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The
Treatment of Prisoners and Detainees by Israel and Others
Prisoners Archive - July 2005
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at an Israeli court demonstrate Israel’s torture methods used against Palestinian
detainees as described by witnesses. Source: Miftah
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MPA: Prisoner Died in Negev Israeli Prison WAFA 7/28/2005 GAZA, July 28, 2005, (WAFA)-Ministry of Prisoners'' Affairs (MPA) said today that a Palestinian prisoner died in Negev Israeli Desert prison. In a statement, MPA said that the prisoner Jawad Adil Abu Mgheisseb 18, died because the prison administration refused offering him medical treatment. Abu Mugheisseb''s health was deteriorating and he was suffering from different disease. MPA concluded that there are lots of prisoners suffer from bad health conditions in Israeli prisons and the prison authority provided no medical care for them. Israeli Authorities Renew Detention of Woman without Charge WAFA 7/28/2005 RAMALLAH, July 28, 2005, (WAFA)- Israeli occupation authorities renewed the "administrative detention" of Palestinian female prisoner Ikram Altawil 28-year-old. Hamood Jbarin, the lawyer of Prisoners Supporters Society, said that the Israeli authorities renewed 6 months of "administrative detention" for the fifth time. Al-Tawil was arrested on October 15, 2003, for no charge or accusation. "Administrative detention" is an Israeli policy against the Palestinian prisoners in which the Israeli could detain Palestinians with no charge or any court ruling or even any accusation. [end] Family of Prisoner Dead Prisoner: Our Son Died Due to al-Naqab Prison Fire WAFA 7/28/2005 GAZAm July 28, 2005 (WAFA)- The family of Abdul Jawwad Abu Mughesseb, prisoner who died Thursday in an Israeli jail, said he died as a result of the fire of al-Naqab Prison. Abu Mughesseb''s family said the fire which erupted in the al-Naqqab prison two days ago affected his deteriorated health conditions, as he suffered from Asthma, which led to his death last night. The victim''s family held Israel responsible for their son''s death, asserting that Israeli prison guard did not hurry in giving him first aid. Abu Mughesseb was arrested in 2002 after storming his house and was sentenced to 4 years imprisonment terms. His term would have ended in ten days. Death Penalty Must Stop Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 7/28/2005 In a serious violation of the right to life, the fifth of its kind in recent times, the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has executed a prisoner in its care in the Gaza Strip.PCHR insists that the PNA immediately place a moratorium on the implementation of the death penalty and completely abolish this cruel and inhuman practice. At approximately 18.30 on Wednesday the 27th of July 2005 the PNA executed Rai’id Khalil al Mughrabi, by hanging.The 32 year old from Jabalya refugee camp was executed in Gaza Central Jail (Sariya).He was sentenced to death in 2001, by Gaza Criminal Court, for the 1998 murder of a 35 year old accountant Khalil Zumlot, also from Jabalya Refugee Camp. Hamas financier sentenced in U.S. YNetNews 7/28/2005 Federal court sends Yemeni cleric to prison for 75 years for conspiring to support and fund al Qaeda, Hamas -- A Yemeni cleric arrested after an FBI sting operation in Germany in 2003 was sentenced to 75 years in prison Thursday for conspiring to support and fund al Qaeda and Hamas. Sheikh Mohammed Ali Hassan al Moayad, 56, was sentenced to 75 years and fined USD 1.25 million in federal court in Brooklyn....Al Moayad was acquitted on a separate count of actually providing such support to al Qaeda, but was found guilty of providing material support and resources to Hamas...al Moayad''s lawyer, William Goodman, argued that in Yemen it was not illegal to support Hamas. 35 life terms, and placed in solitary International Middle East Media Center 7/26/2005 Israeli Prison Authorities transferred detainee Ghalib Hasan Jaradat, 23, from Sielet al-Harithiyya, west of Jenin to solitary confinement in Hadarim detention. Jaradat was arrested during a special under-covered military operation in November, 5, 2003, after the army broke into his village, home and arrested him. Jaradat was sentenced to 35 life-terms and additional 35 years, after the Israeli prosecution charged him with membership of the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad, recruiting Palestinian fighters to carry out attacks against the Israeli army, and carrying attacks against Israeli targets....Jaradat is currently suffering from sight problems as a result of solitary confinement in dark cells, yet the army is not allowing him to be medically examined, and rejected appeals by his family to send medication for him. Israeli court sentences Palestinian prisoners to administrative detention International Middle East Media Center 7/25/2005 Israeli military court in Ofer detention center, near the west bank city of Ramallah, sentenced on Monday, twelve Palestinians to administrative detention to various terms. The Palestinian Prisoner Society published a report listing the names of prisoners and their sentences. The report states that Zahran Klaib, Waleel Saleh, Abeer Aoudeh, Mahdi Masri, Mouhamed Safi, Ali Abu Al Rab, Jihad Shtawi, Ali Al Iroj were sentenced to six months, while, Bshara Zbood for five months, Naseem Hamdan and Midhat Souan for four months and Bilal Hadito three months. The administrative detention is a military order through which Israel imprisons civilians without declared charges to renewable terms. Israel: towards a new legislation denying compensation to Palestinians ReliefWeb/FIDH 7/21/2005 The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) is extremely concerned by the forthcoming adoption by the Knesset of an amendment to the Civil Wrongs Regulations that would prevent any Palestinian injured by or