3 mar 2018
A number of Palestinians were arrested in large-scale raids launched by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Saturday in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
The IOF arrested the two brothers Suhaib and Anas Abu Turki from their family house in Khirbet Qilqis south of al-Khalil city.
The IOF soldiers stormed in large numbers several neighborhoods in al-Khalil, Halhul and Sa'ir, erected checkpoints and searched Palestinian vehicles.
Two Palestinian youths named Siraj and Ahmad al-Khatib were arrested in Hizma town east of Jerusalem, while a third Palestinian identified as Musheer Abu Baker was arrested at a checkpoint near Ya'bad town south of Jenin.
The IOF at daybreak broke into the house of the Palestinian youth Yousuf Abu Khashaba in Bethlehem and handed him an order to appear before the Israeli intelligence for interrogation.
Violent clashes broke out on Friday night in al-Isawiya northeast of Jerusalem after which all entrances to the village were closed by the Israeli forces.
A general closure has been imposed on the West Bank since Wednesday to facilitate Israeli settlers' celebrations for Purim Holiday.
The IOF arrested the two brothers Suhaib and Anas Abu Turki from their family house in Khirbet Qilqis south of al-Khalil city.
The IOF soldiers stormed in large numbers several neighborhoods in al-Khalil, Halhul and Sa'ir, erected checkpoints and searched Palestinian vehicles.
Two Palestinian youths named Siraj and Ahmad al-Khatib were arrested in Hizma town east of Jerusalem, while a third Palestinian identified as Musheer Abu Baker was arrested at a checkpoint near Ya'bad town south of Jenin.
The IOF at daybreak broke into the house of the Palestinian youth Yousuf Abu Khashaba in Bethlehem and handed him an order to appear before the Israeli intelligence for interrogation.
Violent clashes broke out on Friday night in al-Isawiya northeast of Jerusalem after which all entrances to the village were closed by the Israeli forces.
A general closure has been imposed on the West Bank since Wednesday to facilitate Israeli settlers' celebrations for Purim Holiday.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Friday night kidnapped a Palestinian young citizen, from Ya’bad town in Jenin city, as he was trying to return home through Barta’a checkpoint.
Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that 22-year-old Fares Abu Baker was going home from his workplace in Israel (the 1948 occupied lands) when Israeli soldiers detained him at Barta’a checkpoint and took him to an interrogation center.
The town of Eastern Barta’a is isolated from Jenin province by this checkpoint or barrier, which is used to allow the local residents to enter Israel.
Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that 22-year-old Fares Abu Baker was going home from his workplace in Israel (the 1948 occupied lands) when Israeli soldiers detained him at Barta’a checkpoint and took him to an interrogation center.
The town of Eastern Barta’a is isolated from Jenin province by this checkpoint or barrier, which is used to allow the local residents to enter Israel.
2 mar 2018
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Friday apprehended a Palestinian youth while he was grazing sheep in Masafer Yatta town to the south of al-Khalil.
The coordinator of the Popular Committees in al-Khalil Ratib al-Jabour said that IOF soldiers arrested a 17-year-old Palestinian man, Ibrahim al-Shawahin, after assaulting him in Khelal al-Adra grazing area.
The coordinator of the Popular Committees in al-Khalil Ratib al-Jabour said that IOF soldiers arrested a 17-year-old Palestinian man, Ibrahim al-Shawahin, after assaulting him in Khelal al-Adra grazing area.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Friday morning arrested a Palestinian youth at Beit Furik checkpoint east of Nablus city.
Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter that the IOF soldiers arrested Hamdan Khatatba while he was passing, along with his father, near the checkpoint.
The witnesses added that the soldiers stopped the vehicle in which Khatatba was travelling and scrutinized the passengers' IDs then arrested him and transferred him to an unknown destination.
They pointed out that Khatatba's father remained detained at the checkpoint area.
Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter that the IOF soldiers arrested Hamdan Khatatba while he was passing, along with his father, near the checkpoint.
The witnesses added that the soldiers stopped the vehicle in which Khatatba was travelling and scrutinized the passengers' IDs then arrested him and transferred him to an unknown destination.
They pointed out that Khatatba's father remained detained at the checkpoint area.
At least five Palestinians were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at daybreak Friday in mass abduction sweeps launched across the West Bank and Jerusalem.
