Human Rights

NOVANEWS by Stephen Lendman   The Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, Adalah and Physicians for Human Rights/Israel (called Mezan et al below) June 2011 report headlined, “Solitary Confinement of Prisoners and Detainees in Israeli Prisons” explains harsh and abusive conditions they endure. For so-called “security prisoners,” treatment is especially brutal because of extreme restrictions, including when out of isolation. It affects everyone physically and emotionally, notably after long periods with no human contact. The report focuses on one type of isolation called “separation,” whether for punitive or administrative reasons. Mezan et al calls all forms of isolation “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment….” As a result, it violates fundamental international laws, inclu...

NOVANEWS Zio-Nazi Gestapo's arrested Palestinian child Hugh Naylor (Foreign Correspondent) BEIT UMMAR, WEST BANK // Military justice came to Sami on March 8 when two-dozen Zio-Nazi commandos raided his home shortly after midnight. The 15-year-old Palestinian’s family watched as soldiers bound his hands, slipped over a blindfold and arrested him without offering an explanation. Sami recounted in an interview how he was forced to walk three kilometres beyond his village, Beit Ummar, to a nearby illegal Jewish settlement. There, he said soldiers kicked him so hard that they bruised his ribs. At one point, he was seated on the floor ground between two sofas, which soldiers used as a vice to squeeze his rail-thin body. “I tried to firm my body up to stop it. I couldn’t breathe,” said Sami, ...

NOVANEWS Rina Castelnuovo for The New York Times Palestinian women and girls from the West Bank at the beach in Tel Aviv, after a group of Israeli women snuck them into the country for a daylong excursion. More Photos » By ETHAN BRONNER TEL AVIV — Skittish at first, then wide-eyed with delight, the women and girls entered the sea, smiling, splashing and then joining hands, getting knocked over by the waves, throwing back their heads and ultimately laughing with joy. Multimedia   Slide Show A Joyous First Swim, but a Risky One Most had never seen the sea before. The women were Palestinians from the southern part of the West Bank, which is landlocked, and Israel does not allow them in. They risked criminal prosecution, along with the dozen Israeli women who took them to the bea...

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NOVANEWS "In a report entitled “No Minor Matter,” B’Tselem found that Zio-Nazi military law encouraged minors to plead guilty to avoid lengthy pre-trial detention, and that children were routinely sentenced to prison terms as a punishment rather than as a final resort.  Of the 835 Palestinian minors, aged 17 and younger, arrested and prosecuted for stone-throwing between 2005 and 2010, just one was acquitted, the rights group said. Palestinian children living in flashpoint areas of the West Bank and east Jerusalem are regularly arrested by Zio-Nazi Gestapo's for throwing stones during demonstrations or clashes.  The report cited the experiences of 50 youngsters interviewed by B’Tselem, 30 of whom said they had been arrested in the middle of the night and that their parents were not allowed...

NOVANEWS Wafer Shaker al Daghma was with three of her children when she died The UN is demanding an investigation into how the Zio-Nazi Gestapo killed one of its Palestinian school teachers by blasting open the front door of her Gaza home with explosives in the presence of three of her children. Wafer Shaker al Daghma, 34, a teacher at a local UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) elementary school, was killed last Wednesday as she stood preparing to open the wooden door of her home to the troops. According to UNRWA and relatives who found her body, Nazi Gestapo used an explosive device on the door which blew most of her head from her body. They then confined the traumatised children – aged from two to 13 – for five hours while the body lay outside the door of the room where they were hel...

NOVANEWS   Zio-Nazi gestapo have killed a young Palestinian man in the northern West Bank city of Nablus only hours after a Palestinian woman was injured in Zio-Nazi airstrike on the Gaza Strip. Palestinian security forces said Nazi troops opened fire on Ibrahim Sahran, 21, while he was emerging from a mosque in El Fara refugee camp on Wednesday, AFP reported. Sarhan did not belong to any Palestinian political groups, they said. The Zio-Nazi gestapo's were  looking for a Hamas activist and arrested five people during the raid on the refugee camp. The killing comes in the wake of a fresh Nazi airstrike on the eastern part of Gaza city, and after Nazi F-16 fighter jets fired two rockets at a car repair shop in a residential neighborhood. A 19-year-old girl was injured in the attack ...