suffering any damage from the Israeli military forces from claiming compensation. The FIDH, in support of its member organizations in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (B’Tselem, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza), already urged the Chairman of the Knesset Law Committee Knesset to act in order to prevent the adoption of Amendment n°5 to the Civil Wrongs Regulations, while the text was being examined by the Committee. Israeli Keneset Decides to Prevent Lawyers from Meeting the Palestinian Prisoners International Press Center 7/26/2005 GAZA, Palestine, July 26.2005 (IPC) --- The Palestinian Prisoner''s Society (PPS) disclosed Monday that the Israeli keneset voted on 19 July, 2005 after a second reading a decision preventing the lawyers to meet Palestinian prisoners under the pretext of security reasons. In a press release, a copy of which made available to IPC, the PPS said the decision is meant to cut off the prisoners from the rest of the outside world and to keep in dark their miserable living conditions and the Israeli violations of human rights inside the prisons. The PPS also stressed, the decision is an unprecedented violation of Geneva conventions, the international and humanitarian laws and the basis of democracy. Lebanese ex-warlord is released BBC 7/26/2005 Lebanese Christian militia leader Samir Geagea has been freed from prison after serving 11 years for crimes committed during the country''s civil war. Mr Geagea, who led the Lebanese Forces (LF) militia which formed an alliance with Israel, was granted an amnesty by parliament last week. He was the only Lebanese warlord to be punished for crimes during the 15-year civil war, which ended in 1990. Mr Geagea, 52, is expected to leave Lebanon for medical tests. The release of the staunch anti-Syrian militia leader is seen by some analysts as another step towards national reconciliation after Damascus ended its 29-year military presence in Lebanon. "You have come out of the big prison which you had been put in and you have taken me out with the same act from the small prison," Mr Geagea said in his first televised address at Beirut''s airport. PPS Calls for a Probe in Blaze Set to Negev Prison, Five Prisoners Wounded International Press Center 7/25/2005 Negev desert detention camp consists of tents surrounded by barbed wire and watchtowers. -- GAZA, Palestine, July25, 2005 (IPC) - Four sections of the notorious desert Negev detention camp were burst into flame Sunday afternoon and five prisoners were lightly wounded. In contact with the Al Assra Information Center, the prisoners reported that the flame caused by an electrical shock, had consumed most tents as the prison administration slowly acted to extinguish fire. The influx of the prisoner in evacuating the tents, in avoid of the fire, resulted in the injury of five prisoners. Three out of the five wounded were identified; A shraf Qaraan , from Qulqelia, Abed Al Baset al Burghouthi, from Rammallah, Saleh Samour. The injuries were lightly. Negev desert detention camp consists of tents surrounded by barbed wire and watchtowers. Statistical Report; 180 Prisoners Died In The Israeli Jails International Press Center 7/23/2005 GAZA, Palestine, July 23,2005 (IPC)---Ministry of Ex-Prisoners and Detainees reported the number of the Palestinian prisoners killed in the Israeli jails since 1967 amounted 180, among were 71 were liquidated after being arrested, 70 killed due to a harsh torture and 39 lost their lives due to the deprivation of medical care. The statistical report prepared and published by the ministry said that 102 killed prisoners were from the West bank, 58 from Gaza Strip, and 13 from Jerusalem and Arab 48. Ever since the Intifada I in December 1987 till 1967 72 prisoners were killed meanwhile, 42 prisoners were killed till 1994. In al Aqsa Intifada flared up in September 2000 the killed prisoners reached 58, the report disclosed. PPS: A Detainee Struggles for Survival due to Medical Negligence in Israeli jail International Press Center 7/24/2005 GAZA, Palestine, July24,07,2005 (IPC)--The Bethlehem based Palestinian Prisoner Society''s disclosed that the health of the detainee Abed Al Raouf Ismael, 38, from Selwad of Rammallah province, who is imprisoned in Beir Shiva "Ohali Kidar".PPS''s lawyer Fawaz Al Shalodi said that the detainee is suffering several chronic diseases; brain strokes and cardiac diseases in 1995 and he had been predisposed to repeated brain stork in the year 2001 , resulting in paraplegia. He also suffers one more strokes in the spine in addition to neurological disease. The detainee Ismael told the lawyer that since his arrival in the prison, no check-ups were made to him by the physician of the prison even though he an urgent need of special health cares and a specified food. 2 Prisoners Stripped & Photographed by Israeli Prison''s Guards WAFA 7/25/2005 JERUSALEM, July 25, 2005, (WAFA)-Two Palestinian prisoners, in Atsion Israeli prison, said that Israeli prison''s guards assaulted, stripped and filmed them. Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) said that the prisoner Mohammed Gheith 17, and his cousin of Hebron were beaten with rifles clubs, stripped and filmed with mobiles before colonizers. Gheith said that his arm was broken and his cousin left bleeding after letting a fierce dog attack them to intimidate them . His cousin Marwan al-Qawasmeh 20, was hit in the head and all over his body. [end] MPA Calls ICRC Director in Gaza to Visit Negev Prison WAFA 7/25/2005 GAZA, July 25, 2005 (WAFA)- Minister of Prisoners'' Affairs (MPA) Sufian Abu Zayda extended an urgent message to Director of International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) in Gaza, calling upon him to urgently visit Negev Prison. Abu Zayda stressed it is necessary to observe the dire conditions of Palestinian prisoners and the suffering they have experienced due to the yesterday''s fire. He added that the