Ramallah, July 18, 2009, (Ramattan)- Palestinian local report Saturday revealed that the Israeli Occupation Forces arrested 12,000 Palestinian women since the occupation of the occupied Palestinian territory in 1967.
In a report issued today, the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said that the Israeli troops arrested 12,000 women, 53 of them are still in custody.
The report points out that 5 of the women are less than 18 years old.
PPS added that 850 Palestinian women have been detained by the Israeli troops since the eruption of Al-Aqsa Intifada in September 2000.
It indicated that 9550 Palestinians are still detained in the Israeli prisons including 360 children.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Studies center: Suffering of prisoners doubles in summer
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RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- The prisoners' center for studies has said that the suffering of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation authority (IOA) jails is doubled during the summer season as a result of soaring heat and humidity, and poor ventilation. The center in a press release on Saturday said that insects spread during the summer season into wards and cells in the Negev desert prison, the Damon jail and old prisons such as Ramle-Nitzan and the old Sheba prison, Nafha and Shatta. Many prisoners told the center that they could not sleep or be at ease in their cells due to the presence of a big number of rats especially in the old wards in Sheba and Ramle prisons. The Israeli prisons authority (IPA) does not allow fans in prisons and humidity soars in the summer season, which doubles their suffering especially in coastal prisons such as Askalan, the center's release said. It added that prisoners also suffer from water shortage and lack of cold water other than the spread of bad smells near a number of prisons such as Nafha and Ramon. Ra'fat Hamdona, the center's director, appealed to all human rights organizations and those concerned with the prisoners' question to pressure the IOA into conducting a medical check-up on all prisoners at least once every year. He also asked for pressuring the IPA into displaying more concern with cleanliness inside those jails and closing old wards in addition to improving ventilation and moving prisoners to better places. |
Israeli forces arrest 3 Palestinians, 2 Israeli pacifists in WB
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Israeli forces arrest Palestinian resident of Beit Ommar
8 July 2009
Yunis Al Alami, a 20 year old resident of Beit Ommar, was arrested by the Israeli army at 2 AM this morning in a military house raid. 3 jeeps carrying approximately 12 soldiers arrived at his home in the middle of the night, arresting him without warrant, charges or explanation. No one knows where he was taken, or when he will be released.
Yunis is a student at Hebron University, and life-long resident of Beit Ommar. He was arrested in front of his parents and siblings, including three children. His 22 year old brother, Ahmed Al Alami, was arrested a year ago under similar circumstances, and is still being held without charges in Administrative Detention.
The arrest is just one more incident in a series of political arrests of Palestinian youth by the Israeli military in Beit Ommar, including several that lead to Administrative Detention, where individuals are held without charge or trial indefinitely. There are currently over 750 Palestinians being held in “Administrative Detention.” Most prisoners in Administrative Detention are males between the ages of 16 and 30, and are held anywhere from 6 months to several years. They are never told what they are accused of, and are only taken in front of rubber-stamp military courts where evidence is presented in a closed courtroom without the presence of defendant or their attorney. Many are tortured and held in solitary confinement for weeks or months on end.
The practice of Administrative Detention, as used by the Israeli government, is a blatant violation of human rights, and illegal under international law. The prospect of arrest from your home is just one more frightening reality of the occupation, and one more reason for Palestinian families to grieve.
Israeli forces arrest 6 solidarity activists in Beit Ommar
7 July 2009
On July 7, 2009 at approximately 5pm, an Israeli military official called the mayor of Beit Ommar/ Saffa, Nasri Sabarneh, and informed him that settlers had set fire to some trees in the Abu Jabber Soleiby land in Saffa, just under the illegal Bat ‘Ayn settlement. A group of internationals, including one who also holds Israeli ID, went down into the valley to investigate and document the destruction. When they arrived, a group of Israeli soldiers was already present. While the group of internationals quickly began surveying the area, one soldier, Phillip, crossed the valley to a group of 4 activists and told them to leave. The group, who did not find evidence of a new fire (other than the old destruction of June 19, 2009 and June 22, 2009) began leaving the area, accompanied by the one soldier. Meanwhile, two internationals who were further up the valley with the owner of the land and his family, were also told to leave, and they began to do so. At one point Phillip threw a sound grenade at the group of 4 activists as they were walking away, but the group continued. Half-way up the valley, however, the trap was sprung. Soldiers ran up from behind the group of 4, grabbing two men by the neck and one women by the arm, screaming at them to sit down, that they were being arrested. One activist managed to get away, going further up to the village from which they had come and ostensibly where the soldiers wanted everyone to go. She, along with the other two internationals and the farmers were then surrounded by soldiers at the entrance to the village, preventing the tractor from leaving the area. The three internationals were then attacked by soldiers. One was hit in the face with a gun, another kicked in the leg, and a third wrestled into handcuffs and dragged into an army jeep, in total contradiction to Israeli law that states only police can arrest foreign nationals. All three were brought to the police station in the illegal settlement of Etzion. They were never shown a paper declaring the area a Closed Military Zone, another Israeli law.
