12 oct 2019
Israeli occupation authorities have remained Palestinian lawyer Asil Diaa Zgheibi in custody for the second time, according to his family.
They told WAFA that the Israeli military court remanded him in custody for further interrogations.
Zgheibi was arrested by Israeli occupation forces during a wide-scale campaign two weeks ago, in which dozens of members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine were arrested.
They told WAFA that the Israeli military court remanded him in custody for further interrogations.
Zgheibi was arrested by Israeli occupation forces during a wide-scale campaign two weeks ago, in which dozens of members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine were arrested.
Six Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails are determined to continue their open-ended hunger strike in protest at their detention administratively, with no indictment or trial, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Center for Studies.
Some of those prisoners have suffered serious health problems as a result of their prolonged hunger strike.
Administrative detainees Ahmed Ghannam, Ismail Ali, Tareq Qadaan have been on hunger strike for 91, 81, 74 days respectively.
The others, Ahmed Zahran, Musaab al-Hindi, and Hiba al-Labaddi, have been on hunger strike for 19 days.
Some of those prisoners have suffered serious health problems as a result of their prolonged hunger strike.
Administrative detainees Ahmed Ghannam, Ismail Ali, Tareq Qadaan have been on hunger strike for 91, 81, 74 days respectively.
The others, Ahmed Zahran, Musaab al-Hindi, and Hiba al-Labaddi, have been on hunger strike for 19 days.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Saturday raided several homes in al-Khalil province and summoned a Palestinian citizen for interrogation.
According to local sources, the IOF stormed Bani Na’im town in the east of al-Khalil and ransacked a number of homes belonging to the families of Zidat and al-Khadour.
During its campaign in the town, the IOF handed a citizen called Mohamed al-Khadour a summons for interrogation.
The IOF also stormed Beit Kahel town in the northwest of al-Khalil and searched a house belonging to Abdul-Mahdi az-Zuhour.
In al-Khalil city, the IOF patrolled several neighborhoods and set up a military checkpoint at the northern entrance to the city, where soldiers embarked on intercepting cars for security check.
According to local sources, the IOF stormed Bani Na’im town in the east of al-Khalil and ransacked a number of homes belonging to the families of Zidat and al-Khadour.
During its campaign in the town, the IOF handed a citizen called Mohamed al-Khadour a summons for interrogation.
The IOF also stormed Beit Kahel town in the northwest of al-Khalil and searched a house belonging to Abdul-Mahdi az-Zuhour.
In al-Khalil city, the IOF patrolled several neighborhoods and set up a military checkpoint at the northern entrance to the city, where soldiers embarked on intercepting cars for security check.
Mohammad Ahmad Hanani and Aref Nathir Hanani
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Friday evening, four Palestinians, including a young woman and two children, in Qalqilia, Nablus, and Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.
Media sources said the soldiers abducted Yousef Barrouq al-Aqra’. 18, after stopping him near the northern road of Qalqilia, in northern West Bank.
In addition, the soldiers abducted a young woman, identified as Mais Hanatsha, a student at Birzeit University, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, after summoning her for interrogation.
The soldiers also abducted two children, identified as Mohammad Ahmad Hanani and Aref Nathir Hanani, in the al-Khirba neighborhood in Beit Forik town, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
In related news, the soldiers detained a young man, identified as Islam Mazen Eshteyya, after firing live rounds at him while driving his agricultural tractor near Beit Forik military roadblock, and released him shortly afterward.
Furthermore, the soldiers closed Ennab military roadblock, east of Qalqilia, and started searching Palestinian cars while inspecting the ID cards of the passengers and interrogating them.
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Friday evening, four Palestinians, including a young woman and two children, in Qalqilia, Nablus, and Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.
Media sources said the soldiers abducted Yousef Barrouq al-Aqra’. 18, after stopping him near the northern road of Qalqilia, in northern West Bank.
In addition, the soldiers abducted a young woman, identified as Mais Hanatsha, a student at Birzeit University, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, after summoning her for interrogation.
The soldiers also abducted two children, identified as Mohammad Ahmad Hanani and Aref Nathir Hanani, in the al-Khirba neighborhood in Beit Forik town, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
In related news, the soldiers detained a young man, identified as Islam Mazen Eshteyya, after firing live rounds at him while driving his agricultural tractor near Beit Forik military roadblock, and released him shortly afterward.
Furthermore, the soldiers closed Ennab military roadblock, east of Qalqilia, and started searching Palestinian cars while inspecting the ID cards of the passengers and interrogating them.