prison does not provide the prisoners the minimum level of good life. The Minister said that four departments holding 240 prisoners were on fire, asserting that Israeli jailers did not hurry to extinguish the fire. Israeli High Court of Justice denies Palestinian detainee access to a lawyer Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 7/25/2005 The Israeli High Court of Justice today, 25 July 2005, dismissed a petition submitted by PCHR on behalf of Mohammad Said Shaqqura, 32, from Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).The petition sought to ensure that Shaqqura was given access to a lawyer during his interrogation in an Israeli prison. Mohammad Shaqqura is married with four children and has been held by the Israeli Security Services since 10 July 2005.Shaqqura was arrested at Rafah International Crossing Point on the Egyptian border and subsequently transferred to Ashkelon Prison. Since this time he has been held by the Interrogation Section of the Israeli Security Services and a PCHR lawyer has been continually denied access to visit Shaqqura. Vanunu cannot access confiscated jailhouse letters Ha''aretz 7/26/2005 The High Court of Justice yesterday ruled that convicted nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu will not be allowed to retrieve copies of confiscated letters he had written during his imprisonment since they contained secret information. With its decision, the High Court rejected a petition made in Vanunu''s name by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. Vanunu, who had been working in the nuclear research facility in Dimona, met in 1985 with a reporter from the British Sunday Times and handed him information that revealed Israel possessed atomic bombs. Vanunu was convicted in 1986 of assisting the enemy in a time of war and disclosing secret information, and was sentenced to 18 years in prison. In 2004 he was released under restricted conditions. Move to check US prisoner treatment AlJazeera 7/26/2005 Republicans in the US Senate have pushed ahead with legislation that would set rules for the treatment and interrogation of terrorism suspects in US custody, despite a White House veto threat. The Bush administration, led by Vice President Dick Cheney, is working to kill the amendments that Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham want to tack onto a bill setting Defence Department policy for next year. McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, and Graham, who spent 20 years as an Air Force lawyer, introduced the legislation on Monday. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner, a Republican, has endorsed the effort. Sufyan Abu Zayda: Detention camp By Shahira Sam, Al-Ahram Weekly on-line 7/22/2005 Once deemed a marginal issue, the 8,500 or so Palestinians in Israeli jails are increasingly at the centre of negotiation agendas. Veteran activist and one-time detainee Sufyan Abu Zayda, the man who holds the detainees portfolio in Abu Mazen''s Fatah-dominated government, told Al-Ahram Weekly just how important it has become. In so doing he represents not only a new generation of Palestinian politicians but the new look of the Palestinian Authority. -- No room for doubt about his political allegiances: the Palestinian minister for prisoners'' affairs is adamantly assertive about where he belongs. His standing remains clear on the political map of Palestine, whether that of today or of yesterday. Guantanamo detainees refuse food BBC 7/22/2005 Fifty-two detainees at the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba are staging a hunger strike in protest at their detention and treatment. So far, the men have refused nine consecutive meals over three days, the US military said in a statement. The detainees are being monitored by medical professionals and their vital signs are being checked daily. More than 500 inmates are currently being held at Guantanamo. Only four have been charged. ''Inhumane conditions'': "Indications are that this is a temporary effort by some detainees to protest their continued detention," the statement said.On Wednesday, an Afghan man released from the camp after three years said that more than 100 prisoners had been on hunger strike for two weeks. Abbas says left in dark on Israel''s plans for disengagement Ha''aretz 7/23/2005 Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said Friday on the eve of talks with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that the Palestinians were ready to coordinate the Gaza pullout with Israel but were being left in the dark on crucial issues. Abbas planned to assure Rice, on a troubleshooting mission to help keep the mid-August Gaza withdrawal on track after a flare-up of violence, that the P.A. would do its part but needed the Israelis to do theirs. Israel insists, however, that the Palestinians are to blame for the failure to finalize a deal on cooperation, saying Abbas has not done enough to rein in militant groups behind recent attacks that have strained a five-month-old ceasefire."I will tell her, ''Dr. Rice, we need answers from the Israelis. Is Gaza going to be turned into a large prison? The Israelis are not cooperating''"... Detainee Abed-Rabbu: endless detention International Middle East Media Center 7/20/2005 “The brutality and cruelty of the soldiers ignored the disability of my son, and my weakness. Those who call themselves judges, “protectors of justice,” know no mercy or justice”. The mother of detainee Nasser Abed Rabbu sat in her home, with tears filling her eyes and face, and a broken heart… and said: “They arrested him when he was only 18 years old. He participated in the events of the first Intifada which started in 1987…he hurled stones at the soldiers, raised the Palestinian flag and chanted for freedom, until they arrested him in August 1988 and sentenced him to three consecutive years,” the mother said. Cruel arrest: “When they arrested him, they had no mercy. Dragging