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News Briefs, November 30, 2004 International Middle East Media Center 11/30/2004 Ramallah raided, one activist arrested / Charitable society searched in Hebron / Two brothers arrested in Hebron / Settler woman lightly wounded near Jerusalem / Qassam shell lands near Sderot / Resident arrested east of Ramallah / Two youths arrested east of Tulkarem / Residential building leveled in Beit Hanina/ Several homes shelled in Khan Younis/ Army imposes curfew over Al-Khader / Two youths arrested in Aida refugee camp, in Bethlehem / Four arrested in Tulkarem / One village raided, west of Ramallah / Main entrances in Al-Khader closed / Three arrested north of Ramallah / Hamas activist arrested in Ramallah / Detainee sentenced to 48 life terms/ Four shells fired at a settlement near Rafah / Child wounded in Rafah / Five arrested in the West Bank Hamas Seeks Unity Government, Ready for Truce International Middle East Media Center 11/29/2004 Hamas West Bank leader Sheikh Hassan Yusef told Israel Radio that Hamas is willing to join a unity government with Fatah, and would agree to a limited cease-fire during final status negotiations with Israel. Yusef, who was recently released from prison, called on Israel and the international community to reconsider its characterization of Hamas as a terrorist organization. “Hamas is aware of the new realities and would like to take advantage of the opportunities that it believes has been presented to it,” Yusef said. Group to file war crime charges against US AlJazeera 11/30/2004 A US advocacy group is preparing to launch a war crimes case in Germany against senior US administration officials for their alleged role in torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. "German law in this area is leading the world," Peter Weiss, vice president of the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), a human rights group, was quoted as saying in Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper''s on Tuesday. CCR says German law allows war criminals to be investigated wherever they may be living. Palestinian-Canadian found guilty of planning attacks in North America Ha''aretz 11/25/2004 A Gaza-born Canadian citizen pleaded guilty yesterday to planning attacks on Israelis in North America and was sentenced by a military court to four years in prison, the Israel Defense Forces said. Jamal Akkal, 24, was arrested in Gaza on November 1, 2003, and charged by the military with conspiracy to commit manslaughter. Prosecutors said Akkal planned to carry out attacks against Israeli officials traveling in the United States, as well as bombings against Jewish targets in North America. Akkal had denied the charges, claiming a confession he gave was made under duress. Life Term Sentence to A Palestinian Activist International Middle East Media Center 11/26/2004 An Israeli military court in Ofer detention, near Ramallah, sentenced a Hamas activist to one life term after charging him participating in killing two Israeli soldiers. The Palestinian Prisoners Society identified that detainee as Mustafa Salha, 27 years old, from Dir Jareer, in the north of Ramallah. According to charges pressed by the Israeli security, Salha along with a huge number of Palestinians killed two soldiers who entered Ramallah at the beginning of Al-Aqsa Intifada. Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli Jails Face Serious Hardships International Middle East Media Center 11/27/2004 Raed Mahameed, lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society, said that detainees in the Negev detention camp and Majeddo told him that they are facing daily hardships, violations and over crowded rooms and tents. Mahameed said that several detainees in Majeddo detention told him that soldiers repeatedly clubbed them while they were transferring them to military courts or between prison branches. Detainee Hameed Hasan Issa, from Nablus, north of the West Bank, said that the detainees in the Negev detention are placed in very crowded tents, and that they suffer of extreme coldness in the desert climate of the Negev. Sa’adat: “P.A leaders are committed to negotiations and unoptimistic” International Middle East Media Center 11/26/2004 Arab48 news website interviewed the Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Ahmad Saadat, who is currently jailed in a Palestinian prison in Jericho under American and British supervision. Sa’adat told Arabs48 that the Palestinian leaders; Abbas, Qorei, and Rawhi Fattouh are determined to conduct negotiations with Israel in spite of the fact that they are pessimistic about the result of these negotiations. Sa’adat added that the Palestinian leadership informed him that they are determined to conduct legislative and municipal elections on March 30, 2005 or by April 15th, 2004 after finalizing the election law. Al-Barghuthi out of Palestinian race AlJazeera 11/26/2004 West Bank Fatah leader Marwan Barghuthi has announced that he will not run in upcoming Palestinian elections. In a speech read on his behalf, the jailed leader said on Friday that he would instead be throwing his