11 oct 2019
by Ramzy Baroud
On August 20, Heba Ahmed al-Labadi fell into the dark hole of the Israeli legal system, joining 413 Palestinian prisoners who are currently held in so-called administrative detention.
On September 26, Heba and seven other prisoners declared a hunger strike to protest their unlawful detention and horrific conditions in Israeli prisons. Among the prisoners is Ahmed Ghannam, 42, from the village of Dura, near Hebron, who launched his hunger strike on July 14.
Administrative detention is Israel’s go-to legal proceeding when it simply wants to mute the voices of Palestinian political activists, but lacks any concrete evidence that can be presented in an open, military court.
Not that Israel’s military courts are an example of fairness and transparency. Indeed, when it comes to Palestinians, the entire Israeli judicial system is skewed. But administrative detention is a whole new level of injustice.
The current practice of administrative detention dates back to the 1945 Defense (Emergency) Regulations issued by the colonial British authorities in Palestine to quell Palestinian political dissent. Israel amended the regulations in 1979, renaming them to the Israeli Law on Authority in States of Emergency.
The revised law was used to indefinitely incarcerate thousands of Palestinian political activists during the Palestinian Uprising of 1987. On any given day, there are hundreds of Palestinians who are held under the unlawful practice.
The procedure denies the detainees any due process, and fails to produce an iota of evidence to as why the prisoner – who is often subjected to severe and relentless torture – is being held in the first place.
Heba, a Jordanian citizen, was detained at the al-Karameh crossing (Allenby Bridge) on her way from Jordan to the West Bank to attend a wedding in the Palestinian city of Nablus.
According to the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network Samidoun, Heba was first held at the Israeli intelligence detention center in Petah Tikva, where she was physically abused and tortured.
Torture in Israel was permissible for many years. In 1999, the Israeli Supreme Court banned torture. However, in 2019, the court explicitly clarified that “interrogational torture is lawful in certain circumstances in Israel’s legal system”. Either way, little has changed in practice before or after the Israeli court’s “clarification”.
Of the dozens of Palestinian and Arab prisoners I interviewed in recent months for a soon-to-be published volume on the history of the Palestinian prison experience, every single one of them underwent a prolonged process of torture during the initial interrogation, that often extended for months. If their experiences differed, it was only in the extent and duration of the torture. This applies to administrative detainees as much as it applies to so-called “security prisoners”.
Wafa Samir Ibrahim al-Bis, a Palestinian woman from Jablaiya refugee camp in Gaza, told me about the years she was held in Israeli jails. “I was tortured for years inside the Ramleh prison’s infamous ‘cell nine’, a torture chamber they designated for people like me,” she said.
“I was hanged from the ceiling and beaten. They put a black bag on my head as they beat and interrogated me for many hours and days. They released dogs and mice in my cell. I couldn’t sleep for days at a time. They stripped me naked and left me like that for days on end. They didn’t allow me to meet with a lawyer or even receive visits from the Red Cross.”
Heba is now lost in that very system, one that has no remorse and faces no accountability, neither in Israel itself, nor to international institutions whose duty is to challenge this kind of flagrant violation of humanitarian laws.
While Israel’s mistreatment of all Palestinian prisoners applies equally regardless of faction, ideology or age, the gender of the prisoner matters insofar as the type of torture or humiliation used. Many of the female prisoners I spoke with explained how the type of mistreatment they experienced in Israeli prisons seemed often to involve sexual degradation and abuse.
One involves having female prisoners strip naked before Israeli male interrogators and remaining in that position during the entire duration of the torturous interrogation, that may last hours.
Khadija Khweis, from the town of Al-Tour, adjacent to the Old City of Occupied East Jerusalem, was imprisoned by Israel 18 times, for a period ranging from several days to several weeks. She told me that “on the first day of my arrival at prison, the guards stripped me completely naked”.
“They searched me in ways so degrading, I cannot even write them down.
All I can say is that they intentionally tried to deprive me of the slightest degree of human dignity. This practice, of stripping and of degrading body searches, would be repeated every time I was taken out of my cell and brought back.”
Heba and all Palestinian prisoners experience humiliation and abuse on a daily basis. Their stories should not be reduced to an occasional news item or a social media post, but should become the raison d’être of all solidarity efforts aimed at exposing Israel, its fraudulent judicial system and Kangaroo courts.
The struggle of Palestinian prisoners epitomizes the struggle of all Palestinians. Their imprisonment is a stark representation of the collective imprisonment of the Palestinian people – those living under occupation and apartheid in the West Bank and those under occupation and siege in Gaza.
