5 may 2014
Israeli forces arrested Palestinian journalist Majdoleen Hassouna, age 26, at al-Karama crossing, between the West Bank and Jordan, upon her return from Lebanon Monday afternoon.
Majdoleen Hassouna, from Beit Umareen village, near Nablus, works as a project officer at the Euromid Observer for Human Rights-West Bank, reports Al Ray.
She was on leave to take part in a Beirut workshop entitled "the Arab International Forum to Support the Organization of Prisoners of Freedom”.
Local media said that Israeli forces seized Hassouna's travel luggage and proceeded to interrogate her.
The Euromid Observer expressed its concern about the detention of Hassoun, demanding her immediate release.
Furthermore, in a related vein, Al Ray reports that Israeli forces arrested Osama Saleam, 10, after storming the al-Azzun town, near the occupied West Bank city of Qalqilya, according to witnesses.
In addition, the military closed the western entrance to al-Azzun town, with its eastern gate, preventing Palestinian citizens from crossing through.
Each year, around 500-700 Palestinian children, some as young as 12, are arrested, detained and prosecuted in the Israeli military detention system, with the majority of Palestinian child detainees being held on charges of throwing stones.
IOF arrests Palestinian child in Azzun town
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) raided on Monday night Azzun town, east of Qalqiliya, and closed its entrances. According to the PIC reporter, Israeli soldiers arrested the 10-year-old child Osama Salim and took him to an unknown destination after breaking into his parents' home.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces raided at dawn Tuesday several areas throughout Bethlehem city and roamed its streets. No arrests or summons were reported.
PIC correspondent reported that an Israeli military checkpoint was erected in Sharaf area southwest of Bethlehem, where numbers of citizens were detained for few hours before their release.
On the other hand, Israeli military court in occupied Jerusalem on Monday extended the arrest of a Jerusalemite woman for 24 hours in addition to 3 Jerusalemite minors.
Majdoleen Hassouna, from Beit Umareen village, near Nablus, works as a project officer at the Euromid Observer for Human Rights-West Bank, reports Al Ray.
She was on leave to take part in a Beirut workshop entitled "the Arab International Forum to Support the Organization of Prisoners of Freedom”.
Local media said that Israeli forces seized Hassouna's travel luggage and proceeded to interrogate her.
The Euromid Observer expressed its concern about the detention of Hassoun, demanding her immediate release.
Furthermore, in a related vein, Al Ray reports that Israeli forces arrested Osama Saleam, 10, after storming the al-Azzun town, near the occupied West Bank city of Qalqilya, according to witnesses.
In addition, the military closed the western entrance to al-Azzun town, with its eastern gate, preventing Palestinian citizens from crossing through.
Each year, around 500-700 Palestinian children, some as young as 12, are arrested, detained and prosecuted in the Israeli military detention system, with the majority of Palestinian child detainees being held on charges of throwing stones.
IOF arrests Palestinian child in Azzun town
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) raided on Monday night Azzun town, east of Qalqiliya, and closed its entrances. According to the PIC reporter, Israeli soldiers arrested the 10-year-old child Osama Salim and took him to an unknown destination after breaking into his parents' home.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces raided at dawn Tuesday several areas throughout Bethlehem city and roamed its streets. No arrests or summons were reported.
PIC correspondent reported that an Israeli military checkpoint was erected in Sharaf area southwest of Bethlehem, where numbers of citizens were detained for few hours before their release.
On the other hand, Israeli military court in occupied Jerusalem on Monday extended the arrest of a Jerusalemite woman for 24 hours in addition to 3 Jerusalemite minors.
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have arrested on Monday a Palestinian young man from Assira town in Nablus after brutally assaulting his uncle. According to local sources, five Israeli patrols stormed a number of homes in Assira town and arrested Mohamed Tahan after violently raiding and searching his home. He was then taken to an unknown destination.
The Israeli forces have brutally attacked and beat the detainee's uncle, after which he was taken to hospital for treatment.
In Burqa village north-west of Nablus, Israeli forces arrested two Palestinian teenagers on Sunday evening.
The 18-year-old Talal Khalid Saif was arrested after being summoned to Israeli intelligence headquarters in Hawara, while Mustafa Salah, 18, was arrested at Zatara checkpoint on his way home. In addition, a student at al-Najah University was arrested this morning in Nablus.
Meanwhile, IOF soldiers stormed Yamoun, Silat al-Harthiya, Kafr Dan and Tanach towns west of Jenin, where they carried out combing operations and raid campaigns into Palestinian homes and stores.
Eyewitnesses added that an Israeli military checkpoint was erected between Silat al-Harithiya and Tanach towns, and checked passers-by IDs.
In al-Khalil, Israeli forces arrested a Palestinian citizen after breaking into a number of homes in the city.
Local sources said that Israeli troops broke into a number of neighborhoods, where they stormed and searched Palestinian homes on Monday morning.
In the same context, Israeli forces raided Idna town and stormed into Palestinian homes including the detainee Akram Fessissi's home and interrogated his family members.
On the other hand, IOF soldiers stormed on Sunday afternoon Jamaa neighborhood northwest of al-Khalil and broke into the liberated prisoner Ayoub Qawasmi's shop.
As a result, limited clashes erupted between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian youths in the neighborhood, where Israeli forces fired live and rubber bullets and tear gas bombs towards Palestinian stores and homes.
Ayub Qawasmi was released several weeks ago from Israeli jails. He was arrested more than once by Israeli and PA forces.
The Israeli forces have brutally attacked and beat the detainee's uncle, after which he was taken to hospital for treatment.
In Burqa village north-west of Nablus, Israeli forces arrested two Palestinian teenagers on Sunday evening.
The 18-year-old Talal Khalid Saif was arrested after being summoned to Israeli intelligence headquarters in Hawara, while Mustafa Salah, 18, was arrested at Zatara checkpoint on his way home. In addition, a student at al-Najah University was arrested this morning in Nablus.
Meanwhile, IOF soldiers stormed Yamoun, Silat al-Harthiya, Kafr Dan and Tanach towns west of Jenin, where they carried out combing operations and raid campaigns into Palestinian homes and stores.
Eyewitnesses added that an Israeli military checkpoint was erected between Silat al-Harithiya and Tanach towns, and checked passers-by IDs.
In al-Khalil, Israeli forces arrested a Palestinian citizen after breaking into a number of homes in the city.
