30 july 2015
The occupation police released on Tuesday the 15-year old Mahmoud Sa’adeh on condition of house-arrest for 5 days.
Wadi Hilweh Information Center’s lawyer explained that the police release his client Sa’adeh on condition of house-arrest for 5 days; note that he was accused of throwing stones and Molotov Cocktails at a settler’s car but no evidence was found after the child was interrogated.
The child explained that the occupation forces arrested him on Saturday night while he was waiting for his grandfather near the mosque of Bi’er Ayoub. He explained that border police individuals approached him and questioned him what he was doing in the area and how long he has been standing there, and then asked him to accompany them to their vehicle to show him some photos.
Sa’adeh added that the forces verbally assaulted him while he was in their vehicle and claimed that they have photos of him throwing stones at a settler’s car. Despite refusing their claims, they transferred him to Salah Eddin Street police station and interrogated him and then transferred him to Al-Maskobyeh.
Sa’adeh said: “when I was at Al-Maskobyeh, I was presented along with 15 other detainees to a settler and he was asked to recognize which one attacked him. The settler did not accuse me and I was released afterwards.”
Sa’adeh pointed out that the occupation forces arrested him last year for three days and released him on condition of house-arrest and a financial bail.
Wadi Hilweh Information Center’s lawyer explained that the police release his client Sa’adeh on condition of house-arrest for 5 days; note that he was accused of throwing stones and Molotov Cocktails at a settler’s car but no evidence was found after the child was interrogated.
The child explained that the occupation forces arrested him on Saturday night while he was waiting for his grandfather near the mosque of Bi’er Ayoub. He explained that border police individuals approached him and questioned him what he was doing in the area and how long he has been standing there, and then asked him to accompany them to their vehicle to show him some photos.
Sa’adeh added that the forces verbally assaulted him while he was in their vehicle and claimed that they have photos of him throwing stones at a settler’s car. Despite refusing their claims, they transferred him to Salah Eddin Street police station and interrogated him and then transferred him to Al-Maskobyeh.
Sa’adeh said: “when I was at Al-Maskobyeh, I was presented along with 15 other detainees to a settler and he was asked to recognize which one attacked him. The settler did not accuse me and I was released afterwards.”
Sa’adeh pointed out that the occupation forces arrested him last year for three days and released him on condition of house-arrest and a financial bail.
Israeli Occupation Authority (IOA) released on Thursday the Jerusalemite MP Mohammad Abu Tair, 64, after 25-month imprisonment.
Media sources of the office of Islamic MPs in Ramallah revealed that the IOA released the MP Abu Tair from Ofer military prison, to the west of Ramallah. It also renewed the order of deportation away of Occupied Jerusalem until the ruling on the MPs’ appeal against the deportation order is determined.
The sources pointed out that the number of Palestinian MPs detained in Israeli jails has declined to 5 including two MPS on the Change and reform bloc, two others on Abu Ali Mustafa bloc and one on Fatah movement.
Israeli forces arrested Abu Tair after storming his house in southern Ramallah on July 02, 2013 and sentenced him to 25 months.
IOA withdrew the Jerusalemite IDs from 3 MPs on Hamas including Abu Tair, Ahmad Attoun and Mohammad Totah in addition to the former minister Khaled Abu Arafah. All were deported to the West Bank a few years ago.
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society revealed on Thursday that other five detained MPs are Marwan al-Barghouti, sentenced to five life-imprisonments and 30 years, Ahmad Saadat, sentenced to 30 years, Mohammad Jamal al-Natsheh and Mohammad Bader, detained administratively, and Khaleda Jarrar who was detained in last April.
Media sources of the office of Islamic MPs in Ramallah revealed that the IOA released the MP Abu Tair from Ofer military prison, to the west of Ramallah. It also renewed the order of deportation away of Occupied Jerusalem until the ruling on the MPs’ appeal against the deportation order is determined.
The sources pointed out that the number of Palestinian MPs detained in Israeli jails has declined to 5 including two MPS on the Change and reform bloc, two others on Abu Ali Mustafa bloc and one on Fatah movement.
Israeli forces arrested Abu Tair after storming his house in southern Ramallah on July 02, 2013 and sentenced him to 25 months.
IOA withdrew the Jerusalemite IDs from 3 MPs on Hamas including Abu Tair, Ahmad Attoun and Mohammad Totah in addition to the former minister Khaled Abu Arafah. All were deported to the West Bank a few years ago.
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society revealed on Thursday that other five detained MPs are Marwan al-Barghouti, sentenced to five life-imprisonments and 30 years, Ahmad Saadat, sentenced to 30 years, Mohammad Jamal al-Natsheh and Mohammad Bader, detained administratively, and Khaleda Jarrar who was detained in last April.
The Israeli Knesset plenum approved second and third readings of a bill to force feed Palestinian detainees who embark upon hunger strikes, with 46 MKs voting in favor of the bill and 40 opposing.
The bill was re-introduced by Israel’s Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan last month.
“I will promote the bill and not let [prisoners] harm the security of the state or succumb to any threats,” Erdan told Channel 2 news. “Just as I expect a prison guard who sees a prisoner trying to hurt himself to prevent it — we must also prevent a risk of death by hunger-striking.”
The most virulent opposition to the bill came from Joint List lawmakers. MK Dov Khenin called the law “brutal and dangerous.”
“They don’t want to protect the lives of prisoners,” he argued. “In the State of Israel no prisoner has ever died from a hunger strike; five prisoners, however, have died that were force-fed. This is a killer law and it allows for things to be done to prisoners that are forbidden according to international norms.”
Joint List MK Ahmad Tibi called for doctors to refuse to allow force feeding. Under the measure a doctor must sign off on the force feeding before it can go ahead.
