26 june 2013
PCHR Asserts its Firm Position Denouncing the Crime of Torture, Demanding Remedy and Justice for Victims and Confirms its Complete Bias to the Victims.
On the Anniversary of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
Today, Wednesday 26th June 2013, is the anniversary of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, an anniversary named by the United Nations to support the victims of torture and to bring their torturers justice.
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) asserts its firm position denouncing the crime of torture, particularly those committed by Israeli forces against Palestinians, knowing that these forces have incarcerated more than 4600 Palestinians, including more than 170 children, in Israeli jails in inhumane conditions.
PCHR calls for an immediate intervention of all responsible and international parties to end these crimes and redress the victims.
PCHR also asserts its condemnation towards the escalating crimes of torture in the prisons and detention centers of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA).
Furthermore, PCHR condemns the continued Israeli practices of physical and psychological torture against Palestinian detainees. In spite of the alleged Israeli denouncement of torture as a method of interrogation, human rights organizations' reports continue to provide evidence that torture is systematically being employed in Israeli jails.
These various methods of torture include shackling "Shabeh," muzzling, beatings, humiliation, medical neglect and sleep deprivation.
An international report, issued by the Committee on the Rights of the Child of the United Nations on 20th June 2013, confirmed that Israel also practices imprisonment and torture against Palestinian children, an act in blatant violation of international law.
In this regard, PCHR emphasizes that Israel is a Contracting Party on international conventions against torture, including the Convention against Torture of 1984, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 1966, which criminalized torture in Article 3 and common Article 3 of the 4 Geneva Conventions, which considers torture as a war crime.
The practices of Israeli authorities against Palestinian prisoners are considered in clear violation of all of these international treaties; this holds the international community responsible for putting an end to these violations.
Unfortunately the crime of torture in Palestinian detention facilities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the past year have also increased.
According to a report issued by PCHR on 20th June 2013 entitled "Torture Crimes in Palestinian Detention Facilities", torture crimes in detention facilities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are committed in a systematic and organized manner.
Data available reflects that the practice of torture is sometimes used as a political conflict tool based on the political split.
The report also highlights that there are cases of torture based on criminal cases as well.
PCHR stresses that the Palestinian Authority (PA) is obliged to put an end to and criminalize torture, even if the PA has not ratified international agreements that criminalize torture so far.
Moreover, article 13 of the Palestinian Basic Law prohibits torture, as such prohibition is considered a binding international rule because it is part of the international customary law.
The PA by its individual will has repeatedly stressed its commitment to the international human rights agreements in different occasions.
This obliges the PA to put an end to and criminalize the crime of torture and prosecute the perpetrators.
PCHR underscores its complete bias to the victims of torture and:
1. Calls upon the international community, contracting parties to agreements that criminalize torture, to fulfill their international responsibilities and obligations and take immediate action in order to put an end to torture and inhumane practices against the Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli jails;
2. Calls upon the two governments in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to promptly end the practice of torture in the PA's detention facilities and prosecute the perpetrators; and
3. Calls upon the government, community-based organizations and donors to pay more attention to rehabilitation programs for torture victims.
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On the Anniversary of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
Today, Wednesday 26th June 2013, is the anniversary of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, an anniversary named by the United Nations to support the victims of torture and to bring their torturers justice.
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) asserts its firm position denouncing the crime of torture, particularly those committed by Israeli forces against Palestinians, knowing that these forces have incarcerated more than 4600 Palestinians, including more than 170 children, in Israeli jails in inhumane conditions.
PCHR calls for an immediate intervention of all responsible and international parties to end these crimes and redress the victims.
PCHR also asserts its condemnation towards the escalating crimes of torture in the prisons and detention centers of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA).
Furthermore, PCHR condemns the continued Israeli practices of physical and psychological torture against Palestinian detainees. In spite of the alleged Israeli denouncement of torture as a method of interrogation, human rights organizations' reports continue to provide evidence that torture is systematically being employed in Israeli jails.
These various methods of torture include shackling "Shabeh," muzzling, beatings, humiliation, medical neglect and sleep deprivation.
An international report, issued by the Committee on the Rights of the Child of the United Nations on 20th June 2013, confirmed that Israel also practices imprisonment and torture against Palestinian children, an act in blatant violation of international law.
In this regard, PCHR emphasizes that Israel is a Contracting Party on international conventions against torture, including the Convention against Torture of 1984, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 1966, which criminalized torture in Article 3 and common Article 3 of the 4 Geneva Conventions, which considers torture as a war crime.
The practices of Israeli authorities against Palestinian prisoners are considered in clear violation of all of these international treaties; this holds the international community responsible for putting an end to these violations.
Unfortunately the crime of torture in Palestinian detention facilities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the past year have also increased.
According to a report issued by PCHR on 20th June 2013 entitled "Torture Crimes in Palestinian Detention Facilities", torture crimes in detention facilities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are committed in a systematic and organized manner.
Data available reflects that the practice of torture is sometimes used as a political conflict tool based on the political split.
The report also highlights that there are cases of torture based on criminal cases as well.
PCHR stresses that the Palestinian Authority (PA) is obliged to put an end to and criminalize torture, even if the PA has not ratified international agreements that criminalize torture so far.
Moreover, article 13 of the Palestinian Basic Law prohibits torture, as such prohibition is considered a binding international rule because it is part of the international customary law.
The PA by its individual will has repeatedly stressed its commitment to the international human rights agreements in different occasions.
This obliges the PA to put an end to and criminalize the crime of torture and prosecute the perpetrators.
PCHR underscores its complete bias to the victims of torture and:
1. Calls upon the international community, contracting parties to agreements that criminalize torture, to fulfill their international responsibilities and obligations and take immediate action in order to put an end to torture and inhumane practices against the Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli jails;
2. Calls upon the two governments in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to promptly end the practice of torture in the PA's detention facilities and prosecute the perpetrators; and
3. Calls upon the government, community-based organizations and donors to pay more attention to rehabilitation programs for torture victims.
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The Israeli authorities released on Wednesday the Jerusalemite prisoner Islam Younes Odeh 23 from Silwan who was prisoned in “Rimon” prison where he spent his two and a half year sentence.
Family members were waiting for Islam outside the prison and welcomed him with warm hugs; he was arrested after being charged with confronting settlers and being active in the scope of Fateh movement. Upon Islam’s arrival to Al-Bustan neighbourhood in Silwan, he was welcomed by the residents of Silwan along with his family and parents who started a march around the whole village and was led by the Scouts. Islam was carried on shoulders and participants raised the Palestinian flags and green and yellow banners. |
They also chanted for the release of prisoners as well as praising the prisoners of Silwan
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) nabbed four Palestinian brothers in Jenin city afternoon Wednesday and combed various suburbs. Local sources said that IOF soldiers aboard about ten armored vehicles raided Kharrouba suburb, north of Jenin city, and rounded up four brothers and took them to an unknown detention center.
They said that the soldiers were deployed in the suburb and blocked traffic on the Jenin-Nazareth road and searched all passing vehicles.
Eyewitnesses said that the IOF soldiers were also deployed in the nearby Sabah Al-Kheir suburb and conducted field interrogation of a number of citizens.
They said that the soldiers were deployed in the suburb and blocked traffic on the Jenin-Nazareth road and searched all passing vehicles.
Eyewitnesses said that the IOF soldiers were also deployed in the nearby Sabah Al-Kheir suburb and conducted field interrogation of a number of citizens.
The Israeli Supreme Court has rejected an appeal submitted by the journalist Osama Hussein Shahin, 31, for the second time without reasons, Palestinian Prisoners Society said. The center confirmed that the court refused the prisoner's appeal and approved its previous order to renew his administrative detention for more 6 additional months.
Shahin was arrested in October 2012 where he was administratively held for 6 months that were extended for 6 additional months.
The journalist prisoner was an activist in prisoners' issue and the director of Palestine Center for Prisoners' Studies. He spent 5 years in Israeli jails. He suffers many health problems most notably asthma.
The center considered Shahin's arrest an Israeli systematic revenge against Palestinian human rights activists who seek to expose Israeli crimes.
Shahin was arrested in October 2012 where he was administratively held for 6 months that were extended for 6 additional months.
The journalist prisoner was an activist in prisoners' issue and the director of Palestine Center for Prisoners' Studies. He spent 5 years in Israeli jails. He suffers many health problems most notably asthma.
The center considered Shahin's arrest an Israeli systematic revenge against Palestinian human rights activists who seek to expose Israeli crimes.
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have surrounded a Palestinian house in Yatta town south of al-Khalil in an attempt to arrest Jamal Mohammed Rab'i, 34, who was recently released from PA jails. A large Israeli force stormed Yatta town and surrounded the house of Mohammed Issa Rab'i, 57, to arrest his son Jamal but he was not at home.
The Israeli forces handed the father a summons for his son to meet with the Israeli Intelligence in Etzion south of Bethlehem.
Jamal Mohammed Rab'i was released a month ago from PA jails, where the officers in Preventive Services have threatened to re-arrest him.
The Israeli forces handed the father a summons for his son to meet with the Israeli Intelligence in Etzion south of Bethlehem.
Jamal Mohammed Rab'i was released a month ago from PA jails, where the officers in Preventive Services have threatened to re-arrest him.
