27 may 2015
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Wednesday, eleven Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, in addition to one woman while visiting her imprisoned son in the Israeli Gilboa’ prison, and one woman on the Erez Terminal, in northern Gaza.
In Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, soldiers invaded various neighborhoods, stormed and violently searched several homes, and kidnapped three Palestinians identified as Ehab Marwan al-Karaki, 20, Anas al-Hashlamoun, 24, and ‘Odai Raed ‘Asafra, 24.
In addition, several military vehicles invaded ‘Aseera ash-Shemaliyya town, north of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, before the soldiers broke into and searched a number of homes, and kidnapped four Palestinians.
The kidnapped residents have been identified as Islam Mahmoud ash-Showly, 30, Abdul-Rahman Hamadna, 27, Bara’ Mohammad Jarar’a, 19, and Mahmoud Raslan Yassin, 17.
Also in the Nablus district, soldiers closed the Beit Forik and Beit Dajan roadblocks, and prevented the Palestinians from crossing.
Head of the Beit Forik Local Council ‘Aref Haneeni told the WAFA Palestinian new agency that the soldiers closed the roadblocks approximately at 3 at dawn without providing any justification for the closure.
Furthermore, several army vehicles invaded Ya’bad town, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, stormed and searched homes, and kidnapped three Palestinians identified as Abdullah Sa’id ‘Amarna, 22, Mohammad Abdullah ‘Amarna, 24, and Abdullah Mohammad as-Soury, 25.
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that the soldiers also kidnapped a Palestinian woman, identified as Ebtisam Yousef Taha Hamarsha, 59, from Jenin, while visiting her detained son, who was sentenced to 25 months in imprisonment, and is held in the Gilboa’ Israeli prison.
Soldiers also kidnapped a young Palestinian man in Jerusalem’s Old City, and took him to the military center in the Central Mail Building, near the Sahera Gate; the name of the detained Palestinian remained unknown until the time of this report.
In related news, soldiers kidnapped another Palestinian woman, trying to cross the Erez Terminal after visiting family members in historic Palestine, media sources in Gaza said,
The woman, a mother of seven children from the Nusseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, has been identified as Sana’ Mohammad al-Hafi, 43 years of age.
The soldiers kidnapped, in recent months, dozens of Palestinians, including businesspersons and patients in the Erez terminal, interrogated them, and even tried to get some Palestinian youths, and patients, to become informants and collaborators, in exchange for facilitating their travel.
In Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, soldiers invaded various neighborhoods, stormed and violently searched several homes, and kidnapped three Palestinians identified as Ehab Marwan al-Karaki, 20, Anas al-Hashlamoun, 24, and ‘Odai Raed ‘Asafra, 24.
In addition, several military vehicles invaded ‘Aseera ash-Shemaliyya town, north of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, before the soldiers broke into and searched a number of homes, and kidnapped four Palestinians.
The kidnapped residents have been identified as Islam Mahmoud ash-Showly, 30, Abdul-Rahman Hamadna, 27, Bara’ Mohammad Jarar’a, 19, and Mahmoud Raslan Yassin, 17.
Also in the Nablus district, soldiers closed the Beit Forik and Beit Dajan roadblocks, and prevented the Palestinians from crossing.
Head of the Beit Forik Local Council ‘Aref Haneeni told the WAFA Palestinian new agency that the soldiers closed the roadblocks approximately at 3 at dawn without providing any justification for the closure.
Furthermore, several army vehicles invaded Ya’bad town, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, stormed and searched homes, and kidnapped three Palestinians identified as Abdullah Sa’id ‘Amarna, 22, Mohammad Abdullah ‘Amarna, 24, and Abdullah Mohammad as-Soury, 25.
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that the soldiers also kidnapped a Palestinian woman, identified as Ebtisam Yousef Taha Hamarsha, 59, from Jenin, while visiting her detained son, who was sentenced to 25 months in imprisonment, and is held in the Gilboa’ Israeli prison.
Soldiers also kidnapped a young Palestinian man in Jerusalem’s Old City, and took him to the military center in the Central Mail Building, near the Sahera Gate; the name of the detained Palestinian remained unknown until the time of this report.
