13 nov 2017
Violent clashes broke out, Monday evening, when Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) stormed a number of Palestinian towns and villages in Ramallah and Jenin.
Several local youths suffered breathing problems after IOF broke into Anza, south of Jenin, while firing teargas bombs.
The young men responded by throwing stones at the IOF troops stationed at a military checkpoint erected at the entrance of the town.
Meanwhile, two brothers, aged 11 and 14, were detained in Teiba town, west of the city, before being shortly released.
In Ramallah, clashes erupted at the entrance of Nabi Salah town after IOF denied entry of Palestinian vehicles.
IOF soldiers heavily fired rubber bullets and teargas bombs at local youths, who in their part, threw Molotov cocktails at the soldiers.
Several local youths suffered breathing problems after IOF broke into Anza, south of Jenin, while firing teargas bombs.
The young men responded by throwing stones at the IOF troops stationed at a military checkpoint erected at the entrance of the town.
Meanwhile, two brothers, aged 11 and 14, were detained in Teiba town, west of the city, before being shortly released.
In Ramallah, clashes erupted at the entrance of Nabi Salah town after IOF denied entry of Palestinian vehicles.
IOF soldiers heavily fired rubber bullets and teargas bombs at local youths, who in their part, threw Molotov cocktails at the soldiers.
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested, Monday afternoon, a Palestinian child from al-Khalil’s Old City, south of West Bank.
As he was leaving his school, the child was brutally attacked by an Israeli settlers living in a nearby settlement illegally built in the area.
The child tried to defend himself, however; IOF soldiers intervened and arrested the schoolboy.
The detained minor was then taken to unknown detention center.
As he was leaving his school, the child was brutally attacked by an Israeli settlers living in a nearby settlement illegally built in the area.
The child tried to defend himself, however; IOF soldiers intervened and arrested the schoolboy.
The detained minor was then taken to unknown detention center.
Five Palestinian workers were kidnapped on Monday evening by the Israeli forces from 1948 Occupied Palestine (Israel) on claims that they did not hold visas and work permits.
A PIC news correspondent said four arrestees—Shadi, Za’im, Baraa, and Hamza—are from the Mansour family.
The five Palestinian workers are reportedly natives of the northern occupied West Bank province of Nablus.
A PIC news correspondent said four arrestees—Shadi, Za’im, Baraa, and Hamza—are from the Mansour family.
The five Palestinian workers are reportedly natives of the northern occupied West Bank province of Nablus.
The Israeli Central Court in Nazareth filed indictments against three Palestinians convicted of funneling funds to the blockaded Gaza Strip.
According to the Israeli Yedioth Ahronot newspaper, prisoner Ahmed Hasan, 25, along with Saad Abu Warda, from Gaza, and 42-year-old Aymen Salhab, from Occupied Jerusalem, were indicted for transferring cash to Gaza.
The list of indictments also includes allegations of holding contacts with a foreign agent, membership in an illegal organization, and money laundering.
The prosecution further indicted Abu Warda for working in Israel and transferring money to his family in Gaza with the help of Aymen Salhab. The convicts allegedly funneled compensations to a Hamas prisoner released in Wafa al-Ahrar prisoner swap deal.
According to the Israeli Yedioth Ahronot newspaper, prisoner Ahmed Hasan, 25, along with Saad Abu Warda, from Gaza, and 42-year-old Aymen Salhab, from Occupied Jerusalem, were indicted for transferring cash to Gaza.
The list of indictments also includes allegations of holding contacts with a foreign agent, membership in an illegal organization, and money laundering.
The prosecution further indicted Abu Warda for working in Israel and transferring money to his family in Gaza with the help of Aymen Salhab. The convicts allegedly funneled compensations to a Hamas prisoner released in Wafa al-Ahrar prisoner swap deal.
Israeli Occupation Authorities (IOA) on Monday cancelled the visit for families of Gazan prisoners in Nafha Israeli jail, which was scheduled on Monday, November 13.
The spokeswoman of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Suhair Zaqout, told the PIC reporter that the visit cancellation decision was allegedly made because of renovation works inside the jail and in the visitation place.
The spokeswoman of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Suhair Zaqout, told the PIC reporter that the visit cancellation decision was allegedly made because of renovation works inside the jail and in the visitation place.
Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, several areas in the southern West Bank governorate of Hebron, searched many homes and abducted nine Palestinians, including three children.
The soldiers invaded many homes in Hebron city, and conducted violent searches, before abducting three children, identified as Samer Hassanein Nahnoush, Othman Ibrahim Morad and Abdul-Rahim Abdul-Aziz Rajabi, in addition to two adults, identified as Abdul-Rahman Awad Sharabati and Mohammad Ishaq Makhamra.