The Tadamun foundation for human rights said that an Israeli jailer in Afula hospital physically assaulted Jordanian hunger striker Abdullah Barghouthi and wounded him. Spokesman for the foundation Ahmed Betawi stated that an Israeli jailer named Lolian Bacieir on Monday brutally beat and kicked prisoner Barghouthi in his face, causing him to bleed from his teeth.
Betawi said that this assault happened after prisoner Barghouthi refused to keep the bathroom door open at the request of the jailer because that was a violation of his privacy.
He added that this jailer also wanted to take revenge on Barghouthi after he filed a complaint a week ago with the high court of justice known as Bagatz about the provocative behavior of this jailer who keep harassing him every time.
For his part, lawyer of the Tadamun foundation Mohamed Al-Abed said that prisoner Barghouthi has been on hunger strike for 56 days and consequently his health condition declined sharply.
He stated that Barghouthi suffers now from serious health problems in his liver and heart because of his long hunger strike.
Betawi said that this assault happened after prisoner Barghouthi refused to keep the bathroom door open at the request of the jailer because that was a violation of his privacy.
He added that this jailer also wanted to take revenge on Barghouthi after he filed a complaint a week ago with the high court of justice known as Bagatz about the provocative behavior of this jailer who keep harassing him every time.
For his part, lawyer of the Tadamun foundation Mohamed Al-Abed said that prisoner Barghouthi has been on hunger strike for 56 days and consequently his health condition declined sharply.
He stated that Barghouthi suffers now from serious health problems in his liver and heart because of his long hunger strike.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnapped on Wednesday six Palestinians during raids on homes in the cities of Al-Khalil, Nablus and Tubas, and clashed with young men. Eyewitnesses said that the IOF kidnapped Mohamed Issah from Al-Aroub refugee camp to the north of Al-Khalil city, and Bahaa Huraibat from Tabaka village to the south after violent raids on their homes.
They also raided Yatta town, south of Al-Khalil and established checkpoints on Halhul bridge in the north and at the entrance to Al-Fawwar refugee camp in the south.
In Nablus, the IOF kidnapped at dawn two Palestinian citizens named Ra'fat Aliwi and Fares Mahloub, and raided homes in the northern mountain area and Al-Marij street in Rafidia neighborhood.
In Tubas city, two other young citizens, Fares Sawalma and Hakam Dagish, were taken prisoners after ransacking their homes.
A military force of Israeli troops also launched at dawn a campaign in Al-Khader town near Bethlehem, during which they forced a number of Palestinian young men to stand up against the walls, searched them and checked their IDs without no reported arrests.
They also raided Yatta town, south of Al-Khalil and established checkpoints on Halhul bridge in the north and at the entrance to Al-Fawwar refugee camp in the south.
In Nablus, the IOF kidnapped at dawn two Palestinian citizens named Ra'fat Aliwi and Fares Mahloub, and raided homes in the northern mountain area and Al-Marij street in Rafidia neighborhood.
In Tubas city, two other young citizens, Fares Sawalma and Hakam Dagish, were taken prisoners after ransacking their homes.
A military force of Israeli troops also launched at dawn a campaign in Al-Khader town near Bethlehem, during which they forced a number of Palestinian young men to stand up against the walls, searched them and checked their IDs without no reported arrests.
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested a Palestinian university student north of Al-Khalil on Wednesday afternoon. Local sources said that IOF soldiers set up a roadblock on the Halhul bridge and searched taxicabs and forced all passengers out for search.
They said that the soldiers ordered Abdulrahman Abu Tafesh, 21, out of one of those cars and shackled both his hands and feet and blindfolded him before taking him away.
They said that the soldiers ordered Abdulrahman Abu Tafesh, 21, out of one of those cars and shackled both his hands and feet and blindfolded him before taking him away.
Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said that operation Al-Wahem Al-Mutabaded (vanishing illusion) that resulted in the capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit would not be last one and would be followed by others in order to release all Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails. In a televised statement on the anniversary of the operation, spokesman for the Brigades Abu Obeida said that the Palestinian people in Gaza contributed to the success of the operation.
Spokesman Abu Obeida stated that this operation was a message to the prisoners that the Palestinian resistance would never forsake them and would launch other operations to capture more Israeli soldiers.
Al-Qassam Brigades carried out this special operation in cooperation with Salahuddin Brigades and the Islamic Army on June 25, 2006 when resistance fighters stormed an Israeli military post to the east of Rafah area in south Gaza.
During this commando raid, the resistance fighters were able to kill two Israeli soldiers, wound six others and capture another. However, two resistance fighters were martyred.
Five years later, indirect talks between the Palestinian resistance in Gaza and the Israeli regime were culminated in the release of 1,027 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for one Israeli soldier.
Spokesman Abu Obeida stated that this operation was a message to the prisoners that the Palestinian resistance would never forsake them and would launch other operations to capture more Israeli soldiers.
Al-Qassam Brigades carried out this special operation in cooperation with Salahuddin Brigades and the Islamic Army on June 25, 2006 when resistance fighters stormed an Israeli military post to the east of Rafah area in south Gaza.
During this commando raid, the resistance fighters were able to kill two Israeli soldiers, wound six others and capture another. However, two resistance fighters were martyred.
Five years later, indirect talks between the Palestinian resistance in Gaza and the Israeli regime were culminated in the release of 1,027 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for one Israeli soldier.
Israeli forces have raided several Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank, detaining 10 Palestinians.
Most of the Palestinians were arrested on Tuesday in and around the occupied cities of al-Khalil (Hebron) and Nablus for alleged illegal activities.
Local sources said the detainees were transferred to Israeli interrogation centers.
In May, Israeli forces similarly arrested Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem allegedly on charges of carrying knives in the vicinity of an Israeli settlement.
Israel occupied the West Bank as well as East al-Quds (Jerusalem), which Palestinians consider the capital of their homeland, during the Six-Day War in 1967.
The Israeli military regularly raids Palestinians' houses in the West Bank arresting activists and civilians, mostly without any charges. Many Palestinians remain under detention in Israeli prisons, where they are given minimal access to their basic rights.
Many of the inmates are under so-called administrative detention.
The administrative detention, often implemented by the Israeli regime against the Palestinian population, is a sort of imprisonment without trial or charges, allowing regime forces to make arrests without formal charges for up to six months. However, the detention order can be renewed for indefinite periods of time.
Palestinian prisoners have been subject to human rights violations such as torture during interrogations by Israeli prison authorities.
Most of the Palestinians were arrested on Tuesday in and around the occupied cities of al-Khalil (Hebron) and Nablus for alleged illegal activities.
Local sources said the detainees were transferred to Israeli interrogation centers.
In May, Israeli forces similarly arrested Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem allegedly on charges of carrying knives in the vicinity of an Israeli settlement.
Israel occupied the West Bank as well as East al-Quds (Jerusalem), which Palestinians consider the capital of their homeland, during the Six-Day War in 1967.
The Israeli military regularly raids Palestinians' houses in the West Bank arresting activists and civilians, mostly without any charges. Many Palestinians remain under detention in Israeli prisons, where they are given minimal access to their basic rights.
Many of the inmates are under so-called administrative detention.
The administrative detention, often implemented by the Israeli regime against the Palestinian population, is a sort of imprisonment without trial or charges, allowing regime forces to make arrests without formal charges for up to six months. However, the detention order can be renewed for indefinite periods of time.
Palestinian prisoners have been subject to human rights violations such as torture during interrogations by Israeli prison authorities.
The Israeli military court in Salem base extended on Wednesday the detention of two Palestinian children for the fifth time. The court extended the remand of Yazid Abul Ruub and Ibrahim Abul Ruub, both 15 years old, till 27th August after turning down their lawyer’s request for their release.
Both children, from Jalbon village to the east of Jenin, were detained three months ago.
Omar, Yazid’s father, said that he was concerned about the incarceration conditions of his son since he was still a little boy.
He said that his son complained to him during a recent visit of the incarceration conditions. He demanded the immediate release of his son and all other detained minors in Israeli jails.
Both children, from Jalbon village to the east of Jenin, were detained three months ago.
Omar, Yazid’s father, said that he was concerned about the incarceration conditions of his son since he was still a little boy.
He said that his son complained to him during a recent visit of the incarceration conditions. He demanded the immediate release of his son and all other detained minors in Israeli jails.
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) rounded up 130 Palestinian workers in Barta’a Al-Sharqiya village behind the racist, separation wall to the west of Jenin on Wednesday and took them to Salem military base. Local sources and eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter that the soldiers were picking up workers from streets at random then carry them in army jeeps to Salem base.
The soldiers broke into dozens of homes in the village and bullied their owners and arrested workers. The soldiers also raided the local market and stormed more than 60 shops and searched them.
Walid Qabaha, an activist in the village, told the PIC reporter that more than 2000 workers from the West Bank work in his village’s old and new markets.
He charged the Israeli occupation authority with attempting to destroy the village and force the emigration of its inhabitants through destroying its commercial activity and that is why the soldiers chase the workers at the pretext of not having permits to work in Barta’a.
The soldiers broke into dozens of homes in the village and bullied their owners and arrested workers. The soldiers also raided the local market and stormed more than 60 shops and searched them.
Walid Qabaha, an activist in the village, told the PIC reporter that more than 2000 workers from the West Bank work in his village’s old and new markets.
