15 may 2014
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Israeli police dispersed a rally marking the 66th anniversary of the Nakba in East Jerusalem on Thursday afternoon, injuring six and detaining four protestors.
The rally came as protests erupted across the West Bank and Gaza as thousands turned out to commemorate the expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from what became the state of Israel in 1948. Israeli forces arrested four Palestinian protesters at the East Jerusalem protest including Yasser Qaws, Ismail al-Khatib, Abed Barbar, as well as a fourth person who was not identified. |
Witnesses on the scene said that Israeli forces pushed and shoved participants, injuring six people including lawmaker Jihad Abu Zaneed and medic Nidal Abu Gharbia.
Medics told Ma'an that three people were taken to hospitals for treatment following the dispersal by Israeli police forces.
During the protest, participants raised black flags with "Alll Palestine is ours" written on them, Palestinian flags, and flags with the "key of return" printed on them.
An Israeli police spokesman said in a statement that five "Arab suspects" had been arrested at the scene," but denied that there were any injuries.
He added that "stones were thrown at officers."
Medics told Ma'an that three people were taken to hospitals for treatment following the dispersal by Israeli police forces.
During the protest, participants raised black flags with "Alll Palestine is ours" written on them, Palestinian flags, and flags with the "key of return" printed on them.
An Israeli police spokesman said in a statement that five "Arab suspects" had been arrested at the scene," but denied that there were any injuries.
He added that "stones were thrown at officers."
Jawad Bolous, the director of the legal unit at the Palestinian Prisoner Society, said after visiting the Israeli Ofer jail on Thursday that 35 Palestinian detainees would join the hunger strike next Sunday. He said that 25 administrative detainees from Ofer jail and 10 from Megiddo would join the strike launched by 140 detainees in various Israeli prisons for the past three weeks protesting their detention without trial or charge.
He pointed out that Palestinian prisoners in Negev, Shata, Ofer, Nafha, and Raymond are on hunger strike today Thursday in solidarity with the administrative detainees.
He pointed out that Palestinian prisoners in Negev, Shata, Ofer, Nafha, and Raymond are on hunger strike today Thursday in solidarity with the administrative detainees.
Mohammed Mona
Father of the journalist Mohammed Mona, held in Israeli jails, have called for intensifying popular and official support for Palestinian administrative detainees' hunger strike declared 21 days ago. Haj Anwar Mona told Quds Press on Wednesday that administrative detainees, including his son Mohammed, continued their hunger strike for the third week in a row despite their health deterioration.
The strikers declared their determination to continue their protest steps till meeting their demands amid limited popular support, he pointed out.
Palestinian prisoners' families have held the Israeli occupation fully responsible over the lives of their sons in its jails, according to Quds Press' reporter.
The journalist Mohammed Mona's administrative detention was renewed twice, pushing him to declare hunger strike along with 200 administrative detainees.
Meanwhile, Israeli authorities have renewed the administrative detention of the detainee Sufyan Jamjoom for three months after he declared hunger strike for the second time, family sources confirmed.
Jamjoom was detained in January 2014, where he was held administratively for 4 months before being renewed yesterday to three more months.
Jamjoom, a father of three children, has spent more than 20 years in Israeli and PA jails.
On the other hand, Palestinian Prisoners Society's lawyer Jawad Boulos stated that the detainee Ayman Atabich, held in Assaf Harofe hospital, is in risk of death at any moment.
Israeli medical sources said that Atabich's health condition has sharply deteriorated after 76 days on hunger strike protesting his continued administrative detention.
Israeli doctors added that although he has accepted to take intravenous vitamins, he is still facing death in Israeli jails.
For his part, Atabich expressed his disappointment over rejecting his appeal and renewing his administrative detention.
An Israeli court has renewed on Tuesday Atabich' administrative detention for three months.
Father of the journalist Mohammed Mona, held in Israeli jails, have called for intensifying popular and official support for Palestinian administrative detainees' hunger strike declared 21 days ago. Haj Anwar Mona told Quds Press on Wednesday that administrative detainees, including his son Mohammed, continued their hunger strike for the third week in a row despite their health deterioration.
The strikers declared their determination to continue their protest steps till meeting their demands amid limited popular support, he pointed out.
Palestinian prisoners' families have held the Israeli occupation fully responsible over the lives of their sons in its jails, according to Quds Press' reporter.
The journalist Mohammed Mona's administrative detention was renewed twice, pushing him to declare hunger strike along with 200 administrative detainees.
Meanwhile, Israeli authorities have renewed the administrative detention of the detainee Sufyan Jamjoom for three months after he declared hunger strike for the second time, family sources confirmed.
Jamjoom was detained in January 2014, where he was held administratively for 4 months before being renewed yesterday to three more months.
Jamjoom, a father of three children, has spent more than 20 years in Israeli and PA jails.
On the other hand, Palestinian Prisoners Society's lawyer Jawad Boulos stated that the detainee Ayman Atabich, held in Assaf Harofe hospital, is in risk of death at any moment.
Israeli medical sources said that Atabich's health condition has sharply deteriorated after 76 days on hunger strike protesting his continued administrative detention.
Israeli doctors added that although he has accepted to take intravenous vitamins, he is still facing death in Israeli jails.
For his part, Atabich expressed his disappointment over rejecting his appeal and renewing his administrative detention.
An Israeli court has renewed on Tuesday Atabich' administrative detention for three months.
Violent confrontations erupted on Thursday morning at the entrance to Aroub refugee camp north of al-Khalil and Tabaka village to the south while two boys were arrested and several shops were shut down and agricultural crops destroyed by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF). Eye-witnesses told PIC correspondent: “Confrontations broke out between a group of students and dozens of Israeli patrols at the entrance to the camp, where heavy tear gas, sound bombs, and rubber bullets were fired.”
The soldiers have been heavily deployed at the entrance to the camp and summoned military reinforcements amid a state of alert announced by IOF on the 66th Nakba anniversary.
Other clashes broke out in Tabaka village, south of al-Khalil. According to eye-witnesses: “More than eight military vehicles stationed at the main street and fired tear gas canisters and metal bullets targeting Palestinian civilians and students, who could only respond by throwing stones.”
A state of extreme anxiety overwhelmed the female students due to the heavy firing of tear gas and bullets.
IOF attacks culminated in arbitrary military checkpoints, abrupt incursions of Palestinians’ homes, and the persecution of students, eye-witnesses further documented.
Another child, 14, from Fawar refugee camp was arrested and carried to an unidentified destination after IOF raided his family home and rummaged through it.
Another Aroub refugee was also arrested in the process.