The other three internationals further down the valley, were held on the ground until a commander could run up and show them a paper, insisting it was a closed military zone order, though no one was allowed to look at it closely and the group was already detained and not allowed to leave, also in violation of military procedures. Phillip then said to Bekah Wolf, co-founder of Palestine Solidarity Project and married to Palestinian co-founder Mousa Abu Maria, “your father didn’t teach you what to do with your pussy so you went and f*cked Arabs.” Phillip also indicated that he knew Wolf from previous actions in Saffa, and that she was “famous” with that particular unit and the police of Etzion. What followed was clearly a series of planned harassment of Wolf and the other internationals, even though the arrest itself was totally illegitimate.
Police finally arrived and officially arrested the group of three, and began to transport them to the Etzion police station. The group with Wolf were paraded through the Bat ‘Ayn settlement. At one point soldiers transporting one of the men alone stopped the jeep in the settlement and opened the back doors in front of a group of settler youth. The two groups of three were then reunited at the police station.
While 5 of the internationals (all excluding Wolf) were first offered release on conditions to stay out of the area for 2 weeks, and then were eventually released without any conditions, Wolf was to be held over night and taken to court. A commander, who was not present until after the arrests, filed a complaint stating that Wolf had slapped one of his soldiers, though the soldier himself said he wasn’t sure if it was intentional or if he’d been hit while trying to grab Wolf during her illegal arrest.
After 23.5 hours (Israeli citizens can only be held for 24 hours before being brought in front of a judge), Wolf was taken to a court and after reviewing the evidence presented by the prosecution, including the assertion that “settlers have never entered the valley”, she was released only on the condition that she obey any closed military zone orders (which is already law) and sign a guarantee of 5,000 shekels.
Not pleased with the results, police, in collusion with the prosecution, refused to process her release, causing her to be put back into the Jerusalem prison for more than three additional hours. The attempt to prevent “left-wing activists” (as they were described in the police reports) from entering the area in the end was totally rejected. The next day, however, when farmers attempted to enter the land, which has been ordered open to them for the last 10 days, they were refused by the Israeli military, without cause or paperwork.
Explosions Pierce the Quiet of Bi'lin
On July 7th at 3:30, soldiers disrupted the tranquility of Bi'lin by forcing their way into several houses. Israeli soldiers came with a list of 10 names for arrest . When Palestinian, international, and Israeli activists arrived at the scene they were subjected to violence and intimidation by the Israeli occupation forces. One activist with the International Solidarity Movement had non-violently blocked the entrance to one of the doors when he was attacked by soldiers, forced to the ground, and subjected to pain compliance. He was then arrested and carried by a group of soldiers into a military jeep. When activists and community members responded, they were beaten back with batons and forced to dodge a large number of percussion grenades.
Meanwhile, activists tried blocking the jeeps from leaving by erecting makeshift barricades in the street. The Israeli occupation forces responded with a number of percussion grenades and then rammed their jeeps through. They forced their way up the street and to several other houses. While there, they arrested a young man and issued nine summons to families of youths who were not present. This was done without explanation or warning. In the process of storming other houses, the soldiers were again confronted by activists and community members who refused to be dispersed even after repeated percussion and flash bang grenade attacks by soldiers. The jeeps had to make an escape through a second set of erected barricades and they exited into the night with their victims inside.
