20 apr 2016
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, Qalandia refugee camp, north of occupied Jerusalem, demolished one home and injured at least eight Palestinians, including three with live fire; one of the wounded was among the abducted residents.
The soldiers surrounded the home of Hussein Abu Ghosh, 17, forced the family out and demolished the property’s inner walls, rendering it uninhabitable.
Abu Ghosh was killed by the army, along with another Palestinian on January 26, 2016, after stabbing an Israeli settler woman to death.
The second Palestinian, who was also killed in the same incident, has been identified as Ibrahim Allan, 22. The attack took place in Beit Horon Israeli colony.
The Abu Ghosh family home is on the third floor of a four-story building inhabited by Allan’s father, and his six brothers.
The invasion into the refugee camp was carried out by more than 40 armored vehicles and a military bulldozer.
Local sources said the soldiers also kidnapped a young man, identified as Hasan Sajdiyya, after shooting and injuring him.
Medical sources said the soldiers shot three young men with live rounds, and five others with rubber-coated steel bullets, while dozens of Palestinians suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation.
Israeli military sources said two soldiers were injured during the clashes that took place in the refugee camp, after some protesters hurled a homemade explosive on an army vehicle.
The soldiers surrounded the home of Hussein Abu Ghosh, 17, forced the family out and demolished the property’s inner walls, rendering it uninhabitable.
Abu Ghosh was killed by the army, along with another Palestinian on January 26, 2016, after stabbing an Israeli settler woman to death.
The second Palestinian, who was also killed in the same incident, has been identified as Ibrahim Allan, 22. The attack took place in Beit Horon Israeli colony.
The Abu Ghosh family home is on the third floor of a four-story building inhabited by Allan’s father, and his six brothers.
The invasion into the refugee camp was carried out by more than 40 armored vehicles and a military bulldozer.
Local sources said the soldiers also kidnapped a young man, identified as Hasan Sajdiyya, after shooting and injuring him.
Medical sources said the soldiers shot three young men with live rounds, and five others with rubber-coated steel bullets, while dozens of Palestinians suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation.
Israeli military sources said two soldiers were injured during the clashes that took place in the refugee camp, after some protesters hurled a homemade explosive on an army vehicle.
Head of the Islamic Movement in 1948 Occupied Palestine, Sheikh Raed Salah, warned of dangerous Israeli schemes to Judaize the holy al-Aqsa Mosque.
Talking to the Q-Press Center, Sheikh Salah warned of the swift surge in Israeli schemes against the al-Aqsa Mosque, particularly with the advent of the Jewish Passover holiday.
He spoke out against the campaign launched by the Israeli occupation forces in Occupied Jerusalem and 1948 Occupied Palestine so as to wipe out Muslims’ presence at the al-Aqsa and perpetrate spatio-temporal division.
“A malevolent conspiracy is awaiting al-Aqsa right in the corner,” the activist said. “That’s why I call on the world’s Muslims and Arabs to wake up! Al-Aqsa is in danger! al-Aqsa is crying for help!”
Earlier, on Monday evening, fanatic Israeli rabbis joined a re-enactment of the Passover sacrifices in al-Zaytoun Mount, near al-Aqsa. Passover rituals are expected to kick off Sunday, April 24.
Talking to the Q-Press Center, Sheikh Salah warned of the swift surge in Israeli schemes against the al-Aqsa Mosque, particularly with the advent of the Jewish Passover holiday.
He spoke out against the campaign launched by the Israeli occupation forces in Occupied Jerusalem and 1948 Occupied Palestine so as to wipe out Muslims’ presence at the al-Aqsa and perpetrate spatio-temporal division.
“A malevolent conspiracy is awaiting al-Aqsa right in the corner,” the activist said. “That’s why I call on the world’s Muslims and Arabs to wake up! Al-Aqsa is in danger! al-Aqsa is crying for help!”
Earlier, on Monday evening, fanatic Israeli rabbis joined a re-enactment of the Passover sacrifices in al-Zaytoun Mount, near al-Aqsa. Passover rituals are expected to kick off Sunday, April 24.
Palestinian resistance factions described the anti-occupation attack carried out in Occupied Jerusalem as a significant development, and said it initiated a new stage of the Jerusalem Intifada.
