30 may 2017
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested on Tuesday evening a Palestinian girl allegedly found in possession of a knife near the Ibrahimi Mosque, in the center of al-Khalil city, according to the PIC reporter.
The Israeli police said in a statement that an Israeli force arrested the 17-year-old girl after searching her and finding a knife in her bag, pointing out that the girl, who is from Taffuh town in al-Khalil, was transferred to interrogation on charges of attempting a stabbing attack.
Dozens of Israeli military checkpoints are deployed in the Old City of al-Khalil and the vicinity of the Ibrahimi Mosque. The Palestinian citizens are frequently subjected to extensive searches and unjustified arrests.
Dozens of Palestinian young men and women carried out stabbing operations since the eruption of the Jerusalem Intifada in early October 2015 in response to the Israeli settlers' incursions into al-Aqsa Mosque and the Israeli attempts to impose temporal and spatial division on the holy Islamic site.
For its part, the IOF embarked on arresting Palestinian young men and women for allegedly carrying knives or intending to carry out attacks.
The Israeli police said in a statement that an Israeli force arrested the 17-year-old girl after searching her and finding a knife in her bag, pointing out that the girl, who is from Taffuh town in al-Khalil, was transferred to interrogation on charges of attempting a stabbing attack.
Dozens of Israeli military checkpoints are deployed in the Old City of al-Khalil and the vicinity of the Ibrahimi Mosque. The Palestinian citizens are frequently subjected to extensive searches and unjustified arrests.
Dozens of Palestinian young men and women carried out stabbing operations since the eruption of the Jerusalem Intifada in early October 2015 in response to the Israeli settlers' incursions into al-Aqsa Mosque and the Israeli attempts to impose temporal and spatial division on the holy Islamic site.
For its part, the IOF embarked on arresting Palestinian young men and women for allegedly carrying knives or intending to carry out attacks.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Tuesday afternoon arrested a Palestinian young man after summoning him at a military checkpoint south of Tulkarem city in the West Bank.
Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal intelligence, wanted to capture Naser Jaber several times before and handed his family in Tulkarem summonses to turn himself in.
They said that Jaber went today along with his lawyer to the checkpoint and turned himself in, adding that he was transferred to an interrogation center in al-Jalama prison.
Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal intelligence, wanted to capture Naser Jaber several times before and handed his family in Tulkarem summonses to turn himself in.
They said that Jaber went today along with his lawyer to the checkpoint and turned himself in, adding that he was transferred to an interrogation center in al-Jalama prison.
The Israeli Prison Service (IPS) returned on Tuesday the prisoners who were transferred in the beginning of the Freedom and Dignity hunger strike to their original prisons, Palestinian official sources revealed.
The PA committee for prisoners and ex-prisoners affirmed that the prisoners who were engaged in the strike were returned to the prisons from which they were recently transferred.
The committee pointed out that the prisoners are still suffering health problems as they were engaged in the hunger strike for 41 consecutive days.
They started taking vitamins and liquids to restore their physical energy, the sources added.
In the beginning of the Freedom and Dignity hunger strike, the IPS transferred dozens of prisoners to other jails as a punitive measure after they joined the strike.
The PA committee for prisoners and ex-prisoners affirmed that the prisoners who were engaged in the strike were returned to the prisons from which they were recently transferred.
The committee pointed out that the prisoners are still suffering health problems as they were engaged in the hunger strike for 41 consecutive days.
They started taking vitamins and liquids to restore their physical energy, the sources added.
In the beginning of the Freedom and Dignity hunger strike, the IPS transferred dozens of prisoners to other jails as a punitive measure after they joined the strike.
The Israeli Occupation Authorities (IOA) released Tuesday the Palestinian prisoner Ali Bureijeh, 40, from Negev prison after completing his 12-year prison sentence.
According to the PIC reporter, Ali Bureijeh was released after fully serving his prison sentence.
Bureijeh, from Bethlehem, was immediately transferred to Beit Jala Hospital due to his deteriorating health condition after participating in the Palestinian prisoners' Freedom and Dignity hunger strike declared on April 17 for 41 days.
The newly-released prisoner underlined that all the prisoners who joined the hunger strike suffer many health problems and sharp weight loss.
Marwan Barghouthi’s weight reached 47 kilograms, he added.
According to the PIC reporter, Ali Bureijeh was released after fully serving his prison sentence.
Bureijeh, from Bethlehem, was immediately transferred to Beit Jala Hospital due to his deteriorating health condition after participating in the Palestinian prisoners' Freedom and Dignity hunger strike declared on April 17 for 41 days.
