Report: 4,524 Palestinians detained by Israel since the start of this year
[ 31/10/2009 - 10:59 AM ]
GAZA, (PIC)-- Researcher in prisoners’ affairs Abdelnasser Farwana reported Friday that he documented 4,524 Israeli arrests of Palestinian citizens since the start of 2009, 412 of them took place in October.
Farwana said that the West Bank and Jerusalem witnessed the kidnapping of 3,456 citizens, while 1,068 others were kidnapped in Gaza, mostly during the last war, noting that there were children, women, patients and elderly people among those who were kidnapped this year.
He also pointed out that the arrests declined in the Gaza Strip after the war, where 68 cases have been documented since the end of the war until end of October.
The researcher said that his current report is on the total number of arrests and not on the number of citizens who were arrested during this year.
In another context, the Palestinian center for human rights said in its weekly report that the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) wounded during the last week 41 Palestinian citizens in the West Bank, including five journalists, eight women and one child.
The report also underlined that the IOF troops carried out 25 incursions in the West Bank and one in the Gaza Strip, during which they kidnapped 47 Palestinians.
The report touched on the Israeli violations committed against Palestinian fishermen in Gaza and farmers in the West Bank as well as the policy of demolishing homes in occupied Jerusalem.
[ 31/10/2009 - 10:59 AM ]
GAZA, (PIC)-- Researcher in prisoners’ affairs Abdelnasser Farwana reported Friday that he documented 4,524 Israeli arrests of Palestinian citizens since the start of 2009, 412 of them took place in October.
Farwana said that the West Bank and Jerusalem witnessed the kidnapping of 3,456 citizens, while 1,068 others were kidnapped in Gaza, mostly during the last war, noting that there were children, women, patients and elderly people among those who were kidnapped this year.
He also pointed out that the arrests declined in the Gaza Strip after the war, where 68 cases have been documented since the end of the war until end of October.
The researcher said that his current report is on the total number of arrests and not on the number of citizens who were arrested during this year.
In another context, the Palestinian center for human rights said in its weekly report that the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) wounded during the last week 41 Palestinian citizens in the West Bank, including five journalists, eight women and one child.
The report also underlined that the IOF troops carried out 25 incursions in the West Bank and one in the Gaza Strip, during which they kidnapped 47 Palestinians.
The report touched on the Israeli violations committed against Palestinian fishermen in Gaza and farmers in the West Bank as well as the policy of demolishing homes in occupied Jerusalem.
Ministry of prisoners condemns physical assault on two Palestinian detainees
[ 31/10/2009 - 09:54 AM ]
GAZA, (PIC)-- The Palestinian ministry of prisoners’ affairs on Friday strongly denounced the Israeli prisons authority (IPA) for deliberately humiliating and physically assaulting Palestinian prisoners during the last week, stressing that this is a consistent revenge policy pursued by the Israeli occupation especially against Gaza prisoners.
Information director of the ministry Riyadh Al-Ashqar said that the IPA deprives Palestinian prisoners of all rights stipulated in relevant laws and even deliberately humiliate and maltreat them while they are in chains.
Ashqar noted that the special military units in Israeli jails severely beat two Palestinian prisoners last week, one during his presence in solitary confinement and the other after he left a court hearing.
For its part, Al-Ahrar center for prisoners’ studies told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that it obtained a number of pictures illustrating Israeli troops of Nahshon unit physically and verbally assaulting and beating prisoner Mohamed Abu Jamous after leaving a court hearing held recently.
The center pointed out that the assault happened when Abu Jamous left the Israeli high court in occupied Jerusalem on the 30th of September while his hands and feet were shackled in chain, adding that the soldiers of Nahshon units forced him to strip for search and then started to kick and beat him all over his body.
It added that the soldiers threatened the prisoners with death if he filed a complaint about what happened to him.
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