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 [...]
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 [...]
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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Bethlehem / Najib Farrag - An official delegation returned after a week of French events in solidarity with Palestinian political prisoners.
The delegation included several West Bank heavy hitters on the prisoners’ rights scene. Greeting them in Paris was the French Foreign Ministry and Dr. Hind Khoury, former Jerusalem Affairs Minister and Bethlehem resident whose home [...]
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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 [...]
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Yvonne Ridley
IT IS NOT every day a boat gets an official escort into port but the Free Gaza and the SS liberty were given the VIP treatment by the Cypriot Coast Guard during the early hours of this morning as we headed towards [...]
Daily Star staff
BEIRUT: Investigative Magistrate into the Nahr al-Bared incidents Judge Ghassan Oweidat ordered the release on bail Thursday of detainees in the case, a judicial report said.
The report said that after receiving the approval of State Prosecutor Saeed Mirza, Oweidat released 15 detainees. One of them is Tunisian and the others are Lebanese and [...]
NEW YORK (AFP) — Aafia Siddiqui cut a ghostly figure in a New York courtroom this week — not surprisingly for someone who during five years seemed to have vanished from the face of the Earth.
US prosecutors say Siddiqui, 36, is a desperate would-be terrorist who was arrested in Afghanistan, then on July 18 opened [...]
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 [...]
A veteran of Israeli gaols, wheelchair bound Mahmoud Abu Rideh is a stateless Palestinian, who has indefinite leave to remain in the UK. His family are British citizens. Following a police raid on his home in December 2001, Abu Rideh spent the next three and a half years detained without trial in HMP [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sam Bahour, The Electronic Intifada
Palestinians release black balloons into the air at an event to commemorate the Nakba in the Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem, 15 May 2008. (Haytham Othman/MaanImages)
When US President George W. Bush addressed the Israeli Knesset to mark Israel’s 60th anniversary last week he declared that David Ben-Gurion’s proclamation of Israel’s independence [...]
By Iqbal Tamimi
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Disgrace for Democracy: 51 Palestinian MPs and Ministers are Detained in Israeli prisons along with 11.870 Palestinian citizens
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Kristen Ess - For the 60 year memorial of Al Nakba, I have been interviewing elderly refugees for months, people who remember their villages and towns, who talk about their old lives and the new ones they have etched out in the camps.
However on Monday I sat in the bedroom of a 21 year old [...]
“Terrible human rights crime in Gaza”
Jimmy Carter - The Guardian
The world must stop standing idle while the people of Gaza are treated with such cruelty
The world is witnessing a terrible human rights crime in Gaza, where a million and a half human beings are being imprisoned with almost no access to the outside world. An [...]
Comment by Khalid Amayreh in Occupied East Jerusalem
Just as Israel inaugurated its misbegotten birth with genocidal ethnic cleansing sixty years ago, the evil brat of Zionism is marking its 60th anniversary with yet another spate of bloodletting.
On Sunday, 27 April, the Israeli “Defense” Forces (a more appropriate appellation would be the Jewish Wehrmacht) murdered a [...]
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