Eyewitnesses reported that the IOF stormed Nablus's Balata refugee camp and arrested Mohammed Hashash after raiding and searching his house. The IOF further broke into a garage in Balata town, searched it and arrested Salah Isawi in the same area.
The IOF arrested the Palestinian youths Faleh Dahbour and Ibrahim Husein after raiding their houses in Azzun town east of Qalqilya.
In the same context, the IOF abducted Islam al-Basha from his house in Hizma town north of Jerusalem. A local source said that the IOF soldiers broke into al-Basha's house, searched it and confiscated mobile phones.
A series of raids and sweeps were witnessed in Wad Burqin in Jenin with no arrests reported.
Eyewitnesses reported that the IOF stormed Nablus's Balata refugee camp and arrested Mohammed Hashash after raiding and searching his house. The IOF further broke into a garage in Balata town, searched it and arrested Salah Isawi in the same area.
The IOF arrested the Palestinian youths Faleh Dahbour and Ibrahim Husein after raiding their houses in Azzun town east of Qalqilya.
In the same context, the IOF abducted Islam al-Basha from his house in Hizma town north of Jerusalem. A local source said that the IOF soldiers broke into al-Basha's house, searched it and confiscated mobile phones.
A series of raids and sweeps were witnessed in Wad Burqin in Jenin with no arrests reported.
Israel’s Jerusalem Central Court renewed the administrative sentence of the Palestinian-French detainee Salah al-Hamouri to another four months.
The French Foreign Ministry slammed in a statement the court rule, expressing deep concern over Hamouri’s case and Israel’s unwarranted use of the administrative detention policy.
The ministry renewed its calls for restoring Hamouri’s rights and releasing him without further delay.
Prisoner Hamouri was kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces on August 23 from his family home in Jerusalem’s town of Kafr Akeb.
Hamouri was released from Israeli jails, where he had served six years, as part of the Wafa al-Ahrar prisoner swap deal struck with the Israeli occupation in 2011.
A couple of years ago, the occupation authorities banned Hamouri’s wife from entering Palestine and travelling to France via Lod Airport.
Recently, dozens of French activists and civil society representatives launched a campaign calling for releasing lawyer Hamouri, having a French mother and a French wife.
The French Foreign Ministry slammed in a statement the court rule, expressing deep concern over Hamouri’s case and Israel’s unwarranted use of the administrative detention policy.
The ministry renewed its calls for restoring Hamouri’s rights and releasing him without further delay.
Prisoner Hamouri was kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces on August 23 from his family home in Jerusalem’s town of Kafr Akeb.
Hamouri was released from Israeli jails, where he had served six years, as part of the Wafa al-Ahrar prisoner swap deal struck with the Israeli occupation in 2011.
A couple of years ago, the occupation authorities banned Hamouri’s wife from entering Palestine and travelling to France via Lod Airport.
Recently, dozens of French activists and civil society representatives launched a campaign calling for releasing lawyer Hamouri, having a French mother and a French wife.
38-year-old Palestinian ex-prisoner Hamza Dirbas was re-arrested by the Israeli occupation forces in Jerusalem’s northern town of al-Issawiya after he turned himself in for questioning.
Head of the Committee of Jerusalemite Prisoners’ Families, Amjad Abu Asab, said the occupation forces arrested Dirbas after summoning him to questioning and extended his remand for another 24 hours.
He added that Dirbas was detained on claims that he violated the post-release conditions set by the Israeli prison authorities.
Shortly after he was released from Israeli jails on February 21, after he had served a 16-year sentence, Dirbas got banned for one week from Occupied Jerusalem. He returned to his hometown—al-Issawiya—on Wednesday following the end of the ban.
Head of the Committee of Jerusalemite Prisoners’ Families, Amjad Abu Asab, said the occupation forces arrested Dirbas after summoning him to questioning and extended his remand for another 24 hours.
He added that Dirbas was detained on claims that he violated the post-release conditions set by the Israeli prison authorities.
Shortly after he was released from Israeli jails on February 21, after he had served a 16-year sentence, Dirbas got banned for one week from Occupied Jerusalem. He returned to his hometown—al-Issawiya—on Wednesday following the end of the ban.
1 mar 2018
The Detainees Commission published, on Thursday, a report that includes affidavits by Palestinian detainees, including those of children, of torture and maltreatment by Israeli forces, during detention and interrogation at Ofer and Etzion military camps and detention centers.