In related news, soldiers kidnapped another Palestinian woman, trying to cross the Erez Terminal after visiting family members in historic Palestine, media sources in Gaza said,
The woman, a mother of seven children from the Nusseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, has been identified as Sana’ Mohammad al-Hafi, 43 years of age.
The soldiers kidnapped, in recent months, dozens of Palestinians, including businesspersons and patients in the Erez terminal, interrogated them, and even tried to get some Palestinian youths, and patients, to become informants and collaborators, in exchange for facilitating their travel.
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) closed overnight the two military checkpoints east of Nablus city to the north of occupied West Bank following an alleged attack on settlers’ vehicles.
Local sources said two checkpoints were closed from both directions in Beit Furik and Beit Djan villages after IOF violently broke into the towns amid heavy fire of tear gas bombs.
Dozens of Palestinian cars were stopped and denied entry into the villages from both directions till the morning hours.
The closure came after Israeli sources claimed that Israeli settlers’ vehicles were subjected to an alleged Molotov cocktail attack at the road linking between Itamar and Alon Moreh settlements.
Meanwhile, four Palestinian youths were nabbed at dawn today after Israeli forces stormed and searched a number of homes in Assira town to the north of the city.
Local sources said two checkpoints were closed from both directions in Beit Furik and Beit Djan villages after IOF violently broke into the towns amid heavy fire of tear gas bombs.
Dozens of Palestinian cars were stopped and denied entry into the villages from both directions till the morning hours.
The closure came after Israeli sources claimed that Israeli settlers’ vehicles were subjected to an alleged Molotov cocktail attack at the road linking between Itamar and Alon Moreh settlements.
Meanwhile, four Palestinian youths were nabbed at dawn today after Israeli forces stormed and searched a number of homes in Assira town to the north of the city.
The Israeli prison authorities have stepped up psycho-physical torture against hunger-striking detainee Khader Adnan, starving since 23 days in protest at being held administratively, with neither charge nor trial, at the Israeli occupation jails.
A letter leaked from prisoner Adnan to his lawyer Wednesday raised alarm bells over the ongoing mistreatment and hounding he has been subjected to at the Israeli occupation jails.
The detainee launched a cry for help, saying he has been locked up in a small cell whose only window has been sealed.
He reiterated his firm rebuff to undergo medical check-ups and to eat or drink anything except water.
The detainee is meanwhile clinging to an earlier decision of his to boycott the Israeli occupation courts, which according to him do nothing more than regurgitating Israeli prejudgments.
“I will never ever give up my legitimate right to freedom,” he vowed, urging the Palestinian masses to rally round him and back him up in his fight for freedom and dignity.
A lawyer from the Muhajt al-Quds Foundation meanwhile denounced the fact that Adnan is locked up in a small cell near criminal prisoners, warning of the serious upshots of such an unwarrantable move.
Adnan, who staged one of the longest hunger strikes in history in 2012, was arrested near Jenin in July during an Israeli arrest campaign across the West Bank. He is one of many former prisoners re-arrested for unclear reasons.
In November an Israeli military court ruled to release Adnan after five months without trial or charge, but the ruling was never implemented and Adnan remains in jail without any explanation as to why he has been arrested.
A letter leaked from prisoner Adnan to his lawyer Wednesday raised alarm bells over the ongoing mistreatment and hounding he has been subjected to at the Israeli occupation jails.
The detainee launched a cry for help, saying he has been locked up in a small cell whose only window has been sealed.
He reiterated his firm rebuff to undergo medical check-ups and to eat or drink anything except water.
The detainee is meanwhile clinging to an earlier decision of his to boycott the Israeli occupation courts, which according to him do nothing more than regurgitating Israeli prejudgments.
“I will never ever give up my legitimate right to freedom,” he vowed, urging the Palestinian masses to rally round him and back him up in his fight for freedom and dignity.
A lawyer from the Muhajt al-Quds Foundation meanwhile denounced the fact that Adnan is locked up in a small cell near criminal prisoners, warning of the serious upshots of such an unwarrantable move.
