11 dec 2019
journalist Bushra Tawil
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) last night and at dawn Wednesday kidnaped 11 Palestinian citizens, including a female ex-detainee, mostly during raids on homes in the West Bank.
According to the Palestinian Prisoner Society, five citizens were taken prisoners during an IOF campaign in different areas of Ramallah and Bireh province.
The detainees were identified as Kamal Nakhla, Laith at-Tarifi, Ahmed Kayed, Ahmed al-Saher, and journalist Bushra Attaweel, an ex-detainee.
Five others, including a 16-year-old teenager, were also kidnaped by the IOF from their homes in Halhul town in al-Khalil and Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem.
Another West Bank citizen identified as Ayman Tanja from Tulkarem refugee camp was kidnaped during his presence in the 1948 occupied lands.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) last night and at dawn Wednesday kidnaped 11 Palestinian citizens, including a female ex-detainee, mostly during raids on homes in the West Bank.
According to the Palestinian Prisoner Society, five citizens were taken prisoners during an IOF campaign in different areas of Ramallah and Bireh province.
The detainees were identified as Kamal Nakhla, Laith at-Tarifi, Ahmed Kayed, Ahmed al-Saher, and journalist Bushra Attaweel, an ex-detainee.
Five others, including a 16-year-old teenager, were also kidnaped by the IOF from their homes in Halhul town in al-Khalil and Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem.
Another West Bank citizen identified as Ayman Tanja from Tulkarem refugee camp was kidnaped during his presence in the 1948 occupied lands.
By Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association
Palestinians mark International Human Rights Day following a year of nonstop violence and widespread human rights violations by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF), against the Palestinian population used, as a form of collective punishment and a method to control Palestinian society.
These consistent and systematic policies by the occupation include, extrajudicial executions and issuance of discriminatory legislations, mass arrests campaigns, torture, administrative detention, and medical negligence against Palestinian political prisoners.
Arrests of Palestinians
Under Article 3 and Article 9 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, all human beings have the right to liberty and the right not to be subjected to arbitrary arrest and detention. Palestinians, however, have suffered from a widespread policy of arrests and use of arbitrary detention by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) for decades.
In 2018 alone, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested around 6500 Palestinians, including 1080 children, 133 women, 6 PLC members and 17 journalists. Additionally, they issued 912 administrative detention orders, 398 of which were new.
In 2019, the IOF continued its policy of arbitrary detention of Palestinians; by the end of November 2019, the IOF arrested around 5190 Palestinians. The month of November 2019 ended with around 5000 prisoners including 185 children, 38 women, 8 Palestine Legislative Council (PLC) members.
Additionally, there are 460 administrative detainees, and around 700 prisoners with health issues needing urgent medical attention. There are also 26 long-term prisoners who were arrested before the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993; including the two longest serving prisoners, Karim and Maher Younis, who were arrested in 1983.
Administrative Detention of Palestinians
The IOF detains Palestinians without charges or trial which prevents the detainee and his/her lawyer from knowing the reasons for detention, and prevents the possibility of building an effectivve defense. The administrative detention order can be renewed indefinitely, effectively indefinite detention. It is issued through the executive, and not the judiciary authority, which violates the principle of a fair trial.
The systematic, widespread, and arbitrary use of administrative detention by the Israeli occupying state, without guaranteeing the basic standards of a fair trial, is a form of psychological torture, a violation of international humanitarian law, and a war crime.
The number of administrative detainees in Israeli prisons, at the end of November 2019 reached around 460 detainees, including 5 PLC members, 2 female prisoners and 2 children.
Imprisonment of Palestinian Children
Under International Human Rights Law, children must be afforded special protection and their best interest should always be a primary consideration. The Convention on the Rights of the Child, which was ratified by Israel in 1991, prohibits the arbitrary detention of children and stipulates that the detention and imprisonment of children should only be used as a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time.
Palestinian children, however, are regularly subjected to arrests and detention by the Israeli occupation. Children often undergo ill-treatment at the hands of IOF forces and are subject to a wide array of violations. Arrests usually take place in night invasions and are often physically and verbally abused during arrest, transfer and detention.
As of November 2019, the number of Palestinian children in Israeli occupation prisons, is 185 children, including 2 held under administrative detention.
