12 june 2015
Israeli soldiers invaded, earlier on Friday, the village of Kafrit, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and kidnapped one Palestinian.
The soldiers stormed at least one home, and violently searched it, before kidnapping Hammam Yousef ‘Awwad.
In related news, a Palestinian detainee from Jenin city, received Friday a six-month arbitrary Administrative Detention order, without charges.
The detainee, Ghassan ‘Adnan al-Atrash, is held in the Negev Detention Camp; the military court informed him they have a “secret file” on him.
Such alleged files neither the detainees nor their lawyers have access to.
The soldiers stormed at least one home, and violently searched it, before kidnapping Hammam Yousef ‘Awwad.
In related news, a Palestinian detainee from Jenin city, received Friday a six-month arbitrary Administrative Detention order, without charges.
The detainee, Ghassan ‘Adnan al-Atrash, is held in the Negev Detention Camp; the military court informed him they have a “secret file” on him.
Such alleged files neither the detainees nor their lawyers have access to.
The Israeli occupation intelligence (Shin Bet) on Friday decided to administratively detain prisoner Ghassan al-Attrash, from Jenin city.
Local sources said that Attrash was transferred to administrative detention for six months.
Attrash was kidnapped about 10 days ago from his home in the eastern district of Jenin during an arrest campaign against Hamas-affiliated citizens.
He had spent several years in Israeli jails.
Local sources said that Attrash was transferred to administrative detention for six months.
Attrash was kidnapped about 10 days ago from his home in the eastern district of Jenin during an arrest campaign against Hamas-affiliated citizens.
He had spent several years in Israeli jails.
64 Palestinian prisoners who were kidnapped after being released during Shalit Deal Swap Deal in 2011 are still held in Israeli jails including three women, Palestinian sources said Friday.
The Palestine Center for Prisoners Studies said, in a new report marking a year after the kidnapping of dozens of Shalit deal prisoners, that their continued detention in Israeli jails constitutes a flagrant violation to the swap deal reached under Egyptian mediation.
The center’s spokesman Riyad al-Ashqar blamed the Egyptian authorities for not committing with its obligations towards the deal terms that prevent the released prisoners’ re-arrest.
Israeli authorities have re-imposed the previous sentences of 47 Shalit Deal prisoners, he pointed out.
Israeli violations against Shalit Deal prisoners started only two months after their release in 2011 under the pretext of breaking their release terms.
During June 2014, 74 Shalit Deal prisoners were re-arrested in a large-scale arrest campaign. Ten of them were earlier released most recently was the ex-prisoner Bushra Tawil, while 64 others are still held in total violations to the deal terms, the report explained.
The center renewed its calls on Egyptian authorities to commit with its obligations and to intervene for the ex-prisoners’ release.
The Palestine Center for Prisoners Studies said, in a new report marking a year after the kidnapping of dozens of Shalit deal prisoners, that their continued detention in Israeli jails constitutes a flagrant violation to the swap deal reached under Egyptian mediation.
The center’s spokesman Riyad al-Ashqar blamed the Egyptian authorities for not committing with its obligations towards the deal terms that prevent the released prisoners’ re-arrest.
Israeli authorities have re-imposed the previous sentences of 47 Shalit Deal prisoners, he pointed out.
Israeli violations against Shalit Deal prisoners started only two months after their release in 2011 under the pretext of breaking their release terms.
During June 2014, 74 Shalit Deal prisoners were re-arrested in a large-scale arrest campaign. Ten of them were earlier released most recently was the ex-prisoner Bushra Tawil, while 64 others are still held in total violations to the deal terms, the report explained.
The center renewed its calls on Egyptian authorities to commit with its obligations and to intervene for the ex-prisoners’ release.
The health of the Palestinian administrative detainee Khader Adnan has reached critical condition as he entered his 39th day of hunger strike, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Center for Studies said Friday.
Adnan, who staged one of the longest hunger strikes in history in 2012, is showing sharp weight loss, low heart rate, hypotension, and hypoglycemia as a result of his ongoing protest at being held in Israeli prison under administrative detention, with neither charge nor trial.
Hunger-striking Adnan has also become unable to stand on his feet on his own, the Prisoners’ Center further reported.
Head of the center, Rafat Hamdouna, urged the human rights and civil institutions to mobilize mass support, nationwide and overseas, for Adnan’s cause without further delay.
He further pushed for internationalizing the prisoners’ cause and for saving Adnan’s life before it is too late.
Prisoner Adnan, a father of six children, was detained by the Israeli occupation forces on July 8, 2014 and sentenced to administrative detention for the 10th time in his life.
Palestinians held in administrative detention can be incarcerated without charge or trial for months or years, and are denied access to the evidence that led to their detention.
