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Israel Attacks U.S.

By Jerry Ghinelli
“Information Clearinghouse“‘ — The government of Israel today launched a massive air assault on suspected terrorist targets along major coastal cities in the United States of America. In an operation termed “Friendly Enemy,” hundreds of Israeli F-16 fighter jets streaked across the Atlantic in precise formation and fired surgical air strikes at alleged [...]

Seven Israeli Arabs arrested for hurling stones in protest of Gaza op

(Rocks vs. Tanks?)
Police on Monday arrested seven Israeli Arabs, three of them youths, for allegedly hurling stones and setting fire to tires near the entrance to the Mishad municipal council in the north.
Authorities have arrested 49 people for disturbing the peace since the Israel Air Force began its aerial offensive in the Gaza Strip on [...]

IOF Arrests 22 Palestinians including 2 Children from West Bank

WEST BANK, (WAFA)- Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested, last night, twenty-two Palestinians including two children from the West bank cities of Bethlehem and Ramallah.
Israeli troops arrested four Palestinians from Al-Jalazon Refugee Camp near Ramallah after breaking into and vandalizing their houses.
In the meantime, IOF units arrested eighteen Palestinians from Bethlehem, two of them were under [...]

Palestinian detainees on Hunger Strike in protest to Israeli attacks in Gaza

Palestinian political prisoners in different Israeli prisons and detention centers declared mourning on Sunday and announced a three-day hunger strike in protest against the ongoing Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip.

In a press release, the detainees slammed the Israeli crimes against the residents of the Gaza Strip, and demanded all factions to unite and [...]

Reham Alhelsi - Real Events of the Year 2008

Events of the Year 2008, What the dpa and their ilk Chose to Ignore

(in the photo, Israelis destroy Palestinian Olive groves, ruining the landscape and the economy) Last week, while checking the local newspaper, I came across a typical “Main Events of the Year Chronology”. Usually, I usually try to stay away from such listings, because [...]

Palestinian Detainee dies due to medical negligence in al-Ramah Israeli Prison

The Palestinian Prisoners Society reported on Wednesday that detainee Jom’a Ismail Mousa, age 65, from Shu’fat refugee camp in East Jerusalem, died as a result of medical negligence on the part of the Israeli Prison Services.
The detainee spent most of his time in the al-Ramla prison hospital, which lacks the basic medical equipment.
Mousa was sentenced [...]

Ofer prison guards assault Palestinian prisoners, many injured

RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Tens of Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli Ofer prison west of Ramallah were injured or suffered suffocation on Saturday evening after Israeli jailors assaulted them with batons, rubber bullets and gas canisters.
Sources in both Wa’ed society catering for prisoners and ministry of prisoners said that the Israeli Nahshon unit members, specialized in quelling [...]

Protesters Threw Shoes at Israeli Soldiers in Bil’in

From “Friends of Freedom and Justice Bilin Official Website”

Photos  By Haitham Al-Katib
ffj-bilin -Friday 19\12\2008 Demonstrators marched today after the Friday prayer carrying Palestinian flags and banners calling to end the Israeli occupation, stop the wall and settlement building, stop land confiscation and settler attacks, closures and roadblocks, [...]

Elderly prisoner on hunger strike could be dying, cellmates say

An elderly Palestinian prisoner is so ill he could be dying, according to an appeal by detainee expert Abed An-Nasser Awni Farawneh on Wednesday in Nablus.
Farawneh told Ma’an that he had received multiple phone calls from detainees in the Israeli-operated Negev Prison, where a 61-year-old inmate’s health has deteriorated since he started a hunger strike [...]

MIDEAST: Israelis Continue to Abuse Palestinian Prisoners

By Mel Frykberg

RAMALLAH, West Bank, Dec 17 (IPS) - Israel released over 200 Palestinians from Israeli jails in a “goodwill gesture” Monday. This followed the Muslim feast of Eid Al-Adha and was an attempt to boost the waning popularity of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Several prisoners spoke to the assembled local and international media about [...]

Torture Speaks - Israel

Video By Al Jazeera
Since 1967, some 75,000, men and women have been in and out Israelis prison where they had been jailed for long periods of time. A large number of them say have been subjected to severe torture that left many of them physically and mentally handicapped. Some of the old ex-prisoners have kept [...]

ADDAMEER: IOF Arrests Children

RAMALLAH,  (WAFA)- Al-Dameer Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association accused, Monday, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) of  arresting tens of Palestinian children in the Palestinian Territory.

In a press release, The Association considered such arrests a violation to  the international humanitarian law.

Al-Dameer explained that, in the past few days, IOF arrested nine Palestinian children after attacking Al-A’roub Agriculture School near [...]

12 year old Palestinan boy tells of arrest by Israeli army

by Muhammad Khawajah

I am twelve years old and live with my family in Ni’lin in the Palestinian territories.
We live on the ground floor of the house, my two uncles and their families live on the first floor, and my grandmother lives on the second floor.
On Thursday [11 September], around 3:00am I woke up from my [...]

Tortured in West Bank Prisons

By  [...]

Women’s Organization for Political Prisoners October News

There are at present about 75 women political prisoners in the Israeli jails: about 35 in Hasharon Prison (Tel Mond), about 35 in Damoon Prison (Carmel Mountain), 1 in Petah Tiqva Detention Center, 3 in Kishon Detention Center (Jalameh) and the rest in several detention centers.
Damoon Prison (Carmel Mountain)
The conditions in the cells
The prisoners continue [...]

VANUNU MORDECHAI J.C : RECENT NEWS

Here is the appeal decision,
Today we went to the district court,to hear the 3 judges sentence for my appeal against 6 months prison for speaking to foreign Media.
The sentence by the 3 judges was 3 months prison, instead of 6 months.
They again found me guilty for speaking to foreign media.
We can try to appeal this sentence in the supreme court.
So I can be free until we will hear from the supreme court.
-vmjc

Palestinians claim detainee in Jericho prison died from torture

Shadi Muhammad Shahin died Monday night in the Jericho prison run by the Palestinian Authority.  While the circumstances around his death remain unclear, his family claims that he died due to torture by the Palestinian police.

According to the Palestinian Information Center, a Hamas-run website, Shahin, who was in his thirties, died Monday after being [...]

Detainees in Al Jalama Israeli prison on hunger strike

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 [...]

Torture As Official Israeli Policy

By Stephen Lendman
Countercurrents.org
The UN Convention against Torture defines the practice as:
“any act by which severe pain [...]

10-year-old subjected to torture by Israeli soldiers (with action)

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. [...]

My Visit to the Gaza Concentration Camp

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 [...]

Israel Whitewashes Assault on Omer

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 [...]

Relative of imprisoned PLC member conducts operation with bulldozer in Jerusalem

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 [...]

Israeli shoots Palestinian with hands bound point blank

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 [...]

Detainee freed after spending more than one-third of his life in detention

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 [...]

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