Adnan, who staged one of the longest hunger strikes in history in 2012, was arrested near Jenin in July during an Israeli arrest campaign across the West Bank. He is one of many former prisoners re-arrested for unclear reasons.
In November an Israeli military court ruled to release Adnan after five months without trial or charge, but the ruling was never implemented and Adnan remains in jail without any explanation as to why he has been arrested.
A number of Palestinian civilians have been arrested by the Israeli occupation forces in an arbitrary mass-abduction campaign launched across cities of the West Bank at dawn Wednesday.
Local sources said over ten Israeli army jeeps stormed al-Khalil City and scoured Palestinian family homes moments before they kidnapped a number of Palestinian youngsters, including ex-prisoner Anas al-Hashlamon, Wael al-Kafrawi, Murad Ashur, and Ihab al-Karki.
The captured youths were dragged, blindfolded and handcuffed, to an unknown destination, the same sources added.
The army jeeps raked through the city shortly before they backtracked.
A series of flying checkpoints was meanwhile randomly pitched by the IOF at the main entrance to Halhoul city and the Bypass N°60, where Palestinian vehicles and citizens have been subjected to intensive inspection. A traffic jam ensued, blocking movement into and out of al-Khalil.
Nablus-based sources said the IOF arrested three Palestinians and sealed off the city with makeshift checkpoints, denying Palestinians’ access out of and into the area under the pretext that Molotov Cocktails were hurled at settlers’ vehicles.
Tension flared up after dozens of Palestinian vehicles lined up at the closed Furik checkpoint for long hours.
In Tulkarem, the Israeli occupation soldiers nabbed the 20-year-old youth Ahmad Mohamed Salman.
The West Bank campaign culminated in the abduction of three Palestinian youngsters, all in their 20’s, from Jenin city.
The IOF scoured the city and set up ambushes and a makeshift roadblock across the Jenin-Yabad Street.
Local sources said over ten Israeli army jeeps stormed al-Khalil City and scoured Palestinian family homes moments before they kidnapped a number of Palestinian youngsters, including ex-prisoner Anas al-Hashlamon, Wael al-Kafrawi, Murad Ashur, and Ihab al-Karki.
The captured youths were dragged, blindfolded and handcuffed, to an unknown destination, the same sources added.
The army jeeps raked through the city shortly before they backtracked.
A series of flying checkpoints was meanwhile randomly pitched by the IOF at the main entrance to Halhoul city and the Bypass N°60, where Palestinian vehicles and citizens have been subjected to intensive inspection. A traffic jam ensued, blocking movement into and out of al-Khalil.
Nablus-based sources said the IOF arrested three Palestinians and sealed off the city with makeshift checkpoints, denying Palestinians’ access out of and into the area under the pretext that Molotov Cocktails were hurled at settlers’ vehicles.
Tension flared up after dozens of Palestinian vehicles lined up at the closed Furik checkpoint for long hours.
In Tulkarem, the Israeli occupation soldiers nabbed the 20-year-old youth Ahmad Mohamed Salman.
The West Bank campaign culminated in the abduction of three Palestinian youngsters, all in their 20’s, from Jenin city.
The IOF scoured the city and set up ambushes and a makeshift roadblock across the Jenin-Yabad Street.
Representative of the European Free Alliance (Greens) Elizabeth Nebreda slammed Tuesday during a phone call with Palestinian PM Mushir al-Masri the continued arrest of Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) Speaker Aziz Dweik in Israeli jails.
They both discussed the Israeli illegal kidnap of a number of Palestinian free elected MPs headed by PLC Speaker Aziz Dweik in total violation to the international laws and norms.
Nebreda said that a European Parliament delegation is going to visit Dweik in Israeli jails and to check on his detention conditions in early June.
The delegation will also meet a number of Palestinian MPs who were recently released from Israeli jails, she explained.
For his part, MP al-Masri who heads the international campaign for the release of Palestinian MPs called for a European intervention to stop Israeli violations against Palestinian deputies and to work for their release.
Earlier Monday, an Israeli court has sentenced Dweik to one-year sentence and imposed on him a fine estimated at $ 1,500.
