15 jan 2019
The home of Adel al-Hamarna reveals a suffering of different type; Adel suffers from poverty and siege after the arrival of his youngest child Ru’aa who is suffering from chronic diseases and whose life is at risk of death.
The 13-month old Ru’aa suffers from liver damage, heart failure, gallbladder blockage, and an inherited disorder called Alagille Syndrome, which causes persistent jaundice, itching, fatty deposits in the skin, and stunted growth and development during early childhood.
The lack of treatment threatens the lives of thousands of patients suffering from chronic diseases in the Gaza Strip after it became an isolated area following intensifying the siege in the past four years with the Palestinian Authority government refusing to supply medicine nor cover treatment for those in need.
Double suffering
The sunrays sneak out of the cracks in the roof and walls of the house of al-Hamarna with winter rains seen on the walls and furniture of the house, as the father is unable to feed his children or provide medicine for his youngest child not to mention maintaining his house.
“My daughter’s health is deteriorating. She lives on milk and medicine. We are now unable to pay for her treatment nor are we able to transfer her for treatment at Makassed Hospital in Jerusalem. It is true that she is suffering, but I am sad because she suffers from a skin problem that destroys her skin, and doctors said only God knows what might happen to her in the future,” says the mother of the child.
She discovered the deterioration in her daughter’s heath after her birth and following her visit to a pediatrician who told her to get urgent treatment outside the hospitals of the Gaza Strip.
Doctors point out that the case of Ru’aa is a rare one, often caused by a genetic factor due to marriages among relatives, but this is not the case of Ru’aa.
Adel’s children hover in his small two-room house covered by a tin-roof that does not protect them from cold winters or hot summers.
Medical reports
The family keeps a big amount of medical papers and reports that have accumulated over the past year, revealing several diseases and medicines that the family cannot afford to buy.
Adel Al-Hamarna, the father of the child, said: “Life was going on in a stable way, but the birth of my youngest daughter changed my life and I became unable to help her.”
“I work as a watch guard for a very small amount of money. I need a monthly amount of money for her treatment and I have accumulated debts in several pharmacies,” he says.
Adel toured all charities and relief organizations in order to obtain in-kind or cash assistance for treatment expenses as well as the cost of traveling to Makassed Hospital to no avail.
Mahmoud, 16, the eldest son of Adel, confirms that his younger sister is crying all night. Mahmoud watches her cry, unable to do anything.
The family of Ru’aa hopes that their daughter will be able to return to the occupied city of Jerusalem to complete her treatment. Meanwhile, the expenses of the treatment will be a daily dilemma for the father.
The 13-month old Ru’aa suffers from liver damage, heart failure, gallbladder blockage, and an inherited disorder called Alagille Syndrome, which causes persistent jaundice, itching, fatty deposits in the skin, and stunted growth and development during early childhood.
The lack of treatment threatens the lives of thousands of patients suffering from chronic diseases in the Gaza Strip after it became an isolated area following intensifying the siege in the past four years with the Palestinian Authority government refusing to supply medicine nor cover treatment for those in need.
Double suffering
The sunrays sneak out of the cracks in the roof and walls of the house of al-Hamarna with winter rains seen on the walls and furniture of the house, as the father is unable to feed his children or provide medicine for his youngest child not to mention maintaining his house.
“My daughter’s health is deteriorating. She lives on milk and medicine. We are now unable to pay for her treatment nor are we able to transfer her for treatment at Makassed Hospital in Jerusalem. It is true that she is suffering, but I am sad because she suffers from a skin problem that destroys her skin, and doctors said only God knows what might happen to her in the future,” says the mother of the child.
She discovered the deterioration in her daughter’s heath after her birth and following her visit to a pediatrician who told her to get urgent treatment outside the hospitals of the Gaza Strip.
Doctors point out that the case of Ru’aa is a rare one, often caused by a genetic factor due to marriages among relatives, but this is not the case of Ru’aa.
Adel’s children hover in his small two-room house covered by a tin-roof that does not protect them from cold winters or hot summers.
Medical reports
The family keeps a big amount of medical papers and reports that have accumulated over the past year, revealing several diseases and medicines that the family cannot afford to buy.
Adel Al-Hamarna, the father of the child, said: “Life was going on in a stable way, but the birth of my youngest daughter changed my life and I became unable to help her.”