Observers said the policy has been enacted excessively by the Israeli occupation authorities, in contravention to international and humanitarian laws which stipulate the practice be used only in extenuating circumstances.
Adnan, who staged one of the longest hunger strikes in history in 2012, is showing sharp weight loss, low heart rate, hypotension, and hypoglycemia as a result of his ongoing protest at being held in Israeli prison under administrative detention, with neither charge nor trial.
Hunger-striking Adnan has also become unable to stand on his feet on his own, the Prisoners’ Center further reported.
Head of the center, Rafat Hamdouna, urged the human rights and civil institutions to mobilize mass support, nationwide and overseas, for Adnan’s cause without further delay.
He further pushed for internationalizing the prisoners’ cause and for saving Adnan’s life before it is too late.
Prisoner Adnan, a father of six children, was detained by the Israeli occupation forces on July 8, 2014 and sentenced to administrative detention for the 10th time in his life.
Palestinians held in administrative detention can be incarcerated without charge or trial for months or years, and are denied access to the evidence that led to their detention.
Observers said the policy has been enacted excessively by the Israeli occupation authorities, in contravention to international and humanitarian laws which stipulate the practice be used only in extenuating circumstances.
The Israeli Magistrate’s Court in Tel Aviv on Thursday extended the remand of a Palestinian citizen on allegations of his involvement in the stabbing of an Israeli settler earlier this week.
The Israeli occupation police said in a statement the the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court extended the detention of the Palestinian citizen Yasser al-Jaroushi, in his 40’s of age, for nine days pending further investigation in an alleged stabbing attack against an Israeli settler.
The police alleged that the suspect claimed responsibility for the stabbing attack, which he purportedly carried out on accounts of “family circumstances.”
Earlier, on Sunday, al-Jaroushi sustained wounds after he was shot by the Israeli police under the pretext that he stabbed an Israeli settler in the back using a screwdriver.
The Israeli occupation police said in a statement the the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court extended the detention of the Palestinian citizen Yasser al-Jaroushi, in his 40’s of age, for nine days pending further investigation in an alleged stabbing attack against an Israeli settler.
The police alleged that the suspect claimed responsibility for the stabbing attack, which he purportedly carried out on accounts of “family circumstances.”
Earlier, on Sunday, al-Jaroushi sustained wounds after he was shot by the Israeli police under the pretext that he stabbed an Israeli settler in the back using a screwdriver.
The Israeli Police released, late Thursday night, three Palestinian children from Silwan neighborhood, in occupied East Jerusalem, after detaining and interrogating them for several hours, allegedly for throwing stones at a settler’s car.
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) said a settlement guard detained three children in the al-‘Ein area in Silwan, before he contacted the police who later arrived and took them to a police station.
The three children have been identified as Ahmad ‘Ezz Shweiki, 10, Tamer Mazen Shweiki, 12, and ‘Odai Nidal ar-Rajabi, 13 years of age; they were moved to the Police Station in Salaheddin Street.
Friends of the detained children informed their families, and when the parents went to the police station, they were not allowed to see their sons, or attend the interrogation.
The families were forced out of the station and were ordered to leave the entire area, or face imprisonment.
Silwanic said the police interrogated the children without any legal representation. Their parents were finally allowed to see them four hours later, after the interrogation was concluded.
During interrogation, the children were not even allowed to drink water, or use the toilets, and the interrogators were shouting at them. Hours into interrogation, the youngest child was allowed to drink some water.
After their release, the children said a settler stopped them while walking in the al-‘Ein Street, and claimed that he had seen them throwing stones earlier, and that he had a video of them throwing stones.
The Israeli extremist threatened the children, telling them they would be taken by social services, and would never be able to see their families again, Silwanic said.
The children told Silwanic they demanded the police to show them the alleged video recording, but the police never presented any recording. The children were forced to sign confessions that were written in Hebrew, a language they did not understand.
It is worth mentioning that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped twenty children, including two between 12 and 14 years of age, in occupied Jerusalem since the beginning of this month.
Preventing parents from being present at the interrogation of their children violates both international.
A lawyer with Silwanic said the army is even acting in violation of Israeli law by holding and interrogating children without any legal representation, and without the presence of social workers.
He said the law bars the interrogation of children without legal representation and without informing social services.
In addition, under Israeli law, interrogators are not allowed to question children without the presence of a specialized detective, and all interrogations are supposed to be recorded.
The lawyer added that Israeli law also instructs the police to inform the parent directly after arresting their children, and to hand them a legal copy of the arrest warrant in addition to informing them of the location where the child is being held.
“Israeli Law, Section 9, states that if a child, below the age of 14 is arrested, the interrogation should be conducted between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m., children between 14 and 18 can be interrogated between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m.” he said, “Children below the age of 12, cannot he held liable, and cannot be arrested.”
