Archive | May 3, 2012

#PalHunger | Joint Call for Action | Palestinian Political Prisoners Subject to Collective Punishment as Mass Hunger Strike Continues

3 May 2012 |  Addameer.ps JOINT CALL FOR ACTION As organisations dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), the Palestinian Council of Human Rights Organisations (PCHRO) is gravely concerned about the series of collective and punitive measures taken by the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) against Palestinian political […]

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#PalHunger | Israeli military court delays decision on two hunger strikers

[ PIC | 03/05/2012 – 01:01 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Israeli military court in Ofer has delayed ruling on the appeal for the release of hunger strikers Thaer Halahle and Bilal Dhiab until further notice. Lawyer Ahmed Safiya told the PIC from the court room on Thursday that Dhiab fainted in the court room […]

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IOF kidnap noted Hamas figure in Jenin

[ PIC 03/05/2012 – 12:51 PM ] JENIN, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnapped at dawn Thursday two Palestinian citizens in Jenin city including a prominent Hamas official and violently raided the house of another activist from the Movement. Local sources reported that the IOF stormed at two o’clock in the morning today Jalboun […]

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Captive Abu Sebaa faces hearing loss because of medical neglect | #PalHunger

[ PIC 02/05/2012 – 11:16 PM ] NABLUS,(PIC)– The Ahrar Center for Prisoners Studies and Human Rights has confirmed that Hani Abu sebaa, 40, is threatened with losing his hearing because of medical neglect. The Center said that the prisoner is suffering from kidney stones, various infections and a broken leg during interrogation. The center […]

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Israel exerts physical and psychological pressure on prisoners to end hunger-strike | #PalHunger

MEMO | May 3, 2012   A human rights organization has reported that the Israeli Prisons’ Administration is deliberately and continuously transporting isolated prisoners on hunger-strike in Ashkelon, from one cell to another several times a day in order to weaken and pressure them psychologically. A press release by the Solidarity Foundation for Human Rights […]

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#PalHunger | Palestinian Hunger Strike Solidarity | VIDEO

 May 2, 2012 Video by adshap1 Solidarity with Palestinian hunger strikers – over 2000 in Israeli jails on hunger strike for their rights.▶ Why Palestinian prisoners are on #Palhunger strike ( fact sheet )   ACTIONALERT & LIVE BLOG ▶ 3000 PALESTINIANS ON HUNGER STRIKE | #PalHunger Palestinian Prisoners Palestine’s Prisoners – Pictures Palestinian Prisoners […]

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#PalHunger | 120 new prisoners join the hunger strike

[ PIC 03/05/2012 – 10:16 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Fuad Al-Khafsh, the director of Ahrar center for prisoners’ studies and human rights, has said that 120 new prisoners joined on Thursday the massive hunger strike launched by Palestinians in Israeli occupation jails. He told the PIC that the prisoners, all in Ofer jail, were 50 […]

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Jewish settlers wound Palestinian, damage fruit trees

[ PIC 03/05/2012 – 09:52 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Jewish settlers threw stones at a Palestinian vehicle near Etzion settlement complex on the Jerusalem-Al-Khalil road smashing its windshield and injuring its driver in his eyes. Eyewitnesses said that the settlers threw rocks at the truck driven by Ahmed Sabarne, from Beit Ummar village to the […]

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Hamas slams Israel’s decision to close file of slain family in Gaza

[ PIC 03/05/2012 – 10:34 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Hamas Movement condemned Israel’s decision to close its investigation of those responsible for massacring Al-Samouni family during its aggression against the Gaza Strip in 2009. Its spokesman Fawzi Barhoum slammed the decision as a green light for Israeli soldiers to commit more atrocities against the […]

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Dozens treated for suffocation in Al-Aroub refugee camp clashes

[ PIC 03/05/2012 – 10:38 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Violent clashes erupted on Thursday morning between Israeli occupation forces (IOF) manning the roadblock to the entrance of Arub refugee camp in Al-Khalil and young Palestinians. The PIC reporter said that the clashes took place after the IOF soldiers fired a sound bomb at a group […]

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#PalHunger | The occupation escalates its repressive measures against the striking prisoners

[ PIC 02/05/2012 – 11:48 PM ] NABLUS, GAZA (PIC) — Tadamun International for Human Rights said that the Israeli occupation Prison Service transferred deliberately the isolated hunger striking prisoners in Ashkelon solitary confinement from one cell to another several times a day in order to tire them physically as well as psychologically. According to […]

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#PalHunger | The launch of a broad campaign in Europe to support the prisoners’ issue

[ PIC 02/05/2012 – 08:25 PM ] COPENHAGEN (PIC) — The General Secretariat of Palestinians in Europe launched a broad campaign in solidarity with the prisoners in occupation jails, aiming at pressuring the decision makers, the officials in the EU and the different European parliaments to intervene in order to support the prisoners’ cause. The […]

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#PalHunger | The Massive Palestinian Hunger Strike: Traveling below the Western Radar ~ by Prof. Richard Falk

Prof. Em. Richard Falk | Richard Falk Weblog | May 2, 2012 Can anyone doubt that if there were more than 1300 hunger strikers in any country in the world other than Palestine, the media in the West would be obsessed with the story? It would be featured day after day, and reported on from […]

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Jewish settlers destroy 200 olive trees in Aqraba (Nablus)

[ PIC 02/05/2012 – 08:27 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Jewish settlers uprooted 200 olive trees near Aqraba village, Nablus, on Wednesday morning, local sources said. Hamza Deiriya, a member of the committee for the defense of Aqraba land, said that the settlers came from Etamar settlement and chopped off the trees planted in an area […]

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Israel’s Decision to Close Samouni Case Makes Mockery of Victims’ Rights, International Law

Thursday May 03, 2012 02:56 by PCHR – Press Release The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) unreservedly condemns the Israeli Military Attorney General’s decision to close the case of the Samouni family without initiating any prosecutions. The Samouni case involved numerous well-documented allegations of war crimes, including the willful killing of 27 civilians, the […]

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