He charged the Israeli occupation authority with attempting to destroy the village and force the emigration of its inhabitants through destroying its commercial activity and that is why the soldiers chase the workers at the pretext of not having permits to work in Barta’a.
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A Palestinian man was convicted Tuesday in a Jerusalem court of meeting with members of the Hezbollah resistance group in Lebanon, after initially facing more serious charges and then accepting a plea bargain in which he plead guilty to lesser charges.
Assam Mashahara went to Lebanon last year where, according to the indictment, he visited a neighborhood known to be a Hezbollah stronghold and asked around for representatives of the organization. According to the charges, he asked a guard at the cemetery he visited, where a former Hezbollah leader was buried, for a contact with the organization, and was led to a Hezbollah representative who asked him to point out the locations of various sites in Jerusalem from an aerial map.
The Israeli court did not reveal their source for the information about Mashahara's trip to Lebanon.
Hezbollah is a Lebanese political party and armed resistance group led by Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, which has twice defeated Israeli invasions of southern Lebanon, in 2000 and 2006. Recently, the Israeli government has challenged Hezbollah's support of Bashar al-Assad in Syria. al-Assad has fought for two years against rebel forces attempting to overthrow his government. Israel supports the overthrow of al-Assad, and has, in recent months, dropped missiles on Syrian military sites.
According to the indictment, Mashahara was provided with passwords to encrypted Hezbollah websites after meeting with the party's representatives for the first time as a stranger in Lebanon.
The prosecutor has not yet put forward the possible prison sentence that Mashahara will face for the charges of meeting with a Hezbollah operative and conspiring to pass information to the enemy.
A Palestinian man was convicted Tuesday in a Jerusalem court of meeting with members of the Hezbollah resistance group in Lebanon, after initially facing more serious charges and then accepting a plea bargain in which he plead guilty to lesser charges.
Assam Mashahara went to Lebanon last year where, according to the indictment, he visited a neighborhood known to be a Hezbollah stronghold and asked around for representatives of the organization. According to the charges, he asked a guard at the cemetery he visited, where a former Hezbollah leader was buried, for a contact with the organization, and was led to a Hezbollah representative who asked him to point out the locations of various sites in Jerusalem from an aerial map.
The Israeli court did not reveal their source for the information about Mashahara's trip to Lebanon.
Hezbollah is a Lebanese political party and armed resistance group led by Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, which has twice defeated Israeli invasions of southern Lebanon, in 2000 and 2006. Recently, the Israeli government has challenged Hezbollah's support of Bashar al-Assad in Syria. al-Assad has fought for two years against rebel forces attempting to overthrow his government. Israel supports the overthrow of al-Assad, and has, in recent months, dropped missiles on Syrian military sites.
According to the indictment, Mashahara was provided with passwords to encrypted Hezbollah websites after meeting with the party's representatives for the first time as a stranger in Lebanon.
The prosecutor has not yet put forward the possible prison sentence that Mashahara will face for the charges of meeting with a Hezbollah operative and conspiring to pass information to the enemy.
25 june 2013
Palestinian prisoner Awad Al-Saidi has gone on an open-ended hunger strike protesting his solitary confinement, Fuad Al-Khafsh, director of Ahrar center for prisoners’’ studies and human rights, said. Khafsh said in a statement on Tuesday that Saidi has been on hunger strike for the second day demanding an end to his isolation, adding that he would only end his strike outside his isolation cell.
He said that Saidi was held in isolation after he retaliated to the Israeli jailors’ attack on detained Hamas leader Abbas Assayed by hitting an Israeli soldier in March 2012 and he has been in isolation since then.
Khafsh asked human rights groups to back Saidi’s case, adding that Saidi turned down an Israeli offer to stop his strike in return for ending his isolation within two weeks.
He said that Saidi was held in isolation after he retaliated to the Israeli jailors’ attack on detained Hamas leader Abbas Assayed by hitting an Israeli soldier in March 2012 and he has been in isolation since then.
Khafsh asked human rights groups to back Saidi’s case, adding that Saidi turned down an Israeli offer to stop his strike in return for ending his isolation within two weeks.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed at dawn Tuesday the cities of Nablus, Ramallah and Bireh, and kidnapped eight Palestinian citizens from their homes. Local sources in Nablus reported that four citizens were kidnapped from their homes in the city and were taken to the military post of Hawara.
The IOF also raided Salfit city at dawn and handed ex-detainees from Hamas summonses for interrogation from the Israeli intelligence.
Meanwhile, four other Palestinians were taken prisoners during violent raids on homes in different areas in the cities of Bireh and Ramallah.
In a separate incident, night clashes broke out between Jerusalemite young men and Israeli soldiers in Eizariya town east of Jerusalem after the former tried to make a hole in the segregation wall in Ras Qabsa area. Several injuries were reported among the young men.
The IOF also raided Salfit city at dawn and handed ex-detainees from Hamas summonses for interrogation from the Israeli intelligence.
Meanwhile, four other Palestinians were taken prisoners during violent raids on homes in different areas in the cities of Bireh and Ramallah.
In a separate incident, night clashes broke out between Jerusalemite young men and Israeli soldiers in Eizariya town east of Jerusalem after the former tried to make a hole in the segregation wall in Ras Qabsa area. Several injuries were reported among the young men.
Palestinian captives Ayman Etbish and Adel Hribat, from Dura, south of al-Khalil, entered on Tuesday their 33rd day of hunger strike. Haribat family told PIC that the prisoner Adel has continued his hunger strike in rejection of the administrative detention, under which he served several years, despite the deterioration of his health condition.
The family added that he has been exposed to pressures by Israeli jailers and intelligence elements, in an attempt to dissuade him from continuing his strike.
For his part, hunger striking captive Ayman Etbish said he will not stop his strike until regaining his freedom.
The two administrative detainees started to refuse food on 23 May.
The family added that he has been exposed to pressures by Israeli jailers and intelligence elements, in an attempt to dissuade him from continuing his strike.
For his part, hunger striking captive Ayman Etbish said he will not stop his strike until regaining his freedom.
The two administrative detainees started to refuse food on 23 May.
The Israeli District Court guards have physically assaulted Monday the family of the prisoner Mohamed Moussa Odeh during his trial. The guards' attack came following the court's decision to imprison Odeh, 25, for 27 months.
The prisoner's father stated that 15 of the court’s guards have brutally assaulted his son Ibrahim Odeh, 22, once he talked to his brother behind bars, causing him different injuries and bleeding. He was then taken handcuffed to Salah al-Din police station.
The guards also attacked all the family members who were in the courtroom, in addition to another young man Said Sarhan, 25, who was also taken to the police station.
In the police station, Ibrahim and Said were threatened in case they complain against the guards who attacked them, the father said.
He said that Said was transferred to a clinic in Silwan for treatment, while Ibrahim has received treatment in Hadassah Ein Karem hospital.
In the same context, the court renewed the detention of the prisoner Mohammed Badr, 26, to November 17, 2013 and the prisoner Mohamed Khalaf Odeh, 35, till July 11.
The District court has also renewed the detention of 3 other prisoners to September 12, 2013 although they were arrested since 4 months.
The detention of the Palestinian minor Amin Mohamed Abu Sanad, 16, was extended to July 8, 2013. He was arrested 7 months ago.
The prisoner's father stated that 15 of the court’s guards have brutally assaulted his son Ibrahim Odeh, 22, once he talked to his brother behind bars, causing him different injuries and bleeding. He was then taken handcuffed to Salah al-Din police station.
The guards also attacked all the family members who were in the courtroom, in addition to another young man Said Sarhan, 25, who was also taken to the police station.
In the police station, Ibrahim and Said were threatened in case they complain against the guards who attacked them, the father said.
He said that Said was transferred to a clinic in Silwan for treatment, while Ibrahim has received treatment in Hadassah Ein Karem hospital.
In the same context, the court renewed the detention of the prisoner Mohammed Badr, 26, to November 17, 2013 and the prisoner Mohamed Khalaf Odeh, 35, till July 11.
The District court has also renewed the detention of 3 other prisoners to September 12, 2013 although they were arrested since 4 months.
The detention of the Palestinian minor Amin Mohamed Abu Sanad, 16, was extended to July 8, 2013. He was arrested 7 months ago.
The Palestinian prisoner Ahmad Issa Hamdan, from Bethlehem, declared an open hunger strike in solidarity with his brother who went on hunger strike since 2 months. The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) confirmed that Ahmad Issa Hamdan, 24, went on hunger strike in solidarity with his brother Ayman Hamdan who declared his hunger strike since April 28 protesting his continued administrative detention (without charge or trial).
PPS stated that the declaration of the administrative detainee Ahmad Hamdan's hunger strike brought the number of the hunger strikers in Israeli jails to 24 captives.
Meanwhile, Ahrar Center for Prisoners Studies and Human Rights stated that Palestinian detainees particularly in Ramon and Beersheba prisons are daily subjected to search operations and repressive practices by Israel Prison Services (IPS).
Families of the Palestinian detainees in Ramon and Beersheba prisons told the center that their sons are daily subjected to provocative and sudden searching operations, causing tensions among the prisoners.
For his part, Fouad Khuffash the director of the center pointed out to the Israel Prison Service Special Units that carry out provocative inspection raids into the prisoners' wards, damaging and confiscating their personal belongings.
