14 may 2011
'Days of blood and violence ahead'
East Jerusalem tensions near boiling point as participants in funeral of teen killed during 'Nakba Day' riot predict dark days.
Hundreds attended the Saturday funeral of 17-year-old Milad Ayache, who suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the abdomen during a 'Nakba Day' riot in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on Friday.
Prior to the funeral, the Jerusalem Police increased deployment near the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras al-Amoud, where Ayache resided, in an effort to thwart further rioting.
Deployment was also bolstered along the funeral procession's route, which ended at the Muslim cemetery in Temple Mount.
Currently, it is unclear who fired the deadly shot. The Jerusalem District Police in investigating the incident, but a police request to autopsy the body was denied by the family.
Calls of "Allahu Akbar" and "With our souls and our blood we will redeem you, Shahid," sounded during the procession, which started at Ras al-Amoud and went through the volatile Silwan neighborhood as well.
Abu Sharif, a resident Silwan, told Ynet that "All of Silwan in taking part in the funeral. People here are furious. Today and tomorrow will be days of blood and violence."
Samir, another neighbor, added that "the atmosphere here is very strained. The police murdered a child. It's typical of the Israeli police and government."
During the funeral, a group of mourners tried to force their way into a nearby Jewish home and started stoning security forces; who resulted to using crowd-control measures.
Earlier, Palestinian sources reported that two Palestinians suffered rubber-bullet injuries during a clash with security forces near Beit Yonatan, in east Jerusalem.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4068383,00.html
'Days of blood and violence ahead'
East Jerusalem tensions near boiling point as participants in funeral of teen killed during 'Nakba Day' riot predict dark days.
Hundreds attended the Saturday funeral of 17-year-old Milad Ayache, who suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the abdomen during a 'Nakba Day' riot in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on Friday.
Prior to the funeral, the Jerusalem Police increased deployment near the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras al-Amoud, where Ayache resided, in an effort to thwart further rioting.
Deployment was also bolstered along the funeral procession's route, which ended at the Muslim cemetery in Temple Mount.
Currently, it is unclear who fired the deadly shot. The Jerusalem District Police in investigating the incident, but a police request to autopsy the body was denied by the family.
Calls of "Allahu Akbar" and "With our souls and our blood we will redeem you, Shahid," sounded during the procession, which started at Ras al-Amoud and went through the volatile Silwan neighborhood as well.
Abu Sharif, a resident Silwan, told Ynet that "All of Silwan in taking part in the funeral. People here are furious. Today and tomorrow will be days of blood and violence."
Samir, another neighbor, added that "the atmosphere here is very strained. The police murdered a child. It's typical of the Israeli police and government."
During the funeral, a group of mourners tried to force their way into a nearby Jewish home and started stoning security forces; who resulted to using crowd-control measures.
Earlier, Palestinian sources reported that two Palestinians suffered rubber-bullet injuries during a clash with security forces near Beit Yonatan, in east Jerusalem.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4068383,00.html
private settler security guards around the large settlement, Beit Yonatan, in the heart of Silwan. According to the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee, the bullet extracted from Ayyash's abdomen has been found to belong to a handgun. This type of bullet is scarcely used by the Israeli police in crowd control situations. The bullet therefore indicates the likelihood that the youth was shot by one of the settlers security guards.
Israel's heavy handed response to demonstrations was not limited to East Jerusalem yesterday. In Nabi Saleh, one Israeli suffered a broken arm after border police officers fired a tear gas canister directly at him from a distance of 5 meters. The activist was forced to hike two kilometres in order to reach a car that would take him to hospital because the ranking commander in Nabi Saleh would not allow anyone to pick him from the outskirts of the village. An American activist was also hit directly in the head with a tear gas canister from a distance of 15 meters resulting in sustained but stable head injury. Injuries were reported in Qlandiya, al Ma'asara, Bil'in and Nablus in Nakba related clashes with the Israeli military.
In the current climate of revolution against tyranny in the Middle East, Israel has chosen violence to handle popular unarmed demonstration. Israeli military planners understand that there is likely one outcome of killing minors involved in demonstrations in East Jerusalem; continued and strengthening clashes. By killing a minor in East Jerusalem, Israel is sending a message to Palestinians (and to the international community) that it is interested and willing to fight.