In the wake of a meeting held in Gaza and was attended by Palestinian factions except for Fatah, Islamic Jihad, the PFLP, and the DFLP movements, the factions told a press conference that Jerusalem’s attack is a normal response to Israeli crimes including daily executions and repeated violations at the Aqsa Mosque.
The statement also stressed the importance of the continuation of Jerusalem Intifada and pointed out that it has achieved a lot of objectives along the way towards the main goal of liberating Palestine.
The factions called on the PA to halt security coordination and all forms of the nationally refused relations with Israel as well as to stop chasing resistance fighters in the West Bank.
The statement also called for adhering to the Palestinian constants especially the liberation of prisoners, and condemned the Israeli attempts to take advantage of the tunnel discovery in Gaza. They also stressed adherence to the resistance path.
In the wake of a meeting held in Gaza and was attended by Palestinian factions except for Fatah, Islamic Jihad, the PFLP, and the DFLP movements, the factions told a press conference that Jerusalem’s attack is a normal response to Israeli crimes including daily executions and repeated violations at the Aqsa Mosque.
The statement also stressed the importance of the continuation of Jerusalem Intifada and pointed out that it has achieved a lot of objectives along the way towards the main goal of liberating Palestine.
The factions called on the PA to halt security coordination and all forms of the nationally refused relations with Israel as well as to stop chasing resistance fighters in the West Bank.
The statement also called for adhering to the Palestinian constants especially the liberation of prisoners, and condemned the Israeli attempts to take advantage of the tunnel discovery in Gaza. They also stressed adherence to the resistance path.
Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, slammed the Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas for neglecting the Intifada and resistance action, and described his statements in which he declared his adherence to security coordination with Israel as dangerous.
In a statement, the Hamas’s spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri called on Abbas to stop releasing such strange statements and positions which are not consistent with the Palestinian national ideology.
In an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel, Abbas said that Hamas tries to explode the situation and that the PA security forces managed via coordination with the Israeli army to arrest three Palestinian youths from Ramallah who were planning a “terrorist” attack.
In a statement, the Hamas’s spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri called on Abbas to stop releasing such strange statements and positions which are not consistent with the Palestinian national ideology.
In an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel, Abbas said that Hamas tries to explode the situation and that the PA security forces managed via coordination with the Israeli army to arrest three Palestinian youths from Ramallah who were planning a “terrorist” attack.
19 apr 2016
The attack in which Hasano was killed
Initially, Sahban Titi, who ran over Avraham Hasano with his truck, was charged with manslaughter, but Military Advocate General reexamined the case to the request of the family, deciding to rectify the indictment.
The Military Advocate General has decided to accept an appeal from the family of Avraham Hasano, who was run over outside Hebron in October, and indict the Palestinian driver who killed him with murder, after initially indicting him with manslaughter.
In certain cases, families of victims have the right to appeal this kind of decision and request a secondary examination of the evidence material.
"After an additional thorough examination of the evidence and legal rulings, the Military Advocate General decided to accept the appeal and rectify the indictment, so Sahban Titi will be charged with murder," a statement by the Military Advocate General said.
Avraham Hasano was run over at al-Fawar junction in the southern Mt. Hebron area. Hasano was on his way to Kiryat Arba when several Palestinians began to throw stones at his car. He stopped the car and got out, and was hit by a truck.
The Palestinian driver, Sahban Titi, drove off, but later turned himself in to the Palestinian security forces, and was subsequently released. He was then detained by Israel and taken for further investigation.
Titi initially claimed he hit Hasano by accident, but the Hasano family was later recognized by the Defense Ministry as "terror victims."
"Avraham's belief and the belief that we continue to have is to fight for justice until the very end," Avraham's widow Ruth said. "We believe that God is just and that the truth will come to light. This is how it's been since the attack, when we thought at first that this wasn't nationalistically motivated. We thank God that he enabled the IDF representatives to see the truth."
Initially, Sahban Titi, who ran over Avraham Hasano with his truck, was charged with manslaughter, but Military Advocate General reexamined the case to the request of the family, deciding to rectify the indictment.
The Military Advocate General has decided to accept an appeal from the family of Avraham Hasano, who was run over outside Hebron in October, and indict the Palestinian driver who killed him with murder, after initially indicting him with manslaughter.
