JERUSALEM (AFP) — The Israeli army is to try several soldiers suspected of posting a video on YouTube that shows them humiliating a bound and blindfolded Palestininan, a statement said on Friday.
The clip posted last week showed soldiers from the crack Golani Brigade forcing a prisoner to repeat degrading remarks in Hebrew while they looked [...]
Ramallah, (PIC)– Palestinian sources in the West Bank said that Amer Ghazal, a political prisoner in one of Abbas’s jails has suffered complete paralysis as a result of the torture he underwent at the jail.
The sources, which preferred to remain un-named, said on Friday that Ghazal underwent severe torture, including prolonged periods of (Shabh), which [...]
“Israel is carrying out almost daily arrests against Palestinians by saying they are wanted for security reasons.”
This isnt my normal topic… but it’s so crazy, and such a good article.. from such a great blog - that I couldn’t resist….
From Window Into Palestine:
You’d think that if Shimon Peres invited you to Israel, getting a visa would be snap. After all, Peres does happen to be the country’s President, and surely that [...]
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Lawyer Bothaina Doqmaq, head of the Mandela Institute in Palestine, reported on Friday that the detainees in several sections and in solitary confinement in Al Jalama Israeli prison and interrogation center started a hunger strike on Thursday in protest to the harsh living conditions and the administration’s rejection to move them to ordinary sections although [...]
Name: Ezzat H
Age at incident: 10
Date of incident: 11 June 2008
Location: Sanniriya, Qalqiliya
Accusation: None
A 10-year-old boy was subjected to physical abuse amounting to torture for 2.5 hours by Israeli soldiers who stormed his family’s shop on 11 June, seeking information on the location of a handgun. [...]
By Agustín Velloso
When you approach the Erez frontier post to enter Gaza from the north, you notice a concentration camp straightaway even if you may never have seen one like the ones turned into museums or educational centres, or like the ones that appear in documentaries or photographs.
An observation balloon, innocently painted white, rocks gently [...]
By Stuart Littlewood – London, UK
At last, an explanation (of sorts) for the assault on Mohammed Omer by Israeli security officials has finally landed on my doormat.
It comes in the form of a letter from the Israeli Embassy in London to my MP, and refers to the “security check” Mohammed was put through when he [...]
by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News
Last week, soldiers kidnapped resident Jamal Hussein Ameera, 50, after his daughter managed to capture on film an Israeli soldiers shooting a Palestinian youth after they arrested and handcuffed him. The father was sentenced on Tuesday to one hundred days imprisonment.
The father was kidnapped by the soldiers less than a [...]
Jerusalm / PNN - As Israeli forces continue to bulldoze Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem, this is the second Palestinian bulldozer incident ever. They both took place in West Jerusalem this month.
Ghassan Mustafa Abu Tair, just 23 years old, died Tuesday afternoon after being shot by an armed Israeli civilian and then shortly after by [...]
Jerusalm / PNN - As Israeli forces continue to bulldoze Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem, this is the second time that a Palestinian with a bulldozer fought back. The first time was at the beginning of the month.
Ghassan Abu Tair is dead Tuesday afternoon after being shot by an armed Israeli civilian and then shortly after by Israeli forces when [...]
Over the last few weeks a range of human rights organisations have been able to document with video cameras abuses against Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. A month or so back, BTselem released video of settlers in the South Hebron Hills attacking Palestinian farmers, while the ISM shot film a few weeks ago in [...]
By Ali Moosavi - The Arab American News
The events of Sept. 11 have to be seen in two ways — as the predictable and inevitable consequence of our unchecked imperial policies and as the growth of Islamism as the only popular alternative to the status quo. The irony is that these aren’t mutually exclusive forces; [...]
By Gideon Levy
He has already seen everything. At 24, he has already been documenting the horrors of his city, Rafah, for six years. He photographs and writes, seeking to be a voice for those who are voiceless, as he puts it. On his Web site Rafah Today (www.rafahtoday.org) - like that of USA Today or [...]
by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies
Palestinian detainee Samer Shirab, was released from an Israeli detention facility this week. He spent seven years in detention and in the past he was imprisoned for more than five and a half years following his abduction by the soldiers in 1996.
The family was relieved after his [...]
Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer, Gaza correspondent for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs and co-recipient of the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, was hospitalized with cracked ribs and other injuries inflicted by Israeli soldiers at the Allenby Bridge crossing from Jordan into the occupied West Bank.
Omer was returning home to Gaza after a [...]
By Mel Frykberg
GAZA CITY (IPS) - Mohammed Omer, the Gaza correspondent of IPS, and joint winner of the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, was strip-searched at gunpoint, assaulted and abused by Israeli security officials at the Allenby border crossing between Jordan and the West Bank on Thursday as he tried to return home to [...]
By Nora Barrows-Friedman
USH GHRAB, West Bank, (IPS) - East of Beit Sahour in Ush Ghrab, the tree line stops and the bronze, rocky desert begins. In a flat clearing on this hilltop, a small, abandoned military post is being slowly transformed from an assorted collection of cement-grey barracks into a virtual oasis for the region’s [...]
Palestinians in Gaza take cover during clashes with Israeli troops during demonstrations marking 60 years of Palestinian dispossession from their homeland, 15 May 2008. (Wissam Nassar/MaanImages)
Each American claim to moral authority becomes a foul excretion in light of US complicity in Israel’s barbaric and illegal treatment of the Palestinians. Washington deploys its superpower apparatus [...]
Palestinian female detainees, members and supporters of Hamas movement, imprisoned Israel demanded international and local feminist groups to intervene and practice pressure on the Israeli occupation in order void a deportation order against a female detainee and her six children.
The detainees said that they observe with deep concern the Israeli decision to deport detainee Nora [...]
Arab member of Knesset, Mohammad Baraka, sent on Wednesday a letter to the Israeli Internal Security Minister, Avian Dichter, demanding him to improve the living conditions of the Palestinian political female detainees imprisoned by Israel in Ha-Sharon detention facility.
The letter of Baraka came after he received a letter signed by detainee Dua’ Al Jayyousi, on [...]
Israel will reportedly release a Lebanese detainee sentenced by the regime to six years in jail in 2002 and it will free more prisoners soon.
“Nassim Nisr called a few days ago and informed us that he will be released on Sunday,” his brother Omran Nisr told AFP on Tuesday.
Nassim, born in 1968 to a Jewish [...]
Thanai is one of hundreds of Palestinian wives whose husbands are held in Israeli prisons. For the past 23 years, she has had to raise their six children alone. In June 2007, the Israeli authorities suspended all family visits; she is desperate to see him once again.
Thanai fears she will never see her husband again. [...]
By George S. Hishmeh Special to Gulf News Published: May 22, 2008, 00:07
The US President George W. Bush has just returned from his five-day Middle East trip without any feathers in his hat, primarily because of his tunnel vision regarding the war-or-peace issues in that region.
More so, his lacklustre pronouncements in his waning days at [...]
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