Along the same context, violent clashes broke out on Thursday between Israeli patrols and Palestinian unarmed young men in Bab Al-Zawiya in Al-Khalil while several shops were shut down by IOF, witnesses reported to PIC correspondent.
Several breathing problems were documented among Palestinian civilians due to the heavy firing of tear gas canisters.
In a related event, a horde of Umm Al-Arayes settlers attacked and ruined Palestinians’ wheat and barley crops after abrupt incursions carried out under shield of Israeli army in Yatta town in al-Khalil on Thursday morning, as Nabil Younis, a teacher in the town, confirmed in a telephone conversation with a PIC news reporter.
He further pointed out that around one and half tons of wheat and barley were destroyed in the attack.
Palestinian citizens who tried to protect their crops were ordered to keep away from the targeted lands so as to smooth in settlers’ attacks.
The soldiers have been heavily deployed at the entrance to the camp and summoned military reinforcements amid a state of alert announced by IOF on the 66th Nakba anniversary.
Other clashes broke out in Tabaka village, south of al-Khalil. According to eye-witnesses: “More than eight military vehicles stationed at the main street and fired tear gas canisters and metal bullets targeting Palestinian civilians and students, who could only respond by throwing stones.”
A state of extreme anxiety overwhelmed the female students due to the heavy firing of tear gas and bullets.
IOF attacks culminated in arbitrary military checkpoints, abrupt incursions of Palestinians’ homes, and the persecution of students, eye-witnesses further documented.
Another child, 14, from Fawar refugee camp was arrested and carried to an unidentified destination after IOF raided his family home and rummaged through it.
Another Aroub refugee was also arrested in the process.
Along the same context, violent clashes broke out on Thursday between Israeli patrols and Palestinian unarmed young men in Bab Al-Zawiya in Al-Khalil while several shops were shut down by IOF, witnesses reported to PIC correspondent.
Several breathing problems were documented among Palestinian civilians due to the heavy firing of tear gas canisters.
In a related event, a horde of Umm Al-Arayes settlers attacked and ruined Palestinians’ wheat and barley crops after abrupt incursions carried out under shield of Israeli army in Yatta town in al-Khalil on Thursday morning, as Nabil Younis, a teacher in the town, confirmed in a telephone conversation with a PIC news reporter.
He further pointed out that around one and half tons of wheat and barley were destroyed in the attack.
Palestinian citizens who tried to protect their crops were ordered to keep away from the targeted lands so as to smooth in settlers’ attacks.
Israeli forces detained four Palestinians between the ages of 14 and 17 during a raid on the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilya in the northern West Bank early Thursday morning.
Local sources in Azzun said that Israeli military vehicles raided the town around 2:00 a.m. and detained Mahmoud Adwan, 14, Munthir Salameh, 16, Madin Dahbour, 17, and Muhammed Rady, 16, and took them away after searching their houses.
An Israeli military spokesman said that there had been one arrest in the area overnight, but that it had occurred in the village of Kafr al-Deek south of Azzun.
Azzun is surrounded on all sides by areas under Israeli military control and an Israeli settlement bloc sits directly to the south. It has one of the highest rates of detainees per capita of all villages in the occupied West Bank, including many children.
Local sources in Azzun said that Israeli military vehicles raided the town around 2:00 a.m. and detained Mahmoud Adwan, 14, Munthir Salameh, 16, Madin Dahbour, 17, and Muhammed Rady, 16, and took them away after searching their houses.
An Israeli military spokesman said that there had been one arrest in the area overnight, but that it had occurred in the village of Kafr al-Deek south of Azzun.
Azzun is surrounded on all sides by areas under Israeli military control and an Israeli settlement bloc sits directly to the south. It has one of the highest rates of detainees per capita of all villages in the occupied West Bank, including many children.
Israeli authorities will release administrative detainee Zaid al-Juneidi on Thursday, the Palestinian Prisoners Society said.
Al-Juneidi is currently on hunger strike as part of mass protest action in Israeli jails, the group said, and will be released from Ofer jail and transferred in an ambulance.
He was detained on Jan. 7 and previously spent five years in Israeli jails.
Al-Juneidi is currently on hunger strike as part of mass protest action in Israeli jails, the group said, and will be released from Ofer jail and transferred in an ambulance.
He was detained on Jan. 7 and previously spent five years in Israeli jails.
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested on Thursday eleven Palestinians, including five minors, from the West Bank cities of Nablus, Hebron and Qalqilya.
Security sources reported that the IOF raided Burqa village and Balata refugee camp in Nablus, before arresting three Palestinians.
The arrested have been identified as: Esam Mohammad al-Ka’bi, Mahmoud Harb and Mahdi Ragheb Salah, 20 years old. They were taken by the Israeli army after breaking into their houses and rummaging the contents.
In a related context, the IOF arrested four Palestinians, including a minor, in al-Fawar and al-Aroub refugee camps in Hebron, after raiding the camps.
The detainees have been identified as: Basil Rami Tawfeeq al-Wawi, 14 years old, Mahmoud Abed el-Rahman Abu- Sel, 22, Sameh Mousalam Mohammad Abu- Sel, 20, and Wadeea Abed el-Rahman Abu- Ameer, 18. They have been transferred to an unknown location.
In Azoun village, west of Qalquilya, the IOF arrested four Palestinian children. They have been identified as: Mahmoud Talab Odwan, 14, Mohammad Rabi,16, Monther Salmaeh,16, and Modeen Dahbour,17.
Lafi Nsourah, the Head of the Prisoners Society in Qalqilya, reported that the IOF beat Modeen Dahbour before arresting him in front of his family. His mother said that the army did not allow him to wear shoes and forced him to walk a long way.
Israeli arrest campaign in West Bank
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested at dawn Thursday five Palestinian citizens after breaking into their homes in West Bank's towns and villages. According to local sources, Israeli forces arrested two members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine after raiding and searching their homes in Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus.
IOF soldiers have tried to arrest group of youths in the camp under the pretext of being in streets at night, the sources added.
Mehdi Salah, 20, was also arrested in Burqa village, north of the city, when IOF soldiers broke into his home.
In al-Khalil, two Palestinians were arrested by the IOF, including a 16-year-old minor, which led to the eruption of clashes in Arroub refugee camp.
Israeli occupation forces have also summoned a number of Palestinian youths for interrogation in Idna, Tarqoumia, and Boqaa villages in al-Khalil.
In a related matter, violent clashes broke out al-Bireh in Ramallah after IOF soldiers broke into a home belonging to Mohammed Alaoura, student at Birzeit University, in a failed attempt to arrest him.
Meanwhile, IOF soldiers arrested on Wednesday three Palestinians including a minor in Fawar refugee camp, south of al-Khalil.