Local sources said that Israeli troops broke into a number of neighborhoods, where they stormed and searched Palestinian homes on Monday morning.
In the same context, Israeli forces raided Idna town and stormed into Palestinian homes including the detainee Akram Fessissi's home and interrogated his family members.
On the other hand, IOF soldiers stormed on Sunday afternoon Jamaa neighborhood northwest of al-Khalil and broke into the liberated prisoner Ayoub Qawasmi's shop.
As a result, limited clashes erupted between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian youths in the neighborhood, where Israeli forces fired live and rubber bullets and tear gas bombs towards Palestinian stores and homes.
Ayub Qawasmi was released several weeks ago from Israeli jails. He was arrested more than once by Israeli and PA forces.
An Israeli prison unit stormed on Sunday section 6 in Negev jail where several prisoners went on hunger strike and threatened to kill them if they persisted in their protest step. Director of the Palestinian prisoner society Ra'ed Abul-Hems said that some prisoners in section 6 started their hunger strike a few days ago to demand their jailers to improve their incarceration conditions.
Abul-Hems added that the prison soldiers transferred four leading hunger strikers to other cells, namely Ahmed Musfer, Louey Mansi, Ismail Barghouthi and Fadi Abu Atiya.
Abul-Hems added that the prison soldiers transferred four leading hunger strikers to other cells, namely Ahmed Musfer, Louey Mansi, Ismail Barghouthi and Fadi Abu Atiya.
Five Palestinian prisoners proceeded to serve more years of their sentences in the Israeli jails by Monday. ''Asra Voice'' Radio stated that prisoner Ayoub Abu-Karim, 25, entered his fourth year in a row in the Israeli prisons. Abu Karim was arrested in 2011 and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Other four prisoners entered their fifth year in the Israeli prisons, one of them was sentenced to life imprisonment. The four prisoners are: Tion Tion, 26, from Qalqilya, who was arrested in 2009 and sentenced to life imprisonment, Mustafa Abu-Haniyeh, 41, from Deir al-Balah, who was arrested in 2004 and sentenced to 14 years, Osama Harb, 38, from Jenin, who was arrested in 2004 and sentenced to 13 years and Ayman Adeli, 28, from Nablus, who is in prison since 2008 and sentenced to 11 years.
There are an estimated 5,100 Palestinian prisoners being held in Israel, of which 11 are members of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC).
The prisoner Harb's brother, Mohammed Harb appealed all local and international bodies to solve their file and release all of them.
In a relevant vein, head of Ahrar Center for Prisoners studies and Human Rights, Fuad al-Khaffash, said that two Palestinian prisoners, Mohammed Sabha, 39, from Anabta and Mutassim Samara, 36, from Tulkarem entered their 14th year in a row behind the Israeli bars.
Al-Khaffash pointed out that the Israeli occupation sentenced both of them to 15 years, claiming that they were planning to carry out military operations against the occupation.
The two prisoners were senior members of the prisoners' leadership bodies in the Israeli prisons who participated in the recently prisoners hunger strikes, Al-khaffash added.
Since 1967, when Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, more than 650,000 Palestinians have been detained by Israel. This represents approximately 20% of the total population in the Occupied Palestinian Territories , and 40% of all males.
Despite prohibition by international law, Israel detains Palestinians in prisons throughout Israel, far from their families, who almost never obtain the necessary permits to leave the Occupied Palestinian Territories to visit them.
Other four prisoners entered their fifth year in the Israeli prisons, one of them was sentenced to life imprisonment. The four prisoners are: Tion Tion, 26, from Qalqilya, who was arrested in 2009 and sentenced to life imprisonment, Mustafa Abu-Haniyeh, 41, from Deir al-Balah, who was arrested in 2004 and sentenced to 14 years, Osama Harb, 38, from Jenin, who was arrested in 2004 and sentenced to 13 years and Ayman Adeli, 28, from Nablus, who is in prison since 2008 and sentenced to 11 years.
There are an estimated 5,100 Palestinian prisoners being held in Israel, of which 11 are members of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC).
The prisoner Harb's brother, Mohammed Harb appealed all local and international bodies to solve their file and release all of them.
In a relevant vein, head of Ahrar Center for Prisoners studies and Human Rights, Fuad al-Khaffash, said that two Palestinian prisoners, Mohammed Sabha, 39, from Anabta and Mutassim Samara, 36, from Tulkarem entered their 14th year in a row behind the Israeli bars.
Al-Khaffash pointed out that the Israeli occupation sentenced both of them to 15 years, claiming that they were planning to carry out military operations against the occupation.
The two prisoners were senior members of the prisoners' leadership bodies in the Israeli prisons who participated in the recently prisoners hunger strikes, Al-khaffash added.
Since 1967, when Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, more than 650,000 Palestinians have been detained by Israel. This represents approximately 20% of the total population in the Occupied Palestinian Territories , and 40% of all males.
Despite prohibition by international law, Israel detains Palestinians in prisons throughout Israel, far from their families, who almost never obtain the necessary permits to leave the Occupied Palestinian Territories to visit them.
Jamal al-Taweel
Israeli court in Ofer Prison renewed the administrative detention of Palestinian prisoners Jamal al-Taweel for another five months and Mohammed al-Najar for four months. Al-Taweel and al-Najjar had been administratively arrested several times for several years in Israeli jails.
Al-Taweel has been in administrative detention without trial since 31 October 2013, while al-Najjar has been in administrative detention since 23 April 2014 and without trial.
Administrative detention is a procedure that allows the Israeli military to hold prisoners indefinitely on secret information without charging them or allowing them to stand trial.
Israeli court in Ofer Prison renewed the administrative detention of Palestinian prisoners Jamal al-Taweel for another five months and Mohammed al-Najar for four months. Al-Taweel and al-Najjar had been administratively arrested several times for several years in Israeli jails.
Al-Taweel has been in administrative detention without trial since 31 October 2013, while al-Najjar has been in administrative detention since 23 April 2014 and without trial.
Administrative detention is a procedure that allows the Israeli military to hold prisoners indefinitely on secret information without charging them or allowing them to stand trial.
Mohammed al-Najar
Palestinians have been subjected to administrative detention since the beginning of the Israeli Occupation in 1967 and before that time, under the British Mandate. The frequency of the use of administrative detention has fluctuated throughout Israel’s occupation, and has been steadily rising since the outbreak of the second intifada in September 2000.