and hitting him, they interrogated and tortured him before he was sent to court,” she added. Guantanamo inmates on hunger strike AlJazeera 7/22/2005 Fifty-two inmates being held by the US at the Guantanamo Bay prison on suspicion of terror-links have begun a hunger strike to protest their detention. The detainees, among some 500 al-Qaida and Taliban suspects held at the US Navy base, have refused at least nine consecutive meals, the Joint Task Force at Guantanamo said in a statement on Thursday. Attorneys for some detainees said Guantanamo prisoners had planned in late June to begin a hunger strike to express frustration over "their indefinite detention and the inhuman conditions at Guantanamo", according to a statement from the New York-based Centre for Constitutional Rights (CCR). Plea bargain for Sharon junior? YNetNews 7/22/2005 Prime minister''s son could face jail time over illegal fundraising charges related to 1999 Likud primaries -- TEL AVIV - A plea bargain between Knesset Member Omri Sharon, the prime minister''s son, and the State Prosecutor in connection with illegal fundraising charges could be finalized by next week, it was reported Thursday. State Prosecutor Menachem Mazuz does not intend give up on a jail-term sentence for the prime minister’s son, and will apparently charge Omri Sharon with offences that carry a prison sentence. Speaking to journalists this week, Mazuz said he would not “give up on the principle – the penal code, which is the overriding factor. This is a very serious case with solid evidence.” Female Prisoner Subjected to Harsh Torture in Israeli Prison WAFA 7/20/2005 RAMALLAH, July 20, 2005, (WAFA)- Member of Anti-Torture General Committee in Israel, Mohammed al-Shadkan said today that the administration of Hasharon Israeli prison is exercising harsh torture against a Palestinian woman prisoner. In a statement, al-Shadkan revealed that the prisoner Abeer Hassan Auda 21, of Tulkarem has been subjected to assaulting and harassing for more than 20 days. "Israeli soldiers handcuffed the prisoner and began hitting her on the head with a club and pulling her from her hair", he added. Al Aqsa Defender Banned from Reaching It Palestine Media Center 7/20/2005 Sheikh Raed Salah Says He’s Victim of Israeli Racism -- Leader of Israel’s Islamic Movement Sheikh Raed Salah, who was released from an Israeli prison on Sunday after 26-month detention, had been at the forefront of a campaign to raise the world''s awareness of attempts by Israeli and Jewish extremists to demolish Islam’s third holiest site of Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in order to build a Jewish temple on the site. After more than two years of detention, Sheikh Salah, 47, was released from an Israeli jail early on Sunday, a day ahead of his scheduled release. However more than 60,000 Israeli Palestinians flocked to his hometown of Umm el-Fahem on Monday to celebrate his release. Israeli Authorities Bargains Islamic Movement for Ending Protecting Al-Aqsa Mosque WAFA 7/20/2005 UM ALFAHIM, (Israel), July 20, 2005, (WAFA)- Head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Raed Salah, said Wednesday that the Israeli official establishment bargained him for ending efforts of protecting Al-Aqsa Mosque. In an exclusive interview with WAFA Salah revealed that the Israeli authorities tried several times to make package deals with him before his arrest and during his detention in prison, to freeze the efforts of the Islamic Movement for unmasking the Israeli attempts to destroy Al-Aqsa Mosque. In 2000, the Israeli Government (headed by Barak) presented NIS50 Million (Israeli currency) to Municipality of Um Alfahim, (headed by Salah at that time) for ending the efforts concerning Al-Aqsa Mosque. He reiterated that the Islamic Movement will continue its efforts to protect Al-Aqsa Mosque from the Israeli attempts to destroy, or damage, it.. Clashes Continue in Gaza Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 7/20/2005 Unknown armed individuals fired at houses and offices of prominent Fatah Leaders and members of the Security Forces.6 people injured. -- According to PCHR’s initial investigations, at around 0030 on Wednesday, July the 20th members of the Preventative Security located in front of their headquarters in Gaza City opened fire on a vehicle driven by a member of Eiz al Din al Qassam Brigades (the military wing of the Hamas movement).The driver remains unidentified at this stage.After almost 30 minutes a Press Conference was held jointly between Sofian Abu Ziada, the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Prisoner’s and ex-Prisoner’s Minister (as a representative of both Fatah and the PNA) and Dr. Nizar Riyan, a leading member of Hamas. Prison Service ready to absorb 2,300 disengagement detainees Ha''aretz 7/20/2005 Prison Service director Ya''akov Ganot said on Wednesday that Israeli jails were prepared to absorb up to 2,300 disengagement protesters. Ganot was telling the Knesset Interior and Environment Committee on the Prison Service''s preparations for the pullout, which is slated for mid-August. He said 900 people could be housed in the Ma''asiyahu and Be''er Sheva prisons during the first stage of the plan. The Prison Service has erected temporary compounds next to the jails that will serve as courts for remand extension hearings. The temporary courts would shorten judicial procedures and prevent the need to transport the detainees to permanent courts, Ganot said. IDF chief Halutz increases penalties for refusing orders Ha''aretz 7/21/2005 Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Dan Halutz approved a series of steps this week to week to harshen disciplinary measures against refuseniks ahead of the disengagement plan. A soldier convicted of refusing an order would no longer be allowed to serve as a combat soldier, said Halutz. In addition, refuseniks will be sentenced to prison. Also, refuseniks from hesder yeshivas will lose the