The newly-released prisoner underlined that all the prisoners who joined the hunger strike suffer many health problems and sharp weight loss.
Marwan Barghouthi’s weight reached 47 kilograms, he added.
The Jerusalemite lawmaker Muhammad Abu Tair was released Tuesday morning from Israeli jails after serving out a 17-month prison sentence, a rights group revealed.
The Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies affirmed the number of detained Palestinian MPs dropped to 11 following Abu Tair’s release.
Spokesman for the center Riyad al-Ashqar pointed out that Abu Tair was taken into custody on Jan. 28, 2016 after raiding his home in the occupied West Bank town of Kafr Aqab and sentenced to 17 months in prison.
The 65-year-old MP has spent at least 32 years in Israeli custody in separate arrests. He was also deported from his hometown in occupied Jerusalem in 2010.
Israel has abducted seven Palestinian lawmakers since the beginning of the year, al-Ashqar added, saying that there are currently 11 Palestinian legislators behind Israeli bars including Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Secretary-General Ahmad Saadat.
The Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies affirmed the number of detained Palestinian MPs dropped to 11 following Abu Tair’s release.
Spokesman for the center Riyad al-Ashqar pointed out that Abu Tair was taken into custody on Jan. 28, 2016 after raiding his home in the occupied West Bank town of Kafr Aqab and sentenced to 17 months in prison.
The 65-year-old MP has spent at least 32 years in Israeli custody in separate arrests. He was also deported from his hometown in occupied Jerusalem in 2010.
Israel has abducted seven Palestinian lawmakers since the beginning of the year, al-Ashqar added, saying that there are currently 11 Palestinian legislators behind Israeli bars including Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Secretary-General Ahmad Saadat.
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, the town of Barta’a, isolated behind the Annexation Wall, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and abducted a teenage boy.
Local sources said the soldiers invaded and searched homes, especially in Khirbit Abdullah Al-Younis area, and abducted the teen.
The abducted Palestinian, Ali Abdul-Rahim Kabaha, 17, was cuffed and blindfolded before the soldiers took him to an unknown destination.
The soldiers interrogated the teen and his family, while violently searching their home, and took him to an unknown destination.
Local sources said the soldiers invaded and searched homes, especially in Khirbit Abdullah Al-Younis area, and abducted the teen.
The abducted Palestinian, Ali Abdul-Rahim Kabaha, 17, was cuffed and blindfolded before the soldiers took him to an unknown destination.
The soldiers interrogated the teen and his family, while violently searching their home, and took him to an unknown destination.
29 may 2017
New details have been released regarding the agreement under which Palestinian detainees suspended the 40-day hunger strike on Saturday morning, 27th of May, providing elaboration on the specific issues addressed in the detainees’ negotiations with the Israeli occupation prison administration.
Issa Qaraqe, director of the Palestinian Prisoners Affairs Commission spoke in a press conference on Sunday, 28th of May in which he declared that “80 percent of the demands” of the detainees were achieved in the strike, calling it “an important achievement to build on in the future on the basis of the protection of the prisoners’ rights and dignity.”
According to the PNN, Qaraqe reported on the major items agreed upon by the strikers with the Israeli prison administration, as noted by Palestinian lawyer Karim Ajwa, who met on Sunday morning with one of the strike leaders, Palestinian prisoner Nasser Abu Hmeid.
The points are as follows:
1. Expanding access to public telephones in order to communicate with family members, in accordance with agreed-upon mechanisms, with continuation of dialogue on this issue as a priority for prisoners in all prisons.
2. Agreement was reached on a range of issues relating to family visits; first, lifting the security ban on hundreds of family members of Palestinian prisoners, ending the practice of returning visitors holding permits and refusing their visits at checkpoints, and lifting an unjustified ban imposed on more than 140 children who had been banned by the prison administration from visiting their parents.
3. Giving an initial commitment to shorten the time between visits for Palestinian prisoners from Gaza, for a period of up to one month instead of two months or more between visits.
4. Agreement was also reached on a number of issues related to the conditions of family visitation, including allowing the introduction of clothing and bags, and allowing prisoners to provide and share sweets with children and others.
5. Introducing new standards for visitation for relatives of the “second degree,” such as allowing the introduction of nephews and nieces during nursery school age and providing that prisoners whose fathers and mothers have died may add one or two additional more distant family members to their visitation list.
6. Providing formal approval for the return of the second monthly family visit according to the mechanism agreed upon between the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Palestinian Authority.