Thank you for you continued support,Iyad Burnat- Head of Popular Commitee in Bilin
co-founder of Friends of Freedom and Justice - Bilin
Email- bel3in@yahoo.com
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Trade unions and NGOs demonstrated until release of Al Jazeera cameraman arrested en route to Gaza
08.07.09 - 12:38
Gaza / PNN – The Al Jazeera cameraman arrested by Israeli forces off the coast of Gaza has been released.
Yemen national Mansour Al Abi was aboard the humanitarian aid boat “Spirit of Humanity” recording the mission to break the siege on Gaza when it was hijacked by the Israeli navy last Tuesday. He was finally released from Israeli prison yesterday.
The Israel-based bureau chief of Al Jazeera, Majid Khader, reported that Al Abi had been under pressure to say he had willingly and illegally entered Israeli boundaries. “But they did not enter Israel illegally,” he said. “They were aboard the Spirit of Humanity covering an operation heading for Gaza. They were forced to come ashore.”
Israeli naval ships surrounded the boat as it passed from international to Gaza waters, boarded, and arrested the 21 people on board, including the Al Jazeera cameraman, leaving them no choice but to be taken into Israeli boundaries at gunpoint.
Yemeni authorities had been negotiating with Israel and neighboring countries to secure Al Abi’s release.
His colleague, Al Jazeera reporter Othman Al Battiri, was released and deported to Jordan on Sunday. Al Abi is one of the last “Spirit of Humanity” passengers to be released.
Trade Union calls
Ahead of Al Abi’s release a gathering of Trade Unions yesterday condemned his imprisonment and called for aid to be allowed into the Gaza strip.
The location of the ship’s cargo of aid is still unknown though the occupying administration has said some of it may be sent on to Gaza, subject to security clearance.
The trade union meeting described the arrests and withholding of aid as part of a continuing series of violations against the people of Gaza. They called on trade unions, international institutions and the United Nations to put pressure on the Israelis to lift the blockade and comply with the Geneva Conventions.
Fmr. Congressmember Cynthia McKinney back in U.S. after being detained and deported from Israel
8 July 2009
Guests:
Cynthia McKinney, former U.S. Congresswoman and the 2008 Green Party presidential candidate.
Adam Shapiro, documentary filmmaker, human rights activist and Palestinian rights activist. Adam was a co-founder of the ISM in Palestine. He was filming the voyage of the Arion for the Free Gaza Movement last week.
AMY GOODMAN: Former Congress member Cynthia McKinney arrived back in the United States Tuesday following her deportation from Israel. McKinney was one of 21 activists seized by the Israeli military in international waters last week as they tried to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. Also aboard the Free Gaza boat was Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire. Last week’s trip was the Free Gaza movement’s first since it aborted an attempt in January after the Israeli navy threatened to shoot the civilian passengers on board. That sailing had come just weeks after an Israeli Navy vessel deliberately rammed another of its boats, almost forcing it to sink. Cynthia McKinney joins us now in Washington D.C. We are joined here at the Firehouse by Adam Shapiro. He was filming the Free Gaza trip last week. He is a Palestinian human rights activist and co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement. Both former Congress member McKinney and Adam were detained for the past week and just deported back to the United States.
Cynthia McKinney why did you go? What happened to you in the Israeli jail?
CYNTHIA McKINNEY: I went because there’s a gross injustice being carried out everyday. This is my second attempt to get into Gaza with the Free Gaza organization. And for the two times I attempted to get in, two times I have been thwarted by the Israeli military. The cause is the human rights of the Palestinian people. The world saw the operation Cast Lead where the United States supplied white phosphorus, depleted uranium, cluster bombs, DIME weapons, were rained down on the defenseless people of Gaza. Of course, we desperately wanted to get in to take humanitarian relief supplies. And both times I have tried to go with Free Gaza, they’ve been thwarted—we have been supported thwarted by the Israeli military.
AMY GOODMAN: Now were you on one of the boats that was rammed?
CYNTHIA McKINNEY: I was on the Dignity. And yes it was rammed in international waters…
AMY GOODMAN: When was this?
CYNTHIA McKINNEY: ..This was in December, just a day or so after the outbreak of Operation Cast Lead. I was contacted by Free Gaza and asked to go within 24 hours and I said, yes, I would go.
AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to play a comment made last week by Israeli government spokesperson Mark Regev who dismissed the humanitarian mission of the Free Gaza Movement.
