10 mar 2017
The Palestinian journalist detainee Mohammad al-Qiq suspended his hunger strike on Friday upon reaching a deal with Israeli Prison Service (IPS), his wife said in a press conference that was held on Friday afternoon in Doura town in al-Khalil.
Muhammad al-Qiq has suspended his 33-day hunger strike upon reaching a deal with the IPS to be released on April 14, she added.
Al-Qiq, 34, started his hunger strike on February 6 in protest at being held in administrative detention, Israel’s widely condemned policy of internment without charge or trial.
Al-Qiq was released in May 2016 after going on a 94-day hunger strike in protest at his administrative detention.
He was re-detained on January 15 at Beit El military checkpoint, north of Ramallah, and given a new administrative detention sentence.
Under administrative detention rules, Israel may detain Palestinians without charge or trial and on the basis of secret evidence for up to six months, indefinitely renewable by Israeli military courts.
Muhammad al-Qiq has suspended his 33-day hunger strike upon reaching a deal with the IPS to be released on April 14, she added.
Al-Qiq, 34, started his hunger strike on February 6 in protest at being held in administrative detention, Israel’s widely condemned policy of internment without charge or trial.
Al-Qiq was released in May 2016 after going on a 94-day hunger strike in protest at his administrative detention.
He was re-detained on January 15 at Beit El military checkpoint, north of Ramallah, and given a new administrative detention sentence.
Under administrative detention rules, Israel may detain Palestinians without charge or trial and on the basis of secret evidence for up to six months, indefinitely renewable by Israeli military courts.
Ihsan Dababssa
The Israeli Occupation Authorities (IOA) issued since the outbreak of Jerusalem Intifada ten administrative detention orders against Palestinian female prisoners, a rights group revealed Friday.
Spokesman for Palestine Center for Prisoners’ Studies Riyad al-Ashqar affirmed that ten female prisoners were placed under administrative detention since the beginning of Jerusalem Intifada in October 2015, eight of them were earlier released.
However, two female prisoners identified as Sabah Faroun and Ihsan Dababssa are still held in administrative detention without charge or trial, he pointed out.
Sabah, a mother of four children, was arrested in June 2016 after Israeli police violently broke into her family home in occupied Jerusalem for Facebook incitement.
She was first placed under administrative detention for four months. Her detention was then renewed twice for four months each time.
Ihsan, from al-Khalil, was arrested in February 2017 from her family home and taken to Etzion investigation center. She was then placed under administrative detention for six months.
Ihsan had earlier spent four years behind Israeli bars in two separate arrests in 2007 and 2014 for being allegedly affiliated to Jihad Movement.
56 Palestinian female prisoners are currently held in HaSharon and Damon prisons suffering harsh treatment and bad incarceration conditions including denying them access to the most basic rights including heating, winter clothing, medical treatment, and family visits.
Israel detained 15,000 Palestinian women since its occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in 1967.
The Israeli Occupation Authorities (IOA) issued since the outbreak of Jerusalem Intifada ten administrative detention orders against Palestinian female prisoners, a rights group revealed Friday.
Spokesman for Palestine Center for Prisoners’ Studies Riyad al-Ashqar affirmed that ten female prisoners were placed under administrative detention since the beginning of Jerusalem Intifada in October 2015, eight of them were earlier released.
However, two female prisoners identified as Sabah Faroun and Ihsan Dababssa are still held in administrative detention without charge or trial, he pointed out.
Sabah, a mother of four children, was arrested in June 2016 after Israeli police violently broke into her family home in occupied Jerusalem for Facebook incitement.
She was first placed under administrative detention for four months. Her detention was then renewed twice for four months each time.
Ihsan, from al-Khalil, was arrested in February 2017 from her family home and taken to Etzion investigation center. She was then placed under administrative detention for six months.
Ihsan had earlier spent four years behind Israeli bars in two separate arrests in 2007 and 2014 for being allegedly affiliated to Jihad Movement.
56 Palestinian female prisoners are currently held in HaSharon and Damon prisons suffering harsh treatment and bad incarceration conditions including denying them access to the most basic rights including heating, winter clothing, medical treatment, and family visits.