support behind former prime minister Mahmud Abbas. Al-Barghuthi had earlier come under pressure from Fatah to drop potentially divisive plans to run for Palestinian president from his Israeli jail cell. Palestinian cabinet minister Qaddura Faris, a member of Fatah, visited al-Barghuthi in prison on Friday to try to dissuade him from challenging its presidential nominee, Abbas. Fatah''s Barghouti paving way for Abbas as PA chairman Ha''aretz 11/26/2004 Jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti will not run for chairmanship of the Palestinian Authority and calls to support Palestine Liberation Organization leader Mahmoud Abbas, Barghouti''s aide Kadoura Fares said on Friday. Fares, speaking at a press conference he called in Ramallah after meeting with Barghouti in his prison cell, said the jailed Fatah leader also urged Palestinians to keep up the intifada and fight for liberty. Barghouti was said to be under pressure both to run for Palestinian Authority chairman and decline the candidacy when he met with Israeli Arab Knesset member Jamal Zahalka (Balad) in his Israeli prison cell earlier Friday. News Briefs, November 23, 2004 International Middle East Media Center 11/23/2004 Soldiers raid Bethlehem, break into two homes / Tens of residents withheld near Salfit / Three arrested in Beit Reema, south of Salfit / Two arrested near Hebron / Army claims uncovering weapons in Hebron / Two arrested in Bethlehem / Detainees clubbed during prayers / One shell fired at a military post in the southern Gaza Strip / Al-Qassam brigades fires four shells at Gani Tal settlement PM nixes Russian proposal that Israel make goodwill gestures Ha''aretz 11/23/2004 Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom rejected Tuesday a proposal by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that Israel dismantle West Bank outposts and release "political prisoners" as a goodwill gesture to the new Palestinian leadership. There is no place for new initiatives before a new Palestinian government is chosen, Sharon told Lavrov, who arrived in Israel on Tuesday afternoon for talks in Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Ramallah. The visit followed a high-level meeting of the Quartet in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. Ramadan Karim International Solidarity Movement 11/18/2004 Ramadan karim is the greeting in Palestine during the holy month. It means "generous Ramadan." It is rarely so under occupation. Abu Ali is a really nice man....He told me about the day when a Jewish family''s car broke down near Jenin and people towed it to the mechanic shop that he used to own. The family was nervous and the necessary parts wouldn''t arrive until the next day. Abu Ali took the family to Jenin camp, to his home, and they ate dinner together and sang songs and the children played games....Both of abu Ali''s daughters are being held as political prisoners in Israeli jails.... News Briefs, November 18, 2004 International Middle East Media Center 11/18/2004 Thee rescued under a tunnel after it collapsed over them in Rafah / Prominent Hamas activist wounded near Rafah / Al-Qudwa will be allowed to view Arafat’s medical record / Israeli resident sentenced to 14 months / Gaza resident dies of wounds sustained last week / 65 Detainees in Huwwara on Hunger Strike / Israeli woman arrested for hurling bombs near the Knesset / Girl arrested near Ramallah, army claims she is a potential bomber / Six youths arrested near Ramallah Top Hamas man to go free this morning Ha''aretz 11/18/2004 The top Hamas activist in jail in Israel, Sheikh Hassan Yosef, is scheduled to be released this morning, having completed a two-year prison sentence. Yosef, a Ramallah resident who rose to become head of Hamas'' political wing in the West Bank in August 2001, was arrested during Operation Defensive Shield in April 2002. The Shin Bet security service was unable to prove a direct connection between Yosef and terror activities, so he was convicted and sentenced based on his activity in Islamic charities affiliated with Hamas. Israel releases senior Hamas leader AlJazeera 11/18/2004 A senior member of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas has been released from an Israeli prison after completing a two-year sentence. Completing 28 months of solitary confinement on Thursday, Hasan Yusuf walked out of Israel''s Ofar prison just west of Ram Allah and immediately headed towards Yasir Arafat''s grave to pay his respects. Later, Yusuf told Aljazeera despite his two-year ordeal, he was still in Hamas and would remain in the organisation until Palestinian''s obtained their rights. "I have faced what every Palestinian detainee faces in the Israeli jails: investigations, solitary confinement and torture," Hasan Yusuf said. Child soldiers: Governments failing generations of children ReliefWeb 11/17/2004 Palestinian children detained by Israeli forces were tortured or threatened to coerce them to become informants. - New Global Report Finds Child Soldiers In Over 20 Conflicts Worldwide -- LONDON - Governments are undermining progress in ending the use of children as soldiers, said