In a sea of emerging democracies, Israel is behaving like a tyrant using harsh military force against a movement of people's unarmed resistance to occupation and control. Demonstrations are planned throughout the West Bank tomorrow and Palestinians in Silwan will hold a demonstration after the funeral of Milad Ayyash this afternoon. The likely outcome is violence.
In the following video from Nabi Saleh yesterday, you can see the Israeli army attacking unarmed woman and the shooting of the Israeli peace activist. What you are watching are crimes which will most likely go unpunished.
IOF troops killed 7000 Palestinians in past ten years
Palestinian official records unveiled that the Israeli occupation forces have killed around 7000 Palestinian citizens in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank since 2000, the majority of them in the Gaza Strip.
A report issued by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) revealed that 7342 Palestinians were killed by the IOF between 29 September 2000 and 31 December 2010 and that by the end of the year 2009, the IOF troops killed 7235 Palestinians, 2183 in the West Bank, including 124 women, and 5015 in Gaza Strip, including 414 women.
The report also added that the year 2009 was the bloodiest year with 1219 Palestinian citizens killed at the hand of the IOF troops, followed by the year 2001 where 1192 Palestinian were killed with IOF bullets.
In 2010, the report pointed out, 107 Palestinians were killed in addition to nine Turkish human rights activists massacred on board the MV Mavi Marmara as they tried to help the besieged Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.
Moreover, the report underscored that the IOF troops arrested nearly 750 thousand Palestinians, including 12000 women and tens of thousands of minors, leaving every Palestinian household with at least one member of it arrested.
Furthermore, the report said that around 6000 Palestinian captives were still held in Israeli jails, including tens of Arab captives, 37 female captive, 245 minors, and 181 who had been in jail for more than 20 years now.
Israel's heavy handed response to demonstrations was not limited to East Jerusalem yesterday. In Nabi Saleh, one Israeli suffered a broken arm after border police officers fired a tear gas canister directly at him from a distance of 5 meters. The activist was forced to hike two kilometres in order to reach a car that would take him to hospital because the ranking commander in Nabi Saleh would not allow anyone to pick him from the outskirts of the village. An American activist was also hit directly in the head with a tear gas canister from a distance of 15 meters resulting in sustained but stable head injury. Injuries were reported in Qlandiya, al Ma'asara, Bil'in and Nablus in Nakba related clashes with the Israeli military.
In the current climate of revolution against tyranny in the Middle East, Israel has chosen violence to handle popular unarmed demonstration. Israeli military planners understand that there is likely one outcome of killing minors involved in demonstrations in East Jerusalem; continued and strengthening clashes. By killing a minor in East Jerusalem, Israel is sending a message to Palestinians (and to the international community) that it is interested and willing to fight.
In a sea of emerging democracies, Israel is behaving like a tyrant using harsh military force against a movement of people's unarmed resistance to occupation and control. Demonstrations are planned throughout the West Bank tomorrow and Palestinians in Silwan will hold a demonstration after the funeral of Milad Ayyash this afternoon. The likely outcome is violence.
In the following video from Nabi Saleh yesterday, you can see the Israeli army attacking unarmed woman and the shooting of the Israeli peace activist. What you are watching are crimes which will most likely go unpunished.
IOF troops killed 7000 Palestinians in past ten years
Palestinian official records unveiled that the Israeli occupation forces have killed around 7000 Palestinian citizens in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank since 2000, the majority of them in the Gaza Strip.
A report issued by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) revealed that 7342 Palestinians were killed by the IOF between 29 September 2000 and 31 December 2010 and that by the end of the year 2009, the IOF troops killed 7235 Palestinians, 2183 in the West Bank, including 124 women, and 5015 in Gaza Strip, including 414 women.
The report also added that the year 2009 was the bloodiest year with 1219 Palestinian citizens killed at the hand of the IOF troops, followed by the year 2001 where 1192 Palestinian were killed with IOF bullets.