Mohammad Dawood, 17, from Beit Duqqu, northwest of Jerusalem, said Israeli forces raided his work place, attacked him, threw him to the ground, beat him brutally before detaining him. He told the commission’s attorney Loai Okkeh that one of the soldiers tried to choke him while others pointed their gun at him and threatened to kill him if he did not confess of the charges against him.
Wa’ad Ramahi,17, from Jalazon refugee camp near Ramallah, reported being physically abused during his seizure after Israeli troops raided his home and ransacked it.
Mohammad Mansour, 16, reported being severely beaten by Israeli soldiers when he was detained during confrontations with Israeli soldiers in his village, Saffa, in Ramallah area.
Karam Qatrawi from Jericho and Mohammad Shalaldeh from Hebron, aged 14, also pointed out that Israeli soldiers kicked them with their boots and beat them on head with their guns.
The commission said, according to WAFA, that those detainees are currently in Ofer Israeli prison, near Ramallah.
Additional cases of maltreatment and torture against minors and youth were documented in Etzion prison in the south of the West Bank.
Human rights organizations have long denounced mistreatment of Palestinian detainees, including children, by Israeli forces.
Mohammad Dawood, 17, from Beit Duqqu, northwest of Jerusalem, said Israeli forces raided his work place, attacked him, threw him to the ground, beat him brutally before detaining him. He told the commission’s attorney Loai Okkeh that one of the soldiers tried to choke him while others pointed their gun at him and threatened to kill him if he did not confess of the charges against him.
Wa’ad Ramahi,17, from Jalazon refugee camp near Ramallah, reported being physically abused during his seizure after Israeli troops raided his home and ransacked it.
Mohammad Mansour, 16, reported being severely beaten by Israeli soldiers when he was detained during confrontations with Israeli soldiers in his village, Saffa, in Ramallah area.
Karam Qatrawi from Jericho and Mohammad Shalaldeh from Hebron, aged 14, also pointed out that Israeli soldiers kicked them with their boots and beat them on head with their guns.
The commission said, according to WAFA, that those detainees are currently in Ofer Israeli prison, near Ramallah.
Additional cases of maltreatment and torture against minors and youth were documented in Etzion prison in the south of the West Bank.
Human rights organizations have long denounced mistreatment of Palestinian detainees, including children, by Israeli forces.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Thursday kidnapped coordinator of Youth against Settlement in al-Khalil city Issa Amr.
Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that Israeli soldiers kidnapped Amr from the headquarters of Youth against Settlement in al-Khalil and took him to an interrogation center.
In a separate incident, an Israeli bus carrying Jewish settlers was thrown with paint as it was traveling near al-Arroub refugee camp, north of al-Khalil.
Meanwhile, hundreds of settlers celebrated the last day of the Purim holiday, during which they held provocative marches in Tel Rumeida neighborhood and in the Ibrahimi Mosque’s courtyards.
The IOF also intensified its presence in the Old City of al-Khalil to secure the settlers’ celebration of the holiday.
Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that Israeli soldiers kidnapped Amr from the headquarters of Youth against Settlement in al-Khalil and took him to an interrogation center.
In a separate incident, an Israeli bus carrying Jewish settlers was thrown with paint as it was traveling near al-Arroub refugee camp, north of al-Khalil.
Meanwhile, hundreds of settlers celebrated the last day of the Purim holiday, during which they held provocative marches in Tel Rumeida neighborhood and in the Ibrahimi Mosque’s courtyards.
The IOF also intensified its presence in the Old City of al-Khalil to secure the settlers’ celebration of the holiday.
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested Thursday a Palestinian girl, north of Bethlehem, for alleged knife possession.
The Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot reported that an 18-year-old girl was detained at an Israeli military checkpoint north of Bethlehem after allegedly finding a knife in her bag.
Israeli military sources claimed that the detainee tried to attack the soldiers before being arrested.
The girl, whose identity remained unknown, was later taken to a nearby investigation center.
The Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot reported that an 18-year-old girl was detained at an Israeli military checkpoint north of Bethlehem after allegedly finding a knife in her bag.
Israeli military sources claimed that the detainee tried to attack the soldiers before being arrested.
The girl, whose identity remained unknown, was later taken to a nearby investigation center.