Torture and Ill-Treatment
Despite the absolute prohibition against torture, enshrined under article (2) of the International Convention against Torture and ratified by Israel on 3 October 1991, Israeli torture against Palestinian detainees is systematic and widespread. Affidavits and documented cases gathered by various human rights organizations in the occupied Palestinian territories, including Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, have shown that the Israeli occupation authorities use torture as a first measure for extracting statements from Palestinian detainees, in violation of their rights to bodily integrity, physical safety, and basic dignity.
Torture and ill treatment has continued throughout 2019 Addameer has documented an escalation of the use of violence and excessive force against Palestinians during arrest and detention. Several Palestinian were arrested after being shot by IOF forces in the aftermath of alleged attacks.
Many of those who were arrested after being shot were subjected to field interrogations while bleeding, interrogations during treatment in hospitals while chained to bed as well as being subjected to harsh interrogations shortly after release from hospitals. Torture methods include, traditional physical violence, such as, harsh beatings, sleep deprivation, stress positions, deprivation of food and water, physiological torture, such as threats against family members, threats of sexual violence, and threats of administrative detention without charge or trial.
Addameer is particularly alarmed at the case of Samer Arbeed, who was arrested on 25 September 2019. Samer was tortured nearly to the point of death, and was transferred to the hospital on 27 September 2019, following 2 days in interrogation at Al-Mascobiyya Interrogation Center, due to life-threatening injuries.
Medical Negligence
Medical negligence continues to be a policy, with not only specialized medical care, but also the minimum standards for medical care are unavailable to prisoners and detainees. The Israeli Prison Service (IPS) has adopted a policy of deliberate medical neglect against prisoners and detainees.
Human rights organizations estimate that since 1967, 222 Palestinian prisoners have died in Israeli prisons and detention centers, including 67 prisoners that died as a result of medical negligence. In 2019 alone, 5 prisoners died in Israeli prisons, 3 out of those 5 died as a result of medical negligence, as in the case of Sami Abu Diak.
Human Rights Defenders
In 2019, the (IOF) continued its crackdown and repression of human rights defenders. Currently, Addameer faces gag orders against around 40 of the cases they represent, who are in interrogation. The gag order prohibits us from releasing any information to the public regarding their detention status, or face grave consequences.
In the early hours of 19 September 2019, the Addameer office in Ramallah was raided, and essential equipment, including laptops, memory cards, books and publications were stolen by the (IOF), and have yet to be returned. Indeed, civil society organizations and their staff are targeted for doing the work of upholding and being vocal about human rights violations.
Several of Addameer’s staff have travel bans that prevent them from traveling outside of Palestine. Moreover, Addameer’s legal coordinator, Ayman Nasser has been under administrative detention since September 2018 without charge or trial. His administrative detention order has been renewed for three times since the end of his first detention order.
Conclusion
On the International Human Rights Day, Addameer calls for an end to ongoing violations by Israeli occupation forces in the form of mass arrest campaigns, rapidly increasing use of administrative detention, continued denial of fair trial, and illegal torture and ill-treatment of Palestinian detainees.
Addameer calls on members of the international community, particularly UN Member States and UN bodies and agencies, to hold Israel accountable for its ongoing violations against the Palestinian occupied population.
Addameer believes Israeli mass incarceration of Palestinians is an inextricable part of the ongoing violence of the occupation. Tearing at the fabric of Palestinian society, recent arrest campaigns seek to suppress the Palestinian people’s ability to endure in their struggles against the occupation.
It is important that on this day, we all stand united to call for an end to Israeli violations of Palestinian rights and an end to the Israeli occupation. As Israel acts with ever growing contempt for international law and the will of the international community, action is now needed more than ever.
Palestinians mark International Human Rights Day following a year of nonstop violence and widespread human rights violations by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF), against the Palestinian population used, as a form of collective punishment and a method to control Palestinian society.
These consistent and systematic policies by the occupation include, extrajudicial executions and issuance of discriminatory legislations, mass arrests campaigns, torture, administrative detention, and medical negligence against Palestinian political prisoners.
Arrests of Palestinians
Under Article 3 and Article 9 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, all human beings have the right to liberty and the right not to be subjected to arbitrary arrest and detention. Palestinians, however, have suffered from a widespread policy of arrests and use of arbitrary detention by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) for decades.
In 2018 alone, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested around 6500 Palestinians, including 1080 children, 133 women, 6 PLC members and 17 journalists. Additionally, they issued 912 administrative detention orders, 398 of which were new.