In 2010, the report pointed out, 107 Palestinians were killed in addition to nine Turkish human rights activists massacred on board the MV Mavi Marmara as they tried to help the besieged Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.
Moreover, the report underscored that the IOF troops arrested nearly 750 thousand Palestinians, including 12000 women and tens of thousands of minors, leaving every Palestinian household with at least one member of it arrested.
Furthermore, the report said that around 6000 Palestinian captives were still held in Israeli jails, including tens of Arab captives, 37 female captive, 245 minors, and 181 who had been in jail for more than 20 years now.

Shadi Mahmoud al-Zatma, 29
Nearly a month after a series of Israeli operations pounded Gaza, a 28-year-old nurse from Rafah, said to be affiliated to Hamas' armed wing, died Thursday of wounds sustained in an airstrike.
Palestinian medics said Shadi Az-Zatmeh was critically injured in Israeli aerial shelling on April 8 in the Tel As-Sultan district west of Rafah. Two others, identified as Hamas leaders, were immediately killed in the strike.
Az-Zatmeh's death brings the number killed over three days in April to 20, with 69 injured, including women and children. Gaza factions reached a ceasefire deal on April 10, which appears to have largely held, despite criticism from some leftist and Islamist groups in the coastal enclave.
The Al-Qassam Brigades said it mourned the death of Az-Zatmeh, calling him one of their field leaders.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=385133
Report: Israel killed 22 Palestinians last month
The international Tadamun (solidarity) society for human rights said in its monthly report that Israel killed 22 Palestinians, all of them from the Gaza Strip, during intensive artillery and aerial attacks last April.
According to its report, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnapped more than 250 Palestinians, including 30 children, in different occupied Palestinian areas of Jerusalem and the West Bank.
They also kidnapped during raids on Nablus villages especially Awarta village more than 120 Palestinian women, mostly released after interrogation.
Among the women kidnapped during the reporting month was lawyer and human rights activist Suheir Ayoub who was imprisoned on allegation of working as a messenger for Islamic Jihad prisoners and leaders.
Researcher for Tadamun society Ahmed Tubasi condemned Israel's persistence in committing crimes and violations against human rights in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories.
"We are very concerned about the continued violation of human rights in the Palestinian territories and the Palestinians' right to live like other human beings, and we denounce Israel's escalating arrest of citizens especially children and women," Tubasi stated in the report.
Nearly a month after a series of Israeli operations pounded Gaza, a 28-year-old nurse from Rafah, said to be affiliated to Hamas' armed wing, died Thursday of wounds sustained in an airstrike.
Palestinian medics said Shadi Az-Zatmeh was critically injured in Israeli aerial shelling on April 8 in the Tel As-Sultan district west of Rafah. Two others, identified as Hamas leaders, were immediately killed in the strike.
Az-Zatmeh's death brings the number killed over three days in April to 20, with 69 injured, including women and children. Gaza factions reached a ceasefire deal on April 10, which appears to have largely held, despite criticism from some leftist and Islamist groups in the coastal enclave.
The Al-Qassam Brigades said it mourned the death of Az-Zatmeh, calling him one of their field leaders.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=385133
Report: Israel killed 22 Palestinians last month
The international Tadamun (solidarity) society for human rights said in its monthly report that Israel killed 22 Palestinians, all of them from the Gaza Strip, during intensive artillery and aerial attacks last April.
According to its report, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnapped more than 250 Palestinians, including 30 children, in different occupied Palestinian areas of Jerusalem and the West Bank.
They also kidnapped during raids on Nablus villages especially Awarta village more than 120 Palestinian women, mostly released after interrogation.
Among the women kidnapped during the reporting month was lawyer and human rights activist Suheir Ayoub who was imprisoned on allegation of working as a messenger for Islamic Jihad prisoners and leaders.
Researcher for Tadamun society Ahmed Tubasi condemned Israel's persistence in committing crimes and violations against human rights in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories.
"We are very concerned about the continued violation of human rights in the Palestinian territories and the Palestinians' right to live like other human beings, and we denounce Israel's escalating arrest of citizens especially children and women," Tubasi stated in the report.