The prisoners threatened to start escalatory steps in light the Israeli brutal inspections and attacks, demanding an end to administrative detention, the Israeli deliberate medical negligence, and the Jordanian prisoners' hunger strike, the center added.
It is worth mentioning that the IPS still blocks the entry of clothes into prisons and prevents Palestinian prisoners, mainly those in solitary confinement, from family visits.
PPS stated that the declaration of the administrative detainee Ahmad Hamdan's hunger strike brought the number of the hunger strikers in Israeli jails to 24 captives.
Meanwhile, Ahrar Center for Prisoners Studies and Human Rights stated that Palestinian detainees particularly in Ramon and Beersheba prisons are daily subjected to search operations and repressive practices by Israel Prison Services (IPS).
Families of the Palestinian detainees in Ramon and Beersheba prisons told the center that their sons are daily subjected to provocative and sudden searching operations, causing tensions among the prisoners.
For his part, Fouad Khuffash the director of the center pointed out to the Israel Prison Service Special Units that carry out provocative inspection raids into the prisoners' wards, damaging and confiscating their personal belongings.
The prisoners threatened to start escalatory steps in light the Israeli brutal inspections and attacks, demanding an end to administrative detention, the Israeli deliberate medical negligence, and the Jordanian prisoners' hunger strike, the center added.
It is worth mentioning that the IPS still blocks the entry of clothes into prisons and prevents Palestinian prisoners, mainly those in solitary confinement, from family visits.
The Israeli occupation authorities renewed the administrative detention, without trial or charge, of Ibrahim Suwaiti, 35, for six months. Fuad Al-Khuffash, the director of Ahrar center for prisoners’ studies and human rights, said that Suwaiti, from Al-Khalil, was held in administrative custody as soon as he was arrested on 8/6/2012. He said that the IOA always claim that there is a secret file against him to justify his continued incarceration.
Khuffash said that the IOA is adamant on retaining Suwaiti in captivity despite his health condition. He added that Suwaiti suffers from chest pain and difficulty in breathing and is frequently transferred to hospital.
Suwaiti, a father of two children, was previously held in Israeli occupation jails for three consecutive years and in administrative detention for 27 months.
Khuffash said that the IOA is adamant on retaining Suwaiti in captivity despite his health condition. He added that Suwaiti suffers from chest pain and difficulty in breathing and is frequently transferred to hospital.
Suwaiti, a father of two children, was previously held in Israeli occupation jails for three consecutive years and in administrative detention for 27 months.
The Palestinian prisoner’s society said that seven Palestinian prisoners are still held in isolation in the Israeli Eshel jail. Lawyer of the society said after visiting one of the isolated prisoners, Awad Al-Saidi, that conditions of those prisoners are very difficult.
He said that the prison administration was holding them in a homicide ward in rooms filled with cockroaches.
The prisoner complained of the bad quality of meals in addition to backtracking on earlier promises to end their solitary confinement.
The lawyer also visited Dirar Abu Sisi, who has been held in isolation since his arrest in 2011. He said that Abu Sisi was suffering from health problems.
The lawyer quoted Abu Sisi as saying that his cell was like a grave as he did not see a human being since his arrest except the jailors and knew nothing about the outside world.
Abu Sisi called for immediate action to end his isolation and that of the other prisoners the soonest.
A third isolated prisoner, Mahmoud Zahran, told the lawyer that the prison administration extended his isolation in absentia and he is to attend another hearing on 2/10/2013.
He said that the prison administration was holding them in a homicide ward in rooms filled with cockroaches.
The prisoner complained of the bad quality of meals in addition to backtracking on earlier promises to end their solitary confinement.
The lawyer also visited Dirar Abu Sisi, who has been held in isolation since his arrest in 2011. He said that Abu Sisi was suffering from health problems.
The lawyer quoted Abu Sisi as saying that his cell was like a grave as he did not see a human being since his arrest except the jailors and knew nothing about the outside world.
Abu Sisi called for immediate action to end his isolation and that of the other prisoners the soonest.
A third isolated prisoner, Mahmoud Zahran, told the lawyer that the prison administration extended his isolation in absentia and he is to attend another hearing on 2/10/2013.
A group of Israeli journalists condemned the detention of two Palestine TV journalists covering clashes in the Kafr Qaddum village in Qalqiliya on Friday, a statement issued Tuesday read.
Israeli Journalists for Palestinian Issues said Israeli forces must treat journalists as "neutral" and should not expose them to risk of shooting or assault.
"We are covering the Palestinian issue from all sides. We respect journalism and journalists should be treated with respect, kept far from assaults, regardless of politics," the statement read.
Israeli forces detained Palestine TV reporter Ahmad Shawr and cameraman Bashar Nazzal after damaging their camera and preventing them from covering the weekly march in Kafr Qaddum.
Three people were injured by rubber-coated steel bullets in clashes with Israeli forces during the protests.
The group of 14 TV, online and radio journalists from Israel described the Israeli army's response as "brutal."
Israeli Journalists for Palestinian Issues said Israeli forces must treat journalists as "neutral" and should not expose them to risk of shooting or assault.
"We are covering the Palestinian issue from all sides. We respect journalism and journalists should be treated with respect, kept far from assaults, regardless of politics," the statement read.
Israeli forces detained Palestine TV reporter Ahmad Shawr and cameraman Bashar Nazzal after damaging their camera and preventing them from covering the weekly march in Kafr Qaddum.
Three people were injured by rubber-coated steel bullets in clashes with Israeli forces during the protests.
The group of 14 TV, online and radio journalists from Israel described the Israeli army's response as "brutal."
Israeli forces detained four Palestinians across the Nablus district in the northern West Bank on Tuesday at dawn, locals told Ma'an.
Locals said Zahi Mansour, 35, and his brother Nihad, 37, were detained in the Qufer Qalil village in Nablus, as well as Thabet Mansour, 21.
Israeli forces raided the Qufer Qalil village ahead of the detentions, locals said, as well as the Balata refugee camp, where no detentions were reported.
Juma Ahmad was detained by Israeli forces in Nablus City.
Locals said Zahi Mansour, 35, and his brother Nihad, 37, were detained in the Qufer Qalil village in Nablus, as well as Thabet Mansour, 21.
Israeli forces raided the Qufer Qalil village ahead of the detentions, locals said, as well as the Balata refugee camp, where no detentions were reported.
Juma Ahmad was detained by Israeli forces in Nablus City.
A member of the Hamas movement has marked 10 years in Israeli detention, the Detainees' Center said Tuesday.
Nizar Sedar, 29, from the southern West Bank district of Hebron was charged with affiliation to the Islamist movement and it's military wing the Al-Qassam Brigades, a statement issued by the center read.
The Detainees Center said Seder had been "harshly investigated" and was sentenced to 12 years, after being detained in June 2003.
Seder is meant to undergo surgery soon, the center added.
The detainee has spent his time in jail learning Hebrew and studying, the center added.
Nizar Sedar, 29, from the southern West Bank district of Hebron was charged with affiliation to the Islamist movement and it's military wing the Al-Qassam Brigades, a statement issued by the center read.
The Detainees Center said Seder had been "harshly investigated" and was sentenced to 12 years, after being detained in June 2003.
Seder is meant to undergo surgery soon, the center added.
The detainee has spent his time in jail learning Hebrew and studying, the center added.
Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Monday evening [June 24 2013] two Palestinian children in the Al-Ram town, north of occupied East Jerusalem.
Local sources have reported that dozens of soldiers invaded the town, and clashed with local youths who hurled stones at them.
The sources added that the army kidnapped two children identified as Tareq Dweik and Yazan Az-Zaro.
The army claimed that the invasion was carried out after Molotov cocktails were thrown at a military jeep parked near the entrance of the town.
Soldiers then invading the area and fired dozens of concussion grenades, gas bombs and rubber-coated metal bullets.
Local sources have reported that dozens of soldiers invaded the town, and clashed with local youths who hurled stones at them.
The sources added that the army kidnapped two children identified as Tareq Dweik and Yazan Az-Zaro.
The army claimed that the invasion was carried out after Molotov cocktails were thrown at a military jeep parked near the entrance of the town.
Soldiers then invading the area and fired dozens of concussion grenades, gas bombs and rubber-coated metal bullets.
Rateb Jabour, coordinator of the Popular Committee Against the Wall in in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, have reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped [Monday June 24] two Palestinians near Yatta town, after clashing with settlers who attacked a number of local shepherds.
Jabour said that a number of extremist settlers attacked local shepherds in Ein Al-Baida area, close to Karmiel illegal settlement, and added that the settlers tried to push the Palestinian shepherds out of a gazing area.
He added that dozens of soldiers arrived at the scene, attacked the shepherds, kidnapped two identified as Ahmad Mohammad Abu Hmeid, 18, and Nassar Ali Abu Hmeid, 17, and took them to an unknown destination.
Jabour demanded national and international human rights groups to intervene and stop the ongoing Israeli military escalation, and the escalating violence carried out by extremist Israeli settlers against the Palestinians, their lands and their property.
Jabour said that a number of extremist settlers attacked local shepherds in Ein Al-Baida area, close to Karmiel illegal settlement, and added that the settlers tried to push the Palestinian shepherds out of a gazing area.