The Palestinian Prisoner Center for Studies (PPCS) has warned of an imminent implosion inside Israeli prisons as a result of the unbearable pressures and restrictions they are being exposed to by the Israeli prison service and its jailers.
According to the center, the prisoners in Nafha jail started on Wednesday protest steps in solidarity with their prison mate Wa’el al-Natsheh, from al-Khalil, who was physically assaulted by soldiers and locked up in an isolation cell after he refused to be strip-searched.
The prisoners closed all sections of the prison and refused to leave them as part of their protest steps.
The prisoners also submitted a letter to the prison administration demanding it to end the isolation of Natsheh and all punitive measures taken against him.
According to the center, the prisoners in Nafha jail started on Wednesday protest steps in solidarity with their prison mate Wa’el al-Natsheh, from al-Khalil, who was physically assaulted by soldiers and locked up in an isolation cell after he refused to be strip-searched.
The prisoners closed all sections of the prison and refused to leave them as part of their protest steps.
The prisoners also submitted a letter to the prison administration demanding it to end the isolation of Natsheh and all punitive measures taken against him.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at daybreak Thursday kidnapped a number of Palestinians following a round of assaults carried out throughout the West Bank.
Israeli patrols rolled into Jenin’s western town of Yamon at the crack of dawn and ravaged the homes of a Palestinian civilian Aneid Hamdiya and his brother, Bajes, without prior notifications.
The occupation soldiers cracked down on Palestinians passing through the area and subjected them to intensive inspection.
At the same time, the IOF stormed al-Khalil province, in the southern occupied West Bank, and raked through residential neighborhoods in Halhul and Yatta towns, ravaging Palestinian homes all the way through the raid.
A disabled young man, identified as Abdul Kader Abu Usba, was kidnapped by the IOF from Zaboud neighborhood, in al-Khalil’s northern town of Halhul, and dragged to an unidentified destination.
Dozens of Israeli soldiers further stormed Tulkarem’s northern town of Seida, wreaked havoc on six Palestinian homes, and came down heavily on the inhabitants.
The campaign culminated in the abduction of the Palestinian ex-prisoner Sameh Ajaj after he had been made to endure heavy beating.
Israeli patrols rolled into Jenin’s western town of Yamon at the crack of dawn and ravaged the homes of a Palestinian civilian Aneid Hamdiya and his brother, Bajes, without prior notifications.
The occupation soldiers cracked down on Palestinians passing through the area and subjected them to intensive inspection.
At the same time, the IOF stormed al-Khalil province, in the southern occupied West Bank, and raked through residential neighborhoods in Halhul and Yatta towns, ravaging Palestinian homes all the way through the raid.
A disabled young man, identified as Abdul Kader Abu Usba, was kidnapped by the IOF from Zaboud neighborhood, in al-Khalil’s northern town of Halhul, and dragged to an unidentified destination.
Dozens of Israeli soldiers further stormed Tulkarem’s northern town of Seida, wreaked havoc on six Palestinian homes, and came down heavily on the inhabitants.
The campaign culminated in the abduction of the Palestinian ex-prisoner Sameh Ajaj after he had been made to endure heavy beating.
The father of Mohamed al-Tamimi, the boy who suffered last December a rubber bullet injury in the head during skirmishes with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank town of Nabi Saleh, said that the Israeli army’s claim that his son was injured after he fell off his bike was untrue.
Yoav Mordechai, Israel’s military coordinator of government activities in the occupied territories, claimed on his Facebook page that Tamimi, aged 15, had confessed during an interrogation session with him that he got injured after he accidentally fell off his electric bike.
The father, however, affirmed that the false story of Mordechai had been taken from his son under physical abuse and threat, adding that the shooting incident that led to his son’s injury happened in full view of eight eyewitnesses.
There are also medical reports, X-rays, and doctors’ testimonies that confirm his injury by a rubber bullet, the father added.
The father accused Israeli intelligence interrogators of forcing his son to make such story after exposing him to psychological and physical pressure.
How the Israeli Army Got a Teen Who Was Shot in the Head to Say He Fell Off a Bike
COGAT chief Yoav Mordechai wants us to believe that friends, relatives, doctors and left-wing activists cooked up a huge lie about Mohammed Tamimi. But he was just telling investigators what they wanted to hear
Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, the coordinator of government activities in the territories, expects us to believe that tens of Palestinians and a few Israelis conspired to concoct a huge lie in order to slander the Israel Defense Forces.
