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The UN has sent an official request to Israel to admit the existence of secret prison camp 1391, dubbed in the press "Israel's Guantanamo Bay," according to the Palestinian [...]
A feature story from British ITV news. It's only a short news clip, but one that US media will never air.
Also tagged child-abuse, Children, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, PrisonImage by: Benjamin Heine
Couple of months ago, Abdul-Nasser Farawna, an ex-detainee, a specialist in Palestinian Detainee's Affairs and the head of the census department of the Ministry of Detainees and Freed Detainees, prepared a comprehensive report on Palestinian detainees imprisoned by Israel, which revealed that Israel kidnapped 700,000 Palestinians since it occupied the Palestinian territories [...]
Also tagged Israel, occupation, Palestine, PrisonHere 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 husband were on [...]
"Netanyahu: Swapping prisoners for Shalit would harm Israel"
(i.e. Not a hell of a lot. But if he gets killed, they will make him a martyr and exploit it for all it's worth! The dead are always of much greater value to the Israelis than the living.)
Netanyahu also said that he would not serve as [...]
A building formerly occupied by Fatah's intelligence service in Gaza was long notorious for torture and execution. Now Hamas is in control — and is letting former inmates visit the chamber of horrors. The cells are small, perhaps six feet by six feet, with only an overhead lamp to provide light. The toilet is [...]
Also tagged fatah, Gaza, Hamas, Palestine, Prison, TortureOne 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 [...]
Also tagged Barghouti, Israel, Jail, occupation, Palestine, PrisonAhmad Abu Haniya, the Youth Project Coordinator for the Alternative Information Center (AIC), was released from administrative detention on 14th May 2007, after two years of imprisonment without any trial or formal charges being brought against him.
Ahmad was detained at an Israeli military checkpoint on his way to work on 18th May 2005 and placed [...]
[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 goods, for which the officials [...]
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 of [...]
It’s been five years since the first detainee arrived at the infamous Guantánamo Bay prison on 11th January.
Here is a video put together by the public defenders office in Oregon, released on youtube, about their Sudanese client Adel Hamad, a hospital charity worker and ping pong player who sits in Guantanamo bay since 2002.
The lawyers [...]
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, her [...]
Some of these children are as young as 4 years old, they take a number of buses, sometimes traveling up to 20 hours, with checkpoints, searches, etc. for a 45 minute visit with dad. [Hat tip: Editerette]
Israel does not allow most wives or other relatives this privilege for the over 9,000 Palestinians in Israeli jails… [...]
Also tagged Child, Children, Did you know?, Failures, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, palestinian, Prison, PrisonersIf the enemy is the law and the judge, how would you expect justices from it?
Now, if we know that the enemy is the occupation state of Israel, does that make it any worse? I guess not, they are already known for worse!
The occupier defines justice
By Amira Hass – Haaretz
On Jerusalem's Jabotinsky Street, opposite the [...]
"It would be better to drown these prisoners in the Dead Sea if possible, since that's the lowest point in the world." – Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli Transport Minister (1)
Might Israel release up to 600 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the Israeli soldier captured near Gaza on June 25? Negotiations are underway.
As this story develops, the [...]
