8 oct 2016
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested last night two Palestinian young men at a military checkpoint in Jenin to the north of the West Bank.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that Israeli forces stopped a public passenger vehicle at a military checkpoint erected between Jenin-Nablus road and arrested two of its two passengers.
The locals identified the detainees as Mussa Naif and Mejdi Zamrour. Several Palestinian vehicles were also stopped and searched at the checkpoint, causing a traffic jam.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that Israeli forces stopped a public passenger vehicle at a military checkpoint erected between Jenin-Nablus road and arrested two of its two passengers.
The locals identified the detainees as Mussa Naif and Mejdi Zamrour. Several Palestinian vehicles were also stopped and searched at the checkpoint, causing a traffic jam.
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Friday afternoon in Bil’in village, the Israeli military blocked the main road toward the Israeli Annexation Wall and declared the entire area a ‘closed military zone’, just as demonstrators began marching down the road for their weekly non-violent demonstration against the Wall and illegal settlements.
Before the protest began, the soldiers stopped local organizer Mohammad al-Khatib while he was on his way to his field to harvest his family’s olives, the main source of income for the Palestinian families in Bil’in. When the soldiers tried to confiscate his car, Mohammad al-Khatib staged a sit-in, lying in front of the car to prevent the soldiers from confiscating it. |
He told a camera person, “I will not move. This is my car, this is my land.”
The soldiers then abducted al-Khatib and took his car.
Local residents told reporters that this abduction was representative of the regular collective punishment suffered by villagers for holding peaceful weekly demonstrations against the occupation.
As they marched to the site of the Wall along an alternate route, protesters from the village, joined by Israeli and international activists, shouted, “WE WANT OUR FREEDOM! WE WANT HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS! WE WANT JUSTICE!”
The soldiers then abducted al-Khatib and took his car.
Local residents told reporters that this abduction was representative of the regular collective punishment suffered by villagers for holding peaceful weekly demonstrations against the occupation.
As they marched to the site of the Wall along an alternate route, protesters from the village, joined by Israeli and international activists, shouted, “WE WANT OUR FREEDOM! WE WANT HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS! WE WANT JUSTICE!”
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Friday evening, two Palestinians from ‘Aida refugee camp, north of Bethlehem, and a man in Zabbouba village, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin. The army also invaded homes and occupied rooftops near Hebron.
Media sources in Bethlehem said the soldiers kidnapped two children from Aida, during clashes near the military tower of the Annexation Wall at the northern entrance of Bethlehem.
The sources said the soldiers opened the main gate of the Wall and kidnapped the two children in a surprise attack.
In addition, several army vehicles invaded Zabbouba village, west of Jenin, and kidnapped Wisam Ayed Khamaysa, 33, from his home.
In related news, the soldiers invaded Kharsa town, southwest of Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, before breaking into a number of homes, and used their rooftops as military towers.
Media sources in Bethlehem said the soldiers kidnapped two children from Aida, during clashes near the military tower of the Annexation Wall at the northern entrance of Bethlehem.
The sources said the soldiers opened the main gate of the Wall and kidnapped the two children in a surprise attack.
In addition, several army vehicles invaded Zabbouba village, west of Jenin, and kidnapped Wisam Ayed Khamaysa, 33, from his home.
In related news, the soldiers invaded Kharsa town, southwest of Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, before breaking into a number of homes, and used their rooftops as military towers.
7 oct 2016
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested since the outbreak of Jerusalem Intifada in October 2015 nearly 2,155 Palestinian children and minors, a rights activist revealed.
The researcher in prisoners’ affairs Riyad al-Ashqar has documented in a new report the arrest of 8,000 Palestinians over the past year, the quarter of whom were children.
Some of the detained minors were less than ten years old and some of them were injured during their detention, he pointed out. Several girls were also among the detainees, he said.
In an unprecedented measure, Israeli authorities turned a number of the detained minors to administrative detention.
