"The Israeli Supreme Court" refuses the plea submitted by the Commission of detainees, regarding the administrative detention against the detainee al-joujo
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The Commission of Detainees' Affairs stated that the so-called "Israeli Supreme Court" refused the plea submitted by the Commission against the administrative detention order of the detainee Jum'a al-joujo from Bethlehem.
The Commission explained that the occupation authorities have arrested him in 19/11/2020, and issued a sentence of administrative detention for six months against him.
The Commission pointed out that the Israeli Supreme Court has refused 13 pleas against the administrative detention orders,submitted by the Commission since the beginning of 2021.
Moreover, the occupation authorities turned the military courts into a political mean which helps to abuse and suppress the Palestinian detainees during arrest, interrogation and moot courts.
It's worthy to mention that Jum'a al-joujo is from Gaza Strip. He has been arrested many times, the first of which was in 2003, where he was sentenced to 11 years of imprisonment. He has been exiled to the West Bank after releasing him. He got arrested in 2015 for two years, and rearrested another time last year under the administrative detention.
Abu Baker: 300 detainees have been infected since the beginning of the epidemic
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The Head of the Commission of Detainees' Affairs stated that 300 detainees have been infected since the beginning of the epidemic, where four of them got transferred to hospitals, including two that were transferred yesterday and today in serious conditions.
He also stated that 75% of detainees took the vaccine of coronavirus, and some of them refused. Regarding the sick detainees, the administration of prisons said it will study their health conditions and then decide whether to give the vaccine or not.
Abu Baker confirmed that the Commission sent a letter in many languages to the International Committee of the Red Cross and the World Health Organization urging them to intervene and save detainees' lives.
Difficult health conditions for 3 detainees in Israeli prisons
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The Commission of Detainees' Affairs stated that sick detainees live in difficult circumstances due to the deliberate medical ignorance by the administration of prisons.
A case in point is the detainee Imad Kmail (55 years), from Qabatya/ Jenin. He suffers from many chronic diseases, such as stomach pains and urinary tract infections. The administration of prisons gives him only painkillers without providing the proper health care. He also suffers from nasal sinuses, breathing disorders and weak sense of smelling.
Another case in point is the detainee Ibrahim Ighnaimat, (42 years) from Surif/ Hebron. He suffers from weakness in heart muscle and needs to install a pacemaker. However, the administration of Remon prison procrastinates in the process of the operation, where his health condition requires an immediate operation.
The last case in point is the detainee Munther Ighbaryeh, (55 years) from Tulkarem. He suffers from obstruction in tear duct, and there is a while material in his eye. He needs an urgent surgery in his eye, but the administration of Jelboa prison refuses.
The Commission of Detainees' Affairs reveals testimonies of three minors who have been tortured and abused during arrest
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The Commission stated that the occupation authorities resorted to abusive and barbaric methods in dealing with Palestinian detainees, especially children where they are subjected to different forms of physical and psychological torture during arrest and in interrogation sessions.
A case in point is the minor Malek Abu Hashash from Hebron. He has been arrested with two of his friends, where the Israeli forces attacked them and beat them violently. Then, they handcuffed the boys and took them to close military camp, and then they transferred them to Megiddo prison , and did not stop the attack and beat along the way.
Another case in point is the minor Loay Jbour (16 years old) from Nablus. He has been attacked by Israeli forces in Kufr Kasem village (occupied territories), and arrested under the pretext of not having permit. The boy got injuries due to the severe beating and bruises on his mouth and forehead. They transferred him to Betah Tekva interrogation center for 21 days and then moved him to the minors' section at Megiddo prison.
The last case in point is the minor Muhammad Qaq (17 years old) from Salfit. He got attacked in his work place, where the Israeli forces opened fire and started to shoot in the air and threaten other workers. They beat him, handcuffed and blindfolded his eyes. He has been transferred to Jalamah interrogation center and remained there for 20 days. Then they transferred him to Megiddo prison.
The Commission of Detainees' Affairs applies for the early release for the detainee Hussain Masalmeh, who suffers from cancer
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The Commission of Detainees' Affairs applied for the so-called "the committee of early release" to release the detainee Hussain Masalmeh, who suffers from cancer and currently held at Soroka Hospital.
He was suffering from severe pains in the abdomen, but the administration of prison did not care about his health condition and delayed taking him to hospital, and then he was diagnosed with leukemia. His health condition is very serious and he started chemotherapy sessions.
The Commission also pointed out that they applied for allowing his lawyer and family to visit him.
