The Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners
and Ex--prisoners
Affairs reported Tuesday that the number of the prisoners inside the
Israeli jails and concentration camps went up to 8814.
The incarceration conditions of the prisoners have been
deteriorating at an alarming scale, and the prisoners are deprived
of the simplest human rights as the Israeli prison services with
will-intent is miring their life and revoking their accomplishments
gained after a long battle and hunger strikes.
The communication department of the Ministry said the Israeli
occupation arrest campaign never unabated throughout the occupied
Palestinian territories despite a de-facto cease fire (Truce)
between the Israelis and the Palestinians. The Israeli occupation
forces are still launching arbitrary arrest campaigns against the
citizens. The Israeli jails and detention centers are crammed with
the Palestinian prisoners.
In a report, the communication department said that the prisoners
are distributed on nearly 28 prisons, detention centers as well.
Below the figures are illustrated in details.
The Negev prison, imprisoned the largest number of the Palestinian
prisoners (2250) including (1000) administrative detainees. Nafha
prison (741), A Skalan (489), Beir Shiva (956) , Hasharon for female
prisoners (121), Talmund (85) al Damoun(225), Nitzana (152),
interrogation center Miraj (16), Hadareem(407) Hasharon for Juvenile
(150), Kfar Younna (10) administrative and isolated prisoners ,
Ayalon-B (8) , Shatta and Jalbou'(845) Majedo (1000) Ofra (900) ,
detention facility at Eretz crossing (20) , Kadomim (20) , Al
Maskobia (40) Beit Eil (20) , Al Jalama (20), Kfar Eitsion (20) ,
Atleit (20) Bitah Tikva (20).
In the cells of the interrogation centers of AShkelon prison, there
are 40 prisoners, in Hewara (20) , detention centre of Salem(20) ,
Al Majnouna center (20) , as the total number of the Palestinian and
Arab prisoners inside the Israeli jails, detention and interrogation
centers stands at 8814.
The ministry also mentioned that the Israeli prison services
persistently suppress the male and female prisoners as it continued
its policy of strip off search, high fines for worthless reasons,
forbidding the family visitations for long time.
The ministry record shows that nearly 1000 sick prisoners have been
suffering from diseases that are directly resulted from hard
conditions of incarceration
The sick prisoners need appropriate medical attention including
surgeries, but the Israeli military authorities and the prisons
service (from cold and damp cells), asthma (from poor ventilation),
and hemorrhoids (from too heavily spiced or rotten food).
The Ministry of Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners held the Israeli prison
services full responsibility for the killing of the Palestinian
prisoner Abed Alfattah Raddad ,22,from Sayda/ Tulkarem, was martyred
in Ramallah prison hospital in the north of Tel-Aviv, after three
days of his arrest.
It also asked the International Red Cross Society (IRCS) and
relevant human rights bodies to probe the killing of Raddad and put
further pressure on Israel to protect the prisoners crammed into
Israeli jails.
Israeli peace activists commemorate killed Palestinian children
Israeli peace activists
displayed dozens of posters of Palestinian children killed by the
army during the past four years around Tel Aviv on Wednesday.
The Anarchist Committee to
Remember the Forgotten group distributed the pictures to “remind
Jewish residents of Israel of the losses whose names are not
mentioned on Memorial Day”, a group source said.
“This day does not represent me.
The connection between Memorial Day and Independence Day is cynical
because the people who died in the wars have nothing to do with
independence. Even the War of Independence was a war about creating
a country based on prejudiced and non-democratic principles”, the
source Added.
One of the posters showed two
children from the village of Beit Likiya, Jamal A'asi, 14, and Waudi
A'asi, 15, who had been killed by Israeli troops during a soccer
game.
“We remember” in Arabic and Hebrew
were written on all displayed pictures.
Another poster of Palestinian
children read: “The Israeli terror forces shot tear gas and
rubber-coated bullets at them for protesting the uprooting of their
olive groves and stealing of their land. Hundreds of Palestinians
have been injured in such demonstrations, including 150 children.”
Residents appeal IHC to reach
their lands
Palestinian residents appealed the Israeli High Court
to allow them entry to their own lands located behind the Wall
surrounding Jerusalem, and to reveal the list of properties
considered by Israel as ‘absentee properties’.
The Israeli online daily Haaretz
reported that Israel did not grant the residents permits to enter
their farmlands in spite of a ruling by the Israeli Attorney General
Menachem Mazuz ordering the Israeli government should not implement
the 1950 Absentee property law.
Also, Mazuz ordered the Israeli
government not to implement the policy which allows capture lands in
east Jerusalem owned by residents living in other Palestinian areas
in the West Bank.
The petition which was filed to
the High Court of Justice by Daniel Seidemann from Ir Amim
organization of behalf of Palestinian landowners revealed that the
orders of Mazuz are still not implemented, the petition also seeks a
case in order to force Israel publish a list of properties seized by
the state.
Haaretz added that the Israeli
government decided mid 2004 to implement the absentee property law
on all the Palestinian lands which were isolated behind the
Separation Wall, thus annexing lands near Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Beit
Jala and other areas.
Even after Mazuz issued his
orders, Palestinian land owners were not allowed to cultivate their
lands East of Jerusalem, and lost an entire agricultural season last
year.
Seidemann requested the High
Court's intervention, and said that the Finance Ministry and the
Ministry for Jerusalem Affairs also believe that Mazuz's ruling does
not cancel out the cabinet decision of land grab.
Also, the petition raised fears of
landowners that many lands owned by them were transferred to the
ownership of Israel before the decision of Mazuz in January 2005,
especially in the village of Al-Walaja, and Khirbit Mazmuria,
southwest of Jerusalem; Israel plans to construct settlement
neighborhoods in the two areas.
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