The soldiers also invaded Yatta town, south of Hebron, and abducted Nizar Mousa Mohammad, 21, and Mahmoud Jibril Makhamra, 51.
Another Palestinian, identified as Khalil Zahran Abu Qbeita, also from Yatta, was abducted at a military roadblock in the town.
Mohammad Awad, media spokesperson of the Popular Committee in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron, said many soldiers invaded and ransacked homes, and abducted his son, Amir, 19.
He added that the soldiers also searched old abandoned homes in the town, and attempted to invade Nabi Matta mosque, but the worshippers stopped them.
Furthermore, the soldiers invaded al-Qafeer and Roq’a area, in Yatta town, south of Hebron and searched many homes, owned by members of Makhamra family.
On Sunday evening, the Ofer Israeli military court, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, sentenced Nasr Badawi, 35, and his brother Akram, 25, to a life term each, and 60.000 Shekels fine, after convicting them of carrying out shooting attacks, in the period between November 2015 and January 2016, wounding four Israeli soldiers in Hebron governorate.
The soldiers invaded many homes in Hebron city, and conducted violent searches, before abducting three children, identified as Samer Hassanein Nahnoush, Othman Ibrahim Morad and Abdul-Rahim Abdul-Aziz Rajabi, in addition to two adults, identified as Abdul-Rahman Awad Sharabati and Mohammad Ishaq Makhamra.
The soldiers also invaded Yatta town, south of Hebron, and abducted Nizar Mousa Mohammad, 21, and Mahmoud Jibril Makhamra, 51.
Another Palestinian, identified as Khalil Zahran Abu Qbeita, also from Yatta, was abducted at a military roadblock in the town.
Mohammad Awad, media spokesperson of the Popular Committee in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron, said many soldiers invaded and ransacked homes, and abducted his son, Amir, 19.
He added that the soldiers also searched old abandoned homes in the town, and attempted to invade Nabi Matta mosque, but the worshippers stopped them.
Furthermore, the soldiers invaded al-Qafeer and Roq’a area, in Yatta town, south of Hebron and searched many homes, owned by members of Makhamra family.
On Sunday evening, the Ofer Israeli military court, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, sentenced Nasr Badawi, 35, and his brother Akram, 25, to a life term each, and 60.000 Shekels fine, after convicting them of carrying out shooting attacks, in the period between November 2015 and January 2016, wounding four Israeli soldiers in Hebron governorate.
Israeli police stormed on Sunday evening Issawiya town, east of occupied Jerusalem, amid heavy firing of teargas bombs.
Tight military restrictions were imposed on all entrances to the town amid heavy presence of Israeli police, eyewitnesses reported.
Teargas bombs and sound grenades were extensively fired at local homes during the raid, without reporting any injuries.
On the other hand, two Jerusalemite minors Mahdi Khaddour, 12, and Qusay Zeitoun, 13, were released and placed under house arrest for 14 days.
The two boys were earlier arrested along with three other children when Israeli police violently raided their family houses in Silwan town.
Another young man was later detained after being severely beaten by Israeli police in front of his house in Jabal al-Mukaber neighborhood, south of occupied Jerusalem.
Tight military restrictions were imposed on all entrances to the town amid heavy presence of Israeli police, eyewitnesses reported.
Teargas bombs and sound grenades were extensively fired at local homes during the raid, without reporting any injuries.
On the other hand, two Jerusalemite minors Mahdi Khaddour, 12, and Qusay Zeitoun, 13, were released and placed under house arrest for 14 days.
The two boys were earlier arrested along with three other children when Israeli police violently raided their family houses in Silwan town.
Another young man was later detained after being severely beaten by Israeli police in front of his house in Jabal al-Mukaber neighborhood, south of occupied Jerusalem.
Israel’s Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan has sought to exclude Palestinian prisoners from an order to increase the living area of inmates, ruling that the detainees be rather locked up in underequipped tents.
The proposal comes in response to a court rule handed down by Israel’s High Court in mid-June, and which pronounced that overcrowded Israeli prisons are not fit for human habitation.
The court rule was issued following appeals by human rights groups demanding that prisoners be provided four square meters. The Court said that overcrowded prison cells must be enlarged or else the Israeli authorities must consider reducing the number of inmates.
In European countries, Kenya, Senegal, and Moritius, the average space is much higher, according to a report by Haaretz daily.
