3 sept 2019
Hamas spokesman Abdul-Latif Qanu’a has described UN envoy Jason Greenblatt’s call for pressuring his Movement to release Israeli captive soldiers in Gaza as “blatant bias in favor of the Israeli occupation state.”
Spokesman Qanu’a said that Greenblatt ignored the suffering of thousands of Palestinian prisoners who have the right under international law to resist the occupation and receive humane treatment in Israeli jails.
Greenblatt this week addressed a letter to the UN, urging the international body to work on having the Israelis held in Gaza released, according to the Israeli media.
According to Israel’s Channel 12 News, Greenblatt, president Donald Trump's top Mideast negotiator, wrote the letter on the heels of a meeting with Leah and Simcha Goldin, the parents of Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin, one of the captive soldiers in Gaza.
Spokesman Qanu’a said that Greenblatt ignored the suffering of thousands of Palestinian prisoners who have the right under international law to resist the occupation and receive humane treatment in Israeli jails.
Greenblatt this week addressed a letter to the UN, urging the international body to work on having the Israelis held in Gaza released, according to the Israeli media.
According to Israel’s Channel 12 News, Greenblatt, president Donald Trump's top Mideast negotiator, wrote the letter on the heels of a meeting with Leah and Simcha Goldin, the parents of Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin, one of the captive soldiers in Gaza.
Israeli police forces on Tuesday afternoon stormed al-Araqib village in the Negev and arrested three local residents.
The detainees are Aziz Attouri, Salim Mohamed and Laila al-Sanea. The reason for their arrest is still unknown.
The Israeli authorities on Monday demolished the village for the 157 consecutive time and displaced its residents.
Araqib residents live in a constant state of fear because they expect the demolition of their village at any moment after they manage to rebuild their homes again.
However, such Israeli arbitrary, criminal and inhumane policy of demolition, uprooting and displacement will only increase the residents’ resolve and adherence to their land and village even if Israel demolishes it thousands of times.
Al-Araqib is one of several Bedouin villages in the Negev desert, which are "unrecognized" by Israel.
The demolition of al-Araqib and other villages in the Negev is a systematic Israeli policy aimed at expelling the native population from their areas in the Negev and transferring them to government-zoned areas to pave the way to expand and build settlements for Jewish communities.
The detainees are Aziz Attouri, Salim Mohamed and Laila al-Sanea. The reason for their arrest is still unknown.
The Israeli authorities on Monday demolished the village for the 157 consecutive time and displaced its residents.
Araqib residents live in a constant state of fear because they expect the demolition of their village at any moment after they manage to rebuild their homes again.
However, such Israeli arbitrary, criminal and inhumane policy of demolition, uprooting and displacement will only increase the residents’ resolve and adherence to their land and village even if Israel demolishes it thousands of times.
Al-Araqib is one of several Bedouin villages in the Negev desert, which are "unrecognized" by Israel.
The demolition of al-Araqib and other villages in the Negev is a systematic Israeli policy aimed at expelling the native population from their areas in the Negev and transferring them to government-zoned areas to pave the way to expand and build settlements for Jewish communities.
The Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs said that the Palestinian prisoners in Gilboa jail were exposed to brutal suppression by Israeli forces at dawn Monday.
In a statement on Monday, the Commission reported that special forces from the Masada, Dror, and Yamam units stormed prisoners’ cells in sections 5 and 1 in Gilboa jail, assaulted prisoners and wreaked havoc on everything.
It said that such violent raids on prisoners’ cells had never happened in years, affirming that the recent suppression campaign against the prisoners in Israeli jails are led by an extremist Israeli prison service officer called Sharon Shoan, who was appointed recently as head of the prison service operations branch in the northern region.
In a statement on Monday, the Commission reported that special forces from the Masada, Dror, and Yamam units stormed prisoners’ cells in sections 5 and 1 in Gilboa jail, assaulted prisoners and wreaked havoc on everything.
It said that such violent raids on prisoners’ cells had never happened in years, affirming that the recent suppression campaign against the prisoners in Israeli jails are led by an extremist Israeli prison service officer called Sharon Shoan, who was appointed recently as head of the prison service operations branch in the northern region.
More than 200 Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli jail of Rimon ended today their hunger strike that they started yesterday in protest against installation of jamming devices in the prison, which they fear cause cancer, and demanding better conditions for women prisoners in nearby Damon prison, according the Detainees and Ex Detainees Commission.
Qadri Abu Baker, the head of the Commission, told WAFA that negotiations between the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) and representatives of the prisoners from several prisons have been successful, which led to ending the strike after the IPS accepted prisoners' demands.
