, Portland, Copenhagen, Berlin, Washington, DC, Arlington and elsewhere.
Street visual actions are also taking place to highlight Ahed’s case and the Palestinian struggle for freedom. In London, grassroots activists put up “guerilla” transit ads and posters on bus stops and Tube trains throughout the city. @Protestencil on Twitter has made the stencil-style posters available for download and use in supporters’ local cities.
London Palestine Action has highlighted the ongoing appearance of these “adhacks” throughout London, bringing Ahed’s case and the struggle of Palestinian child prisoners to the streets of the UK capital. Italian activists in Venice replicated the posters on the streets of the city as well:
On the streets of Berlin, Jewish Antifa Berlin shared images of large stickers and posters highlighting Ahed Tamimi’s case and those of the Tamimi women posted on signboards and advertising spaces around the German capital city. Women in Berlin are also organizing a bloc for the women’s march on 21 January that will highlight Ahed’s case.
An international action week is taking place from 10 to 20 January, focusing on pressure on national parliamentarians in countries around the world to speak out about the case of Ahed Tamimi, including actions targeting Dutch, French, German and Portuguese politicians. In addition, UK minister of state for the Middle East Alistair Burt responded to questions from Labour MP Julie Elliott on 10 January by noting that “the soldiers should not be there and the young woman should not have needed to do what she did.” This followed an earlier Early Day Motion submitted by a multi-party group of parliamentarians on Ahed’s case.
The “assault” charges refer to the livestreamed interaction in which Ahed and Nour demand an occupation soldier leave their home; he was attempting to move to higher ground on the family’s land in order to position himself to shoot at demonstrators in the village. After being slapped by the soldier, Ahed slapped the occupation soldier with her bare hand.
Ahed’s 15-year-old cousin Mohammed was shot in the head by a rubber-coated metal bullet and was in a coma for days; he continues to struggle with serious injuries. Last week, another Tamimi cousin, Musa’ab, 17, was shot and killed by occupation forces in the village of Deir Nizam, the first Palestinian killed in 2018.
As the repression targeting the Tamimi family has continued and intensified, Palestinian and international support for Ahed Tamimi and her family has only grown. Ahed, who has traveled to South Africa, Europe, Lebanon and elsewhere to speak about the Palestinian struggle, is an internationally-known leader in the indigenous land defense movement. She has been involved in the movement in Nabi Saleh since she was only 11 years old.
Protests are continuing around the world to demand Ahed’s freedom and that of the other 6,200 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails. Upcoming protests are scheduled in London (on both 12 January and 13 January), Saint-Etienne, Brussels, Rosario, Montevideo, Sydney, Toulouse, Dublin, Braga, Porto, Lisbon, Rome, New York City, Portland, Copenhagen, Berlin, Washington, DC, Arlington and elsewhere.
Street visual actions are also taking place to highlight Ahed’s case and the Palestinian struggle for freedom. In London, grassroots activists put up “guerilla” transit ads and posters on bus stops and Tube trains throughout the city. @Protestencil on Twitter has made the stencil-style posters available for download and use in supporters’ local cities.
London Palestine Action has highlighted the ongoing appearance of these “adhacks” throughout London, bringing Ahed’s case and the struggle of Palestinian child prisoners to the streets of the UK capital. Italian activists in Venice replicated the posters on the streets of the city as well:
On the streets of Berlin, Jewish Antifa Berlin shared images of large stickers and posters highlighting Ahed Tamimi’s case and those of the Tamimi women posted on signboards and advertising spaces around the German capital city. Women in Berlin are also organizing a bloc for the women’s march on 21 January that will highlight Ahed’s case.
An international action week is taking place from 10 to 20 January, focusing on pressure on national parliamentarians in countries around the world to speak out about the case of Ahed Tamimi, including actions targeting Dutch, French, German and Portuguese politicians. In addition, UK minister of state for the Middle East Alistair Burt responded to questions from Labour MP Julie Elliott on 10 January by noting that “the soldiers should not be there and the young woman should not have needed to do what she did.” This followed an earlier Early Day Motion submitted by a multi-party group of parliamentarians on Ahed’s case.
The Israeli occupation authorities on Thursday evening transferred the Palestinian prisoner Rizq al-Rjoub, 61, to Ramla hospital after his health deteriorated as a result of being on hunger strike for 20 consecutive days in protest at his administrative detention.