“A hunger strike is a nonviolent tool for a person to use in order to achieve a political or legal objective with his body,” he said. “The system wants to anesthetize the prisoners in order to feed them. This is an abuse of the weakness a man has while he is in prison.”
The Israeli Medical Association called the law "damaging and unnecessary," stressing on Thursday its doctors would "continue to act according to medical ethics, which prohibit doctors from participating in torturing prisoners."
It said force feeding was "tantamount to torture."
Physicians for Human Rights Israel said the "shameful" law revealed the "anti-democratic face" of the Israeli parliament, saying they would continue to oppose the law and its implementation, and "support anyone who will refuse to obey the law."
Spokeswomen for both organizations said they were considering filing petitions at the high court against the law.
Palestinian prisoner rights group Addameer said the law was a way to provide "legal cover" to Israel's torture of prisoners, saying it would allow it "to kill more Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike" on top of the five who have died due to force feeding in Israeli prisons in the past.
“Whoever backs such a bill has lost his humanity and gave himself in to the devil,” MK Basel Ghattas said.
The bill was re-introduced by Israel’s Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan last month.
“I will promote the bill and not let [prisoners] harm the security of the state or succumb to any threats,” Erdan told Channel 2 news. “Just as I expect a prison guard who sees a prisoner trying to hurt himself to prevent it — we must also prevent a risk of death by hunger-striking.”
The most virulent opposition to the bill came from Joint List lawmakers. MK Dov Khenin called the law “brutal and dangerous.”
“They don’t want to protect the lives of prisoners,” he argued. “In the State of Israel no prisoner has ever died from a hunger strike; five prisoners, however, have died that were force-fed. This is a killer law and it allows for things to be done to prisoners that are forbidden according to international norms.”
Joint List MK Ahmad Tibi called for doctors to refuse to allow force feeding. Under the measure a doctor must sign off on the force feeding before it can go ahead.
“A hunger strike is a nonviolent tool for a person to use in order to achieve a political or legal objective with his body,” he said. “The system wants to anesthetize the prisoners in order to feed them. This is an abuse of the weakness a man has while he is in prison.”
The Israeli Medical Association called the law "damaging and unnecessary," stressing on Thursday its doctors would "continue to act according to medical ethics, which prohibit doctors from participating in torturing prisoners."
It said force feeding was "tantamount to torture."
Physicians for Human Rights Israel said the "shameful" law revealed the "anti-democratic face" of the Israeli parliament, saying they would continue to oppose the law and its implementation, and "support anyone who will refuse to obey the law."
Spokeswomen for both organizations said they were considering filing petitions at the high court against the law.
Palestinian prisoner rights group Addameer said the law was a way to provide "legal cover" to Israel's torture of prisoners, saying it would allow it "to kill more Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike" on top of the five who have died due to force feeding in Israeli prisons in the past.
“Whoever backs such a bill has lost his humanity and gave himself in to the devil,” MK Basel Ghattas said.
Dr. Hanna Ashrawi, head of the culture affairs unit at the PLO
Dr. Hanna Ashrawi, head of the culture affairs unit at the PLO, condemned the recent Israeli parliament – keenest law that allows Israeli troops to force feed Palestinian political detainees on hunger strike.
In statement sent to press, Ashrawi described the new law as politically supported torture and against international law.
From his part, Issa Qaraqee, head of the political detainees committee of the Palestinian Authority, deemed the new law as unethical torture.
He noted that at least 3 political detainee held by Israel have died by the method of force feeding back during the 1980 hunger strikes.
The Israeli Medical Association announced that the new law is not necessary and damaging meanwhile Physicians for Human Rights in Israel called the new law shameful.
The force-feeding law was passed in the Israeli keenest with 46 votes to 40. Palestinian political detainee held by the Israeli army use hunger strike to protest the administrative detention policy Israel uses and the ill-treatment by their captives.
The Israeli army uses administrative detention to hold Palestinians for longer time without charges to trial.
Dr. Hanna Ashrawi, head of the culture affairs unit at the PLO, condemned the recent Israeli parliament – keenest law that allows Israeli troops to force feed Palestinian political detainees on hunger strike.
In statement sent to press, Ashrawi described the new law as politically supported torture and against international law.
From his part, Issa Qaraqee, head of the political detainees committee of the Palestinian Authority, deemed the new law as unethical torture.
He noted that at least 3 political detainee held by Israel have died by the method of force feeding back during the 1980 hunger strikes.
The Israeli Medical Association announced that the new law is not necessary and damaging meanwhile Physicians for Human Rights in Israel called the new law shameful.
The force-feeding law was passed in the Israeli keenest with 46 votes to 40. Palestinian political detainee held by the Israeli army use hunger strike to protest the administrative detention policy Israel uses and the ill-treatment by their captives.
The Israeli army uses administrative detention to hold Palestinians for longer time without charges to trial.
Shortly after Knesset approves law allowing force-feeding of hunger strikers, Israeli Medical Association declares it will challenge it in Supreme Court; Interior Minister Erdan says law is a necessity.
Israel's parliament passed a contentious law on Thursday that would permit the force-feeding of inmates on hunger strike, eliciting harsh criticism over the practice.
The law allows a judge to sanction the force-feeding or administration of medical treatment if there is a threat to the inmate's life, even if the prisoner refuses. It passed with a 46-40 vote in favor – a slender margin in the 120-seat Knesset. The remaining lawmakers were absent from the early morning vote.
While the law applies to all prisoners held in Israeli jails, Palestinian prisoners have used hunger strikes as a tool to draw attention to their detention without trial or charges. Scores of Palestinian inmates have held rounds of hunger strikes over recent years and, with many prisoners hospitalized, their failing health has caused tensions to flare among Palestinians.
Israel fears that a hunger striking prisoner's death could trigger unrest. Israel in the past has acceded to hunger-striking prisoners' demands and at times has released prisoners.