He also said the interrogators cannot question children without the presence of at least one parent, but the Israeli police and army continue to violate this and other laws.
“It seems Israel makes its own exceptions to the law when it comes to Palestinian children in occupied Jerusalem,” the lawyer stated, “Children are treated as adults, and are interrogated and intimidated for hours, without any legal representation.”
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) said a settlement guard detained three children in the al-‘Ein area in Silwan, before he contacted the police who later arrived and took them to a police station.
The three children have been identified as Ahmad ‘Ezz Shweiki, 10, Tamer Mazen Shweiki, 12, and ‘Odai Nidal ar-Rajabi, 13 years of age; they were moved to the Police Station in Salaheddin Street.
Friends of the detained children informed their families, and when the parents went to the police station, they were not allowed to see their sons, or attend the interrogation.
The families were forced out of the station and were ordered to leave the entire area, or face imprisonment.
Silwanic said the police interrogated the children without any legal representation. Their parents were finally allowed to see them four hours later, after the interrogation was concluded.
During interrogation, the children were not even allowed to drink water, or use the toilets, and the interrogators were shouting at them. Hours into interrogation, the youngest child was allowed to drink some water.
After their release, the children said a settler stopped them while walking in the al-‘Ein Street, and claimed that he had seen them throwing stones earlier, and that he had a video of them throwing stones.
The Israeli extremist threatened the children, telling them they would be taken by social services, and would never be able to see their families again, Silwanic said.
The children told Silwanic they demanded the police to show them the alleged video recording, but the police never presented any recording. The children were forced to sign confessions that were written in Hebrew, a language they did not understand.
It is worth mentioning that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped twenty children, including two between 12 and 14 years of age, in occupied Jerusalem since the beginning of this month.
Preventing parents from being present at the interrogation of their children violates both international.
A lawyer with Silwanic said the army is even acting in violation of Israeli law by holding and interrogating children without any legal representation, and without the presence of social workers.
He said the law bars the interrogation of children without legal representation and without informing social services.
In addition, under Israeli law, interrogators are not allowed to question children without the presence of a specialized detective, and all interrogations are supposed to be recorded.
The lawyer added that Israeli law also instructs the police to inform the parent directly after arresting their children, and to hand them a legal copy of the arrest warrant in addition to informing them of the location where the child is being held.
“Israeli Law, Section 9, states that if a child, below the age of 14 is arrested, the interrogation should be conducted between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m., children between 14 and 18 can be interrogated between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m.” he said, “Children below the age of 12, cannot he held liable, and cannot be arrested.”
He also said the interrogators cannot question children without the presence of at least one parent, but the Israeli police and army continue to violate this and other laws.
“It seems Israel makes its own exceptions to the law when it comes to Palestinian children in occupied Jerusalem,” the lawyer stated, “Children are treated as adults, and are interrogated and intimidated for hours, without any legal representation.”
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Israel released, Thursday, journalist, activist and folk dancer Lina Khattab, after holding her captive for six months. Her family, and hundreds of Palestinians, welcomed her at the Jabara roadblock, south of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem.
The family, friends and residents from different parts of the country, gathered to welcome her, and waited for very long hours in the son, until they finally managed to greet, and welcome her. Israeli soldiers kidnapped Lina Khattab, a Journalism student at Birzeit University near Ramallah, on December 13, 2014, during a nonviolent protest organized by students marking the 47th anniversary of the establishment of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and in solidarity with the Palestinian Political Prisoners. |
On Monday, January 16, the Ofer Israeli military court sentenced her to six-month imprisonment, and 6000 New Israeli Shekels fine.
She faced very difficult conditions, mistreatment and violations after her arrest and during her interrogation.
A few days before her abduction, Khattab performed along with her El-Founoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe in a massive public event.
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Journalism Student & Folk Dancer, Lina Khattab, Sentenced to Six Months
She faced very difficult conditions, mistreatment and violations after her arrest and during her interrogation.
A few days before her abduction, Khattab performed along with her El-Founoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe in a massive public event.
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Journalism Student & Folk Dancer, Lina Khattab, Sentenced to Six Months
11 june 2015
Amer Ba'jawi is 14 years-old Palestinian child, a pupil of the seventh grade from the village of Ya'bad near Jenin in the northern part of the West Bank, is the youngest detainee in Israeli prisons and detention centers, the Palestinian Prisoners.
His father Abed Ba'jawi - who himself was repeated imprisoned the army - said that soldiers of a nearby watch tower arrested Amer on May 23rd, along with his friend "Sanad Masharqah," 16 years of age.
