West Bank

Israel holds thousands of Palestinian prisoners in solitary confinement despite health risks IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG  Home away from home for too many Palestinian prisoners of Israel (Pictured: a solitary confinement cell in Israel’s Ayalon prison.) Physicians for Human Rights reports that thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israel are held in isolation, some are women and children, and some for years at a time – likely a breach of the Convention against Torture. by Chen Maanit and Josh Breiner, reposted from Ha’aretz, February 24, 2022 [NOTE: Forms of isolation are considered psychological torture prohibited under Article 1 of the 1984 Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. It is also inhumane and degradin...

PCHR: Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Weekly Update 17 – 23 February 2022) The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights: Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Weekly Update 17 – 23 February 2022) Violation of right to life and bodily integrity: Palestinian Child Killed, 18 Palestinians, including 7 children and a journalist, sustained live and rubber-bullet wounds in separate incidents the West Bank. 2 Palestinians were shot with live bullets; one in his back while the other in his foot during Israeli occupation forces (IOF)’s incursion into Jenin. Arrests among Palestinians were reported. 7 Palestinians, including 4 children and a journalist, sustained rubber-bullet wounds in excessive use ...

On Thursday morning, Nazi soldiers demolished a Palestinian home in Anata town, northeast of the Nazi occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Media sources said the Nazi soldiers invaded the al-Baq’an neighborhood in the town after surrounding it before forcing the Palestinians out of their property. They added that the Nazi soldiers demolished a home, consisting of two flats, owned by Raed Hajjaj Fheidat, allegedly for being built without a permit. Video Player 00:0000:43 It is worth mentioning that the Nazi soldiers also demolished a room that was part of a building destroyed by the soldiers a month ago. On Wednesday, Nazi soldiers demolished four residential sheds in Shu’ab al-Batem village, south of Hebron, in the West Bank’s southern part. While Nazi c...

On Thursday at dawn, Nazi soldiers abducted at least eleven Palestinians from their homes in several parts of the occupied West Bank, including the occupied capital, Jerusalem. In Anza village, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, the Nazi soldiers invaded and ransacked several homes before abducting a young man, Hazem Morad Barahma. In Nablus, in northern West Bank, the Nazi soldiers a young man, Sameh al-Ashqar, from his home in Wadi at-Tuffah neighborhood in the city. Another Palestinian, Mustafa Hijja, was abducted after the Nazi soldiers invaded and searched his home in Burqa village, west of Nablus. The Nazi soldiers also abducted a young man, Hatem Ismael Hamayel, from his home in Beita town, south of Nablus. The Nazi army has been trying to abduct Al-A...

On Wednesday evening, Nazi soldiers injured a Palestinian child after chasing him in Beit Fajjar town, south of Bethlehem, in the Nazi occupied West Bank. Local sources said the child, Ahmad Ayed Thawabta, 13, suffered fractures and bruises in one of his legs after falling when the Nazi soldiers chased him during an invasion into the town. They added that the Nazi soldiers detained the child at the western entrance of Beit Fajjar but released him shortly afterward by handing him to the Palestinian District Coordination Office. Immediately after his release, Palestinian medics rushed the child to Beit Jala governmental hospital for treatment. |Soldiers Abduct Eleven Women, Four Children, In Jerusalem| In related news, the Nazi soldiers invaded Thaher al-Abed village, nea...

Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian child in occupied West Bank CONTACT@IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG   Mohammed Shehadeh was accused by Israel of throwing a Molotov cocktail before being shot by soldiers in the occupied West Bank town of al-Khader Business as usual: Israeli soldiers shot 13-year-old Mohammed Shehadeh in the chest when he posed no danger, then prevented an ambulance from reaching him. reposted from Defense for Children International–Palestine, February 23, 2022 Israeli forces shot and killed a 13-year-old Palestinian boy with live ammunition in the central occupied West Bank yesterday. [Some sources say the boy was 14 years old.] An Israeli soldier fatally shot Mohammad Rezq Shehadeh Salah in the torso in the early evening on February 22 near the Israe...

The Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority announced, on Tuesday, that the Palestinian detainee Abdul-Basest Ma’tan, 49, who suffers from colon cancer, is being denied the necessary medical care. Ma’tan, from Burqa town, east of Ramallah in the central Nazi occupied West Bank, detained in the Nazi Ofer Camp, is being denied specialized medical care by the Ofer prison administration. In a statement, the authority revealed that the cancer sufferer, who had a 35 cm tumor removed from his colon in 2019, and the cancer has spread to his lymph nodes. It is imperative that a cancer specialist (oncologist) monitor the patient’s condition at least every 6 months, in order to prevent further spread of the disease. The Nazi Camp administration has continued to deny the sick detain...

Nazi occupation court decided today to freeze the eviction of the Salem family from their home in the western part of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem. After filing an appeal against the decision of Nazi’s so-called Procedure and Implementation Department, the lawyer was able to freeze the eviction procedures until a decision is made on the appeal submitted to the Nazi occupation court in Jerusalem, on the condition of depositing a financial guarantee of 25,000 shekels. The family received a decision to evict them from their home during the period between the first of March and the first of next April, in favor of Nazi JEWISH settlers claiming ownership of the land. The suffering of the Salem family began in 1987 when they received an eviction order, which the...

Nazi soldiers abducted seven Palestinians, including a former political prisoner, from their homes in the al-‘Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron city, in the southern part of the Nazi occupied West Bank. Local sources said several Nazi army jeeps invaded the refugee camp and surrounded many homes before invading and violently searching them. The abducted Palestinians have been identified as: Former political prisoner Hamza Jaber Abu Sill.Anas Amjad Jawabra.Saed Mohammad Halayqa.Moayyad Sami Sharbi.Ezzeddin Mohammad al-Hoor.Rabah Bilal Ribah al-Fdeilat.Aysar Bilal Ribah al-Fdeilat. (Rabah’s brother) In related news, the Nazi soldiers invaded Tubas, in Northeastern West Bank, before storming and ransacking the home of Bashar Mohammad Abdul-Razeq, and informed him they were...

On Tuesday at dawn, Nazi soldiers abducted two young Palestinian men from the towns of Jaba’ and Anza, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and also invaded Faqqu’a village, northeast of Jenin, leading to protests. Media sources said the soldiers invaded and searched several homes in Jaba’ and abducted a young man, identified as Yousef Zayyad Shqeirat. They added that the soldiers also searched homes in Anza, and abducted Abdul-Rahman Barahma. In addition, protests took place when the soldiers invaded Faqqu’a village; the Nazi soldiers fired several live rounds, concussion grenades, and gas bombs.