Israel detained 15,000 Palestinian women since its occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in 1967.
A number of Palestinians choked on teargas and others were summoned to questioning at daybreak Friday in clashes with the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in Bethlehem.
Reporting from the scene, a PIC news correspondent said clashes flared up in Artas village, south of Bethlehem, shortly after an Israeli military patrol rolled into the area and targeted Palestinian homes with heavy spates of teargas canisters.
A number of civilians reportedly choked on teargas in the assault.
The Palestinian anti-occupation protesters responded by hurling stones at the occupation soldiers.
At the same time, the IOF stormed Aida refugee camp for Palestinian refugees, north of Bethlehem, and wreaked havoc on civilian homes before they summoned two youngsters—Hamza al-Nabtiti and Assaad Darwish—to questioning.
The occupation army further broke into al-Duheisha refugee camp, Hendaza Mount, and al-Mawalih area in Bethlehem and handed over interrogation summonses to three Palestinian youths.
Reporting from the scene, a PIC news correspondent said clashes flared up in Artas village, south of Bethlehem, shortly after an Israeli military patrol rolled into the area and targeted Palestinian homes with heavy spates of teargas canisters.
A number of civilians reportedly choked on teargas in the assault.
The Palestinian anti-occupation protesters responded by hurling stones at the occupation soldiers.
At the same time, the IOF stormed Aida refugee camp for Palestinian refugees, north of Bethlehem, and wreaked havoc on civilian homes before they summoned two youngsters—Hamza al-Nabtiti and Assaad Darwish—to questioning.
The occupation army further broke into al-Duheisha refugee camp, Hendaza Mount, and al-Mawalih area in Bethlehem and handed over interrogation summonses to three Palestinian youths.
Israeli soldiers and police officers have detained, this week alone, 89 Palestinians workers “for entering Israel without permits,” and shut down twelve construction sites for hiring them.
According to Israeli media outlets, the police arrested 20 persons; many are contractors, and others are drivers, for transporting and providing aid to the Palestinian workers, including providing them with shelter.
They added that the police shut down 12 work places since the beginning of this year, for hiring Palestinian workers who do not have work permits in Israel, and that all the workers were taken prisoner in construction sites.
According to Israeli media outlets, the police arrested 20 persons; many are contractors, and others are drivers, for transporting and providing aid to the Palestinian workers, including providing them with shelter.
They added that the police shut down 12 work places since the beginning of this year, for hiring Palestinian workers who do not have work permits in Israel, and that all the workers were taken prisoner in construction sites.
9 mar 2017
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, since Wednesday evening until morning hours Thursday, thirty-two Palestinians, including children, between the ages of 11 and 15, and a female legislator, in different parts of the occupied West Bank.
The Hebron office of the PPS in the southern part of the West Bank, has reported that the soldiers invaded and ransacked many homes in the district, and abducted eight Palestinians, including a female legislator.
It identified the abducted Palestinians as legislator Samira Halayqa, Mo’tasem Farouq Masalma, Mahmoud Raed Masalma, Rami Edrees, Khaled Awad, Tareq Ersheidat, in addition to two siblings, Majed and Morsi al-‘Ajlouni.
The soldiers also invaded and searched homes in the northern West Bank district of Tulkarem, and abducted three Palestinians, identified as Mahmoud Hussein Abu Hamza, 20, Mothanna Abdul-Rahim Rabea’, 13, and Issa Omar Odah, 24.
In Nablus, also in the northern part of the West Bank, the soldiers searched homes and abducted three Palestinians, identified as Jihad Nashata, Assef Tayyim and Suleiman ‘Oweiss.
Israeli Soldiers Abduct Seven Palestinians In Qalqilia, Tulkarem, Nablus And Salfit
In occupied Jerusalem, the soldiers stormed and ransacked dozens of homes, including in Qalandia refugee camp, interrogated many Palestinians, and abducted nine, including children, between the ages of eleven and fifteen.
They have been identified as Mohammad ‘Alqam, Jawad Abu Sneina, and five children, ages 11-15, identified as Ahmad Yousef ‘Obeid, Mohammad Mustafa, Malek al-Qaisi, Rami al-Joulani and Husam Zaghal.