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Statement
of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human
rights in Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 2 May 2011,
Amman, Jordan.
Thank you for the opportunity to report to you some initial impressions following my visits in the last week to Cairo and Amman, in furtherance of my mandate as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. My hope, during this and earlier missions, was to visit the occupied territory personally, to assess the human rights situation of the Palestinian population living under occupation in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. As you are likely aware, since my appointment as the UN Special |
Rapporteur in May 2008, the Israeli authorities have prevented me from visiting the occupied Palestinian territory in violation of their obligations as a Member State of the United Nations, thereby impeding my ability to fulfill the mandate given to me by the UN Human Rights Council. When I attempted to conduct my first field mission on 14 December 2008, upon arrival in Israel I was denied entry and subsequently expelled. There has been no indication of any willingness on the part of the Government of Israel to allow my entry in the future. I am therefore grateful to the governments of Egypt and Jordan for having welcomed my visit to the region.
During this mission, I intended to also visit the occupied Gaza Strip, but was forced to cancel that visit due to a determination by the United Nations with respect to security situation in Gaza. I plan to visit Gaza later in 2011.
Despite my inability to visit the occupied Palestinian territory during this trip, I sought to obtain an assessment of the human rights situation in the occupied territory through meetings with government officials, academics, civil society organizations, human rights defenders and United Nations agencies. I particularly focused on how the occupation, blockade, and prolonged refugee status affect the basic human rights of children. I also examined the effects of the Gaza blockade on the mental and physical health and development of children in Gaza. What I found is that the rapidly deteriorating human rights situation as a result of the prolonged Israeli occupation disproportionately affects children.
On a more positive note, I was able to learn a great deal about the extraordinary transformations taking place across the Arab world, particularly in Egypt. I found new hope for how these revolutionary processes may reverse longstanding paralysis and global inability to end the prolonged and illegal Israeli occupation, and to realize Palestinians’ human rights.
Throughout the occupied Palestinian territory, the situation of human rights of children remains dire. The policies of land confiscation, expansion of settlements, home demolitions and forced displacement of families, revocation of residency permits and restrictions on freedom of movement continue to have a greater impact on children. Children are particularly vulnerable to settlers’ violent attacks and harassment. In Gaza, the continued Israeli blockade has significantly affected the right of children to food, health and education. Psychological trauma from the Israeli attack on Gaza in December 2008-January 2009 continues to affect children more disproportionately.
Since 2000, 1,335 Palestinian children have been killed as a result of Israeli military and settler presence in the occupied Palestinian territory. The arbitrary opening of fire by Israeli military against Palestinian children is appalling. Since March 2010, Israeli soldiers along the border with Gaza have shot 17 children while they collected building gravel in the Gaza so-called “buffer zone” to support their families. Adults and children continue to do this dangerous work as Israeli authorities refuse to allow the entry of construction material into the Gaza Strip and there are few job opportunities available.
Despite its obligations under human rights and international humanitarian law, Israel continues to arbitrarily arrest, detain and abuse children. 226 children remain in Israeli detention, including 45 between the ages of 12–15 years. Children continue to be arrested at night, at checkpoints or off the street. Upon arrest, children and their families are seldom informed of the charges against them. Arresting children for stone throwing, particularly in the occupied East Jerusalem, has been on the rise. Children report that they were blindfolded, beaten or kicked at the time of arrest and put at the back of a military vehicle where they were subject to further physical and psychological abuse on the way to the interrogation and detention center. The continued reports of inhumane and degrading treatment, including sexual assault, of Palestinian children in detention is deplorable.
The impact of such inhumane and degrading treatment results in severe psychological trauma, depression, anxiety, and reduced academic achievement.
It is noteworthy that the perpetrators of these violations against Palestinian children face no accountability for their actions.
Unlike Israeli juvenile offenders, Palestinian children are tried in the Juvenile Military Court and convicted on the basis of confessions obtained through coercion and ill-treatment. Palestinian children under 16 years of age detained in Israeli jails, unlike their Israeli counterparts, are deprived of sufficient access to education in detention. This divergence of legal regimes for juvenile justice is indicative of the widespread and systematic institutionalized discrimination against Palestinians, reminiscent of South African apartheid.