a coalition of the world''s leading human rights and humanitarian organizations in a newly published report. Abu Ghraib abuses tapped to theatre AlJazeera 11/8/2004 As the trials and courts martial of US military personnel involved in the Abu Ghraib prison abuses get under way, the Arab world is finding new ways to grapple with the issue. Arab media pundits took to criticising the US for what they saw as its double standards - on the one hand espousing democractic principles and, on the other hand, allowing torture and sexual abuse of Iraqi prison inmates. Live television talk shows were flooded with callers from the Arab world who expressed their outrage and shock at the Abu Ghraib abuses. In Jordan, however, a theatre director decided to take the issue one step further. Palestinian elections unsettle Israel By Khalid Amayreh, AlJazeera 11/15/2004 After the death last week of Palestine Liberation Organisation Chairman Yasir Arafat, Israel has indicated that it is yet to decide whether or not to allow Palestinians unfettered elections. Palestinians argue that while the Israeli army occupies the West Bank and controls the bulk of the Gaza Strip it is impossible for them to hold free, fair and transparent elections. The ubiquitous Israeli roadblocks impede campaigning, an essential process for any election, and many significant Palestinian leaders remain in Israeli prisons. Poraz under fire for proposing Barghouti release Ha''aretz 11/15/2004 Interior Minister Avraham Poraz came under fire yesterday for suggesting the release of life prisoner Marwan Barghouti for the elections in the Palestinian Authority. Poraz said at the cabinet meeting that it would be possible to consider releasing the senior Fatah leader "under certain circumstances." He added that clearly it is impossible to prevent Barghouti from contending in the elections for the leadership of the PA, if he so desires. Barghouthi International Middle East Media Center 11/15/2004 As his wife Fadwa Bargouthi announced his interest to run for the PA Chairman position slated for January 19, PA elections, Jailed Fatah West Bank leader, and Palestinian legislator Marwan Bargouthi 45, occupied the news headlines. Bargouthi, whom Palestinians consider as the Palestinian Mandela, but Israel considers a terrorist, is serving a life term sentence in an isolated cell inside a well guarded Israeli jail. In the past few days, media sources reported a possible prisoners'' exchange deal that might include Bargouthi and the jailed in Egypty Israeli spy Azam Azam. Few media sources even mentioned that Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard could be included in the reported deal. Vanunu Interview: Long walk to freedom The Guardian 11/15/2004 Mordechai Vanunu served 18 years in an Israeli prison for blowing the whistle on the country''s nuclear weapons programme. Last week he was arrested again - but not before he had given Duncan Campbell the following exclusive interview -- It was precisely noon in Jerusalem and the bells in the tower of St George''s Cathedral were echoing over the city. The short, trim man in the apricot shirt and dark trousers who was ringing them was smiling broadly. Vanunu says state has an obsession with him Maariv 11/13/2004 Nuclear spy, who was detained Thursday on suspicion of revealing confidential information, placed under seven-day house arrest. -- Mordechai Vanunu has vowed to continue talking to foreign media organizations despite restrictions which prohibit him from doing so. The nuclear spy accused the Israeli defense establishment of having an obsession with him. Less than a day after Vanunu was detained on suspicion of revealing confidential information and failing to abide by the restrictions that had been imposed on him upon his release from prison, a Jerusalem court placed him under a seven-day house arrest at the Saint George Church in East Jerusalem. Police detain nuclear whistleblower Vanunu Ha''aretz 11/11/2004 Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu on Thursday evening was put under house arrest after being detained on suspicion of leaking national secrets and violating legal rulings since his release from prison. Earlier on Thursday Vanunu was detained by the police international investigations units for questioning but sources told Haaretz he was later released after police concluded he had not violated the law excpet for giving interviews to foreign media. The arrest was meant to deter Vanunu, the source added. Israel re-arrests Vanunu Al-Jazeera 11/11/2004 Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu has been re-arrested by Israeli police for passing on classified information to unnamed international parties. Vanunu, who completed an 18-year prison sentence in April for revealing Israeli nuclear secrets to London''s Sunday Times newspaper, was re-arrested on Thursday. As part of his release arrangement, he was barred from meeting with foreigners and discussing his work at Israel''s top secret nuclear facility in the Negev desert. MKs approve terror funding legislation Ha''aretz 11/11/2004 Whoever gives money to the families of people