22 july 2020
The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has reported, Wednesday, that the Israeli authorities continue to force a detainee under solitary confinement for the 130th consecutive day, under extremely bad conditions.
The Committee stated that the detainee, Mohammad Omar Kharwat, was forced into solitary confinement instantly after he was moved from Ramon prison to Ayalon-Ramla prison at the end of March.
The detainee, from the southern West Bank city of Hebron, was taken prisoner in the year 2002, and was sentenced to four life terms.
The Committee stated that Israel’s policy of solitary confinement is one of the most severe measures against the detainees, especially since they are forced into these tiny, dirty and dark cells, largely filled with bugs, cockroaches, and insects, for extended periods, which causes various health complications to the detainees.
It added that Israel has escalated the use of solitary confinement against the detainee over the past several years, to humiliate the detainees, in addition to causing them physical and psychological harm.
The Committee stated that the detainee, Mohammad Omar Kharwat, was forced into solitary confinement instantly after he was moved from Ramon prison to Ayalon-Ramla prison at the end of March.
The detainee, from the southern West Bank city of Hebron, was taken prisoner in the year 2002, and was sentenced to four life terms.
The Committee stated that Israel’s policy of solitary confinement is one of the most severe measures against the detainees, especially since they are forced into these tiny, dirty and dark cells, largely filled with bugs, cockroaches, and insects, for extended periods, which causes various health complications to the detainees.
It added that Israel has escalated the use of solitary confinement against the detainee over the past several years, to humiliate the detainees, in addition to causing them physical and psychological harm.
Israeli police today stormed two Palestinian-run cultural centers in the occupied city of Jerusalem and seized document, said local sources.
They said Israeli police and intelligence officers stormed the East Jerusalem residence of Rania Elias, director of Yabous Cultural Center, and Suheil Khoury, director of Edward Said National Conservatory of Music (ESNCM), and escorted them to the center and the conservatory located in the heart of East Jerusalem’s business district, searched them thoroughly, ransacked them and seized records and other documents. video video video
Elias and Khoury were also detained by police.
Police also stormed and ransacked the house of Daoud al-Ghoul, director of Jerusalem Arts Network – Shafaq, which is a network of five Palestinian art centers based in East Jerusalem that includes Yabous, ESNCM, Al-Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art; Palestinian Art Court-Al Hosh, and the Palestinian National Theatre - Al-Hakawati.
The Palestinian Ministry of Culture strongly condemned the Israeli police raid against the cultural centers in Jerusalem and the detention of two of their directors.
“The attack on these institutions is an attack on the Palestinian national culture and cultural heritage,” said the Ministry in a statement.
Israeli police have recently intensified their campaign against all Palestinian institutions and activists in the occupied city, closing most them of them and detaining leaders in an effort to prevent any Palestinian activity in the city.
“First and foremost, ESNCM works in Education. Over a thousand students currently study music on the Academic Programs in the ESNCM’s six branches in Jerusalem, Nablus, Gaza, Ramallah, Bethlehem and the Tchaikovsky Music School. Both Arabic and Western music are taught, and the students receive individual instrumental lessons, theoretical classes and ensemble tuition as well as choir, Arabic percussion and music history,” according to the conservatory’s website.
“Yabous is a non-governmental Palestinian organization based in Jerusalem. Yabous was established in 1995 when a number of artists and culture enthusiasts and entrepreneurs from Jerusalem decided to create a body to adopt the development and patronage of performing arts in Jerusalem,” said the Yabous website.
They said Israeli police and intelligence officers stormed the East Jerusalem residence of Rania Elias, director of Yabous Cultural Center, and Suheil Khoury, director of Edward Said National Conservatory of Music (ESNCM), and escorted them to the center and the conservatory located in the heart of East Jerusalem’s business district, searched them thoroughly, ransacked them and seized records and other documents. video video video
Elias and Khoury were also detained by police.
Police also stormed and ransacked the house of Daoud al-Ghoul, director of Jerusalem Arts Network – Shafaq, which is a network of five Palestinian art centers based in East Jerusalem that includes Yabous, ESNCM, Al-Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art; Palestinian Art Court-Al Hosh, and the Palestinian National Theatre - Al-Hakawati.
The Palestinian Ministry of Culture strongly condemned the Israeli police raid against the cultural centers in Jerusalem and the detention of two of their directors.
“The attack on these institutions is an attack on the Palestinian national culture and cultural heritage,” said the Ministry in a statement.
Israeli police have recently intensified their campaign against all Palestinian institutions and activists in the occupied city, closing most them of them and detaining leaders in an effort to prevent any Palestinian activity in the city.