He added that dozens of soldiers arrived at the scene, attacked the shepherds, kidnapped two identified as Ahmad Mohammad Abu Hmeid, 18, and Nassar Ali Abu Hmeid, 17, and took them to an unknown destination.
Jabour demanded national and international human rights groups to intervene and stop the ongoing Israeli military escalation, and the escalating violence carried out by extremist Israeli settlers against the Palestinians, their lands and their property.
24 june 2013
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The District court guards attacked on Monday afternoon the family of prisoner Mohammad Mousa Odeh and severely beat them while they were in court, which led to the injury of Mohammad’s brother, Ibrahim, and Saeed Sarhan with wounds and bruises and they were transported for treatment.
This was all after the court had sentenced Mohammad Odeh for 27months in prison; note that he was arrested on the 27th of January, 2013. Sheikh Mousa Odeh, Mohammad’s father, said his youngest son, Muslim, went to talk to his brother after the court had issued its order and we were surprised when the guards started attacking and severely beating us. |
He added: “Around fifteen guards attacked my son Ibrahim 22, with their legs and hands and using the gas bottles on his head and face resulting in a cut in his face causing him to bleed; they also knocked him on the ground and handcuffed him and took to Salah Eddin Street police station. The guards also attacked Saeed Sarhan 25, injuring him with wounds and bruises and then took him to the police station; the guards pushed the family members outside the court room.”
He continued: “When the police at the station seen Ibrahim and Saeed, they warned them not to file a claim against the guards that assaulted them, and then released them. I took them to a clinic in Silwan, and the doctor treated Saeed but had to transfer Ibrahim to Hadassah Ein Kerem for treatment.”
He noted: “few hours after Ibrahim was in the emergency room and the doctors were performing medical checks and x-rays on his head and face, the doctor said that he was injured with bruises and wounds in his head and face and that he had to rest for a few days at home.”
Two other detainees were presented to court with Mohammad Odeh and they are: Mohammad Bader 26 and his arrest has been extended until the 17th of November, and Mohammad Khalaf Odeh 35, where he will be detained until the 11th of July, 2013.
The District court had also extended the arrest of Khaled Shweiki 33 and Mohammad Amin Abbasi 33 until the 12th of September, 2013; note that they were arrested almost 4 months ago.
The court also extended the arrest of the minor Khalil Amin Mohammad Abu Sand 16 until the 8th of July, 2013; he was arrested 7 months ago and is currently being prisoned in “Hasharon” prison.
He continued: “When the police at the station seen Ibrahim and Saeed, they warned them not to file a claim against the guards that assaulted them, and then released them. I took them to a clinic in Silwan, and the doctor treated Saeed but had to transfer Ibrahim to Hadassah Ein Kerem for treatment.”
He noted: “few hours after Ibrahim was in the emergency room and the doctors were performing medical checks and x-rays on his head and face, the doctor said that he was injured with bruises and wounds in his head and face and that he had to rest for a few days at home.”
Two other detainees were presented to court with Mohammad Odeh and they are: Mohammad Bader 26 and his arrest has been extended until the 17th of November, and Mohammad Khalaf Odeh 35, where he will be detained until the 11th of July, 2013.
The District court had also extended the arrest of Khaled Shweiki 33 and Mohammad Amin Abbasi 33 until the 12th of September, 2013; note that they were arrested almost 4 months ago.
The court also extended the arrest of the minor Khalil Amin Mohammad Abu Sand 16 until the 8th of July, 2013; he was arrested 7 months ago and is currently being prisoned in “Hasharon” prison.
Special Israeli army forces stormed the city of Nablus at dawn Monday and broke into many suburbs before kidnapping two Palestinian young men. Local sources said that special forces sneaked into the Old City of Nablus at 0200 am followed by regular army troops.
Eyewitnesses said that the IOF soldiers launched a large-scale storming operation of many suburbs and searched dozens of homes.
They said that the soldiers arrested Fadi Abu Sharkh and Muntaser Akkuba and took them to an unknown detention center.
Fadi is the son of martyr Nayef Abu Sharkh the commander of the Aqsa Brigades in Nablus, who was assassinated by the IOF forces in Nablus in 2004 along with a group of resistance fighters from the Qassam Brigades, Aqsa Brigades, Quds Brigades, and National Resistance Brigades.
Eyewitnesses said that the IOF soldiers launched a large-scale storming operation of many suburbs and searched dozens of homes.
They said that the soldiers arrested Fadi Abu Sharkh and Muntaser Akkuba and took them to an unknown detention center.
Fadi is the son of martyr Nayef Abu Sharkh the commander of the Aqsa Brigades in Nablus, who was assassinated by the IOF forces in Nablus in 2004 along with a group of resistance fighters from the Qassam Brigades, Aqsa Brigades, Quds Brigades, and National Resistance Brigades.
Two people were killed and 20 others were wounded on Monday when a bus transporting prisoners' relatives collided with a truck near the Israeli Civil Administration office in the northern Gaza Strip, witnesses said.
Gaza civil defense spokesman Mohammad al-Maydana said the bus was transporting around 25 to 30 prisoner relatives. The injured were transferred to hospital for treatment.
Road works were being carried out at the time of the accident, al-Maydana said.
The passengers on board were returning from the Erez crossing in northern Gaza, where they had planned to leave for Israel to visit detained family members.
Around 80 relatives had headed to the Beit Hanoun (Erez) passenger crossing in northern Gaza but soldiers said they were not allowed to cross.
Israeli authorities shut down all Gaza crossings in response to rocket fire, citing "security reasons," to Palestinian Authority liaison officer Raed Fattouh.
Israel recently reactivated its Gaza prisoner visit program, after suspending it in 2007 following Hamas' take over of the coastal enclave.
Gaza civil defense spokesman Mohammad al-Maydana said the bus was transporting around 25 to 30 prisoner relatives. The injured were transferred to hospital for treatment.
Road works were being carried out at the time of the accident, al-Maydana said.
The passengers on board were returning from the Erez crossing in northern Gaza, where they had planned to leave for Israel to visit detained family members.
Around 80 relatives had headed to the Beit Hanoun (Erez) passenger crossing in northern Gaza but soldiers said they were not allowed to cross.
Israeli authorities shut down all Gaza crossings in response to rocket fire, citing "security reasons," to Palestinian Authority liaison officer Raed Fattouh.
Israel recently reactivated its Gaza prisoner visit program, after suspending it in 2007 following Hamas' take over of the coastal enclave.
The Palestinian prisoner society said on Sunday that prisoner Ahmed Khallouf, who has been in jail for nine years, suffers from a deteriorating health condition and needs urgent surgery. The society added that its lawyer visited Khallouf and conveyed his appeal to international human rights groups, especially the Red Cross, to intervene with the Israeli prison authority to allow him to undergo surgery on one of his foot.
According his brother Nidal, prisoner Khallouf suffer from a germ infection, a painful swelling in his left foot and a constant fever, and needs surgery to treat the inflamed foot as prescribed by doctors.
He stated that the Israeli prison administration is reluctant to provide his brother with proper medical treatment and allow him to have the surgery.
On a similar note, the Israeli administration of Shatta prison refused to allow prisoner Samer Issawi, who went on the longest hunger strike in the world, to undergo medical tests.
Issawi told his lawyer that he submitted a request to have medical examinations, but no response yet from the prison administration, noting that he takes sleeping pills because he suffers from insomnia. In this regard, member of Hamas's political bureau Ezzat Al-Resheq hailed the efforts being made to collect signatures aimed at demanding the human rights group Amnesty international to move to save the lives of Palestinian patients in Israeli jails.
Resheq also called on his facebook page for pressuring the Israeli regime to release all patients from Israeli jails.
According his brother Nidal, prisoner Khallouf suffer from a germ infection, a painful swelling in his left foot and a constant fever, and needs surgery to treat the inflamed foot as prescribed by doctors.
He stated that the Israeli prison administration is reluctant to provide his brother with proper medical treatment and allow him to have the surgery.
On a similar note, the Israeli administration of Shatta prison refused to allow prisoner Samer Issawi, who went on the longest hunger strike in the world, to undergo medical tests.
Issawi told his lawyer that he submitted a request to have medical examinations, but no response yet from the prison administration, noting that he takes sleeping pills because he suffers from insomnia. In this regard, member of Hamas's political bureau Ezzat Al-Resheq hailed the efforts being made to collect signatures aimed at demanding the human rights group Amnesty international to move to save the lives of Palestinian patients in Israeli jails.
Resheq also called on his facebook page for pressuring the Israeli regime to release all patients from Israeli jails.
The Palestinian prisoner’s society said that 23 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation jails are on hunger strike. It said in a statement on Sunday that five of those were holders of Jordanian nationality who have been on 55 days of hunger strike demanding their release.
The statement pointed out that four other prisoners were held in administrative custody without trial or charge, noting that one of them Ayman Hamdan has been on hunger strike the longest among all 23 prisoners as he started his strike on 28th April.
It said that eight prisoners in Raymond jail are on hunger strike demanding their transfer to other jails in northern Palestine occupied in 1948 to be nearer to their families.
The statement said that five other prisoners are on hunger strike demanding their release or better incarceration conditions in addition to halting inhuman practices against them.
It said that Ghassan Ulayan was on open-ended hunger strike protesting his re-arrest after he was released in the prisoners’ exchange deal Wafa Al-Ahrar.
