Monthly Update | Palestinian Political Prisoners and Detainees | January 2014

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Three-day Global Electronic Action of sick Palestinian political prisoners and detainees in Israeli jails has been launched by pro-Palestinians activists around the world on 19-21.1.2014 in three main languages under the title : Campaign to support the sick prisoners.

Hundreds of social networking sites and thousands of Twitter activists took part in the campaign in support of sick prisoners in Israeli jails, where more than 1000 sick prisoners are still held in custody including 25 cancer patients, in addition to 18 patient prisoners are currently held in Ramle Prison Hospital.

Click Here To Find More : http://ufreeonline.net/index.php/site/index/news/366/3
UFree Petition in Solidarity with Palestinian sick Prisoners in Israeli jails : http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/petition-in-solidarity-with-sick-palestinian

Latest News

 Israeli Prison Service deliberately procrastinates in providing three patient prisoners with the appropriate treatment.
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 Palestinian prisoner with cancer Yousri Al-Masri, held in Eshel prison, campaigned against Israeli deliberate medical negligence and procrastination policy towards his health situation, especially that he undergone a surgery two months ago to remove parathyroid gland after being affectedness.
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 Israeli occupation forces use military checkpoints and border crossings as traps to arrest Palestinian civilians under the pretext they are wanted
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 The Israeli Prison Services (IPS) in Nafha prison has decided to transfer the prisoner leader Ibrahim Hamed, sentenced to 57 life-terms, to Holakdar prison, causing a state of tension among prisoners held in Nafha jail. Ibrahim Hamed participated in the Karama mass hunger strike in April 2012, which lasted 28 days, and after which he was released from solitary confinement where he had served eight years.
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 Thaer Abdu, held in administrative detention without charge or trial, ended his hunger strike on January 7, after 53 days of strike.
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 An Israeli military court has sentenced Sunday two brothers for 12 and 20 years respectively for allegedly stone-throwing.
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 A female Israeli soldier physically assaulted in a new recent incident a Palestinian school girl from Al-Khalil city as she was en route to her school.
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 United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories (OCHA) warned of the seriousness of the Israeli occupation’s recent practices targeting Palestinian children.
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 Palestinian detainee Dirar Abu Sisi was taken to hospital after a serious deterioration in his health condition.
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 17 Palestinian female prisoners are currently held in Hasharon prison suffering very difficult detention and health conditions due to the Israeli deliberate medical negligence and ill-treatment.
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 According to The action group for the Palestinians in Syria, there are a total of 391 Palestinian prisoners in Syria, 355 of them are detained by the Syrian regime and the other 36 detainees are held by the opposition forces.
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Statistics and figures :
- The number of Palestinian journalists held in Israeli jails has been increased to 14 detained journalists.

 1,450 Jerusalemites have been arrested in 2013, including 450 children and 25 women. More than 20 children from those arrested were interrogated and kept under remand arrest for more than five days in solitary confinement. During this time they were confined to cells and prevented from seeing lawyers.

 Human rights group B’Tselem published statistics showing that by the end of November 2013, 173 Palestinian minors were held in Israeli prisons as security detainees and prisoners. Another 25 Palestinian minors were held in Israel Prison Service facilities for being in Israel illegally.

 Five Palestinian MPs are still detained in Israeli Jails under administrative detention, in addition to the former Minister Issa Jabari who spent more than nine years behind Israeli bars.

 Eight Palestinian prisoners continue their hunger strike in Israeli jails protesting their administrative detention.

G4S is a British-Danish private security company that provides services and equipment to Israeli prisons, checkpoints, the Apartheid Wall and the Israeli police.
In 2007, G4S signed a contract with the Israeli Prison Authority to provide security systems and other services for major Israeli prisons. G4S provides systems for the Ketziot and Megiddo prisons, which hold Palestinian political prisoners from occupied Palestinian territory inside Israel. Article 76 of the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits the transfer of prisoners from occupied territory into the territory of the occupier.
G4S also provides equipment for Ofer prison, located in the occupied West Bank, and for Kishon and Moskobiyyeh detention facilities, at which human rights organisations have documented systematic torture and ill treatment of Palestinian prisoners. As Palestinian political prisoners begun a mass hunger strike on 17th April 2012 an action was taken to hold G4S accountable for its involvement with Israel’s unlawful detention of Palestinians.
G4S is also complicit with other aspects of Israel’s system of apartheid over the Palestinian people. G4S provides equipment and services to Israeli checkpoints in the West Bank that form part of the route of Israel’s illegal Wall and to the terminals isolating the occupied and besieged territory of Gaza. G4S has also signed contracts for equipment and services for the West Bank Israeli Police headquarters and to private businesses based in illegal Israeli settlements. A panel of legal experts concluded that G4S may be criminally liable for its activities in support of Israel’s illegal Wall and other violations of international law.
G4S has attempted to deflect the criticism it has been facing by announcing that it intends to end some aspects of its involvement in Israel’s illegal settlements by 2015. However, this response is unsatisfactory. The public announcements make no mention of the participation of G4S in the illegal detention and torture of Palestinian political prisoners inside Israel. Additionally, the announcement mentions only some aspects of the company’s involvement in Israel’s illegal settlements and pledges only to exit them at some undetermined point in the future.

Source (www.bdsmovement.net)

Important Links :
G4S signed a contract with the Israeli Prison Authority :
http://whoprofits.org/sites/default/files/WhoProfits-PrivateSecurity-G4S.pdf
Torture in Israeli Jails – The Legacy of Totalitarian Regimes :http://ufreeonline.net/uploads/1372957681.pdf
Public Statement of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine :
http://www.russelltribunalonpalestine.com/en/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Concluding-Statement-RToP-London-22-November-2010.pdf

« Don’t Tell My Mother That I Have Become Blind »

Palestinian sick prisoner Mohammed Barash wrote a letter in Arabic to his mother from Eichel prison in Beersheba, « Don’t Tell My Mother That I Have Become Blind » :

‘Don’t tell my mother that I can no longer see. She can see me but I can’t see. I fake my smiles when she shows me the photographs of my siblings, friends, and neighbours as she doesn’t know, that I have become blind after illness spread in my eyes till the darkness filled me.

Don’t tell her that I waited for several years to have a surgery to plant a cornea. But the Israeli Prison Service kept on procrastinating and procrastinating providing my eyes all reasons to leave me.
Don’t tell my mother that the shrapnel of bullets and the bombs which managed to hit me is still settling in my body, and that my left leg had been mutilated and replaced by a plastic one. Don’t tell her that the other leg rotted and dried of blood and life.

Don’t tell my mother that the prisoner’s emotions got stripped of the most basic elements of human life as he is sentenced to see only ashes and iron, lightless life and hopelessness.

Tell her that I am alive and safe. Tell her that I can see, walk, run, play, jump, write and read. Don’t tell her that I am shouldering my pains on my walking stick, and I can picture every martyr as a moon souring in the sky and calling me with the power of lightning, thunder and clouds.