In certain cases, families of victims have the right to appeal this kind of decision and request a secondary examination of the evidence material.
"After an additional thorough examination of the evidence and legal rulings, the Military Advocate General decided to accept the appeal and rectify the indictment, so Sahban Titi will be charged with murder," a statement by the Military Advocate General said.
Avraham Hasano was run over at al-Fawar junction in the southern Mt. Hebron area. Hasano was on his way to Kiryat Arba when several Palestinians began to throw stones at his car. He stopped the car and got out, and was hit by a truck.
The Palestinian driver, Sahban Titi, drove off, but later turned himself in to the Palestinian security forces, and was subsequently released. He was then detained by Israel and taken for further investigation.
Titi initially claimed he hit Hasano by accident, but the Hasano family was later recognized by the Defense Ministry as "terror victims."
"Avraham's belief and the belief that we continue to have is to fight for justice until the very end," Avraham's widow Ruth said. "We believe that God is just and that the truth will come to light. This is how it's been since the attack, when we thought at first that this wasn't nationalistically motivated. We thank God that he enabled the IDF representatives to see the truth."
13 Israeli settlers are still in hospitals, receiving treatment for injuries they have sustained in Monday's bomb attack on a bus in Occupied Jerusalem, according to the Hebrew radio on Tuesday.
One of the wounded has suffered very serious injuries in the attack, the radio noted.
The Israeli occupation police said they launched an investigation to find out where the explosive device came from and who placed it on the bus.
The blast occurred at about 5:50 p.m. in southwest Jerusalem. It is the first bombing attack since the current intifada (uprising) started in early October last year. Palestinian resistance factions have welcomed the attack as a natural response to Israel's daily crimes and violations against the Palestinians.
One of the wounded has suffered very serious injuries in the attack, the radio noted.
The Israeli occupation police said they launched an investigation to find out where the explosive device came from and who placed it on the bus.
The blast occurred at about 5:50 p.m. in southwest Jerusalem. It is the first bombing attack since the current intifada (uprising) started in early October last year. Palestinian resistance factions have welcomed the attack as a natural response to Israel's daily crimes and violations against the Palestinians.
The Jordanian Prime minister Abdullah al-Nsour declared the decision to stop the installing of cameras at the Aqsa Mosque because of Palestinians’ suspicion on the actual aims behind the project.
Nsour explained, in a statement on Monday, that the project is no longer consensual and said that Jordan respects the Palestinian opinions and finally pointed to Jordan’s absolute support for the Palestinians.
Palestinian and Arab institutions as well as activists had previously refused the project and called on Jordan not to install the cameras.
The Jordanian Awqaf ministry embarked last month on installing 55 camera bases and electric cords in order to fix cameras at the plazas of the Aqsa Mosque, according to the Jordanian Minister of Awqaf Hayel Daoud.
Nsour explained, in a statement on Monday, that the project is no longer consensual and said that Jordan respects the Palestinian opinions and finally pointed to Jordan’s absolute support for the Palestinians.
Palestinian and Arab institutions as well as activists had previously refused the project and called on Jordan not to install the cameras.
The Jordanian Awqaf ministry embarked last month on installing 55 camera bases and electric cords in order to fix cameras at the plazas of the Aqsa Mosque, according to the Jordanian Minister of Awqaf Hayel Daoud.
Israeli police searched the main offices of Jerusalem-based Palestinian news outlet al-Quds late Monday, holding employees at gunpoint and harassing workers during the search, local sources said.
Sources told Ma’an that Israeli police raided the newspaper's’ main building and print shop in the Atarot industrial area in northern Jerusalem before checking surveillance cameras, in a search for West Bank IDs-holders who had allegedly entered Israel illegally.
Al-Quds newspapers’ employees denied that anyone was present in the building who had entered the area illegally, sources said.
Witnesses said that two Israeli officers pulled guns on al-Quds employees during the raid, shouting obscenities at journalists in the office.
An Israeli police spokesperson had no information on the search.
Palestinian media outlets have been frequently targeted by the Israeli authorities since unrest hit the occupied Palestinian territory over the past six months, with a number of outlets shut down for alleged “incitement against Israel.”