Israel should be held accountable for all of this. Rights groups and the international community should pressure Israel to release Heba al-Labadi and all of her comrades, unlawfully held in Israeli prisons.
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More articles by:Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud is a journalist, author and editor of Palestine Chronicle. His latest book is The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story (Pluto Press, London, 2018). He earned a Ph.D. in Palestine Studies from the University of Exeter and is a Non-Resident Scholar at Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, UCSB.
On August 20, Heba Ahmed al-Labadi fell into the dark hole of the Israeli legal system, joining 413 Palestinian prisoners who are currently held in so-called administrative detention.
On September 26, Heba and seven other prisoners declared a hunger strike to protest their unlawful detention and horrific conditions in Israeli prisons. Among the prisoners is Ahmed Ghannam, 42, from the village of Dura, near Hebron, who launched his hunger strike on July 14.
Administrative detention is Israel’s go-to legal proceeding when it simply wants to mute the voices of Palestinian political activists, but lacks any concrete evidence that can be presented in an open, military court.
Not that Israel’s military courts are an example of fairness and transparency. Indeed, when it comes to Palestinians, the entire Israeli judicial system is skewed. But administrative detention is a whole new level of injustice.
The current practice of administrative detention dates back to the 1945 Defense (Emergency) Regulations issued by the colonial British authorities in Palestine to quell Palestinian political dissent. Israel amended the regulations in 1979, renaming them to the Israeli Law on Authority in States of Emergency.
The revised law was used to indefinitely incarcerate thousands of Palestinian political activists during the Palestinian Uprising of 1987. On any given day, there are hundreds of Palestinians who are held under the unlawful practice.
The procedure denies the detainees any due process, and fails to produce an iota of evidence to as why the prisoner – who is often subjected to severe and relentless torture – is being held in the first place.
Heba, a Jordanian citizen, was detained at the al-Karameh crossing (Allenby Bridge) on her way from Jordan to the West Bank to attend a wedding in the Palestinian city of Nablus.
According to the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network Samidoun, Heba was first held at the Israeli intelligence detention center in Petah Tikva, where she was physically abused and tortured.
Torture in Israel was permissible for many years. In 1999, the Israeli Supreme Court banned torture. However, in 2019, the court explicitly clarified that “interrogational torture is lawful in certain circumstances in Israel’s legal system”. Either way, little has changed in practice before or after the Israeli court’s “clarification”.
Of the dozens of Palestinian and Arab prisoners I interviewed in recent months for a soon-to-be published volume on the history of the Palestinian prison experience, every single one of them underwent a prolonged process of torture during the initial interrogation, that often extended for months. If their experiences differed, it was only in the extent and duration of the torture. This applies to administrative detainees as much as it applies to so-called “security prisoners”.
Wafa Samir Ibrahim al-Bis, a Palestinian woman from Jablaiya refugee camp in Gaza, told me about the years she was held in Israeli jails. “I was tortured for years inside the Ramleh prison’s infamous ‘cell nine’, a torture chamber they designated for people like me,” she said.
“I was hanged from the ceiling and beaten. They put a black bag on my head as they beat and interrogated me for many hours and days. They released dogs and mice in my cell. I couldn’t sleep for days at a time. They stripped me naked and left me like that for days on end. They didn’t allow me to meet with a lawyer or even receive visits from the Red Cross.”
Heba is now lost in that very system, one that has no remorse and faces no accountability, neither in Israel itself, nor to international institutions whose duty is to challenge this kind of flagrant violation of humanitarian laws.
While Israel’s mistreatment of all Palestinian prisoners applies equally regardless of faction, ideology or age, the gender of the prisoner matters insofar as the type of torture or humiliation used. Many of the female prisoners I spoke with explained how the type of mistreatment they experienced in Israeli prisons seemed often to involve sexual degradation and abuse.
One involves having female prisoners strip naked before Israeli male interrogators and remaining in that position during the entire duration of the torturous interrogation, that may last hours.
Khadija Khweis, from the town of Al-Tour, adjacent to the Old City of Occupied East Jerusalem, was imprisoned by Israel 18 times, for a period ranging from several days to several weeks. She told me that “on the first day of my arrival at prison, the guards stripped me completely naked”.
“They searched me in ways so degrading, I cannot even write them down.
All I can say is that they intentionally tried to deprive me of the slightest degree of human dignity. This practice, of stripping and of degrading body searches, would be repeated every time I was taken out of my cell and brought back.”