privilege of alternate service and yeshiva study. This means the soldier will not have the benefit of a 14-month army service, but will have to serve for three full years. Four arrested in Hebron International Middle East Media Center 7/19/2005 Israeli soldiers arrested on Tuesday, four residents in Hebron and the neighboring village of Kharas, northwest of the city. A local source in Hebron reported that soldiers arrested Mousa Mohammad Salalha and Samer Ibrahim Salalha, from Kharas village, while they were at Sa’ir village, east of Hebron. Also, the Palestinian prisoners society in Hebron reported that soldiers broke into homes in the city, conducted military searches and arrested Mohammad Khalil Yaghmour, 18, and Bilal Ahmad al-Zghayyar, 23 years old. Hilmy Yaghmour, the brother of Mohammad, said that soldiers surrounded a tailoring workshop in the city and arrested his brother. Operational update: ICRC activities in Israel, the Occupied and Autonomous Territories, Jun 2005 ReliefWeb/ International Committee of the Red Cross 6/30/2005 The following is an update of activities carried out by the ICRC in Israel, the Occupied and Autonomous Territories in June 2005. -- Protection: Promoting respect for the civilian population - The ICRC continues to monitor respect for international humanitarian law (IHL). Its delegates maintain a regular presence in the West Bank and Gaza trying to ensure the protection of the civilian population living under occupation and to guarantee access to basic essential needs, notably food and medical care. Whenever necessary, the ICRC submits confidential and well-documented representations to the concerned authorities....Visits to detainees: Monitoring conditions of detention - ICRC delegates regularly visit Israeli and Palestinian places of detention to monitor treatment and living conditions. Findings are discussed directly and confidentially with the detaining authorities... Hopes and fears as Gaza awaits pullout BBC 7/15/2005 "Israel is still destroying Palestinian houses, not settlers'' houses. And Israel doesn''t stick to its agreements. We''ve talked a lot, and signed a lot of agreements, but we never see any changes on the ground. If withdrawal goes ahead, Gaza will move from a small prison to a bigger prison." -- It is only a month until Israel begins its withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, which it has occupied since 1967. With Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon staking everything on the plan, it now seems unstoppable. Optimism about Israeli plans is not something that comes frequently to Gaza, but engineering student Mohammed el-Oksha has begun to feel it. "I''m hoping that withdrawal goes ahead because it''ll bring a better future for the Palestinians, after years of political and economic collapse," he said. Ziad Abu Sares, a policeman, agreed. Palestinian groups end Gaza infighting AlJazeera 7/20/2005 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas''s Fatah party and the Hamas have ordered their gunmen off the streets in Gaza to end inflighting that left 13 people wounded. At a press conference late on Tuesday evening, Nizar Rayyan, a Hamas spokesman and Sufyan Abu Zaidai, Palestinian minister for Prisoners, announced that all gunmen had been ordered to return to their homes, after the two sides reached an agreement to stop the fighting."Nothing is better than our unity against our enemy (Israel)," said senior Hamas leader Nizar Rayyan. Earlier on Tuesday, clashes erupted between Fatah and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, especially in northern Gaza, which left at least 13 people wounded. Three detainees - sick and deprived from medication International Middle East Media Center 7/18/2005 The administrations of the Ofer detention center, near Ramallah, and the al-Maskobiyya prison in Jerusalem are responsible for the lives of three sick detainees who are in need of immediate medical treatment, according to Mohammad al-Shadfan, lawyer for the General Committee Against Torture. Al-Shadfan said that detainee Ala’ Yousef abu Abed, 27, from Biddu village near Ramallah, is suffering from a disability in his left hand as a result of an injury sustained to his chest area during his arrest. Detainee Mokafih Mousa abu Roomy, 38, from al-Ezariyya near Jerusalem, is suffering from stroke and a high cholesterol level. 17 residents arrested in Hebron International Middle East Media Center 7/16/2005 At least 17 Palestinians were arrested on Saturday after the Israeli army conducted wide-scale house-to-house searches south of the West Bank city of Hebron and in the villages of al-Sammoa, Yatta, Doura, al-Reehiyya and al-Award refugee camp. The Hebron office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society reported that soldiers broke into dozens of homes at dawn and during the early morning hours and arrested 17 residents....The families told the WAFA news agencies in separate statements that soldiers were violent during the searches and deliberately caused damage to furniture and belongings. Prisoner Loses Sight During Israeli Torture WAFA 7/18/2005 RAMALLAH, July 18, 2005, (WAFA)- A Palestinian prisoner lost his sight during torture by Israeli jailers in Ashkelon prison, South of Israel. Lawyer of the "General Committee Against Torture," in Israel, Mohammed Shadfan, said in a statement that prisoner Salama Rashaideh 30, has lost his sight because of the harsh torture in the prison. He adds that Rashaideh received strong hits on the head and was not allowed to sleep for several days. PPS: “300 detainees facing slow death” International Middle East Media Center 7/18/2005 The Hebron office of the Palestinian Prisoner Society reported that three hundred detainees from Hebron area are suffering from different diseases and deprived from medical attention, which places their lives under serious threats. A reported prepared and published by the society revealed that the suffering