MARK REGEV: Israel every day is allowing humanitarian support to reach the people of Gaza. Food stuffs, medicines, energy and so forth. This boat was not about that. This boat was about political activists who have been apologists for the Hamas regime who have nothing whatsoever to say about Hamas’s brutal treatment of the people of Gaza.
AMY GOODMAN: Former Congress member McKinney, your response?
CYNTHIA McKINNEY: Well, clearly, we just had a visit to Gaza by President Carter, Former President Carter. Basically, he acknowledged that with the complete and utter devastation that the people of Gaza experienced at the hands of weapons that were supplied to Israel by the United States, he said that unfortunately the Palestinians are treated worse than human beings. I challenge the Israelis to respond to what President Carter had to say.
AMY GOODMAN: Former Congress member McKinney, tell us about the jail. Were you able to reach the Obama administration while you were there?
CYNTHIA McKINNEY: Well, the jail was very interesting. In fact, the first most interesting thing I witnessed was the seemingly endless stream of people of color who are being processed as we were being processed. And on my cell block, there were women from Africa and Asia who thought they were going to Israel because Israel was the Holy Land. And many of them, not all of them, but many of them had United Nations refugee status. They have been certified by UNHCR as refugees, but what they were told as they faced the threats and intimidation from the police is that the United Nations is not in Israel.
AMY GOODMAN: Adam Shapiro, you are Palestinian rights activist long known for this. You were on the boat. You were roughed up, you were filming when the Israeli military came on board. Describe what happened.
ADAM SHAPIRO: Well, they boarded us, four zodiac ships as well as eight naval warships, they surrounded our boat and can immediately towards the wheel house where I was along with the captain and one other crew member. I was documenting the whole trip and filming as they boarded the ship. Two soldiers came after me immediately, recognizing I think that they don’t want any footage of what was happening and they don’t want the world to know how they behave. I tried to keep the camera as long as I could. But I was pummeled repeatedly in the back and arms and choked and eventually they got the camera out of my hands. They have since taken all of our tapes, all of our flashcards and all of that, so we don’t have a record to show the world of what happened on board. The rest of the time we were detained in one room of the ship as we spent the better part of six hours navigating back to an Israeli port where we were processed and ultimately jailed.
AMY GOODMAN: There was another Al-Jazeera reporter on board as well ?
ADAM SHAPIRO: There was an Al-Jazeera reporter and cameramen. They lost all of their footage and camera as well.
AMY GOODMAN: Their computer was taken?
ADAM SHAPIRO: Yes, it was taken, completely reformatted and erased. And so again, we don’t seem to have a record to show the world what happened.
AMY GOODMAN: Your response to Israeli Spokesperson Regev?
ADAM SHAPIRO: Well Mark Regev is known for his colorful descriptions of how great life is in Gaza as far as Israel is concerned. However, all of the reporting, including the most recent International Committee for the Red Cross, shows the number of trucks Israel is allowing into Gaza is completely insufficient for what is needed. And so yes, it is true, he can say Israel allows foodstuffs and medicines to get in, but two trucks a day or 20 trucks a day is far inferior to what is needed. And we have seen, since the international outcry following January’s attack has subsided the number of trucks Israel has allowed in has decreased. And so, what we are saying, Free Gaza is a humanitarian effort to bring in the kinds of medicines and foods that are needed. But the Free Gaza movement is also a political organization in the sense we are human rights organization, And human rights for Palestinians is inherently political. And we are challenging Israel politically too, and this week I think has been a success for those of us who are fighting for Palestinian rights. We were not able to get into Gaza but we have shown the world the true colors of the Israeli occupation, and the double standard by which the United States and other countries are dealing with Israel.
AMY GOODMAN: Former Congress member McKinney, we only have ten seconds. But, you’ve just been deported. What are your plans right now?
CYNTHIA McKINNEY: Well, I would like to see the children of Gaza have the coloring books and crayons that we had on board with us. I would like to see the houses that have been destroyed rebuilt. I would like to see the lives rebuilt for the people of Gaza and I would like to see the people of Palestine have, and enjoy their human rights.
AMY GOODMAN: Do you think president Obama is headed in that direction?