"The law creates the right balance between the state's interest to protect the prisoner's life and his rights and sovereignty over his body," said David Amsalem, a lawmaker with the ruling Likud party who backed the law. He added that the decision whether to force-feed would be made by the state prosecutor, after hearing the inmate's position and a doctor's ruling.
Critics say force-feeding is unethical and amounts to torture. The Israeli Medical Association, which has urged physicians not to cooperate, plans to challenge the law in the Supreme Court.
"Israeli doctors ... will continue to act according to medical ethical norms that completely prohibit doctors from participating in torture and force-feeding amounts to torture," said Leonid Eidelman, the head of the association.
Another group, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, said the law is political, meant to prevent violence sparked by hunger striking prisoners rather than protect the prisoner's dignity and well-being.
Qadura Fares, chairman of the Palestinian Prisoners Society, called the law "ugly" and said it violated the prisoners' right to conduct a hunger strike.
Interior Minister Gilad Erdan said the law was a necessity. "Terrorism is wearing a new face in the last few years," he said.
"Alongside attempts to boycott and delegitimize Israel, hunger strikes by imprisoned terrorists have become a tool used to pressure and threaten Israel and make it release prisoners. The new law allows us to prevent a risk to prisoners' lives and prevent them from applying pressure on the state."
According to Erdan, "the bill was formulated in the context of lengthy hunger strikes by prisoners and security detainees in 2012, which involved complex challenges both medically and in terms of security. The new law will create the required balance between Israel's right to protect its citizens from the phenomenon of hunger-striking prisoners, and its duty to act humanely towards anyone under its protection and to defend the human rights of every human being."
Israel's parliament passed a contentious law on Thursday that would permit the force-feeding of inmates on hunger strike, eliciting harsh criticism over the practice.
The law allows a judge to sanction the force-feeding or administration of medical treatment if there is a threat to the inmate's life, even if the prisoner refuses. It passed with a 46-40 vote in favor – a slender margin in the 120-seat Knesset. The remaining lawmakers were absent from the early morning vote.
While the law applies to all prisoners held in Israeli jails, Palestinian prisoners have used hunger strikes as a tool to draw attention to their detention without trial or charges. Scores of Palestinian inmates have held rounds of hunger strikes over recent years and, with many prisoners hospitalized, their failing health has caused tensions to flare among Palestinians.
Israel fears that a hunger striking prisoner's death could trigger unrest. Israel in the past has acceded to hunger-striking prisoners' demands and at times has released prisoners.
"The law creates the right balance between the state's interest to protect the prisoner's life and his rights and sovereignty over his body," said David Amsalem, a lawmaker with the ruling Likud party who backed the law. He added that the decision whether to force-feed would be made by the state prosecutor, after hearing the inmate's position and a doctor's ruling.
Critics say force-feeding is unethical and amounts to torture. The Israeli Medical Association, which has urged physicians not to cooperate, plans to challenge the law in the Supreme Court.
"Israeli doctors ... will continue to act according to medical ethical norms that completely prohibit doctors from participating in torture and force-feeding amounts to torture," said Leonid Eidelman, the head of the association.
Another group, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, said the law is political, meant to prevent violence sparked by hunger striking prisoners rather than protect the prisoner's dignity and well-being.
Qadura Fares, chairman of the Palestinian Prisoners Society, called the law "ugly" and said it violated the prisoners' right to conduct a hunger strike.
Interior Minister Gilad Erdan said the law was a necessity. "Terrorism is wearing a new face in the last few years," he said.
"Alongside attempts to boycott and delegitimize Israel, hunger strikes by imprisoned terrorists have become a tool used to pressure and threaten Israel and make it release prisoners. The new law allows us to prevent a risk to prisoners' lives and prevent them from applying pressure on the state."
According to Erdan, "the bill was formulated in the context of lengthy hunger strikes by prisoners and security detainees in 2012, which involved complex challenges both medically and in terms of security. The new law will create the required balance between Israel's right to protect its citizens from the phenomenon of hunger-striking prisoners, and its duty to act humanely towards anyone under its protection and to defend the human rights of every human being."
The Israeli occupation police in occupied Jerusalem issued orders barring the entry of two Palestinian women to the Aqsa Mosque for 15 days.
Palestinian media sources said that the police prohibited a Jerusalemite young woman and another one from the 1948 occupied lands from entering the Mosque for about two weeks on charges of chanting religious slogans and obstructing the work of policemen.
The women were detained on Wednesday morning during their presence inside the Mosque and taken for interrogation in a police station in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Over 60 Jewish settlers escorted by policemen desecrated the Aqsa Mosque's courtyards that morning, while dozens of Palestinian children were prevented by the police from entering the Islamic holy place at the time.
Palestinian media sources said that the police prohibited a Jerusalemite young woman and another one from the 1948 occupied lands from entering the Mosque for about two weeks on charges of chanting religious slogans and obstructing the work of policemen.
The women were detained on Wednesday morning during their presence inside the Mosque and taken for interrogation in a police station in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Over 60 Jewish settlers escorted by policemen desecrated the Aqsa Mosque's courtyards that morning, while dozens of Palestinian children were prevented by the police from entering the Islamic holy place at the time.
At least 11 Palestinian citizens were kidnapped at dawn Thursday by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) across the West Bank and Occupied Jerusalem.
The Israeli occupation army claimed responsibility for the abduction of four allegedly-wanted Palestinians, including a Hamas affiliate, following raids across cities of the West Bank.
Local sources said the IOF soldiers rolled in military jeeps into the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem and nabbed three Palestinian youngsters after they scoured their family homes.
Nablus-based sources said the IOF kidnapped the Islamic bloc activist Hamza Bana after they stormed his family home and wreaked havoc on the building.
In a related context, the Israeli army troops stormed al-Khalil at the crack of dawn and blocked the main entrances to the city with military checkpoints.