Rizq's wife, Sara, told the PIC reporter that her husband is suffering from low hemoglobin levels in the blood, stressing that his body is too weak to tolerate an open hunger strike.
Ex-prisoner Mohammed al-Qiq, the longest-fasting hunger striker in Israeli jails, said in an exclusive interview with the PIC that the Israel Prison Service (IPS) does not care about the health of the hunger-striking prisoners, adding that Rizq's case is different from any other cases and procrastination will entail adverse consequences.
For his part, Director of the Independent Commission for Human Rights in al-Khalil, Farid al-Atrash, called on international humanitarian organizations to immediately intervene to save Rjoub.
In a statement to the PIC, Atrash held the IPS fully responsible for any deterioration in Rjoub's health.
Rjoub, who has been detained since 27th November 2017, rejected an Israeli court offer to be deported to Sudan.
Being a prominent Hamas member, Rjoub spent 23 years in Israeli jails including 10 years in arbitrary administrative detention.
Rizq's wife, Sara, told the PIC reporter that her husband is suffering from low hemoglobin levels in the blood, stressing that his body is too weak to tolerate an open hunger strike.
Ex-prisoner Mohammed al-Qiq, the longest-fasting hunger striker in Israeli jails, said in an exclusive interview with the PIC that the Israel Prison Service (IPS) does not care about the health of the hunger-striking prisoners, adding that Rizq's case is different from any other cases and procrastination will entail adverse consequences.
For his part, Director of the Independent Commission for Human Rights in al-Khalil, Farid al-Atrash, called on international humanitarian organizations to immediately intervene to save Rjoub.
In a statement to the PIC, Atrash held the IPS fully responsible for any deterioration in Rjoub's health.
Rjoub, who has been detained since 27th November 2017, rejected an Israeli court offer to be deported to Sudan.
Being a prominent Hamas member, Rjoub spent 23 years in Israeli jails including 10 years in arbitrary administrative detention.
Israeli soldiers attacked, on Friday evening, dozens of Palestinian protesters near the main entrance of Beita village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and abducted four, before declaring the village a “closed military zone.”
Media sources in Nablus said the soldiers assaulted the Palestinian protesters, and fired many gas bombs and concussion grenades, in addition to spaying many homes with waste-water mixed with chemicals.
They added that the soldiers abducted four Palestinians, after interrogating them, and took them to an unknown destination.
Furthermore, the soldiers closed the main entrance of the village, and declared it a closed military zone, before preventing the Palestinians from entering or leaving it.
Media sources in Nablus said the soldiers assaulted the Palestinian protesters, and fired many gas bombs and concussion grenades, in addition to spaying many homes with waste-water mixed with chemicals.
They added that the soldiers abducted four Palestinians, after interrogating them, and took them to an unknown destination.
Furthermore, the soldiers closed the main entrance of the village, and declared it a closed military zone, before preventing the Palestinians from entering or leaving it.
Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly nonviolent procession against the Annexation Wall and Colonies, in Bil’in village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and injured many protesters.
The Popular Committee against the Wall and Colonies in Bil’in said the soldiers resorted to the excessive use of force against the local and international nonviolent protesters.
It added that the army fired gas bombs and concussion grenades, causing many to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation.
The weekly procession started from the center of the village, before the nonviolent protesters marched towards the Annexation Wall which separates them from their lands, and chanted against the ongoing occupation, in addition to calling for more steadfastness, national unity and the release of all detainees.
In related news, the Israeli Authorities released nonviolent activist, Ashraf Abu Rahma, after holding him for three months, and forcing him to pay a 5000 Israeli Shekels fine.
Ashraf is the brother of Bassem Abu Rahma was killed at age 31 on April 7th, 2009, when an Israeli soldier shot him with a high-velocity teargas bomb directly in the chest, while his sister, Jawaher Abu Rahma, asphyxiated to death, on January 1st 2011, after the soldiers fired dozens of gas bombs at nonviolent protesters.
It is worth mentioning that in July 2008, Ashraf was abducted by the soldiers, who cuffed and blindfolded him, before a soldier aimed at his leg, from a very close range and shot him.
The Popular Committee against the Wall and Colonies in Bil’in said the soldiers resorted to the excessive use of force against the local and international nonviolent protesters.