Heba and all Palestinian prisoners experience humiliation and abuse on a daily basis. Their stories should not be reduced to an occasional news item or a social media post, but should become the raison d’être of all solidarity efforts aimed at exposing Israel, its fraudulent judicial system and Kangaroo courts.
The struggle of Palestinian prisoners epitomizes the struggle of all Palestinians. Their imprisonment is a stark representation of the collective imprisonment of the Palestinian people – those living under occupation and apartheid in the West Bank and those under occupation and siege in Gaza.
Israel should be held accountable for all of this. Rights groups and the international community should pressure Israel to release Heba al-Labadi and all of her comrades, unlawfully held in Israeli prisons.
Join the debate on Facebook
More articles by:Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud is a journalist, author and editor of Palestine Chronicle. His latest book is The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story (Pluto Press, London, 2018). He earned a Ph.D. in Palestine Studies from the University of Exeter and is a Non-Resident Scholar at Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, UCSB.
The Israeli occupation forces at dawn Friday broke into the family house of the Palestinian detainee Yazan Mghames in Birzeit town north of Ramallah City.
Eyewitnesses reported seeing the IOF soldiers taking the measurements of the house in preparation for demolishing it.
Mghames, a student at Birzeit University, was arrested by Israeli occupation forces on 11 September.
The Israeli Intelligence Service (Shin Bet) at the end of September announced that it had arrested a Palestinian cell affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and accused them of planting a bomb in Ein Bubin area, west of Ramallah, on 23 August killing an Israeli settler and injuring two others.
The Shin Bet claimed that Mghames was a member of the cell responsible for the blast.
Israel demolishes the family homes of Palestinian martyrs, detainees and resistance fighters as part of the collective punishment policy it pursues against the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Eyewitnesses reported seeing the IOF soldiers taking the measurements of the house in preparation for demolishing it.
Mghames, a student at Birzeit University, was arrested by Israeli occupation forces on 11 September.
The Israeli Intelligence Service (Shin Bet) at the end of September announced that it had arrested a Palestinian cell affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and accused them of planting a bomb in Ein Bubin area, west of Ramallah, on 23 August killing an Israeli settler and injuring two others.
The Shin Bet claimed that Mghames was a member of the cell responsible for the blast.
Israel demolishes the family homes of Palestinian martyrs, detainees and resistance fighters as part of the collective punishment policy it pursues against the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Friday kidnapped three Palestinian citizens in different West Bank areas.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that the IOF shot a Palestinian youth identified as Hammoudi Matahen and arrested him in Jenin refugee camp.
They added that the wounded youth was later taken by an IOF vehicle to an undeclared destination.
Meanwhile in Ramallah, the IOF arrested Hadi al-Tarsha, a student at Birzeit University, during a raid on his family's home.
Violent clashes broke out in the area between the IOF and dozens of Palestinian youths. The IOF heavily fired tear gas canisters while the latter responded by throwing stones.
A third Palestinian young man named Mohammed Hashash was arrested during a campaign targeting Balata refugee camp in Nablus.
Army Abducts A Student, Injures Several Young Men, In Ramallah
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday at dawn, the al-‘Irsal neighborhood in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and abducted a student of Birzeit University, from his home, after repeatedly assaulting him.
The soldiers invaded the family home of Fadi at-Tarsha, and repeatedly assaulted him while violently searching and ransacking the property, media sources said.
The sources added that the soldiers cuffed and blindfolded the young man and took him to an unknown destination.
In related news, the soldiers invaded Sateh Marhaba neighborhood in the al-Biereh nearby city, and fired many gas bombs and concussion grenades at local youngsters, who protested the invasion and hurled stones at the army jeeps.
Medical sources said many Palestinians suffered the effects of teargas inhalation, before receiving treatment by local medics.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that the IOF shot a Palestinian youth identified as Hammoudi Matahen and arrested him in Jenin refugee camp.
They added that the wounded youth was later taken by an IOF vehicle to an undeclared destination.
Meanwhile in Ramallah, the IOF arrested Hadi al-Tarsha, a student at Birzeit University, during a raid on his family's home.
Violent clashes broke out in the area between the IOF and dozens of Palestinian youths. The IOF heavily fired tear gas canisters while the latter responded by throwing stones.
A third Palestinian young man named Mohammed Hashash was arrested during a campaign targeting Balata refugee camp in Nablus.
Army Abducts A Student, Injures Several Young Men, In Ramallah
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday at dawn, the al-‘Irsal neighborhood in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and abducted a student of Birzeit University, from his home, after repeatedly assaulting him.