CYNTHIA McKINNEY: I think you can probably answer that as well as we can, because while we were in detention, the Foreign Ministry of Ireland made protests and asked the government of Israel to release its nationals, several Members of Parliament
AMY GOODMAN: …We have 5 seconds….
CYNTHIA McKINNEY: from the United Kingdom…
AMY GOODMAN: … 5 seconds….
CYNTHIA McKINNEY: …also wanted to censure Israel. Nothing from the United States.
AMY GOODMAN: Cynthia McKinney, Adam Shapiro, Thank you so much. I’m Amy Goodman. Thanks for joining us.
Israeli to UN: Palestinian detainees kept in ditches
Daniel Edelson | YNet News
7 July 2009
A member of the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) testified in Geneva on Tuesday before a United Nations investigation team looking into the Israeli offensive in Gaza about half a year ago.
Attorney Majd Bader, an Arab Israeli, told the committee that Palestinians detained by Israel during Operation Cast Lead were held in detention under ‘disgraceful” conditions and were subjected to violent Shin Bet interrogations and constant threats.
Speaking to Ynet, Bader said that during his testimony he spoke of the “acute problems of Gazans who are being held in Israeli prisons.”
“Some of them said the IDF held detainees in ditches that had been prepared in advance; 50 to 70 people were squeezed into ditches two to three meters (6.5-10 feet) deep and some 50 meters (164 feet) wide,” he said.
The PCATI representative said the detainees testified to being held handcuffed and blindfolded with no access to restrooms, food or water.
‘Clear findings needed’
As for the interrogations by the Shin Bet security service, Bader said these included the use of physical and verbal abuse and threats on the detainees and their families.
“Some detainees said they were allowed very little sleep for days on end and claimed they were handcuffed in a painful way,” he said.
Bader further complained that the detainees are prevented from meeting their lawyers and that their families could not visit them due to the Israeli blockade on Gaza.
The attorney expressed his hope that the committee would publish clear findings “that will prevent the recurrence of human rights infringements on the part of both sides.”
Bader said he believed Israel’s decision not to cooperate with the committee was a mistake. “The government should not have boycotted the committee if it was confident in the moral and legal justification of its ways,” he said.
“Israel should have established an independent investigative committee to examine the allegations.”
Monday, July 6, 2009
Child remains in Israeli custody after being taken from Qalqilia area home three days ago
01.07.09 - 11:45
Qalqilia / PNN - At 1:30 am Sunday the village of Azzun in the West Bank’s Qalqilia was invaded by 120 Israeli soldiers looking for a “wanted” teenager.
After ransacking three homes Israeli forces blasted into a fourth through the back door. They threw rocks at the door and windows, report witnesses.
A 16 year old high school student had begun a summer job with his father as an apprentice carpenter. Israeli soldiers took the teen from his bed: no shoes and in his underpants.
The boy’s parents pleaded with the Israeli soldiers that their child be allowed to dress.
Soldiers claimed they were only taking the 16 year old for a “minute or two.” His family has not seen him since, reports the International Women’s Peace Service, a humanitarian mission based in the West Bank’s Salfit.
The youth's parents did not know why he was arrested, but said they have faced a similar situation before. When their eldest son was just 12 years old he was also taken by soldiers who said they would return him after a “couple of minutes.” Instead, he was imprisoned in Israeli prison and released three years later.
A second son was reportedly shot to death while with two friends in March 2003 by soldiers beside Highway 55.
The Israeli soldiers who did not deliver first aid then left the boy’s body outside the District Coordinating Office in Qalqilia, and the army later claimed the youth had died after he fell and broke his neck.
With one son killed and the other missing, the Qalqilia parents are distraught.