7. Reaching an agreement on the Ramle prison clinic, to return the ill prisoners to the larger “old” section of the prison, which has been renovated.
8. Agreement was reached on issues related to the conditions of women prisoners, including the inclusion of all prisoners in HaSharon prison, adjustments to the visitation process with family members, husbands and children, the introduction of handicraft materials, improvement of conditions of confinement, and establishment of a special transportation system, rather than the “Bosta,” for transfer to and from the courts.
9. On the issue of child prisoners, a number of issues were agreed upon to improve their conditions of confinement, access to education and related issues.
10. Agreement was reached on most issues related to the difficult conditions of life in Nafha prison.
11. On the issue of the sick prisoner patients held in the Ramle prison clinic, as noted above, to return the prisoners to the re-opened section with improved humanitarian conditions, as well as introducing a new system for the movement of these prisoners with private transportation, directly to and from the courts, rather than transiting through lengthy crossing points on the “Bosta.”
12. Distributing meals to prisoners in transit in the “Bosta” during transfers and allowing them access to use the toilet during this time.
13. Approving the establishment in every prison department of Palestinian “security prisoners” of a kitchen area for the preparation of food and the introduction of cooking equipment, rather than being in the same rooms with the prisoners.
14. Allowing photographs with parents once annually, or with a prisoner’s spouse. In the event of the prisoner’s father or mother’s death, the photograph could be taken with a brother or sister.
15. Introducing improvements to the “canteen” (prison store), with higher-quality goods available, including fruits and vegetables, molokhiyeh and spices.
16. Introducing modern sports and recreation equipment in the recreation yards.
17. Solving the problem of overcrowding in the prison sections and resolving the problem of high temperatures through a system of ventilation and cooling.
18. Adding an ambulance to be equipped for use to transfer prisoners in urgent health emergencies, to be stationed at the Negev, Ramon and Nafha prisons, due to the fact that these prisons are far from hospitals.
19. Transferring prisoners to prisons closer to their families’ places of residence.
In addition to these points, there will be a mechanism for further negotiations on additional issues. The prisoners’ committee will include Karim Younis, Nasser Abu Hmeid, Hafez Sharaya, Nasser Oweis, Ammar Merhi, and Ahmed Barghouthi. All detainees who have been transferred since the beginning of the strike are to be returned to their original locations and the sanctions imposed on hunger-striking detainees lifted.
It should be noted that the imprisonment of Palestinians from the West Bank within Palestine ’48 is entirely illegitimate under the Fourth Geneva Convention.
Issa Qaraqe, director of the Palestinian Prisoners Affairs Commission spoke in a press conference on Sunday, 28th of May in which he declared that “80 percent of the demands” of the detainees were achieved in the strike, calling it “an important achievement to build on in the future on the basis of the protection of the prisoners’ rights and dignity.”
According to the PNN, Qaraqe reported on the major items agreed upon by the strikers with the Israeli prison administration, as noted by Palestinian lawyer Karim Ajwa, who met on Sunday morning with one of the strike leaders, Palestinian prisoner Nasser Abu Hmeid.
The points are as follows:
1. Expanding access to public telephones in order to communicate with family members, in accordance with agreed-upon mechanisms, with continuation of dialogue on this issue as a priority for prisoners in all prisons.
2. Agreement was reached on a range of issues relating to family visits; first, lifting the security ban on hundreds of family members of Palestinian prisoners, ending the practice of returning visitors holding permits and refusing their visits at checkpoints, and lifting an unjustified ban imposed on more than 140 children who had been banned by the prison administration from visiting their parents.
3. Giving an initial commitment to shorten the time between visits for Palestinian prisoners from Gaza, for a period of up to one month instead of two months or more between visits.
4. Agreement was also reached on a number of issues related to the conditions of family visitation, including allowing the introduction of clothing and bags, and allowing prisoners to provide and share sweets with children and others.
5. Introducing new standards for visitation for relatives of the “second degree,” such as allowing the introduction of nephews and nieces during nursery school age and providing that prisoners whose fathers and mothers have died may add one or two additional more distant family members to their visitation list.
6. Providing formal approval for the return of the second monthly family visit according to the mechanism agreed upon between the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Palestinian Authority.
7. Reaching an agreement on the Ramle prison clinic, to return the ill prisoners to the larger “old” section of the prison, which has been renovated.
8. Agreement was reached on issues related to the conditions of women prisoners, including the inclusion of all prisoners in HaSharon prison, adjustments to the visitation process with family members, husbands and children, the introduction of handicraft materials, improvement of conditions of confinement, and establishment of a special transportation system, rather than the “Bosta,” for transfer to and from the courts.
