extracts from PCHR weekly report 10/6 - 16/6/2010
At least 800 Palestinian prisoners from Gaza in Israeli jails have been deprived of family visitation for more than two and a half 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 29 Palestinian civilians, including 8 children.
IOF summoned a 7-year-old child for interrogation.
Thursday, 10 June 2010
· At approximately 00:00, IOF moved into Beit Ummar village, north of Hebron. They raided and searched a number of houses and arrested two Palestinian children:
1. 'Eissa Kamel Bahar, 16; and
2. Sameer 'Aamer Abu Maria, 15.
· At approximately 02:00, IOF raided and searched a house belonging to Ahmed Khalil Abu Hashem, 43, Secretary of the Public Committee against Settlement and the Wall in Beit Ummar village, north of Hebron. According to Abu Hashem, at approximately 02:00, IOF moved into Khillat al-Barahish area in the south of Beit Ummar village. At approximately 02:15, they threw stones at the windows and doors of Abu Hashem's house. They also detonated sound bombs in the vicinity of the house and called on Abu Hashem through megaphones to move to his roof with his hand up. When he and his wife got up the roof, they forced him to uncover the upper part of his body and to return to the house and awaken the 11 other residents of the house. IOF forced the residents out of the house and questioned them until 04:45. According to Abu Hashem, this house raid was the tenth of its kind in the past 2 months. Before raiding Abu Hashem's house, IOF had raided 4 houses, including 2 belonging to his brothers. During these house raids, IOF violently beat Abu Hashem's nephew, 16-year-old Sakher.
· At approximately 01:00, IOF moved into 'Aanin village, west of Jenin. They raided and searched a number of houses and arrested Ahmed Fat'hi Mansour, 19.
· At approximately 01:30, IOF moved into Dura village, southwest of Hebron. They raided and searched a number of houses and arrested 4 Palestinian civilians:
· At approximately 06:30, IOF moved into al-Mazra'a village, northwest of Ramallah. They patrolled in the streets and arrested Yousef Mohammed Shraiteh, 15, but released him in the afternoon.
Monday, 14 June 2010
· At approximately 01:30, IOF moved into Beit Ummar village, north of Hebron. They raided and searched a number of houses and arrested 3 Palestinian children:
1. 'Anan Mohammed Bahar, 16;
2. Mo'ayad Jawad Bahar, 17; and
3. Mohammed 'Ali Abu Maria, 17.
Tuesday, 15 June 2010
· At approximately 01:00, IOF moved into Qarawat Bani Hassan village, northwest of Salfit. They raided and searched a number of houses and arrested Hamza Mahmoud Rayan, 26.
· Also at approximately 01:00, IOF moved into Bethlehem. They raided and searched a house belonging to the family of Isma'il Khader Masalma, 17, and arrested him.
· Also at approximately 01:00, IOF moved into al-Duhaisha refugee camp, south of Bethlehem. They raided and searched a house belonging to Fa'eq Mahmoud Hajajla, 52, and summoned him for interrogation.
Also at approximately 01:30, IOF moved into 'Anabta village, east of Tulkarm. They raided and searched a number of houses and arrested 2 Palestinian civilians:
1. Safwan Nazeeh Melhem, 22; and
2. Ahmed Fat'hallah Jadallah, 22.
At approximately 02:00, IOF moved into Shwaika suburb, north of Tulkarm. They raided and searched a number of houses and arrested 'Aadel Mohammed Qaddouha, 20.
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
· At approximately 01:30, IOF moved into Beit Ummar village, north of Hebron. They raided and searched a number of houses and arrested 'Alaa' Mahmoud Slaibi, 20, and Mohammed Sameer Abu Maria, 22. They also summoned 7-year-old Mohsen Yousef 'Awadh for interrogation. According to local sources, at least 90 Palestinian civilians have been arrested by IOF in the village since the beginning of this year. In the Hebron district, IOF have arrested 470 Palestinian civilians, including 90 children and 4 women, since the beginning of this year.
· At approximately 02:00, IOF moved into Wd al-Hariya neighborhood in Hebron. They raided and searched a number of houses and arrested Fahed Majed Abu Sbaih, 23.