In 2019, the IOF continued its policy of arbitrary detention of Palestinians; by the end of November 2019, the IOF arrested around 5190 Palestinians. The month of November 2019 ended with around 5000 prisoners including 185 children, 38 women, 8 Palestine Legislative Council (PLC) members.
Additionally, there are 460 administrative detainees, and around 700 prisoners with health issues needing urgent medical attention. There are also 26 long-term prisoners who were arrested before the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993; including the two longest serving prisoners, Karim and Maher Younis, who were arrested in 1983.
Administrative Detention of Palestinians
The IOF detains Palestinians without charges or trial which prevents the detainee and his/her lawyer from knowing the reasons for detention, and prevents the possibility of building an effectivve defense. The administrative detention order can be renewed indefinitely, effectively indefinite detention. It is issued through the executive, and not the judiciary authority, which violates the principle of a fair trial.
The systematic, widespread, and arbitrary use of administrative detention by the Israeli occupying state, without guaranteeing the basic standards of a fair trial, is a form of psychological torture, a violation of international humanitarian law, and a war crime.
The number of administrative detainees in Israeli prisons, at the end of November 2019 reached around 460 detainees, including 5 PLC members, 2 female prisoners and 2 children.
Imprisonment of Palestinian Children
Under International Human Rights Law, children must be afforded special protection and their best interest should always be a primary consideration. The Convention on the Rights of the Child, which was ratified by Israel in 1991, prohibits the arbitrary detention of children and stipulates that the detention and imprisonment of children should only be used as a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time.
Palestinian children, however, are regularly subjected to arrests and detention by the Israeli occupation. Children often undergo ill-treatment at the hands of IOF forces and are subject to a wide array of violations. Arrests usually take place in night invasions and are often physically and verbally abused during arrest, transfer and detention.
As of November 2019, the number of Palestinian children in Israeli occupation prisons, is 185 children, including 2 held under administrative detention.
Torture and Ill-Treatment
Despite the absolute prohibition against torture, enshrined under article (2) of the International Convention against Torture and ratified by Israel on 3 October 1991, Israeli torture against Palestinian detainees is systematic and widespread. Affidavits and documented cases gathered by various human rights organizations in the occupied Palestinian territories, including Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, have shown that the Israeli occupation authorities use torture as a first measure for extracting statements from Palestinian detainees, in violation of their rights to bodily integrity, physical safety, and basic dignity.
Torture and ill treatment has continued throughout 2019 Addameer has documented an escalation of the use of violence and excessive force against Palestinians during arrest and detention. Several Palestinian were arrested after being shot by IOF forces in the aftermath of alleged attacks.
Many of those who were arrested after being shot were subjected to field interrogations while bleeding, interrogations during treatment in hospitals while chained to bed as well as being subjected to harsh interrogations shortly after release from hospitals. Torture methods include, traditional physical violence, such as, harsh beatings, sleep deprivation, stress positions, deprivation of food and water, physiological torture, such as threats against family members, threats of sexual violence, and threats of administrative detention without charge or trial.
Addameer is particularly alarmed at the case of Samer Arbeed, who was arrested on 25 September 2019. Samer was tortured nearly to the point of death, and was transferred to the hospital on 27 September 2019, following 2 days in interrogation at Al-Mascobiyya Interrogation Center, due to life-threatening injuries.
Medical Negligence
Medical negligence continues to be a policy, with not only specialized medical care, but also the minimum standards for medical care are unavailable to prisoners and detainees. The Israeli Prison Service (IPS) has adopted a policy of deliberate medical neglect against prisoners and detainees.
Human rights organizations estimate that since 1967, 222 Palestinian prisoners have died in Israeli prisons and detention centers, including 67 prisoners that died as a result of medical negligence. In 2019 alone, 5 prisoners died in Israeli prisons, 3 out of those 5 died as a result of medical negligence, as in the case of Sami Abu Diak.
Human Rights Defenders
In 2019, the (IOF) continued its crackdown and repression of human rights defenders. Currently, Addameer faces gag orders against around 40 of the cases they represent, who are in interrogation. The gag order prohibits us from releasing any information to the public regarding their detention status, or face grave consequences.