of the detainees is rising especially after the prison authorities refused to provide them with the needed medical care and medications. “Prison administration is barring Palestinian physicians from examining the detainees, especially detainees suffering from life-threatening illnesses”, the society reported. Islamic Movement leader leaves prison, vows to violate parole Ha''aretz 7/18/2005 Sheikh Raeed Salah, leader of the Islamic Movement (northern branch) said on his release from prison yesterday that he would not be deterred from violating the terms of his parole, which bars him from coming to Jerusalem during the next four months without special police permission. Salah was released after serving two-thirds of his sentence, after a conviction stemming from his organization''s receipt of money from outlawed organizations. "If I find an urgent and essential religious reason to visit Al-Aqsa, I will go even tomorrow without asking anyone''s permission," Raeed said. "This is not a hasty stand. I have been thinking about it for two years," he added. Was attack on consulate in LA thwarted? YNetNews 7/15/2005 Counterterrorism officials in Los Angeles investigating possibility that two men recently arrested in a string of robberies may have been part of a local group of extremists with ties to prison or street gangs that planned to attack the Israeli consulate, two synagogues -- LOS ANGELES - Counter-terrorism officials in Los Angeles are investigating the possibility that two men recently arrested in a string of robberies may have been part of a local group of extremists with ties to prison or street gangs that planned to attack the Israeli consulate and two synagogues, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. Four arrested in Hebron, elderly man injured International Middle East Media Center 7/14/2005 The Hebron office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society reported that Israeli soldiers arrested on Thursday morning, four residents in the West Bank city of Hebron and the villages of Doura, Ithna, al-Asja, and Yatta, south west of the city; one elderly man was injured after soldiers attacked him while arresting his son. The society stated that soldiers arrested Saleh Hamid abu Rmouz, 18, after breaking into his fathers’ home in abu Sneina neighborhood, south of Hebron. Soldiers surrounded a residential building, forced the families out, and conducted military searches in the building....In Ithna village, soldiers arrested Imad Hisham al-Khateeb, 22, after breaking into his home in the Schools neighborhood in the village. In Yatta village, soldiers conducted military searches of homes, and used several homes as military posts and monitoring towers. IWPS: Israeli Soldiers Beat & Arrest Citizen WAFA 7/13/2005 RAMALLAH, July 13, 2005, (WAFA)-International Women''s Peace Service (IWPS) said that Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) abused and arrested a Palestinian citizen on the road from Hares to Nablus, in the West Bank(WB). In a statement , IWPS revealed that Mohammed Mohammed Daoud, 28 years old , was stopped and detained on, near the town of Jit. "On Sunday, July 10, Mohamad, Mohammed and his wife, who is four months pregnant, were forced to wait in the noon sun for several hours. When Mohamad''s wife complained that she was sick and needed to go to the hospital, the soldiers cursed at her", IWPS said. IWPS concluded that the soldiers beat and arrested him. Mohammed is currently being held in Qedumin prison. Israeli Authorities Return Imprisoned MP Barghouti Back to Solitary International Press Center 7/13/2005 GAZA, July 13, 2005 (IPC) - - The Palestinian Prisoner''s Society (PPS) stated that the Israeli Prison Service has returned imprisoned legislator Marwan Barghouti back to the solitary confinement bloc at Ber Sheva Prison. Barghouti, who was returned to the normal cells at Hadarim Prison a month ago, was returned to solitary confinement on Tuesday after spending more than two years there. At the same context, PPS learned from Ahmad Daraghmeh, 33, a prisoner at Hadarim Prison, through a testimony to the Society''s lawyer, that life at their prison has become unbearable due to the deprivation of prisoners'' simplest human rights. Daraghmeh referred as an example to his own health deterioration, as he had broken some bones in his hand prior to his arrest, and during the interrogations he was beaten frequently in his broken hand as a torture method by the Israeli interrogators. Top brass may face two-year wait before entering politics Ha''aretz 7/14/2005 High-ranking officials in the defense establishment would face a two-year waiting period before joining the government or the Knesset, according to a bill that passed its preliminary hearing in the Knesset plenum yesterday. The private member''s bill sponsored by the chair of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Yuval Steinitz, would make the cooling off period mandatory for chiefs of staff, heads of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and Prisons Service, Israel Defense Forces officers holding the rank of major general and those holding equivalent ranks in the Mossad, Shin Bet and Prisons Service. Israeli Court Sentence a Detainee Five Life Terms International Press Center 7/12/2005 GAZA, Palestine, July12,2005 (IPC)--The Israeli martial court "Salem" sentenced the detainee Mahmoud Bassem Abu Juneid from Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus to five consecutive life term. Abu Juneid is a member of the military wing of Fateh "al Aqsa martyr battalion". In the court hearing, the filed charges against Abu Juneid included the affiliation to the al Aqsa martyr, a co-mastermind of attacks against Israeli targets. Abu Juneid has been confined in Gabloa prison in harsh humanitarian incarceration conditions and denied his family visitation for two years ago. On the other hand, the detainee Abed al Raheem Shahin, 17, from Salfeet, was