12 PLC members are currently held in Israeli jails, most of them are affiliated to Hamas’ parliamentary bloc.
They both discussed the Israeli illegal kidnap of a number of Palestinian free elected MPs headed by PLC Speaker Aziz Dweik in total violation to the international laws and norms.
Nebreda said that a European Parliament delegation is going to visit Dweik in Israeli jails and to check on his detention conditions in early June.
The delegation will also meet a number of Palestinian MPs who were recently released from Israeli jails, she explained.
For his part, MP al-Masri who heads the international campaign for the release of Palestinian MPs called for a European intervention to stop Israeli violations against Palestinian deputies and to work for their release.
Earlier Monday, an Israeli court has sentenced Dweik to one-year sentence and imposed on him a fine estimated at $ 1,500.
12 PLC members are currently held in Israeli jails, most of them are affiliated to Hamas’ parliamentary bloc.
26 may 2015
The Israeli Magistrate Court in Jerusalem banned on Tuesday five Palestinians from entering the Aqsa Mosque. Four of them are banned for two weeks and one for three months.
On the other hand, the Israeli Occupation Authority (IOA) released two old men who were arrested on Monday by the Israeli policemen in the Mosque under the claim of stir riots.
The Israeli forces at dawn Monday broke into the houses of the four Palestinian youths in the Old City of Jerusalem and arrested them on charges of disruption of public order in al-Aqsa Mosque.
Three old men were as well arrested at two different gates of the holy site.
Lawyer Ramzi Ktailat who defended the seven detainees said that the judge refused the claim of the prosecution and ordered the release of two old men.
He pointed out that the judge also ruled the Jerusalemite Nitham Abu Rmouz with ban from entry into the Mosque for 90 days on a refundable bail estimated at 500 shekels in addition to a third party bail estimated at 5000 shekels.
The other four young men were banned from entry into the holy site for 15 days, the lawyer added.
On the other hand, the Israeli Occupation Authority (IOA) released two old men who were arrested on Monday by the Israeli policemen in the Mosque under the claim of stir riots.
The Israeli forces at dawn Monday broke into the houses of the four Palestinian youths in the Old City of Jerusalem and arrested them on charges of disruption of public order in al-Aqsa Mosque.
Three old men were as well arrested at two different gates of the holy site.
Lawyer Ramzi Ktailat who defended the seven detainees said that the judge refused the claim of the prosecution and ordered the release of two old men.
He pointed out that the judge also ruled the Jerusalemite Nitham Abu Rmouz with ban from entry into the Mosque for 90 days on a refundable bail estimated at 500 shekels in addition to a third party bail estimated at 5000 shekels.
The other four young men were banned from entry into the holy site for 15 days, the lawyer added.
A Palestinian artist paints a mural depicting of Khader Adnan, a senior member of Islamic Jihad jailed in Israel, during a protest calling for the release of Adnan, in front of Red cross office, in Gaza city
The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) warned today that Palestinian prisoners currently held by Israel were "on the verge of exploding" as a result of maltreatment at the hands of the Israeli prison authorities.
"There are prisoners facing imminent death; some even have cancer," Issa Qaraqe, head of the PLO's committee on detainees, told the Anadolu Agency while taking part in a protest held outside the Red Cross office in the West Bank town of Al-Bireh.
"There is also an increase in the number of cases of administrative detention [of Palestinian prisoners]," he said.
"And the situation is becoming worse. Within the last year, Israel has placed over 30 prisoners in solitary confinement," he added.
"All this could lead to an explosion inside Israel's prisons," he added.
Israel's policy of administrative detention allows the self-proclaimed Jewish state to hold Palestinian prisoners indefinitely without lodging formal charges placing them on trial.
Administrative detention orders can range from one to six months and can be extended by Israeli military courts for periods of up to five years.
According to the Palestinian Prisoners' Society, an NGO, around 6,500 Palestinians – including 200 in administrative detention – continue to languish in jails throughout Israel.
The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) warned today that Palestinian prisoners currently held by Israel were "on the verge of exploding" as a result of maltreatment at the hands of the Israeli prison authorities.