“I work as a watch guard for a very small amount of money. I need a monthly amount of money for her treatment and I have accumulated debts in several pharmacies,” he says.
Adel toured all charities and relief organizations in order to obtain in-kind or cash assistance for treatment expenses as well as the cost of traveling to Makassed Hospital to no avail.
Mahmoud, 16, the eldest son of Adel, confirms that his younger sister is crying all night. Mahmoud watches her cry, unable to do anything.
The family of Ru’aa hopes that their daughter will be able to return to the occupied city of Jerusalem to complete her treatment. Meanwhile, the expenses of the treatment will be a daily dilemma for the father.
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) released on Tuesday evening 18-year-old Lama al-Bakri after serving 39 months in administrative detention in Damon prison.
Shortly after her release at Jalama checkpoint, al-Bakri told reporters that Palestinian female detainees are held amid very difficult detention conditions, and denied from their basic human rights.
Lama al-Bakri was initially detained in December 2015 after allegedly attempting to carry out a stabbing attack near the illegal Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba in al-Khalil in southern occupied West Bank.
Al-Bakri was shot and seriously injured by Israeli soldiers at the time of the stabbing attempt.
Shortly after her release at Jalama checkpoint, al-Bakri told reporters that Palestinian female detainees are held amid very difficult detention conditions, and denied from their basic human rights.
Lama al-Bakri was initially detained in December 2015 after allegedly attempting to carry out a stabbing attack near the illegal Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba in al-Khalil in southern occupied West Bank.
Al-Bakri was shot and seriously injured by Israeli soldiers at the time of the stabbing attempt.
Israeli soldiers abducted, overnight until morning hours Tuesday, at least 28 Palestinians, including children, and a shepherd, in several parts of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported.
The PPS office in Jenin, in northern West Bank, has reported that the soldiers abducted eight Palestinians in the governorate, after invading their homes and ransacking them.
They have been identified as Majd Ahmad Ba’jawi, Abdullah Maher Abu Bakr, Jihad Allam Abu Bakr, Thaher Haitham Amarna, and his brother Adel, all from Ya’bad town, west of Jenin, in addition to Rateb Abdul-Karim ‘Oweis, Baha’ Qasrawi and Mohammad Adel Alaqma, from several towns in the governorate.
It is worth mentioning that Rateb is the son of Abdul-Karim ‘Oweis, who is imprisoned by Israel after being sentenced to life.
In Nablus, also in northern West Bank, the soldiers abducted two siblings, identified as Ala’ Hashash and his brother Ameed, in addition to Sultan Ibrahim Abu Mustafa and Fadi Emad Abu Hadrous.
Furthermore, the soldiers invaded many homes in the Ramallah and al-Biereh Governorate, in central West Bank, and abducted six Palestinians, identified as Mohammad Mahmoud Qa’ad, 28, Suleiman Abu Ghosh, Yahia Silwadi, Ibrahim Abdullah Askar, Sa’id Jouda Yacoub and Assef Refa’ey.
In Hebron governorate, in the southern part of the West Bank, the soldiers abducted Mohammad Mahmoud Awad, 28, Mershed Mohammad Za’aqeeq, 46, Hamza Hosni Nassereddin, 19, Hasan Abdul-Salam ‘Oweiwi, and Ahmad Fadel Mahfouth, 19, after invading their homes and searching them.
In Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem, the soldiers abducted Mohannad Sabri Thawabta, 14, Mohammad Nabil Thawabta, 15, Mohammad Hasan Abu Ajamiyya and Baha’ Khaled al-Badan.
In addition, the soldiers abducted a Palestinian shepherd identified as Yousef Bisharat, in Makhoul area, in the West Bank’s Northern Plains, after a group of extremist illegal Israeli colonists chased him, and his herd.
It is worth mentioning that the colonists frequently attack Palestinian shepherds in the area, leading to many injuries, in addition to steeling or killing some of their livestock, while Israeli soldiers also abducted many of shepherds and farmers.
The PPS office in Jenin, in northern West Bank, has reported that the soldiers abducted eight Palestinians in the governorate, after invading their homes and ransacking them.