On the eve of the second intifada, Israel held 12 Palestinians in administrative detention. Only two years later, in late 2002-early 2003, there were over one thousand Palestinians in administrative detention. Between 2005 and 2007, the average monthly number of Palestinian administrative detainees held by Israel remained stable at approximately 765. Since then, as the situation on the ground stabilized and violence tapered off, the number of administrative detainees has generally decreased every year.
As of 1 September 2012, there were at least 212 administrative detainees in Israeli prisons. This number included 7 members of the Palestinian Legislative Council.
Palestinians have been subjected to administrative detention since the beginning of the Israeli Occupation in 1967 and before that time, under the British Mandate. The frequency of the use of administrative detention has fluctuated throughout Israel’s occupation, and has been steadily rising since the outbreak of the second intifada in September 2000.
On the eve of the second intifada, Israel held 12 Palestinians in administrative detention. Only two years later, in late 2002-early 2003, there were over one thousand Palestinians in administrative detention. Between 2005 and 2007, the average monthly number of Palestinian administrative detainees held by Israel remained stable at approximately 765. Since then, as the situation on the ground stabilized and violence tapered off, the number of administrative detainees has generally decreased every year.
As of 1 September 2012, there were at least 212 administrative detainees in Israeli prisons. This number included 7 members of the Palestinian Legislative Council.
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Text by Ryan Rodrick Beiler, photos by Ahmad al-Bazz / Activestills.org
The hunger strike is taking place in the Ofer, Megiddo and Negev prisons. It comes after Israeli authorities reneged on a promise made following the mass hunger strike of more than 2,000 in 2012 to limit the use of administrative detention to exceptional cases. According to the Palestinian prisoner support and human rights organization Addameer, as of last month Israel was holding a total of 186 Palestinians under administrative detention out of a total 5,265 Palestinian political prisoners. Addameer reports that: The general demand of the hunger strikers is an end to the use of administrative detention. The hunger strikers are also specifically demanding that extensions to administrative detention orders are limited to one extension only. … [A]dministrative detainees are held without charge are trial. They are detained on completely ‘secret evidence’ and neither they nor their lawyers have access to such evidence. Some detainees have spent over eight years in prison, never knowing what was contained in the ‘secret evidence’.
While administrative detention is legal under international law, it must be used in very specific circumstance and on a case-by-case basis. This is clearly not the case given Israel has used administrative detention against tens of thousands of Palestinians. Source: 972mag |
Israeli occupation forces detained Monday at dawn six Palestinians in raids carried out in different districts in West Bank. IOF spokesman said that the forces arrested six Palestinians from the West Bank cities of Tolkerm, Nablus, Ramalah and Bethlehem, claiming that they are wanted for their security services . The six were transferred to the Israeli intelligence centers to be interrogated.
In Jenin, the IOF stormed at dawn Ya’bod town, south of the West Bank city of Jenin, carried out sweeping operation, ill-treated civilians, and erected a military checkpoint at the entrance .
Local sources said that IOF troops raided the city at dawn, and deliberately caused nuisance for residents with loudspeakers of military vehicles.
Israeli soldiers held a number of citizens and interrogated them, closed the village’s entrance for hours. No arrests were reported, the sources added.
In Jenin, the IOF stormed at dawn Ya’bod town, south of the West Bank city of Jenin, carried out sweeping operation, ill-treated civilians, and erected a military checkpoint at the entrance .
Local sources said that IOF troops raided the city at dawn, and deliberately caused nuisance for residents with loudspeakers of military vehicles.
Israeli soldiers held a number of citizens and interrogated them, closed the village’s entrance for hours. No arrests were reported, the sources added.
Suad Samir Abu Fayed holds her 10-day-old daughter, Hurryah
By Ruth Eglash and Sufian Taha
Suad Abu Fayed and her husband have had no physical contact for more than 11 years. That is how long he has been in an Israeli prison.
And yet on a recent day, Abu Fayed cradled the couple’s 9-day-old baby, Hurriyah — a daughter whose birth earned her a place in an unusual but growing group: infants conceived over the past two years by in vitro fertilization, using sperm from Palestinian prisoners that has been smuggled out of Israeli jails.
The aim of the clandestine process, those involved say, is two-pronged: to help prisoners’ wives have children while their husbands are behind bars and to chip away at one facet of Israel’s control over Palestinian life.
Hurriyah’s father, Samir Abu Fayed, 37, is serving an 18-year sentence for involvement in terrorist activities. He is a member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian political movement Fatah, according to his brother. Israel does not allow conjugal visits to Palestinian security prisoners, and carefully screened relatives can meet with them only through glass dividers.
But young children are allowed brief physical interaction with their fathers, and that is how Hurriyah, whose name means freedom in Arabic, came to be. Abu Fayed’s sperm was secretly slipped to one of the couple’s three older children — born before he was imprisoned — during a visit at the Nafha prison in southern Israel, said Suad Abu Fayed, 34. It was immediately transported to the Razan Medical Center in Nablus, which specializes in the IVF treatment that led to her pregnancy.
“I know it won’t be easy raising a baby with a husband in jail, but this is our way of breaking Israel’s siege on us,” she said, referring to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. “We are challenging [Israel’s] occupation and getting something beautiful in return.”
Israeli prison authority spokesperson Sivan Weitzman said Israel is aware of the growing phenomenon, and she acknowledged that little could be done to stop it.
“We have caught some prisoners attempting to smuggle sperm out, and as a consequence we have increased our searches of prisoner’s cells and of their visitors,” she said, adding that Israel has no way of proving that the prisoners are biologically linked to the babies.
The subject of prisoners is central to Palestinian society. Palestinians view those who are locked up as freedom fighters and heroes resisting Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and blockade of the Gaza Strip. Their families are not only revered but also receive monthly financial support from the Palestinian Authority. Israel, meanwhile, sees them as terrorists with Israeli blood on their hands.
The prisoners issue is considered one of the main sticking points in getting Israelis and Palestinians to even discuss possibilities of peace. This month, U.S.-led peace talks sputtered after nine months when Israel, angered by unilateral Palestinian steps toward greater recognition by the United Nations, reneged on its commitment to release a group of prisoners jailed before the 1993 Oslo Accords.
Israel suspended the talks last month after Fatah announced a unity government with a rival Palestinian party, Hamas, which the United States and Israel consider a terrorist organization.