According to data by the Prisoners’ and Ex-Prisoners’ Committee, nearly 6,500 Palestinians, among them 57 women and 300 children, are locked up in Israeli jails across the occupied Palestinian territories.
The proposal comes in response to a court rule handed down by Israel’s High Court in mid-June, and which pronounced that overcrowded Israeli prisons are not fit for human habitation.
The court rule was issued following appeals by human rights groups demanding that prisoners be provided four square meters. The Court said that overcrowded prison cells must be enlarged or else the Israeli authorities must consider reducing the number of inmates.
In European countries, Kenya, Senegal, and Moritius, the average space is much higher, according to a report by Haaretz daily.
According to data by the Prisoners’ and Ex-Prisoners’ Committee, nearly 6,500 Palestinians, among them 57 women and 300 children, are locked up in Israeli jails across the occupied Palestinian territories.
Several Palestinians were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in abduction sweeps rocking the West Bank at daybreak Monday.
Israeli army troops rolled into Tekou’ town, in Bethlehem, and wreaked havoc on civilian homes, before they kidnapped two Palestinian youths in their 18s and dragged them to an unidentified destination.
The occupation soldiers further ravaged civilian homes in Bethlehem’s northwestern town of al-Walja and kidnapped the youngster Husam Abu Khalifa, aged 17.
At the same time, clashes burst out in Husan village, west of Bethlehem, where the IOF aggressively attacked Palestinian anti-occupation youth. The latter responded by hurling stones on the occupation patrols.
Meanwhile, dozens of Israeli soldiers showed up in Jenin’s southern town of Arraba, in the northern occupied West Bank, and kidnapped the Islamic Jihad leader Tareq Kaadan from his family home.
Kaadan was released just a few months ago from Israeli jails, where he had spent a total of over 15 years, mostly in administrative detention, with neither charge nor trial.
Israeli army troops rolled into Tekou’ town, in Bethlehem, and wreaked havoc on civilian homes, before they kidnapped two Palestinian youths in their 18s and dragged them to an unidentified destination.
The occupation soldiers further ravaged civilian homes in Bethlehem’s northwestern town of al-Walja and kidnapped the youngster Husam Abu Khalifa, aged 17.
At the same time, clashes burst out in Husan village, west of Bethlehem, where the IOF aggressively attacked Palestinian anti-occupation youth. The latter responded by hurling stones on the occupation patrols.
Meanwhile, dozens of Israeli soldiers showed up in Jenin’s southern town of Arraba, in the northern occupied West Bank, and kidnapped the Islamic Jihad leader Tareq Kaadan from his family home.
Kaadan was released just a few months ago from Israeli jails, where he had spent a total of over 15 years, mostly in administrative detention, with neither charge nor trial.
Israeli Ofer court has sentenced the two Palestinian brothers Nasser Badawi, 23, and Akram Badawi , 33, to life in prison plus a fine of 60,000 shekels for allegedly carrying out a series of anti-occupation attacks.
Yediot Aharonot Hebrew newspaper claimed that the two brothers were convicted of a dozen shooting attacks in the area of al-Khalil between November 2015 and January 2016.
Two Israeli soldiers and two settlers were killed during the alleged attacks, according to the sources.
The brothers were arrested in January, 2016, and were recently convicted of committing 12 offenses of attempting to intentionally cause death, the paper reads.
The court also ordered a fine of a total of 60,000 shekels on both of them.
The Shin Bet claimed that the brothers are responsible for a series of attacks using a sniper rifle.
Yediot Aharonot Hebrew newspaper claimed that the two brothers were convicted of a dozen shooting attacks in the area of al-Khalil between November 2015 and January 2016.
Two Israeli soldiers and two settlers were killed during the alleged attacks, according to the sources.
The brothers were arrested in January, 2016, and were recently convicted of committing 12 offenses of attempting to intentionally cause death, the paper reads.
The court also ordered a fine of a total of 60,000 shekels on both of them.
The Shin Bet claimed that the brothers are responsible for a series of attacks using a sniper rifle.
The Israeli Occupation Authorities (IOA) extended, on Sunday evening, the detention of Qassam Abu Baker, 16, for the seventh consecutive time.
Family sources affirmed that Salem military court has extended the arrest of Abu Baker, from the Jenin-district town of Yabad, till next Thursday pending investigation.
Last week, UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said during a press conference held at the UN headquarters in New York that the number of Palestinian minors held in Israeli lock-ups has hit 500, expressing deep concern over their detention condition.