Both were taken to Huwwara military camp near Nablus, where they were held three days, before the army moved them to the "Mageddo" detention facility.
The Israeli military prosecution filed charges against both children.
The charges include “infiltrating a military watch and causing damage,” in addition to “endangering soldiers’ lives," and “throwing stones towards a vehicle of an Israeli settler, endangering his life as well.”
The charges were made during a military court hearing last Tuesday June 9.
Abed Ba'jawi said his child was brought into the courtroom handcuffed, and wearing prison clothes.
He added that, as a father, seeing his son in such conditions, he asked the military judge, whether it was "humane or rational to indict a child with ridiculous charges," or "to treat children with this level of brutality," but he was expelled out of the courtroom.
The Israeli military court will be holding another hearing on July 28.
The Palestinian Prisoners Society said there are about 300 children in the Israeli detention facilities.
PPS head, Qaddoura Fares, called upon the international community to practice pressure on the Israeli authorities to comply with, and respect, International Laws and the Geneva Convention.
Fares added that Amer, and all other children held in the Israeli prisons, must be immediately released, and demanded an end to Israel’s abuse of the detainees, especially the children.
His father Abed Ba'jawi - who himself was repeated imprisoned the army - said that soldiers of a nearby watch tower arrested Amer on May 23rd, along with his friend "Sanad Masharqah," 16 years of age.
Both were taken to Huwwara military camp near Nablus, where they were held three days, before the army moved them to the "Mageddo" detention facility.
The Israeli military prosecution filed charges against both children.
The charges include “infiltrating a military watch and causing damage,” in addition to “endangering soldiers’ lives," and “throwing stones towards a vehicle of an Israeli settler, endangering his life as well.”
The charges were made during a military court hearing last Tuesday June 9.
Abed Ba'jawi said his child was brought into the courtroom handcuffed, and wearing prison clothes.
He added that, as a father, seeing his son in such conditions, he asked the military judge, whether it was "humane or rational to indict a child with ridiculous charges," or "to treat children with this level of brutality," but he was expelled out of the courtroom.
The Israeli military court will be holding another hearing on July 28.
The Palestinian Prisoners Society said there are about 300 children in the Israeli detention facilities.
PPS head, Qaddoura Fares, called upon the international community to practice pressure on the Israeli authorities to comply with, and respect, International Laws and the Geneva Convention.
Fares added that Amer, and all other children held in the Israeli prisons, must be immediately released, and demanded an end to Israel’s abuse of the detainees, especially the children.
The Islamic Jihad Movement afternoon Thursday called for a mass participation in Friday prayers to be performed in congregation in solidarity with the hunger-striking detainee Khader Adnan, starving for 38 days in protest at being held administratively at the Israeli occupation jails.
The Islamic Jihad urged the Palestinian masses, in a statement, to join Friday prayers set to be performed in front of the Gaza-headquarted International Committee of the Red Cross.
"Participation in the event is a national and moral duty to be taken up in support of the legitimate prisoners’ cause," the statement added.
Prisoner Khader Adnan has been on an open-ended hunger-strike for 38 days running in protest at his arbitrary administrative detention, with neither charge nor trial.
The Islamic Jihad urged the Palestinian masses, in a statement, to join Friday prayers set to be performed in front of the Gaza-headquarted International Committee of the Red Cross.
"Participation in the event is a national and moral duty to be taken up in support of the legitimate prisoners’ cause," the statement added.
Prisoner Khader Adnan has been on an open-ended hunger-strike for 38 days running in protest at his arbitrary administrative detention, with neither charge nor trial.
Israeli soldiers at Tayiba crossing between Tulkarem and the 1948 occupied lands on Tuesday prevented a prisoner's mother from visiting her son.
Local sources said that the mother of prisoner Fadi Naifeh was denied entry to the Megiddo prison in the occupied Galilee to visit her son in Megiddo jail, although she was holding an entry permit.
The soldiers claimed there was a security order banning her entry despite her possession of a legal permit.
The mother deplored in press remarks the Israeli decision to ban her visit to her son under flimsy security pretexts, affirming that she had been previously exposed more than once to hours of detention at the crossing before allowing her to visit her son.
Local sources said that the mother of prisoner Fadi Naifeh was denied entry to the Megiddo prison in the occupied Galilee to visit her son in Megiddo jail, although she was holding an entry permit.
The soldiers claimed there was a security order banning her entry despite her possession of a legal permit.
The mother deplored in press remarks the Israeli decision to ban her visit to her son under flimsy security pretexts, affirming that she had been previously exposed more than once to hours of detention at the crossing before allowing her to visit her son.
The Israeli Prison Authority, which oversees Israeli detention facilities where Palestinian political prisoners are detained, reportedly is refusing to give Palestinian law-maker Nayef Rajoub medical care.