According to data published by the Addameer Palestinian prisoner association and based on figures collected by Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem, about 5,000 Palestinians are serving security sentences handed down by Israeli military courts. A 2012 study by the Palestinian prime minister’s office suggested that about 800,000 Palestinian men — nearly 20 percent of the population of the West Bank and Gaza — have spent a week or more in an Israeli jail since 1967.
“Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli jail face a true challenge,” said Palestinian prisoners minister Issa Qaraka. He said that smuggling out sperm to enable prisoners’ wives to get pregnant sends a “strong message that the prisoners still think about life while they are in jail.”
Former prisoner Esmat Mansour, who served 20 years for his role in the murder of an Israeli citizen and was released in August, said prisoners often talked about having children while inside.
“The prisoners always discussed how to do it and now, even if [Israel] tries to stop it, it will continue to happen,” he said.
Semen, if healthy, can remain viable for up to 12 hours outside the body, said Salem Abu Khaizaran, a physician who is president of the Razan clinic, which has carried out the majority of IVF treatments for prisoner’s wives.
He said smuggled sperm has arrived at his clinic hidden in all sorts of creative ways — inside medicine containers, the barrels of pens, candy wrappers, chocolate bars and even in the tip of a rubber glove inside a mush of dates. Once at the clinic, the sperm is frozen until the woman ovulates.
The first baby conceived by this process was born in August 2012. Today, about 15 women in the West Bank have successfully given birth in this way and another 15 women are pregnant, Khaizaran said. In Gaza, where another clinic performs IVF, one woman has given birth and local news media have reported that another six women are expecting babies in the coming months.
Khaizaran said that because of the stigma Palestinian wives might face in their conservative society for becoming pregnant without their husbands present, any sperm brought to his clinic must be authenticated by two relatives of the woman and two of the man. All must sign a document saying the sample is from her husband.
“We have worked to raise awareness in Palestinian society and to get the religious authorities to issue a fatwa declaring it acceptable,” Khaizaran said.
IVF treatment in the West Bank usually costs between $2,000 and $3,000, but Khaizaran said he offers it free to prisoners’ wives for “humanitarian reasons.”
“People do not pay much attention to the suffering of the wives,” he said. “We saw so many Palestinian prisoners, some of them newly married, who were sent to prison for a long time, and by the time they came out of prison, their wives were too old to have babies.”
This way, he said, life can go on for the wives even while their husbands are in jail.
At the Askar camp, Suad Abu Fayed said she has peaceful hopes for Hurriyah’s future.
“I want to send her to private school so she can become a lawyer and defend our prisoners,” she said. “I really hope that her life will be better and more enjoyable than the life we have now.”
By Ruth Eglash and Sufian Taha
Suad Abu Fayed and her husband have had no physical contact for more than 11 years. That is how long he has been in an Israeli prison.
And yet on a recent day, Abu Fayed cradled the couple’s 9-day-old baby, Hurriyah — a daughter whose birth earned her a place in an unusual but growing group: infants conceived over the past two years by in vitro fertilization, using sperm from Palestinian prisoners that has been smuggled out of Israeli jails.
The aim of the clandestine process, those involved say, is two-pronged: to help prisoners’ wives have children while their husbands are behind bars and to chip away at one facet of Israel’s control over Palestinian life.
Hurriyah’s father, Samir Abu Fayed, 37, is serving an 18-year sentence for involvement in terrorist activities. He is a member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian political movement Fatah, according to his brother. Israel does not allow conjugal visits to Palestinian security prisoners, and carefully screened relatives can meet with them only through glass dividers.
But young children are allowed brief physical interaction with their fathers, and that is how Hurriyah, whose name means freedom in Arabic, came to be. Abu Fayed’s sperm was secretly slipped to one of the couple’s three older children — born before he was imprisoned — during a visit at the Nafha prison in southern Israel, said Suad Abu Fayed, 34. It was immediately transported to the Razan Medical Center in Nablus, which specializes in the IVF treatment that led to her pregnancy.
“I know it won’t be easy raising a baby with a husband in jail, but this is our way of breaking Israel’s siege on us,” she said, referring to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. “We are challenging [Israel’s] occupation and getting something beautiful in return.”
Israeli prison authority spokesperson Sivan Weitzman said Israel is aware of the growing phenomenon, and she acknowledged that little could be done to stop it.
“We have caught some prisoners attempting to smuggle sperm out, and as a consequence we have increased our searches of prisoner’s cells and of their visitors,” she said, adding that Israel has no way of proving that the prisoners are biologically linked to the babies.
The subject of prisoners is central to Palestinian society. Palestinians view those who are locked up as freedom fighters and heroes resisting Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and blockade of the Gaza Strip. Their families are not only revered but also receive monthly financial support from the Palestinian Authority. Israel, meanwhile, sees them as terrorists with Israeli blood on their hands.
The prisoners issue is considered one of the main sticking points in getting Israelis and Palestinians to even discuss possibilities of peace. This month, U.S.-led peace talks sputtered after nine months when Israel, angered by unilateral Palestinian steps toward greater recognition by the United Nations, reneged on its commitment to release a group of prisoners jailed before the 1993 Oslo Accords.
Israel suspended the talks last month after Fatah announced a unity government with a rival Palestinian party, Hamas, which the United States and Israel consider a terrorist organization.
According to data published by the Addameer Palestinian prisoner association and based on figures collected by Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem, about 5,000 Palestinians are serving security sentences handed down by Israeli military courts. A 2012 study by the Palestinian prime minister’s office suggested that about 800,000 Palestinian men — nearly 20 percent of the population of the West Bank and Gaza — have spent a week or more in an Israeli jail since 1967.
“Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli jail face a true challenge,” said Palestinian prisoners minister Issa Qaraka. He said that smuggling out sperm to enable prisoners’ wives to get pregnant sends a “strong message that the prisoners still think about life while they are in jail.”
Former prisoner Esmat Mansour, who served 20 years for his role in the murder of an Israeli citizen and was released in August, said prisoners often talked about having children while inside.
“The prisoners always discussed how to do it and now, even if [Israel] tries to stop it, it will continue to happen,” he said.
Semen, if healthy, can remain viable for up to 12 hours outside the body, said Salem Abu Khaizaran, a physician who is president of the Razan clinic, which has carried out the majority of IVF treatments for prisoner’s wives.
He said smuggled sperm has arrived at his clinic hidden in all sorts of creative ways — inside medicine containers, the barrels of pens, candy wrappers, chocolate bars and even in the tip of a rubber glove inside a mush of dates. Once at the clinic, the sperm is frozen until the woman ovulates.
