Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association – 8 March 2010
Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association marks International Women's Day 2010 by honoring, commemorating and saluting Palestinian women political prisoners and detainees in their steadfast resistance against Israeli colonial occupation and struggle towards securing the right of Palestinians to self-determination.
An estimated 10,000 Palestinian women [...]
Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Occupied Jerusalem, Nov 30 – The fate of one prisoner locked in an Israeli jail could release the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process from its own jail – provided the timing is right.
The political timing is definitely ripe.
This week a major residual source of tension [...]
By, Bianca Zammit* and Fadi Skaik** | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
There are currently approximately 11,000 Palestinian prisoners being held captive in Israeli jails across Israel. Whilst their imprisonment is of itself in direct contravention of international law, the whole arrest, judiciary and imprisonment process compromises their basic human rights. In Gaza, the families of prisoners [...]
By Terrell E. Arnold *
09-21-09 – For nearly a century the Palestinian people have felt the pressures of outsiders scheming to take over their homeland. For the past sixty years the invaders have systematically undertaken the ethnic cleansing of Palestine to make way for new Israelis. For this purpose the invaders have constructed a [...]
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The tyrannical nature of administrative detention and its complete violation of human rights are based on confidential materials kept from the detainee and the lawyer. The confidential materials determine the period of detention and its extension thereafter. The administrative detainee is allowed an appeal before a court martial but the confidentiality of the [...]
Also tagged Administrative Detention, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, palestinian, prisons, ZionismAccording to the indictment, the soldiers were responsible for transferring 13 Palestinian detainees from the Tulkarm Regional Brigade to an IDF military court in northern Israel in April 2006.
During the journey, the soldiers grabbed the prisoners by their hair, struck their chests and necks and demanded they repeat the number soldiers had previously assigned them [...]
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 [...]
"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 [...]
Oh yeah… Israel kidnaps, not only Palestinian freedom fighters, but civilians. And in case you are "shocked" by the news, you need to know that Israel kidnapped thousands of Palestinians civilians before Palestinians resistance fighters captured Gilad Shalit as PoW.
Anyway, Israeli army invades Bethlehem and kidnaps three civilians
The Israeli army invaded the southern West Bank [...]
Azmi Bishara – The Legend Begins
(Ben Heine © Cartoons)
1. Will I hang the flag?
By Gideon Levy (Source: Ha'aretz)
There is a flagholder installed in my garden. The previous residents used it to fly the flag of their favorite soccer team. Since they left, the holder has remained orphaned. During my childhood, there was no question about [...]
[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, Prisoner