It added that the army fired gas bombs and concussion grenades, causing many to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation.
The weekly procession started from the center of the village, before the nonviolent protesters marched towards the Annexation Wall which separates them from their lands, and chanted against the ongoing occupation, in addition to calling for more steadfastness, national unity and the release of all detainees.
In related news, the Israeli Authorities released nonviolent activist, Ashraf Abu Rahma, after holding him for three months, and forcing him to pay a 5000 Israeli Shekels fine.
Ashraf is the brother of Bassem Abu Rahma was killed at age 31 on April 7th, 2009, when an Israeli soldier shot him with a high-velocity teargas bomb directly in the chest, while his sister, Jawaher Abu Rahma, asphyxiated to death, on January 1st 2011, after the soldiers fired dozens of gas bombs at nonviolent protesters.
It is worth mentioning that in July 2008, Ashraf was abducted by the soldiers, who cuffed and blindfolded him, before a soldier aimed at his leg, from a very close range and shot him.
Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, dozens of nonviolent Palestinian protesters, who marched near the al-‘Azza refugee camp, north of Bethlehem, as part of ongoing protests against Donald Trump’s illegal recognition of occupied Jerusalem as a unified capital of Israel, and abducted two.
The Palestinians marched following Friday prayers in the al-Azza refugee camp, and headed towards Jerusalem-Hebron road, until reaching the northern entrance of Bethlehem.
The soldiers immediately started firing gas bombs, concussion grenades and rubber-coated steel bullets, causing many to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation.
The soldiers also assaulted many protesters, and abducted two, including Hasan Faraj, a member of the Revolutionary Council of Fateh movement.
In related news, the soldiers invaded homes in Faqqu’a village, east of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and searched them, in addition to installing many roadblocks around villages and towns, in Jenin governorate.
The Palestinians marched following Friday prayers in the al-Azza refugee camp, and headed towards Jerusalem-Hebron road, until reaching the northern entrance of Bethlehem.
The soldiers immediately started firing gas bombs, concussion grenades and rubber-coated steel bullets, causing many to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation.
The soldiers also assaulted many protesters, and abducted two, including Hasan Faraj, a member of the Revolutionary Council of Fateh movement.
In related news, the soldiers invaded homes in Faqqu’a village, east of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and searched them, in addition to installing many roadblocks around villages and towns, in Jenin governorate.
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday at dawn, ‘Allar town, north of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, searched and ransacked homes, and abducted five Palestinians from the same family, in addition to illegally confiscating cash and assaulting many residents.
Moayyad Taqatqa, a father of one of the abducted Palestinians, said dozens of soldiers stormed and violently searched his home, causing property damage, before abducting his child, Yazan, 17, and illegally confiscated 17.400 Shekels, 750 Jordanian Dinars and 600 US Dollars.
Moayyad added that the soldiers also stormed and ransacked the surrounding homes of his brothers, and assaulted his nephew, a former political prisoner, identified as Arafat Nizar Taqatqa, causing a fracture in one of his arms, before he was rushed to Thabet Thabet Hospital, in nearby Tulkarem, city.
The soldiers also smashed the windows of his car, and stole spare parts, before abducting his brother, Eyad Taqatqa, 40, his son Mohammad Eyad Taqatqa, 20, in addition to Nihad Ma’rouf Taqatqa, 52, and Ma’rouf Nizar Taqatqa, 36.
Moayyad Taqatqa, a father of one of the abducted Palestinians, said dozens of soldiers stormed and violently searched his home, causing property damage, before abducting his child, Yazan, 17, and illegally confiscated 17.400 Shekels, 750 Jordanian Dinars and 600 US Dollars.
Moayyad added that the soldiers also stormed and ransacked the surrounding homes of his brothers, and assaulted his nephew, a former political prisoner, identified as Arafat Nizar Taqatqa, causing a fracture in one of his arms, before he was rushed to Thabet Thabet Hospital, in nearby Tulkarem, city.
The soldiers also smashed the windows of his car, and stole spare parts, before abducting his brother, Eyad Taqatqa, 40, his son Mohammad Eyad Taqatqa, 20, in addition to Nihad Ma’rouf Taqatqa, 52, and Ma’rouf Nizar Taqatqa, 36.