According to Dr. Aziz Duweik, Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Rajoub is experiencing grave health problems and can hardly stand up.
"Brother Nayef can't pray standing up, he prays while sitting on a chair," Duweik told reporters Wednesday.
Duweik himself was released from an Israeli jail Tuesday, having spent a year in administrative detention for voicing opposition to the Israeli occupation.
Israel, which claims to be a democratic state, gave pro-Hamas lawmakers prolonged prison sentences for taking part in and winning elections in the occupied territories in 2006.
Israel, whose very existence is based on terror and ethnic cleansing against the indigenous Palestinians, views Palestinian resistance groups such as Hamas as ”terrorist groups."
Rajoub, a popular MP from the town of Dura, south-west of al-Khalil, spent more than 7 years in Israeli custody, mostly on fabricated charges related to his political activism.
He has never been convicted of any felony.
However, the Israeli justice system views all Palestinians as potentially guilty for opposing the decades-old occupation.
Rajoub family has appealed to human rights groups to pressure the Israeli government to either release him or give him proper medical care.
"It is unfair; my father did not violate any law. He was arrested and imprisoned without charge or trial. His administrative prison sentence was extended for no purpose other than punishing him for his views", said Yousuf Rajoub, his son.
"My father doesn't know why he is in jail. The Israeli authorities refuse to let him know why he is in jail. Yet, Israel claims to be democratic. I wonder what sort of democracy is that."
According to Dr. Aziz Duweik, Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Rajoub is experiencing grave health problems and can hardly stand up.
"Brother Nayef can't pray standing up, he prays while sitting on a chair," Duweik told reporters Wednesday.
Duweik himself was released from an Israeli jail Tuesday, having spent a year in administrative detention for voicing opposition to the Israeli occupation.
Israel, which claims to be a democratic state, gave pro-Hamas lawmakers prolonged prison sentences for taking part in and winning elections in the occupied territories in 2006.
Israel, whose very existence is based on terror and ethnic cleansing against the indigenous Palestinians, views Palestinian resistance groups such as Hamas as ”terrorist groups."
Rajoub, a popular MP from the town of Dura, south-west of al-Khalil, spent more than 7 years in Israeli custody, mostly on fabricated charges related to his political activism.
He has never been convicted of any felony.
However, the Israeli justice system views all Palestinians as potentially guilty for opposing the decades-old occupation.
Rajoub family has appealed to human rights groups to pressure the Israeli government to either release him or give him proper medical care.
"It is unfair; my father did not violate any law. He was arrested and imprisoned without charge or trial. His administrative prison sentence was extended for no purpose other than punishing him for his views", said Yousuf Rajoub, his son.
"My father doesn't know why he is in jail. The Israeli authorities refuse to let him know why he is in jail. Yet, Israel claims to be democratic. I wonder what sort of democracy is that."
Seven Palestinian prisoners are held in Megiddo prison solitary confinement for more than a year amid very difficult detention conditions, Palestinian rights group said Thursday.
The Palestinian Prisoners Society said in a press release that the seven isolated prisoners are deprived from family visits for more than a year.
The prisoner Mohamed al-Bal, who is sentenced for 12 years, has been isolated for a year and a half of year where he was allowed to meet his family only one time since his arrest in 2008.
The prisoner Issam Zin al-Din, who is arrested in 2006 and sentenced to life term, threatened to launch an open hunger strike in case his family visit ban has been continued.
For his part, the prisoner Hussam Omar, who has been sent to solitary confinement on September 2013, stressed the urgent need to end Israeli punitive measures against Palestinian prisoners.
The Palestinian Prisoners Society said in a press release that the seven isolated prisoners are deprived from family visits for more than a year.
The prisoner Mohamed al-Bal, who is sentenced for 12 years, has been isolated for a year and a half of year where he was allowed to meet his family only one time since his arrest in 2008.
The prisoner Issam Zin al-Din, who is arrested in 2006 and sentenced to life term, threatened to launch an open hunger strike in case his family visit ban has been continued.
For his part, the prisoner Hussam Omar, who has been sent to solitary confinement on September 2013, stressed the urgent need to end Israeli punitive measures against Palestinian prisoners.
Suspects allegedly beat up, bullied and stole from elderly survivors; family members are collaborators with Israel housed in Haifa.
The Haifa police said Thursday it arrested seven Palestinians from the same family suspected of abusing Holocaust survivors.
The seven are suspected of assaulting several of the elderly residents of a home for Holocaust survivors in Haifa's Hadar neighborhood. The suspects allegedly stole from the survivors, bullied them and forbade them from walking on the sidewalk in an area near the home. Police will bring the suspects for a remand extension on Thursday at the Haifa Magistrate's Court.