According to him, the liar is not only 15-year-old Mohammed Tamimi. The liars are also his parents, members of his extended family in the village of Nabi Saleh, and friends – including Israeli leftist activist Jonathan Pollak. The latter were with Tamimi when he climbed a ladder on December 15 to see what the soldiers, ensconced in an empty house in his village, were up to. The teen was shot in the head and fell to the ground in a puddle of his own blood.
In his Facebook post on Tuesday, Mordechai claims, in effect, that the Palestinians are stupid because so many of them collaborated in creating a lie that is so very easy to expose. If indeed there was a lie.
He is relying on things Tamimi told his police interrogators on Monday, just hours after a large military force burst into Nabi Saleh and into his home, before dawn, rousing him from his sleep and arresting him. Five other minors and five adults were arrested along with him, under similar conditions.
Still in the dark, half asleep and shaken, surrounded by rifles pointing at him, with air reeking of tear gas and the disgusting smell of the skunk-water sprayed by the troops – Mohammed Tamimi was taken in for interrogation. It is easy to guess what went through the mind of the wounded boy, who is slated to undergo yet another operation to reconstruct his skull in the coming weeks.
He must have been thinking: Perhaps I'll be held under arrest for many weeks. Perhaps my medical condition will get worse. Perhaps I won't even be released before going into surgery.
Mohammed Tamimi's surgical report
Tamimi told the investigators and representatives of the Civil Administration Coordination and Liaison Office, who for some reason made a point of being present, what they wanted to hear: that he was injured when he fell off his bike.
The security forces carry out hundreds of arrests and interrogations every week in Jerusalem and the West Bank. No one disputes the fact that one of their aims is to expose those who plan or carry out armed attacks. A second aim is to gather information, even of the most innocent sort, about as many people as possible and about social and political activities. Very banal, sometimes even embarrassing, information is extracted – even years later and under unexpected circumstances: when a person travels abroad, or when someone applies for an entry permit into Israel or for a residency permit for non-Palestinian spouse.
A third aim (though not necessarily the third most important) is to quash popular activity against the occupation, of which the village of Nabi Saleh has become a symbol. Palestinians are forbidden to demonstrate their resistance to the occupation, in any manner.
One of the ways of deterring individuals who may be potential participants in popular struggles is to wreak serious harm on people who are already taking part in them – by means ranging from injuring to killing; to detention under conditions harsher than those encountered by graft suspect Nir Hefetz; sleep deprivation; painful handcuffing; humiliating interrogations; ridiculous accusations like those based on "evidence" like empty tear-gas cannisters or visits to book exhibitions; administrative detentions (arrest without charges being filed); arrest until the conclusion of proceedings; and exorbitant fines.
Mass arrests, interrogations and collecting of information – these are an integral part of the control Israel wields over the Palestinians. Many of the arrests are another means whereby Israel attempts, systematically, to undermine and unravel the Palestinian social fabric in order to weaken its ability to withstand and defy the occupation.
When the detainees are minors, their jailers have a greater ability – with the help of a few slaps, painful positions during questioning and psychological pressure – to extract false incriminations and exaggerated, boastful descriptions of events from them. It is easy to manipulate and break them.
Among themselves the Palestinians are debating participation of minors in protest activities against the occupation. The ethos of the struggle is dear to them, and the loathing of the occupation runs too deep for this debate to be conducted in public, but the high price that is being paid by minors and their families is clear to everyone.
It is too early to say if a post like Yoav Mordechai’s will encourage the debate and whether it will be taken into the public domain or strengthen the position of those who say that Israel stops at nothing in order to oppress and therefore youngsters should not be denied their right to revolt.
Yoav Mordechai, Israel’s military coordinator of government activities in the occupied territories, claimed on his Facebook page that Tamimi, aged 15, had confessed during an interrogation session with him that he got injured after he accidentally fell off his electric bike.
The father, however, affirmed that the false story of Mordechai had been taken from his son under physical abuse and threat, adding that the shooting incident that led to his son’s injury happened in full view of eight eyewitnesses.
There are also medical reports, X-rays, and doctors’ testimonies that confirm his injury by a rubber bullet, the father added.
The father accused Israeli intelligence interrogators of forcing his son to make such story after exposing him to psychological and physical pressure.