Qadri Abu Baker, the head of the Commission, told WAFA that negotiations between the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) and representatives of the prisoners from several prisons have been successful, which led to ending the strike after the IPS accepted prisoners' demands.
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, on Tuesday at dawn, at least twenty-four Palestinians, including children and political prisoners, from their homes, in several parts of the occupied West Bank.
The soldiers conducted extensive invasions and violent searches of homes across the occupied West Bank, and interrogated many Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards.
Furthermore, the soldiers installed many roadblocks across the West Bank, before stopping and searching cars, and interrogated dozens of Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards.
Among the invaded homes are the property of a political prisoner, identified as Karmel Barghouthi, from Kobar village, north of Ramallah, and the homes of two former political prisoners, Nafeth Shawamra and Mohammad Abu Arqoub, from Doura town, south of Hebron.
The soldiers also caused excessive damage to many invaded homes, especially in Hebron city, in southern West Bank, and Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron, where the soldiers smashed doors and furniture during the violent searches.
Nine of the abducted residents, including former political prisoners, in addition to a father and his son, are from Hebron governorate, in southern West Bank.
The soldiers caused damage to many homes, including those owned by two political prisoners, identified as Nafeth Shawamra and Mohammad Abu Arqoub, from Doura town, south of Hebron.
The abducted Palestinians have been identified as:
IOF arrests 18 Palestinians in West Bank sweeps
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at daybreak Tuesday launched large-scale raids in the West Bank arresting scores of Palestinian citizens from their homes.
The IOF claimed in a statement that 18 "wanted" Palestinians were arrested early Tuesday for being involved in resistance activities.
Palestinian local sources said that the IOF abducted 18 Palestinian citizens in Nablus, Ramallah, Tulkarem, al-Khalil and Jerusalem.
In Bethlehem the IOF opened fire at a Palestinian vehicle before forcing it to stop at a checkpoint in Beit Jala town. No injuries were reported.
Dozens of Palestinian homes were raided and searched during the overnight sweeps, according to local residents in different West Bank areas.
The soldiers conducted extensive invasions and violent searches of homes across the occupied West Bank, and interrogated many Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards.
Furthermore, the soldiers installed many roadblocks across the West Bank, before stopping and searching cars, and interrogated dozens of Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards.
Among the invaded homes are the property of a political prisoner, identified as Karmel Barghouthi, from Kobar village, north of Ramallah, and the homes of two former political prisoners, Nafeth Shawamra and Mohammad Abu Arqoub, from Doura town, south of Hebron.
The soldiers also caused excessive damage to many invaded homes, especially in Hebron city, in southern West Bank, and Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron, where the soldiers smashed doors and furniture during the violent searches.
Nine of the abducted residents, including former political prisoners, in addition to a father and his son, are from Hebron governorate, in southern West Bank.
The soldiers caused damage to many homes, including those owned by two political prisoners, identified as Nafeth Shawamra and Mohammad Abu Arqoub, from Doura town, south of Hebron.
The abducted Palestinians have been identified as:
- Soheib Qfeisha, Hebron city.
- Mohammad Hussein Hreizat, Yatta – Hebron.
- Hussein Mohammad Hreizat, Yatta – Hebron.
- Jamil Jamal Nassar, Yatta – Hebron.
- Montaser Issa Shadeed, Doura – Hebron.
- Yousef Salem Qazzaz, Doura- Hebron.
- Wahid Hamdi Abu Mariya, 17, Beit Ummar – Hebron.
- Qais Mohammad Abu Mariya, 16, Beit Ummar – Hebron.
- Malek Ayesh Abu Mariya, 17, Beit Ummar – Hebron.
- Saif Salim Awlaad Issa, Hebron.
- Yousef Abdul-Rasoul Qazzaz, Hebron.
- Amro Husam Salhab, Hebron.
- Ehab Ziad Rajab, 18, Kafr al-Lubbad – Tulkarem.
- Jamail Jamal Ja’ar, 18, Kafr al-Lubbad – Tulkarem.
- Yazan Taiseer Abdul-Dayim, 21. Anabta – Tulkarem.
- Binan Montaser Abu Daqer, 22, Anabta – Tulkarem.
- Mohammad Saif Abu Asal, 19, Anabta – Tulkarem.
- Zaher Amer Barakat, 27, Anabta – Tulkarem.
- Hussein Taiseer Abu Rayya, 23, Anabta – Tulkarem.
- Jamil Jamal Ja’ar, 18, Allar – Tulkarem.
- Hasan Taiseer Mezyed, Anabta – Tulkarem.
