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The
Treatment of Prisoners and Detainees by Israel and Others
Prisoners Archive - December 2003
Actors
at an Israeli court demonstrate Israel’s torture methods used against Palestinian
detainees as described by witnesses. Source: Miftah
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Palestinian prisoners denied proper medical treatment Palestinian Information Center 12/30/2003 Bethlehem - Lawyers of the Palestinian prisoner’s club have said that Palestinian internees in a number of Zionist jails and detention centers were severely tortured and denied proper medical treatment. Nizar Mahajna, Hussein Al-Sheikh and Ma’mon Al-Hushaim quoted the prisoners as saying that they were compelled to sign confessions just to rid themselves of torture while children were forced to sign papers, which they could not understand. Bushnaq family sues Zionist intelligence Palestinian Information Center 12/25/2003 Jenin - Family of the Palestinian detainee Husam Bushnaq, living in the village of Rummane to the west of Jenin, has filed a lawsuit against Zionist intelligence for injuries inflicted on Husam during his violent interrogation rounds over the past two months. Husam suffered a broken nose and several other injuries as a result of the Zionist intelligence the Shabak’s brutal torture. Women Behind Bars Jerusalem Times 12/25/2003 At the moment Um Adel Abu Khousa, 65, from Jebalia Camp, heard the news about a deal between the Lebanese Hizbullah and Israel to exchange prisoners, under German mediation, she became glad that her daughter, Iman, is soon to be released from jail....The prisoners Maha Ukk from Bethlehem and Sona Raii from Kalkilya suffer psychological disorders due to the torture and maltreatment they were subjected to during interrogation. Abeer Omar from Hebron and Amal Mahmoud from the Golan suffer backaches. The prisoners Amneh Muna suffers from an ulcer and backache and Ilham Mughrabi from Askar camp suffers from cancer. Manal Ghannam gave birth to her child two months ago with chains in her hands. [If unable to access this page, go to: http://www.jerusalem-times.net- then enter or paste this address: http://www.jerusalem-times.net/article/news/details/detail.asp?id=4540 - Ed.] Waiting to See the Sun: Palestinian Female Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails Reach 75 - Part I International Press Center 12/18/2003 As part of its continuous policy of humiliation to all the sectors of the Palestinian people, the Israeli occupation continues to hold and arrest more than 74 Palestinian female political prisoners in its jails, suffering daily torture and harsh detention conditions. Gathered from all of the Palestinian territories in the same cell, sharing the bitterness of life and the oppression of the occupation; a mother, a sister or a wife of a Palestinian martyr, prisoner or a wanted resistance activist. They were either abducted in the middle of the night or at one of the hundreds of Israeli military checkpoints. Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories 04-10 December Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 12/11/2003 2 Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces / Palestinian prisoner dies from torture and medical negligence in an Israeli prison / Israeli forces conducted a series of incursions into the West Bank and Gaza Strip / 3 Israeli military incursions into the Gaza Strip, during which 8 houses in Rafah and Khan Yunis were destroyed and areas of agricultural land were razed / Houses were raided and a number of Palestinians were arrested /Construction of the “separation wall” in the West Bank continued / Israeli occupying forces established a new military post and 2 observation towers in the Gaza Strip / In violation of international human rights and humanitarian law, Israeli occupying forces transferred 12 Palestinians from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip / Indiscriminate shelling of Palestinian residential areas continued, injuring a number of Palestinian civilians /A Palestinian house in Hebron was destroyed by Israeli forces as part of the continuing campaign of retaliation against the families of Palestinians accused of involvement in attacks against Israeli targets / Israeli occupying forces continued to impose a total siege on the OPTs Palestinian women union deliver memo to Red Cross on female detainees Palestinian Information Center 12/10/2003 Nablus - A delegation representing the union of Palestinian women in the Nablus district has delivered a memo to the Red Cross representative in the city explaining the sufferings of Palestinian female prisoners in Zionist jails. The memo elaborated on the Zionist prison authority’s torture methods and maltreatment in addition to depriving the detained students from completing studies. The memo further spoke of the deteriorating health conditions of those prisoners and the worsening state of the detained mothers. An occupier tells all - the story of Israeli brutality towards Palestinians Al-Bawaba 12/10/2003 Liran Ron-Forer is a war criminal. Don’t buy his book. Moreover, would someone in the District Attorney''s office put him on trial?That''s the opening sentence in a recent article published on Israel''s Yediot Aharonot website entitled "A Sadist''s book", which discloses the story of a new book written by Ron-Forer, 26, who was an Israeli soldier positioned during his military service at a Gaza checkpoint. In his book, Ron-Forer describes, in chilling details, how he and his friends tortured Palestinians - with declared pleasure – in various ways....It should be added, however, that many publishers in Israel, including the well-known Steimatsky bookstore chain refused to publish his book because of its criticism of Israeli military conduct. Palestinian-Canadian says tortured into confessing Ha''aretz 12/8/2003 Jamal Khatib, the attorney of a Palestinian-Canadian who was recently arrested by Israeli security services for allegedly planning attacks on Israelis and Jews overseas, said Monday that his client''s confession was coerced using torture, Army Radio reported. The Shin Bet security service said Monday that it is holding a Palestinian with a Canadian passport who is suspected of being recruited by Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip to carry out attacks in Canada and the United States. THE PAIN MERCHANTS: Security equipment and its use in torture and other ill-treatment - Full report Amnesty International 12/2/2003 1. INTRODUCTION: "It''s possible to use anything for torture", says a US manufacturer of electro-shock riot shields, "but it''s a little easier to use our devices." (1)..."An Israeli General Security Service agent, ''Jerry'', giving testimony before a military court in the matter of Palestinian detainee Sa''id Zo''arub, spoke about a method he described as ''tightening the handcuffs to the smallest possible circumference on the detainee''s wrist''. He told defence attorney Leah Tsemel the objective was ''to obtain vital information''." (43)...The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), which exercise a policing function in the Occupied Territories, and the Israeli police, use rubber bullets that are rubber in name only. They consist of a substantial metal core covered with a very thin layer of rubber.(64) Amnesty International: US Exports $20 million of Shackles, Electro-Shock Technology Amnesty International 12/2/2003 Expanding Global Trade Supplies States US Condemned for Torture -- (Washington, DC) – A new Amnesty International report charges that in 2002, the Bush Administration violated the spirit of its own export policy and approved the sale of equipment implicated in torture to Yemen, Jordan, Morocco and Thailand, despite the countries'' documented use of such weapons to punish, mistreat and inflict torture on prisoners. The US is also alleged to have handed suspects in the ''war on terror'' to the same countries. |
On Hamas’ 16th Anniversary By Anne Gwynne, Palestine Chronicle 12/16/2003 Nablus, West Bank -- Whenever I light a cigarette I think of B and the many companionable cigarettes and cups of strong, sweet coffee we took together in Nablus. I smoked my last one in the beautiful, moonlit city with him, very late, on the night before I left for the USA for a summer visit. To meet was a huge risk for him but he wanted to say “until we meet again”. I hadn’t made it to an earlier rendez-vous, and was sad that I had missed him – he knew, so he came back at a very dangerous time when the soldiers were in the city! To my profound sorrow some four months later he has finally been trapped and captured in Raffidiya during an Israeli occupation army undercover operation in which his brother was also dragged in shackles from his bed. It is difficult to face the images of the brutal cruelty they are now suffering at the hands of the Israeli torturers in a continuous merging of day into night - a seamless agony of cold and thirst, unbearable noise, filth, electric shocks, snapping bones and screaming tendons in windowless, stinking, blood-drenched rooms where the brilliant lights burn retinas behind taped-open, sleep-deprived eyelids 24-hours a day. Oh, there are dozens more cruel and inhuman tortures then this, all well-documented by the victims, with names, dates, and details. But no one is listening to the appeals of prisoners near to death from torture – B and his brother will join the 190, unsung outside Palestine, who have already died of Israeli brutality. If the usual experience of other prisoners is anything to go by, we will meet again only in the Paradise. Unless there is a sea-change of attitude by the Governments of the world, no one outside the prison is likely to see him again, for no visits have been allowed since 1997. It is hard to comprehend not seeing ever again a human being who is still on this earth. It is hard enough when someone dies.
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