Israeli court imprisons wounded detainee

[ 20/09/2010 - 09:24 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- The high national committee for prisoners said that an Israeli court issued an imprisonment sentence for two and a half years against a wounded prisoner called Ahmed Asfour from Khan Younis town in the Gaza Strip. The national committee pointed out in a statement on Sunday that prisoner Asfour suffers from difficult health conditions resulting from serious injuries he sustained during the Israeli war on Gaza and was kidnapped at Beit Hanoun crossing as he was heading to receive medical treatment in occupied Jerusalem. It added that the prisoner obtained all necessary permits from the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) before he decided to travel to Jerusalem. The committee affirmed that the prisoner's lawyer gave the IOA all medical reports that prove his client's deteriorating health condition, but the IOA did not care at all about his suffering and insisted on detaining him. In the context of the Israeli violations of human rights, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) re-kidnapped an ex-detainee in their jails called Zinedine Azzedine during a raid on his home on Sunday evening in Al-Khalil city. The Palestinian information center (PIC) was told that three detainees, namely, professor Mustafa Shawar, Sufyan Jamjoom and Ahmed Al-Titi were administratively detained by the IOA without any charges filed against them. Sources told the PIC that the detainees were kidnapped three days ago from their homes and none of them were interrogated or indicted, adding that all of them spent some time in Israeli jails before. Dozens of Palestinian families rallied in Nablus city at noon Sunday in protest at Israel's violations against their sons in its jails. The families chanted slogans calling on the Palestinian negotiators to stop ignoring the issue of prisoners in their talks with Israelis. The families also handed a letter to the Red Cross to urge it to urgently intervene to stop Israel's aggressive acts against the prisoners.