The suspects are all members of the same Palestinian family of collaborators with Israel and who were housed in the same street as the Holocaust survivors' home and the offices of the organization operating the home. The organization filed a complaint with police after members of the Palestinian family vandalized property belonging to the survivors, to no avail. On Wednesday, the organization's director and security officer once again filed a complaint with the Haifa Police.
"What we heard there was simply horrendous," said one of the high-ranked police officers. "Elderly Holocaust survivors, some not mentally well, went through a series of abuses. Their credit cards were stolen, they were forced to step off the sidewalk and walk on the road, they were beaten, and their property was vandalized."
The seven suspects also allegedly threatened and assaulted employees of the organization and caused damage to their vehicles, among other offenses. Police said the family members - including some of the suspects - are known to law enforcement authorities from previous incidents.
In a search of the suspects' houses, police found property suspected of being stolen, including jewelry, cellphones, work tools, ect. Police also seized vehicles belonging to members of the family.
The Haifa police said Thursday it arrested seven Palestinians from the same family suspected of abusing Holocaust survivors.
The seven are suspected of assaulting several of the elderly residents of a home for Holocaust survivors in Haifa's Hadar neighborhood. The suspects allegedly stole from the survivors, bullied them and forbade them from walking on the sidewalk in an area near the home. Police will bring the suspects for a remand extension on Thursday at the Haifa Magistrate's Court.
The suspects are all members of the same Palestinian family of collaborators with Israel and who were housed in the same street as the Holocaust survivors' home and the offices of the organization operating the home. The organization filed a complaint with police after members of the Palestinian family vandalized property belonging to the survivors, to no avail. On Wednesday, the organization's director and security officer once again filed a complaint with the Haifa Police.
"What we heard there was simply horrendous," said one of the high-ranked police officers. "Elderly Holocaust survivors, some not mentally well, went through a series of abuses. Their credit cards were stolen, they were forced to step off the sidewalk and walk on the road, they were beaten, and their property was vandalized."
The seven suspects also allegedly threatened and assaulted employees of the organization and caused damage to their vehicles, among other offenses. Police said the family members - including some of the suspects - are known to law enforcement authorities from previous incidents.
In a search of the suspects' houses, police found property suspected of being stolen, including jewelry, cellphones, work tools, ect. Police also seized vehicles belonging to members of the family.
The Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) slapped a three-month travel ban on a Palestinian activist under the security pretext, a local media center reported Thursday.
The Wadi Helwa Information Center said in a statement the Israeli police and intelligence officers summoned the Jerusalemite activist Mohamed al-Shalabi for interrogation on Tuesday and Wednesday in al-Mascoubiya investigation center.
The statement quoted activist al-Shalabi as stating: “The police acquitted me on Tuesday after I was exhaustively interrogated on allegations of inciting clashes and ordered me to speak by phone to a friend or a relative of mine to bring my travel documents.”
“The document was seized right away and I was acquitted on conditions I would bring myself in on Wednesday,” he added.
The activist said he was prohibited from travelling via border crossings, airports, and seaports for three months under the security pretext.
The Israeli police reportedly turned down al-Shalabi’s appeals to get back his travel document or at least a copy of it so as to enable his children to move to Jordan next month.
Al-Shalabi had been arrested by the Israeli occupation forces several times before. He had also been barred from entering Muslims’ Holy al-Aqsa Mosque and was lately denied access into the Jordanian territories on accounts of his anti-occupation activism.
The Wadi Helwa Information Center said in a statement the Israeli police and intelligence officers summoned the Jerusalemite activist Mohamed al-Shalabi for interrogation on Tuesday and Wednesday in al-Mascoubiya investigation center.
The statement quoted activist al-Shalabi as stating: “The police acquitted me on Tuesday after I was exhaustively interrogated on allegations of inciting clashes and ordered me to speak by phone to a friend or a relative of mine to bring my travel documents.”
“The document was seized right away and I was acquitted on conditions I would bring myself in on Wednesday,” he added.
The activist said he was prohibited from travelling via border crossings, airports, and seaports for three months under the security pretext.
The Israeli police reportedly turned down al-Shalabi’s appeals to get back his travel document or at least a copy of it so as to enable his children to move to Jordan next month.
Al-Shalabi had been arrested by the Israeli occupation forces several times before. He had also been barred from entering Muslims’ Holy al-Aqsa Mosque and was lately denied access into the Jordanian territories on accounts of his anti-occupation activism.
At least 10 Palestinian citizens were apprehended by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Thursday following a wave of arbitrary assaults and home break-ins launched across cities of the West Bank.
Israeli media sources quoted the occupation army as claiming responsibility for the abduction of four wanted Palestinians on allegations of their involvement in anti-occupation activities.