Israeli parliament to discuss draft law depriving Hamas prisoners of visits
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OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Israeli parliament is to discuss on Sunday a draft resolution tabled by a Likud member stipulating banning visits to Hamas prisoners in Israeli jails as long as captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit remained in captivity. Hebrew press reported that the law also stipulates isolating Hamas prisoners from other prisoners. It added that lawyers and Red Cross would be exempted of the ban. The draft law was passed in a preliminary reading and was now being tabled anew for endorsement. |
Torture by Permission of Judiciary Reflects Official Terrorism of IOA (Report)
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Amid the laughter of Israeli soldiers mocking all norms and values, the officer calls out: “Number Three: step forward.” With weak and hesitant steps, one of the six Palestinian children steps forward to receive several blows on his skinny body and then return to his comrades. Then another child is called forth to undergo the same treatment while the soldiers laugh. The Israeli organization, Physicians for Human Rights, revealed that prison doctors participate in the torture of prisoners by denying them treatment in order to force them to confess. They also deliberately ignore diseases prisoners suffer, discovered during the routine exam conducted when a prisoner first arrives at the prison, and write false reports that the prisoners are in good health and not suffering from any disease. This constitutes a medical license for interrogators to continue torturing them by clearing the way for the use of greater physical and psychological pressure on the prisoner. That makes these doctors complicit in the torture of prisoners. State Terrorism Even more serious, the Zionist judicial system provides legal legitimacy for torture, allowing its perpetrators to carry on without accountability or punishment. It is evidence of the official state terrorism conducted by the occupying power, which does not abide by any convention or international law, but at the same time calls for its application in the case of the captive soldier, Gilad Shalit, being held by Palestinian factions in Gaza. In fact, it has devoted a special convention specifically against torture, in addition to the many articles and principles contained in treaties and other international conventions; for example, Article VII of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights states: “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel treatment or punishment or inhuman or degrading treatment.” Also, the sixth principle of the Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment states: “No person undergoing any form of detention or imprisonment shall be subjected to torture or other inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. No circumstances can be invoked to justify torture.” Statistics show that 98% of the prisoners abducted by Israeli authorities are tortured in the interrogation cellars and detention centers of the Zionist security forces. In another method, a prisoner is placed in a cramped refrigerator, a cube with interior dimensions of about two feet per edge (70 cm3). His hands are cuffed behind his back; cold air is then pumped in from an opening at the top of the cube until the temperature inside is zero degrees centigrade; this leads to the prisoner freezing inside the refrigerator till he is racked by violent tremors, which can lead to the breakage of ribs. Another technique is shackling prisoners in painful positions, such as cuffing the calves and pulling them backwards underneath the chair; then pulling the upper body of the prisoner backward over the top of the chair. Loud music is also employed; as is covering the head and face with a dirty bag reeking of rotten flesh. Another technique is to shine a powerful light directly into the prisoner’s eyes. Another is to lay the prisoner on his back with his hands cuffed beneath him in order to induce severe pain in the hands from his own body weight pressing down on them. The interrogator may also sit on his chest to further increase the pressure and pain so as to extract a confession. Another technique is to force prisoners to stand for long periods. One of the most sinister methods employed is to put the detainee in a room with turncoat Palestinians working with the occupation authorities; they attempt to convince the prisoner that they are activists like him in an attempt to draw him out about his activities on the outside. If he refuses to talk, they will attack and beat him. He will not see anyone or talk with other prisoners, and he will be deprived of all means of communication with the outside world, even of visits. The guards will search his room daily in order to increase the psychological sense of violation and insecurity. If he gets sick, he will be deprived of medical treatment. The abuse is rounded out with beatings, humiliation, and placement of his cell in prison wings filled with common criminals. These organizations should not marshal all their resources for the benefit of one Zionist prisoner while overlooking the suffering of eleven thousand Palestinian prisoners. |
Israeli Occupation Force Invades Bilin Village and Kidnap Two Youth
Sunday 5\7\2009
http://www.bilin-ffj.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=161&Itemid=1
At approximately 4:15 on the morning of 5.7.09 more than 100 Israeli Soldiers invaded Belin Village. Many of them were masked and all carried automatic weapons. They attacked several houses and arrested Oda Rebhe Abu Rahma, 20, and Mahmoud Issa Yassein, 17. Upon request the soldiers would not tell their families where they were taking them or the name of an officer in command. Palestinian and international presence questioned the soldiers and dearrested several people who were documenting the kidnappings. This is the third week of night raids in Bilin village. Israeli soldier have conducted night raids almost every night and have arrested seven village youth during this period.