Also in Jerusalem, soldiers and personnel of the tax department, invaded many stores and homes, in Salaheddin Street and in Silwan town, and abducted two Palestinian shop owners, forcing many others to shut their stores down.
The two have been identified as Jawad Abu Sneina, who was taken prisoner near the al-Aqsa mosque, and Waseem Abu Bader, in the al-‘Abbasiyya neighborhood, in Silwan town.
In addition, the soldiers attacked several schoolchildren in Wadi Hilweh neighborhood in Silwan, allegedly after “throwing rocks” at a colonialist outpost.
The soldiers also abducted Ahmad Hasan Mteir, and Mohammad Hasan al-Lowzi, from Qalandia refugee camp, north of Jerusalem.
In Ramallah, in central West Bank, the soldiers abducted Dia’ Rezeq Hmeidat and Hazem Mahmoud Hannoun.
In Qalqilia, in the northern part of the West Bank, the soldiers and abducted three Palestinians, identified as Mahmoud Kayed Abu Adwan, Ibrahim Talal Shreim and Nidal Ahmad Hussein.
In Salfit district, the soldiers abducted one Palestinian, identified as Emad Raja ‘Ayyash, after breaking into his home and searching it.
Another Palestinian, identified as Mohammad Mahmoud Abu Shouka, from Gaza, was abducted at the Container military roadblock, near Bethlehem.
The Hebron office of the PPS in the southern part of the West Bank, has reported that the soldiers invaded and ransacked many homes in the district, and abducted eight Palestinians, including a female legislator.
It identified the abducted Palestinians as legislator Samira Halayqa, Mo’tasem Farouq Masalma, Mahmoud Raed Masalma, Rami Edrees, Khaled Awad, Tareq Ersheidat, in addition to two siblings, Majed and Morsi al-‘Ajlouni.
The soldiers also invaded and searched homes in the northern West Bank district of Tulkarem, and abducted three Palestinians, identified as Mahmoud Hussein Abu Hamza, 20, Mothanna Abdul-Rahim Rabea’, 13, and Issa Omar Odah, 24.
In Nablus, also in the northern part of the West Bank, the soldiers searched homes and abducted three Palestinians, identified as Jihad Nashata, Assef Tayyim and Suleiman ‘Oweiss.
Israeli Soldiers Abduct Seven Palestinians In Qalqilia, Tulkarem, Nablus And Salfit
In occupied Jerusalem, the soldiers stormed and ransacked dozens of homes, including in Qalandia refugee camp, interrogated many Palestinians, and abducted nine, including children, between the ages of eleven and fifteen.
They have been identified as Mohammad ‘Alqam, Jawad Abu Sneina, and five children, ages 11-15, identified as Ahmad Yousef ‘Obeid, Mohammad Mustafa, Malek al-Qaisi, Rami al-Joulani and Husam Zaghal.
Also in Jerusalem, soldiers and personnel of the tax department, invaded many stores and homes, in Salaheddin Street and in Silwan town, and abducted two Palestinian shop owners, forcing many others to shut their stores down.
The two have been identified as Jawad Abu Sneina, who was taken prisoner near the al-Aqsa mosque, and Waseem Abu Bader, in the al-‘Abbasiyya neighborhood, in Silwan town.
In addition, the soldiers attacked several schoolchildren in Wadi Hilweh neighborhood in Silwan, allegedly after “throwing rocks” at a colonialist outpost.
The soldiers also abducted Ahmad Hasan Mteir, and Mohammad Hasan al-Lowzi, from Qalandia refugee camp, north of Jerusalem.
In Ramallah, in central West Bank, the soldiers abducted Dia’ Rezeq Hmeidat and Hazem Mahmoud Hannoun.
In Qalqilia, in the northern part of the West Bank, the soldiers and abducted three Palestinians, identified as Mahmoud Kayed Abu Adwan, Ibrahim Talal Shreim and Nidal Ahmad Hussein.
In Salfit district, the soldiers abducted one Palestinian, identified as Emad Raja ‘Ayyash, after breaking into his home and searching it.
Another Palestinian, identified as Mohammad Mahmoud Abu Shouka, from Gaza, was abducted at the Container military roadblock, near Bethlehem.