Following Israel’s raid and closure of a slew of news offices late last year, a high-ranking PA official said the move was part of Israel’s policy to "oppress the voice of Palestinian rights.”
Sources told Ma’an that Israeli police raided the newspaper's’ main building and print shop in the Atarot industrial area in northern Jerusalem before checking surveillance cameras, in a search for West Bank IDs-holders who had allegedly entered Israel illegally.
Al-Quds newspapers’ employees denied that anyone was present in the building who had entered the area illegally, sources said.
Witnesses said that two Israeli officers pulled guns on al-Quds employees during the raid, shouting obscenities at journalists in the office.
An Israeli police spokesperson had no information on the search.
Palestinian media outlets have been frequently targeted by the Israeli authorities since unrest hit the occupied Palestinian territory over the past six months, with a number of outlets shut down for alleged “incitement against Israel.”
Following Israel’s raid and closure of a slew of news offices late last year, a high-ranking PA official said the move was part of Israel’s policy to "oppress the voice of Palestinian rights.”
18 apr 2016
Slain Israeli Dafna Meir's husband and daughter are in New York to address the UN on Monday; Israel's ambassador to the organization hopes to expose its hypocrisy to victims of Palestinian terrorism.
After Renana Meir witnessed a Palestinian terrorist murder her mother, Dafna, she will stand, along with her father, Natan, before the United Nations in New York on Monday to speak about the realities of terrorism for Israeli victims.
The UN building in New York was built to symbolize the unity of the worlds' nations and their shared struggle for the improvement of their lives. In recent years, it has become a symbol for pro-Palestinian sentiment and an arena in which decision are consistently taken condemning Israel while ignoring the reality on the ground, for Israel in general and for the victims of Palestinian terrorism in particular.
Currently, in one family that experienced Palestinian terrorism in the hardest possible way is coming to that very same building to tell the world clearly and unequivocally: "Hear our pain; stop supporting terror."
On January 17, Dafna Meir, 38, stood at the entrance of her home in Otniel together with her 17-year-old daughter, Renana. Suddenly, she was attacked by a 16-year-old terrorist armed with a knife. With the strength that she could muster in her final moments, Dafna fought off the terrorist to prevent him from entering her home and harming her five other children, who were sleeping inside. Finally, the terrorist fled, and Dafna died. Two days later, he was caught in his home in a village near Hebron and was indicted for murder.
Even the shocking murder of Dafna Meir—which was only one of the dozens of terror attacks and attempted attacks carried out in the latest wave of terrorism—was not enough to receive a condemnation of terrorism from the UN. On the contrary, a little more than a week after Meir's murder, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appeared before the Security Council and revealed his understanding of the attacks against Israel. "It is human nature to react to occupation," he said. "Palestinian frustration is growing under the weight of a half century of occupation and the paralysis of the peace process. Some have taken me to task for pointing out this indisputable truth."
This is the reality that Renana Meir and her father will seek to change. They arrived in New York at the end of the week at the invitation of Israel's Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon and One Family Together, an organization which is dedicated to assisting terror victims and their families. The two are expected to take part in the discussion in the UN tomorrow and discuss the issue of terror.
After the two Meirs arrived in the United States, they met with Danon before their visit to the UN. They shared their visit's goal and their intention to make the voices of victims of terrorism heard before the world's representatives.
"With a pained and bleeding heart, we have come to ask for the international community's understanding for the victims of Palestinian terrorism," they said. They further hinted at the secretary general's controversial past remarks: "We hear those who say that it comes out of frustration—but we ask, haven't we great frustration of our own?"
Israel has officially protested numerous times to the fact that terror attacks against Israelis do not merit condemnation by the UN, while other terror attacks around the world (such as those in Paris last November or in Brussels three weeks ago) receive harsh and detailed condemnation.
According to Danon, after the Paris and Brussels attacks, the Security Council published no less than 12 messages of condemnation, but its treatment of the victims of terrorism in Israel is completely different. "The council refuses to condemn Palestinian terrorism, which has taken 34 Israeli victims since the beginning of the current wave of attacks," he said over the weekend to Yedioth Ahronoth. The ambassador repeated the Israeli claim that the UN was employing a "double standard."
Danon now hopes that Natan and Renana will succeed in significantly changing the UN's attitude towards Palestinian terrorism, or at least expose the organization's hypocrisy. "We'll show the world the truth of Palestinian terrorism," he said.