Palestinian children continue to be deprived of their right to education. Existing schools are massively inadequate for the growing needs of students. The planning restrictions in place in the West Bank along with extreme difficulties that make it impossible to obtain permits to build new schools force the communities to build classrooms illegally and risk demolition. According to UNRWA, in Gaza 95% of the agency’s schools are running double shifts; 126 school buildings are being used for 238 separate “schools.” At least 100 new schools are needed just this year, but Israel’s blockade of Gaza prevents such building by severely limiting the entry of construction material: there is an average of only 230 truckloads of goods entering Gaza each day for a population of 1.5 million, far less than needed, and building just one new school requires 220 truckloads of construction materials. UNRWA reported a shortage of classrooms in Gaza for 40,000 students as a result, just at the beginning of 2010-2011 school year. Access to education of children continued to be impeded by restrictions on freedom of movement of Palestinians in the occupied territory including the Wall and its gate and permit regime and checkpoints. Furthermore, Israeli settlers continue to attack, harass, and intimidate children on their way to and from school.
The Bedouin herding families living in Area C of the West Bank and their children are particularly vulnerable. Most of these livestock-dependent families have been forced into extreme poverty, are denied access to land for herding, water, food and health services, and are unable to provide for the education of their children – families cannot afford to send all their children to school, a problem that has a greater impact on girls. Israeli policies have denied them a sustainable livelihood and appear designed to forcibly relocate them. Violent physical and psychological attacks by illegal Israeli settlers further those policies.
I leave Jordan with a strong sense that the international community should spare no effort in compelling Israel to comply with its obligations under international humanitarian and human rights law, end this prolonged and illegal occupation and fully respect the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people. This visit focused upon the plight of Palestinian children experiencing the weight of an oppressive occupation, but it should be understood that the concern of my mandate extends to the full range of human rights that are the inalienable entitlement of those living in the occupied Palestinian territory.
http://fwd4.me/0AgX
Israel accelerates rate of killing Palestinians in early 2011
by Yaniv Reich.
Last October, the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem published a report indicating that Israel murdered, on average, one Palestinian every other day between 2006 and 2009, excluding the attack on Gaza known as Cast Lead that killed an additional 1,400 people (note that including Cast Lead brings the total to an average of around 1.5 murdered Palestinians per day).
Nevertheless, Israel seems dissatisfied with that killing rate, because the inglorious Israeli occupation forces have increased it in early 2011. A quick run-through of those Palestinian human beings already killed in the long first week of 2011.
During this mission, I intended to also visit the occupied Gaza Strip, but was forced to cancel that visit due to a determination by the United Nations with respect to security situation in Gaza. I plan to visit Gaza later in 2011.
Despite my inability to visit the occupied Palestinian territory during this trip, I sought to obtain an assessment of the human rights situation in the occupied territory through meetings with government officials, academics, civil society organizations, human rights defenders and United Nations agencies. I particularly focused on how the occupation, blockade, and prolonged refugee status affect the basic human rights of children. I also examined the effects of the Gaza blockade on the mental and physical health and development of children in Gaza. What I found is that the rapidly deteriorating human rights situation as a result of the prolonged Israeli occupation disproportionately affects children.
On a more positive note, I was able to learn a great deal about the extraordinary transformations taking place across the Arab world, particularly in Egypt. I found new hope for how these revolutionary processes may reverse longstanding paralysis and global inability to end the prolonged and illegal Israeli occupation, and to realize Palestinians’ human rights.
Throughout the occupied Palestinian territory, the situation of human rights of children remains dire. The policies of land confiscation, expansion of settlements, home demolitions and forced displacement of families, revocation of residency permits and restrictions on freedom of movement continue to have a greater impact on children. Children are particularly vulnerable to settlers’ violent attacks and harassment. In Gaza, the continued Israeli blockade has significantly affected the right of children to food, health and education. Psychological trauma from the Israeli attack on Gaza in December 2008-January 2009 continues to affect children more disproportionately.