The first baby conceived by this process was born in August 2012. Today, about 15 women in the West Bank have successfully given birth in this way and another 15 women are pregnant, Khaizaran said. In Gaza, where another clinic performs IVF, one woman has given birth and local news media have reported that another six women are expecting babies in the coming months.
Khaizaran said that because of the stigma Palestinian wives might face in their conservative society for becoming pregnant without their husbands present, any sperm brought to his clinic must be authenticated by two relatives of the woman and two of the man. All must sign a document saying the sample is from her husband.
“We have worked to raise awareness in Palestinian society and to get the religious authorities to issue a fatwa declaring it acceptable,” Khaizaran said.
IVF treatment in the West Bank usually costs between $2,000 and $3,000, but Khaizaran said he offers it free to prisoners’ wives for “humanitarian reasons.”
“People do not pay much attention to the suffering of the wives,” he said. “We saw so many Palestinian prisoners, some of them newly married, who were sent to prison for a long time, and by the time they came out of prison, their wives were too old to have babies.”
This way, he said, life can go on for the wives even while their husbands are in jail.
At the Askar camp, Suad Abu Fayed said she has peaceful hopes for Hurriyah’s future.
“I want to send her to private school so she can become a lawyer and defend our prisoners,” she said. “I really hope that her life will be better and more enjoyable than the life we have now.”
Marwan al-Barghouti and Abbas al-Sayed
Hamas senior leader Abbas al-Sayed and Fatah senior leader Marwan al-Barghouti decided to join in the open-ended hunger strike declared by Palestinian administrative prisoners for 12th day in a row, Former Palestinian Minister of Prisoners' Affairs, Wasfi Kabha, revealed Sunday. Kabha said that both leaders' decision was to highlight the case of the prisoners and pressure on the Israeli occupation to accept the prisoners' just demands.
Administrative detention is a procedure that allows the Israeli military to hold prisoners indefinitely on secret information without charging them or allowing them to stand trial.
Kabha pointed out that many other senior prisoners are to join in the strike if the occupation does not respond to the strikers’ demands.
''Red Cross must visit the prisoners to check their bad living conditions and pressure on the occupation to provide the prisoners necessities of life and stop humiliating them." he appealed.
In a relevant vein, The Palestinian prisoners' club called on the Palestinians bodies to participate Monday at the activities and sit-ins, in the courtyard of Al-Bireh Municipality, to support the administrative prisoners until they achieve their fair demands.
The Israeli Prison Services (IPS) isolated the prisoners and deprived them from family visit, in an attempt to put pressure on the prisoners to stop their strike, He added.
The prisoners joined in the strike for the 12th day in a raw, and they are to continue it until the occupation end of the administrative detention.
Palestinians have been subjected to administrative detention since the beginning of the Israeli Occupation in 1967 and before that time, under the British Mandate. The frequency of the use of administrative detention has fluctuated throughout Israel’s occupation, and has been steadily rising since the outbreak of the second intifada in September 2000.
Hamas senior leader Abbas al-Sayed and Fatah senior leader Marwan al-Barghouti decided to join in the open-ended hunger strike declared by Palestinian administrative prisoners for 12th day in a row, Former Palestinian Minister of Prisoners' Affairs, Wasfi Kabha, revealed Sunday. Kabha said that both leaders' decision was to highlight the case of the prisoners and pressure on the Israeli occupation to accept the prisoners' just demands.
Administrative detention is a procedure that allows the Israeli military to hold prisoners indefinitely on secret information without charging them or allowing them to stand trial.
Kabha pointed out that many other senior prisoners are to join in the strike if the occupation does not respond to the strikers’ demands.
''Red Cross must visit the prisoners to check their bad living conditions and pressure on the occupation to provide the prisoners necessities of life and stop humiliating them." he appealed.
In a relevant vein, The Palestinian prisoners' club called on the Palestinians bodies to participate Monday at the activities and sit-ins, in the courtyard of Al-Bireh Municipality, to support the administrative prisoners until they achieve their fair demands.
The Israeli Prison Services (IPS) isolated the prisoners and deprived them from family visit, in an attempt to put pressure on the prisoners to stop their strike, He added.
The prisoners joined in the strike for the 12th day in a raw, and they are to continue it until the occupation end of the administrative detention.
Palestinians have been subjected to administrative detention since the beginning of the Israeli Occupation in 1967 and before that time, under the British Mandate. The frequency of the use of administrative detention has fluctuated throughout Israel’s occupation, and has been steadily rising since the outbreak of the second intifada in September 2000.
4 may 2014
The District court sentenced on Sunday Ahmad Dirbas for 3 years of actual imprisonment on charges of membership in an organization and throwing stones and Molotov cocktails.
Mohammad Mahmoud, Al-Dameer organization lawyer, explained that the District court judge sentenced Ahmad Dirbas for 3 years of actual imprisonment and pointed out that the public prosecution requested to imprison him for a period between 5 and 7 years. After several hearing sessions, the judge sentenced him for the above mentioned period which included a suspended probation for 5 months that is imposed on him by the Magistrate court.
Extension of arrest
In a related matter, the Magistrate court judge extended the arrest of Mohammad Mahmoud and the minor Seif Obeid until next Thursday; note that they were arrested on Sunday early morning hours after raiding their houses in the village of Esawyeh.
The judge also extended the arrest of Yousef Obeid who was arrested few days ago until Monday on condition of presenting him to a psychologist. The psychologist said in his report that he doesn’t suffer from anything; note that lawyer Mohammad and Yousef’s family submitted documents and reports to show that he suffers from psychological problems.
The judge also extended the arrest of Nour Eddin Obeid until next Thursday.
The public prosecution submitted a prosecutor’s permit to submit an indictment against Hamed Obeid and the judge also extended his arrest until Thursday.
Mouath Shyoukhi, Muntaser Shyoukhi, Firas Shyoukhi, Mohammad Abu Nab and Mohammad Tawil were presented to court on Sunday and the judge extended their arrest until 14/05/2014 to release them with conditions.
Mohammad Mahmoud, Al-Dameer organization lawyer, explained that the District court judge sentenced Ahmad Dirbas for 3 years of actual imprisonment and pointed out that the public prosecution requested to imprison him for a period between 5 and 7 years. After several hearing sessions, the judge sentenced him for the above mentioned period which included a suspended probation for 5 months that is imposed on him by the Magistrate court.