Al-Ashqar underlined that a number of detained minors were subjected to severe beating, torture, ill-treatment, and tough investigation in flagrant violation of the international law and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
15 detained minors were shot and injured by the IOF during their arrest for allegedly planning to carry out stabbing attacks, the activist said. According to the activist, Israeli authorities opened two new sections in Ofer prison allocated for minors due to the HaSharon prison overcrowding as Israeli arrests of Palestinian minors have notably increased over the past five years.
There are currently 400 Palestinian children and minors held in Israeli jails and detention centers amid very difficult and inhuman conditions.
The researcher in prisoners’ affairs Riyad al-Ashqar has documented in a new report the arrest of 8,000 Palestinians over the past year, the quarter of whom were children.
Some of the detained minors were less than ten years old and some of them were injured during their detention, he pointed out. Several girls were also among the detainees, he said.
In an unprecedented measure, Israeli authorities turned a number of the detained minors to administrative detention.
Al-Ashqar underlined that a number of detained minors were subjected to severe beating, torture, ill-treatment, and tough investigation in flagrant violation of the international law and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
15 detained minors were shot and injured by the IOF during their arrest for allegedly planning to carry out stabbing attacks, the activist said. According to the activist, Israeli authorities opened two new sections in Ofer prison allocated for minors due to the HaSharon prison overcrowding as Israeli arrests of Palestinian minors have notably increased over the past five years.
There are currently 400 Palestinian children and minors held in Israeli jails and detention centers amid very difficult and inhuman conditions.
The Israeli Prison Service (IPS) transferred Thursday the two Palestinian prisoners Ahmed Abu Fara and Anis Shadid to solitary confinement in Ofer prison.
A Palestinian rights group affirmed that the two prisoners entered the tenth day of their hunger strike declared in protest against their arbitrary administrative detention.
Abu Fara, 29, was arrested on August 2, 2016 and held since then in administrative detention. He had already spent two years behind Israeli bars in previous arrest.
Shadid, 19, was also arrested on August 2, 2016 and held in administrative detention according to which hundreds of Palestinians are detained without charge or trial. There are currently six Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli jails, including four administrative detainees.
A Palestinian rights group affirmed that the two prisoners entered the tenth day of their hunger strike declared in protest against their arbitrary administrative detention.
Abu Fara, 29, was arrested on August 2, 2016 and held since then in administrative detention. He had already spent two years behind Israeli bars in previous arrest.
Shadid, 19, was also arrested on August 2, 2016 and held in administrative detention according to which hundreds of Palestinians are detained without charge or trial. There are currently six Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli jails, including four administrative detainees.
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested Thursday evening a Palestinian young man from Yatta town south of al-Khalil.
Local activist Ratib Jabour identified the detainee as Odey Makhamra, 18. Odey was detained after being summoned for investigation at Etizon detention center, the sources added.
On Thursday, 29 Palestinians were kidnapped from their homes during Israeli raid campaigns throughout occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Local activist Ratib Jabour identified the detainee as Odey Makhamra, 18. Odey was detained after being summoned for investigation at Etizon detention center, the sources added.
On Thursday, 29 Palestinians were kidnapped from their homes during Israeli raid campaigns throughout occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Israel has begun deporting the all-female crew of sailors who attempted to break the siege on Gaza.
The first two women returned to London on Thursday afternoon, a day after Israeli commandos hijacked the Women’s Boat to Gaza, an activist ship skimming towards the Strip’s maritime borders.
Mina Harbalou and Huda Rahmeh, both journalists with al-Jazeera, arrived at Heathrow airport, and were greeted with bouquets of flowers.
The remaining 11 passengers and captain of the Zaytouna-Olivia are still in Israeli custody, according to an organizer with Women’s Boat to Gaza, Wendy Goldsmith who spoke from Canada.
The whereabouts of these women is not clear, Goldsmith said. “Our understanding is that they have been moved from prison to various detention holding facilities in the airport, where they will then be deported,” Goldsmith said.