The IOF patrols were deployed near a mosque; other troops raked through the streets and alleys of the city.
The IOF soldiers further apprehended three Palestinian young men from al-Issawiya town, in Occupied Jerusalem, on allegations of having hurled stones and Molotov Cocktails on policemen and settlers.
According to the Israeli Channel 7, the three captives will be brought before the Magistrate’s Court in Occupied Jerusalem to extend their remand.
The IOF further denied summer campers the right to enter Muslims’ holy al-Aqsa Mosque as part of intents to set the stage for settler break-ins.
The Israeli occupation army claimed responsibility for the abduction of four allegedly-wanted Palestinians, including a Hamas affiliate, following raids across cities of the West Bank.
Local sources said the IOF soldiers rolled in military jeeps into the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem and nabbed three Palestinian youngsters after they scoured their family homes.
Nablus-based sources said the IOF kidnapped the Islamic bloc activist Hamza Bana after they stormed his family home and wreaked havoc on the building.
In a related context, the Israeli army troops stormed al-Khalil at the crack of dawn and blocked the main entrances to the city with military checkpoints.
The IOF patrols were deployed near a mosque; other troops raked through the streets and alleys of the city.
The IOF soldiers further apprehended three Palestinian young men from al-Issawiya town, in Occupied Jerusalem, on allegations of having hurled stones and Molotov Cocktails on policemen and settlers.
According to the Israeli Channel 7, the three captives will be brought before the Magistrate’s Court in Occupied Jerusalem to extend their remand.
The IOF further denied summer campers the right to enter Muslims’ holy al-Aqsa Mosque as part of intents to set the stage for settler break-ins.
Imprisoned Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Ahmad Sa’adat told Addameer’s lawyer Farah Bayadsi that the prisoners in Nafha prison will continue their disobedience measures.
He told the lawyer, who visited him on Wednesday, that the measures including closing the cell blocks, refusing recreation time in the yard, and ending all communication with the prison administration will continue until their demands are met.
The prisoners’ demands include holding meetings between the Israeli prison administration and the chosen prisoners’ representative Alaa Abu Jazar, ceasing the punitive measures that are imposed on the sections, removing prisoners from isolation, and ending all night raids and searches.
Sa’adat told Bayadsi that at 4:00 AM on 27 July 2015, the Massada Unit conducted a surprise raid in Nafha prison in cell number 85, prompting the prisoners to burn the cell down.
A collective decision across all political parties determined that any cells that are raided should be promptly burned down as an act of disobedience and as a protest of the violent and arbitrary raids.
Due to the fire, a number of the prisoners experienced difficulty in breathing, and were then transferred into isolation cells.
Simultaneously, the Massada Unit also raided Section 10 in the same prison. Prisoners testified that they heard screams, loud noises and knocking on the doors. Prisoners in Section 10 were transferred to Section 1 in the same prison.
Sa’adat further stated that he believed this attack on the prisoners in Nafha is part of the mass raids regularly conducted by the occupation forces on the Palestinian people, especially after the formation of the new government earlier this year.
He added that the prison’s administration justified the violent raids by claiming that they wanted to confiscate mobile phones that were near the prison’s perimeter and that would be ultimately transferred to the prisoners. No cell phones have been produced in the raids.
Sa’adat also confirmed that he was not attacked personally, and the attack was on all of the prisoners in Nafha including him.
Addameer said in a press release on Wednesday that the assault is part of the punitive measures imposed by the occupation forces against Palestinian prisoners and detainees, including the harsh punishments during the offensive on Gaza along with the endorsement of discriminatory laws and legislations that violate international law.
According to Addameer’s statistics, there is a marked increase in the number of raids that are carried out by the Israeli prison service’s Special Units. In 2010 there were a total of 120 raids reported by the prisoner’s movement, which rose to 180 annually by 2014.
Addameer believes that these systematic and violent raids are an attempt to break the unity of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement and prevent them from forming a unified position to oppose the daily violation of their human rights.
He told the lawyer, who visited him on Wednesday, that the measures including closing the cell blocks, refusing recreation time in the yard, and ending all communication with the prison administration will continue until their demands are met.
The prisoners’ demands include holding meetings between the Israeli prison administration and the chosen prisoners’ representative Alaa Abu Jazar, ceasing the punitive measures that are imposed on the sections, removing prisoners from isolation, and ending all night raids and searches.
Sa’adat told Bayadsi that at 4:00 AM on 27 July 2015, the Massada Unit conducted a surprise raid in Nafha prison in cell number 85, prompting the prisoners to burn the cell down.
A collective decision across all political parties determined that any cells that are raided should be promptly burned down as an act of disobedience and as a protest of the violent and arbitrary raids.
Due to the fire, a number of the prisoners experienced difficulty in breathing, and were then transferred into isolation cells.
Simultaneously, the Massada Unit also raided Section 10 in the same prison. Prisoners testified that they heard screams, loud noises and knocking on the doors. Prisoners in Section 10 were transferred to Section 1 in the same prison.
Sa’adat further stated that he believed this attack on the prisoners in Nafha is part of the mass raids regularly conducted by the occupation forces on the Palestinian people, especially after the formation of the new government earlier this year.
He added that the prison’s administration justified the violent raids by claiming that they wanted to confiscate mobile phones that were near the prison’s perimeter and that would be ultimately transferred to the prisoners. No cell phones have been produced in the raids.
Sa’adat also confirmed that he was not attacked personally, and the attack was on all of the prisoners in Nafha including him.
Addameer said in a press release on Wednesday that the assault is part of the punitive measures imposed by the occupation forces against Palestinian prisoners and detainees, including the harsh punishments during the offensive on Gaza along with the endorsement of discriminatory laws and legislations that violate international law.