Extension of arrest
In a related matter, the Magistrate court judge extended the arrest of Mohammad Mahmoud and the minor Seif Obeid until next Thursday; note that they were arrested on Sunday early morning hours after raiding their houses in the village of Esawyeh.
The judge also extended the arrest of Yousef Obeid who was arrested few days ago until Monday on condition of presenting him to a psychologist. The psychologist said in his report that he doesn’t suffer from anything; note that lawyer Mohammad and Yousef’s family submitted documents and reports to show that he suffers from psychological problems.
The judge also extended the arrest of Nour Eddin Obeid until next Thursday.
The public prosecution submitted a prosecutor’s permit to submit an indictment against Hamed Obeid and the judge also extended his arrest until Thursday.
Mouath Shyoukhi, Muntaser Shyoukhi, Firas Shyoukhi, Mohammad Abu Nab and Mohammad Tawil were presented to court on Sunday and the judge extended their arrest until 14/05/2014 to release them with conditions.
The Israeli forces arrested one young man and injured six others during violent clashes that broke out in the village of Esawyeh.
Wadi Hilweh Information Center was informed that the forces arrested 22-year old Walid Alyan, and injured six others in the head with rubbers bullets and shrapnel of sound grenades during the violent clashes that broke out in the Schools’ Street in Esawyeh.
The Center added that the clashes broke out after the Israeli Special Forces unit was stopping cars and pedestrians and checking their IDs.
In a related matter, the Israeli forces arrested on Sunday early morning hours the 21-year old Mohannad Khalil Mahmoud and 17-year old Seif Ramadan Obeid after raiding their houses in the village of Esawyeh.
Six Palestinians were injured and one was arrested in clashes with Israeli forces in al-Issawiya village northeast of Jerusalem on Sunday, locals said.
They told Ma’an that Israeli forces erected a flying checkpoint near al-Madares school and thoroughly searched people, which sparked the clashes.
Israeli forces fired tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets injuring six people moderately in the head.
Walid Ulliyan, 22, was detained during the clashes, residents said.
Violent clashes in Esawyeh…arrests and injuries
The Israeli forces arrested one young man and injured six others during violent clashes that broke out in the village of Esawyeh.
Wadi Hilweh Information Center was informed that the forces arrested 22-year old Walid Alyan, and injured six others in the head with rubbers bullets and shrapnel of sound grenades during the violent clashes that broke out in the Schools’ Street in Esawyeh.
The Center added that the clashes broke out after the Israeli Special Forces unit was stopping cars and pedestrians and checking their IDs.
In a related matter, the Israeli forces arrested on Sunday early morning hours the 21-year old Mohannad Khalil Mahmoud and 17-year old Seif Ramadan Obeid after raiding their houses in the village of Esawyeh.
Wadi Hilweh Information Center was informed that the forces arrested 22-year old Walid Alyan, and injured six others in the head with rubbers bullets and shrapnel of sound grenades during the violent clashes that broke out in the Schools’ Street in Esawyeh.
The Center added that the clashes broke out after the Israeli Special Forces unit was stopping cars and pedestrians and checking their IDs.
In a related matter, the Israeli forces arrested on Sunday early morning hours the 21-year old Mohannad Khalil Mahmoud and 17-year old Seif Ramadan Obeid after raiding their houses in the village of Esawyeh.
Six Palestinians were injured and one was arrested in clashes with Israeli forces in al-Issawiya village northeast of Jerusalem on Sunday, locals said.
They told Ma’an that Israeli forces erected a flying checkpoint near al-Madares school and thoroughly searched people, which sparked the clashes.
Israeli forces fired tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets injuring six people moderately in the head.
Walid Ulliyan, 22, was detained during the clashes, residents said.
Violent clashes in Esawyeh…arrests and injuries
The Israeli forces arrested one young man and injured six others during violent clashes that broke out in the village of Esawyeh.
Wadi Hilweh Information Center was informed that the forces arrested 22-year old Walid Alyan, and injured six others in the head with rubbers bullets and shrapnel of sound grenades during the violent clashes that broke out in the Schools’ Street in Esawyeh.
The Center added that the clashes broke out after the Israeli Special Forces unit was stopping cars and pedestrians and checking their IDs.
In a related matter, the Israeli forces arrested on Sunday early morning hours the 21-year old Mohannad Khalil Mahmoud and 17-year old Seif Ramadan Obeid after raiding their houses in the village of Esawyeh.
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested central committee member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine Hasan Shehade from his home in Abu Dis town, south east of occupied Jerusalem. Local sources told the PIC reporter that a joint force of the IOF and intelligence broke into Shehade’s home before dawn Sunday and searched it for two hours using hounds.
They said that the provocative search frightened the children and ended with confiscating Shehade’s mobile phones and computers before taking him away to a nearby army base.
The sources noted that the soldiers then stormed the home of Shehade’s father and forced all of its occupants out of it for search, adding that the soldiers wreaked havoc in the house.
Eyewitnesses said that confrontations were reported with young men protesting the raid in which the soldiers randomly fired rubber-coated bullets, sound bombs and teargas canisters spreading panic in the town.
Shehade was released from Israeli captivity in 2009 after eight years in prison. He is married and a father of two children Issa, 4, and Karam, 2.
They said that the provocative search frightened the children and ended with confiscating Shehade’s mobile phones and computers before taking him away to a nearby army base.
The sources noted that the soldiers then stormed the home of Shehade’s father and forced all of its occupants out of it for search, adding that the soldiers wreaked havoc in the house.
Eyewitnesses said that confrontations were reported with young men protesting the raid in which the soldiers randomly fired rubber-coated bullets, sound bombs and teargas canisters spreading panic in the town.
Shehade was released from Israeli captivity in 2009 after eight years in prison. He is married and a father of two children Issa, 4, and Karam, 2.
The Ahrar Center for Prisoner Studies and Human Rights called, in a statement on Sunday, on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to file lawsuits against Israeli mass-administrative-detention campaigns against Palestinian civilians with no legitimate charges. According to Ahrar Center, the prisoners’ repeated hunger strikes are just a drop in an ocean. This is a legal battle par excellence and the PA must seek ways to form legal committees and recruit international experts to sue Israel’s crimes.
Palestinian prisoners have already paved the way for the initiation of such legal actions through open-ended mass-hunger strikes. It is high time the PA got the drift and took advantage of its legal status as a UN non-member observer state status to acquire resolutions outlawing arrests of this type, Ahrar Center further declared.