How the Israeli Army Got a Teen Who Was Shot in the Head to Say He Fell Off a Bike
COGAT chief Yoav Mordechai wants us to believe that friends, relatives, doctors and left-wing activists cooked up a huge lie about Mohammed Tamimi. But he was just telling investigators what they wanted to hear
Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, the coordinator of government activities in the territories, expects us to believe that tens of Palestinians and a few Israelis conspired to concoct a huge lie in order to slander the Israel Defense Forces.
According to him, the liar is not only 15-year-old Mohammed Tamimi. The liars are also his parents, members of his extended family in the village of Nabi Saleh, and friends – including Israeli leftist activist Jonathan Pollak. The latter were with Tamimi when he climbed a ladder on December 15 to see what the soldiers, ensconced in an empty house in his village, were up to. The teen was shot in the head and fell to the ground in a puddle of his own blood.
In his Facebook post on Tuesday, Mordechai claims, in effect, that the Palestinians are stupid because so many of them collaborated in creating a lie that is so very easy to expose. If indeed there was a lie.
He is relying on things Tamimi told his police interrogators on Monday, just hours after a large military force burst into Nabi Saleh and into his home, before dawn, rousing him from his sleep and arresting him. Five other minors and five adults were arrested along with him, under similar conditions.
Still in the dark, half asleep and shaken, surrounded by rifles pointing at him, with air reeking of tear gas and the disgusting smell of the skunk-water sprayed by the troops – Mohammed Tamimi was taken in for interrogation. It is easy to guess what went through the mind of the wounded boy, who is slated to undergo yet another operation to reconstruct his skull in the coming weeks.
He must have been thinking: Perhaps I'll be held under arrest for many weeks. Perhaps my medical condition will get worse. Perhaps I won't even be released before going into surgery.
Mohammed Tamimi's surgical report
Tamimi told the investigators and representatives of the Civil Administration Coordination and Liaison Office, who for some reason made a point of being present, what they wanted to hear: that he was injured when he fell off his bike.
The security forces carry out hundreds of arrests and interrogations every week in Jerusalem and the West Bank. No one disputes the fact that one of their aims is to expose those who plan or carry out armed attacks. A second aim is to gather information, even of the most innocent sort, about as many people as possible and about social and political activities. Very banal, sometimes even embarrassing, information is extracted – even years later and under unexpected circumstances: when a person travels abroad, or when someone applies for an entry permit into Israel or for a residency permit for non-Palestinian spouse.
A third aim (though not necessarily the third most important) is to quash popular activity against the occupation, of which the village of Nabi Saleh has become a symbol. Palestinians are forbidden to demonstrate their resistance to the occupation, in any manner.
One of the ways of deterring individuals who may be potential participants in popular struggles is to wreak serious harm on people who are already taking part in them – by means ranging from injuring to killing; to detention under conditions harsher than those encountered by graft suspect Nir Hefetz; sleep deprivation; painful handcuffing; humiliating interrogations; ridiculous accusations like those based on "evidence" like empty tear-gas cannisters or visits to book exhibitions; administrative detentions (arrest without charges being filed); arrest until the conclusion of proceedings; and exorbitant fines.
Mass arrests, interrogations and collecting of information – these are an integral part of the control Israel wields over the Palestinians. Many of the arrests are another means whereby Israel attempts, systematically, to undermine and unravel the Palestinian social fabric in order to weaken its ability to withstand and defy the occupation.
When the detainees are minors, their jailers have a greater ability – with the help of a few slaps, painful positions during questioning and psychological pressure – to extract false incriminations and exaggerated, boastful descriptions of events from them. It is easy to manipulate and break them.
Among themselves the Palestinians are debating participation of minors in protest activities against the occupation. The ethos of the struggle is dear to them, and the loathing of the occupation runs too deep for this debate to be conducted in public, but the high price that is being paid by minors and their families is clear to everyone.
It is too early to say if a post like Yoav Mordechai’s will encourage the debate and whether it will be taken into the public domain or strengthen the position of those who say that Israel stops at nothing in order to oppress and therefore youngsters should not be denied their right to revolt.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that a Palestinian detainee received an administrative detention order for four months, just hours before his scheduled release from Israeli prison.
The PPS said the detainee, Tawfiq Ahmad Shalabi, 23, was supposed to be released, Wednesday, after he served a prison sentence of nine and a half months.