transferred to la Ramlah hospital, even though he has no physical problems since his arrest. Pro-Prisoners Society Holds Israel Responsible for Prisoner Health Condition WAFA 7/12/2005 RAMALLAH, July 12, 2005 (WAFA)- Friends of Political Prisoners held Israel responsible for the deteriorating health condition of the prisoner Ayman Amr, who has been in the intensive care unit a week ago. In a press release, the Society said its advocate managed to visit Amr, who has been receiving treatment in "She''ar Tsedek" Israeli Hospital, adding that Amr still is in a coma and sleeps in the Intensive care unit. The advocate said that Amr''s health deteriorated because of the Israeli medical negligence and the lack of drugs in Israeli prison if "Ofer". Transferring al-Barghothi from Be''er Sheva Prison to Hadareem International Middle East Media Center 7/12/2005 RAMALLAH , July 12, 2005 (WAFA)- Israeli Occupation Authorities transferred member of Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), Marwan al-Barghothi, from Be''er Sheva prison to Hadareem detention center in Haifa city. In a press release issued Tuesday, Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) said that al- Barghothi was in isolate detention for more than two years after Israeli courts illegally sentenced him to life for five times. It added that al- Barghothi transmitted to Hadareem detention center before two months. Worth mentioning that prisoners of Hadareem detention are suffering hard conditions including ill treatment and medical negligence. [end] Analysis: Netanya bombing may be Mahmoud Abbas'' final test Ha''aretz 7/13/2005 The suicide bombing Tuesday in Netanya may be Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas'' final test, a senior Israeli official said Tuesday night.....signs of Abbas'' weakness are growing. The Prisons Service has recently received an increased number of requests to visit popular jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti. The visitors are headed by "troika" members: PA Prisoner Affairs Minister Sufyan Abu Zaydeh; Hisham Abd al-Raziq,..and PA Finance Minister Salam Fayad....American security coordinator Lieutenant General William E. Ward is trying to strengthen PA Interior Minister Nasser Yousef''s position, and is pressuring Israel to treat him with respect and meet with him. Ward insists on operating within the Palestinian chain of command. People familiar with how Ward works say he has difficulty accepting the lack of hierarchy in the PA. Israel prefers to talk to Yousef''s rival, PA Civil Affairs Minister Mohammed Dahlan, who has positioned himself as the central figure in coordinating Israel''s pullout from the Gaza Strip. Hadarim detainees facing harsh conditions International Middle East Media Center 7/10/2005 The Tulkarem office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society reported that detainees in Hadarim Israeli prison are facing harsh living conditions and repeated attacks carried out by the soldiers. Hanan al-Khateeb, said that the society received a letter from the detainees complaining from the bad treatments and living conditions they are facing on daily basis. Al-Khateeb added that the detainees are not provided with sufficient meals, and are placed in over crowded rooms, which forced dozens of detainees to sleep on the ground without mattresses and covers. Also, al-Khateeb added that soldiers are confining several detainees to solitary imprisonment without any explanation. “Bugs, insects and scorpions were found between their clothes, and covers, and in spite of their complaints, the army did nothing to solve this problem”, al-Khateeb stated. Detainee sentenced to one life term International Middle East Media Center 7/11/2005 Ofer Israeli military court sentenced a detainee from al-Tabaqa village, south of the West Bank city of Hebron, to one life term. The Hebron office of the Palestinian Prisoner society identified the detainee as Mohammad Mahmoud abu Atwan. Abu Atwan was arrested on December 1, 2002, and is currently imprisoned In Asqalan prison. [end] Seven arrested in Hebron International Middle East Media Center 7/10/2005 Sunday at dawn, Israeli soldiers arrested six residents in the villages of Ithna, Doura, al-Thahiriyya, and al-Arroub refugee camp, and one resident in the West Bank city of Hebron. The Hebron office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society reported that soldiers broke into dozens of homes, conducted military searches and arrested five residents. The arrested residents were identified as Dhirara al-Teety, 35, Rostom al-Khateeb, 19, Ya’coub abu Warda, 19, from al-Fawwar refugee camp, abdul-Qader al-Sharawna, 21, from Doura, Ibrahim al-Samasra, 22, from al-Thahiriyya, Mohammad Suleimiyya, 22 from Ithna, and Shadi al-Zghayyar, 20 years old, from Hebron. Victims of Medical Neglect and Physical Torture in Israeli Occupation prisons Palestinian Prisoner Society 6/30/2005 Palestinians imprisoned by the Israeli occupation authority suffer exceptionally bad health conditions. They are subjected to regular practices that would absolutely lead to health problems. They are targeted physically and psychologically by being denied needed medical attention, and by practices of oppression, humiliation and physical torture. Teams of detention, interrogation and prison guards belonging to the many Israeli military and security agencies commonly use these strategies. The Israeli strategies of weakening the body, emotional state, and the soul are used intensively and tragically by a state that claims to be a democracy. Palestinian Intelligence officer killed in Gaza International Middle East Media Center 7/7/2005 A Palestinian medical source in Gaza reported that Abdullah al-Loh, 40, was found killed in a street in Gaza city; marks of severe torture were apparent on his body. The body of al-Loh, a 40-year-old Palestinian intelligence officer, was found in al-Nafaq Street, east of Gaza city. Meanwhile, a