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Doron Zahavi (aka Captain George), a suspected Israeli torturer gets key police job in Jerusalem

by Jonathan Cook August 8, 2010

Doron Zahavi accused of running Israel’s Abu Ghraib By Jonathan Cook * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz A police officer known as “Major George” who is accused of torturing Arab prisoners in his previous role as chief interrogator in a secret military jail has been appointed to oversee relations with Jerusalem’s Palestinian population, it has [...]

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Hamas Release Animated Gilad Shalit Cartoon [Video]

by Haitham Sabbah April 26, 2010

A superbly-made futuristic animated cartoon broadcast by Hamas movement on Sunday is creating waves in Israel. It is thought to be the first of its kind from the military wing of Hamas that does not depend on the traditional images of brave Hamas warriors fighting against Israel. Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHVR63sDY7c The film wants to send [...]

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Deporting Gandhi from Palestine

by SR Editor April 19, 2010

By Jamal Dajani* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The Israeli government’s recent announcement of Army order No. 1,650 was just the latest act of provocation in a series of calculated measures to derail any possible resumption of peace negotiations. Under this new draconian measure, anyone who doesn’t have a “permit” to be in the West [...]

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Matt Beynon Rees – A Palestinian Mandela

by SR Editor February 6, 2010

By Matt Beynon Rees | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The most important man in Palestinian politics is neither president nor prime minister. He doesn’t shuttle between meetings at the US ambassador’s residence and the Israeli foreign ministry. In fact, he doesn’t go anywhere. He’s in an Israeli jail. Marwan Barghouti, 50, is serving five life [...]

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Military Justice in Israel

by Haitham Sabbah June 12, 2009

Adapted from the Amnesty International Report: http://bit.ly/13b6o4 Hundreds of Palestinians, including scores of children, were detained by Israeli forces in the OPT and many were held incommunicado for prolonged periods. Most were later released without charge, but hundreds were charged with security-related offences and tried before military courts, whose procedures often failed to meet international [...]

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Oren Yiftachel – The Jailer State

by SR Editor January 18, 2009

Israel has turned Gaza into a massive prison, and is choosing to prolong the cycle of state terror and prisoner resistance that goes with that, writes Israeli academic Oren Yiftachel “We have a great opportunity now in Gaza to smash and flatten them…[We] should destroy thousand of houses, tunnels and industries, and kill as many [...]

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“Daddy will come at night, like a butterfly”

by Haitham Sabbah June 29, 2007

Here is a new sample of the “peace loving Israeli occupation”. The following video testimonies produced and published by B’tselem (The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories) shows a sample of Palestinian daily misery life under the Israeli occupation: Video testimony – Maysun al-Hayek: In February 2002, Maysun al-Hayek and her [...]

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The time has come to release Barghouti

by Haitham Sabbah June 25, 2007

One of the leaders of the Palestinian people has been incarcerated for approximately five years now in Israel. The time has come to release him. For years, Marwan Barghouti has tried to persuade Israelis to end the occupation through negotiation. He has gone from one Israeli party headquarters to the next, meeting with politicians across [...]

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Blood on Our Hands

by Haitham Sabbah April 17, 2007

[Image by Carlos Latuff] By Uri Avnery’s – Gush Shalom 14/04/07 AT THIS moment, negotiations on a prisoner exchange are in full swing. The term “negotiations” is really inappropriate. “Haggling” seems more fitting. One could also use an uglier expression: “trafficking in human beings”. The planned deal concerns living people. They are being treated like [...]

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Israel torturing Palestinian child prisoners

by Haitham Sabbah April 14, 2007

By: Philippe Khan Appalling photographs of abuse and torture by American guards at U.S. military bases and detention facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan shocked the international community, but the Palestinians have been suffering harsher treatment inside Israeli prisons since the 1967 occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The Palestinians’ suffering at the hands [...]

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From Texas cell, Canadian, 9, pleads for help

by Haitham Sabbah March 7, 2007

The US is holding a nine year old Canadian citizen without charges in a ‘Detention Center’ in a legal limbo. Call it international limbo. Detained by U.S. Customs officials after their flight to Toronto made an unscheduled stop on American soil nearly four weeks ago, Kevin and his Iranian parents, Majid and Masomeh, feel they [...]

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Please jail me!

by Haitham Sabbah February 20, 2007

Jewish activist arrested for “illegal” protest against (legal) wall on stolen land. He was activist convicted of participation in an illegal protest against the separation fence asked the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court to sentence him to jail time, rather than community service or a suspended sentence. Despite his request, the court decided to issue him [...]

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2-yr old Palestinian released from Israeli prison!

by Haitham Sabbah November 2, 2006

The attached is from our local Al-Quds newspaper on Nov 1, 2006. A story about a 2-yr old girl who was released from an Israeli prison near Ramallah. Her name is Aiysha, which in Arabic means “life.” Aiysha’s mother gave birth to her while detained in an Israeli prison. Aiysha was released two days ago, [...]

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Forced labor for Palestinian children in Israeli prison

by Haitham Sabbah October 21, 2006

Many Palestinian children in Israeli Telmond Prison are being exploited by “forced labor in which they must work eight hours for a few shekels,” as reported by the Prisoners Information Center. One of the children made a statement after his release. “The prison administration has forced all prisoners in Telmond Prison to work eight hours [...]

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Abu Hamza jailed for terrorism

by Haitham Sabbah February 7, 2006

Remember the hook-handed captain and his infamous ‘Saturday Night’ Fatwa? Well, finally, Abu Hamza al-Masri (a.k.a. Mustafa Kamel Mustafa) has been jailed for seven years after being found guilty of 11 terrorism charges, including soliciting murder and threatening behavior. Personally, I think this is very little for him.

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