The three young men were brutally assaulted during their arrest before being taken to an unknown destination.
Israeli forces have intensively fired a large barrage of tear gas bombs towards residential areas in the camp, which led to a number of breathing problems among the citizens after inhaling the tear gas.
Security sources reported that the IOF raided Burqa village and Balata refugee camp in Nablus, before arresting three Palestinians.
The arrested have been identified as: Esam Mohammad al-Ka’bi, Mahmoud Harb and Mahdi Ragheb Salah, 20 years old. They were taken by the Israeli army after breaking into their houses and rummaging the contents.
In a related context, the IOF arrested four Palestinians, including a minor, in al-Fawar and al-Aroub refugee camps in Hebron, after raiding the camps.
The detainees have been identified as: Basil Rami Tawfeeq al-Wawi, 14 years old, Mahmoud Abed el-Rahman Abu- Sel, 22, Sameh Mousalam Mohammad Abu- Sel, 20, and Wadeea Abed el-Rahman Abu- Ameer, 18. They have been transferred to an unknown location.
In Azoun village, west of Qalquilya, the IOF arrested four Palestinian children. They have been identified as: Mahmoud Talab Odwan, 14, Mohammad Rabi,16, Monther Salmaeh,16, and Modeen Dahbour,17.
Lafi Nsourah, the Head of the Prisoners Society in Qalqilya, reported that the IOF beat Modeen Dahbour before arresting him in front of his family. His mother said that the army did not allow him to wear shoes and forced him to walk a long way.
Israeli arrest campaign in West Bank
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested at dawn Thursday five Palestinian citizens after breaking into their homes in West Bank's towns and villages. According to local sources, Israeli forces arrested two members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine after raiding and searching their homes in Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus.
IOF soldiers have tried to arrest group of youths in the camp under the pretext of being in streets at night, the sources added.
Mehdi Salah, 20, was also arrested in Burqa village, north of the city, when IOF soldiers broke into his home.
In al-Khalil, two Palestinians were arrested by the IOF, including a 16-year-old minor, which led to the eruption of clashes in Arroub refugee camp.
Israeli occupation forces have also summoned a number of Palestinian youths for interrogation in Idna, Tarqoumia, and Boqaa villages in al-Khalil.
In a related matter, violent clashes broke out al-Bireh in Ramallah after IOF soldiers broke into a home belonging to Mohammed Alaoura, student at Birzeit University, in a failed attempt to arrest him.
Meanwhile, IOF soldiers arrested on Wednesday three Palestinians including a minor in Fawar refugee camp, south of al-Khalil.
The three young men were brutally assaulted during their arrest before being taken to an unknown destination.
Israeli forces have intensively fired a large barrage of tear gas bombs towards residential areas in the camp, which led to a number of breathing problems among the citizens after inhaling the tear gas.
Abdul-Nasser Ferwana
Mass Executions Took Place Following The Nakba --
Palestinian Researcher and head of the Census Department at the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, Abdul-Nasser Ferwana, states that around 20% of all Palestinians in the occupied territories have been imprisoned, and that the period which followed the Nakba of 1948 witnessed executions and crimes more brutal and criminal than in later years.
Such brutal attacks were highlighted by intentional harm, physical assaults and policies of expulsion, forced collective deportation, murder and organized massacres targeting Palestinians, all with the aim of forcing the living to escape, in fear for their lives.
“The army executed large numbers of Palestinians after arresting them,” Ferwana stated. “Other massacres were committed against Palestinians who escaped, and who were later held from minutes to hours before they were executed.”
He added that the period which followed the Nakba, when Israeli forces occupied historic Palestine and declared their state on its ruins, the armed forces began with massive arrests carried out by the Irgun, Haganah and Stern Gang terrorist groups, who observed any Arab or Palestinian as an enemy, as a person deserving to die.
Ferwana further stated that, as Palestinians mark the sixty-sixth anniversary of the Nakba (The Catastrophe), when historic Palestine fell under Israeli occupation in 1948, the number of Palestinians who have been arrested and imprisoned since then exceeds 800.000, representing 20% of all segments and sectors of Palestinian society.
The arrests, compared to the total population, are the largest in the world, while most Palestinians who have experienced kidnapping and imprisonment have been repeatedly arrested and, in many cases, several family members have also been imprisoned by Israel.
“The most serious implication is Israel’s policy of incarceration, as routine arrests are a part of daily policies of assaults against the Palestinians,” Ferwana stated. “Israel uses the arrests to humiliate, pressure and blackmail the prisoners and their families. The army has also repeatedly used the detainees as human shields.”
The Palestinian official said that Israel is currently holding captive 5,243 Palestinians and 28 non-Palestinian political prisoners. 85.3% of the Palestinian detainees are from the West Bank, and 14.7% are from the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem and historic Palestine.
50% of the detainees are held in the Negev detention camp, Ofer and Majeddo (Megiddo). The rest are held in 15 other detention and interrogation centers.
Ferwana added that Israel is currently holding captive 18 Palestinian women; the longest serving of them is Lina al-Jarbouny, who was taken prisoner in April of 2002, in addition to 196 children, 191 Administrative Detainees (without charges or trial), 11 elected legislators and one former minister of local government.
Israel also violated its own vows to release all veteran detainees, held since before the First Oslo Agreement on 1993. The 30 detainees were supposed to be released on March 28, as part of an American-mediated deal to ensure the resumption of direct Palestinian-Israeli negotiations.
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On Tuesday [December 31, 2013] Israel released 26 veteran Palestinian detainees, as part of the third phase of releasing all detained Palestinians held since before the first Oslo peace agreement in 1993.
During the first and second phases, Israel released, back in mid-August, 26 veteran detainees (14 from Gaza and 12 from the West bank) and, in late October, it released 26 veteran detainees (21 from Gaza and 5 from the West Bank). 104 veteran detainees were supposed to be freed by March 28.
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The oldest serving detainee is Karim Younis, who was taken prisoner more than 31 years ago, and Israel is refusing to release him.
Ferwana further stated that there are 130 Administrative Detainees holding a hunger strike which started 21 days ago, in protest of their ongoing imprisonment without charge or trial, and that some of them even started their strike more than two months ago.
He said that more detainees, not only Administrative Detainees, intend to join the strike, especially since Israel is still depriving them of their basic rights, and refuses to provide the ailing detainees with much needed adequate and specialized medical treatment, adding that the army's violations against the detainees are even escalating, in an attempt to force them to end their strike.
Ferwana called on people around the world, advocates of democracy, justice and human rights, to support the detainees, holding their “Revolution for Freedom”, in their battle against Administrative Detention, and for the release of all prisoners.