involved in perpetrating terrorist acts will be considered terrorism financiers, an offense that carries a sentence of seven to 10 years in prison, according to a bill against funding terrorism that was unanimously approved yesterday by the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee for second and third readings in the plenum. The long-debated bill is meant to give security and law enforcement authorities additional tools for combating terror by targeting its funding sources. The law will also give the state better options for participating in the international battle against terrorism and its funding. Prisoners say only heir is Barghouti By Amira Hass, Ha''aretz 11/11/2004 Palestinian security detainees are waiting to hear what prisoner Marwan Barghouti has to say: What is his position on the emerging leadership? Does he intend to contend in the planned elections? According to a lawyer who met with prisoners at Nafha prison this week, the security detainees, particularly those belonging to Fatah, speak of Barghouti as the Palestinian people''s new leader. They await his pronouncements as they waver between wanting to give the collective leadership now taking shape a chance and mistrusting it. In any case, as one lawyer overheard the security detainees say, any leadership that arises will not be deemed legitimate nor receive their support if it does not work on behalf of their release. Full closure imposed on territories Maariv 11/11/2004 IDF, Israel Police, Prison Service declare heightened alert out of concern riots would erupt following death of PA chief. -- Israel has imposed a full closure on the West Bank as the IDF declared a heightened alert out of concern terror groups would try and carry out attacks to mark the death of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat. During the funeral, the IDF will encircle Ramallah but will not enter Palestinian cities in a bid to lower friction between soldiers and Palestinians to a minimum. Vanunu detained on suspicion of revealing confidential information Maariv 11/11/2004 Nuclear spy [sic] also suspected of violating restrictions imposed on him during his April release from prison. -- Mordechai Vanunu was detained this (Thursday) morning by police on suspicion of revealing confidential information and of failing to abide by the restrictions that were imposed on him upon his release from prison. The nuclear spy was arrested after a search was carried out in his room, which is located in an East Jerusalem hostel not far from the Saint George Church. During the search, documents and a laptop were uncovered and taken to the offices of the International Crimes Unit in Petah Tikva for examination. PCHR expresses its great concern over the decline in internal Palestinian security Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 11/6/2004 PCHR expresses its great concern over the continued deterioration of Palestinian internal security. This has resulted from the proliferation of small arms and the disregard of the rule of law. Especially by those people who are members of law enforcement agencies or others affiliated to the PNA. PCHR point specially to two crime committed two days ago on Thursday 4th November in which 11 people including 10 member of the police force were injured when armed men fired at Gaza Central Prison (GCP). Palestinian gunmen attack PA forces at Gaza prison Ha''aretz 11/4/2004 Palestinian militants engaged in a gunfight Thursday with Palestinian security forces at Gaza''s central prison in a display of rage at the killing of a clan member. Gunmen from the militant Hamas group and Yasser Arafat''s Fatah faction attacked the prison compound where the suspects in the October killing of their relative, Mohammed Issa, were being held. The gunmen fired at the guards, who responded with warning shots in the air. Sick detainee dies at a hospital in Israel International Middle East Media Center 11/4/2004 Arabs48 news website said that Mohammad Adwan, 58 years old, who has been in detention for twenty years died on Thursday in a medical center which, belongs to the Israeli Prison Authorities. The site said that Adwan, from Jerusalem, died of his deteriorating health condition; while the prison authorities while he was handcuffed and tied to his bed at the hospital despite his hopeless health condition. Adwan was hospitalized is “Assaf Haroveh” in Rahovot, in Israel, after 14 days ago after a severe health setback; in spite of his bad health condition, his legs and hands were tied to his bed. Terminally Ill Prisoner Cuffed to His Hospital Bed International Press Center 11/4/2004 GAZA, November 4, 2004 (IPC + WAFA) - - Despite being 58 years old and terminally ill, Mohammed Adwan, a resident of East Jerusalem who has been imprisoned for 20 years in Israeli jails, remained cuffed from his hands and legs to his bed at a medical center run by the Israeli Prison Service, where spends his last days. Adwan''s family says that they were not informed of Mohammed''s health deterioration, as he was moved to Asaf Harofeh Hospital inside Israel 13 days ago. Israel Offers $10M for Missing Arad, Disrupting 2nd