- Eyad al-‘Adawi, Balata – Nablus.
- Mohammad Monir Obeid, al-‘Isawiya – Jerusalem.
- Tareq Firas Mustafa, al-‘Isawiya – Jerusalem.
IOF arrests 18 Palestinians in West Bank sweeps
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at daybreak Tuesday launched large-scale raids in the West Bank arresting scores of Palestinian citizens from their homes.
The IOF claimed in a statement that 18 "wanted" Palestinians were arrested early Tuesday for being involved in resistance activities.
Palestinian local sources said that the IOF abducted 18 Palestinian citizens in Nablus, Ramallah, Tulkarem, al-Khalil and Jerusalem.
In Bethlehem the IOF opened fire at a Palestinian vehicle before forcing it to stop at a checkpoint in Beit Jala town. No injuries were reported.
Dozens of Palestinian homes were raided and searched during the overnight sweeps, according to local residents in different West Bank areas.
2 sept 2019
More than 200 Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli jail of Rimon started today an open-ended hunger strike in protest against installation of jamming devices in the prison, which they fear cause cancer, and demanding better conditions mainly for women prisoners in nearby Damon prison, said the Detainees and Ex Detainees Commission in a press statement.
It said negotiations between the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) and representatives of prisoners in section four in Rimon prison have failed and reached a dead end because the IPS did not accept the prisoners' demands and retaliated by shutting down two sections in the prison.
The commission condemned the IPS for not accepting the most basic demands by the prisoners.
It said negotiations between the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) and representatives of prisoners in section four in Rimon prison have failed and reached a dead end because the IPS did not accept the prisoners' demands and retaliated by shutting down two sections in the prison.
The commission condemned the IPS for not accepting the most basic demands by the prisoners.
The Detainees and Ex Detainees Commission warned today that two Palestinians held in Israeli jails are critically ill and one of them may die.
Commission director, Qadri Abu Bakr, told WAFA that Sami Abu Diak and Bassam Sayeh suffer serious deterioration in their health and that one of them may die at any time.
Abu Diak,33, from the northern West Bank city of Jenin who is serving a life sentence for resisting the Israeli occupation, suffers from multiple diseases, including skin poisoning, kidney failure and a large part of his colon was removed. He recently has lost the ability to drink or eat.
Sayeh, who is also serving a life sentence, is suffering from blood cancer.
“Abu Diak and Sayeh live today on very strong painkillers and they cannot stand or eat. Their bodies do not respond to drugs and they have difficulty talking,” said Abu Bakr. “Their situation, according to what we hear, is critical, particularly Sayeh whose situation is getting very critical.”
Palestinians have accused the Israeli authorities of failing to provide proper medical treatment or even delay treatment to ill prisoners causing as a result deterioration in their health.
The Prisoners Commission said Israeli’s measures against ill Palestinian prisoners violate international law and are an assault on their rights, demanding international and human rights organization to pressure the Israeli authorities into releasing them to receive proper medical treatment in order to save their life.
Commission director, Qadri Abu Bakr, told WAFA that Sami Abu Diak and Bassam Sayeh suffer serious deterioration in their health and that one of them may die at any time.
Abu Diak,33, from the northern West Bank city of Jenin who is serving a life sentence for resisting the Israeli occupation, suffers from multiple diseases, including skin poisoning, kidney failure and a large part of his colon was removed. He recently has lost the ability to drink or eat.
Sayeh, who is also serving a life sentence, is suffering from blood cancer.
“Abu Diak and Sayeh live today on very strong painkillers and they cannot stand or eat. Their bodies do not respond to drugs and they have difficulty talking,” said Abu Bakr. “Their situation, according to what we hear, is critical, particularly Sayeh whose situation is getting very critical.”
Palestinians have accused the Israeli authorities of failing to provide proper medical treatment or even delay treatment to ill prisoners causing as a result deterioration in their health.
The Prisoners Commission said Israeli’s measures against ill Palestinian prisoners violate international law and are an assault on their rights, demanding international and human rights organization to pressure the Israeli authorities into releasing them to receive proper medical treatment in order to save their life.
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Monday arrested scores of Palestinian citizens during raids targeting different areas in the West Bank.
According to local sources, the IOF kidnapped 30 Palestinians, including ex-prisoners, in al-Khalil, Jenin, Qalqilya and Jerusalem.
They added that the IOF soldiers searched several Palestinian homes in the raided areas and wreaked havoc on them.
Minor skirmishes broke out between the IOF soldiers and dozens of Palestinian youths who hurled stones at them during a raid on Ya'bad town south of Jenin City.