Since 2000, 1,335 Palestinian children have been killed as a result of Israeli military and settler presence in the occupied Palestinian territory. The arbitrary opening of fire by Israeli military against Palestinian children is appalling. Since March 2010, Israeli soldiers along the border with Gaza have shot 17 children while they collected building gravel in the Gaza so-called “buffer zone” to support their families. Adults and children continue to do this dangerous work as Israeli authorities refuse to allow the entry of construction material into the Gaza Strip and there are few job opportunities available.
Despite its obligations under human rights and international humanitarian law, Israel continues to arbitrarily arrest, detain and abuse children. 226 children remain in Israeli detention, including 45 between the ages of 12–15 years. Children continue to be arrested at night, at checkpoints or off the street. Upon arrest, children and their families are seldom informed of the charges against them. Arresting children for stone throwing, particularly in the occupied East Jerusalem, has been on the rise. Children report that they were blindfolded, beaten or kicked at the time of arrest and put at the back of a military vehicle where they were subject to further physical and psychological abuse on the way to the interrogation and detention center. The continued reports of inhumane and degrading treatment, including sexual assault, of Palestinian children in detention is deplorable.
The impact of such inhumane and degrading treatment results in severe psychological trauma, depression, anxiety, and reduced academic achievement.
It is noteworthy that the perpetrators of these violations against Palestinian children face no accountability for their actions.
Unlike Israeli juvenile offenders, Palestinian children are tried in the Juvenile Military Court and convicted on the basis of confessions obtained through coercion and ill-treatment. Palestinian children under 16 years of age detained in Israeli jails, unlike their Israeli counterparts, are deprived of sufficient access to education in detention. This divergence of legal regimes for juvenile justice is indicative of the widespread and systematic institutionalized discrimination against Palestinians, reminiscent of South African apartheid.
Palestinian children continue to be deprived of their right to education. Existing schools are massively inadequate for the growing needs of students. The planning restrictions in place in the West Bank along with extreme difficulties that make it impossible to obtain permits to build new schools force the communities to build classrooms illegally and risk demolition. According to UNRWA, in Gaza 95% of the agency’s schools are running double shifts; 126 school buildings are being used for 238 separate “schools.” At least 100 new schools are needed just this year, but Israel’s blockade of Gaza prevents such building by severely limiting the entry of construction material: there is an average of only 230 truckloads of goods entering Gaza each day for a population of 1.5 million, far less than needed, and building just one new school requires 220 truckloads of construction materials. UNRWA reported a shortage of classrooms in Gaza for 40,000 students as a result, just at the beginning of 2010-2011 school year. Access to education of children continued to be impeded by restrictions on freedom of movement of Palestinians in the occupied territory including the Wall and its gate and permit regime and checkpoints. Furthermore, Israeli settlers continue to attack, harass, and intimidate children on their way to and from school.
The Bedouin herding families living in Area C of the West Bank and their children are particularly vulnerable. Most of these livestock-dependent families have been forced into extreme poverty, are denied access to land for herding, water, food and health services, and are unable to provide for the education of their children – families cannot afford to send all their children to school, a problem that has a greater impact on girls. Israeli policies have denied them a sustainable livelihood and appear designed to forcibly relocate them. Violent physical and psychological attacks by illegal Israeli settlers further those policies.
I leave Jordan with a strong sense that the international community should spare no effort in compelling Israel to comply with its obligations under international humanitarian and human rights law, end this prolonged and illegal occupation and fully respect the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people. This visit focused upon the plight of Palestinian children experiencing the weight of an oppressive occupation, but it should be understood that the concern of my mandate extends to the full range of human rights that are the inalienable entitlement of those living in the occupied Palestinian territory.
http://fwd4.me/0AgX
Israel accelerates rate of killing Palestinians in early 2011
by Yaniv Reich.
Last October, the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem published a report indicating that Israel murdered, on average, one Palestinian every other day between 2006 and 2009, excluding the attack on Gaza known as Cast Lead that killed an additional 1,400 people (note that including Cast Lead brings the total to an average of around 1.5 murdered Palestinians per day).