Palestinian children in Israeli penitentiaries have been made to endure dire detention conditions and harsh torture tactics, most notorious among which being strip-searches, heavy beating, verbal assaults, and exhaustive interrogation to force confession.
Family sources affirmed that Salem military court has extended the arrest of Abu Baker, from the Jenin-district town of Yabad, till next Thursday pending investigation.
Last week, UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said during a press conference held at the UN headquarters in New York that the number of Palestinian minors held in Israeli lock-ups has hit 500, expressing deep concern over their detention condition.
Palestinian children in Israeli penitentiaries have been made to endure dire detention conditions and harsh torture tactics, most notorious among which being strip-searches, heavy beating, verbal assaults, and exhaustive interrogation to force confession.
12 nov 2017
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Saturday evening and Sunday at dawn, seven Palestinians from in occupied East Jerusalem, including five children, between the ages of 12 and 15, who were taken prisoner in Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and in the Old City.
Media sources said dozens of soldiers invaded and searched homes in Silwan, and abducted Abdul-Rahman Shweiki, 14, Qussai Husam Zeitoun, 13, Omran Mofeed Mansour, 15, Mahdi Mofeed Mansour, 12, and Khaled Waleed Abu Mayyala, 20.
On Saturday evening, the soldiers abducted Amir Abu Mfarreh, 15, while walking close to his home in at-Tour neighborhood, overlooking the Old City.
Furthermore, the soldiers abducted a young man at a military roadblock, near the main entrance of Shu’fat refugee camp, in the center of Jerusalem.
Media sources said dozens of soldiers invaded and searched homes in Silwan, and abducted Abdul-Rahman Shweiki, 14, Qussai Husam Zeitoun, 13, Omran Mofeed Mansour, 15, Mahdi Mofeed Mansour, 12, and Khaled Waleed Abu Mayyala, 20.
On Saturday evening, the soldiers abducted Amir Abu Mfarreh, 15, while walking close to his home in at-Tour neighborhood, overlooking the Old City.
Furthermore, the soldiers abducted a young man at a military roadblock, near the main entrance of Shu’fat refugee camp, in the center of Jerusalem.
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Sunday at dawn, four Palestinians from the West Bank governorate of Bethlehem, after the army invaded and searched many homes. The soldiers also invaded homes near Jenin, in northern West Bank, and summoned four Palestinians for interrogation.
Media sources in Bethlehem said the soldiers invaded and ransacked a few homes in Deheishe refugee camp, south of the city, and abducted Wael Khalil Atallah, 23, in addition to Omran Issa Ma’ali, and his brother ‘Ala.
Many Palestinian youngsters hurled stones and empty bottles at the invading soldiers who fired many live rounds, gas bombs and concussion grenades.
The soldiers also invaded Teqoua’ town, east of Bethlehem, and abducted Mohannad Hussein Abdul-Jalil, 20, from his home.
In related news, the soldiers invaded Kafr Dan town, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and summoned Mohammad Mohyeddin Salah, Maher Hani ‘Aabed, Bara’ Mohammad ‘Aabed and Ahmad Abdul-Rahman ‘Aabed, for interrogation in Salem military base, after breaking into their homes and searching them.
The soldiers also invaded Zabbouba village, west of Jenin, and invaded into the home of Mohammad Ali Jaradat, before violently searching it.
Media sources in Bethlehem said the soldiers invaded and ransacked a few homes in Deheishe refugee camp, south of the city, and abducted Wael Khalil Atallah, 23, in addition to Omran Issa Ma’ali, and his brother ‘Ala.
Many Palestinian youngsters hurled stones and empty bottles at the invading soldiers who fired many live rounds, gas bombs and concussion grenades.
The soldiers also invaded Teqoua’ town, east of Bethlehem, and abducted Mohannad Hussein Abdul-Jalil, 20, from his home.
In related news, the soldiers invaded Kafr Dan town, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and summoned Mohammad Mohyeddin Salah, Maher Hani ‘Aabed, Bara’ Mohammad ‘Aabed and Ahmad Abdul-Rahman ‘Aabed, for interrogation in Salem military base, after breaking into their homes and searching them.
The soldiers also invaded Zabbouba village, west of Jenin, and invaded into the home of Mohammad Ali Jaradat, before violently searching it.
Hassan Karajah, Palestinian youth activist and organizer, was released after nearly a year and half held without charge or trial under administrative detention late on Thursday night, 9 November. (VIDEO)
He was supposed to be released in the afternoon, but his release was delayed for hours; his family and friends waited for over six hours as the weather grew dark and cold outside the gates of the Ofer prison in order to welcome him.