The Commission also said that the occupation holds full responsibility on the life and fate of the detainee Masalmeh, because he is one of the medical negligence victims inside the prison.
With the spread-out of Corona virus, there is a real threat on the fate of sick detainees, especially those who have weak immunity.
It is worthy to mention that the detainee Masalmeh, 39 years old, is detained since 22/11/2002, and sentenced to 20 years. He was held at Negev prison before transferring him to Soroka hospital.
M.G Abu Baker: I call on the international community to protect Palestinian journalists and media professionals from the occupation's attacks
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The Head of the Commission of Detainees' Affairs, Qadri Abu Baker, stated that the occupation authorities targeted Palestinian journalists over the past few years. We monitored hundreds of violations against them, such as detention, arbitrary arrests, administrative detention, unfair sentences, attacks and incursions, closing media institutions, confiscating equipment and devices, chasing and summoning journalists and preventing them from travelling.
Abu Baker explained that the targeting also included activist on social media, who expressed their opinion, in order to suppress, threaten and prevent them from writing.
He also called on the international conference on World Press Freedom Day 2021, hosted by the UNESCO and the government of Namibia, held in Windhoek April 29- May 3, to get clear recommendations that protect Palestinian journalists, and intervene to release 16 detainees who are still detained in Israeli prisons.
Abu Baker added: "I call on all the international unions specialized in journalism and press to support their colleagues detained in Israeli prisons, and provide protection for everyone who work in this field in the Palestinian lands form the suppressive and unfair measures of the occupation".
Abu Baker saluted and sent his greetings and respects to all Palestinian journalists and media professionals for their endurance on the hardships of the profession and the hatred of the occupation. He also praised and appreciated their national role in supporting the detainees' cause and exposing the violations they are subjected to.
The General Assembly of the United Nations announced the World Press Freedom Day for the first time on December 1993, based on a recommendation by the general conference of the UNESCO, and since then, the anniversary of the declaration has been celebrated around the world on May 3 as World Press Freedom Day.
The date of the World Press Freedom Day refers to the conference held by the UNESCO in Windhoek city in 1991.
May 3 is considered a reminder for governments to respect and fulfill its commitments towards the press freedom, and it is also a day for journalists and media professionals to discuss the issues of press freedom and profession ethics.
In the occasion of Mother's day, 12 mothers are suffering from the cruelty of jailor and deprivation of children
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The Commission of Detainees' Affairs stated that there are (12) Palestinian mothers are currently held at Damoun and Hasharon prisons, suffering from the cruelty of jailor and deprivation of children in the occasion of Mother's Day, in which people all over the world are celebrating.
The detained mothers are: Israa Jaabis, Fadwa Hamada, Amani Hasheem, Hilweh Hamamreh, Nisreen Hassan, Inas Asafreh, Aya Khateeb, Iman Awar, Khitam Saafin, Shurouq Badan, Khalida Jarrar and Anhar Deek.
The commission stated that their children are missing them especially on this day, where the detained mothers are deprived of visits under feeble pretexts, and in light of the procedures of Coronavirus which stopped the visits.
The commission also said that women detainees suffer from all kinds of stress and arbitrary measures by jailors such as: medical negligence, incursions to their rooms and imposing punishments against them. They live in hard detention conditions.
It is pointed out that the Israeli occupation authorities have arrested more than 17.000 Palestinian Women since 1967, where the commission highlighted the national role of the Palestinian women in holding the responsibility of confronting the occupation.
The commission called the international community to release the Palestinian women and mothers, and provide support to protect them and their children.
Detainees' Institutions: the occupation authorities arrested (413) Palestinians on November 2020
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Israeli occupation authorities arrested (413) Palestinians from the occupied territories on November, including (49) minors and (7) women.
Detainees' institutions and human rights organizations (the Commission of Detainees and Ex-detainees' Affairs, the Palestinian Society Prisoner's Club, Al Dameer Association for Human Rights and Wadi Hilweh Information Center) pointed out that the occupation authorities arrested (157) citizens from Jerusalem, (40) from Ramallah, (74) from Hebron, (31) from Jenin, (33) from Bethlehem, (30) from Nablus, (18) from Tulkarem, (18) from Qalqilia, (3) from Jericho, (7) from Tubas, (2) from Salfit and (1) from Gaza strip.
(4400) detainees are currently imprisoned in Israeli jails including (41) women, (170) minors and (380) administrative detainees, while (102) new administrative detention orders have been issued.