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Ahed Tamimi has made international headlines. The 16-year-old Palestinian's defiant slapping of an Israeli soldier was heard across the world as footage of the incident went viral.
Tamimi, an already prominent activist, was later detained and she remains behind bars, charged with 12 different offences. But Ahed Tamimi is not alone. There are hundreds of Ahed Tamimis and there have been thousands before her. Video According to the latest official figures, 331 Palestinian minors are currently held in Israeli prisons. And since 2000, at least 8,000 Palestinian minors have been arrested |
and prosecuted in the Israeli military detention system, according to advocacy group Defence for Children International Palestine.
The most common conviction? Stone throwing. Critics of the system say minors should not be processed through what they call kangaroo courts and that the real goal is to discourage resistance to occupation. Israel says the minors have committed serious crimes and often threatened State security.
So where does the truth lie? The Stream discusses with experts on Thursday.
The most common conviction? Stone throwing. Critics of the system say minors should not be processed through what they call kangaroo courts and that the real goal is to discourage resistance to occupation. Israel says the minors have committed serious crimes and often threatened State security.
So where does the truth lie? The Stream discusses with experts on Thursday.
11 jan 2018
The Israeli occupation forces on Thursday kidnapped a Palestinian farmer from his land tract in Salfit’s western town of Haris.
Farmer Redwan al-Daoud was kidnapped by Israeli soldiers while he was planting tree seedlings on his private land, near Israel’s illegal settlement of Rafafa, his family said.
The arrestee was dragged by the occupation forces to an unknown destination.
The family said the farmer has been diagnosed with renal failure and hypertension.
Farmer Redwan al-Daoud was kidnapped by Israeli soldiers while he was planting tree seedlings on his private land, near Israel’s illegal settlement of Rafafa, his family said.
The arrestee was dragged by the occupation forces to an unknown destination.
The family said the farmer has been diagnosed with renal failure and hypertension.
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on Thursday evening arrested 3 Palestinian sisters near al-Ibrahimi Mosque in al-Khalil after allegedly finding a knife in their possession.
According to WAFA news agency, IOF soldiers banned the guards of the holy site from approaching and intervening to release the three girls who are from al-Aroub refugee camp to the north of al-Khalil in the southern West Bank.
According to WAFA news agency, IOF soldiers banned the guards of the holy site from approaching and intervening to release the three girls who are from al-Aroub refugee camp to the north of al-Khalil in the southern West Bank.
61-year-old Palestinian detainee Rizq al-Rajoub has been going on an open-ended hunger strike for the 20th day in a row to protest an Israeli court rule to deport him to Sudan.
According to the Palestinian human rights network in charge of prisoners' affairs, Anin al-Qaid, Rajoub who is a native of al-Khalil’s town of Dura, in the southern occupied West Bank, said that he will not retract his decision until the Israeli prison authorities either release him or file a list of indictments against him.
The network also stated that the elderly detainee is suffering from hard health conditions. Nevertheless, he is held in a dungeon under unhealthy and inhuman conditions. He has several diseases including low blood level and problems in the heart.
Israeli occupation forces arrested al-Rajoub on November 27, 2017. He had been locked up for a total of 23 years in Israeli jails, including 10 years in administrative detention, with neither charge nor trial.
According to the Palestinian human rights network in charge of prisoners' affairs, Anin al-Qaid, Rajoub who is a native of al-Khalil’s town of Dura, in the southern occupied West Bank, said that he will not retract his decision until the Israeli prison authorities either release him or file a list of indictments against him.
The network also stated that the elderly detainee is suffering from hard health conditions. Nevertheless, he is held in a dungeon under unhealthy and inhuman conditions. He has several diseases including low blood level and problems in the heart.
Israeli occupation forces arrested al-Rajoub on November 27, 2017. He had been locked up for a total of 23 years in Israeli jails, including 10 years in administrative detention, with neither charge nor trial.
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on Thursday afternoon rounded up two Palestinian youths at a makeshift checkpoint to the east of Bethlehem city in the southern West Bank.
The PIC reporter quoted a Palestinian eyewitness as saying that IOF soldiers stopped a car of the detainees and arrested the driver along with another man after inspecting them and their vehicle thoroughly.
The eyewitness added that IOF troops transferred the two captives to an unknown destination. They have not been identified yet.