“They don’t actually receive their passports back until they are on the plane. We don’t have any information that they are on the plane heading home.” “The information I have is that they were apprehended by two Israeli warships and there were another four or five boats around those.
And the Zaytouna was boarded by men and women,” she said. She asserted that the term “peaceful” which has been used in some media to describe the capture is incorrect.
According to Goldsmith, peace is more than merely the absence of physical violence. Oppression, occupation, denial of human rights and taking a boat filled with nonviolent women against their will are not peaceful activities.
The detained passengers have weighed-in in the form of pre-recorded messages prepped for release, in the event of Israel putting an end to their sea journey to Gaza. Notable sailors include Mairead Maguire, the Nobel laureate from Northern Ireland, former U.S. army colonel Ann Wright, and Marama Davidson, a parliamentarian from New Zealand’s Green Party.
“If you’re seeing this, this means the Israeli occupation forces have kidnapped me in international waters and taken me to Israel,” Wright said in her message. Maguire said: “If you’re listening to this then you will know that myself and all of the women who sailed on the women’s boat to Gaza have been arrested and are in detention in Israel.”
The Zaytouna-Olivia departed from Barcelona in late September, on course to arrive in Gaza this week. Organizers state the purpose of the month-long trip was generating attention for Israel’s one-decade-long blockade of the Gaza Strip.
The first two women returned to London on Thursday afternoon, a day after Israeli commandos hijacked the Women’s Boat to Gaza, an activist ship skimming towards the Strip’s maritime borders.
Mina Harbalou and Huda Rahmeh, both journalists with al-Jazeera, arrived at Heathrow airport, and were greeted with bouquets of flowers.
The remaining 11 passengers and captain of the Zaytouna-Olivia are still in Israeli custody, according to an organizer with Women’s Boat to Gaza, Wendy Goldsmith who spoke from Canada.
The whereabouts of these women is not clear, Goldsmith said. “Our understanding is that they have been moved from prison to various detention holding facilities in the airport, where they will then be deported,” Goldsmith said.
“They don’t actually receive their passports back until they are on the plane. We don’t have any information that they are on the plane heading home.” “The information I have is that they were apprehended by two Israeli warships and there were another four or five boats around those.
And the Zaytouna was boarded by men and women,” she said. She asserted that the term “peaceful” which has been used in some media to describe the capture is incorrect.
According to Goldsmith, peace is more than merely the absence of physical violence. Oppression, occupation, denial of human rights and taking a boat filled with nonviolent women against their will are not peaceful activities.
The detained passengers have weighed-in in the form of pre-recorded messages prepped for release, in the event of Israel putting an end to their sea journey to Gaza. Notable sailors include Mairead Maguire, the Nobel laureate from Northern Ireland, former U.S. army colonel Ann Wright, and Marama Davidson, a parliamentarian from New Zealand’s Green Party.
“If you’re seeing this, this means the Israeli occupation forces have kidnapped me in international waters and taken me to Israel,” Wright said in her message. Maguire said: “If you’re listening to this then you will know that myself and all of the women who sailed on the women’s boat to Gaza have been arrested and are in detention in Israel.”
The Zaytouna-Olivia departed from Barcelona in late September, on course to arrive in Gaza this week. Organizers state the purpose of the month-long trip was generating attention for Israel’s one-decade-long blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Several Palestinians were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn on Friday following abrupt sweeps launched across the occupied West Bank.
The IOF rolled into Nour Shams refugee camp, in Tulkarem province, and wreaked havoc on civilian homes. The occupation troops kidnapped the Palestinian citizen Bassem al-Shaweesh from his home in the camp after they aggressively attacked his family.
At dawn on Thursday the IOF scoured Shaweesh’s home and summoned him to questioning. Palestinian citizens Seif Abu Labda and Waleed al-Aloul were also kidnapped by the IOF from their family homes in the camp.