They have been identified as Majd Ahmad Ba’jawi, Abdullah Maher Abu Bakr, Jihad Allam Abu Bakr, Thaher Haitham Amarna, and his brother Adel, all from Ya’bad town, west of Jenin, in addition to Rateb Abdul-Karim ‘Oweis, Baha’ Qasrawi and Mohammad Adel Alaqma, from several towns in the governorate.
It is worth mentioning that Rateb is the son of Abdul-Karim ‘Oweis, who is imprisoned by Israel after being sentenced to life.
In Nablus, also in northern West Bank, the soldiers abducted two siblings, identified as Ala’ Hashash and his brother Ameed, in addition to Sultan Ibrahim Abu Mustafa and Fadi Emad Abu Hadrous.
Furthermore, the soldiers invaded many homes in the Ramallah and al-Biereh Governorate, in central West Bank, and abducted six Palestinians, identified as Mohammad Mahmoud Qa’ad, 28, Suleiman Abu Ghosh, Yahia Silwadi, Ibrahim Abdullah Askar, Sa’id Jouda Yacoub and Assef Refa’ey.
In Hebron governorate, in the southern part of the West Bank, the soldiers abducted Mohammad Mahmoud Awad, 28, Mershed Mohammad Za’aqeeq, 46, Hamza Hosni Nassereddin, 19, Hasan Abdul-Salam ‘Oweiwi, and Ahmad Fadel Mahfouth, 19, after invading their homes and searching them.
In Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem, the soldiers abducted Mohannad Sabri Thawabta, 14, Mohammad Nabil Thawabta, 15, Mohammad Hasan Abu Ajamiyya and Baha’ Khaled al-Badan.
In addition, the soldiers abducted a Palestinian shepherd identified as Yousef Bisharat, in Makhoul area, in the West Bank’s Northern Plains, after a group of extremist illegal Israeli colonists chased him, and his herd.
It is worth mentioning that the colonists frequently attack Palestinian shepherds in the area, leading to many injuries, in addition to steeling or killing some of their livestock, while Israeli soldiers also abducted many of shepherds and farmers.
Dozens of Palestinians were arrested at dawn Tuesday during large-scale raids launched by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in the West Bank.
Local sources said that the IOF stormed Nablus and arrested two Palestinian young men after raiding their family houses.
The IOF raided Balata refugee camp, searched Palestinian homes, and seized a sum of money.
The IOF late on Monday arrested a Palestinian youth while he was passing through Huwara checkpoint south of Nablus city.
At the same time in Jenin, dozens of IOF soldiers stormed Ya'bad town and Jenin refugee camp and arrested six Palestinian citizens.
Four Palestinians, including two minors, were arrested and had their homes searched during Bethlehem sweeps.
Other campaigns were reported in al-Khalil where the IOF arrested two Palestinian ex-prisoners and raided a number of Palestinian homes.
Local sources said that the IOF stormed Nablus and arrested two Palestinian young men after raiding their family houses.
The IOF raided Balata refugee camp, searched Palestinian homes, and seized a sum of money.
The IOF late on Monday arrested a Palestinian youth while he was passing through Huwara checkpoint south of Nablus city.
At the same time in Jenin, dozens of IOF soldiers stormed Ya'bad town and Jenin refugee camp and arrested six Palestinian citizens.
Four Palestinians, including two minors, were arrested and had their homes searched during Bethlehem sweeps.
Other campaigns were reported in al-Khalil where the IOF arrested two Palestinian ex-prisoners and raided a number of Palestinian homes.
14 jan 2019
By Ramona Wadi
Defense for Children International Palestine (DCIP) paints a bleak prospect for Palestinian children in revealing that in 2018, at least 56 were killed by Israel.
Individuals who witnessed some of the murders have insisted that the targeted children were unarmed and posed no threat to the state or its citizens.
Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli army snipers, drones and security forces across the occupied Palestinian territories. Five of the murdered children were under 12 years of age. In Gaza, 49 children were murdered by Israel in activities pertaining to the Great March of Return protests.
Live ammunition was used by Israel in 73 percent of the fatalities documented by DCIP, which also recorded “140 cases of Palestinian children who were detained by Palestinian forces.” Israeli forces also arrested 120 children within the occupied West Bank. In both groups, the detained children suffered abuse at the hands of the security forces holding them, whether the PA or the Israeli military.