Nevertheless, Israel seems dissatisfied with that killing rate, because the inglorious Israeli occupation forces have increased it in early 2011. A quick run-through of those Palestinian human beings already killed in the long first week of 2011.
- Jawah Abu Rahma, 36-year old, sister of a nonviolent demonstrator murdered by Israel in 2008, dies of inhalation of concentrated tear gas at an unarmed demonstration.
- Mahmoud Mohammed Dharagma, age 21, shot and killed at Israeli checkpoint inside occupied West Bank for holding a glass bottle, even after being shot in the leg as a warning and the soldiers saw he was unarmed.
- Anas Saleh, 20-year old in critical condition due to liver disease, refused exit from open-air Gaza concentration camp in order to seek medical treatment.
- Hebron resident Amr Al Qawasme, age 66, murdered by Israeli commandos while unarmed in his bed at dawn. Army got the wrong guy, “regrets” the incident.
- Two alleged militants are shot and killed for moving too close to Israel’s no-go zone along Gaza prison fence.
- At the same checkpoint at which Dharagma was killed, another Palestinian man was shot and killed two days later for allegedly carrying a pipe bomb.
- 65-year old farmer, Shaban Qarmout, shot and killed by Israelis enforcing the 2km “no-go” perimeter inside Gaza prison walls.
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26 apr 2011
Bahar calls for prosecuting Israeli leaders over death of the child Eskafi
First deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative council Dr. Ahmed Bahar held the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) responsible for the death of the Palestinian child Abeer Al-Eskafi.
Bahar said in a press release on Tuesday that the Israeli banning of Eskafi, 9, from seeing her detained father was a "sinful crime", which led to her death after suffering a shock then paralysis.
He charged the IOA with pursuing a cruel policy against prisoners and their relatives using various means to inflict suffering on both.
The deputy speaker said that the crime should not pass unnoticed and should be faced with all possible legal means.
Bahar urged the human rights groups to adopt the Eskafi case and to file lawsuits against IOA leaders in local and international courts of justice to punish them for the crime and to force them to abandon such cruel policies against the Palestinian prisoners and their relatives.
Bahar calls for prosecuting Israeli leaders over death of the child Eskafi
First deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative council Dr. Ahmed Bahar held the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) responsible for the death of the Palestinian child Abeer Al-Eskafi.
Bahar said in a press release on Tuesday that the Israeli banning of Eskafi, 9, from seeing her detained father was a "sinful crime", which led to her death after suffering a shock then paralysis.
He charged the IOA with pursuing a cruel policy against prisoners and their relatives using various means to inflict suffering on both.
The deputy speaker said that the crime should not pass unnoticed and should be faced with all possible legal means.
Bahar urged the human rights groups to adopt the Eskafi case and to file lawsuits against IOA leaders in local and international courts of justice to punish them for the crime and to force them to abandon such cruel policies against the Palestinian prisoners and their relatives.
families. He added that the incident requires increased efforts to promote the prisoners' cause internationally and induce greater pressure on Israel to stop its maltreatment of Palestinian prisoners and ensure their release.
Abeer al-Iskafi, 11, died Thursday night after a long period of sickness that followed severe psychological trauma she sustained after she was prevented from touching her father during a visit while he was held in Israeli custody.
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Abeer al-Iskafi, 11, died Thursday night after a long period of sickness that followed severe psychological trauma she sustained after she was prevented from touching her father during a visit while he was held in Israeli custody.
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Palestinian girl dies after being denied father's love
Palestinian child succumbs to psychological trauma after being denied the chance to hug father in prison Ramallah: The Israeli occupation of Palestine claimed another innocent victim on Friday when 10-year-old Abeer Eskafi died, her young life snuffed out before she could fulfil her dying wish — a hug from her father who is serving multiple life terms in an Israeli jail. In a personal tragedy for the Eskafi family, which mirrors the plight of Palestinian people under occupation and oppression, the family said the little girl's untimely death only serves to highlight the heartlessness of the Israeli authorities, especially in the prison where her father is being held. |
Gulf News had earlier reported how the officer in charge of the prison had prevented Abeer from hugging her father, Yousuf, on her last visit to see him.
