Israeli jailers starve Palestinian prisoner to press him to work as informer

[ 05/05/2010 - 09:39 AM ]

NABLUS, (PIC)-- The Palestinian prisoner society said that Israeli interrogators in the Ashkelon prison starved a 19-year-old prisoner and told him he would remain without food until he cooperates with them and work as an informer.

The society said that the interrogators took advantage of the prisoner’s illiteracy and forced him to place thumbprints on papers he did not know anything about or what they included.

The society promised it will follow up the issue of this prisoner and file a complaint against the jailers who used starvation as a torture means to pressure him.

In another incident, Israel’s channel seven said Tuesday that the Israeli intelligence apparatus intensified its attempts, following the animated video recently released by the armed wing of Hamas, to obtain information about the whereabouts of soldier Gilad Shalit.

The channel added that the Shabak embarked lately on calling ordinary Palestinian citizens in the Gaza Strip to urge them to report any information about Shalit in exchange for $10,000,000.

Security sources in Gaza had told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that the security apparatuses discovered some limited incidents in which some individuals responded to these calls.

1, 451 Palestinians kidnapped in four months

[ 05/05/2010 - 11:42 AM ]

NABLUS, (PIC)-- Specialist in prisoners’ affairs Abdelnasser Farwana said that Israel kidnapped during only four months 1, 451 Palestinians including nine women and 100 children under age 18.

Farwana added in a report that most of the arrests took place in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem except for 28 arrest incidents in the Gaza Strip in addition to 25 fishermen detained for varying periods by the Israeli navy.

He pointed out that the talk is about kidnappings that took place during the period extending from the first of January to 30 April and there are citizens who were taken prisoners more than once in the same reporting period.

The specialist also noted that all those Palestinians were kidnapped as usual either during raids on homes, confrontations, at military checkpoints, from streets and workplaces, or at sea.

Meanwhile, Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported Wednesday that the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested nine Palestinian citizens during their routine operations in the West Bank.

Palestinian local sources said that the number of citizens is not nine but 12 Palestinians kidnapped during military operations carried out at dawn in Nablus and Tubas governorates.

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