The statement pointed out that four other prisoners were held in administrative custody without trial or charge, noting that one of them Ayman Hamdan has been on hunger strike the longest among all 23 prisoners as he started his strike on 28th April.
It said that eight prisoners in Raymond jail are on hunger strike demanding their transfer to other jails in northern Palestine occupied in 1948 to be nearer to their families.
The statement said that five other prisoners are on hunger strike demanding their release or better incarceration conditions in addition to halting inhuman practices against them.
It said that Ghassan Ulayan was on open-ended hunger strike protesting his re-arrest after he was released in the prisoners’ exchange deal Wafa Al-Ahrar.
A prisoner from Jerusalem is awaiting the birth of a son after smuggling his sperm to his wife, a prisoners group said Monday.
Fahmi Mashahra, 33, was detained on 4 Sept. 2002 and was sentenced to 20 years, the director of the Ahrar Centre for Prisoners Studies and Human Rights Fouad al-Khafsh said.
Mashahra's wife said they decided on smuggling the sperm after her husband was first detained when she was eight-months pregnant, adding that her husband has never seen his first child Obeideh.
The wife said she had seen many women get pregnant by their husbands in jail through smuggled semen, the center said.
She is now three-months pregnant, the center said.
Fahmi Mashahra, 33, was detained on 4 Sept. 2002 and was sentenced to 20 years, the director of the Ahrar Centre for Prisoners Studies and Human Rights Fouad al-Khafsh said.
Mashahra's wife said they decided on smuggling the sperm after her husband was first detained when she was eight-months pregnant, adding that her husband has never seen his first child Obeideh.
The wife said she had seen many women get pregnant by their husbands in jail through smuggled semen, the center said.
She is now three-months pregnant, the center said.
Israeli authorities barred Gaza residents from leaving the coastal enclave Monday to visit relatives in Israeli jails, following the closure of all crossings, a Palestinian Authority liaison official said.
Raed Fattouh said 80 relatives had headed to the Beit Hanoun (Erez) passenger crossing in northern Gaza but soldiers said they were not allowed to cross.
Earlier Monday Fattouh announced that Israel had shut down all crossings into Gaza for "security reasons," following rocket fire from Islamic Jihad, who severed ties with Hamas over the death of an affiliate by Hamas police a day earlier.
The Israeli army said the goods crossing Kerem Shalom had been closed following the rocket fire but did not provide details on the Erez crossing.
Israel recently reactivate its Gaza prisoner visit program, after suspending it in 2007 following Hamas' take over of the coastal enclave.
Raed Fattouh said 80 relatives had headed to the Beit Hanoun (Erez) passenger crossing in northern Gaza but soldiers said they were not allowed to cross.
Earlier Monday Fattouh announced that Israel had shut down all crossings into Gaza for "security reasons," following rocket fire from Islamic Jihad, who severed ties with Hamas over the death of an affiliate by Hamas police a day earlier.
The Israeli army said the goods crossing Kerem Shalom had been closed following the rocket fire but did not provide details on the Erez crossing.
Israel recently reactivate its Gaza prisoner visit program, after suspending it in 2007 following Hamas' take over of the coastal enclave.
Israeli Army Forces arrested on Monday, 12 Palestinians from the West Bank on claims they are wanted by Israeli authorities.
Israeli media outlet said that the detainees were accused of throwing stones and Molotov cocktails in several cities in West Bank at Israeli army forces and settlers.
They were transferred to interrogation centers.
12 Palestinian arrested in West Bank
The occupation forces have stormed at early hours on Monday Nablus and Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank, where 5 Palestinians were arrested after raiding and searching their houses. Meanwhile 7 other Palestinians were arrested in other areas in occupied West Bank.
Local sources reported that huge military troops violently stormed the old city of Nablus in the morning and arrested Fadi Abu Sharekh and Muntaser Akoba, in addition to Qassam Eshtayeh, 24, from Salem town east of Nablus.
Adel Shalabi and Tahir Nawahda, from Jenin, were also arrested after searching their houses. Other citizens were investigated amid intensive fire of stun grenades.
The Hebrew radio stated that the Israeli forces arrested, on Monday, 12 Palestinians from the West Bank accused of throwing stones and Molotov cocktails in several cities in West Bank at Israeli army forces and settlers.
Israeli media outlet said that the detainees were accused of throwing stones and Molotov cocktails in several cities in West Bank at Israeli army forces and settlers.
They were transferred to interrogation centers.
12 Palestinian arrested in West Bank
The occupation forces have stormed at early hours on Monday Nablus and Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank, where 5 Palestinians were arrested after raiding and searching their houses. Meanwhile 7 other Palestinians were arrested in other areas in occupied West Bank.
Local sources reported that huge military troops violently stormed the old city of Nablus in the morning and arrested Fadi Abu Sharekh and Muntaser Akoba, in addition to Qassam Eshtayeh, 24, from Salem town east of Nablus.
Adel Shalabi and Tahir Nawahda, from Jenin, were also arrested after searching their houses. Other citizens were investigated amid intensive fire of stun grenades.
The Hebrew radio stated that the Israeli forces arrested, on Monday, 12 Palestinians from the West Bank accused of throwing stones and Molotov cocktails in several cities in West Bank at Israeli army forces and settlers.
Local sources in Azzoun village, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, have reported that dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded the village, on Sunday at dawn [June 23 2013], and kidnapped three children.
The sources said that the army broke into several homes, and violently searched them, before kidnapping four children identified as Monther Salim, 14, Mahdi Ayman Majd, 15, Abdul-Karim Hussein, 16, and Maher Hasan Abu Tneina, 16.
The kidnapped children have been cuffed and blindfolded, before the army took them to an unknown destination.
In related news, soldiers stationed at the Container Roadblock, north of Bethlehem, kidnapped on Sunday evening, one Palestinian identified as Yousef Ahmad Abu Hashem, 19, from Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
The recent attacks are part of daily Israeli military violations against the Palestinians and their property in different parts of the occupied territories.
The sources said that the army broke into several homes, and violently searched them, before kidnapping four children identified as Monther Salim, 14, Mahdi Ayman Majd, 15, Abdul-Karim Hussein, 16, and Maher Hasan Abu Tneina, 16.
The kidnapped children have been cuffed and blindfolded, before the army took them to an unknown destination.
In related news, soldiers stationed at the Container Roadblock, north of Bethlehem, kidnapped on Sunday evening, one Palestinian identified as Yousef Ahmad Abu Hashem, 19, from Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
The recent attacks are part of daily Israeli military violations against the Palestinians and their property in different parts of the occupied territories.
23 june 2013
Hunger striking prisoner Abdullah Al-Barghouthi was beaten by his jailors in Afula hospital where he is held after deterioration of his health condition. Human rights sources affirmed the incident, adding that Barghouthi has been on hunger strike for 54 days.
The Palestinian prisoner’s society said in a statement on Sunday that the Israeli jailors were exercising all forms of pressure on Jordanian hunger strikers in a bid to force them to abandon their strike including body assault as what happened with Barghouthi, who is serving the highest sentence in human history: 67 life sentences.
A lawyer with the society said after visiting Barghouthi that his health seriously worsened after he was assaulted.
He added that doctors warned that his liver was suffering problems as a result of his hunger strike.
Barghouthi, from Beit Reema village to the north of Ramallah, is a holder of Jordanian nationality and has started a hunger strike on 2nd of May along with four other Jordanian captives demanding their release from Israeli jails and serving the rest of their sentences in Jordanian prisons.
The Palestinian prisoner’s society said in a statement on Sunday that the Israeli jailors were exercising all forms of pressure on Jordanian hunger strikers in a bid to force them to abandon their strike including body assault as what happened with Barghouthi, who is serving the highest sentence in human history: 67 life sentences.
A lawyer with the society said after visiting Barghouthi that his health seriously worsened after he was assaulted.
He added that doctors warned that his liver was suffering problems as a result of his hunger strike.
Barghouthi, from Beit Reema village to the north of Ramallah, is a holder of Jordanian nationality and has started a hunger strike on 2nd of May along with four other Jordanian captives demanding their release from Israeli jails and serving the rest of their sentences in Jordanian prisons.
Israel's intelligence agency Mossad abducted a Palestinian man in Egypt where he was receiving medical treatment, a source close to the family told Ma'an on Sunday.
The source said Wael Abu Reida, 27, from the Khan Younis refugee camp, was taken to an Israeli detention center following the abduction.
The family received several phone calls saying Abu Reida had been taken by Mossad and was being held in Israel, the source said.
Abu Reida was in Egypt with his wife for medical treatment and was taken from Sinai, the source added.
The family have notified the International Committee for the Red Cross to locate Abu Reida to verify his locations.
The source said Wael Abu Reida, 27, from the Khan Younis refugee camp, was taken to an Israeli detention center following the abduction.
The family received several phone calls saying Abu Reida had been taken by Mossad and was being held in Israel, the source said.
Abu Reida was in Egypt with his wife for medical treatment and was taken from Sinai, the source added.
The family have notified the International Committee for the Red Cross to locate Abu Reida to verify his locations.