"The UN must condemn Palestinian incitement and give a sharp and clear message that there is no difference between terrorism in France or Belgium and terrorism in Israel. The blood of Israeli citizens is not inferior to that of the rest of the world's citizens. The time has come to put an end to incitement authored by the Palestinian Authority."
After Renana Meir witnessed a Palestinian terrorist murder her mother, Dafna, she will stand, along with her father, Natan, before the United Nations in New York on Monday to speak about the realities of terrorism for Israeli victims.
The UN building in New York was built to symbolize the unity of the worlds' nations and their shared struggle for the improvement of their lives. In recent years, it has become a symbol for pro-Palestinian sentiment and an arena in which decision are consistently taken condemning Israel while ignoring the reality on the ground, for Israel in general and for the victims of Palestinian terrorism in particular.
Currently, in one family that experienced Palestinian terrorism in the hardest possible way is coming to that very same building to tell the world clearly and unequivocally: "Hear our pain; stop supporting terror."
On January 17, Dafna Meir, 38, stood at the entrance of her home in Otniel together with her 17-year-old daughter, Renana. Suddenly, she was attacked by a 16-year-old terrorist armed with a knife. With the strength that she could muster in her final moments, Dafna fought off the terrorist to prevent him from entering her home and harming her five other children, who were sleeping inside. Finally, the terrorist fled, and Dafna died. Two days later, he was caught in his home in a village near Hebron and was indicted for murder.
Even the shocking murder of Dafna Meir—which was only one of the dozens of terror attacks and attempted attacks carried out in the latest wave of terrorism—was not enough to receive a condemnation of terrorism from the UN. On the contrary, a little more than a week after Meir's murder, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appeared before the Security Council and revealed his understanding of the attacks against Israel. "It is human nature to react to occupation," he said. "Palestinian frustration is growing under the weight of a half century of occupation and the paralysis of the peace process. Some have taken me to task for pointing out this indisputable truth."
This is the reality that Renana Meir and her father will seek to change. They arrived in New York at the end of the week at the invitation of Israel's Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon and One Family Together, an organization which is dedicated to assisting terror victims and their families. The two are expected to take part in the discussion in the UN tomorrow and discuss the issue of terror.
After the two Meirs arrived in the United States, they met with Danon before their visit to the UN. They shared their visit's goal and their intention to make the voices of victims of terrorism heard before the world's representatives.
"With a pained and bleeding heart, we have come to ask for the international community's understanding for the victims of Palestinian terrorism," they said. They further hinted at the secretary general's controversial past remarks: "We hear those who say that it comes out of frustration—but we ask, haven't we great frustration of our own?"
Israel has officially protested numerous times to the fact that terror attacks against Israelis do not merit condemnation by the UN, while other terror attacks around the world (such as those in Paris last November or in Brussels three weeks ago) receive harsh and detailed condemnation.
According to Danon, after the Paris and Brussels attacks, the Security Council published no less than 12 messages of condemnation, but its treatment of the victims of terrorism in Israel is completely different. "The council refuses to condemn Palestinian terrorism, which has taken 34 Israeli victims since the beginning of the current wave of attacks," he said over the weekend to Yedioth Ahronoth. The ambassador repeated the Israeli claim that the UN was employing a "double standard."
Danon now hopes that Natan and Renana will succeed in significantly changing the UN's attitude towards Palestinian terrorism, or at least expose the organization's hypocrisy. "We'll show the world the truth of Palestinian terrorism," he said.
"The UN must condemn Palestinian incitement and give a sharp and clear message that there is no difference between terrorism in France or Belgium and terrorism in Israel. The blood of Israeli citizens is not inferior to that of the rest of the world's citizens. The time has come to put an end to incitement authored by the Palestinian Authority."
17 apr 2016
On 15th April, weekly demonstrations against the Israeli occupation were held throughout the occupied West Bank commemorating ‘Prisoner’s Day’.
Kafr Qaddum village has been separated from their main access road to the Palestinian city of Nablus for 13 years. They hold weekly demonstrations against the closure of this road, which was initially closed in order to allow free movement for settlers from the nearby illegal Qedumim settlement.