In the early hours of 19 September 2019, the Addameer office in Ramallah was raided, and essential equipment, including laptops, memory cards, books and publications were stolen by the (IOF), and have yet to be returned. Indeed, civil society organizations and their staff are targeted for doing the work of upholding and being vocal about human rights violations.
Several of Addameer’s staff have travel bans that prevent them from traveling outside of Palestine. Moreover, Addameer’s legal coordinator, Ayman Nasser has been under administrative detention since September 2018 without charge or trial. His administrative detention order has been renewed for three times since the end of his first detention order.
Conclusion
On the International Human Rights Day, Addameer calls for an end to ongoing violations by Israeli occupation forces in the form of mass arrest campaigns, rapidly increasing use of administrative detention, continued denial of fair trial, and illegal torture and ill-treatment of Palestinian detainees.
Addameer calls on members of the international community, particularly UN Member States and UN bodies and agencies, to hold Israel accountable for its ongoing violations against the Palestinian occupied population.
Addameer believes Israeli mass incarceration of Palestinians is an inextricable part of the ongoing violence of the occupation. Tearing at the fabric of Palestinian society, recent arrest campaigns seek to suppress the Palestinian people’s ability to endure in their struggles against the occupation.
It is important that on this day, we all stand united to call for an end to Israeli violations of Palestinian rights and an end to the Israeli occupation. As Israel acts with ever growing contempt for international law and the will of the international community, action is now needed more than ever.
10 dec 2019
Israeli forces invaded the town of al-Issawiya in East Jerusalem Tuesday morning before dawn and raided a number of Palestinian homes.
They then issued warrants to seven youth, who are required to submit themselves to the Israeli police for interrogation.
According to local sources, Israeli troops invaded the town with a battalion of soldiers and a number of armored vehicles, ransacked homes and pulled youth from their beds while they were sleeping.
They then issued warrants to seven young men, after raiding and ransacking their homes.
The seven were identified as: Ahmad Muhammad Derbas, Walid Alyan, Mohammad Rabah Alyan, the two brothers Majd Darwish and Rashid Darwish, and Issa Derbas.
This invasion follows a similar pre-dawn invasion into al-Issawiya the previous day, in which they ransacked homes and abducted 15-year old Montaser Nasser Sebta .
They then issued warrants to seven youth, who are required to submit themselves to the Israeli police for interrogation.
According to local sources, Israeli troops invaded the town with a battalion of soldiers and a number of armored vehicles, ransacked homes and pulled youth from their beds while they were sleeping.
They then issued warrants to seven young men, after raiding and ransacking their homes.
The seven were identified as: Ahmad Muhammad Derbas, Walid Alyan, Mohammad Rabah Alyan, the two brothers Majd Darwish and Rashid Darwish, and Issa Derbas.
This invasion follows a similar pre-dawn invasion into al-Issawiya the previous day, in which they ransacked homes and abducted 15-year old Montaser Nasser Sebta .
8 dec 2019
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Sunday morning kidnaped a Palestinian girl child near the Ibrahimi Mosque in al-Khalil city.
According to local sources, Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint near the Ibrahimi Mosque rounded up 14-year-old Afnan Abu Asnaineh as she was walking to her school.
The soldiers claimed the girl was found in possession of a knife.
According to local sources, Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint near the Ibrahimi Mosque rounded up 14-year-old Afnan Abu Asnaineh as she was walking to her school.
The soldiers claimed the girl was found in possession of a knife.
5 dec 2019
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Thursday afternoon, one Palestinian and injured many schoolgirls in Anata Palestinian town, northeast of occupied Jerusalem.
Najwa Refa’ey, the principal of Anata H School for Girls, said many army jeeps invaded the street in front of the school, and attacked many young men who protested the invasion and hurled stones at the soldiers.
She added that the soldiers fired a barrage of gas bombs and concussion grenades into the area, including the school campus, causing dozens of students to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation.
The schoolgirls could not leave their educational facility after the school day was over, and had to wait for some time until the soldiers left.
Furthermore, the soldiers chased a young man near the school, and abducted him; he remained unidentified at the time of this report.
It is worth mentioning that the soldiers invaded the same area earlier on Thursday at dawn, and fired many gas bombs, concussion grenades and rubber-coated steel bullets at Palestinian protesters.
Najwa Refa’ey, the principal of Anata H School for Girls, said many army jeeps invaded the street in front of the school, and attacked many young men who protested the invasion and hurled stones at the soldiers.