The report includes the most prominent policies of the occupation authorities practiced against detainees during October 2020, such as collective punishment, turning the corona pandemic into a means of oppression, deliberate medical negligence and Jerusalem which faces the highest rate of arrests.
The policy of collective punishment, Kobar village as a case in point
Occupation authorities continue using the policy of collective punishment against Palestinians through incursions and arrests. They practiced mass violations against Palestinian villages and camps through implementing incursions, arrests and intimidation acts.
During last November, Kobar village was subjected to a campaign of arrests and night incursions against "Zebar" family, in an attempt to practice pressure on family member to surrender. In addition, they arrested many members of the family as hostages until the wanted person surrender. 26 persons from the village have been arrested and 6 persons from Birzeit village. 13 persons from Kobar and 4 from Birzeit were kept in prison and most of them are under interrogation.
Continuous incursions to the village and destroying house belongings
Zebar family faced repeated targeting of daily arrests and incursions in the late dawn hours, where occupation forces stormed the houses in a barbaric way to horrify the family. They bombed the doors, destroyed its belongings, opened fire inside the houses and used dogs to attacks family members.
The occupation forces arrested the wife of the wanted person, his son and his nieces as hostages, and they were attacked with beating. They were released at the same day, except for his elder son who still at Al-Maskoubya interrogation center.
Other families from the village were attacked, where Al Dameer Association for Human Rights documented many cases in which people confirmed that many houses were inspected in the same way, even empty ones, and that many people were arrested and interrogated for several hours being released.
The occupation forces are still arresting the human rights activist Muhannad Al-Ezzah as part of their arrests in the village of Kobar, where they stormed his house and destroyed part of the home's possessions.
It is worthy to mention that the village of Kober has lived through continuous arrests and daily incursions since 2017, in addition to installing checkpoints at the entrance of the village, and storming the village with hundreds of soldiers and police dogs. This is also the case with Dheisheh camp, Deir Abu Mishaal and other Palestinian villages, cities and camps.
The policy of collective punishment is one of the systematic revengeful policies which violates articles (33) and (34) of the Forth Geneva Convention.
Detainees' of Jelboa prison confronting Coronavirus Pandemic
The institutions followed up with great concern the continuous cases of corona virus among detainees in Jelboa prison during November, where more than 100 cases have been recorded, especially at section (3) Which threatened the fate of (360) detainees in "Jelboa" prison, including the sick detainees and the elderly.
Institutions confirmed that the risks to the fate of the detainee are escalating, where the administration of prison does not allow the existence of a neutral medical committee to supervise the samples of detainees and their health conditions.
With the spread out of corona virus pandemic at Jelboa prison, detainees suffered from the policies of the administration of prison, which turned the pandemic into a means of suppression. It procrastinated in taking the samples from detainees at the beginning of the symptoms on detainees in section (3), which led to the infection of the entire section and detainees from other sections. It also procrastinated in providing food and medical care.
One of the testimonies of detainees affirmed that the administration of prison allowed to give one lemon for each room, and reduced some kinds of food. It also tended to transfer many infected detainees to Al-Ramla isolation, which is considered the worst prison, turned section (3) to a quarantine and transferred many detainees to other prisons in which sections were allocated to isolate infected detainees.
Detainees' institutions noticed many acts by the occupation authorities since the beginning of the pandemic, such as the continuation of arrest campaigns against Palestinian citizens which included all categories of society: elderly, sick and injured detainees without taking into consideration the possibility of spreading the virus.
It also tended to hold captives collectively in interrogation centers in miserable and hard conditions pretending that it is the best place as quarantine. Moreover, it continued in transferring detainees between prisons which contributed to increase the concern on the possibility of transmitting the virus to all detainees in prisons.
In addition, the occupation authorities continued its campaigns of incursions and inspections which increase the interaction with jailors.
Despite all the demands by detainees' institutions, regarding the epidemic, which included releasing sick, elderly detainees, women and minors, the occupation authorities replied with more detention campaigns.
Medical negligence in the Israeli prisons is a deliberate and systematic policy
The administration of prisons uses the policy of medical negligence as part of its plans that target the fate of detainees and their lives. During the past few years, tens of detainees' testimonies have been recorded, affirming that this policy starts from diagnosing the disease and continues with negligence in following up the appropriate health care. The administration of prisons deliberately implements a series of systematic procedures to kill detainees, such as; procrastinating in providing medication, preventing surgical operations, and the lack of specialized doctors, supervisors and psychotherapists inside prisons, as well as the lack of isolation rooms for patients with infectious diseases.