According to a PIC journalist, at least 10 Palestinians were kidnapped by the IOF from the camp in less than 24 hours. Clashes burst out in the area, where the IOF attacked the Palestinian anti-occupation youths with randomly-shot spates of bullet fire and teargas canisters.
The Israeli army patrols further stormed Qalqilya city and sealed off the main entrance to Azzoun town with a military checkpoint. Several Palestinians choked on teargas after the IOF broke into the al-Wad neighborhood and cracked down on the Palestinian protestors.
The assault culminated in the abduction of Palestinian youngsters from Nablus’s northern town of Sabastiya and al-Faraa refugee camp, to the northeast. The IOF reportedly ravaged civilian homes, in the second such assault in 24 hours.
Meanwhile, clashes rocked al-Faraa refugee camp after the IOF kidnapped the youngster Mustafa Hani Subh, among other protestors.
The IOF rolled into Nour Shams refugee camp, in Tulkarem province, and wreaked havoc on civilian homes. The occupation troops kidnapped the Palestinian citizen Bassem al-Shaweesh from his home in the camp after they aggressively attacked his family.
At dawn on Thursday the IOF scoured Shaweesh’s home and summoned him to questioning. Palestinian citizens Seif Abu Labda and Waleed al-Aloul were also kidnapped by the IOF from their family homes in the camp.
According to a PIC journalist, at least 10 Palestinians were kidnapped by the IOF from the camp in less than 24 hours. Clashes burst out in the area, where the IOF attacked the Palestinian anti-occupation youths with randomly-shot spates of bullet fire and teargas canisters.
The Israeli army patrols further stormed Qalqilya city and sealed off the main entrance to Azzoun town with a military checkpoint. Several Palestinians choked on teargas after the IOF broke into the al-Wad neighborhood and cracked down on the Palestinian protestors.
The assault culminated in the abduction of Palestinian youngsters from Nablus’s northern town of Sabastiya and al-Faraa refugee camp, to the northeast. The IOF reportedly ravaged civilian homes, in the second such assault in 24 hours.
Meanwhile, clashes rocked al-Faraa refugee camp after the IOF kidnapped the youngster Mustafa Hani Subh, among other protestors.
Several Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Friday at dawn, the al-Far’a refugee camp, south of the Tubas in the occupied West Bank, shot and injured three Palestinians, and kidnapped two.
Media sources in Tubas said the soldiers invaded the refugee camp from various directions, and conducted military searches of homes.
The sources added that the soldiers kidnapped two Palestinians, and took them to an unknown destination. They have been identified as Mustafa Hani Sobeh, 22, and Bassam Bassem Shaweesh, 25.
Meanwhile, Palestinian medical sources said three residents were shot with live fire and rubber-coated steel bullets, and were moved to the Turkish hospital in Tubas.
Media sources in Tubas said the soldiers invaded the refugee camp from various directions, and conducted military searches of homes.
The sources added that the soldiers kidnapped two Palestinians, and took them to an unknown destination. They have been identified as Mustafa Hani Sobeh, 22, and Bassam Bassem Shaweesh, 25.
Meanwhile, Palestinian medical sources said three residents were shot with live fire and rubber-coated steel bullets, and were moved to the Turkish hospital in Tubas.
The Israeli occupation navy on Friday morning kidnapped two Palestinian fishermen off Gaza’s shore.
A PIC news correspondent said the Israeli navy forces opened fire on two Palestinian fishermen sailing off the al-Sudaniya shore, in northern Gaza.
The occupation navy arrested the two fishermen Muhammad and Mahmoud al-Saidi and confiscated their boat before they dragged them to an unknown destination.
A PIC news correspondent said the Israeli navy forces opened fire on two Palestinian fishermen sailing off the al-Sudaniya shore, in northern Gaza.
The occupation navy arrested the two fishermen Muhammad and Mahmoud al-Saidi and confiscated their boat before they dragged them to an unknown destination.