According to Addameer’s statistics, there is a marked increase in the number of raids that are carried out by the Israeli prison service’s Special Units. In 2010 there were a total of 120 raids reported by the prisoner’s movement, which rose to 180 annually by 2014.
Addameer believes that these systematic and violent raids are an attempt to break the unity of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement and prevent them from forming a unified position to oppose the daily violation of their human rights.
Palestinian workmen from the West Bank said that dozens of their coworkers were arrested on Wednesday by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) during raids on areas near the segregation wall and inside the 1948 occupied lands.
The workmen told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that the IOF recently intensified their presence in areas used as infiltration points by workmen who do not hold entry permits to work in Israeli occupied territories.
They added that many other workmen were also arrested during raids on workshops and garages in Haifa and Wadi Ara areas.
However, some workmen managed to escape during those raids and return to the West Bank.
The workmen told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that the IOF recently intensified their presence in areas used as infiltration points by workmen who do not hold entry permits to work in Israeli occupied territories.
They added that many other workmen were also arrested during raids on workshops and garages in Haifa and Wadi Ara areas.
However, some workmen managed to escape during those raids and return to the West Bank.
The Israeli Central Court sentenced two Jerusalemite brothers from Shuafat refugee camp to jail.
Family sources affirmed that Shaban Hamad, 29, was sentenced to four years imprisonment.
Hamad, a father of three children, was arrested more than once and spent two years in custody.
His brother Mohamed, 23, was sentenced to three years in jail. He was previously arrested and served a one year sentence in Israeli jails.
The two brothers were detained in January 2014 on charges of planning to carry out attacks in occupied Jerusalem.
Family sources affirmed that Shaban Hamad, 29, was sentenced to four years imprisonment.
Hamad, a father of three children, was arrested more than once and spent two years in custody.
His brother Mohamed, 23, was sentenced to three years in jail. He was previously arrested and served a one year sentence in Israeli jails.
The two brothers were detained in January 2014 on charges of planning to carry out attacks in occupied Jerusalem.
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, the ‘Aida refugee camp, north of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and kidnapped three young Palestinian men.
Eyewitnesses said several military vehicles invaded the refugee camp, before the soldiers broke into and searched a few homes, and kidnapped three Palestinians.
The kidnapped have been identified as Sabri Darweesh, ‘Atiyya Mohammad Abu ‘Aker and Mos’ab Badawna.
In addition, soldiers also invaded the family home of Laith Nabhan in an attempt to kidnap him, but he wasn't at home during the attack.
Limited clashes took place between the invading soldiers and local youths.
Eyewitnesses said several military vehicles invaded the refugee camp, before the soldiers broke into and searched a few homes, and kidnapped three Palestinians.
The kidnapped have been identified as Sabri Darweesh, ‘Atiyya Mohammad Abu ‘Aker and Mos’ab Badawna.
In addition, soldiers also invaded the family home of Laith Nabhan in an attempt to kidnap him, but he wasn't at home during the attack.
Limited clashes took place between the invading soldiers and local youths.
Undercover Israeli forces have kidnapped, on Wednesday at night, several Palestinian children, after invading their homes in the al-‘Eesawiyya town, in occupied East Jerusalem. Soldiers also clashed with local youths causing injuries.
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan said clashes took place in the town, after the soldiers invaded it and started breaking into homes and searching them.
It added that the soldiers kidnapped several children; three of them have been identified as Amir Mahmoud, 16, Mohammad al-Kiswani and Majd Nasser.
On Wednesday evening, soldiers kidnapped Baha’ Abu al-Hawa, from at-Tour neighborhood on Jerusalem, after stopping him at the Zaim roadblock, east of the city.
The soldiers claimed he “tried to attack them," and started beating him up, before cuffing him, and took him to an interrogation center in the city.
Mohammad abu al-Hummus of the Follow-Up Committee in al-‘Eesawiyya said the clashes mainly took place in the Schools neighborhood, Mahmoud neighborhood and Dari neighborhood, and that undercover Israeli soldiers infiltrated the town and fired rounds of live ammunition.
He added that regular units of the army also fired rubber-coated metal bullets, gas bombs and concussion grenades; several Palestinians suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation.
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan said clashes took place in the town, after the soldiers invaded it and started breaking into homes and searching them.
It added that the soldiers kidnapped several children; three of them have been identified as Amir Mahmoud, 16, Mohammad al-Kiswani and Majd Nasser.
On Wednesday evening, soldiers kidnapped Baha’ Abu al-Hawa, from at-Tour neighborhood on Jerusalem, after stopping him at the Zaim roadblock, east of the city.
The soldiers claimed he “tried to attack them," and started beating him up, before cuffing him, and took him to an interrogation center in the city.
Mohammad abu al-Hummus of the Follow-Up Committee in al-‘Eesawiyya said the clashes mainly took place in the Schools neighborhood, Mahmoud neighborhood and Dari neighborhood, and that undercover Israeli soldiers infiltrated the town and fired rounds of live ammunition.
He added that regular units of the army also fired rubber-coated metal bullets, gas bombs and concussion grenades; several Palestinians suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation.
A Palestinian youth was assaulted by an Israeli soldier as he was crossing Jabara police station to cross into Hebron, for simply wishing the soldier a ‘good day’, the Palestinian detainees and ex-detainees affairs committee reported Wednesday.
The committee said, according to WAFA, that after Naser Jaber, aged 22, got his identity card checked by an Israeli soldier at the police station in order to allow him to cross into Hebron, Jaber wished the soldier a ‘good day’, when the soldier stopped him immediately, asking him, ‘Am I your friend to wish me a good day?’ The soldier then smacked Jaber on his chin and on the back of his head with his riffle, causing him serious cuts and fractures in his chin and jaw, as well as an intensive internal bleeding in his head.