Objections
Citing a technicality — that young Abeer had crossed the permissible age threshold — the officer had not allowed Abeer to go over to the prisoner's side of a glass barrier in the prison's meeting room so that she could spend a few moments with her father and get a hug from him as she had always done on her previous visits.
Abeer's grandfather, Abdul Rahim Abdul Mohsin Mohammad Eskafi, had told Gulf News that the little girl lived for those fleeting moments, few and far between, when she could be in the arms of her father whose sentence had no scope for parole.
After being so cruelly denied, she broke down psychologically, her health deteriorated and she went into a coma after suffering paralysis. Medical opinion concurred that psychological trauma was the reason behind the deterioration in her health.
Abdul Rahim told Gulf News that he personally held the Israelis responsible for the death of the girl.
"Next Wednesday I will visit Yousuf in his prison with his two other girls, Falasteen and Tahreer, to comfort him on Abeer's death," he said. "We are sure Yousuf has been informed about it; he must be in a miserable condition."
Wednesday is the first opportunity of a visit to the prison, coordinated by the Red Cross, Abdul Rahim said. He shuddered to think what state his son would be in.
‘Inhumane decision'
Earlier, when Yousuf was informed about Abeer slipping into a coma he suffered a heart attack and had to be rushed to hospital where he underwent emergency surgery.
Abeer's family had placed a request via the Red Cross to the Israeli Prisoners Headquarters to allow Abeer to have a few moments with her father on humanitarian grounds, which could have surely improved her condition, as she mumbled his name even in her comatose state.
"We believe the Israelis have murdered Abeer, whose suffering started with an inhumane decision from an Israeli officer. The Israelis do not have pity even for the Palestinian children."
Abeer's funeral was attended by Eisa Qaraqi, the Palestinian Minister of Detainees Affairs, Hebron Governor Kamil Hamed, Dr Hussain Al Araj, representing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and all Palestinian official and non-official institutions.
Dr Salam Fayyad, Palestinian Prime Minister, is expected to arrive at a condolence meeting for Abeer.
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Objections
Citing a technicality — that young Abeer had crossed the permissible age threshold — the officer had not allowed Abeer to go over to the prisoner's side of a glass barrier in the prison's meeting room so that she could spend a few moments with her father and get a hug from him as she had always done on her previous visits.
Abeer's grandfather, Abdul Rahim Abdul Mohsin Mohammad Eskafi, had told Gulf News that the little girl lived for those fleeting moments, few and far between, when she could be in the arms of her father whose sentence had no scope for parole.
After being so cruelly denied, she broke down psychologically, her health deteriorated and she went into a coma after suffering paralysis. Medical opinion concurred that psychological trauma was the reason behind the deterioration in her health.
Abdul Rahim told Gulf News that he personally held the Israelis responsible for the death of the girl.
"Next Wednesday I will visit Yousuf in his prison with his two other girls, Falasteen and Tahreer, to comfort him on Abeer's death," he said. "We are sure Yousuf has been informed about it; he must be in a miserable condition."
Wednesday is the first opportunity of a visit to the prison, coordinated by the Red Cross, Abdul Rahim said. He shuddered to think what state his son would be in.
‘Inhumane decision'
Earlier, when Yousuf was informed about Abeer slipping into a coma he suffered a heart attack and had to be rushed to hospital where he underwent emergency surgery.
Abeer's family had placed a request via the Red Cross to the Israeli Prisoners Headquarters to allow Abeer to have a few moments with her father on humanitarian grounds, which could have surely improved her condition, as she mumbled his name even in her comatose state.
"We believe the Israelis have murdered Abeer, whose suffering started with an inhumane decision from an Israeli officer. The Israelis do not have pity even for the Palestinian children."
Abeer's funeral was attended by Eisa Qaraqi, the Palestinian Minister of Detainees Affairs, Hebron Governor Kamil Hamed, Dr Hussain Al Araj, representing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and all Palestinian official and non-official institutions.
Dr Salam Fayyad, Palestinian Prime Minister, is expected to arrive at a condolence meeting for Abeer.
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