This Friday Israeli forces inundated the demonstrators and part of the village with tear gas, resulting in dozens of people receiving emergency medical treatment for excessive tear gas inhalation. In an all too common act of collective punishment, Israeli forces did not only target the demonstrators with tear gas and rubber coated metal bullets, but also sprayed civilian homes in the village with foul smelling ‘skunk water’.
Early in the morning, before the start of the demonstration, Israeli forces closed the village entrance, arbitrarily (and illegally) declaring it a ‘closed military zone’ in order to prevent international and Israeli activists from participating in the demonstration.
In the village of Nabi Saleh, villagers, international solidarity activists and journalists demonstrating the Israeli occupation and theft of land, were attacked not only by the Israeli forces, but additionally by settlers from the illegal settlement of Halamish. Israeli forces inundated the protest with tear gas, causing several cases of excessive tear gas inhalation.
Israeli forces at the Ofer military prison complex fired stun grenades, tear gas, rubber coated metal bullets as well as live fire at unarmed protestors. They arrested four protestors and, in an act of collective punishment, entered the village of Beitunia arbitrarily shooting tear gas into the streets causing civilians to suffer from excessive tear gas inhalation.
Palestinians and supporters world-wide commemorate Prisoner Day on 17th April each year, in solidarity with Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails. There are at least 7000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, 750 of whom are held under ‘administrative detention’ without charge or trial. This includes 1400 minors under the age of 18 since October 2015. Under Israeli military law – which is effect throughout the West Bank – Palestinian children as young as 12 years old can be arrested by Israeli forces. In many of these cases the children are denied access to family, lawyers and their most basic human rights. They are often interrogated, intimidated and physically and psychologically threatened without a family member or lawyer present. As a result these children can be forced to sign confessions in Hebrew, a language they do not understand.
Most Palestinian prisoners are transferred to prisons within the Israeli territories. This act is illegal under international law that prohibits the transfer of prisoners from the occupied Palestinian territories into an area where they can only receive family visits after applying and receiving permission from the Israeli government. This is a permission, of course, that is very rarely granted.
Kafr Qaddum village has been separated from their main access road to the Palestinian city of Nablus for 13 years. They hold weekly demonstrations against the closure of this road, which was initially closed in order to allow free movement for settlers from the nearby illegal Qedumim settlement.
This Friday Israeli forces inundated the demonstrators and part of the village with tear gas, resulting in dozens of people receiving emergency medical treatment for excessive tear gas inhalation. In an all too common act of collective punishment, Israeli forces did not only target the demonstrators with tear gas and rubber coated metal bullets, but also sprayed civilian homes in the village with foul smelling ‘skunk water’.
Early in the morning, before the start of the demonstration, Israeli forces closed the village entrance, arbitrarily (and illegally) declaring it a ‘closed military zone’ in order to prevent international and Israeli activists from participating in the demonstration.
In the village of Nabi Saleh, villagers, international solidarity activists and journalists demonstrating the Israeli occupation and theft of land, were attacked not only by the Israeli forces, but additionally by settlers from the illegal settlement of Halamish. Israeli forces inundated the protest with tear gas, causing several cases of excessive tear gas inhalation.
Israeli forces at the Ofer military prison complex fired stun grenades, tear gas, rubber coated metal bullets as well as live fire at unarmed protestors. They arrested four protestors and, in an act of collective punishment, entered the village of Beitunia arbitrarily shooting tear gas into the streets causing civilians to suffer from excessive tear gas inhalation.
Palestinians and supporters world-wide commemorate Prisoner Day on 17th April each year, in solidarity with Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails. There are at least 7000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, 750 of whom are held under ‘administrative detention’ without charge or trial. This includes 1400 minors under the age of 18 since October 2015. Under Israeli military law – which is effect throughout the West Bank – Palestinian children as young as 12 years old can be arrested by Israeli forces. In many of these cases the children are denied access to family, lawyers and their most basic human rights. They are often interrogated, intimidated and physically and psychologically threatened without a family member or lawyer present. As a result these children can be forced to sign confessions in Hebrew, a language they do not understand.
Most Palestinian prisoners are transferred to prisons within the Israeli territories. This act is illegal under international law that prohibits the transfer of prisoners from the occupied Palestinian territories into an area where they can only receive family visits after applying and receiving permission from the Israeli government. This is a permission, of course, that is very rarely granted.
