ETHNIC CLEANSING IN PHOTOS – Demolition of the Jaradat Family Home in at-Tur April 24, 2013

“Settling” constitutes a warcime according to international law and ICC statute. Even under US’ own military legislations’ Law resources below this article April 24, 2013 Photos by Afif Ameera/ WAFA LAW “States may not deport or transfer parts of their own civilian population into a territory they occupy.” Summary State practice establishes this rule as […]

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Chicago commemorates International Palestinian Prisoners Day ~ by Bill Chambers

We Fight Back | by Bill Chambers | Apr 23, 2013 Chicago, IL – During the week of International Palestinian Prisoners Day, over 20 activists from the Palestine Solidarity Group, United States Palestinian Community Network (USPCN), Students for Justice in Palestine and other organizations braved the bitter cold to stage “Intifada Theater” at the Bean […]

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Mashaal: We will continue to liberate prisoners from Israel’s jails

[ PIC 18/04/2013 – 10:15 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Head of Hamas’s political bureau Khaled Mashaal said that his Movement would keep working hard to liberate all Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, renewing his Movement vow to uphold the resistance as an option to restore the usurped land and rights. Mashaal made his remarks in […]

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1,000 sick prisoners including 25 cancer patients in Israeli jails

[ PIC 16/04/2013 – 07:23 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The head of the Follow up committee of Prisoners’ Affairs, Amin Shauhan, confirmed that more than 1000 Palestinian prisoners suffer different illnesses including 25 cancer patients. The prisoners face deliberate medical neglect by the Israeli prison services aiming to assassinate them as what happened with the […]

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Israel medics endanger Palestinian prisoners’ lives: Rights group

Palestinians demonstrate in support of hunger strikers in Israeli prisons on April 09, 2013. PressTV | Thu Apr 11, 2013 9:33PM GMT According to Palestinian sources, over 4,500 Palestinian prisoners are held in Israeli prisons, many of them without charge or trial, and are subject to human rights violations such as the use of torture […]

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Farwana: Israel’s occupation forces kidnapped 1,070 Palestinians in three months

[ 02/04/2013 – 11:35 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Specialist in prisoners’ affairs Abdul Naser Farwana said that the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have kidnapped 1,070 Palestinians since the start of the current year. In a press release, Farwana stated that compared to the same period of last year, the first quarter of 2013 saw a […]

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#ArafatJaradat | Lawyer: Israeli court delays delivery of report about death of Jaradat

LIVE BLOG ABOUT THE DEATH OF ARAFAT JARADAT Includes Preliminary Autopsy Report Maan News Agency | March 16, 2013 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — An Israeli court in Petah Tikva has decided to postpone delivery of final medical reports related to the death of Palestinian prisoner Arafat Jaradat in Israeli custody in February, the Palestinian ministry of […]

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Families of detainees urge UN to intervene and end their suffering

[ PIC 16/03/2013 – 05:51 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Families of two Palestinian detainees delivered on Saturday a message to the UN Secretary General’s envoy for human rights in Palestine on the prisoners’ plight. The family of hunger striker Ayman Al-Sharawne and family of Jerusalemite detainee Hussam Shahin appealed in the message addressed to UN […]

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Hamas calls on the European Parliament to act to protect the prisoners

LIVE BLOG ABOUT THE DEATH OF ARAFAT JARADAT [ PIC 15/03/2013 – 06:29 PM ] Hamas praised the European Parliament’s decision to send a delegation to assess the prisoners’ conditions in Israeli jails and to open an investigation into the circumstances of the death of prisoner Jaradat, stressing the need to protect the delegation’s work […]

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Israeli Nahshon forces attack two disabled prisoners

LIVE BLOG ABOUT THE DEATH OF ARAFAT JARADAT [ PIC 12/03/2013 – 09:20 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Lawyer Fadi Obeidat revealed that Nahshon forces attacked two disabled prisoners in Nazareth District Courtroom on March 6, while four other detained minors were attacked in the courtroom in Jerusalem on January 27. Obeidat stated that “the suppressive […]

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Occupation arrests 3 citizens, including ex-prisoner

LIVE BLOG ABOUT THE DEATH OF ARAFAT JARADAT [ PIC13/03/2013 – 09:39 PM ] AL-KHALIL, OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Israeli forces arrested at dawn Wednesday three citizens from al-Khalil and Nablus, including liberated prisoner Mahmoud Hamdi Shabana, the Director of the Office of Hamas’ deputies in al-Khalil Governorate in the southern West Bank. Shabana’s brother told […]

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US, Israel and EU accused of complicity in torture of Palestinians in PA custody

LIVE BLOG ABOUT THE DEATH OF ARAFAT JARADAT MEMO | March 13, 2013 The Arab Organisation for Human Rights in UK has accused the US, Israel and the EU of complicity in the torture of Palestinians in the custody of the Palestinian Authority (PA). Testimony collected by the AOHR, it said in statement, “makes it […]

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Vigil to be held against G4S complicity in torture of Palestinians

LIVE BLOG ABOUT THE DEATH OF ARAFAT JARADAT UK activists are to protest against G4S company’s complicity in torture of Palestinians in London on March 15, 2013. PressTV | Wed Mar 13, 2013 9:3AM GMT British campaigners are to stage a protest outside the London headquarter of private security company, G4S, over its role in […]

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UNICEF: “Israel Mistreats Detained Palestinian Children”

LIVE BLOG ABOUT THE DEATH BY TORTURE OF ARAFAT JARADAT Includes preliminary autopsy report  Thursday March 07, 2013 02:42 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) issued a report stating that Israel is mistreating Palestinian children it is holding in its detention and interrogation centers, and added that […]

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Israeli Army Breaks Into Ramon Prison ransacking rooms and damaginging belongings

LIVE BLOG ABOUT THE DEATH OF ARAFAT JARADAT Continuous Updates  Tuesday March 05, 2013 11:20 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees reported that dozens of soldiers of the Nachshon Brigade invaded, on Monday night after midnight, sections 3 and 4 of the Ramon Israeli prison where at least 850 […]

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