"There are prisoners facing imminent death; some even have cancer," Issa Qaraqe, head of the PLO's committee on detainees, told the Anadolu Agency while taking part in a protest held outside the Red Cross office in the West Bank town of Al-Bireh.
"There is also an increase in the number of cases of administrative detention [of Palestinian prisoners]," he said.
"And the situation is becoming worse. Within the last year, Israel has placed over 30 prisoners in solitary confinement," he added.
"All this could lead to an explosion inside Israel's prisons," he added.
Israel's policy of administrative detention allows the self-proclaimed Jewish state to hold Palestinian prisoners indefinitely without lodging formal charges placing them on trial.
Administrative detention orders can range from one to six months and can be extended by Israeli military courts for periods of up to five years.
According to the Palestinian Prisoners' Society, an NGO, around 6,500 Palestinians – including 200 in administrative detention – continue to languish in jails throughout Israel.
At least 25 Palestinians, including minors, have been abducted by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) from Occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank in no more than 24 hour’s time, a human rights group said Tuesday.
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said in a statement over 20 Jerusalemite Palestinians, mostly children, have been apprehended between Monday and Tuesday morning.
Five Palestinians were captured by the IOF from Jerusalem’s Old City and al-Issawiya at the crack of dawn.
West Bank based sources said a number of Palestinian civilians were arrested by the IOF while others were summoned for interrogation following a wave of predawn home break-ins in the central, southern, and northern provinces of the West Bank.
Eye-witnesses said the IOF troops stormed a Palestinian family home in al-Bireh City, nabbed the 20-year-old youth Mohamed al-Kadhi, and summoned his brother Baraa’ for interrogation moments before they heavily beat the parents.
The IOF apprehended the Palestinian citizen Mohamed Yaish and another identified citizen from Nablus City.
In the meantime, the IOF kidnapped the Palestinian university student Faez Jaber from al-Khalil after he had been chased down by the Palestinian Authority forces for over 50 days.
The campaign culminated in the abduction of 27-year-old Mohamed Mahmoud al-Qadri from Beir al-Bacha village, near Jenin.
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said in a statement over 20 Jerusalemite Palestinians, mostly children, have been apprehended between Monday and Tuesday morning.
Five Palestinians were captured by the IOF from Jerusalem’s Old City and al-Issawiya at the crack of dawn.
West Bank based sources said a number of Palestinian civilians were arrested by the IOF while others were summoned for interrogation following a wave of predawn home break-ins in the central, southern, and northern provinces of the West Bank.
Eye-witnesses said the IOF troops stormed a Palestinian family home in al-Bireh City, nabbed the 20-year-old youth Mohamed al-Kadhi, and summoned his brother Baraa’ for interrogation moments before they heavily beat the parents.
The IOF apprehended the Palestinian citizen Mohamed Yaish and another identified citizen from Nablus City.
In the meantime, the IOF kidnapped the Palestinian university student Faez Jaber from al-Khalil after he had been chased down by the Palestinian Authority forces for over 50 days.
The campaign culminated in the abduction of 27-year-old Mohamed Mahmoud al-Qadri from Beir al-Bacha village, near Jenin.
Member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) Samira al-Halayqa dubbed Israel’s trial of the PLC Speaker, Dr Aziz Dweik, a conspiracy aimed at preventing him from carrying out his allotted mission.
Al-Halayqa said in a press statement the “farce” which the PLC has been subjected to, in a reference to the preplanned censorship and abductions, testifies to the conspiracy being weaved against Palestinian MPs ever since they were elected in 2006.
She said Israel’s arrest of Dr Aziz Dweik while he served as the PLC Speaker and the rules issued against him are unfair, unjust and prejudiced verdicts by means of which Israel criminalizes all legitimacies and undermines the status of the Palestinian cause, leadership, and people.
She further spoke out against the silence maintained by the international community, world parliaments, and human rights institutions as regards such “biased prosecution” of Dr Dweik and the other democratically-elected Palestinian MPs.
She called on the world’s parliaments to adopt a clear standpoint vis-à-vis Israel’s targeting and unfair convictions of Palestinian elected deputies without paying a heed to international laws and conventions.