MP Samira al-Halayka
Several Palestinians, including an MP, were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in mass abduction sweeps launched at daybreak Thursday.
Palestinian MP Samira al-Halayka (Hamas) was kidnapped by the IOF from her home in al-Shouyoukh town.
According to a PIC correspondent, MP al-Halayka was handcuffed and blindfolded by the Israeli soldiers.
The IOF also seized her laptop and mobile phone before they dragged her to an unidentified destination.
Al-Halayka’s arrest brings the number of Palestinian MP in Israeli jails to 10.
Meanwhile, an Israeli undercover unit, escorted by dozens of soldiers, broke into the home of the wanted Palestinian youth Mahdi Mer’i, in Tulkarem’s northern town of Balaa, and ravaged the family home in the hunt for Mer’i.
One day earlier, the IOF arrested Mer’i’s father and brothers in an attempt to force him to turn himself in.
The campaign culminated in the abduction of three Palestinians from Tulkarem.
Ex-prisoners Jihad Nashata and Assef Teim were also kidnapped by the Israeli troops from their homes in Nablus’s southern town of Qablan.
Another Palestinian youth—Suleima Aweis—was kidnapped from his home in al-Laban town, south of Nablus.
At the same time, the Israeli troops arrested two Palestinians in Qalqilya and another near a military checkpoint in Jit village.
Dozens of Israeli soldiers stormed Rafat town, in Salfit, and kidnapped Emad Ayash after they rummaged into his family home.
Ex-prisoners Ahmed Mteir and Mahmoud al-Lawzi were further kidnapped by the Israeli forces from Qalandiya refugee camp, north of Occupied Jerusalem. Two other youths were arrested in Jerusalem’s towns of Qatna and al-Ram.
Several Palestinians, including an MP, were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in mass abduction sweeps launched at daybreak Thursday.
Palestinian MP Samira al-Halayka (Hamas) was kidnapped by the IOF from her home in al-Shouyoukh town.
According to a PIC correspondent, MP al-Halayka was handcuffed and blindfolded by the Israeli soldiers.
The IOF also seized her laptop and mobile phone before they dragged her to an unidentified destination.
Al-Halayka’s arrest brings the number of Palestinian MP in Israeli jails to 10.
Meanwhile, an Israeli undercover unit, escorted by dozens of soldiers, broke into the home of the wanted Palestinian youth Mahdi Mer’i, in Tulkarem’s northern town of Balaa, and ravaged the family home in the hunt for Mer’i.
One day earlier, the IOF arrested Mer’i’s father and brothers in an attempt to force him to turn himself in.
The campaign culminated in the abduction of three Palestinians from Tulkarem.
Ex-prisoners Jihad Nashata and Assef Teim were also kidnapped by the Israeli troops from their homes in Nablus’s southern town of Qablan.
Another Palestinian youth—Suleima Aweis—was kidnapped from his home in al-Laban town, south of Nablus.
At the same time, the Israeli troops arrested two Palestinians in Qalqilya and another near a military checkpoint in Jit village.
Dozens of Israeli soldiers stormed Rafat town, in Salfit, and kidnapped Emad Ayash after they rummaged into his family home.
Ex-prisoners Ahmed Mteir and Mahmoud al-Lawzi were further kidnapped by the Israeli forces from Qalandiya refugee camp, north of Occupied Jerusalem. Two other youths were arrested in Jerusalem’s towns of Qatna and al-Ram.
The Shin Bet, Israel’s internal intelligence, on Wednesday kidnapped a young man and his mother in al-Khalil.
Local sources said that 32-year-old Rawhi Salimiya from Idhna town, west of al-Khalil, and his mother Mazuza were taken prisoners after they went to Etzion detention center in response to a summons issued against them.
There is no information if they will be held for several hours and then released. The reason for their detention is also unknown.
Local sources said that 32-year-old Rawhi Salimiya from Idhna town, west of al-Khalil, and his mother Mazuza were taken prisoners after they went to Etzion detention center in response to a summons issued against them.
There is no information if they will be held for several hours and then released. The reason for their detention is also unknown.