He said that increased regional, national and international actions are needed to pressure Israel into ending its violations.
Former Political Prisoner, Abdul-Nasser Ferwana
Head of the Census Department of The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees
Member of the Special Committee in Charge of Detainees’ Affairs in the Gaza Strip
Personal Website:
Palestine Behind Bars
Mass Executions Took Place Following The Nakba --
Palestinian Researcher and head of the Census Department at the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, Abdul-Nasser Ferwana, states that around 20% of all Palestinians in the occupied territories have been imprisoned, and that the period which followed the Nakba of 1948 witnessed executions and crimes more brutal and criminal than in later years.
Such brutal attacks were highlighted by intentional harm, physical assaults and policies of expulsion, forced collective deportation, murder and organized massacres targeting Palestinians, all with the aim of forcing the living to escape, in fear for their lives.
“The army executed large numbers of Palestinians after arresting them,” Ferwana stated. “Other massacres were committed against Palestinians who escaped, and who were later held from minutes to hours before they were executed.”
He added that the period which followed the Nakba, when Israeli forces occupied historic Palestine and declared their state on its ruins, the armed forces began with massive arrests carried out by the Irgun, Haganah and Stern Gang terrorist groups, who observed any Arab or Palestinian as an enemy, as a person deserving to die.
Ferwana further stated that, as Palestinians mark the sixty-sixth anniversary of the Nakba (The Catastrophe), when historic Palestine fell under Israeli occupation in 1948, the number of Palestinians who have been arrested and imprisoned since then exceeds 800.000, representing 20% of all segments and sectors of Palestinian society.
The arrests, compared to the total population, are the largest in the world, while most Palestinians who have experienced kidnapping and imprisonment have been repeatedly arrested and, in many cases, several family members have also been imprisoned by Israel.
“The most serious implication is Israel’s policy of incarceration, as routine arrests are a part of daily policies of assaults against the Palestinians,” Ferwana stated. “Israel uses the arrests to humiliate, pressure and blackmail the prisoners and their families. The army has also repeatedly used the detainees as human shields.”
The Palestinian official said that Israel is currently holding captive 5,243 Palestinians and 28 non-Palestinian political prisoners. 85.3% of the Palestinian detainees are from the West Bank, and 14.7% are from the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem and historic Palestine.
50% of the detainees are held in the Negev detention camp, Ofer and Majeddo (Megiddo). The rest are held in 15 other detention and interrogation centers.
Ferwana added that Israel is currently holding captive 18 Palestinian women; the longest serving of them is Lina al-Jarbouny, who was taken prisoner in April of 2002, in addition to 196 children, 191 Administrative Detainees (without charges or trial), 11 elected legislators and one former minister of local government.
Israel also violated its own vows to release all veteran detainees, held since before the First Oslo Agreement on 1993. The 30 detainees were supposed to be released on March 28, as part of an American-mediated deal to ensure the resumption of direct Palestinian-Israeli negotiations.
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On Tuesday [December 31, 2013] Israel released 26 veteran Palestinian detainees, as part of the third phase of releasing all detained Palestinians held since before the first Oslo peace agreement in 1993.
During the first and second phases, Israel released, back in mid-August, 26 veteran detainees (14 from Gaza and 12 from the West bank) and, in late October, it released 26 veteran detainees (21 from Gaza and 5 from the West Bank). 104 veteran detainees were supposed to be freed by March 28.
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The oldest serving detainee is Karim Younis, who was taken prisoner more than 31 years ago, and Israel is refusing to release him.
Ferwana further stated that there are 130 Administrative Detainees holding a hunger strike which started 21 days ago, in protest of their ongoing imprisonment without charge or trial, and that some of them even started their strike more than two months ago.
He said that more detainees, not only Administrative Detainees, intend to join the strike, especially since Israel is still depriving them of their basic rights, and refuses to provide the ailing detainees with much needed adequate and specialized medical treatment, adding that the army's violations against the detainees are even escalating, in an attempt to force them to end their strike.
Ferwana called on people around the world, advocates of democracy, justice and human rights, to support the detainees, holding their “Revolution for Freedom”, in their battle against Administrative Detention, and for the release of all prisoners.
He said that increased regional, national and international actions are needed to pressure Israel into ending its violations.
Former Political Prisoner, Abdul-Nasser Ferwana
Head of the Census Department of The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees
Member of the Special Committee in Charge of Detainees’ Affairs in the Gaza Strip
Personal Website:
Palestine Behind Bars
A number of human rights groups and political parties, including Amnesty International and representative organizations for Palestine, in Israel, have published a petition calling on the Israeli Minister of Defense to put an end to the repeated detention of conscientious objector Omar Saad.
18-year-old Saad has been jailed, now, for 150 days since December 4, after declaring his refusal to serve in the Israeli army.
“I refuse to take an assault rifle and point it at another human being. I abhor this violence and everything connected to violence. I detest and hate all violence,” Saad told Amnesty last year.
Saad sent an open letter, in 2012, to the Israeli prime minister and defense minister which read: “I couldn’t imagine myself wearing [a] military uniform and participating in the suppression of my Palestinian people or fighting my Arab brothers.”
The letter said, in addition:
“Many of the youth from my community have done the compulsory service in the army, what have we received? Discrimination in all areas, our villages are the poorest, our lands were confiscated, there are no master plans, and no industrial zones. Percentages of university graduates in our villages [are] of the lowest in the region, the unemployment rates in our villages are the highest. This mandatory [conscription] law has kept us away from our Arab connection.”
A recent poll, conducted by the University of Haifa, has revealed that the number of Druze refusing to serve in the Israeli army is increasing. It also shows that a growing number of Israeli youth prefer being jailed instead of military service.
Full article, including petition, at the Electronic Intifada.
18-year-old Saad has been jailed, now, for 150 days since December 4, after declaring his refusal to serve in the Israeli army.
“I refuse to take an assault rifle and point it at another human being. I abhor this violence and everything connected to violence. I detest and hate all violence,” Saad told Amnesty last year.
Saad sent an open letter, in 2012, to the Israeli prime minister and defense minister which read: “I couldn’t imagine myself wearing [a] military uniform and participating in the suppression of my Palestinian people or fighting my Arab brothers.”
The letter said, in addition:
“Many of the youth from my community have done the compulsory service in the army, what have we received? Discrimination in all areas, our villages are the poorest, our lands were confiscated, there are no master plans, and no industrial zones. Percentages of university graduates in our villages [are] of the lowest in the region, the unemployment rates in our villages are the highest. This mandatory [conscription] law has kept us away from our Arab connection.”
A recent poll, conducted by the University of Haifa, has revealed that the number of Druze refusing to serve in the Israeli army is increasing. It also shows that a growing number of Israeli youth prefer being jailed instead of military service.