The call comes at a time when more than 200 Palestinian administrative detainees have gone on an open-ended hunger strike for 11 days to protest circumstances and detention policies amid calls to launch mass-solidarity campaigns with the hunger strikers.
Al-Ahrar Center raised alarm bells over the deteriorating health status of Palestinian administrative detainees Ayman Tabish and Adnane Shnayta, who have been without food for, consecutively, 66 and 42 days, so as to voice their disapproval of Israeli unjustifiable administrative detentions.
Prisoners’ families called for a mass-solidarity movement to save their offspring before it is too late.
According to the Palestinian Prisoners radio, six more prisoners from the Islamic Jihad movement joined the hunger strike.
The radio further quoted prison sources as saying that a number of ill detainees refused meals on Thursdays and Fridays and medicines for the entire week.
By definition, administrative detention is the arrest of individuals without charge or trial and under the pretext of the so-called secret files. It represents, therefore, a flagrant breach of human and prisoner rights.
Palestinian prisoners have already paved the way for the initiation of such legal actions through open-ended mass-hunger strikes. It is high time the PA got the drift and took advantage of its legal status as a UN non-member observer state status to acquire resolutions outlawing arrests of this type, Ahrar Center further declared.
The call comes at a time when more than 200 Palestinian administrative detainees have gone on an open-ended hunger strike for 11 days to protest circumstances and detention policies amid calls to launch mass-solidarity campaigns with the hunger strikers.
Al-Ahrar Center raised alarm bells over the deteriorating health status of Palestinian administrative detainees Ayman Tabish and Adnane Shnayta, who have been without food for, consecutively, 66 and 42 days, so as to voice their disapproval of Israeli unjustifiable administrative detentions.
Prisoners’ families called for a mass-solidarity movement to save their offspring before it is too late.
According to the Palestinian Prisoners radio, six more prisoners from the Islamic Jihad movement joined the hunger strike.
The radio further quoted prison sources as saying that a number of ill detainees refused meals on Thursdays and Fridays and medicines for the entire week.
By definition, administrative detention is the arrest of individuals without charge or trial and under the pretext of the so-called secret files. It represents, therefore, a flagrant breach of human and prisoner rights.
Four Palestinian citizens from Nablus were arrested at dawn Sunday by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) while Jenin camp was stormed and former chairman of al-Khalil University Students Union was summoned for interrogation. Eye-witnesses told PIC correspondent that a large Israeli military force raided Berka town and attacked several Palestinian homes after having smashed their entrance gates. Montassar Salah, 40, Moine Walid Abou Omar, 22, and Adham Hiraa Abu Nafisa, 21 were arrested in the process.
Media activist Muawiya Nassar was also arrested after IOF attacked south of Nablus.
In a related context, IOF soldiers raided Jenin streets and camps last night and carried out several combing procedures before moving into Yamoun and Berkin towns, where several ambushes were set and an agricultural tractor was confiscated in Kafr Dan, south of Jenin.
Chairman of al-Khalil University Students Union and prominent Islamic Bloc leader, ex-detainee Easa Saleh, 32, from Yatta south of al-Khalil, was summoned for interrogation by IOF.
Meanwhile, an Israeli military order imposed a hermetic closure on the Palestinian territories in the West Bank, including Occupied Jerusalem, for three uninterrupted days, starting from Sunday 6 .p.m. as part of Israel’s aim to commemorate its war victims and the so-called independence anniversary or the occupation of Palestine.
According to the statement issued by the Israeli War Ministry, Palestinians will be denied access into 1948 occupied Palestine.
Media activist Muawiya Nassar was also arrested after IOF attacked south of Nablus.
In a related context, IOF soldiers raided Jenin streets and camps last night and carried out several combing procedures before moving into Yamoun and Berkin towns, where several ambushes were set and an agricultural tractor was confiscated in Kafr Dan, south of Jenin.
Chairman of al-Khalil University Students Union and prominent Islamic Bloc leader, ex-detainee Easa Saleh, 32, from Yatta south of al-Khalil, was summoned for interrogation by IOF.
Meanwhile, an Israeli military order imposed a hermetic closure on the Palestinian territories in the West Bank, including Occupied Jerusalem, for three uninterrupted days, starting from Sunday 6 .p.m. as part of Israel’s aim to commemorate its war victims and the so-called independence anniversary or the occupation of Palestine.
According to the statement issued by the Israeli War Ministry, Palestinians will be denied access into 1948 occupied Palestine.
120 administrative detainees staged a hunger strike for the eleventh day in a raw , protesting the Israeli prison service followed policy in applying administrative detention for prolong times. They called on Palestinian people and institutions to hold solidarity sit- ins to back their issues.
The leadership of a hunger strike appealed in a statement the Ministry of the prisoners and all interested bodies to support their just demands , calling on international institutions and the Secretary- General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon to intervene and exert pressure on the Israeli occupation to save their lives.
51 of hunger strikers in Negev desert prison were held in solitary confinement , and 37 in Ofer detention were transferred to the solitary confinement in Ramle prison , while Dawood Hamdan, Tariq Deis, and Muhammad al-Natsha have been moved to Assaf Harofe hospital for treatment.
Ayman Tbeish has been on hunger strike for 65 days and is being held in Assaf Harofeh medical center where doctors say his life is at risk. Another prisoner, Adnan Shanayta from Bethlehem, has been on hunger strike for 43 days. He announced his refusing in the last two days to drink water in protest against the his detention conditions in Tel Hashomer hospital.
A number of elderly and patient administrative prisoners joined the eighth day of the strike in solidarity with the administrative detainees , 6 of them launched open hunger strike.
Adding to the retraction measure the IPS follows , it cracks down the work of lawyers. They prevent most of the lawyer from communicating with their clients, except for limited cases and after a long holdout. Some visits were overturned after being coordinated with the IPS in earlier times.
Palestinian prisoners began a mass hunger strike in a number of Israeli jails on April 24 in protest of Israel's policy of administrative detention after the occupation authorities reneged on all of its promises . Other administrative detainees have been on hunger strike for a longer period of time.
As of April 1, there were 186 Palestinians being held in administrative detention in Israeli jails, including nine Palestinian Legislative Council members, according to the prisoners' rights group Addameer.
Over 800,000 Palestinians have been detained since 1967, with 5,224 currently being held in Israeli prisons, according to the PLO.