The soldiers invaded the family home of Fadi at-Tarsha, and repeatedly assaulted him while violently searching and ransacking the property, media sources said.
The sources added that the soldiers cuffed and blindfolded the young man and took him to an unknown destination.
In related news, the soldiers invaded Sateh Marhaba neighborhood in the al-Biereh nearby city, and fired many gas bombs and concussion grenades at local youngsters, who protested the invasion and hurled stones at the army jeeps.
Medical sources said many Palestinians suffered the effects of teargas inhalation, before receiving treatment by local medics.
10 oct 2019
Israel detained 514 Palestinians last month from all over the West Bank and Jerusalem, including 81 children and 10 women, prisoners’ advocacy groups said today.
The Prisoners Commission, the Prisoners Society and Addameer said in a joint statement that Israel detained 175 Palestinians from occupied Jerusalem, 54 from Ramallah district, 100 from Hebron district, 36 from Jenin district, 25 from Bethlehem district, 45 from the Nablus district, 21 from Tulkarm and 24 from Qalqilya.
In addition, five were detained from Toubas, eight from Salfit, 10 from Jericho and 11 from the Gaza Strip.
They said this brings the number of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons to 5000, among them 43 women and 200 children.
At the same time, the number of Palestinians held in administrative detention without charge or trial is around 450, while 101 new and renewed administrative detention orders were issued only last month.
The Prisoners Commission, the Prisoners Society and Addameer said in a joint statement that Israel detained 175 Palestinians from occupied Jerusalem, 54 from Ramallah district, 100 from Hebron district, 36 from Jenin district, 25 from Bethlehem district, 45 from the Nablus district, 21 from Tulkarm and 24 from Qalqilya.
In addition, five were detained from Toubas, eight from Salfit, 10 from Jericho and 11 from the Gaza Strip.
They said this brings the number of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons to 5000, among them 43 women and 200 children.
At the same time, the number of Palestinians held in administrative detention without charge or trial is around 450, while 101 new and renewed administrative detention orders were issued only last month.
A Palestinian worker on Thursday morning suffered bullet injuries when Israeli soldiers opened fire at him near the separation wall’s gate in Dhaher al 'Abed village near Ya’bad town in Jenin.
Local sources told a reporter for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that a workman suffered bullet injuries in his lower extremities during his attempt to enter through the wall’s gate in order to reach his workplace in the 1948 occupied lands (Israel).
They added that the soldiers took the wounded citizen to the Barta’a checkpoint, without providing further details about his fate and the severity of his injuries.
Many Palestinian workmen were injured during the past days as they were trying to cross into Israel through gates in the separation wall of the West Bank after they failed to obtain work permits from the Israeli occupation authority.
Local sources told a reporter for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that a workman suffered bullet injuries in his lower extremities during his attempt to enter through the wall’s gate in order to reach his workplace in the 1948 occupied lands (Israel).
They added that the soldiers took the wounded citizen to the Barta’a checkpoint, without providing further details about his fate and the severity of his injuries.
Many Palestinian workmen were injured during the past days as they were trying to cross into Israel through gates in the separation wall of the West Bank after they failed to obtain work permits from the Israeli occupation authority.
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Thursday at dawn, three young Palestinian men in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and one in Jenin, in the northern part.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said the soldiers invaded Doura town, south of Hebron, before storming and ransacking several homes, and abducted three Palestinians.
The PPS identified the abducted Palestinians as Ahmad Ishaq Abu Hashhash, Bara’ Ismael al-Masalma, and Eyad Raed al-Masalma.
Furthermore, the soldiers invaded the Eastern Neighborhood in Jenin city, and abducted Sultan Kamal Sa’adi, after storming his home and searching it.
In related news, several army jeeps invaded Khallet Makhoul community, in the Northern Plains of the West Bank, and photographed the homes and structures.
It is worth mentioning that the village is subject to frequent invasions and violations, and many of its homes and structures were demolished several times; most recently two years ago.
In occupied Jerusalem, the soldiers invaded the al-Mintar area, in the Sawahra village, east of the city, and informed the residents of their intention to remove two protest tents, which were installed by the locals who were protesting a new illegal Israeli colonialist outpost on their land.
The soldiers also informed Khaled Mashhour of their intention to demolish his residential tent, where he lives along with his family, in addition to informing Mohammad al-Hathalin of their intention to demolish his shed.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said the soldiers invaded Doura town, south of Hebron, before storming and ransacking several homes, and abducted three Palestinians.