Al-Halayqa said in a press statement the “farce” which the PLC has been subjected to, in a reference to the preplanned censorship and abductions, testifies to the conspiracy being weaved against Palestinian MPs ever since they were elected in 2006.
She said Israel’s arrest of Dr Aziz Dweik while he served as the PLC Speaker and the rules issued against him are unfair, unjust and prejudiced verdicts by means of which Israel criminalizes all legitimacies and undermines the status of the Palestinian cause, leadership, and people.
She further spoke out against the silence maintained by the international community, world parliaments, and human rights institutions as regards such “biased prosecution” of Dr Dweik and the other democratically-elected Palestinian MPs.
She called on the world’s parliaments to adopt a clear standpoint vis-à-vis Israel’s targeting and unfair convictions of Palestinian elected deputies without paying a heed to international laws and conventions.
The head of the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee Issa Qaraqe’ warned of serious complications, and life-threatening health setbacks, as detainee Khader Adnan continues his hunger strike for the 23rd consecutive day.
Qaraqe’ said Adnan, held in solitary in the Ramla Israeli Prison Clinic, is refusing even vitamins or any sort of treatment, and that he is only drinking water.
He suffered a serious weight loss, severe headache, and sharp pain in his joints and abdomen areas, in addition to general weakness, and fatigue.
Qaraqe’ held Israel and its Prison Authority responsible for the life and well-being of the detainee, and said Adnan is demanding an end to his illegal, arbitrary Administrative Detention, without charges, in direct violations of all international, legal and humanitarian laws and treaties.
He also said that many Palestinian political prisoners, held under Administrative Detention, threatened to join the strike, and even to expand it very soon, to reach all prisons and detention centers.
Israel is holding captive around 500 Palestinians under Administrative Detention orders; some were taken prisoner years ago and never faced charges.
Qaraqe' said more than 30% of the Administrative Detainees received renewed orders at least once.
On Thursday May 21, the Detainees’ Committee said Adnan was only consuming water and salt, rejecting medical checkups and any sort of supplements.
Also on Thursday, 38-year-old Palestinian detainee Mohammad Idrees Rashdan, from the village of Einabus, near Nablus, launched an open-ended hunger strike after being denied family visits by Israeli authorities, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) reported.
Last month, the Ad-Dameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association said the number of detainees held by Israel arrived to 5800, including 182 children, 25 women, 13 legislators, and that the number of detainees who were sentenced to life terms is 495.
15 of them were taken prisoner more than 25 years ago, 30 more than 20 years ago, and 30 others were captured before the First Oslo Agreement of 1993.
Qaraqe’ said Adnan, held in solitary in the Ramla Israeli Prison Clinic, is refusing even vitamins or any sort of treatment, and that he is only drinking water.
He suffered a serious weight loss, severe headache, and sharp pain in his joints and abdomen areas, in addition to general weakness, and fatigue.
Qaraqe’ held Israel and its Prison Authority responsible for the life and well-being of the detainee, and said Adnan is demanding an end to his illegal, arbitrary Administrative Detention, without charges, in direct violations of all international, legal and humanitarian laws and treaties.
He also said that many Palestinian political prisoners, held under Administrative Detention, threatened to join the strike, and even to expand it very soon, to reach all prisons and detention centers.
Israel is holding captive around 500 Palestinians under Administrative Detention orders; some were taken prisoner years ago and never faced charges.
Qaraqe' said more than 30% of the Administrative Detainees received renewed orders at least once.
On Thursday May 21, the Detainees’ Committee said Adnan was only consuming water and salt, rejecting medical checkups and any sort of supplements.
Also on Thursday, 38-year-old Palestinian detainee Mohammad Idrees Rashdan, from the village of Einabus, near Nablus, launched an open-ended hunger strike after being denied family visits by Israeli authorities, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) reported.
Last month, the Ad-Dameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association said the number of detainees held by Israel arrived to 5800, including 182 children, 25 women, 13 legislators, and that the number of detainees who were sentenced to life terms is 495.