She added that the soldiers fired a barrage of gas bombs and concussion grenades into the area, including the school campus, causing dozens of students to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation.
The schoolgirls could not leave their educational facility after the school day was over, and had to wait for some time until the soldiers left.
Furthermore, the soldiers chased a young man near the school, and abducted him; he remained unidentified at the time of this report.
It is worth mentioning that the soldiers invaded the same area earlier on Thursday at dawn, and fired many gas bombs, concussion grenades and rubber-coated steel bullets at Palestinian protesters.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Thursday raided several homes and kidnaped Palestinian citizens in the West Bank and Jerusalem.
In a statement, the Israeli army said its forces arrested six young men in the West Bank, claiming they were detained for participating in activities against Israel and for possessing weapons and combat means.
The IOF also confiscated dozens of thousands of shekels from a Palestinian during one of its campaigns in the West Bank on allegations that they would be used to fund activities against Israel.
In al-Khalil, the IOF raided a turnery in al-Dhahiriya town and confiscated its contents at the pretext they were used to manufacture weapons and combat means.
In Jerusalem, Israeli police forces last night kidnaped a 16-year-old teenager called Hamza Abu Asneineh during clashes with local youths in Batten al-Hawa neighborhood in Silwan district.
The IOF also kidnaped three young men, two of them brothers, from Hizma town in east Jerusalem.
In a statement, the Israeli army said its forces arrested six young men in the West Bank, claiming they were detained for participating in activities against Israel and for possessing weapons and combat means.
The IOF also confiscated dozens of thousands of shekels from a Palestinian during one of its campaigns in the West Bank on allegations that they would be used to fund activities against Israel.
In al-Khalil, the IOF raided a turnery in al-Dhahiriya town and confiscated its contents at the pretext they were used to manufacture weapons and combat means.
In Jerusalem, Israeli police forces last night kidnaped a 16-year-old teenager called Hamza Abu Asneineh during clashes with local youths in Batten al-Hawa neighborhood in Silwan district.
The IOF also kidnaped three young men, two of them brothers, from Hizma town in east Jerusalem.
4 dec 2019
Israeli soldiers invaded, Thursday, a Palestinian school in Orif village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, abducted two children and forced the school shut until further notice.
Media sources said dozens of soldiers surrounded the school before invading it, and abducted two children, identified as Dia’ Shehada and Mohammad Safadi.
They added that the soldiers forced all students and staff out of the educational facility and shut it down.
The army invaded the school after the soldiers invaded surrounding areas, and fired at many Palestinians who protested the invasion and hurled stones at them.
Media sources said dozens of soldiers surrounded the school before invading it, and abducted two children, identified as Dia’ Shehada and Mohammad Safadi.
They added that the soldiers forced all students and staff out of the educational facility and shut it down.
The army invaded the school after the soldiers invaded surrounding areas, and fired at many Palestinians who protested the invasion and hurled stones at them.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) last night and at dawn Wednesday kidnaped at least 15 Palestinian citizens in the West Bank.
Among the detainees were two teenagers from Azza refugee camp in Bethlehem. They were identified as Mohamed al-Azza, 17, and Mohamed al-Barbari, 18.
13 others were taken prisoners during IOF campaigns in different West Bank areas, according to local sources.
In Jerusalem, the IOF stormed as-Sawahira ash-Sharqiya town and ransacked the house of Abdul-Omar Abdul-Qader before confiscating the car of his son, Jafar. The IOF had raided the same house about 10 days ago and seized 12,000 shekels from the family.
In a separate incident, three Palestinian citizens were injured last night when a Jewish settler driving at high speed rammed his car into them at the eastern entrance to Qalqilya city and fled the scene.
Among the detainees were two teenagers from Azza refugee camp in Bethlehem. They were identified as Mohamed al-Azza, 17, and Mohamed al-Barbari, 18.
13 others were taken prisoners during IOF campaigns in different West Bank areas, according to local sources.
In Jerusalem, the IOF stormed as-Sawahira ash-Sharqiya town and ransacked the house of Abdul-Omar Abdul-Qader before confiscating the car of his son, Jafar. The IOF had raided the same house about 10 days ago and seized 12,000 shekels from the family.
In a separate incident, three Palestinian citizens were injured last night when a Jewish settler driving at high speed rammed his car into them at the eastern entrance to Qalqilya city and fled the scene.
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