Shalabi was abducted October 2016, and after serving his prison sentence, he was instantly forced into Administrative Detention for two and a half months, without charges or trial.
Shalabi, from Jenin refugee camp, in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, was supposed to be released, Wednesday, but received another arbitrary Administrative Detention order for four months.
It is worth mentioning that many detainees spent years in Israeli prisons under constantly renewed arbitrary Administrative Detention orders, without charges or trial.
The PPS said the detainee, Tawfiq Ahmad Shalabi, 23, was supposed to be released, Wednesday, after he served a prison sentence of nine and a half months.
Shalabi was abducted October 2016, and after serving his prison sentence, he was instantly forced into Administrative Detention for two and a half months, without charges or trial.
Shalabi, from Jenin refugee camp, in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, was supposed to be released, Wednesday, but received another arbitrary Administrative Detention order for four months.
It is worth mentioning that many detainees spent years in Israeli prisons under constantly renewed arbitrary Administrative Detention orders, without charges or trial.
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday evening, a young Palestinian man from the al-Yamoun town, and obstructed traffic at Haifa Road, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and at Qabatia Junction, south of Jenin.
Media sources said the soldiers invaded and searched homes in al-Yamoun, and abducted Aneed Adel Hamdiyya, 34.
They added that the soldiers also invaded and ransacked the home of a political prisoner, identified as Bajes Hamdiyya.
In related news, the soldiers installed a military roadblock near Kafr Dan village, and at Qabatia junction, before stopping and searching dozens of cars, and interrogated many Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards.
Media sources said the soldiers invaded and searched homes in al-Yamoun, and abducted Aneed Adel Hamdiyya, 34.
They added that the soldiers also invaded and ransacked the home of a political prisoner, identified as Bajes Hamdiyya.
In related news, the soldiers installed a military roadblock near Kafr Dan village, and at Qabatia junction, before stopping and searching dozens of cars, and interrogated many Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards.
Palestinian detainees, held under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders in Ofer and Majeddo Israeli detention camps, are still boycotting Israeli military courts, for the fourteenth consecutive day, demanding basic rights.
The detainees are protesting the sharp increase of Administrative Detention orders, holing them captive without charges or trial, in addition to constant violations against them.
They are also calling on the International Community to intervene, and present the Israeli violations to the International Criminal Court.
In a statement, the detainees declared that boycotting Israel’s military courts is the first step in their protest, which will likely escalate, and added that they started boycotting the military courts on February 15th.
Israel holds Administrative Detainees captive for months, and years in many cases, without filing charges against them, under the pretext of having “secret files against them,” files that even their defense lawyers do not have access to.
It is worth monitoring that Israel issued 1248 Administrative Detention orders in the year 2015, 1742 in 2016, and 1060 in 2017.
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In administrative detention, a person is held without trial without having committed an offense, on the grounds that he or she plans to break the law in the future.
As this measure is supposed to be preventive, it has no time limit. The person is detained without legal proceedings, by order of the regional military commander, based on classified evidence that is not revealed to them.
Read More About Administrative Detention – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (B’Tselem)
This leaves the detainees helpless – facing unknown allegations with no way to disprove them, not knowing when they will be released, and without being charged, tried or convicted.
The detainees are protesting the sharp increase of Administrative Detention orders, holing them captive without charges or trial, in addition to constant violations against them.
They are also calling on the International Community to intervene, and present the Israeli violations to the International Criminal Court.
In a statement, the detainees declared that boycotting Israel’s military courts is the first step in their protest, which will likely escalate, and added that they started boycotting the military courts on February 15th.
Israel holds Administrative Detainees captive for months, and years in many cases, without filing charges against them, under the pretext of having “secret files against them,” files that even their defense lawyers do not have access to.
It is worth monitoring that Israel issued 1248 Administrative Detention orders in the year 2015, 1742 in 2016, and 1060 in 2017.
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In administrative detention, a person is held without trial without having committed an offense, on the grounds that he or she plans to break the law in the future.
As this measure is supposed to be preventive, it has no time limit. The person is detained without legal proceedings, by order of the regional military commander, based on classified evidence that is not revealed to them.
Read More About Administrative Detention – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (B’Tselem)
This leaves the detainees helpless – facing unknown allegations with no way to disprove them, not knowing when they will be released, and without being charged, tried or convicted.
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