15 of them were taken prisoner more than 25 years ago, 30 more than 20 years ago, and 30 others were captured before the First Oslo Agreement of 1993.
Israeli authorities have revoked the residency status of a
Palestinian woman from East Jerusalem after having lived in the city for
23 years, less than two weeks after her husband was sentenced to nine
months in an Israeli prison over activity on Facebook.
The Israeli Ministry of the Interior refused 43-year-old Muna Abdullah al-Shalabi's "family unification" application citing "security" reasons.
Her husband, Omar al-Shalabi, is the former secretary-general of Fatah in Jerusalem, and was earlier this month sentenced to nine months in an Israeli prison for allegedly inciting anti-Jewish violence and supporting "terror" in posts and comments on Facebook.
Muna al-Shalabi said that her ban from Jerusalem had been enacted to exert further pressure on her husband. Israelis authorities claim that she was given the chance to defend her application in February but that she did not come forward, leading them to refuse it.
However, al-Shalabi denied that she had been given any earlier opportunity to challenge the ban, saying that she had not received any orders from the Ministry of the Interior before the most recent one.
She has been living in the al-Suwwana neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem since she married her Jerusalem-resident husband 23 years ago.Until the ban, she had been allowed to live in East Jerusalem through the "family unification" application process.
The process requires "meticulous examinations that often [takes] several years to complete," and has been restricted to men aged 35 and women aged 25 since 2005, according to Israeli rights group B'Tselem.
B'Tselem reported that thousands of Palestinians "are denied the possibility of even submitting a request and cannot live with their spouses in Israel," adding that the process "violates the right of tens of thousands of persons to family life."Al-Shalabi has been given 21 days to present her objections to the ban.
The residency status of 107 Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem was revoked in 2014, adding to the14,309since 1967.
IOA deports Palestinian woman from Jerusalem
Israeli Occupation Authority (IOA) deported the Jerusalemite woman Muna al-Shalabi from Jerusalem.
On Tuesday, Shalabi, who is the wife of Prisoner Omar al-Shalabi, told Q-Press that she was surprised when she received an Israeli order of deportation stating for withdrawing her residence permit from Jerusalem without any justification.
She pointed out that the Israeli forces stormed a shop owned by the brothers of her imprisoned husband a few days ago.
The wife said the Israeli violations against the family aim to pressure her husband who is detained in Israeli jails within the policy of collective punishment against Palestinian prisoners.
The Israeli Ministry of the Interior refused 43-year-old Muna Abdullah al-Shalabi's "family unification" application citing "security" reasons.
Her husband, Omar al-Shalabi, is the former secretary-general of Fatah in Jerusalem, and was earlier this month sentenced to nine months in an Israeli prison for allegedly inciting anti-Jewish violence and supporting "terror" in posts and comments on Facebook.
Muna al-Shalabi said that her ban from Jerusalem had been enacted to exert further pressure on her husband. Israelis authorities claim that she was given the chance to defend her application in February but that she did not come forward, leading them to refuse it.
However, al-Shalabi denied that she had been given any earlier opportunity to challenge the ban, saying that she had not received any orders from the Ministry of the Interior before the most recent one.
She has been living in the al-Suwwana neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem since she married her Jerusalem-resident husband 23 years ago.Until the ban, she had been allowed to live in East Jerusalem through the "family unification" application process.
The process requires "meticulous examinations that often [takes] several years to complete," and has been restricted to men aged 35 and women aged 25 since 2005, according to Israeli rights group B'Tselem.
B'Tselem reported that thousands of Palestinians "are denied the possibility of even submitting a request and cannot live with their spouses in Israel," adding that the process "violates the right of tens of thousands of persons to family life."Al-Shalabi has been given 21 days to present her objections to the ban.
The residency status of 107 Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem was revoked in 2014, adding to the14,309since 1967.
IOA deports Palestinian woman from Jerusalem
Israeli Occupation Authority (IOA) deported the Jerusalemite woman Muna al-Shalabi from Jerusalem.
On Tuesday, Shalabi, who is the wife of Prisoner Omar al-Shalabi, told Q-Press that she was surprised when she received an Israeli order of deportation stating for withdrawing her residence permit from Jerusalem without any justification.