The PPS identified the abducted Palestinians as Ahmad Ishaq Abu Hashhash, Bara’ Ismael al-Masalma, and Eyad Raed al-Masalma.
Furthermore, the soldiers invaded the Eastern Neighborhood in Jenin city, and abducted Sultan Kamal Sa’adi, after storming his home and searching it.
In related news, several army jeeps invaded Khallet Makhoul community, in the Northern Plains of the West Bank, and photographed the homes and structures.
It is worth mentioning that the village is subject to frequent invasions and violations, and many of its homes and structures were demolished several times; most recently two years ago.
In occupied Jerusalem, the soldiers invaded the al-Mintar area, in the Sawahra village, east of the city, and informed the residents of their intention to remove two protest tents, which were installed by the locals who were protesting a new illegal Israeli colonialist outpost on their land.
The soldiers also informed Khaled Mashhour of their intention to demolish his residential tent, where he lives along with his family, in addition to informing Mohammad al-Hathalin of their intention to demolish his shed.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Thursday kidnaped eight Palestinian citizens from their homes in different West Bank areas.
A statement by the Israeli army claimed that the eight citizens were wanted by the security authorities.
According to local sources, the IOF stormed the eastern neighborhood of Jenin city and kidnaped four young men from the family of al-Saadi.
In al-Khalil, the IOF kidnaped an ex-detainee called Ahmed Abu Hash’hash from his home in Dura town and two other citizens in Beit Awwa town.
In Nablus, the IOF ransacked homes belonging to the family of Bannat in the old Askar refugee camp and kidnaped a young man called Jihad Bannat.
The IOF also stormed other areas of the West Bank, raided several homes and clashed with local youths.
A statement by the Israeli army claimed that the eight citizens were wanted by the security authorities.
According to local sources, the IOF stormed the eastern neighborhood of Jenin city and kidnaped four young men from the family of al-Saadi.
In al-Khalil, the IOF kidnaped an ex-detainee called Ahmed Abu Hash’hash from his home in Dura town and two other citizens in Beit Awwa town.
In Nablus, the IOF ransacked homes belonging to the family of Bannat in the old Askar refugee camp and kidnaped a young man called Jihad Bannat.
The IOF also stormed other areas of the West Bank, raided several homes and clashed with local youths.
The Ofer military court on Wednesday sentenced Palestinian prisoner Ra’ed Badwan, from the village of Biddu in Occupied Jerusalem, to 18 years in jail and ordered him to pay a 500,000 shekel penalty.
According to the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs, prisoner Badwan has been in detention since August 6, 2015 and has attended over 56 court sessions since then.
He suffered from multiple injuries when Israeli soldiers showered his cars with bullets on allegations of his attempt to carry out a car-ramming attack on Road 60 in northern Ramallah.
As a result, 12 bullets penetrated different parts of his body and doctors managed to remove only six bullets.
According to the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs, prisoner Badwan has been in detention since August 6, 2015 and has attended over 56 court sessions since then.
He suffered from multiple injuries when Israeli soldiers showered his cars with bullets on allegations of his attempt to carry out a car-ramming attack on Road 60 in northern Ramallah.
As a result, 12 bullets penetrated different parts of his body and doctors managed to remove only six bullets.
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The health condition of three Palestinian detainees has gravely deteriorated due deliberate medical negligence by the Israel Prison Service.
The Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainees Commission in a report released on Wednesday said that the Palestinian prisoner Mwaffaq Arrouq, 76, is suffering from stomach and liver cancer and his life is at stake. The commission said that Arrouq is in urgent need of chemotherapy sessions but the Israel Prison Service in Negev jail is preventing that. The second detainee is Amal Taqatqa, 25, who was injured by three live bullets during her arrest in 2014. |
Taqatqa cannot stand for long hours because of her injured leg whose condition is getting worse each new day. Taqatqa needs a specialist orthopedic doctor, but the Israel Prison Service at Damon jail does not provide her the necessary treatment.
Rawan Samhan, 26, who is also held in Damon jail, suffers from anemia which causes her headaches and constant dizziness and she needs urgent medical follow-up.
The commission said that it receives daily statements trough prisoners who are suffering from medical negligence in Israeli jails.
Rawan Samhan, 26, who is also held in Damon jail, suffers from anemia which causes her headaches and constant dizziness and she needs urgent medical follow-up.
The commission said that it receives daily statements trough prisoners who are suffering from medical negligence in Israeli jails.