Jaber was then detained and left to bleed for two hours before transferring him to hospital for treatment. He was taken to Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem, where he received medical care. Jaber was then transferred to Etzion Israeli jail in Hebron, however, the prison administration refused to take him due to the severity of his health condition. He was taken back to Jabara police station and back to Etzion jail shortly after.
Jaber told the committee that he has not been provided with any additional treatment despite of his bad condition following the assault; he said that he suffers from severe pain in his head, a high fever, and walking problems.
Incidents of violence by Israeli forces and settlers against Palestinians, including children and women, have regularly been reported, either during Israeli arrest operations, home searches and raids, violent suppression of peaceful demonstrations, or while serving jail sentences in Israeli jails.
Many Palestinians have been injured or shot dead on sight for allegedly committing assaults against Israelis despite the fact that they posed no threat to the lives of soldiers.
In December 2014, a Palestinian woman in her early twenties was shot and seriously injured by the Israeli soldiers who opened fire on her for allegedly stabbing an Israeli settler near Bethlehem.
In April 2015, a youth from the village of al-‘Arqa to the west of Jenin died of critical injuries he sustained after being shot by Israeli forces while he was tending his land near the separation wall. He was identified as Mohammad Morad Yahya, 21.
The committee said, according to WAFA, that after Naser Jaber, aged 22, got his identity card checked by an Israeli soldier at the police station in order to allow him to cross into Hebron, Jaber wished the soldier a ‘good day’, when the soldier stopped him immediately, asking him, ‘Am I your friend to wish me a good day?’ The soldier then smacked Jaber on his chin and on the back of his head with his riffle, causing him serious cuts and fractures in his chin and jaw, as well as an intensive internal bleeding in his head.
Jaber was then detained and left to bleed for two hours before transferring him to hospital for treatment. He was taken to Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem, where he received medical care. Jaber was then transferred to Etzion Israeli jail in Hebron, however, the prison administration refused to take him due to the severity of his health condition. He was taken back to Jabara police station and back to Etzion jail shortly after.
Jaber told the committee that he has not been provided with any additional treatment despite of his bad condition following the assault; he said that he suffers from severe pain in his head, a high fever, and walking problems.
Incidents of violence by Israeli forces and settlers against Palestinians, including children and women, have regularly been reported, either during Israeli arrest operations, home searches and raids, violent suppression of peaceful demonstrations, or while serving jail sentences in Israeli jails.
Many Palestinians have been injured or shot dead on sight for allegedly committing assaults against Israelis despite the fact that they posed no threat to the lives of soldiers.
In December 2014, a Palestinian woman in her early twenties was shot and seriously injured by the Israeli soldiers who opened fire on her for allegedly stabbing an Israeli settler near Bethlehem.
In April 2015, a youth from the village of al-‘Arqa to the west of Jenin died of critical injuries he sustained after being shot by Israeli forces while he was tending his land near the separation wall. He was identified as Mohammad Morad Yahya, 21.
Controversial Israeli right-wing rabbi activist Yehuda Glick was escorted, under armed protection, into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound Wednesday, as groups of right-wing Israelis entered the area for the third time this week.
The raid came despite the UN's condemnation earlier this week of "religious provocations" in and around holy sites in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem.
Sources in the Islamic Endowment Department told Ma'an News Agency that Glick as well as a group of 63 rightists stormed the compound and carried out religious rituals.
Israeli forces were deployed in and around the compound to secure the raid, the department added.
Separately, an Israeli bride and groom attempted to enter the Al-Aqsa Mosque but were prevented by Israeli police, and two Palestinian women were detained as they were leaving the compound.
An Israeli police spokesperson did not immediately respond for comment.
Glick came to prominence for leading groups of rightists into the mosque compound for worship, in contravention of an agreement between Israel and the Islamic endowment since 1967 that prohibits non-Muslim prayer in the compound.
The right-wing activist was barred from the compound in August of 2014 after he attacked a 67-year-old Palestinian woman, Ziva Badarna.
In October last year, Muataz Ibrahim Hijazi, 32, from Silwan attempted to assassinate Glick during a rally in Jerusalem. The suspect was shot dead by Israeli forces during a raid hours after the incident.
An Israeli court granted permission in May for Glick to visit the compound once a month.
This month's visit by Glick came after intense clashes erupted between Palestinian worshipers and Israeli forces at the compound on Monday, resulting in at least eight arrests and several minor injuries.
On Sunday, Israeli forces injured 19 Palestinian guards during clashes inside and around the mosque. Four Israeli police were also inured during clashes.
Al-Aqsa compound director Omar Kiswani said at the time that 70 Israelis had "raided" the compound Sunday afternoon accompanied by 100 to 150 Israeli special forces to secure their entry.
The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, issued a statement shortly after to express concern over "recent incidents and heightened tensions" in and around Jerusalem's holy sites, and to "call upon people on all sides to maintain calm.
Mladenov called on religious and political leaders to "prevent extremist elements from abusing the sanctity of Holy Sites and the different religious sentiments of all people."
Israeli forces frequently enable Israeli Jews to tour the compound despite the state's agreement not to allow non-Muslim prayer in the area following the occupation of East Jerusalem in 1967, considered illegal under international law.
The Al-Aqsa mosque -- the third holiest site in Islam -- has been the location of inflammatory visits by Israeli leadership and worshipers in the past, whose visits signal a threat to Palestinians who hope for occupied East Jerusalem to be the capital of an independent Palestinian state.
Jewish prayer is allowed at the neighboring Western Wall, which is the last remnant of the Second Temple.
The raid came despite the UN's condemnation earlier this week of "religious provocations" in and around holy sites in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem.
Sources in the Islamic Endowment Department told Ma'an News Agency that Glick as well as a group of 63 rightists stormed the compound and carried out religious rituals.
Israeli forces were deployed in and around the compound to secure the raid, the department added.