Palestinian security source reported the al-Loh was abducted Tuesday, in front of Dar al-Shifa hospital in Gaza. So far, the identity of the assailants, or the motives behind the murder, is still unknown. Citizens Wounded in Ayda Camp WAFA 7/5/2005 BETHLEHEM, July 5, 2005 (WAFA)- Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) wounded on Tuesday a number of citizens in the West Bank (WB) city of Bethlehem, sources said. Eyewitnesses told WAFA that Israeli soldiers backed by tanks and armoured vehicles swept into Ayda refugee camp, north of Bethlehem city and opened heavy machine gun fire and gas grenades at citizens'' houses, wounding a number of citizens with suffocation. Meanwhile, Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) sources revealed that three citizens from Sa''ear town, east of Hebron city, were arrested while they were working inside Israel. Administrative detention for the sixth time International Middle East Media Center 7/4/2005 An Israeli military court in the Negev detention, renewed administrative detention orders against detainee Ahmad Mustafa Zeid, 40, for the sixth consecutive time. Zeid is from al-Jalazoun refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Usually administrative detention orders are renewed one week before the detention period is over; Zeid was informed of the renewal two days before he finishes his detention period. Detainees is administrative detention are not charged, Israeli prison authorities uses the so called “secret files” against them; even the lawyers are not allowed to obtain these files. [end] Soldiers invaded al-Azza refugee camp International Middle East Media Center 7/4/2005 Sunday at dawn, Israeli soldiers surrounded and invaded al-Azza refugee camp north of Bethlehem. A local source in the camp reported that soldiers conducted military searches of homes and occupied rooftops. Some damage reported. Soldiers also interrogated several residents in the camp and handed Laith al-Azza, a resident who was released from Israeli prison ten days ago, a military order to head to Kfar Aztion military camp for interrogation. [end] Detainees Go in one -day- Hunger Strike in Solidarity with 14 Isolated Detainees International Press Center 7/3/2005 GAZA, Palestine, July3,2005 (IPC)--The Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons decided to go through a hunger strike today in solidarity with 14 detainees confined to a solitary confinement in Ohaly Qidar, Eshel, and Asqalan prisons. The Palestinian Prisons Society, PPS, said in a press release , a copy made available to the international press center (IPC) reported that the 14 detainees were confined to solitary for more than four years ago, and remained there, which is considered a collective punishment , direct violation to the international law....The PPS press release reported that the detainees appealed the Palestinian organizations and institutions to work on the local and international levels to end as soon as possible their tragedy. Family of injured detainee appeal treatment for their son International Middle East Media Center 7/4/2005 Family of detainee Mahdi Qasem Kamil from kafer Ayyoush, 18, from kafer Ayyoush, south of the West Bank city of Tulkarem, appealed humanitarian organizations and the Palestinian legislative council, PLC, to interfere and provide him with the needed medical treatment. Ayyoush was shot injured in his chest during his arrest, and placed in Hadarim detention while the administration rejects to hospitalize him. Ayyoush was also tortured and severely beaten to several parts of his body, including his privates, which caused further health complications. House arrest for right-wing teens YNetNews 7/4/2005 Supreme Court criticizes police, says kids not actually suspected of taking part in lynch -- JERUSALEM- The Supreme Court issued orders to restrict five teenagers present in Gush Katif during last week’s riot to 11 days house arrest.The detainees are not suspected of rioting, but police asked the court for arrest warrants in order ascertaining their roles in the violence. Earlier Monday, the court questioned the wisdom of detaining teenage activst, and Judge Ayala Prokazia urged state prosecutors to reconsider their request to arrest the teenagers. |
A semblance of stability By Khaled Amayreh, Al-Ahram Weekly on-line 7/21/2005 Hamas and the PA agree to end their showdown in Gaza, but clashes continue -- After marathon talks, mediated by Egypt, that lasted till well past midnight on Tuesday the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas agreed to end their armed showdown in the Gaza Strip. At a press conference in downtown Gaza, Nizar Rayyan, a Hamas leader, and Sufyan Abu Zaydeh, PA minister for prisoners, announced that all fighters had been ordered to return to their homes. "Nothing should compromise our unity against our enemy," said Rayyan. The two sides agreed to continue dialogue and never again resort to violence in settling their differences, to end all forms of incitement and revive the "Cairo understandings". However, early Wednesday Hamas fighters attacked the homes of the head of the Palestinian security services and the head of Fatah in Gaza, with seven injured in the incident. Conflicting reports emerged, each side blaming the other. Earlier on Tuesday clashes between Fatah and Hamas fighters at the Jabalya refugee camp, and later in Beit Lahya in northern Gaza, had left more than 20 injured. The fighting between Hamas and Fatah alarmed a broad cross-section of Palestinian society, prompting civic and religious leaders as well as NGOs to call on both sides to stop the fitna, or divisiveness. The deputy chief of Egyptian intelligence, Mustafa El-Beheiri, had held several meetings with PA and factional leaders in an attempt to persuade them to accept a draft agreement maintaining the "quiet", ie the fragile de facto cease-fire with Israel.
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