She pointed out that the Israeli forces stormed a shop owned by the brothers of her imprisoned husband a few days ago.
The wife said the Israeli violations against the family aim to pressure her husband who is detained in Israeli jails within the policy of collective punishment against Palestinian prisoners.
Palestinian medical sources have reported that ten residents, including children, have been injured when Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, Jaba’ town, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
A number of military vehicles invaded the town, broke into and searched a few homes, and interrogated several families. Soldiers also searched old caves in the town, and around it.
The invasion led to clashes with local youths, who hurled stones on the invading vehicles, while the soldiers fired several rounds of live ammunition, gas bombs and concussion grenades.
At least ten Palestinians, including children, suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation, and received treatment by local medics.
On Monday at night, the Palestinian District Coordination Office (DCO) managed to secure the release of a Palestinian child, identified as ‘Odai Saleh Mansour, 14, a few hours after Israeli soldiers kidnapped him.
The office contacted the Israeli DCO directly after the family informed it of the abduction, and conducted extensive efforts that eventually led to his release.
A number of military vehicles invaded the town, broke into and searched a few homes, and interrogated several families. Soldiers also searched old caves in the town, and around it.
The invasion led to clashes with local youths, who hurled stones on the invading vehicles, while the soldiers fired several rounds of live ammunition, gas bombs and concussion grenades.
At least ten Palestinians, including children, suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation, and received treatment by local medics.
On Monday at night, the Palestinian District Coordination Office (DCO) managed to secure the release of a Palestinian child, identified as ‘Odai Saleh Mansour, 14, a few hours after Israeli soldiers kidnapped him.
The office contacted the Israeli DCO directly after the family informed it of the abduction, and conducted extensive efforts that eventually led to his release.
Israeli jailers last night released senior Hamas official Sheikh Dirar Hamdana, one of the exiles to Lebanon's Marj al-Zohour camp in 1992, after spending 27 months in prison.
Osama, the son of Sheikh Hamdana, told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that the Israeli administration of the Negev jail released his father on Monday night at al-Daheriya checkpoint south of al-Khalil.
Scores of citizens and relatives gave him a warm reception near the checkpoint and took him in a vehicular procession to his home in Asira ash-Shamaliya town, north of Nablus city.
Osama, the son of Sheikh Hamdana, told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that the Israeli administration of the Negev jail released his father on Monday night at al-Daheriya checkpoint south of al-Khalil.
Scores of citizens and relatives gave him a warm reception near the checkpoint and took him in a vehicular procession to his home in Asira ash-Shamaliya town, north of Nablus city.
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Monday, a Palestinian from the northern West Bank city of Jenin, after stopping him on a roadblock east of Bethlehem. Extremist Israeli settlers torch several Dunams of Palestinian agricultural lands near Bethlehem.
Eyewitnesses said the soldiers installed a sudden roadblock, near the main entrance of Teqoua’ village, east of Bethlehem, searched cars, and kidnapped one Palestinian.
The kidnapped Palestinian, identified as Mohammad Mahmoud al-Qadery, 27 years of age, is from Bir al-Basha, near Jenin; he was heading to his work in Hebron.
In related news, a number of Israeli extremists set fire to nearly 10 Dunams (2.47 Acres) of Palestinian agricultural lands in the al-Kaneesa area, in the village of Husan, west of Bethlehem.
Local firefighters managed to contain the fire before it spread further.
Eyewitnesses said the soldiers installed a sudden roadblock, near the main entrance of Teqoua’ village, east of Bethlehem, searched cars, and kidnapped one Palestinian.
The kidnapped Palestinian, identified as Mohammad Mahmoud al-Qadery, 27 years of age, is from Bir al-Basha, near Jenin; he was heading to his work in Hebron.
In related news, a number of Israeli extremists set fire to nearly 10 Dunams (2.47 Acres) of Palestinian agricultural lands in the al-Kaneesa area, in the village of Husan, west of Bethlehem.
Local firefighters managed to contain the fire before it spread further.