These tactics show that Israel’s colonial collaboration with the Palestinian Authority is targeting a very vulnerable segment of Palestinian society. What’s more, the killing and wounding of Palestinian children by Israeli snipers at the Great March of Return is a direct maiming of the generation which can carry on the anti-colonial struggle.
Citing international law is pointless when Israel, and even the Palestinian Authority, have extended the parameters for an ongoing cycle of abuse against Palestinian children. International law is only relevant when used to point out that violations are taking place and the Palestinians are facing a UN member state which treats international law with contempt, while the international community gives its tacit agreement to the abuse and is, in some cases, complicit.
DCIP’s research establishes the fact that Israel killed an average of more than one child per week in 2018. Earlier shocking official statistics revealed that between 2000 and 2014 Israel killed a Palestinian child every three days on average, for fourteen years. Throughout the year there was ongoing discussion about Israel’s genocidal intent and actions which were mostly discarded due to the monopoly over the term in reference to the Holocaust. Yet, Article II of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines the term as “acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” What else is Israel doing to the people of Palestine, “in whole or in part”?
The international community’s responses are so predictable that Israel finds no obstacles in maneuvering beyond the limits set by international law; it is allowed to act with impunity. The “drip, drip” rate of the killing of Palestinian children and the almost routine nature of their detention sneaks under the radar of human rights violations. As the international community fails to respond to Israeli violations within its established framework, Israel succeeds in bridging the gap between violations and rights.
To speak of Israel’s violations now is, in fact, also to speak of the international community’s irresponsibility. Yet neither are scrutinized and held to account; the result is the regular yet somewhat reluctant citing of what should happen according to international law being juxtaposed against Israeli breaches of the law. Accountability, however, has long since absconded from the scene of the crime. If Israel wants to kill Palestinian children (or women and men, come to that), it will kill because it has decided, quite deliberately, to do so.
Meanwhile, the international community will steer clear from ever associating Israeli actions with genocide, preferring instead to rely on “alleged war crimes”, the perpetrators of which will never be brought to justice. Palestinian children killed by Israel over many years, last year included, have been forgotten by the world.
– Ramona Wadi is a staff writer for Middle East Monitor, where this article was originally published.
Defense for Children International Palestine (DCIP) paints a bleak prospect for Palestinian children in revealing that in 2018, at least 56 were killed by Israel.
Individuals who witnessed some of the murders have insisted that the targeted children were unarmed and posed no threat to the state or its citizens.
Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli army snipers, drones and security forces across the occupied Palestinian territories. Five of the murdered children were under 12 years of age. In Gaza, 49 children were murdered by Israel in activities pertaining to the Great March of Return protests.
Live ammunition was used by Israel in 73 percent of the fatalities documented by DCIP, which also recorded “140 cases of Palestinian children who were detained by Palestinian forces.” Israeli forces also arrested 120 children within the occupied West Bank. In both groups, the detained children suffered abuse at the hands of the security forces holding them, whether the PA or the Israeli military.
These tactics show that Israel’s colonial collaboration with the Palestinian Authority is targeting a very vulnerable segment of Palestinian society. What’s more, the killing and wounding of Palestinian children by Israeli snipers at the Great March of Return is a direct maiming of the generation which can carry on the anti-colonial struggle.
Citing international law is pointless when Israel, and even the Palestinian Authority, have extended the parameters for an ongoing cycle of abuse against Palestinian children. International law is only relevant when used to point out that violations are taking place and the Palestinians are facing a UN member state which treats international law with contempt, while the international community gives its tacit agreement to the abuse and is, in some cases, complicit.
DCIP’s research establishes the fact that Israel killed an average of more than one child per week in 2018. Earlier shocking official statistics revealed that between 2000 and 2014 Israel killed a Palestinian child every three days on average, for fourteen years. Throughout the year there was ongoing discussion about Israel’s genocidal intent and actions which were mostly discarded due to the monopoly over the term in reference to the Holocaust. Yet, Article II of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines the term as “acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” What else is Israel doing to the people of Palestine, “in whole or in part”?
The international community’s responses are so predictable that Israel finds no obstacles in maneuvering beyond the limits set by international law; it is allowed to act with impunity. The “drip, drip” rate of the killing of Palestinian children and the almost routine nature of their detention sneaks under the radar of human rights violations. As the international community fails to respond to Israeli violations within its established framework, Israel succeeds in bridging the gap between violations and rights.
