Palestinian Child Prisoners
Posted by Haitham Sabbah on 2 November, 2007
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A feature story from British ITV news. It’s only a short news clip, but one that US media will never air.
Posts Tagged ‘Prisoner’
700,000 Palestinians were kidnapped since 1967
Posted by Haitham Sabbah on 9 October, 2007
Image 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 [...]
“Daddy will come at night, like a butterfly”
Posted by Haitham Sabbah on 29 June, 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 husband were on [...]
What’s a Jewish soldier’s life worth?
Posted by Haitham Sabbah on 26 June, 2007
This item was filled under [ Israel ]
“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 Visit to Fatah’s Torture Chamber
Posted by Haitham Sabbah on 25 June, 2007
This item was filled under [ Palestine ]
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 [...]
The time has come to release Barghouti
Posted by Haitham Sabbah on 25 June, 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 [...]
Podcast: Two years in Israeli Prisons without trial or charges
Posted by Haitham Sabbah on 1 June, 2007
Ahmad 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 [...]
Blood on Our Hands
Posted by Haitham Sabbah on 17 April, 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 goods, for which the officials [...]
Israel torturing Palestinian child prisoners
Posted by Haitham Sabbah on 14 April, 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 of [...]
Guantanamo Unclassified
Posted by Haitham Sabbah on 11 January, 2007
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 [...]
2-yr old Palestinian released from Israeli prison!
Posted by Haitham Sabbah on 2 November, 2006
This item was filled under [ Bleeding Edge, Breaking News, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, War Crimes ]
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 [...]
Palestinian child visit dad in prison, family can’t!
Posted by Haitham Sabbah on 30 October, 2006
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… [...]
The occupier defines justice
Posted by Haitham Sabbah on 24 August, 2006
If 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 [...]
Drown these prisoners in the Dead Sea - Israeli Minister
Posted by Haitham Sabbah on 22 August, 2006
“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 [...]
Children Political Prisonors at Israeli Terrorist Jails
Posted by Haitham Sabbah on 6 July, 2006
This item was filled under [ Human Rights, Israel, Media, Middle East, Palestine, Podcast, Terrorism, War ]
Audio Interview: Palestinian Children in Israeli Jails
Stefan Christoff, The Electronic Intifada, 20 May 2006. [Hat tip: Robin]
Listen to an interview with Ayed Abu Eqtaish, a child rights activist from Defense for Children International [Palestine Section] and Adam Hanieh of Sumoud, a political prisoner solidarity group based in Toronto. This interview was recorded during the April/May [...]
Sign petition!
Posted by Haitham Sabbah on 17 April, 2005
This item was filled under [ Palestine ]
“7500 Palestinians are currently being held as political prisoners by Israel, including around 344 Palestinian children and 115 Palestinian women. These prisoners face forms of torture and mistreatment during their arrest and detention, and are consistently denied family and lawyer visits.” Sign petition!
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