“First and foremost, ESNCM works in Education. Over a thousand students currently study music on the Academic Programs in the ESNCM’s six branches in Jerusalem, Nablus, Gaza, Ramallah, Bethlehem and the Tchaikovsky Music School. Both Arabic and Western music are taught, and the students receive individual instrumental lessons, theoretical classes and ensemble tuition as well as choir, Arabic percussion and music history,” according to the conservatory’s website.
“Yabous is a non-governmental Palestinian organization based in Jerusalem. Yabous was established in 1995 when a number of artists and culture enthusiasts and entrepreneurs from Jerusalem decided to create a body to adopt the development and patronage of performing arts in Jerusalem,” said the Yabous website.
Israeli forces Wednesday overnight detained at least 14 Palestinians in multiple West Bank raids, local and security sources said.
The sources confirmed that Israeli forces rounded up eight Palestinians after ransacking their houses in multiple raids across Hebron district.
One of the eight detainees was identified as a resident of Yatta town, four others, including a 55-year-old man, were identified as residents of al-Arroub refugee camp, two others as residents of As-Samou‘ town besides to another identified as a resident of Beit Awwa town.
In Ramallah and al-Bireh district, Israeli military vehicles stormed Umm al-Sharayet neighborhood in al-Bireh city, where soldiers rounded up a Palestinian.
Soldiers conducted a similar raid in al-Amari refugee camps, resulting in the detention of another.
Confrontations erupted local youngsters and gun-toting soldiers. No injuries were reported though.
Meanwhile, a resident of al-Jalazone refugee camp, north of Ramallah, was detained after he appeared before the Israeli intelligence.
In Tubas district, Director of the Palestine Prisoner’s Society Office in Tubas Kamal Bani-Odeh confirmed that three Palestinians were rounded up from Tayaseer village, east of the city.
Israeli forces frequently raid Palestinian houses almost on a daily basis across the West Bank on the pretext of searching for “wanted” Palestinians, triggering clashes with residents.
These raids, which take place also in areas under the full control of the Palestinian Authority, are conducted with no need for a search warrant, whenever and wherever the military chooses in keeping with its sweeping arbitrary powers.
According to Palestinian figures, roughly 5,700 Palestinians -- including numerous women and children -- are currently languishing in Israeli detention facilities.
Under Israeli military law army commanders have full executive, legislative and judicial authority over 3 million Palestinians living in the West Bank. Palestinians have no say in how this authority is exercised.
The sources confirmed that Israeli forces rounded up eight Palestinians after ransacking their houses in multiple raids across Hebron district.
One of the eight detainees was identified as a resident of Yatta town, four others, including a 55-year-old man, were identified as residents of al-Arroub refugee camp, two others as residents of As-Samou‘ town besides to another identified as a resident of Beit Awwa town.
In Ramallah and al-Bireh district, Israeli military vehicles stormed Umm al-Sharayet neighborhood in al-Bireh city, where soldiers rounded up a Palestinian.
Soldiers conducted a similar raid in al-Amari refugee camps, resulting in the detention of another.
Confrontations erupted local youngsters and gun-toting soldiers. No injuries were reported though.
Meanwhile, a resident of al-Jalazone refugee camp, north of Ramallah, was detained after he appeared before the Israeli intelligence.
In Tubas district, Director of the Palestine Prisoner’s Society Office in Tubas Kamal Bani-Odeh confirmed that three Palestinians were rounded up from Tayaseer village, east of the city.
Israeli forces frequently raid Palestinian houses almost on a daily basis across the West Bank on the pretext of searching for “wanted” Palestinians, triggering clashes with residents.
These raids, which take place also in areas under the full control of the Palestinian Authority, are conducted with no need for a search warrant, whenever and wherever the military chooses in keeping with its sweeping arbitrary powers.
According to Palestinian figures, roughly 5,700 Palestinians -- including numerous women and children -- are currently languishing in Israeli detention facilities.
Under Israeli military law army commanders have full executive, legislative and judicial authority over 3 million Palestinians living in the West Bank. Palestinians have no say in how this authority is exercised.
21 july 2020
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The detainee was released and was instantly moved to Beit Jala Governmental Hospital, near Bethlehem. His release came after three hearing within one week.
The Israeli military appellate court in Ofer prison, illegally built on Palestinian lands west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, has decided to release a seriously ailing Palestinian detainee and ordered him to pay a bail of 12.000 Shekels (Approximately $3508). Defense attorney Ahlam Haddad stated that the detainee, Nidal Abu ‘Ahour, 46, will be released during the evening hours, Tuesday, and will be directly taken by a Palestinian ambulance to a local hospital. video It is worth mentioning that Nidal suffers from kidney failure, Cancer, serious respiratory issues, and previously had a Kidney translate, in addition to blood issues. |
Abu Ahour was abducted by the soldiers on June 23rd after the soldiers stormed his home in Bethlehem. He is a former political prisoner and a married father of seven and has been held since then without charges.