To speak of Israel’s violations now is, in fact, also to speak of the international community’s irresponsibility. Yet neither are scrutinized and held to account; the result is the regular yet somewhat reluctant citing of what should happen according to international law being juxtaposed against Israeli breaches of the law. Accountability, however, has long since absconded from the scene of the crime. If Israel wants to kill Palestinian children (or women and men, come to that), it will kill because it has decided, quite deliberately, to do so.
Meanwhile, the international community will steer clear from ever associating Israeli actions with genocide, preferring instead to rely on “alleged war crimes”, the perpetrators of which will never be brought to justice. Palestinian children killed by Israel over many years, last year included, have been forgotten by the world.
– Ramona Wadi is a staff writer for Middle East Monitor, where this article was originally published.
13 jan 2019
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Sunday handed the local authorities in Teqoa town, east of Bethlehem, a military notice threatening to take punitive measures against the residents.
According to the military notice, the Israeli army said there would be severe measures, including withdrawal of permits and financial penalties, against the families of young men who throw stones at Israeli cars and carry out acts of sabotage.
The army also threatened to carry out activities in the area to confront acts of sabotage and violence against Israeli citizens.
During their presence in the town, the IOF kidnapped a 16-year-old teenager called Oday al-Ammour from his home.
According to the military notice, the Israeli army said there would be severe measures, including withdrawal of permits and financial penalties, against the families of young men who throw stones at Israeli cars and carry out acts of sabotage.
The army also threatened to carry out activities in the area to confront acts of sabotage and violence against Israeli citizens.
During their presence in the town, the IOF kidnapped a 16-year-old teenager called Oday al-Ammour from his home.
12 jan 2019
In its annual report that Gaza European Hospital has revealed that %20 of the Palestinians, who were shot by the Israeli army during the Great Return March processions in the Gaza Strip in 2018, were children, and more than half of them were shot with life fire.
The report stated that %20 of the wounded were shot by Israeli soldiers in the head, neck or chest, leading to the death of 75 children, and added that %92 of the medical procedures on wounded children were bone and Vascular surgeries.
It also stated that the medical teams in Gaza managed to save many of the wounded from undergoing amputations in their lower limbs, as only 24 amputations were performed.
Raed Abdul-Razeq, the head of the Patients’ Services Department at the hospital, stated that surgeons have performed 1682 surgeries on wounded Palestinians, adding that %58 of the surgeries were orthopedic, %34 were vascular, while the rest were neurological, or in the chest, nose, ears and eyes.
He added that most of the injured children underwent at least two surgeries, due to the seriousness of their wounds.
According to the report, the soldiers shot 1169 Palestinians, including 43 women, while 59 of the wounded were placed in intensive care units, and 567 others were placed in surgery wards.
609 of the wounded Palestinians, including 242 children, were shot with live rounds, while the rest were either injured after being directly shot with Gaza bombs, or by shrapnel, in addition to those who suffered the severe effects of teargas inhalation.
The report stated that %20 of the wounded were shot by Israeli soldiers in the head, neck or chest, leading to the death of 75 children, and added that %92 of the medical procedures on wounded children were bone and Vascular surgeries.
It also stated that the medical teams in Gaza managed to save many of the wounded from undergoing amputations in their lower limbs, as only 24 amputations were performed.
Raed Abdul-Razeq, the head of the Patients’ Services Department at the hospital, stated that surgeons have performed 1682 surgeries on wounded Palestinians, adding that %58 of the surgeries were orthopedic, %34 were vascular, while the rest were neurological, or in the chest, nose, ears and eyes.
He added that most of the injured children underwent at least two surgeries, due to the seriousness of their wounds.
According to the report, the soldiers shot 1169 Palestinians, including 43 women, while 59 of the wounded were placed in intensive care units, and 567 others were placed in surgery wards.
609 of the wounded Palestinians, including 242 children, were shot with live rounds, while the rest were either injured after being directly shot with Gaza bombs, or by shrapnel, in addition to those who suffered the severe effects of teargas inhalation.
11 jan 2019
Violent clashes broke out on Friday afternoon as the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) quelled Palestinian demonstrations protesting Israeli settlement projects in Ramallah.