Sources based in al-Khalil city said the IOF rolled into Abu Kteila neighborhood and scoured Palestinian civilian homes, moments before they kidnapped the 28-year-old ex-prisoner Mahmoud Abu Shkheidam and dragged him to an unidentified destination.
Spokesperson for the anti-settlement committee in al-Khalil’s town of Beit Ummar, Mohamed Awad, said the Israeli military nabbed two Palestinian citizens after they wreaked havoc on their family homes.
The IOF also arrested the lawyer Iyad Khalil at the Container checkpoint, near Bethlehem city, early in the morning.
According to a PIC journalist, the assault culminated in the apprehension of five Jerusalemite youths, including four minors, from al-Issawiya town, in eastern Occupied Jerusalem. Another youngster was reportedly summoned for interrogation in the process.
In a separate incident earlier on Wednesday, the Petah Tikva Israeli court extended, for the second time, the remand of the Palestinian journalist Ahmad al-Beitawi, working for the Quds Press International, for eight days pending further investigation.
Journalist al-Beitawi, 33, was rounded up by the IOF from his own home in eastern Nablus.
The Israeli Magistrate’s Court released the 13-year-old child Tarek al-Issawi provided that he would be confined to house arrest for five days and pay a $1,300- third-party bail.
The same court acquitted the youth Mohamed Jabr al-Abassi after it sentenced him to a $1,000-shekel-fine, undefined house arrest, and a $2,600-third-party bail on charges of hurling stones at a police car in Silwan.
Eight Palestinians Kidnapped In Jerusalem And Hebron
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Thursday, three Palestinians in Beit Ummar, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and five teenagers, in the al-‘Eesawiyya town, in occupied East Jerusalem.
Media spokesperson of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements, Mohammad Ayyad Awad, said the soldiers stormed and violently searched several homes, and kidnapped two Palestinians.
The two have been identified as Salah Ibrahim Za’aqeeq, 38, and Mohammad Saleh Ahmad Za’aqeeq, 20.
Soldiers also kidnapped the head of Beit Ummar Youth Sports Center, Lawyer Eyad Hussein Ekhlayyel, 35, after stopping him on the Container Roadblock, north of Bethlehem.
Awad added that the soldiers took pictures of the interior and exterior of a number of homes after invading them, and detained the families while searching their properties.
Owners of two of the invaded homes have been identified as Jamal Khalil al-‘Allami, and Abdul-‘Aziz Mahmoud Abu ‘Ayyash.
In addition, soldiers invaded and searched several homes in the al-‘Eesawiyya town, in occupied East Jerusalem, and kidnapped five teenagers.
The Ad-Dameer Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association said the soldiers kidnapped Saleh Abu ‘Asab, 16, Tareq al-Kharouf, 16, Husam ‘Oleyyan, 16, Laith Darwish, 17, and Younis ‘Oleyyan, 19 years of age.
In related news, a number of Israeli fanatics attacked, and violently beat, a young Palestinian man, identified as Shadi Abed-Rabbo, as he was working in West Jerusalem.
The man was moved to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center, suffering moderate injuries.
Israeli media sources quoted the occupation army as claiming responsibility for the abduction of four wanted Palestinians on allegations of their involvement in anti-occupation activities.
Sources based in al-Khalil city said the IOF rolled into Abu Kteila neighborhood and scoured Palestinian civilian homes, moments before they kidnapped the 28-year-old ex-prisoner Mahmoud Abu Shkheidam and dragged him to an unidentified destination.
Spokesperson for the anti-settlement committee in al-Khalil’s town of Beit Ummar, Mohamed Awad, said the Israeli military nabbed two Palestinian citizens after they wreaked havoc on their family homes.
The IOF also arrested the lawyer Iyad Khalil at the Container checkpoint, near Bethlehem city, early in the morning.
According to a PIC journalist, the assault culminated in the apprehension of five Jerusalemite youths, including four minors, from al-Issawiya town, in eastern Occupied Jerusalem. Another youngster was reportedly summoned for interrogation in the process.
In a separate incident earlier on Wednesday, the Petah Tikva Israeli court extended, for the second time, the remand of the Palestinian journalist Ahmad al-Beitawi, working for the Quds Press International, for eight days pending further investigation.
Journalist al-Beitawi, 33, was rounded up by the IOF from his own home in eastern Nablus.
The Israeli Magistrate’s Court released the 13-year-old child Tarek al-Issawi provided that he would be confined to house arrest for five days and pay a $1,300- third-party bail.
The same court acquitted the youth Mohamed Jabr al-Abassi after it sentenced him to a $1,000-shekel-fine, undefined house arrest, and a $2,600-third-party bail on charges of hurling stones at a police car in Silwan.