Separately, an Israeli bride and groom attempted to enter the Al-Aqsa Mosque but were prevented by Israeli police, and two Palestinian women were detained as they were leaving the compound.
An Israeli police spokesperson did not immediately respond for comment.
Glick came to prominence for leading groups of rightists into the mosque compound for worship, in contravention of an agreement between Israel and the Islamic endowment since 1967 that prohibits non-Muslim prayer in the compound.
The right-wing activist was barred from the compound in August of 2014 after he attacked a 67-year-old Palestinian woman, Ziva Badarna.
In October last year, Muataz Ibrahim Hijazi, 32, from Silwan attempted to assassinate Glick during a rally in Jerusalem. The suspect was shot dead by Israeli forces during a raid hours after the incident.
An Israeli court granted permission in May for Glick to visit the compound once a month.
This month's visit by Glick came after intense clashes erupted between Palestinian worshipers and Israeli forces at the compound on Monday, resulting in at least eight arrests and several minor injuries.
On Sunday, Israeli forces injured 19 Palestinian guards during clashes inside and around the mosque. Four Israeli police were also inured during clashes.
Al-Aqsa compound director Omar Kiswani said at the time that 70 Israelis had "raided" the compound Sunday afternoon accompanied by 100 to 150 Israeli special forces to secure their entry.
The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, issued a statement shortly after to express concern over "recent incidents and heightened tensions" in and around Jerusalem's holy sites, and to "call upon people on all sides to maintain calm.
Mladenov called on religious and political leaders to "prevent extremist elements from abusing the sanctity of Holy Sites and the different religious sentiments of all people."
Israeli forces frequently enable Israeli Jews to tour the compound despite the state's agreement not to allow non-Muslim prayer in the area following the occupation of East Jerusalem in 1967, considered illegal under international law.
The Al-Aqsa mosque -- the third holiest site in Islam -- has been the location of inflammatory visits by Israeli leadership and worshipers in the past, whose visits signal a threat to Palestinians who hope for occupied East Jerusalem to be the capital of an independent Palestinian state.
Jewish prayer is allowed at the neighboring Western Wall, which is the last remnant of the Second Temple.
29 july 2015
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Wednesday rolled into al-Khalil’s neighborhood of al-Shyoukh, scoured the family home of prisoner Moussa Halayqa, and kidnapped a 24-year-old youth.
Wife of prisoner Halayqa, also mother of the two detainees Qassam and Majd, said an IOF patrol cordoned off the family home at around 1 a.m. and kept scouring the building for over three hours before they ultimately backtracked.
Halayqa’s 16-year-old son Mohamed was subjected to exhaustive interrogation, a few weeks after a similar break-in by the IOF troops left him wounded on the Eid Day.
The mother added that the Israeli occupation soldiers rummaged into her family home for the sixth time in less than three weeks.
She said the earlier break-ins culminated in the abduction of her two sons and the wounding of another.
Prisoner Halayqa, serving a 22-year prison-term, has been incarcerated in the Israeli occupation jails since 2005.
Meanwhile, an Israeli intelligence unit stormed a lodging housing Palestinian workers in Kafr Kasem area and nabbed the youngster Fahmi Abdullah Halayqa, 24.
Wife of prisoner Halayqa, also mother of the two detainees Qassam and Majd, said an IOF patrol cordoned off the family home at around 1 a.m. and kept scouring the building for over three hours before they ultimately backtracked.
Halayqa’s 16-year-old son Mohamed was subjected to exhaustive interrogation, a few weeks after a similar break-in by the IOF troops left him wounded on the Eid Day.
The mother added that the Israeli occupation soldiers rummaged into her family home for the sixth time in less than three weeks.
She said the earlier break-ins culminated in the abduction of her two sons and the wounding of another.
Prisoner Halayqa, serving a 22-year prison-term, has been incarcerated in the Israeli occupation jails since 2005.
Meanwhile, an Israeli intelligence unit stormed a lodging housing Palestinian workers in Kafr Kasem area and nabbed the youngster Fahmi Abdullah Halayqa, 24.
The Israeli administration of Ramon prison on Tuesday transferred 70 Palestinian prisoners to Ofer jail.
Israeli prison soldiers from the Masada unit used force to evacuate the prisoners from the jail, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society.
The measure was part of recent mass transfers in Israeli jails, especially in Ramon and Ofer prisons.
Israeli prison soldiers from the Masada unit used force to evacuate the prisoners from the jail, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society.
The measure was part of recent mass transfers in Israeli jails, especially in Ramon and Ofer prisons.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Wednesday kidnapped two Palestinian children from Occupied Jerusalem on allegations of hurling stones and Molotov cocktails on Israeli houses in the illegal Ma’ale Hazeetim settlement.
According to Israel’s army radio station, the two kidnapped children are to be brought before the Magistrate’s Court in Occupied Jerusalem to extend their remand pending further investigation into other charges.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Israeli Salem military court sentenced the two Palestinian children Amer Abdul Rahman al-Ba’jawi, 14, and 15-year-old Sanad Khader Masharqa to a four-month prison-term and a three-thousand-shekel fine.
Both Amer and Sanad were kidnapped by the IOF on May 23.
According to Israel’s army radio station, the two kidnapped children are to be brought before the Magistrate’s Court in Occupied Jerusalem to extend their remand pending further investigation into other charges.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Israeli Salem military court sentenced the two Palestinian children Amer Abdul Rahman al-Ba’jawi, 14, and 15-year-old Sanad Khader Masharqa to a four-month prison-term and a three-thousand-shekel fine.
Both Amer and Sanad were kidnapped by the IOF on May 23.
Israeli Occupation Authorities (IOA) extended the detention of seven Jerusalemite youths including two minors on charges of attacking Israeli settlers southeast of occupied Jerusalem.
