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The head of the Commission, Qadri Abu Baker, warned of the overt policy pursued by the Israeli occupation, in chasing and murdering Palestinian former detainees.
He pointed out that the consecutive crimes, the last of which was committed against the former detainee Mujahed Hamed, in addition to the former detainees Ata Shalabi, Sedqi Zakarna and Tareq Damj from Jenin.
These actions indicate that the racism of the occupation feed on the blood of Palestinians, especially those who sacrificed their lives for their nation.
Abu Baker said that the statements of the extremist Ben Gvir, who greeted the soldiers who committed this crime today in Jenin, describing them as heroes .
Abu Baker paid tribute to the tournaments and struggle of our people, especially detainees and former detainees and their families.
Abu Baker called on the international community to respond to the demands of Palestinian leaders and people represented in providing international protection, and stopping the Israeli crimes against Palestinians.
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The Israeli authorities have issued (242) administrative detention orders last November, including (120) new orders and (122) renewal orders for between 2_6 months.
The Commission pointed out that (2050) administrative detention orders have been issued since the beginning of this year, which confirms that the occupation authorities are proceeding to implement this unjust policy against the Palestinian people, claiming the presence of a confidential file.
Thereby, the Israeli authorities deprive detainees of their freedom and hold them in prisons without informing them of the reasons of their arrest, and without putting them on fair prosecution.
(830) detainees are currently held under the administrative detention, including 5 minors and 3 women, ( Bushra Taweel, Shurouq Badan and Raghad Fanni).
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The Commission of Detainees' Affairs stated today that the list of long-term detainees has risen to (314) ,after the join of (21) detainees on November 2022. There are (39) detainees who spent more than 25 years in Israeli prisons, where the detainee Jamal Alhour joined the list of " generals of patience " last month.
The list also includes (25) detainees who are imprisoned since before the Oslo Accord and the establishment of the Palestinian National Authority. The Commission stated that the list of "iconic detainees " , those who were imprisoned since more than 30 years respectively, has risen to (19) detainees after the join of Mohammad Falana, from Ramallah, and he is detained since 29/11/1992.
(8) detainees have served more than 35 years in Israeli prisons, the oldest of whom are the detainees Maher and Kareem Younis, who are imprisoned since 40 years.
It must be pointed out that there are tens of detainees who have been released under the shalit bargain, but they got rearrested in 2014. The detainee Nael Barghouthi is a case in point, where he spent more than 42 years in Israeli prisons.
The Commission confirmed that these numbers are unprecedented, and likely to rise during the coming months.
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The head of the Commission of Detainees' Affairs, Qadri Abu Baker, confirmed that the occupation authorities still practicing the policy of medical ignorance against Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons.
Abu Baker stated that the detainee Naser Abu Hmaid, who suffers from cancer, was the last victim of this policy, where the occupation authorities stopped his chemotherapy, and refused to release him , claiming that there is no decision to release detainees earlier eventhough after their martyrdom.
He also said that there are many sick detainees in Israeli prisons left without any medical assistance, and they are only given painkillers.
Abu Baker stressed on the necessity to send physicians to follow up the health condition of detainees in general and sick ones in particular.
The Commission called on the Israeli authorities to conduct medical examinations every 6 months, in order to reveal any chronic diseases at early stages.
Abu Baker referred to the continuous request by the World Health Organisation and Human Rights organisations to follow up the health conditions of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons.
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The Israeli authorities punish detainees in many ways such as repressing their freedom and suppress them and their families, in additio, they tend to blackmail them with millions of dollars annually.
In this context, the Commission of Detainees' Affairs manifested the crul situation lived by detainees in Megiddo prison, and confirmed that the Israeli authorities intended to turn many central prisons into commercial centres.
The Commission pointed out that detainees in Megiddo prison suffer from high prices imposed by the prisons administration in the canteen, especially that detainees have lack in bed covers and they need to buy 4 covers, where each cover costs more than 100 NIS.
The Commission called on international organisations to intervene and stop the financial exploiting against detainees, which contradicts all international laws and agreements, and oblige the administration of prisons to allow detainees families provide their sons with the stuff they need.
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The Commission of Detainees' Affairs warned of giving authorities to the zionist extremist Itamar Ben-Gvir, who wants to make a bloody era against the Palestinian people and the strugglers in the Israeli prisons.