Israeli forces detained early this morning six Palestinians from the West Bank districts of Bethlehem, Ramallah, and Hebron, including an elderly man and his son, said the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS).
In Bethlehem district, PPS said that Israeli forces raided Beit Jala city where they detained 62-year-old Nicola Rizqallah, and his son, Shibli, 33, two Christian residents, after ransacking their house.
The Israeli military also raided Jalazon refugee camp, north of Ramallah city, where soldiers rounded up three Palestinians.
In Hebron district, soldiers conducted a similar raid in Shuyukh town, northeast of Hebron city, resulting in the detention of a 50-year-old Palestinian.
In Bethlehem district, PPS said that Israeli forces raided Beit Jala city where they detained 62-year-old Nicola Rizqallah, and his son, Shibli, 33, two Christian residents, after ransacking their house.
The Israeli military also raided Jalazon refugee camp, north of Ramallah city, where soldiers rounded up three Palestinians.
In Hebron district, soldiers conducted a similar raid in Shuyukh town, northeast of Hebron city, resulting in the detention of a 50-year-old Palestinian.
The Hamas Movement has said that the Israeli occupation state will never see its captive soldiers except through a prisoner swap deal.
This came in a statement released by Hamas on the sixth anniversary of the Palestinian resistance’s success in capturing Israeli soldier Oron Shaul during the 2014 war on the Gaza Strip.
“Six years ago, our Palestinian people witnessed one of the resistance’s achievements when al-Qassam Brigades was able to capture soldier Shaul Oron in the battle of Asf Makoul,” Hamas spokesman Hazem Qasem said in the statement.
The spokesman stressed that the liberation of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails would remain a top priority for Hamas.
There are at least four Israeli captive soldiers in Gaza, but al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas refuses to provide information about them without Israel releasing all the Palestinians who were rejailed following their release as part of the 2011 swap deal.
This came in a statement released by Hamas on the sixth anniversary of the Palestinian resistance’s success in capturing Israeli soldier Oron Shaul during the 2014 war on the Gaza Strip.
“Six years ago, our Palestinian people witnessed one of the resistance’s achievements when al-Qassam Brigades was able to capture soldier Shaul Oron in the battle of Asf Makoul,” Hamas spokesman Hazem Qasem said in the statement.
The spokesman stressed that the liberation of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails would remain a top priority for Hamas.
There are at least four Israeli captive soldiers in Gaza, but al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas refuses to provide information about them without Israel releasing all the Palestinians who were rejailed following their release as part of the 2011 swap deal.
An Israeli court on Monday sentenced Jordanian detainee Thaer al-Louzi to 19 years in prison.
Asra Media Office said in a statement that an Israeli court sentenced Thaer al-Louzi, 29, to 19 years on charges of attempting to kill Israeli settlers in Umm Al-Rashrash port.
The court also ruled that al-Louzi pays a $73,000 fine as a compensation for the Israeli settlers injured in the alleged attack.
Al-Louzi on 9 July 2020 was convicted of attacking and injuring two Israeli settlers in Umm Al-Rashrash with a hammer after obtaining a permit to work in the city.
According to Israeli reports, al-Louzi in 2018 obtained an Israeli permit to work in Umm Al-Rashrash, which is adjacent to Jordan’s the Gulf of Aqaba, and when he arrived there he started to plan for the attack which he carried out weeks later.
Al-Louzi is one of about 30 Jordanian detainees languishing in Israeli jails.
Asra Media Office said in a statement that an Israeli court sentenced Thaer al-Louzi, 29, to 19 years on charges of attempting to kill Israeli settlers in Umm Al-Rashrash port.
The court also ruled that al-Louzi pays a $73,000 fine as a compensation for the Israeli settlers injured in the alleged attack.
Al-Louzi on 9 July 2020 was convicted of attacking and injuring two Israeli settlers in Umm Al-Rashrash with a hammer after obtaining a permit to work in the city.
According to Israeli reports, al-Louzi in 2018 obtained an Israeli permit to work in Umm Al-Rashrash, which is adjacent to Jordan’s the Gulf of Aqaba, and when he arrived there he started to plan for the attack which he carried out weeks later.
Al-Louzi is one of about 30 Jordanian detainees languishing in Israeli jails.