The IOF heavily fired teargas canisters at Palestinian citizens protesting in Jabal al-Risan area, which is threatened with confiscation in favor of settlement construction plans, local residents said.
The IOF stormed the neighboring village of Beitunia and arrested the Palestinian child Ghassan Awaisa.
Other confrontations were reported in al-Mughayyir village which is constantly attacked by Israeli settlers.
Eyewitnesses said that the IOF closed a military checkpoint on the northern side of the city, obstructing the Palestinian citizens' movement.
The IOF heavily fired teargas canisters at Palestinian citizens protesting in Jabal al-Risan area, which is threatened with confiscation in favor of settlement construction plans, local residents said.
The IOF stormed the neighboring village of Beitunia and arrested the Palestinian child Ghassan Awaisa.
Other confrontations were reported in al-Mughayyir village which is constantly attacked by Israeli settlers.
Eyewitnesses said that the IOF closed a military checkpoint on the northern side of the city, obstructing the Palestinian citizens' movement.
10 jan 2019
Israeli forces detained at least 16 Palestinians, including minors, across the occupied West Bank on predawn Thursday.
According to Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS), Israeli forces detained six Palestinians in the southern West Bank district of Hebron. They were identified as Ismail Fawaz al-Qawasme, Muhammad Radwan al-Hashlamon, Ismail Shaher Riyan al-Sharawne, Muhammad Yahya Abu Jahisha, Hassan Mahmoud Abu Zanid, and Ahmad Bassam al-Zeir.
In the Abu Dis village, in the central West Bank district of Jerusalem, one Palestinian was detained and identified as Abdullah Harbi Fahed Hussein.
In the central West Bank district of Ramallah, Israeli forces detained two Palestinian minors. They were identified as Ayoub Ehsan Muhammad Nisser, 14, and Asaad Ahmad al-Haji Attaya, 17.
In the northern West Bank district of Qalqiliya, three Palestinians were detained. PPS identified them as Abed al-Kareem Yasser Hussein, Hamza Mustafa Shteiwi, 15, and Abed al-Rahman Daoud Shteiwi, 16.
In addition, Yousef Daoud Shteiwi, 14, the younger brother of Hamza and Abed Shteiwi, was summoned for interrogation by the Israeli army to the illegal Israeli settlement of Kadummim in the Qalqiliya district.
In the northern West Bank district of Jenin, four former Palestinian prisoners were detained. PPS identified them as Nidal Amin Hazem, Yahya Bassam al-Saadi, Munadel Nafiaat, and Bahaa Muhammad Abu Tabikh.
According to prisoners rights group Addameer, there are 5,500 Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli prisons, of whom 230 are child prisoners and 41 are under the age of 16 years.
According to Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS), Israeli forces detained six Palestinians in the southern West Bank district of Hebron. They were identified as Ismail Fawaz al-Qawasme, Muhammad Radwan al-Hashlamon, Ismail Shaher Riyan al-Sharawne, Muhammad Yahya Abu Jahisha, Hassan Mahmoud Abu Zanid, and Ahmad Bassam al-Zeir.
In the Abu Dis village, in the central West Bank district of Jerusalem, one Palestinian was detained and identified as Abdullah Harbi Fahed Hussein.
In the central West Bank district of Ramallah, Israeli forces detained two Palestinian minors. They were identified as Ayoub Ehsan Muhammad Nisser, 14, and Asaad Ahmad al-Haji Attaya, 17.
In the northern West Bank district of Qalqiliya, three Palestinians were detained. PPS identified them as Abed al-Kareem Yasser Hussein, Hamza Mustafa Shteiwi, 15, and Abed al-Rahman Daoud Shteiwi, 16.
In addition, Yousef Daoud Shteiwi, 14, the younger brother of Hamza and Abed Shteiwi, was summoned for interrogation by the Israeli army to the illegal Israeli settlement of Kadummim in the Qalqiliya district.
In the northern West Bank district of Jenin, four former Palestinian prisoners were detained. PPS identified them as Nidal Amin Hazem, Yahya Bassam al-Saadi, Munadel Nafiaat, and Bahaa Muhammad Abu Tabikh.
According to prisoners rights group Addameer, there are 5,500 Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli prisons, of whom 230 are child prisoners and 41 are under the age of 16 years.