Charawneh -Wael University student Doura
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) rounded up a number of Palestinian youths and kids in the West Bank over the past 24 hours and released two children a few hours after their arrest. Palestinian security sources told Quds Press that IOF soldiers arrested a university student in Doura town in Al-Khalil.
They said that the soldiers also detained two 11-year-old children after breaking into their homes in the Old City of Al-Khalil then handed them to the Palestinian liaison office a few hours later.
Other soldiers arrested a young man in Beit Ummar village, north of Al-Khalil, local sources said, adding that he was suffering from psychological and neurological diseases. They said that he was the same youth who soldiers forced him to drink wine a few days earlier.
Locals in Tabaka village also in Al-Khalil said that IOF soldiers burst into their village and searched a number of homes before serving summonses to young men for intelligence questioning.
Meanwhile, IOF soldiers detained a 23-year-old youth in Harmle village, Bethlehem province. The soldiers had arrested a 13-year-old boy from his home in Beit Jala village, also in Bethlehem, on Saturday on charges of throwing stones at the soldiers
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) rounded up a number of Palestinian youths and kids in the West Bank over the past 24 hours and released two children a few hours after their arrest. Palestinian security sources told Quds Press that IOF soldiers arrested a university student in Doura town in Al-Khalil.
They said that the soldiers also detained two 11-year-old children after breaking into their homes in the Old City of Al-Khalil then handed them to the Palestinian liaison office a few hours later.
Other soldiers arrested a young man in Beit Ummar village, north of Al-Khalil, local sources said, adding that he was suffering from psychological and neurological diseases. They said that he was the same youth who soldiers forced him to drink wine a few days earlier.
Locals in Tabaka village also in Al-Khalil said that IOF soldiers burst into their village and searched a number of homes before serving summonses to young men for intelligence questioning.
Meanwhile, IOF soldiers detained a 23-year-old youth in Harmle village, Bethlehem province. The soldiers had arrested a 13-year-old boy from his home in Beit Jala village, also in Bethlehem, on Saturday on charges of throwing stones at the soldiers
Foreign activists participated in sit-ins in front of Israeli jails organized by rights groups to demand rights of Palestinian prisoners. The sit-ins organized by the prisoner’s committee, the detainee’s society, and the international campaign to release Palestinian sick prisoners were part of a series of activity in solidarity with prisoners in general and sick and hunger striking prisoners in particular.
The participants hoisted photos of sick prisoners and hunger strikers in addition to banners in various languages and chanted anti-occupation slogans and freedom songs.
A spokesperson for the campaign said in a press release on Saturday that the sit-in was organized in cooperation with local prisoners’ rights committees.
She said that the campaign would escalate on the international level to protect prisoners and to stop Israel’s crimes against them.
The spokeswoman said that it was about time for the world to act and assume its responsibility. She vowed to work for rallying world support for the Palestinian prisoners.
The participants hoisted photos of sick prisoners and hunger strikers in addition to banners in various languages and chanted anti-occupation slogans and freedom songs.
A spokesperson for the campaign said in a press release on Saturday that the sit-in was organized in cooperation with local prisoners’ rights committees.
She said that the campaign would escalate on the international level to protect prisoners and to stop Israel’s crimes against them.
The spokeswoman said that it was about time for the world to act and assume its responsibility. She vowed to work for rallying world support for the Palestinian prisoners.
Ahrar center for prisoners’ studies and human rights denounced the Israeli occupation authority’s step of extending the remand of university lecturer Zainuddin Shabana. Fuad Al-Khuffash, the center’s director, said in a statement on Sunday that the IOA extended the detention of Shabana, 44, for five months for the second time.
He said that Shabana, a liberated prisoner from Al-Khalil who works at Al-Khalil Polytechnic, was detained since 3/2/2013 university.
Shabana, a professor of Hebrew language, served 11 years in Israeli occupation jails, Khuffash said. He charged the IOA with targeting university lecturers, noting that four of them are still held in administrative detention, without trial or charge, in Israeli jails.
He said that Shabana, a liberated prisoner from Al-Khalil who works at Al-Khalil Polytechnic, was detained since 3/2/2013 university.
Shabana, a professor of Hebrew language, served 11 years in Israeli occupation jails, Khuffash said. He charged the IOA with targeting university lecturers, noting that four of them are still held in administrative detention, without trial or charge, in Israeli jails.
The Israeli Magistrate court extended on Sunday the arrest of Majdi Abu Ghazaleh and Natheer Ammouri until next Tuesday to continue investigating them.
The masked forces had raided their homes in Al-Sowaneh, arrested and assaulted them and then took them to Salah Eddin Street police station where they were investigated for few hours and then presented to the Magistrate court.
The Palestinian prisoner’s club lawyer, Mufeed Al-Haj, said that the court accused Majdi and Natheer of throwing stones on the settlers’ cars in a public main street, without submitting any evidence to prove it.
The court also extended on Sunday the arrest of Eyad Omar Al-Shalabi 22, and 18-year old Amir Qadamani from Al-Sowaneh in Al-Tur, until next Thursday to continue investigating them.
They were arrested last Wednesday after raiding their homes and assaulting and hitting Amir’s brother, Mohammad 22, who was released later on after being presented to court which sentenced him for house arrest of four days and a bail of 500 NIS.
The court charged Shalabi and Qadamani with the attempt to assault settlers, and the lawyer Jad Qadamani from the Palestinian prisoner’s club represented them in court as well as Tarek Barghouti from the Ministry of Prisoners.
The masked forces had raided their homes in Al-Sowaneh, arrested and assaulted them and then took them to Salah Eddin Street police station where they were investigated for few hours and then presented to the Magistrate court.
The Palestinian prisoner’s club lawyer, Mufeed Al-Haj, said that the court accused Majdi and Natheer of throwing stones on the settlers’ cars in a public main street, without submitting any evidence to prove it.
The court also extended on Sunday the arrest of Eyad Omar Al-Shalabi 22, and 18-year old Amir Qadamani from Al-Sowaneh in Al-Tur, until next Thursday to continue investigating them.
They were arrested last Wednesday after raiding their homes and assaulting and hitting Amir’s brother, Mohammad 22, who was released later on after being presented to court which sentenced him for house arrest of four days and a bail of 500 NIS.
The court charged Shalabi and Qadamani with the attempt to assault settlers, and the lawyer Jad Qadamani from the Palestinian prisoner’s club represented them in court as well as Tarek Barghouti from the Ministry of Prisoners.
Jordanian political prisoners, held by Israel, entered their 53rd day of ongoing hunger strike protesting their continued detention, the bad treatment and dire health and living conditions they face in Israeli prisons.
The detainees are demanding Israel either to release them or to transfer them to Jordan to serve their terms there, as stated by the peace Agreement signed between Jordan and Israel in 1994.
They have also been denied the right to family visits.
One of the striking detainees is Abdullah Barghouthi, 41, who is serving 67 life terms; most of the detainees are serving a minimum of 10 years.
The striking detainees are also demanding Israel to reveal the fate and location of twenty missing Jordanians, and to transfer the remains of slain Jordanian, buried in the Numbers Graveyard, back to Jordan.
The Ad-Dameer Foundation for Human Rights stated that all detainees must be treated with dignity as stated by the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions, and the International Human Rights Law.
The detainees are demanding Israel either to release them or to transfer them to Jordan to serve their terms there, as stated by the peace Agreement signed between Jordan and Israel in 1994.
They have also been denied the right to family visits.
One of the striking detainees is Abdullah Barghouthi, 41, who is serving 67 life terms; most of the detainees are serving a minimum of 10 years.
The striking detainees are also demanding Israel to reveal the fate and location of twenty missing Jordanians, and to transfer the remains of slain Jordanian, buried in the Numbers Graveyard, back to Jordan.
The Ad-Dameer Foundation for Human Rights stated that all detainees must be treated with dignity as stated by the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions, and the International Human Rights Law.
22 june 2013
Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) reported that prisoner Khaled Haroub from al-Khalil has launched an open-ended hunger strike since the fifteenth of this month, demanding his incarceration along with his detained brother in one room. PPS said in a statement that the prisoner Haroub, sentenced to fourteen years imprisonment and held in Raymond jail, started a hunger strike after the Israeli prison administration broke its promise to transfer him to the same jail with his brother Younis.
Prisoner Khaled Haroub had earlier waged earlier a hunger strike to protest his administrative detention.
Prisoner Khaled Haroub had earlier waged earlier a hunger strike to protest his administrative detention.
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) quelled a group of Palestinian activists while trying to march to occupied Jerusalem on Saturday through the tunnel roadblock in Beit Jala town near Bethlehem. One of the activists organizing the event told Quds Press that the soldiers blocked their march to Jerusalem that was meant to protest IOF policies at roadblocks and Jewish settlers’ attacks.
He said that the soldiers fired teargas at the marchers to disperse them, adding that the soldiers also beat up the activists and detained one of them.
He said that Jewish settlers badmouthed the activists and chanted racist slogans against them.
He said that the soldiers fired teargas at the marchers to disperse them, adding that the soldiers also beat up the activists and detained one of them.
He said that Jewish settlers badmouthed the activists and chanted racist slogans against them.