قوة من جنود الاحتلال الإسرائيلي يقتحمون قرية بلعين ويعتقلون شابين
الأحد 5\7\2009
قامت قوة من جنود الاحتلال تقدر بمئة جندي من المشاة بالتسلل فجرا إلى قرية بلعين، ومن ثم محاصرة العديد من المنازل والقيام بالعبث بمعتوياتها وتفتيشها، من بينها بيت عودة ربحي أبو رحمة ( 20 سنة)، وبيت محمود عيسى ياسين (17 سنة) ومن ثم اعتقالهما. وقد حاول مجموعة من المواطنين والمتضامنين الدوليين منع اعتقال الشابين إلا أن الجنود اعتدوا عليهم وقد أبرزوا لهم الأورق والخرائط والأوامر العسكرية التي تبين "أن قرية بلعين منطقة عسكرية مغلقة".
وتأتي هذا الحملة ضمن السياسة الإسرائيلية التي يقوم بها جنود الاحتلال للأسبوع الثالث على التوالي من خلال مداهمته للمنازل واعتقال الناشطين الذين يشاركون في المسيراة المناهضة لبناء الجدار والمستوطنات، حيث أُعتقل سبعة فتيان خلال افترة السابقة.
Thank you for you continued support,
Iyad Burnat- Head of Popular Commitee in Bilin
co-founder of Friends of Freedom and Justice - Bilin
Email- bel3in@yahoo.com
Mobile- (00972) (0) 547847942
Office- (00972) (2) 2489129
Mobile- (00972) (0) 598403676
www.bilin-ffj.org
http://www.bilin-ffj.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=161&Itemid=1
At approximately 4:15 on the morning of 5.7.09 more than 100 Israeli Soldiers invaded Belin Village. Many of them were masked and all carried automatic weapons. They attacked several houses and arrested Oda Rebhe Abu Rahma, 20, and Mahmoud Issa Yassein, 17. Upon request the soldiers would not tell their families where they were taking them or the name of an officer in command. Palestinian and international presence questioned the soldiers and dearrested several people who were documenting the kidnappings. This is the third week of night raids in Bilin village. Israeli soldier have conducted night raids almost every night and have arrested seven village youth during this period.
قوة من جنود الاحتلال الإسرائيلي يقتحمون قرية بلعين ويعتقلون شابين
الأحد 5\7\2009
قامت قوة من جنود الاحتلال تقدر بمئة جندي من المشاة بالتسلل فجرا إلى قرية بلعين، ومن ثم محاصرة العديد من المنازل والقيام بالعبث بمعتوياتها وتفتيشها، من بينها بيت عودة ربحي أبو رحمة ( 20 سنة)، وبيت محمود عيسى ياسين (17 سنة) ومن ثم اعتقالهما. وقد حاول مجموعة من المواطنين والمتضامنين الدوليين منع اعتقال الشابين إلا أن الجنود اعتدوا عليهم وقد أبرزوا لهم الأورق والخرائط والأوامر العسكرية التي تبين "أن قرية بلعين منطقة عسكرية مغلقة".
وتأتي هذا الحملة ضمن السياسة الإسرائيلية التي يقوم بها جنود الاحتلال للأسبوع الثالث على التوالي من خلال مداهمته للمنازل واعتقال الناشطين الذين يشاركون في المسيراة المناهضة لبناء الجدار والمستوطنات، حيث أُعتقل سبعة فتيان خلال افترة السابقة.
Iyad Burnat- Head of Popular Commitee in Bilin
co-founder of Friends of Freedom and Justice - Bilin
Email- bel3in@yahoo.com
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www.bilin-ffj.org
Israel indicts refugee for 'infiltrating' Negev
Date: 05 / 07 / 2009 Time: 14:52 | |
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| Abd Al-Rahman Talalkeh, 25 |
In a statement to Ma'an, Israel claimed that the Palestinian refugee, Abd Al-Rahman Talalkeh, was arrested in the Negev desert on 1 June after having left Gaza and entered Israel via the Sinai Peninsula.
He was indicted at a Beersheba court in the Negev, which was both the target of the alleged "infiltration" as well as the prior residence of 16,000 refugees who pre-Israel Zionist militants expelled to the An-Nuseirat camp in Gaza, where Talkalkeh was born in 1984.
Israel alleged that the young Palestinian said he received military training by the Popular Resistance Committees in Gaza, intended to establish "a terrorism infrastructure inside Israel," and was well-versed on the use of a variety of weapons.
The Popular Resistance Committees did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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