Full article, including petition, at the Electronic Intifada.
14 may 2014
Dozens of Israeli conscripts and settlers desecrated the plazas of the holy Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem on Wednesday morning. The Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage said in a statement that 45 settlers entered the Aqsa via Mahgareba Gate under strict police protection.
It said that the settlers toured the Mosque’s various courtyards and tried to perform Talmudic rituals, an attempt that was confronted by guards and worshipers.
At the same time, 90 male and female conscripts raided the holy site in their military uniform in three groups and listened to explanations on the alleged temple.
Hundreds of vigilantes and worshipers were angered at the tours and chanted Allahu Akbar. Israeli policemen arrested two brothers for reiterating the Takbir and threatened all those who do so with arrest.
Israeli policemen at the gates of the Aqsa confiscated IDs of students wishing to enter the Mosque and denied access for some of them.
It said that the settlers toured the Mosque’s various courtyards and tried to perform Talmudic rituals, an attempt that was confronted by guards and worshipers.
At the same time, 90 male and female conscripts raided the holy site in their military uniform in three groups and listened to explanations on the alleged temple.
Hundreds of vigilantes and worshipers were angered at the tours and chanted Allahu Akbar. Israeli policemen arrested two brothers for reiterating the Takbir and threatened all those who do so with arrest.
Israeli policemen at the gates of the Aqsa confiscated IDs of students wishing to enter the Mosque and denied access for some of them.
Jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi gave his blessing to a Palestinian reconciliation deal, in a statement also marking the 66th memory of the Nakba.
Barghouthi saluted all Palestinian martyrs and emphasized that the right of return for Palestinians who have been displaced from their homes is a sacred, non-negotiable right. He said any solution for the Palestinian cause that does not include the right of return is not a legitimate solution.
Barghouthi highlighted that national unity as the key for freedom for repressed nations. He called for protecting the reconciliation agreement between Hamas and Fatah and providing every opportunity to make it happen.
The jailed leader stressed the need for a national strategy for facing the challenges threatening the Palestinian cause, mainly the Israeli occupation as well as "Judaisation" of Jerusalem and its Islamic and Christian religious sites.
He encouraged Palestinian efforts for joining international treaties, agreements and organizations for the need of obtaining the Palestinian rights. He also encouraged the Palestinian, Arab and international economic, political and diplomatic boycott of Israel along with increasing public resistance.
Barghouthi said that for two decades negotiations with Israel have been unsuccessful because of the constant Israeli rejection of ending occupation and admitting Palestinian rights.
He also backed an ongoing hunger strike and called for all Palestinians and Palestinian parties to support their prisoners in Israeli jails.
In Gaza City on Wednesday, Hamas and Fatah officials held a three-hour meeting in what officials described as a "positive" atmosphere.
Head of Fatah's negotiation team Azzam al-Ahmad said after the meeting that talks will continue and officials will abide by a five-week deadline to form a unity government.
Mousa Abu Marzouq, head of the Hamas negotiating team, said the talks would be finalized next week and a unity government would be announced shortly afterwards.
The proposed candidates for the unity government are politically "impartial," Fatah official Fayez Abu Atiyeh told Ma'an, with Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri adding that the formation of a proposed unity cabinet is nearly complete.
Earlier, Gaza prime minister Ismail Haniyeh said that he believed the unity government would achieve its goals and "our mission is to make it succeed and to mobilize our people behind its national goals."
"We will clean the road to reconciliation from all obstacles and landmines, and I hereby call on our brothers in the West Bank to take the same path and to maintain freedoms," he said, while addressing Gaza members of the Palestinian Legislative Council.
On April 23, the Fatah-led PLO and Hamas announced a national unity deal to end seven years of political division between the largest two Palestinian parties, with a national unity government to be set in place within five weeks.
The groups have made failed attempts at national reconciliation for years, most recently in 2012, when they signed two agreements -- one in Cairo and a subsequent one in Doha -- which have as of yet been unimplemented.
Barghouthi saluted all Palestinian martyrs and emphasized that the right of return for Palestinians who have been displaced from their homes is a sacred, non-negotiable right. He said any solution for the Palestinian cause that does not include the right of return is not a legitimate solution.
Barghouthi highlighted that national unity as the key for freedom for repressed nations. He called for protecting the reconciliation agreement between Hamas and Fatah and providing every opportunity to make it happen.
The jailed leader stressed the need for a national strategy for facing the challenges threatening the Palestinian cause, mainly the Israeli occupation as well as "Judaisation" of Jerusalem and its Islamic and Christian religious sites.
He encouraged Palestinian efforts for joining international treaties, agreements and organizations for the need of obtaining the Palestinian rights. He also encouraged the Palestinian, Arab and international economic, political and diplomatic boycott of Israel along with increasing public resistance.
Barghouthi said that for two decades negotiations with Israel have been unsuccessful because of the constant Israeli rejection of ending occupation and admitting Palestinian rights.
He also backed an ongoing hunger strike and called for all Palestinians and Palestinian parties to support their prisoners in Israeli jails.
In Gaza City on Wednesday, Hamas and Fatah officials held a three-hour meeting in what officials described as a "positive" atmosphere.
Head of Fatah's negotiation team Azzam al-Ahmad said after the meeting that talks will continue and officials will abide by a five-week deadline to form a unity government.
Mousa Abu Marzouq, head of the Hamas negotiating team, said the talks would be finalized next week and a unity government would be announced shortly afterwards.
The proposed candidates for the unity government are politically "impartial," Fatah official Fayez Abu Atiyeh told Ma'an, with Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri adding that the formation of a proposed unity cabinet is nearly complete.
Earlier, Gaza prime minister Ismail Haniyeh said that he believed the unity government would achieve its goals and "our mission is to make it succeed and to mobilize our people behind its national goals."
"We will clean the road to reconciliation from all obstacles and landmines, and I hereby call on our brothers in the West Bank to take the same path and to maintain freedoms," he said, while addressing Gaza members of the Palestinian Legislative Council.
On April 23, the Fatah-led PLO and Hamas announced a national unity deal to end seven years of political division between the largest two Palestinian parties, with a national unity government to be set in place within five weeks.
The groups have made failed attempts at national reconciliation for years, most recently in 2012, when they signed two agreements -- one in Cairo and a subsequent one in Doha -- which have as of yet been unimplemented.
Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli Raymond jail have declared intention to go on hunger strike on Thursday in solidarity with administrative detainees who have been on hunger strike for three weeks. The Palestinian Prisoner Society said in a statement on Wednesday that 360 prisoners in three sections in Raymond jail would go on a single day hunger strike on Thursday.
