Friday, 9 September, 2011 | 00:34 « Wadi Hilweh Information Center – Silwan, Jerusalem Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) — Two young residents of Silwan have been sentenced to 5 months in prison, after a two year long legal battle against Israeli authorities. Omar Ameen Siyam and Mahmoud al-Bana, both 23, weathered two years of prison, house [...]
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PPSF member detained at Ramallah checkpoint
Maan News Agency | Sept 8, 2011 NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained a member of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front late Wednesday after holding him at Atara checkpoint north of Ramallah. PPSF member Monadel Hanini told Ma’an that Israeli forces detained Awni Abu Ghosh, 50, while he was on his way back to Jerusalem, [...]
11 detained at rally near Bethlehem
Published today (updated) 10/08/2011 15:40 Walaja hosts regular protests against land confiscation [MaanImages, File] BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained 11 protesters Wednesday afternoon during a rally in the village of Al-Walaja, near Bethlehem, the village committee and Israel’s army said. Alaa Darras, a member of the village’s local committee against the wall, said Israeli [...]
Wife of political prisoner detained in Al-Khalil
[ 08/08/2011 - 12:20 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Security services in Al-Khalil summoned the wife of one of its prisoners on Sunday amid a continued arrest spree in the West Bank. Sources close to the prisoner’s family said she was questioned for five hours about a previous ten-year sentence her husband spent in Israeli custody. [...]
IOF troops arrest 310 citizens in July including 32 minors
[ 04/08/2011 - 12:42 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested 310 citizens in the past month of July in 500 raids on various West Bank cities, villages, and refugee camps, the Palestinian ministry of prisoners in Gaza reported on Wednesday. It noted that 50 citizens were detained in Al-Khalil, and 47 in [...]
Israeli police detain 150 Palestinian workers
[ 28/07/2011 - 10:18 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Israeli police forces arrested 150 Palestinian workers in cultivated lands in the Galilee north of Palestine occupied in 1948 on Thursday morning. The Israeli radio claimed that the workers were working in the fields without permit. The Israeli security forces daily storm areas where those workers usually [...]
Ashqar: Israel detained more than 3000 Palestinian children in 5 years
[ 19/07/2011 - 03:13 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The ministry of prisoners in Gaza said that the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have detained more than 3000 Palestinian minors over the period 2005 – 2010 and not only 835 as published by the Israeli B’Tselem. The ministry’s spokesman Riyadh Al-Ashqar said in a statement on Tuesday [...]
Eleven Palestinian Youths Detained In Silwan
Wednesday July 13, 2011 16:51 by Kevin Murphy – IMEMC and Agencies Wafa has reported that eleven Palestinian teenagers have been arrested in the Palestinian district of Silwan in East Jerusalem. The teenagers, aged between 14-17, were taken from their homes by Israeli military on Wednesday during a raid of the area Eleven Palestinian teenagers [...]
#Airflotilla | Israel blocks lawyers access to detained activists – video
RT NEWS Forty pro-Palestinian activists, detained in Israel for trying to reach Gaza, are being denied access to see lawyers. They’re currently detained in Tel Aviv for taking part in airplane aid mission, after their boats were blocked in Greece. RT talks to pro-Palestinian activist Ronnie Barkan, who’s in Tel Aviv. RT on [...]
Former IDF General Rothschild gets red carpet treatment while Sheikh Raed Salah gets prison cell
Dr. Hanan Chehata Tuesday, 05 July 2011 13:22 | MEMO In 2008 Rothschild suggested new tactics to make life so difficult for Palestinians that they will have no choice but to leave their homes; ethnic cleansing by stealth. With what is appalling timing, given the arrest of Sheikh Raed Salah a week ago on the [...]
Ra’ed Salah is not racist, the Zionists are ~ by Khalid Amayreh
[ 04/07/2011 - 10:36 PM ] By Khalid Amayreh in occupied East Jerusalem The arrest by the British authorities last week of Sheikh Rae’d Salah, one of the prominent leaders of Israel’s 1.7 million-strong Palestinian community, is a real affront to the most elementary considerations of justice. It is also an indelible shame that should [...]
Australian in Gaza flotilla detained: reports
July 5, 2011- ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is investigating reports a Sydney man who is part of a flotilla headed for Gaza has been detained by Greek authorities. Activists say Michael Coleman was taken by the Greek coastguard after he tried to stop them intercepting the flotilla. [...]
US captain of Gaza ship held in ‘shocking conditions’
Published today (updated) 03/07/2011 21:01 Israeli left-wing protesters hold signs during a demonstration against the Greek authorities’ decision to ban a Gaza-bound flotilla from setting sail outside the Greek embassy in Tel Aviv. Jumpy activists on the ill-fated mission to Gaza insist the evidence is mounting that Israeli secret services are behind the slew of [...]
Palestinian man still under arrest after demonstration in Beit Ommar on Saturday
29 June 2011 | Beit Ommar | ISM Two international activists are released following their arrest and court hearing in Jerusalem, while a Palestinian man is still under custody following a peaceful demonstration in Beit Ommar that occurred on June 25th. The two international activists and a 22 year old Palestinian were brutally arrested during [...]