9. On the issue of child prisoners, a number of issues were agreed upon to improve their conditions of confinement, access to education and related issues.
10. Agreement was reached on most issues related to the difficult conditions of life in Nafha prison.
11. On the issue of the sick prisoner patients held in the Ramle prison clinic, as noted above, to return the prisoners to the re-opened section with improved humanitarian conditions, as well as introducing a new system for the movement of these prisoners with private transportation, directly to and from the courts, rather than transiting through lengthy crossing points on the “Bosta.”
12. Distributing meals to prisoners in transit in the “Bosta” during transfers and allowing them access to use the toilet during this time.
13. Approving the establishment in every prison department of Palestinian “security prisoners” of a kitchen area for the preparation of food and the introduction of cooking equipment, rather than being in the same rooms with the prisoners.
14. Allowing photographs with parents once annually, or with a prisoner’s spouse. In the event of the prisoner’s father or mother’s death, the photograph could be taken with a brother or sister.
15. Introducing improvements to the “canteen” (prison store), with higher-quality goods available, including fruits and vegetables, molokhiyeh and spices.
16. Introducing modern sports and recreation equipment in the recreation yards.
17. Solving the problem of overcrowding in the prison sections and resolving the problem of high temperatures through a system of ventilation and cooling.
18. Adding an ambulance to be equipped for use to transfer prisoners in urgent health emergencies, to be stationed at the Negev, Ramon and Nafha prisons, due to the fact that these prisons are far from hospitals.
19. Transferring prisoners to prisons closer to their families’ places of residence.
In addition to these points, there will be a mechanism for further negotiations on additional issues. The prisoners’ committee will include Karim Younis, Nasser Abu Hmeid, Hafez Sharaya, Nasser Oweis, Ammar Merhi, and Ahmed Barghouthi. All detainees who have been transferred since the beginning of the strike are to be returned to their original locations and the sanctions imposed on hunger-striking detainees lifted.
It should be noted that the imprisonment of Palestinians from the West Bank within Palestine ’48 is entirely illegitimate under the Fourth Geneva Convention.
Media sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, Monday, two young Palestinian men in the city.
The sources said that the soldiers abducted Fahd Majed Abu Sbeih, after invading his home and violently searching it, causing excessive damage.
The Palestinian was interrogated, along with his family, before the soldiers handcuffed and blindfolded him, and took him to an unknown destination.
In addition, the soldiers installed a roadblock at the western entrance of Hebron city, and abducted a Palestinian after searching his car, and reportedly “found a knife in the car.”
The sources said that the soldiers abducted Fahd Majed Abu Sbeih, after invading his home and violently searching it, causing excessive damage.
The Palestinian was interrogated, along with his family, before the soldiers handcuffed and blindfolded him, and took him to an unknown destination.
In addition, the soldiers installed a roadblock at the western entrance of Hebron city, and abducted a Palestinian after searching his car, and reportedly “found a knife in the car.”
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, Monday, two children in Bethlehem governorate, and one man from the northern West Bank governorate of Jenin.
Media sources in Bethlehem said the soldiers invaded and searched homes in Teqoua’ town, east of Bethlehem, and abducted Mo’men Ibrahim al-‘Amour, 15, and Salim Salem Sabah, 15.
The soldiers also abducted a man, identified as Ibrahim Abdul-Rahman Abu Bakr, from Ya’bad town, southwest of Jenin, at the al-Karama border crossing, between the occupied West Bank and Jordan, while he was returning home after the pilgrimage in Mecca.
Media sources in Bethlehem said the soldiers invaded and searched homes in Teqoua’ town, east of Bethlehem, and abducted Mo’men Ibrahim al-‘Amour, 15, and Salim Salem Sabah, 15.
The soldiers also abducted a man, identified as Ibrahim Abdul-Rahman Abu Bakr, from Ya’bad town, southwest of Jenin, at the al-Karama border crossing, between the occupied West Bank and Jordan, while he was returning home after the pilgrimage in Mecca.
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, the town of al-‘Eesawiyya, in the center of occupied East Jerusalem, searched many homes, and abducted thirteen Palestinians, before moving them to detention and interrogation centers in the city.
The soldiers interrogated many Palestinians, while searching and ransacking their homes, and abducted thirteen Palestinians.