The administrative detainees had begun their hunger strike on 24 April demanding an end to the Israeli policy of administrative detention that incarcerates Palestinians without any charge or trial.
The administrative detainees had begun their hunger strike on 24 April demanding an end to the Israeli policy of administrative detention that incarcerates Palestinians without any charge or trial.
A number of Palestinian students suffered breathing problems and others were arrested following violent confrontations with the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in a Ramallah village while several demolition procedures have been carried out in Occupied Jerusalem. Eye-witnesses told PIC correspondent Israeli patrols have been heavily deployed at the main entrance to Abud village, west of Ramallah, on Wednesday morning before abruptly storming a school in the village and targeting classrooms with tear gas and sound bombs.
Severe breathing problems and a state of extreme anxiety prevailed among students and citizens.
IOF soldiers arrested the student Ali Abu Rasem from nearby Deir Mishal village inside the school and took him to an unidentified destination, the witnesses further documented.
Palestinian citizen Jibril Abu Isneina from al-Khalil was also arrested and taken to an unknown location by IOF soldiers after having rummaged through his home and those of several citizens in different areas of al-Khalil. Other Palestinian civilians were summoned for interrogation by Israeli intelligence.
In a related context, Israeli civil administration, backed by dozens of army patrols, attacked Yatta town near al-Khalil and handed demolition threats to several Palestinian natives, as it has done many times before, under pretext of illegal construction.
The so-called Inspection Sub-committee in Beit El settlement scheduled 24 May 2014 as the projected date for a meeting over possibilities of knocking down the entire area.
Palestinian Citizen Ibrahim Awad said he has long been awaiting for his house to be constructed and to set up a home with his family and children. But the Israeli authorities have come into the way of making his dream come true.
The incident comes at a time when the Israeli municipality has demolished a house and three commercial compounds on Wednesday south of Occupied Jerusalem under pretext of illegal permits.
Mohamd Amin Shkirat, owner of the demolished house, said in a press statement the house covers an overall area of 140 km2 and has been inhabited by ten family members.
Shkirat and his family have been displaced once before when their house was reduced to rubbles a few years ago under the same pretext.
The three demolished commercial buildings extend over areas that run, consecutively, over 55km2, 100km2, and 18km2.
IOF soldiers, who provided an armed shield to the bulldozers and municipality crews, ordered shopkeepers and civilians to keep away from the demolition zone.
Severe breathing problems and a state of extreme anxiety prevailed among students and citizens.
IOF soldiers arrested the student Ali Abu Rasem from nearby Deir Mishal village inside the school and took him to an unidentified destination, the witnesses further documented.
Palestinian citizen Jibril Abu Isneina from al-Khalil was also arrested and taken to an unknown location by IOF soldiers after having rummaged through his home and those of several citizens in different areas of al-Khalil. Other Palestinian civilians were summoned for interrogation by Israeli intelligence.
In a related context, Israeli civil administration, backed by dozens of army patrols, attacked Yatta town near al-Khalil and handed demolition threats to several Palestinian natives, as it has done many times before, under pretext of illegal construction.
The so-called Inspection Sub-committee in Beit El settlement scheduled 24 May 2014 as the projected date for a meeting over possibilities of knocking down the entire area.
Palestinian Citizen Ibrahim Awad said he has long been awaiting for his house to be constructed and to set up a home with his family and children. But the Israeli authorities have come into the way of making his dream come true.
The incident comes at a time when the Israeli municipality has demolished a house and three commercial compounds on Wednesday south of Occupied Jerusalem under pretext of illegal permits.
Mohamd Amin Shkirat, owner of the demolished house, said in a press statement the house covers an overall area of 140 km2 and has been inhabited by ten family members.
Shkirat and his family have been displaced once before when their house was reduced to rubbles a few years ago under the same pretext.
The three demolished commercial buildings extend over areas that run, consecutively, over 55km2, 100km2, and 18km2.
IOF soldiers, who provided an armed shield to the bulldozers and municipality crews, ordered shopkeepers and civilians to keep away from the demolition zone.
Palestinian government in Gaza Strip has renewed its adherence to Palestinian legitimate rights and to the liberation of each inch of Palestine, and called for more support for prisoners' protest steps in Israeli occupation jails. During its weekly meeting on Tuesday evening, the government said that Palestinian people offered invaluable sacrifices of thousands martyrs, wounded and prisoners in order to retain Palestine as Arab and Islamic.
The Palestinian people will foil any attempt to liquidate the Palestinian rights to freedom, independence, and return, according to the government’s statement.
The statement hailed the steadfastness of Palestinian administrative detainees who declared hunger strike 20 days ago, calling on international and human rights organizations to support their demands especially ending administrative detention policy.
The government denounced the approval of an Israeli bill that could block any future release of prisoners and allow judges to pass life sentences that are ineligible for presidential pardons.
The Israeli racist decision came in violation of international laws and conventions, the statement underlined, calling on the international community to bear its responsibility and intervene immediately to stop Israeli violations.
On the other hand, the Palestinian government called the Egyptian authorities to immediately open Rafah crossing which has been closed for 119 days since the beginning of this year.
The statement pointed out that hundreds of stranded persons including patients, elderly people, women, and children are in urgent need to travel for humanitarian reasons.
The government also expressed appreciation to 120 European MPs for signing a petition demanding an immediate end to Israeli unfair siege on Gaza.
It stressed the need to prosecute the occupation at international courts, calling on European Parliament to pressure the Israeli occupation authorities to lift the siege on Gaza.
The government also called on the Lebanese authorities to lift the restrictions imposed on the entry of Palestinians displaced from Syria, stressing that their presence in Lebanon is temporary due to the ongoing events in Syria.
The Palestinian people will foil any attempt to liquidate the Palestinian rights to freedom, independence, and return, according to the government’s statement.
The statement hailed the steadfastness of Palestinian administrative detainees who declared hunger strike 20 days ago, calling on international and human rights organizations to support their demands especially ending administrative detention policy.
The government denounced the approval of an Israeli bill that could block any future release of prisoners and allow judges to pass life sentences that are ineligible for presidential pardons.
The Israeli racist decision came in violation of international laws and conventions, the statement underlined, calling on the international community to bear its responsibility and intervene immediately to stop Israeli violations.
On the other hand, the Palestinian government called the Egyptian authorities to immediately open Rafah crossing which has been closed for 119 days since the beginning of this year.
The statement pointed out that hundreds of stranded persons including patients, elderly people, women, and children are in urgent need to travel for humanitarian reasons.
The government also expressed appreciation to 120 European MPs for signing a petition demanding an immediate end to Israeli unfair siege on Gaza.