The PIC reporter quoted a Palestinian eyewitness as saying that IOF soldiers stopped a car of the detainees and arrested the driver along with another man after inspecting them and their vehicle thoroughly.
The eyewitness added that IOF troops transferred the two captives to an unknown destination. They have not been identified yet.
Palestinian young men on Wednesday evening attacked a bus carrying Jewish settlers with stones and empty bottles on a road near the main entrance to Beit Ummar town in al-Khalil.
Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that angry young men ambushed the bus as it was traveling from the illegal settlement of Kiryat Arba to Occupied Jerusalem.
The bus sustained extensive material damage, while an ambulance was seen near the bus.
Consequently, several Israeli soldiers were dispatched to the area near Beit Ummar town, where they clashed with young men and fired live ammunition at them.
An Israeli military force also stormed Wadi ash-Sheikh area near the main entrance to Beit Ummar to chase and arrest young men.
However, no arrests have been reported among young men from the area.
Palestinian young men in the occupied territories recently intensified their stone-throwing attacks on Israeli soldiers and settlers in response to the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that angry young men ambushed the bus as it was traveling from the illegal settlement of Kiryat Arba to Occupied Jerusalem.
The bus sustained extensive material damage, while an ambulance was seen near the bus.
Consequently, several Israeli soldiers were dispatched to the area near Beit Ummar town, where they clashed with young men and fired live ammunition at them.
An Israeli military force also stormed Wadi ash-Sheikh area near the main entrance to Beit Ummar to chase and arrest young men.
However, no arrests have been reported among young men from the area.
Palestinian young men in the occupied territories recently intensified their stone-throwing attacks on Israeli soldiers and settlers in response to the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Several Palestinians were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces at daybreak Thursday in abduction sweeps rocking the West Bank and Jerusalem.
Journalist Omayma Sawalha said the IOF broke into her home in Nablus at the crack of dawn and kidnapped her husband Azzam Abu al-Adas, scholar in Israeli affairs. The latter was released from Israeli jails just five months ago.
Another young man—Seif Salah—was kidnapped by the IOF from his home in Nablus’s town of Asira al-Qibliyeh.
Israeli settlers reportedly assaulted the home of the Palestinian citizen Ali Shana’a, resulting in heavy material damage.
At the same time, three Palestinian youths were kidnapped by the IOF from Jenin province.
Youngster Mohamed al-Tamimi, the son of the anti-occupation activist Manal al-Tamimi, was also kidnapped by the Israeli army from the family’s home in Al-Nabi Saleh village, in Ramallah. Video
Two brothers—Mo’men and Iyas Mahmoud—were further kidnapped by the IOF from their home in Ramallah’s northwestern town of Deir Nidam.
Meanwhile, Israeli military patrols wreaked havoc on civilian homes in the southern occupied West Bank province of al-Khalil.
The campaign culminated in the abduction of the head of the Palestinian Prisoners Society in Occupied Jerusalem, Naser Kaws, after Israeli troops ravaged his home in the Old City. Two more Palestinians were kidnapped by the occupation forces from the city.
Journalist Omayma Sawalha said the IOF broke into her home in Nablus at the crack of dawn and kidnapped her husband Azzam Abu al-Adas, scholar in Israeli affairs. The latter was released from Israeli jails just five months ago.
Another young man—Seif Salah—was kidnapped by the IOF from his home in Nablus’s town of Asira al-Qibliyeh.
Israeli settlers reportedly assaulted the home of the Palestinian citizen Ali Shana’a, resulting in heavy material damage.
At the same time, three Palestinian youths were kidnapped by the IOF from Jenin province.
Youngster Mohamed al-Tamimi, the son of the anti-occupation activist Manal al-Tamimi, was also kidnapped by the Israeli army from the family’s home in Al-Nabi Saleh village, in Ramallah. Video
Two brothers—Mo’men and Iyas Mahmoud—were further kidnapped by the IOF from their home in Ramallah’s northwestern town of Deir Nidam.
Meanwhile, Israeli military patrols wreaked havoc on civilian homes in the southern occupied West Bank province of al-Khalil.
The campaign culminated in the abduction of the head of the Palestinian Prisoners Society in Occupied Jerusalem, Naser Kaws, after Israeli troops ravaged his home in the Old City. Two more Palestinians were kidnapped by the occupation forces from the city.