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Image By The Popular Committee Against The Wall - Kufur Qaddoum
The Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements in Kufur Qaddoum village, near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, reported Frida [June 21, 2013] that dozens of Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly nonviolent protest, wounding four residents, and kidnapped reporters of the official Palestine TV. The Committee said that the soldiers violently attacked and beat Ahmad Shawar, cameraman Bashar Nazzal, working for the Palestinian TV, confiscated their cameras, and threw the rest of their equipment in the trash. |
A spokesperson of the Israeli army claimed that the kidnapped journalists “attacked the soldiers”, and that they have been transferred to an interrogation facility.
Morad Shteiwy, coordinator of the Popular Committee in the village, has reported that the army surrounded the village since early morning hours Friday, and invaded it I an attempt to prevent the residents from holding their weekly protest against the illegal Annexation Wall and settlements.
“The large number of soldiers deployed in the village could not prevent the determined residents from holding their protest”, Shteiwy said, “the soldiers violently attacked the protesters and fired dozens of gas bombs, concussion grenades, and rubber-coated metal bullets”.
He further said that resident Aqel Mahmoud Shteiwy, 25, was shot by a rubber-coated bullet in his hand, and that one of his fingers was amputated, and added that resident Yousef Mustafa Shteiwy, 21, was shot in the chest, Bassam Ayyoub Shteiwy, 26, was shot in the back and Bashar Mahmoud Shteiwy, 22, was shot in the abdomen.
Also on Friday, soldiers used tear gas, chemical water and rubber-coated steel bullets to attack the weekly protests at the villages of Bil’in and Ni’lin, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, where residents and their international and Israeli supporters, managed to reach the wall; two protests were injured and many were treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation.
In Bil’in, gas bombs fired by Israeli troops cased fire that damaged olive trees owned by local farmers. Soldiers also fired tear gas at residents who tried to put off the fire.
At the nearby village of al Nabi Saleh, Israeli soldiers attacked the villagers and their supporters before leaving the village.
Dozens of soldiers stormed the village and fire gas bombs into resident homes. Many were treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation.
In the al Ma’sara village, near Bethlehem, dozens of soldiers stopped the villagers and their supporters at village entrance then forced them back using rifle-buts and batons to bush people back, no injuries were reported.
Morad Shteiwy, coordinator of the Popular Committee in the village, has reported that the army surrounded the village since early morning hours Friday, and invaded it I an attempt to prevent the residents from holding their weekly protest against the illegal Annexation Wall and settlements.
“The large number of soldiers deployed in the village could not prevent the determined residents from holding their protest”, Shteiwy said, “the soldiers violently attacked the protesters and fired dozens of gas bombs, concussion grenades, and rubber-coated metal bullets”.
He further said that resident Aqel Mahmoud Shteiwy, 25, was shot by a rubber-coated bullet in his hand, and that one of his fingers was amputated, and added that resident Yousef Mustafa Shteiwy, 21, was shot in the chest, Bassam Ayyoub Shteiwy, 26, was shot in the back and Bashar Mahmoud Shteiwy, 22, was shot in the abdomen.
Also on Friday, soldiers used tear gas, chemical water and rubber-coated steel bullets to attack the weekly protests at the villages of Bil’in and Ni’lin, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, where residents and their international and Israeli supporters, managed to reach the wall; two protests were injured and many were treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation.
In Bil’in, gas bombs fired by Israeli troops cased fire that damaged olive trees owned by local farmers. Soldiers also fired tear gas at residents who tried to put off the fire.
At the nearby village of al Nabi Saleh, Israeli soldiers attacked the villagers and their supporters before leaving the village.
Dozens of soldiers stormed the village and fire gas bombs into resident homes. Many were treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation.
In the al Ma’sara village, near Bethlehem, dozens of soldiers stopped the villagers and their supporters at village entrance then forced them back using rifle-buts and batons to bush people back, no injuries were reported.
The Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli Ashkelon jail appealed to human rights groups to intervene to save the lives of patients in their jail and put an end to their exposure to maltreatment and humiliation by the prison administration. The prisoners told lawyer Kareem Ajwa during his visit to their jail that they would boycott the prison infirmary as of Sunday in protest at the medical neglect policy pursued by the Ashkelon prison administration and its doctor.
Lawyer Ajwa said on Friday that many patients in Ashkelon jail filed 11 complaints against the prison doctor in addition to a complaint lodged by all prisoners in this jail against him.
They complained about the inhumane and racist attitude of the jail doctor and his reluctance to provide them with proper medical treatment
All the complaints were submitted to the health affairs officer of the Israeli prison authority.
The lawyer stated that the Ashkelon jail doctor does not examine the ill prisoners, behave in a sarcastic manner towards them, and does not prescribe them proper medications.
He pointed out that the incarceration conditions in Ashkelon jail are inhumane and there have been violent search raids on cells on daily basis for more than a week.
Lawyer Ajwa said on Friday that many patients in Ashkelon jail filed 11 complaints against the prison doctor in addition to a complaint lodged by all prisoners in this jail against him.
They complained about the inhumane and racist attitude of the jail doctor and his reluctance to provide them with proper medical treatment
All the complaints were submitted to the health affairs officer of the Israeli prison authority.
The lawyer stated that the Ashkelon jail doctor does not examine the ill prisoners, behave in a sarcastic manner towards them, and does not prescribe them proper medications.
He pointed out that the incarceration conditions in Ashkelon jail are inhumane and there have been violent search raids on cells on daily basis for more than a week.
Ahrar Center for Prisoners' Studies has called on the PA to join the International Criminal Court (ICC) according to the recommendations of ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda especially after the international recognition of the Palestinian State on November 29, 2011. The director of the center, Fouad Khuffash, said that Bensouda's statements, concerning the Palestinian right to join the ICC, must be exploited by the PA to accelerate the prosecution of the occupation leaders at international courts.
Khuffash called on the PA not to bow to the Israeli pressures and to join the International Criminal Court to curb the Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people.
Bensouda's statements came during an international symposium on the "Transitional and International Justice in the Arab Region" held in Tunisia.
Khuffash called on the PA not to bow to the Israeli pressures and to join the International Criminal Court to curb the Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people.
Bensouda's statements came during an international symposium on the "Transitional and International Justice in the Arab Region" held in Tunisia.
Hundreds participated in a demonstration in solidarity with the Jordanian hunger strikers after Friday prayers in Beit Rima town, northwest of Ramallah. The spokesman of the National and Islamic Forces Raed Radwan called on the Jordanian monarch to strongly support the Jordanian hunger strikers.
For his part, MP Nasser Abdel Jawad quoted a statement for late King Hussein that he used to reiterate "people are our most valuable asset", calling on Jordan to defend the Jordanian prisoners' dignity.
He pointed out that the Jordanian ambassador did not visit the Jordanian prisoners in Israeli jails to check on their detention conditions and health situation.
Abdel Jawad called on Egypt to follow up and check the Israeli violations to the agreement signed between the prisoners and the Israeli Prison Services on April 17, 2012 that ended the Dignity Strike.
He also called on the PA to stop the political arrest policy against liberated prisoners that only serves the occupation.
The spokesman for the prisoners' families Abdul-Karim al-Barghouthi strongly condemned the decrease in popular support to the prisoners, calling for more official and popular support to Jerusalem and the prisoners’ issues.
Among the Jordanian hunger strikers, 8 prisoners are from Beit Rima town. They have been on hunger strike for 50 days.
The Jordanian prisoners in Israeli jails have announced on 2nd May an open-ended hunger strike, in protest against the bad prison conditions and the deprivation of family visits, demanding to be transferred to Jordanian jails.
For his part, MP Nasser Abdel Jawad quoted a statement for late King Hussein that he used to reiterate "people are our most valuable asset", calling on Jordan to defend the Jordanian prisoners' dignity.
He pointed out that the Jordanian ambassador did not visit the Jordanian prisoners in Israeli jails to check on their detention conditions and health situation.
Abdel Jawad called on Egypt to follow up and check the Israeli violations to the agreement signed between the prisoners and the Israeli Prison Services on April 17, 2012 that ended the Dignity Strike.
He also called on the PA to stop the political arrest policy against liberated prisoners that only serves the occupation.
The spokesman for the prisoners' families Abdul-Karim al-Barghouthi strongly condemned the decrease in popular support to the prisoners, calling for more official and popular support to Jerusalem and the prisoners’ issues.
Among the Jordanian hunger strikers, 8 prisoners are from Beit Rima town. They have been on hunger strike for 50 days.
The Jordanian prisoners in Israeli jails have announced on 2nd May an open-ended hunger strike, in protest against the bad prison conditions and the deprivation of family visits, demanding to be transferred to Jordanian jails.
The health condition of detained MP Hatem Qufaisha has suddenly deteriorated and he was taken to the prison clinic. The Palestine center for studies said on Friday that Qufaisha suffered unstable high blood pressure and a high blood sugar level.
It said that the MP, who has been held in Israeli occupation jails for more than six months, was transferred to the Negev prison clinic.
The statement said that the prison administration decided to keep him in the clinic for a few days in view of his worsening health situation.
Qufaisha, who has served 12 years in Israeli prisons, is held in administrative detention, without trial or charge.
It said that the MP, who has been held in Israeli occupation jails for more than six months, was transferred to the Negev prison clinic.
The statement said that the prison administration decided to keep him in the clinic for a few days in view of his worsening health situation.
Qufaisha, who has served 12 years in Israeli prisons, is held in administrative detention, without trial or charge.