The leadership of a hunger strike appealed in a statement the Ministry of the prisoners and all interested bodies to support their just demands , calling on international institutions and the Secretary- General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon to intervene and exert pressure on the Israeli occupation to save their lives.
51 of hunger strikers in Negev desert prison were held in solitary confinement , and 37 in Ofer detention were transferred to the solitary confinement in Ramle prison , while Dawood Hamdan, Tariq Deis, and Muhammad al-Natsha have been moved to Assaf Harofe hospital for treatment.
Ayman Tbeish has been on hunger strike for 65 days and is being held in Assaf Harofeh medical center where doctors say his life is at risk. Another prisoner, Adnan Shanayta from Bethlehem, has been on hunger strike for 43 days. He announced his refusing in the last two days to drink water in protest against the his detention conditions in Tel Hashomer hospital.
A number of elderly and patient administrative prisoners joined the eighth day of the strike in solidarity with the administrative detainees , 6 of them launched open hunger strike.
Adding to the retraction measure the IPS follows , it cracks down the work of lawyers. They prevent most of the lawyer from communicating with their clients, except for limited cases and after a long holdout. Some visits were overturned after being coordinated with the IPS in earlier times.
Palestinian prisoners began a mass hunger strike in a number of Israeli jails on April 24 in protest of Israel's policy of administrative detention after the occupation authorities reneged on all of its promises . Other administrative detainees have been on hunger strike for a longer period of time.
As of April 1, there were 186 Palestinians being held in administrative detention in Israeli jails, including nine Palestinian Legislative Council members, according to the prisoners' rights group Addameer.
Over 800,000 Palestinians have been detained since 1967, with 5,224 currently being held in Israeli prisons, according to the PLO.
Israeli Occupation forces Sunday morning arrested a Palestinian citizen and injured three others after storming Abu Dis town, to the southeast of occupied Jerusalem. Spokesperson of Popular Resistance Committees, Hani Halabiyeh, said that Israeli the IOF stormed the town and raided Hassan Shahadah's house, member of the central committee of the DFLP, ransacked it and forced its residents to leave.
The IOF arrested Shahada after seizing his personal computer, Halabiyeh added, clashes erupted between Palestinian youths and the forces in the place. Three youths were injured.
Halabiyeh pointed out that Hassan Shahada is an ex-prisoner and was arrested several times in the Israeli prisons.
Clashes erupted Saturday between the IOF and Palestinian youths from Abu Dis and Ezariyeh towns after staging a march in support to al-Aqsa mosque, Israeli forces shot sonic bombs and tear gas at them. Several suffocation cases were reported.
The IOF arrested Shahada after seizing his personal computer, Halabiyeh added, clashes erupted between Palestinian youths and the forces in the place. Three youths were injured.
Halabiyeh pointed out that Hassan Shahada is an ex-prisoner and was arrested several times in the Israeli prisons.
Clashes erupted Saturday between the IOF and Palestinian youths from Abu Dis and Ezariyeh towns after staging a march in support to al-Aqsa mosque, Israeli forces shot sonic bombs and tear gas at them. Several suffocation cases were reported.
Palestinian medical sources have reported that five residents have been wounded after Israeli soldiers invaded the central West Bank city of Salfit.
Eyewitnesses said several Israeli military jeeps invaded the city, and fired dozens of gas bombs and concussion grenades at local residents causing five to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation.
In addition, soldiers damaged a Palestinian car that belongs to a resident identified as Nael Yousef Marabta, after ramming it with their jeep as it was parked in front of his home, the Maan News Agency has reported.
Also on Sunday, soldiers invaded various districts in the occupied West Bank, broke into and searched dozens of homes, and handed a number of residents military notices ordering them to head to nearby military bases for interrogation.
Eyewitnesses said several Israeli military jeeps invaded the city, and fired dozens of gas bombs and concussion grenades at local residents causing five to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation.
In addition, soldiers damaged a Palestinian car that belongs to a resident identified as Nael Yousef Marabta, after ramming it with their jeep as it was parked in front of his home, the Maan News Agency has reported.
Also on Sunday, soldiers invaded various districts in the occupied West Bank, broke into and searched dozens of homes, and handed a number of residents military notices ordering them to head to nearby military bases for interrogation.
Palestinian medical sources reported Sunday [April 4, 2014] that several Israeli military jeeps invaded Qabatia town, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and clashed with local youths, causing several Palestinians to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation.
The sources said the soldiers fired dozens of gas bombs, rubber-coated metal bullets and concussion grenades, causing several Palestinians to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation. Some of the gas bombs struck also homes in the town.
All wounded Palestinians received treatment by local medics, the Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA) has reported.
WAFA added that the soldiers invaded various neighborhoods in the town, leading to clashes with local youths who threw stones at them.
In related news, soldiers invaded the al-Asakra village, east of Bethlehem, broke into one home, searched it, and handed a resident, identified as Ali Ibrahim Asakra, a military warrant ordering him to head to the Etzion military base for interrogation.
In addition, dozens of soldiers also invaded Beit Fajjar town, south of Bethlehem, and violently searched several homes after breaking into them.
The soldiers also placed sand barriers closing all entrances of the town, thus blocking all inbound and outbound traffic.
On Saturday evening, soldiers invaded Um Salmouna village, south of Bethlehem, and handed resident Hayyan Ibrahim Taqatqa, 27, a military warrant ordering him to head to the Etzion military base for interrogation.
The sources said the soldiers fired dozens of gas bombs, rubber-coated metal bullets and concussion grenades, causing several Palestinians to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation. Some of the gas bombs struck also homes in the town.
All wounded Palestinians received treatment by local medics, the Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA) has reported.
WAFA added that the soldiers invaded various neighborhoods in the town, leading to clashes with local youths who threw stones at them.
In related news, soldiers invaded the al-Asakra village, east of Bethlehem, broke into one home, searched it, and handed a resident, identified as Ali Ibrahim Asakra, a military warrant ordering him to head to the Etzion military base for interrogation.
In addition, dozens of soldiers also invaded Beit Fajjar town, south of Bethlehem, and violently searched several homes after breaking into them.
The soldiers also placed sand barriers closing all entrances of the town, thus blocking all inbound and outbound traffic.
On Saturday evening, soldiers invaded Um Salmouna village, south of Bethlehem, and handed resident Hayyan Ibrahim Taqatqa, 27, a military warrant ordering him to head to the Etzion military base for interrogation.