The Committee to Support Palestinian Journalists said, on Saturday, that Israel had detained 43 journalists in the occupied Palestinian territory since October 2015, including two foreign reporters.The New York-based committee said in a report that during detention and imprisonment, journalists have reported torture, medical negligence, and unreasonable and illegal rulings by the Israeli authorities.
The committee condemned the increasing number of detentions of journalists, and called for their immediate release.
According to Ma’an, at least four of the 43 journalists were released in February and March, while 20 others — including a female journalist and a media student — remain in Israeli prison, and others have been transferred to house arrest. The report also said that three journalists were suffering from medical conditions.
Bassam al-Sayih was suffering from an advanced stage of cancer and administrative detainee Ali al-Ewawi was suffering from ulcerative colitis. The committee added that Palestinian journalist Muhammad al-Qiq was still recovering from his grueling 94-day hunger strike that brought him close to death, and was currently being treated in Israel’s HaEmek Medical Center in Afula.
The journalists’ rights committee released Saturday’s report marking Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, held on April 17 every year in solidarity with the 7,000 Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli prisons.The Israeli crackdown on media organizations and journalists in particular has been part of a systematic policy that often designates outlets affiliated with Palestinian political parties as terrorist organizations, according to Palestinian prisoners’ rights group Addameer.“The practical implication of these broadly-defined offenses is the criminalization of many aspects of Palestinian civic life,” Addameer stated.
In a statement released in March, Palestinian media freedoms group MADA said it was “highly concerned” by recent Israeli resolutions targeting Palestinian media, saying it neglected “the main reason for the whole conflict, which is the continuous occupation and all systematic violations against Palestinian people.”
The watchdog also released a report, last month, showing that 2015 had seen an “unprecedented” increase in Israeli violations against Palestinian journalists across the occupied Palestinian territory.
The committee condemned the increasing number of detentions of journalists, and called for their immediate release.
According to Ma’an, at least four of the 43 journalists were released in February and March, while 20 others — including a female journalist and a media student — remain in Israeli prison, and others have been transferred to house arrest. The report also said that three journalists were suffering from medical conditions.
Bassam al-Sayih was suffering from an advanced stage of cancer and administrative detainee Ali al-Ewawi was suffering from ulcerative colitis. The committee added that Palestinian journalist Muhammad al-Qiq was still recovering from his grueling 94-day hunger strike that brought him close to death, and was currently being treated in Israel’s HaEmek Medical Center in Afula.
The journalists’ rights committee released Saturday’s report marking Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, held on April 17 every year in solidarity with the 7,000 Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli prisons.The Israeli crackdown on media organizations and journalists in particular has been part of a systematic policy that often designates outlets affiliated with Palestinian political parties as terrorist organizations, according to Palestinian prisoners’ rights group Addameer.“The practical implication of these broadly-defined offenses is the criminalization of many aspects of Palestinian civic life,” Addameer stated.
In a statement released in March, Palestinian media freedoms group MADA said it was “highly concerned” by recent Israeli resolutions targeting Palestinian media, saying it neglected “the main reason for the whole conflict, which is the continuous occupation and all systematic violations against Palestinian people.”
The watchdog also released a report, last month, showing that 2015 had seen an “unprecedented” increase in Israeli violations against Palestinian journalists across the occupied Palestinian territory.
The popular committees against Israeli occupation called for flaming clashes with Israeli forces in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners and in support of Jerusalem Intifada on the Palestinian Prisoner Day which coincides on Sunday.
The popular committees urged Palestinians to take to the streets and go to the flash points close to Qalandya, Aidah and Aroup refugee camps as well as Ofer Israeli jail in order to participate in clashes and confrontations against Israeli forces.
The committees called for escalating popular resistance on Sunday against Israeli soldiers and settlers to mark Palestinian Prisoner Day.
The popular committees urged Palestinians to take to the streets and go to the flash points close to Qalandya, Aidah and Aroup refugee camps as well as Ofer Israeli jail in order to participate in clashes and confrontations against Israeli forces.
The committees called for escalating popular resistance on Sunday against Israeli soldiers and settlers to mark Palestinian Prisoner Day.