He immediately went to his family home in Saffa village, where he was received by hundreds of friends and family members. He was seized on 12 July 2016 at the Beit Ur al-Foqha checkpoint near Ramallah and four days later ordered to administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial.
He was welcomed by, among others, his twin baby girls, Sarai and Kinza, born several months after he was imprisoned; he and his wife, Thameena Husary, had been married for only six months when he was arrested. She was barred from visiting him for over two more months after.
Karajah is a prominent Palestinian leftist and a community leader and youth organizer. He is a trainer at the Handala cultural center in Saffa and director of its annual arts and cultural festival in the village. He is well known for his work in a number of civil society organizations, including the Stop the Wall Campaign and the Partnership for Development Project, and his advocacy for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. During his time in prison, he remained an activist; he was involved in the collective hunger strike to free Bilal Kayed in 2016 and once again in the Dignity Strike of April-May 2017.
He is also involved in a grassroots project called Tijwal Safar, which organizes political tours in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and occupied Palestine ’48 of Palestinian villages, especially those threatened by Israeli land grabs, settlements and racist policies; operating under the slogan, “If you walk the land, you own it,” it has brought hundreds of Palestinians to targeted villages and farmland.
This is only the most recent arrest for Karajah; from January 2013 to October 2014, he spent 22 months in Israeli prison, charged with allegations of participation in a prohibited organization (all Palestinian political parties are prohibited organizations) and contact with an enemy state (frequently used to target Palestinians who travel to Lebanon for conferences and other events.) He was the subject of an international campaign for his release, which highlighted the Israeli targeting of Palestinian human rights defenders.
Karajah was one of over 450 Palestinians who remain held captive in Israeli jails under administrative detention orders for imprisonment without charge or trial, and one of 6,200 total Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails. Administrative detention orders are based on “secret evidence” that is not available to either the detained person or their lawyer, and they are indefinitely renewable; like Karajah, Palestinians often spend years at a time jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention.
There are currently three Palestinians on hunger strike in Israeli jails, Hassan Shokeh, Hamza Bouzia and Bajis Nakhleh – two of them, Shokeh and Bouzia, who have refused food for weeks, are protesting their administrative detention.
Via the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network.
He was supposed to be released in the afternoon, but his release was delayed for hours; his family and friends waited for over six hours as the weather grew dark and cold outside the gates of the Ofer prison in order to welcome him.
He immediately went to his family home in Saffa village, where he was received by hundreds of friends and family members. He was seized on 12 July 2016 at the Beit Ur al-Foqha checkpoint near Ramallah and four days later ordered to administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial.
He was welcomed by, among others, his twin baby girls, Sarai and Kinza, born several months after he was imprisoned; he and his wife, Thameena Husary, had been married for only six months when he was arrested. She was barred from visiting him for over two more months after.
Karajah is a prominent Palestinian leftist and a community leader and youth organizer. He is a trainer at the Handala cultural center in Saffa and director of its annual arts and cultural festival in the village. He is well known for his work in a number of civil society organizations, including the Stop the Wall Campaign and the Partnership for Development Project, and his advocacy for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. During his time in prison, he remained an activist; he was involved in the collective hunger strike to free Bilal Kayed in 2016 and once again in the Dignity Strike of April-May 2017.
He is also involved in a grassroots project called Tijwal Safar, which organizes political tours in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and occupied Palestine ’48 of Palestinian villages, especially those threatened by Israeli land grabs, settlements and racist policies; operating under the slogan, “If you walk the land, you own it,” it has brought hundreds of Palestinians to targeted villages and farmland.
This is only the most recent arrest for Karajah; from January 2013 to October 2014, he spent 22 months in Israeli prison, charged with allegations of participation in a prohibited organization (all Palestinian political parties are prohibited organizations) and contact with an enemy state (frequently used to target Palestinians who travel to Lebanon for conferences and other events.) He was the subject of an international campaign for his release, which highlighted the Israeli targeting of Palestinian human rights defenders.
Karajah was one of over 450 Palestinians who remain held captive in Israeli jails under administrative detention orders for imprisonment without charge or trial, and one of 6,200 total Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails. Administrative detention orders are based on “secret evidence” that is not available to either the detained person or their lawyer, and they are indefinitely renewable; like Karajah, Palestinians often spend years at a time jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention.
There are currently three Palestinians on hunger strike in Israeli jails, Hassan Shokeh, Hamza Bouzia and Bajis Nakhleh – two of them, Shokeh and Bouzia, who have refused food for weeks, are protesting their administrative detention.
Via the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network.
11 nov 2017
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