Sunday, September 13, 2009

PCHR weekly report: 3-9/11/2009: 27 Palestinians arrested including 7 children

excerpts from PCHR weekly report No. 36/2009 03 . 09 Sep. 2009

At least 900 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have been denied family visitation rights for more than two years.

In recognition of ICRC as the guardian of the Fourth Geneva Convention, PCHR calls upon the ICRC to increase its staff and activities in the OPT, including the facilitation of family visitations to Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.

IOF arrested 22 Palestinian civilians, including two children, in the West Bank, and 5 children in the Gaza Strip.

Thursday, 03 September 2009

· At approximately 00:30, IOF moved into Jenin. They raided and searched a number of houses and arrested Aibak 'Allam Abu 'Ali, 20.

· At approximately 01:00, IOF moved into Bourqin village, west of Jenin. They raided and searched a number of houses and arrested Mohammed Bassem Khloufm, 19.

· At approximately 01:30, IOF moved into Qalqilya. They raided and searched a number of houses and arrested Mahmoud Nejem, 27.

· At approximately 02:00, IOF moved into 'Aqabet Jaber refugee camp, south of Jericho. They raided and searched a number of houses and arrested Ra'fat 'Abdullah Ka'abna, 24.

· At approximately 03:00, IOF moved into Nahalin village, west of Bethlehem. They raided and searched a number of houses and arrested two Palestinian children:

1. Nahed Mohammed Zaidan, 17; and

2. Mohammed Mousa Ghayaza, 17.



Friday, 04 September 2009

· At approximately 01:00, IOF moved into village, east of Nablus. They raided and searched a number of houses and arrested two Palestinian civilians:

1. 'Alaa' Hamdi Nasasra, 19; and

2. Hamada 'Abdul Rahman Khatatba, 19.

· At approximately 01:30, IOF moved into Tulkarm. They raided and searched a number of houses and arrested Mohammed al-Jermi, 27.


Saturday, 05 September 2009


· Also at approximately 02:00, IOF moved into Beit Leqia village, west of Ramallah. They raided and searched a house belonging to the family of Younis Sa'id Mousa, 22, and summoned him for interrogation.

· At approximately 02:30, IOF moved into Bal'ein village, west of Ramallah. They raided and searched houses belonging to the families of Yassin Mohammed Yassin, 21; Hamza Suleiman Bernat, 16; and Mohammed Ahmed Yassin, 20, to arrest them. No arrests were reported as the three persons were not at home.


Sunday, 06 September 2009


At approximately 02:00, IOF moved into al-Ram village, north of Jerusalem. They raided and searched a house belonging to the family of 'Abdul Ra'ouf al-Maslamani, and summoned him for interrogation.


At approximately 17:30, IOF troops moved nearly 150 meters into the north of the Bedouin Village in the northern Gaza Strip. They arrested 5 Palestinian children while grazing animals:

1. Mohammed 'Arafat Abu Khousa, 17;

2. Sameh 'Abdul Qader Abu Hashish, 15;

3. Fraih Qassem Abu Hashish, 12;

4. 'Aa'ed Hazzaa' Abu Hashish, 16; and

5. Ibrahim Shihda Abu Jarad, 17.



Tuesday, 08 September 2009

· At approximately 00:30, IOF moved into Ethna village, west of Hebron. They raided and searched a number of houses and arrested two Palestinian civilians:

1. Marwan Hdaib 'Awadh, 30; and

2. Waddah Mohammed Abu Juhaisha, 20.

· At approximately 01:00, IOF moved into al-Far'a refugee camp, south of Tubas. They raided and searched a number of houses and arrested 3 Palestinian civilians:

1. Wa'el Jamal Subeh, 22;

2. 'Alaa' Jamal Subeh, 25; and

3. Mahmoud Rajeh Abu al-Habal, 40.

· At approximately 03:00, IOF moved into al-Jalazoun refugee camp, north of Ramallah. They raided and searched a number of houses and arrested 'Alaa' Saleh Abu Sharifa, 18.

· Also at approximately 03:00, IOF moved into Safarin village, east of Tulkarm. They raided and searched a number of houses and arrested Talal Ahmed Saleh, 50.


On Tuesday, an Israeli military court ordered the transfer of 'Abdullah Yassin Fuqaha, 44, from Kufor al-Labad village east of Tulkarm, who had been placed under administrative detention in Israeli jails, to Bethlehem town in the southern West Bank.

Wednesday, 09 September 2009

· At approximately 01:00, IOF moved into Jaba' village, south of Jenin. They raided and searched a number of houses and arrested 'Imad Amin Canaan, 40.

· Also at approximately 01:00, IOF moved into Deir al-Ghossoun village, north of Tulkarm. They raided and searched a number of houses and arrested Munawar Lutfi Abu Saa', 42.

· At approximately 01:30, IOF moved into Beit Ummar village, north of Hebron. They raided and searched a number of houses and arrested Hassan Sami Slaibi, 21.

· At approximately 02:00, IOF moved into Sa'ir village, northeast of Hebron. They raided and searched a number of houses and arrested Ahmed Sa'di Shalalda, 22, and his brother Mahmoud, 25.