It also transfers sick detainees by the "Bosta" car instead of the ambulance, which forms a journey of torture to them. Moreover, injured detainees are held in difficult conditions that lack of the necessary health conditions, which lead to the deterioration of their health conditions, and having serious and chronic diseases.
According to detainees' institutions, (700) detainees have diseases, including (300) who have chronic diseases and tens who have cancer.
Al Ramla clinic is evidence on the crime of medical negligence, which lacks the minimum elements of a clinic, where most of the detainees martyred there. There are (16) detainees reside in it permanently, including 7 detainees who move using a wheelchair, such as; Mansour Mowqadeh, Khaled Shawish, Nahed Aqraa, Mu'tasem Raddad and Saleh Saleh.
About the martyr Kamal Abu Waaer, the last martyr of the Captive movement
The detainee kamal Abu Waaer was sentenced 6 life sentence term and 50 years. He has gone through a journey of suffering with difficult detention conditions that led to his injury with cancer in the throat last year. He suffered from the policy of medical negligence where they procrastinated in providing the appropriate treatment for him. After many calls by organizations to release them or proving him with medical care, he underwent radiation sessions at the Israeli "Rambam" hospital, and during his transfer, he was tied to a bed, and surrounded by soldiers.
The administration of prisons announced his infection with coronavirus on July, after transferring him from Jelboa prison. He underwent a surgery and then got moved to Al Ramla clinic, despite his need to stay at the hospital. Again, he had a tumor in the throat and passed away in 10/11/2020. The Israeli occupation is still retaining his body, to be the 226 martyr since 1967 in the occupation prisons.
It is worthy to mention that 4 detainees have been martyred since the beginning of the year; Noor Aldeen Barghouthi, Saad Gharabli, Dawood Khateeb and Kamal Abu Waaer. The occupation is still holding 3 bodies of them; Saad Gharabli, Dawood Khateeb and Kamal Abu Waaer, in addition to other five detainees who martyred in the past years such as; Anis Dolah, Aziz Ewaisat Nassar Taqatqa, Fares Baroud and Bassam Sayeh.
Jerusalem: systematic detention campaigns and chasing after release
The occupation authorities continued the systematic operations of abuse and oppression against people from Jerusalem through systematic detentions, where (157) persons from Jerusalem have been arrested, including (30) minors and (2) women. Detention cases were focused at Al Essawyeh town, where (51) arrest cases have been recorded. The intelligence device summoned the minister of Jerusalem Fafi Hedmi and threatened him to restrict his movement inside Jerusalem and the West Bank. He has been arrested four times since 2019.
The former minister of Jerusalem khalid Abu Arafa also was summoned for interrogation and he got sentenced to administrative detention for four months. He has been exiled from Jerusalem since 2014, by a resolution that allows to withdraw the residency from the Legislative Council; Mohammad Abu Tair, Ahmad Attoun, Mohammad Toutah and Khalid Abu Arafa.
In the context of collective punishment policy, the Israeli occupation forces arrested family members of the martyr Noor Shqair from Silwan town. His brother has been arrested when he just arrived at the place of his martyrdom. The Israeli forces also summoned his father and brother for interrogation at Almakoubya interrogation center.
Chasing and threatening released detainees and their families
Israeli authorities continued to chase and threaten families from Jerusalem, such as the family of the former detainee Ahmad Ghazaleh. They stormed their house repeatedly and arrested his wife under the pretext of illegal residency, because she has a Palestinian ID.
They arrested his wife on August with her new born baby, and she got released after few hours under the condition of being exiled to the West Bank, and they took her to Qalandia military checkpoint.
The Family has been separated for months, where Ahmad lived with two of his sons in Jerusalem and his wife lived with the two other sons in Ramallah.
Another case in point is the former detainee Anwar Sami
He got arrested many times and sentenced to house arrest and exile from Jerusalem. Then he has been arrested with three persons under the pretext that he breached the house arrest.
Also the former detainee Adel Silwadi from Silwan was exiled from Jerusalem for 5 days after releasing him from Israeli prisons, noting that he served two years under the administrative detention and five years in general.
Detainees' institutions affirmed that the Israeli authorities continued with using a series of abusive and oppressive against detainees and also arrested elderly, sick persons and minors, violating the rules of the International Humanitarian Law and the Geneva Convention.
Detainees' Institutions recalls the demands of obliging Israel to stop its violations and ending the state of silence which allowed the occupation to carry out more violations.
