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#PalestineUnderAttack | Daily roundups: Soldiers Ransack Homes and Kidnap 17 Palestinians In Jenin

  Tuesday September 02, 2014 10:54 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, ‘Anza village, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, broke into and ransacked several homes, and kidnapped 17 Palestinians. Soldiers also invaded a flea market near Nablus, and closed it. File […]

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Ceasefire. So Israel performs major crackdown in West Bank and extends detention of 51 Palestinian prisoners

Ma’an news Agency | Aug 27, 2014 | 21:38 (MaanImages/file) JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities have recently extended the detention of 51 Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails, a rights group said on Wednesday. The extensions come amid a major Israeli crackdown on Palestinian dissent across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank, where […]

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Deliberate medical neglect: 40 Palestinians in Megiddo jail suffer extremely tragic conditions

Prisoner Mahmoud Hussein is paralysed and needs special medical care [ PIC 26/08/2014 – 03:26 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Palestinian prisoner society said 40 prisoners detained in section 10 of Megiddo jail suffer from very tragic incarceration conditions. The lawyer of the society revealed, following a visit to the prison, that the Megiddo jailers […]

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Israeli jailers storm Hadarim jail, intimidate Palestinian prisoners

[ PIC 21/08/2014 – 09:41 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Special Israeli units, escorted by large numbers of policemen, stormed on early Wednesday morning prison sections at Hadarim jail and launched a large-scale search campaign against Palestinian political prisoners, Palestinian human rights sources reported. Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies said in a press statement, a state […]

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Dozens Abducted by Israeli Forces in West Bank and Jerusalem

 Wednesday August 20, 2014 06:40 by IMEMC News & Agencies Palestinian home demolished in Jerusalem Reports of dozens of Palestinians being attacked, by both Israeli settlers and soldiers, are still surfacing in increasing amounts, as the assault on Gaza resumes with no breakthrough in peace negotiations. Over 2 dozen people have been kidnapped across the […]

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Megiddo prisoners appeal to Red Cross (@ICRC) to solve their clothing problem

[ PIC 17/08/2014 – 03:18 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Prisoners in Megiddo jail appealed to the Red Cross to urgently provide them with clothing or pressure their jailers to allow their families to send them clothes. The prisoners explained, in a letter published on Sunday by Al-Ahrar center for human rights, that they are not […]

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IOF kidnaps 17 Palestinians from different West Bank areas

[ PIC 18/08/2014 – 02:13 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Monday morning stormed different West Bank areas and kidnapped 17 Palestinians from their homes Local sources reported that the IOF at dawn patrolled areas in the towns of Sa’ir, Sheiyukh, Samu’a and Yatta to the north and south of Al-Khalil. […]

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10 New Prisoners Placed Under (Arbitrary) Israeli Administrative Detention

 Monday August 18, 2014 07:23 by IMEMC News & Agencies Israel announces expansion of Gaza fishing zone as a ‘goodwill gesture’ Israel has placed 10 new Palestinian prisoners under arbitrary administrative detention, a procedure which allows the military to hold individuals indefinitely, without charge or trial and, often, under severe conditions which the rest of […]

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Israeli soldiers attack prisoners in Etzion jail

[ PIC 17/08/2014 – 12:40 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli soldiers routinely assault Palestinian prisoners in the detention center Gush Etzion, north Al-Khalil, the Palestinian Prisoners society said on Sunday. The prisoners told the PPS lawyer that they were beaten with rifle butts and kicked by soldiers when they were in Etzion. The PPS said […]

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Israeli special unit storms Naqab (Negev) prison

[ PIC 14/08/2014 – 12:11 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Israeli Special Forces stormed section 21 in Negev prison where they violently searched the prisoners’ rooms and significantly damaged their personal belongings. Palestinian Prisoners Society said that Israeli forces’ attack came shortly after breaking the prisoners’ beds and electronic appliances in room 12, in addition to […]

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Palestinian prisoners falling prey to Israeli hounding

[ PIC 12/08/2014 – 05:10 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Palestinian human sources raised on Tuesday alarm bells over the unbearable detention circumstances endured by Palestinian prisoners inside of the Israeli Ramon and Nafha lock-ups. Prisoners told the PIC an Israeli special Dror unit broke into Ramon prison on Tuesday and carried out arbitrary search-campaigns targeting […]

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Israeli Terrorism | July 2014: Over 1930 Palestinians arrested by occupation forces

 Samidoun | Aug 7, 2014 During July 2014, nearly 2,000 Palestinians were arrested by Israeli occupation forces, reported the Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies, including all sectors of Palestinian society. There are now over 6,200 Palestinians in occupation prisons. Over 1,930 people were arrested in July, including 800 from the West Bank, 300 from Jerusalem, […]

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IPS special unit assaults Palestinian prisoners

[ PIC 22/07/2014 – 12:12 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Soldiers of the Matsada, the Israeli prison service’s special unit, attacked Palestinian prisoners in Megiddo prison at night while offering Tarawih prayers. Fuad al-Khafsh, the director of the Ahrar center for prisoner studies, said on Tuesday that Matsada unit soldiers broke into ward six of Megiddo […]

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Prisoner Society raises alarm bells over prisoners’ health status

[ PIC 14/07/2014 – 04:20 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Palestinian Prisoner Society raised alarm bells over the deteriorating health status of Palestinian detainees Adnan Hamarsha,45, and Khalil Assi,32, due to medical negligence inside of Israeli lock-ups. Lawyer of the Prisoner Society Maamoun al-Hashim quoted Hamarsha, incarcerated in Megiddo prison, as stating that he has […]

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Israel’s deliberate medical negligence: Deterioration of Palestinian patient prisoners’ health, facing death

[ PIC 28/11/2013 – 12:30 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Waed Association for Captive and Ex-captives expressed deep concern over the health status of Muta’sam Radad who faces death in Israeli prisons. Muta’sam takes more than 20 pills per day in addition to number of injections, the association added, pointing out to the deterioration of his […]

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