It stressed the need to prosecute the occupation at international courts, calling on European Parliament to pressure the Israeli occupation authorities to lift the siege on Gaza.
The government also called on the Lebanese authorities to lift the restrictions imposed on the entry of Palestinians displaced from Syria, stressing that their presence in Lebanon is temporary due to the ongoing events in Syria.
Jerusalemite female detainee Shireen Issawi, 32, has been on an open-ended hunger strike for the seventh consecutive day, both to protest the Israeli arbitrary detention orders and in solidarity with her fellow administrative hunger-strikers. According to the Palestinian Prisoner Studies Center, Issawi, detained since March 2014 under alleged charges of having assisted prisoners and serving as a mediator between the Palestinian leadership and captives inside of Israeli jails, launched the hunger strike since last Thursday.
Issawi vowed to keep going despite her exacerbated health status as a means to protest being locked up with no legitimate charges. The Israeli occupation authorities released all other four lawyers arrested under the same charges while Issawi, along with her brother, are still incarcerated in Israeli jails, her mother confirmed
The fact that prisoner Issawi, who used to work for Jerusalem’s Foundation for Legal Assistance, was denied visits to other prisoners, under an Israeli arbitrary rule issued three years ago and renewed two years before Issawi’s arrest, proves all allegations of having assisted Palestinian prisoners false.
Issawi has not only been arrested several times and spent a whole year in Israeli jails, but was also sentenced to one-year house-imprisonment and arrested three times during her brother Samer Issawi’s hunger strike.
The Prisoners’ Studies Center called on all international institutions to immediately intervene to demand lawyer Issawi’s freedom, which she has been arbitrarily incarcerated.
Along the same line, Ahrar Center for Prisoner Studies and Human Rights reported that dozens of convicted prisoners, including head of Hamas Prisoner’s Senior Leadership, Abbas Al-Sayed, joined the open ended hunger-strike in solidarity with the administrative hunger-strikers so as to pressurize Israeli Prison Service (IPS) to halt its arbitrary detention policies.
Head of Ahrar center Fuad Al-Khuffash said: “Such a solidarity move, on which life-sentenced Al-Sayed, among many other Hamas leaders, embarked, make part of a large-scale attempt to point out the tragedy of Palestinian prisoners locked up behind Israeli bars.”
Dozens of Ofer and Shatta captives joined the hunger strike, Al-Khuffash further documented.
Issawi vowed to keep going despite her exacerbated health status as a means to protest being locked up with no legitimate charges. The Israeli occupation authorities released all other four lawyers arrested under the same charges while Issawi, along with her brother, are still incarcerated in Israeli jails, her mother confirmed
The fact that prisoner Issawi, who used to work for Jerusalem’s Foundation for Legal Assistance, was denied visits to other prisoners, under an Israeli arbitrary rule issued three years ago and renewed two years before Issawi’s arrest, proves all allegations of having assisted Palestinian prisoners false.
Issawi has not only been arrested several times and spent a whole year in Israeli jails, but was also sentenced to one-year house-imprisonment and arrested three times during her brother Samer Issawi’s hunger strike.
The Prisoners’ Studies Center called on all international institutions to immediately intervene to demand lawyer Issawi’s freedom, which she has been arbitrarily incarcerated.
Along the same line, Ahrar Center for Prisoner Studies and Human Rights reported that dozens of convicted prisoners, including head of Hamas Prisoner’s Senior Leadership, Abbas Al-Sayed, joined the open ended hunger-strike in solidarity with the administrative hunger-strikers so as to pressurize Israeli Prison Service (IPS) to halt its arbitrary detention policies.
Head of Ahrar center Fuad Al-Khuffash said: “Such a solidarity move, on which life-sentenced Al-Sayed, among many other Hamas leaders, embarked, make part of a large-scale attempt to point out the tragedy of Palestinian prisoners locked up behind Israeli bars.”
Dozens of Ofer and Shatta captives joined the hunger strike, Al-Khuffash further documented.
Palestinian administrative prisoners have continued their hunger strike for 21 consecutive days protesting Israeli administrative detention policy. Administrative detainees have launched their hunger strike on April 24 protesting their continued detention without trial or charge.
51 hunger strikers in Negev prison and 37 strikers in Ofer prison have been transferred to solitary confinement while three sick detainees were transferred to hospital.
Palestinian administrative detainees suffer ill-treatment and violations in Israeli jails in which they are held without charge or trial for renewed periods of time.
According to Palestinian Prisoner Society, 25 Palestinian detainees are scheduled to join administrative detainees' hunger strike on Thursday.
New groups of detainees are used to join the strike each Thursday, which led to the deterioration of health condition of some of them.
Administrative detention is the arrest of a person with no specific charge for periods varying from 6 months to several years under the pretext of "secret files".
For his part, PA Minister for Prisoners' Affairs Issa Qaraqa said that leaders in the Captive Movement threatened Israeli prison authorities that they would join administrative detainees' hunger strike in case their demands were not met.
During his visit to Jenin on Tuesday, he called on international human rights institutions to accelerate their efforts to end Israeli violations in Israeli jails.
Leaders in the Captive Movement, including Marwan Barghouthi, have declared in a letter their intention to join the strike in case administrative detainees' issue is not solved.
Qaraqa has visited number of Palestinian detainees' families in Jenin in solidarity with their sons' protest steps.
51 hunger strikers in Negev prison and 37 strikers in Ofer prison have been transferred to solitary confinement while three sick detainees were transferred to hospital.
Palestinian administrative detainees suffer ill-treatment and violations in Israeli jails in which they are held without charge or trial for renewed periods of time.
According to Palestinian Prisoner Society, 25 Palestinian detainees are scheduled to join administrative detainees' hunger strike on Thursday.
New groups of detainees are used to join the strike each Thursday, which led to the deterioration of health condition of some of them.
Administrative detention is the arrest of a person with no specific charge for periods varying from 6 months to several years under the pretext of "secret files".
For his part, PA Minister for Prisoners' Affairs Issa Qaraqa said that leaders in the Captive Movement threatened Israeli prison authorities that they would join administrative detainees' hunger strike in case their demands were not met.
During his visit to Jenin on Tuesday, he called on international human rights institutions to accelerate their efforts to end Israeli violations in Israeli jails.
Leaders in the Captive Movement, including Marwan Barghouthi, have declared in a letter their intention to join the strike in case administrative detainees' issue is not solved.
Qaraqa has visited number of Palestinian detainees' families in Jenin in solidarity with their sons' protest steps.
IOF arrested Wednesday at dawn a young Palestinian after raiding his home in Dora city, to the south west of Hebron, southern West Bank . Local sources reported that an Israeli military force detained Zakari Qazaz ,18, after raiding his home in Arqan Awad in Dora, and took him to an unknown location .