Israeli army detains 28 Palestinian in West Bank, Jerusalem
The Israeli army detained early this morning 28 Palestinians during raids at their homes in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, reported the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS).
It said the army detained seven men from the Hebron district including Thayer Halahleh who spent several years in Israeli prisons, most of them in administrative detention without charge or trial and went on hunger strike for 78 days in 2012 to secure his release.
The army detained as well six Palestinians from the Jenin district and two from the Qalqilya area, both in the north of the West Bank, three from the Bethlehem district in the south of the West Bank and one from Sinjil village near Ramallah.
In addition, Israeli forces detained eight young Palestinians from Issawiyeh neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem and one from Abu Dis town, east of Jerusalem. video
According to local sources, the IOF kidnapped 30 Palestinians, including ex-prisoners, in al-Khalil, Jenin, Qalqilya and Jerusalem.
They added that the IOF soldiers searched several Palestinian homes in the raided areas and wreaked havoc on them.
Minor skirmishes broke out between the IOF soldiers and dozens of Palestinian youths who hurled stones at them during a raid on Ya'bad town south of Jenin City.
Israeli army detains 28 Palestinian in West Bank, Jerusalem
The Israeli army detained early this morning 28 Palestinians during raids at their homes in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, reported the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS).
It said the army detained seven men from the Hebron district including Thayer Halahleh who spent several years in Israeli prisons, most of them in administrative detention without charge or trial and went on hunger strike for 78 days in 2012 to secure his release.
The army detained as well six Palestinians from the Jenin district and two from the Qalqilya area, both in the north of the West Bank, three from the Bethlehem district in the south of the West Bank and one from Sinjil village near Ramallah.
In addition, Israeli forces detained eight young Palestinians from Issawiyeh neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem and one from Abu Dis town, east of Jerusalem. video
1 sept 2019
Aziz Rushdi
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnaped last night and at dawn Sunday at least eight Palestinian citizens, including a woman, during campaigns in the West Bank and Jerusalem.
Among the detainees was professor Widad al-Barghouthi, a lecturer at Birzeit University. She is the mother of prisoners Qassam (journalist) and Karmal al-Barghouthi.
Karmal was kidnaped by the IOF upon his return from al-Khalil last night to his home in Kobar town in Ramallah.
The IOF also raided the home of ex-detainee Omar al-Barghouthi, the father of martyr Saleh and prisoner Asem, and other homes in Kobar town.
In al-Khalil, the IOF kidnaped once again Aziz Rushdi, an ex-detainee, from his home in al-Arroub refugee camp.
The IOF also kidnaped four Palestinians in Bethlehem, including a young man and his wife at the Nashash checkpoint.
In Jerusalem, Israelii police forces stormed Issawiya district and kidnaped a young man identified as Shadi Atiya.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnaped last night and at dawn Sunday at least eight Palestinian citizens, including a woman, during campaigns in the West Bank and Jerusalem.
Among the detainees was professor Widad al-Barghouthi, a lecturer at Birzeit University. She is the mother of prisoners Qassam (journalist) and Karmal al-Barghouthi.
Karmal was kidnaped by the IOF upon his return from al-Khalil last night to his home in Kobar town in Ramallah.
The IOF also raided the home of ex-detainee Omar al-Barghouthi, the father of martyr Saleh and prisoner Asem, and other homes in Kobar town.
In al-Khalil, the IOF kidnaped once again Aziz Rushdi, an ex-detainee, from his home in al-Arroub refugee camp.
The IOF also kidnaped four Palestinians in Bethlehem, including a young man and his wife at the Nashash checkpoint.
In Jerusalem, Israelii police forces stormed Issawiya district and kidnaped a young man identified as Shadi Atiya.
Israeli authorities recently issued administrative detention orders against 76 Palestinians for periods ranging between two and six renewable months during the month of August, said the Commission of Detainees Affairs on Sunday.
Some of the orders were issued against Palestinian detainees for the first time, while the other detainees had their administrative detention renewed.
Administrative detention is the imprisonment of Palestinians without charge or trial at orders from a military commander and on the basis of secret evidence. The order normally goes for six-month periods, indefinitely renewable by Israeli military authorities.
“Israel's use of administrative detention blatantly violates the restrictions of international law. Israel carries it out in a highly classified manner that denies detainees the possibility of mounting a proper defense,” says Israeli human rights group B’Tselem.
Some of the orders were issued against Palestinian detainees for the first time, while the other detainees had their administrative detention renewed.