Eight Palestinians Kidnapped In Jerusalem And Hebron
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Thursday, three Palestinians in Beit Ummar, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and five teenagers, in the al-‘Eesawiyya town, in occupied East Jerusalem.
Media spokesperson of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements, Mohammad Ayyad Awad, said the soldiers stormed and violently searched several homes, and kidnapped two Palestinians.
The two have been identified as Salah Ibrahim Za’aqeeq, 38, and Mohammad Saleh Ahmad Za’aqeeq, 20.
Soldiers also kidnapped the head of Beit Ummar Youth Sports Center, Lawyer Eyad Hussein Ekhlayyel, 35, after stopping him on the Container Roadblock, north of Bethlehem.
Awad added that the soldiers took pictures of the interior and exterior of a number of homes after invading them, and detained the families while searching their properties.
Owners of two of the invaded homes have been identified as Jamal Khalil al-‘Allami, and Abdul-‘Aziz Mahmoud Abu ‘Ayyash.
In addition, soldiers invaded and searched several homes in the al-‘Eesawiyya town, in occupied East Jerusalem, and kidnapped five teenagers.
The Ad-Dameer Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association said the soldiers kidnapped Saleh Abu ‘Asab, 16, Tareq al-Kharouf, 16, Husam ‘Oleyyan, 16, Laith Darwish, 17, and Younis ‘Oleyyan, 19 years of age.
In related news, a number of Israeli fanatics attacked, and violently beat, a young Palestinian man, identified as Shadi Abed-Rabbo, as he was working in West Jerusalem.
The man was moved to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center, suffering moderate injuries.
The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee and the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) issued a press release stating that former longtime political prisoner, Sami Younis (Abu Nader), 85 years of age, died Wednesday in his home in ‘Ara, in the Haifa District.
The statement said that Younis was held captive by Israeli for 28 years, and was only released under the Shalit Prisoner Swap deal in 2011.
He was kidnapped in January 1983 under charges of “organizing and running cells" to resist the Israeli occupation. He became the oldest Palestinian political prisoner held by Israel.
Younis was sentenced to a life term, and spent most of his 28 years in prison, in solitary confinement.
Israel is still holding captive Karim Yousef Younis, 56, after kidnaping him on January 6, 1983, and his cousin Maher Abdul-Latif Younis, 57, who was abducted on January 18, 1983.
They are among around 26 longtime prisoners who were supposed to be freed as part of the fourth and final stage of a deal made between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, mediated by the U-S, to bring about the resumption of peace talks. But Israel has refused to implement the final phase.
The statement said that Younis was held captive by Israeli for 28 years, and was only released under the Shalit Prisoner Swap deal in 2011.
He was kidnapped in January 1983 under charges of “organizing and running cells" to resist the Israeli occupation. He became the oldest Palestinian political prisoner held by Israel.
Younis was sentenced to a life term, and spent most of his 28 years in prison, in solitary confinement.
Israel is still holding captive Karim Yousef Younis, 56, after kidnaping him on January 6, 1983, and his cousin Maher Abdul-Latif Younis, 57, who was abducted on January 18, 1983.
They are among around 26 longtime prisoners who were supposed to be freed as part of the fourth and final stage of a deal made between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, mediated by the U-S, to bring about the resumption of peace talks. But Israel has refused to implement the final phase.
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday evening, Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and kidnapped one Palestinian.
Mohammad Ayyad Awad, spokesperson of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements in Beit Ummar, said the soldiers stopped Ahmad Yasser Za’aqeeq, 24 years of age, as he was driving his car on the main entrance of the village.
Awad added that the army forced Za’aqeeq out of his car, cuffed and blindfolded him, and took him to an unknown destination.
Late on Wednesday at night, many Palestinians suffered the effects of teargas inhalation, during clashes with Israeli soldiers invading Kafrit village, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
Earlier on Wednesday, soldiers kidnapped two Palestinian children in the al-‘Eesawiyya town, in occupied East Jerusalem, and a teenager in the ‘Askar refugee camp, in the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
Mohammad Ayyad Awad, spokesperson of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements in Beit Ummar, said the soldiers stopped Ahmad Yasser Za’aqeeq, 24 years of age, as he was driving his car on the main entrance of the village.
Awad added that the army forced Za’aqeeq out of his car, cuffed and blindfolded him, and took him to an unknown destination.
Late on Wednesday at night, many Palestinians suffered the effects of teargas inhalation, during clashes with Israeli soldiers invading Kafrit village, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
Earlier on Wednesday, soldiers kidnapped two Palestinian children in the al-‘Eesawiyya town, in occupied East Jerusalem, and a teenager in the ‘Askar refugee camp, in the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