The abducted Palestinians have been identified as Ehab Mohammad Obeid, Waseem Nayef Obeid, Saleh Ghassan Obeid, Ayyoub Obeid, Ehab Shawkat Obeid, Waheeb Shawkat Obeid, Daoud Mousa Dirbas, Mohammad Ibrahim Darwish, Yasser Darwish, Mohammad Jamal Awad, Mansour Mahmoud, Wael Mahmoud and Ghanem Mustafa.
The army also installed roadblocks in the town, preventing the Palestinians from crossing, and withdrew later.
The soldiers interrogated many Palestinians, while searching and ransacking their homes, and abducted thirteen Palestinians.
The abducted Palestinians have been identified as Ehab Mohammad Obeid, Waseem Nayef Obeid, Saleh Ghassan Obeid, Ayyoub Obeid, Ehab Shawkat Obeid, Waheeb Shawkat Obeid, Daoud Mousa Dirbas, Mohammad Ibrahim Darwish, Yasser Darwish, Mohammad Jamal Awad, Mansour Mahmoud, Wael Mahmoud and Ghanem Mustafa.
The army also installed roadblocks in the town, preventing the Palestinians from crossing, and withdrew later.
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, two young Palestinian men in Azzoun town, east of Qalqilia, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
Eyewitnesses said the soldiers invaded and ransacked many homes in the town, especially in the Northern Neighborhood, interrogated many Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards, and abducted two.
The abducted Palestinians have been identified as Mohammad Emad al-Qobrosy and Odai Saqer Salim.
Eyewitnesses said the soldiers invaded and ransacked many homes in the town, especially in the Northern Neighborhood, interrogated many Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards, and abducted two.
The abducted Palestinians have been identified as Mohammad Emad al-Qobrosy and Odai Saqer Salim.
Israeli soldiers abducted, Sunday, five Palestinians, including a wounded teenage boy and two former political prisoners, from Beit Ummar town, and one in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, in addition to one Palestinian near Jenin, in northern West Bank.
Many army vehicles invaded several areas in Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, including the town’s center, and the areas of the at-Tarbeeqa and the ath-Thaher, and abducted two former political prisoners, identified as ‘Ala Issa Sleibi, 25, and Mohammad Ali Awad, 24.
The soldiers also invaded and violently searched the homes of several Palestinians; some of them have been identified as Omar Aby Ayyash, Hussein Mustafa Abu Mariya, Nasser Abdul-Hameed Abu Mariya, Ali Ayyad Awad and Issa Safi Sleibi.
On Sunday afternoon, the soldiers abducted Omar Bashir Abu Ayyash, 17, and Abdul-Nasser Abu Mariya, 20, at the Etzion military base and security center, after summoning there earlier for interrogation. It is worth mentioning that Abu Ayyash was previously shot and injured by Israeli army fire, both Palestinians are from Beit Ummar.
On Sunday at night, the soldiers abducted a young man, identified as Ezzeddin Abu Rabea’, from the al-Fawwar refugee camp, southwest of Hebron, allegedly after he “attempted to attack soldiers with a sharp object, near the Ibrahimi Mosque, in Hebron city.
Also on Sunday at night, the soldiers abducted a young man, identified as Islam Sa’id Sa’abna, after stopping him at a sudden military roadblock, near ‘Arraba town, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
Many army vehicles invaded several areas in Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, including the town’s center, and the areas of the at-Tarbeeqa and the ath-Thaher, and abducted two former political prisoners, identified as ‘Ala Issa Sleibi, 25, and Mohammad Ali Awad, 24.
The soldiers also invaded and violently searched the homes of several Palestinians; some of them have been identified as Omar Aby Ayyash, Hussein Mustafa Abu Mariya, Nasser Abdul-Hameed Abu Mariya, Ali Ayyad Awad and Issa Safi Sleibi.
On Sunday afternoon, the soldiers abducted Omar Bashir Abu Ayyash, 17, and Abdul-Nasser Abu Mariya, 20, at the Etzion military base and security center, after summoning there earlier for interrogation. It is worth mentioning that Abu Ayyash was previously shot and injured by Israeli army fire, both Palestinians are from Beit Ummar.
On Sunday at night, the soldiers abducted a young man, identified as Ezzeddin Abu Rabea’, from the al-Fawwar refugee camp, southwest of Hebron, allegedly after he “attempted to attack soldiers with a sharp object, near the Ibrahimi Mosque, in Hebron city.
Also on Sunday at night, the soldiers abducted a young man, identified as Islam Sa’id Sa’abna, after stopping him at a sudden military roadblock, near ‘Arraba town, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