Administrative detention is the imprisonment of Palestinians without charge or trial at orders from a military commander and on the basis of secret evidence. The order normally goes for six-month periods, indefinitely renewable by Israeli military authorities.
“Israel's use of administrative detention blatantly violates the restrictions of international law. Israel carries it out in a highly classified manner that denies detainees the possibility of mounting a proper defense,” says Israeli human rights group B’Tselem.
The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate condemned the Israeli forces’ arrest of Widad Barghouti, a media lecturer at Birzeit University, after raiding and searching her home in the village of Kobar, northwest of Ramallah.
The syndicate called on all international human rights and humanitarian institutions, particularly the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), to pressure the Israeli occupation authorities to immediately release all journalists detained in Israeli jails under false pretexts and to halt all flagrant violations against them.
The syndicate expressed its utmost concern over the escalated crimes and violations of the Israeli occupation with its various branches of the rights of Journalists, which it stressed contradicts with the most fundamental International legal norms and covenants that guarantee the right of journalist to carry out their work and criminalize attacks on and violations of freedom of the press.
The syndicate called on all international human rights and humanitarian institutions, particularly the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), to pressure the Israeli occupation authorities to immediately release all journalists detained in Israeli jails under false pretexts and to halt all flagrant violations against them.
The syndicate expressed its utmost concern over the escalated crimes and violations of the Israeli occupation with its various branches of the rights of Journalists, which it stressed contradicts with the most fundamental International legal norms and covenants that guarantee the right of journalist to carry out their work and criminalize attacks on and violations of freedom of the press.
Widad Barghouti
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on Sunday morning launched a raid and arrest campaign in the West Bank, where they arrested four Palestinians including a university lecturer.
The detainees included a media lecturer at Birzeit University, Widad Barghouti (mother of the two prisoners Qassam and Carmel Barghouti) from Kobar village north of Ramallah.
IOF also raided the house of Sheikh Omar al-Barghouthi, father of the martyr Saleh and the captive Asim from the same village.
In addition, they arrested two men from Al-Arroub refugee camp north of Hebron and Al-Issawiya neighbor east of occupied Jerusalem.
Finally, they confiscated a vehicle from Hussan village west of Bethlehem.
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on Sunday morning launched a raid and arrest campaign in the West Bank, where they arrested four Palestinians including a university lecturer.
The detainees included a media lecturer at Birzeit University, Widad Barghouti (mother of the two prisoners Qassam and Carmel Barghouti) from Kobar village north of Ramallah.
IOF also raided the house of Sheikh Omar al-Barghouthi, father of the martyr Saleh and the captive Asim from the same village.
In addition, they arrested two men from Al-Arroub refugee camp north of Hebron and Al-Issawiya neighbor east of occupied Jerusalem.
Finally, they confiscated a vehicle from Hussan village west of Bethlehem.
The Palestinian Captive Movement in Israeli jails has described the health condition of prisoner Bassam as-Sa’yeh as “very critical,” affirming that his heart muscle has become functional by only 15 percent.
According to Asra Media Center, the Captive Movement also said that the right lung of prisoner Sa’yeh malfunctioned because of excess fluids.
The Captive Movement has held the Israeli occupation authority and its prison service fully responsible for the life of sick prisoner Sa’yeh, warning that it would have to take protest steps to pressure the jailers to provide him with appropriate medical care.
Prisoner Sa’yeh has been suffering for years from blood and bone cancer and chronic heart and liver problems.
He has been in Ramla Hospital since early August after a serious decline in his health condition.
According to Asra Media Center, the Captive Movement also said that the right lung of prisoner Sa’yeh malfunctioned because of excess fluids.
The Captive Movement has held the Israeli occupation authority and its prison service fully responsible for the life of sick prisoner Sa’yeh, warning that it would have to take protest steps to pressure the jailers to provide him with appropriate medical care.
Prisoner Sa’yeh has been suffering for years from blood and bone cancer and chronic heart and liver problems.
He has been in Ramla Hospital since early August after a serious decline in his health condition.
The Israeli occupation forces on Saturday evening arrested two Palestinian citizens in the West Bank.
Local sources said that the Israeli forces abducted the Palestinian child Abdulhadi Abu Sneineh inside the Ibrahimi Mosque.
Meanwhile, the Israeli forces arrested the Palestinian youth Karmel al-Barghouti from Kobar village in Ramallah.
Local sources said that the Israeli forces abducted the Palestinian child Abdulhadi Abu Sneineh inside the Ibrahimi Mosque.
Meanwhile, the Israeli forces arrested the Palestinian youth Karmel al-Barghouti from Kobar village in Ramallah.
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