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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Sit-in over political prisoners to be held in Al-Khalil Thursday
[ 07/09/2011 - 08:18 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Palestinian rights advocates will stage a sit-in at ibn Rushd circle, downtown Al-Khalil 1pm Thursday to protest the continued detention of political prisoners in the Palestinian Authority’s security prisons. According to the latest agreements between Fatah and Hamas in Cairo, all political prisoners were slated to be [...]
Yousef: Netanyahu obstructed Shalit deal
[ 13/08/2011 - 12:55 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– MP Hassan Yousef, a Hamas leader in the West Bank, has charged Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu with obstructing the prisoners’ exchange deal after it reached an advanced stage during the reign of his predecessor Ehud Olmert. Yousef pointed out that Israeli negotiators, involved in the exchange deal [...]
Families Cry Out for Palestinian Prisoners
ingaza weblog | July 25, 2011 For eight years, Umm Bilal has not been able to see her son in Israeli prison. GAZA CITY, Jul 25, 2011 (IPS) – By Eva Bartlett “We could enter the Guinness book of records for the longest running weekly sit- ins in the world,” Nasser Farrah, from the Palestinian [...]
Longest held administrative detainee arrested again
[ 11/08/2011 - 12:50 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The longest held Palestinian prisoner in administrative detention Ayed Dudin, 44, has once again been arrested just 40 days after being released. Prior to the incident, Dudin had been kept in administrative detention without an indictment for four years. He is considered the first case observed by [...]
Prisoner falls into coma amid medical neglect at Negev prison
[ 11/08/2011 - 10:34 AM ] BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– Zakariyya Dawud Issa, 43, from Khadar in Bethlehem governorate, has fallen into a coma after not being served the proper treatment by the Negev prison ward, sources among the prisoners have reported. They added that symptoms had been appearing on Issa for months without being given the [...]
Ministry of prisoners calls for ending Israel’s crimes against female detainees
[ 11/08/2011 - 11:24 AM ] GAZA, (PIC )– The Palestinian ministry of prisoners’ affairs in Gaza appealed to international organizations concerned with women’s issues to move to stop Israel’s crimes and violations against Palestinian women in its jails. The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) is still holding 33 Palestinian women in its jails after it [...]
Israeli soldiers tried to rape teen during interrogation
[ 07/08/2011 - 12:54 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli soldiers attempted to rape a teen under interrogation in Etzion, sources revealed Sunday. The victim’s brother Ammar Jabir, 26, from Al-Khalil, said that he was arrested on 25 July alongside his brother Mahmoud, and that during the arrest he was beaten so severely by the soldiers [...]
Abul-Sabeh holds Negev administration responsible for lives of detainees
[ 08/08/2011 - 05:48 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian minister of prisoners’ affairs Attallah Abul-Sabeh held the Israeli administration of Negev jail fully responsible for the lives of Palestinian detainees in its custody after 40 of them fell sick of food poisoning. Abul-Sabeh stated that the prisoners ate Sahoor meals (a meal eaten just before [...]
Ruqub: No freedom for Shalit until our prisoners are released
[ 08/08/2011 - 11:00 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Hamas spokesman in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, Hamad Al-Ruqub has urged the armed wings of resistance factions to capture more Israeli soldiers to trade them for Palestinian prisoners. Ruqub, speaking at a ceremony in honor of the recently liberated prison Bilal Abu Dakka, said [...]
Forty Palestinian prisoners poisoned in Negev prison
Monday, 08 August 2011 13:30| MEMO 40 Palestinian prisoners suffered food poisoning after eating expired food provided by the prison the canteen. The Ramallah-based Palestinian Ministry of Prisoner Affairs announced that 40 Palestinian prisoners being held in the Israeli desert prison of Negev, suffered food poisoning after eating expired food provided by the prison the [...]
Isarel bans families from visiting their sons jailed in 1948 occupied lands
[ 08/08/2011 - 12:30 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– The prisoners’ center for studies said the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) decided to prevent some families of Palestinian prisoners in its jails from entering the 1948 occupied lands to visit their sons at the pretext they made violations. Prisoners in Shatta jail told the center that the [...]
Palestinian female prisoners suffer in Ramadan
Aug 7, 2011 | Palestine Telegraph | International Solidarity Movement Israeli prison administration decided to tighten its harsh measures against Palestinian female prisoners of Hasharon during the holy month of Ramadan. A researcher at the international solidarity foundation, Ahmed al-Betawi, stated that Israeli prison administration refused to allow female prisoners of Hasharon prison to purchase [...]
Israeli forces detain 4 in Beit Ummar
Published today 14:04 HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces raided Beit Ummar on Saturday evening and detained four residents during a ceremony to honor Palestinian prisoners, Ma’an’s correspondent and the army said. Israeli soldiers fired tear gas and live ammunition during the raid on the town north of Hebron, witnesses said. An Israeli military spokeswoman said [...]
Haneyya stresses: All Palestinian prisoners should be freed
[ 07/08/2011 - 11:33 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian premier in the Gaza Strip Ismail Haneyya has stressed that all Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation jails should be freed. He said during a visit to the home of liberated prisoner Mahmoud Al-Sharif, who spent 17 years in Israeli prisons, that the issue of those prisoners [...]