Sources pointed that 5 military jeeps and tankers surrounded his home before raiding it.
Palestinian Prisoner Society said previously that Hebron has been subject to the most notorious mass-arrest campaign ever during the month of April. The detention rate hit a record high of 100 Palestinian citizens. Detention periods for more than 35 detainees have also been extended.
Sources pointed that 5 military jeeps and tankers surrounded his home before raiding it.
Palestinian Prisoner Society said previously that Hebron has been subject to the most notorious mass-arrest campaign ever during the month of April. The detention rate hit a record high of 100 Palestinian citizens. Detention periods for more than 35 detainees have also been extended.
Prisoner Abbas al-Sayed
Prisoner Abbas al-Sayed, sentenced to life imprisonment, is to declare an open-ended hunger strike next Monday in solidarity with the administrative detainees, Palestinian Center for Prisoners Studies and Human Rights, Ahrar, said. Al-Sayed , Hamas senior leader, was arrested in 2002 and sentenced to 36 life imprisonments.
The administrative detainees in the Israeli prisons have been on a hunger strike for over three weeks to pressure Israeli Prison Service (IPS) to respond to their just demands.
Director of Ahrar Center for Prisoners Studies, Fouad Khuffash, said dozens of Palestinian prisoners decided to declare an open-ended hunger strike in solidarity with the administrative detainees.
More than 140 administrative detainees are still on hunger strike for 21 days in a row in order to end the illegal applied procedures of Israel's policy of administrative detention.
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.
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.
Prisoner Abbas al-Sayed, sentenced to life imprisonment, is to declare an open-ended hunger strike next Monday in solidarity with the administrative detainees, Palestinian Center for Prisoners Studies and Human Rights, Ahrar, said. Al-Sayed , Hamas senior leader, was arrested in 2002 and sentenced to 36 life imprisonments.
The administrative detainees in the Israeli prisons have been on a hunger strike for over three weeks to pressure Israeli Prison Service (IPS) to respond to their just demands.
Director of Ahrar Center for Prisoners Studies, Fouad Khuffash, said dozens of Palestinian prisoners decided to declare an open-ended hunger strike in solidarity with the administrative detainees.
More than 140 administrative detainees are still on hunger strike for 21 days in a row in order to end the illegal applied procedures of Israel's policy of administrative detention.
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.
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.
Musallam Ouda 14
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested Wednesday Musallam Ouda, 14, after raiding his house in Silwan village .
Wadi Helwa Information Center reported that the IOF arrested Musallam after raiding his family house in the early morning and took one of his T-shirt.
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested Wednesday Musallam Ouda, 14, after raiding his house in Silwan village .
Wadi Helwa Information Center reported that the IOF arrested Musallam after raiding his family house in the early morning and took one of his T-shirt.
Musallam Ouda age 9
His father explained that the IOF handed him a summon to attend his son's interrogation in the Russian Compound Interrogation Center ' al-Masqoubea' .
The center pointed out that the IOF arrested Ouda 14 times before and his first arrest was when he was 9.
His father explained that the IOF handed him a summon to attend his son's interrogation in the Russian Compound Interrogation Center ' al-Masqoubea' .
The center pointed out that the IOF arrested Ouda 14 times before and his first arrest was when he was 9.
Israeli special forces kidnapped two Palestinian young men while passing near Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus city, at noon Tuesday. Eyewitnesses said that the special forces were wearing plain clothes and driving in a civilian car when they intercepted the car in which Badr Al-Razza, 26, and Nasr Subuh, 25, were riding.
They said that the Israeli soldiers forced the two young men under gun threat to disembark then took them away.
Meanwhile, Israeli policemen arrested a 14-year-old Jerusalemite boy from his home in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem on Tuesday night.
Jerusalemite sources said that Israeli policemen searched a number of homes in the Old City before taking way Rashid Al-Resheq, 14.
They said that the policemen wreaked havoc in Resheq’s home before arresting him, adding that the child was confined in his home under house arrest after his recent release.
They said that the Israeli soldiers forced the two young men under gun threat to disembark then took them away.
Meanwhile, Israeli policemen arrested a 14-year-old Jerusalemite boy from his home in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem on Tuesday night.
Jerusalemite sources said that Israeli policemen searched a number of homes in the Old City before taking way Rashid Al-Resheq, 14.
They said that the policemen wreaked havoc in Resheq’s home before arresting him, adding that the child was confined in his home under house arrest after his recent release.
Israeli forces abducted seven people in the West Bank, Tuesday, in addition to two more from the Jerusalem area, according to reports by local witnesses, media and security sources.
Forces stormed Battir, a village located to the west of Bethlehem, where they kidnapped three people between 19 and 23 years of age, after breaking into and searching their houses.
In Nablus city, soldiers stormed Sufyan Street and Khalet al-‘Amud, located in downtown Nablus, in the eastern part of the city, where they took two people aged 27 and 17 years, after breaking into and searching their houses.
Meanwhile in Jerusalem, WAFA reports, Israeli police stationed in the al-Aqsa Mosque Compound arrested two students and took them to a nearby interrogation facility, after students in the mosque attempted to confront Israeli settlers protected by heavy reinforcements of Israeli police, all breaking into the mosque from Bab al-Magharba (Moroccan or Dung Gate).
Israeli forces also invaded ‘Anza, located to the southwest of Jenin, where they kidnapped one 26-year-old, after breaking into and searching his house.
According to WAFA, they also broke into several houses in al-Marrah, Kharrubi, al-Basatin and al-Zahra’, where they interrogated residents and threatened to place them in administrative detention.
Forces stormed Battir, a village located to the west of Bethlehem, where they kidnapped three people between 19 and 23 years of age, after breaking into and searching their houses.
In Nablus city, soldiers stormed Sufyan Street and Khalet al-‘Amud, located in downtown Nablus, in the eastern part of the city, where they took two people aged 27 and 17 years, after breaking into and searching their houses.
Meanwhile in Jerusalem, WAFA reports, Israeli police stationed in the al-Aqsa Mosque Compound arrested two students and took them to a nearby interrogation facility, after students in the mosque attempted to confront Israeli settlers protected by heavy reinforcements of Israeli police, all breaking into the mosque from Bab al-Magharba (Moroccan or Dung Gate).
Israeli forces also invaded ‘Anza, located to the southwest of Jenin, where they kidnapped one 26-year-old, after breaking into and searching his house.
According to WAFA, they also broke into several houses in al-Marrah, Kharrubi, al-Basatin and al-Zahra’, where they interrogated residents and threatened to place them in administrative detention.
