[ 28/11/2010 - 10:51 AM ] JERICHO, (PIC)-- Palestinian detainees from Hamas Movement in the Jericho prison administrated by the Palestinian authority (PA) went on open hunger strike until death in protest at the serious violations committed against them by interrogators and jailers.
Sources close to the families of these prisoners said that the brutal practices used against them over two years and the humiliation they are exposed to prompted them to take such step.
In a statement on Saturday, the families held de facto president Mahmoud Abbas and his security apparatuses fully responsible for the lives of their sons and appealed to Palestinian human rights organizations to intervene to have them released from PA jails.
In a separate context, head of the association of Palestinian scholars Marwan Abu Ras described the violations committed by the PA security militias against Palestinian women in the West Bank as a humanitarian, national and religious crime, which causes damage to the Palestinian unity.
Abu Ras added in a press release on Saturday that the lies fabricated by the PA security militias against Palestinian women can deceive nobody because they are notorious for distorting the facts and had an ugly history in Gaza.
He stated that the PA security apparatuses follow the Zio-American dictates and were established only to protect the security of the Israeli occupation.
In this context, the PA militias kidnapped four Palestinian citizens affiliated with Hamas in the cities of Tulkarem and Bethlehem, according to local sources on Sunday.
For their part, a number of Palestinian recently released from Nablus jails reported that the PA interrogators in Juneid prison use brutal torture methods in order to force them to make false confessions about the alleged attempt to assassinate the governor of Nablus city.
They confirmed they heard PA interrogators threatening prisoners to confess they wanted to kill the governor or they would be killed in a fabricated way similar to what happened previously to other Hamas detainees.
In a related context, PA minister of interior Sa'eed Abul Rab told the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper that the ongoing security cooperation between the PA and Israel is between an authority under occupation and the occupation authority.
Abu Rab claimed that this cooperation is intended to organize the daily life in the occupied Palestinian territories and not to exchange information.
The PA official added that this coordination helps facilitate the movement of Palestinians in the occupied lands where there are more than 460 Israeli military checkpoints, noting that even PA chief Mahmoud Abbas cannot move outside Ramallah city without prior coordination with Israel.
[ 27/11/2010 - 01:47 PM ]
GAZA, (PIC)-- Palestinian prisoner Shadi Abul Haseen, from Gaza Strip, declared his intention to resume his hunger strike next Tuesday in protest at not releasing him after he finished serving his sentence in August 2010 at the pretext he has no Palestinian ID.
Director of the prisoners' center for studies Rafat Hamdouna condemned the Israeli occupation authority for delaying the release of Abul Haseen and keeping him in prison without justification.
Hamdouna appealed to all parties concerned about prisoners' affairs, especially the Red Cross to follow up the legal position of prisoner Abul Haseen and work on releasing him from Israeli jails.
For their part, the Palestinian prisoners in Nafha prison went on hunger strike on Friday for only one day to protest the persistent search raids that are carried out by Israeli military units on their sections.
Spokesman for the high national committee for the support of prisoners Riyadh Al-Ashqar said that Israeli troops stormed on Thursday morning the sections 10 and 14, assembled the prisoners in another section and embarked on ransacking things inside their rooms before they found a cell phone used by the prisoners to contact their families as a result of the restrictions imposed on family visits.
In a separate incident, the high national committee said that the Israeli troops stormed section C5 in Negev prison and carried out a thorough search inside it at the pretext of looking for banned stuff.
The prison administration confiscated prisoners' belongings in this section and decided to deprive them of seeing their families for one month.
The committee also reported that the Israeli administration of Nafha prison transferred Gazan prisoners Fahd Al-Zaqzaq and Bassim Al-Kurd to the jails of Eshel and Ramon. Both of them are serving life imprisonment.
For its part, the Israeli administration of Hadarim prison extended the solitary confinement of Mohamed Arman, a prominent leader of Al-Qassam Brigades, after it summoned him for interrogation once again, according to the high national committee.
The committee said that prisoner Arman was subjected to a new round of interrogation sessions that started last week.
Arman was captured eight years ago in occupied Jerusalem on a charge of leading what was described then as the most dangerous cell of Al-Qassam Brigades and now he is serving 36 life sentences.
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