Israeli police said that seven Jerusalemites including three minors were recently arrested in Silwan town for allegedly attacking a number of settlers near Armon Hanatziv garden in Jabal Mukbar.
The settlers suffered minor and moderate injuries during the alleged attack, Israeli police continued.
Israeli Magistrate’s court extended the seven detainees’ arrest to the end of July.
On the other hand, 11 boys were arrested over the past few days in Issawiya town, in addition to three others in the Old City.
Israeli police said that seven Jerusalemites including three minors were recently arrested in Silwan town for allegedly attacking a number of settlers near Armon Hanatziv garden in Jabal Mukbar.
The settlers suffered minor and moderate injuries during the alleged attack, Israeli police continued.
Israeli Magistrate’s court extended the seven detainees’ arrest to the end of July.
On the other hand, 11 boys were arrested over the past few days in Issawiya town, in addition to three others in the Old City.
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Wednesday, five Palestinians, including two children in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, and two children in occupied East Jerusalem.
Media sources in Hebron said the soldiers have kidnapped two children identified as Bara’ ‘Aref and Ismael Rafat Jaber, in Hebron’s Old City, and resident Yahya Jaber, from the Jaber neighborhood, south of the Ibrahimi Mosque.
Several military vehicles also invaded the al-Mawarda and Raq’a areas, east of Yatta town, and kidnapped Mohammad Khader Basal, 21, after storming is home.
Another Palestinian, identified as Fahmi al-Halayqa, 24, was taken from his work, in occupied Jerusalem, while Israeli soldiers also invaded his family home, in the Shiokh town, north of Hebron.
In Jerusalem, soldiers kidnapped two children, 15 years of age, in Ras al-‘Amoud neighborhood, allegedly after they “hurled a Molotov cocktail on a home in the Ma’ale HaZeitim illegal colony.
Israeli media sources said the two would be sent to the District Court, as the prosecution is demanding extending their interrogation period allegedly for “involvement in former attacks.
Media sources in Hebron said the soldiers have kidnapped two children identified as Bara’ ‘Aref and Ismael Rafat Jaber, in Hebron’s Old City, and resident Yahya Jaber, from the Jaber neighborhood, south of the Ibrahimi Mosque.
Several military vehicles also invaded the al-Mawarda and Raq’a areas, east of Yatta town, and kidnapped Mohammad Khader Basal, 21, after storming is home.
Another Palestinian, identified as Fahmi al-Halayqa, 24, was taken from his work, in occupied Jerusalem, while Israeli soldiers also invaded his family home, in the Shiokh town, north of Hebron.
In Jerusalem, soldiers kidnapped two children, 15 years of age, in Ras al-‘Amoud neighborhood, allegedly after they “hurled a Molotov cocktail on a home in the Ma’ale HaZeitim illegal colony.
Israeli media sources said the two would be sent to the District Court, as the prosecution is demanding extending their interrogation period allegedly for “involvement in former attacks.
Detainee Udai Steiti, who was hospitalized after starting an open-ended hunger strike to protest his administrative detention, has asked for a wheelchair to access the hospital’s toilet, but his request was denied by the Israeli Prison Administration, forcing him to “crawl to the bathroom”.
According to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS), which covers prisoners affairs in Israeli prisons, the health condition of Steiti continues to deteriorate significantly since he first began his strike to end his detention without charge or trial.
PPS said, according to WAFA, that 25-year-old Steiti from the Jenin Refugee camp, who has been on a hunger strike for 41 consecutive days over being detained by the Israeli authorities without indictment or trail, known as administrative detention, is suffering from significant weight loss and severe pain in all body parts, in addition to walking problems.
Meanwhile, prisoner Mohammad Allan from Nablus entered his 44th day in his hunger strike against administrative detention. Allan is just one out of around 400 detainees serving administrative detention in several Israeli jails.
Administrative detention is the imprisonment of Palestinians without charge or trial and on the basis of secret evidence for up to six months, indefinitely renewable by Israeli military courts.
This kind of detention is frequently used when the prison authorities fail to obtain confessions in interrogations of Palestinian detainees.
According to the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, “Israel’s use of administrative detention violates international law; such detention is allowed only in individual circumstances that are exceptionally compelling for “imperative reasons of security.”
Several human rights organizations have blamed Israel for using this kind of detention as a form of collective punishment and mass detention of Palestinians.
Palestinian detainees have continuously resorted to open-ended hunger strikes as a way to protest their illegal administrative detention and to demand an end to this policy which violates international law.
According to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS), which covers prisoners affairs in Israeli prisons, the health condition of Steiti continues to deteriorate significantly since he first began his strike to end his detention without charge or trial.
PPS said, according to WAFA, that 25-year-old Steiti from the Jenin Refugee camp, who has been on a hunger strike for 41 consecutive days over being detained by the Israeli authorities without indictment or trail, known as administrative detention, is suffering from significant weight loss and severe pain in all body parts, in addition to walking problems.
Meanwhile, prisoner Mohammad Allan from Nablus entered his 44th day in his hunger strike against administrative detention. Allan is just one out of around 400 detainees serving administrative detention in several Israeli jails.
Administrative detention is the imprisonment of Palestinians without charge or trial and on the basis of secret evidence for up to six months, indefinitely renewable by Israeli military courts.
This kind of detention is frequently used when the prison authorities fail to obtain confessions in interrogations of Palestinian detainees.
According to the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, “Israel’s use of administrative detention violates international law; such detention is allowed only in individual circumstances that are exceptionally compelling for “imperative reasons of security.”
Several human rights organizations have blamed Israel for using this kind of detention as a form of collective punishment and mass detention of Palestinians.
Palestinian detainees have continuously resorted to open-ended hunger strikes as a way to protest their illegal administrative detention and to demand an end to this policy which violates international law.