Swap with Hizbullah An Nahar 11/2/2004 The Israeli government is to offer a financial reward of 10 million dollars to anyone who can provide significant information about missing Israeli airman Ron Arad, private Channel 2 television reported Saturday. The reward announcement, which is to be officially published on December 1, was signed off earlier this week by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the team of officials who deal with locating prisoners and soldiers missing in action, it said. News Briefs, November 1, 2004 International Middle East Media Center 11/1/2004 Shell fired at homes in Dir Al-Balah / Corrupted food to detainees in Al-Maskobiyya prison / One youth shot wounded north of Qalqilia / Three activists assassinated in Nablus / One child, one youth shot wounded in Jenin refugee camp / One child shot dead near Nablus / Settlers attack Olive pickers in Hebron / Eight relatives held west of Salfit / Two residents wounded in Hebron / Two arrested in Jenin / Three Arab residents of Israel charged with planning attack in Netanya / Two youths shot wounded south of Tubas / Soldiers raid Ein Beit Al-Ma refugee camp in Nablus / One youth arrested in Bethlehem / Seven arrested in the West Bank / Two activists shot dead in the Gaza Strip / Palestinian detainee sentenced to five life terms and additional 15 years Juvenile Female Palestinian Prisoners Humiliated by Israeli Wardens International Press Center 10/30/2004 BETHELAHEM, Palestine, October30, 2004 (IPC+WAFA)-- Sources at the Bethlehem-based Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) confirmed on Saturday that six juvenile Palestinian female prisoner have been going through harsh detention conditions at the Al-ramla Israeli prison. Prisoners in Israel "forgotten" in draft policy Daily Star 11/2/2004 BEIRUT: The secretary general of the Follow-up Committee for the Support of Lebanese Prisoners in Israeli Prisons, Mohammed Safa, called Monday for including the issue of Lebanese detainees in the government''s policy statement. In a letter he sent to Prime Minister Omar Karami, Safa said he had read the new government''s draft policy statement and found that it contained nothing about the issue of the Lebanese prisoners in Israel. "Was this a deliberate omission or was it just a continuation of the official policy of forgetfulness and neglect toward this important national and humanitarian issue?" he asked. Photostory: Khiam Detention Camp By Arjan El Fassed, Electronic Intifada 10/30/2004 Khiam prison was a detention and interrogation camp during the years of the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon. From 1985 until the Israeli defeat in May 2000, Lebanese and Palestinian detainees were held in Khiam without trial. Most of them were brutally tortured - some of them died. Soon after the Israeli withdrawal from South Lebanon, the guards of the notorious Khiam prison fled, leaving the prisoners free. Men, women and children had been held in appalling conditions. |
Two films for one By Azmi Bishara, Al-Ahram Weekly on-line 11/25/2004 Brutality, it seems, has an infinitely long shelf life -- We are living through heady days. Israelis and Palestinians are furiously exchanging nods and winks as they usher in the post-Arafat phase and they are trumpeting such "achievements" and "breakthroughs" as Israel''s decision to allow the Arabs of Jerusalem -- whose land Israel wants to annex without granting its inhabitants the rights of citizenship -- to take part in the PA presidential elections. The Hebrew dailies are madly vying with one another in featuring horror stories from another world, the world of the occupier and the occupied in Gaza and the West Bank. It feels as though it is end-of-an-era inventory time in Gaza, and with the Israeli conscience in Gaza, as lurid details of heretofore unimaginable acts committed by their soldiers somehow fuse with postmodern consumerism. From the photos from Abu Ghraib we segue to those that Yediot Aharanot splashed in its edition of 14 November 2004 and around which it is planning a full supplement due out on 26 November. Apart from the horror, there was one thought I could not get out of my head: why would soldiers be obsessed with having their pictures taken, in the Israeli case, with Palestinian corpses? In Abu Ghraib the camera, and the desire of the perpetrators to document their perverse thrill in the course of committing torture, were concomitant factors in the crime. In Israel soldiers from a certain military unit gather to have their pictures taken around the severed head of a Palestinian fighter stuck on a bayonet with a cigarette planted in his mouth. The pictures were a kind of a good luck charm, the soldiers said. Soldiers from another unit had their pictures taken with the bullet-riddled body of a boy whom they thought was a "terrorist" but turned out to be innocent. They called him "Hafy", an abbreviation of the Hebrew for innocent, as though the dead boy''s innocence was a subject of jest rather than remorse. They then tied his corpse to a car and paraded it round the camp.
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