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Wheelchair bound Palestinian 24 days in Israeli detention center denied right to lawyer visits and medical check-ups

[ PIC 31/08/2014 – 02:25 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Israeli prison authority has been holding disabled Palestinian detainee Shadi Daraghma, who is confined to a wheelchair, in al-Mascoubiya detention center for 24 uninterrupted days, denying him the right to lawyer visits and to urgent medical check-ups , the Palestinian Prisoner Society revealed on Sunday. […]

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This court case was my only hope: Arafat Hassan Abdel Dayem

13 March 2013| Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Occupied Palestine At approximately 07:30 am on 5 January 2009, during ‘Operation Cast Lead’, Israeli forces fired a tank shell at the house of Hany Abdel Dayem. At the time of the attack, members of the Dayem family were mourning the death of a family member named […]

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Israeli forces attack Palestinians in Jenin, injure over 50 people of which one in a wheelchair

[ PIC 16/02/2013 – 10:32 AM ] JENIN, (PIC)– More than 50 Palestinian young men sustained injuries during clashes on Friday with Israeli troops in Yabud town south of Jenin city, and at the Jalama checkpoint to the north of the city. Eyewitnesses said that dozens of young men suffered from tear gas suffocation following […]

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PHOTOS | A Tribute to the Palestinian Heroes on Wheels

Jan 16, 2012 I know a lot of you are not interested in seeing pictures of people without legs, and you are running through life so fast you’re not aware of us in wheels. Yet, 15% of the world population is disabled, and unfortunately in Palestine, due to attacks, wars, assaults on Gaza many are […]

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HORRIFIC FOOTAGE | #PalHunger striker Issawi (wheelchair bound) being beaten and dragged at Israeli court

Urgent: Israeli soldiers beat & kick wheelchair-bound Palestinian hunger striker Samer el-Issawi – Read more A journal published by Adalah, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights | June 26, 2012 “On Torture” is an edited volume of essays by Palestinian, Israeli and international legal and medical experts and practitioners based […]

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#VIDEO | PCHR: Occupied Lives: “She might never walk again”

Qassam Website 05-07-2012,11:16 On 17 June 2012, at around 11:30 pm, Israel’s forces launched 2 missiles from helicopters, targeting a civilian owned private metal workshop in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. As a result, Rami Shawqi Mansour (25), his wife Amani Ismail (25) and their 5 month old daughter Layan, civilians that were walking […]

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Haneyya visits freed detainee Abu Libdeh, pledges special medical care to him

[ 04/07/2012 – 04:46 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya on Tuesday visited newly-released prisoner Mohamed Abu Libdeh in his house in Gaza and pledged to provide him with appropriate medical care. Premier Haneyya congratulated the prisoner on his release and told him he instructed the ministers of health and prisoners’ affairs to […]

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#Airflotilla2 | Does he look like a “terrorist” to you? Meet a ‘Welcome to Palestine’ activist…!

Related: Airflotilla Mission 2012 | Overview #Airflotilla | #Airflotilla2 April 11, 2012 | #Airflotilla2 Weblog Zionism’s paranoia vera went into full gear. While the most moral army also is gearing itself up for the next deportation if illegal barring at foreign airports is unsuccessful. Like last year. (Video) In the meanwhile hasbara (propaganda) is also […]

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Disabled prisoner appeals for providing him with wheelchair

[ 03/01/2011 – 05:42 PM ]   NABLUS, (PIC)– A Palestinian prisoner suffering disability in his feet has appealed to the Red Cross, prisoners’ ministry, and all human rights groups to urgently provide him with a new wheelchair to facilitate his movement. Ahmed Al-Beitawi, a researcher in the Tadamun institution for human rights, said on […]

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PressTV – Gaza holds mass wedding for disabled

PressTV – Gaza holds mass wedding for disabled. by Hamoudi Gharib, Saud Abu Ramadan GAZA, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) — Sitting on his wheeling chair, Omer el-Khouli was very glad as he celebrated Saturday evening, with his bride, in a mass wedding ceremony organized by Gaza Strip ruling Islamic Hamas movement. El-Khouli had been critically wounded […]

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