The Commission stated that " Ben-Gvir, who's meeting Netanyahu, is striving for taking the Ministry of Internal Security, where the supervision on Prisons Services falls within the responsibilities of this ministry.
This constitutes a real threat on the lives of our detainees over the coming period".
The Commission added " the extremist Ben- Gvir has started his attack and incitement against Palestinian detainees, where he called to cancel the representation of detainees in factions and organisations inside prisons, preventing them from making food in their rooms, decreasing the quantity of water and adding more restrictions against them".
The Commission called on the international community to intervene immediately to stop the brutality of Ben-Gvir and his criminal and racist plans, especially that he's one of the most prominent advocates of extremism and terrorism practiced against Palestinian people.
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The Commission of Detainees' Affairs stated today that the list of "senior detainees " to (293) with the join of (10) detainees of long-term last October.
The term of "senior detainees" refers to detainees who spent more than (20) years in Israeli prisons.
This list includes (38) detainees who spent more than 25 years in Israeli prisons, and they are called "generals of patience".
Moreover, there are (25) detainees who have been imprisoned since before the Oslo Accord.
The Commission pointed out that the list of "detainees icons" refers to detainees who spent more than (30) years in Israeli prisons, which risen to (18) detainees after Deyaa Al- Agha has joined the list.
There are (8) detainees who spent more than (35) years in prisons, the oldest of whom are the detainees Kareem Younis and Maher Younis, who are imprisoned since 1983.
The Commission stated in its report that there are tens of detainees who have been released under exchange bargains "the shalit deal" in 2011 and got rearrested in 2014, such as the detainee Nael Barghouthi, who spent more than 42 years in Israeli prisons.
The Commission confirmed that these numbers are unprecedented and have not been recorded, it is also might rise in the upcoming months. Thus, the cause of detainees shall be put on priority in order to highlight their suffering, and work ti release them.
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The head of the Commission of Detainees' Affairs, Qadri Abu Baker, mourned the former detainee Fatima Bernawi, the first detainee in the modern Palestinian revolution, who passed away today in Egypt.
Major General Qadri Abu Baker extends his condolences to her family and all Palestinian people and its leaders and the Captive Movement .
Abu Baker praised the late struggler, who etched her name in the record of immortal persons of our great people. Fatima Bernawi was born in 1939 in Jerusalem , and she's of a Nigerian father. She was of the first group of Fatah Movement fighters in 1965, where the late president Yaser Arafat delegated her with organisational and martial missions.
She was the heroine of an operation inside a cenima in Jerusalem, and then she has been arrested in October 1967, and sentenced to life imprisonment.
She has been released after ten years in 1977 in accordance with an exchange bargain.
MG. Qadri Abu Baker calls on the leaders of Arab states to put the detainees cause on their priority
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The head of the Commission of Detainees' Affairs, MG. Qadri Abu Baker, paid tribute to the leaders of Arab countries in the wake of the thirty- second session of the Arab summit, which was held on 1st and 2nd of this month in Algeria.
Abu Baker stated : " the presence of the Palestinian detainees cause in this session confirms its fairness and regional and national importance.
It also confirms on the close correlation with arab people and governments, where the recommendations included clear and obvious clauses related to the Palestinians right of self-determination ,ending the occupation and stopping all violations such as detention and other unethical practices".
Abu Baker pointed out that " the presence of detainees cause in the summit shall be realistic to all arabs , where the past few years witnessed a retreat in the financial and moral obligations, which affected the status of this cause on regional and international levels".
The head of the Commission stressed on the necessity of creating Arab initiatives to call on releasing detainees of long terms, sick detainees, minors, women and administrative detainees.
Abu Baker paid a special tribute to the republic of Algeria, the president, people and government, especially the media system that publishes the cause of our detainees to the whole world.
Major General Qadri Abu Baker condemns the fierce campaign of arrests against the Palestinian people
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The head of the Commission of Detainees' Affairs, M.G Qadri Abu Baker, condemned the fierce campaign of arrests launched by the Israeli authorities against our people in many cities of the West Bank and Jerusalem.
Abu Baker said the Israeli army tend to use excessive force, torture and abuse during arrests in the Palestinian cities and refugee camps, where they are subjected to severe beating, degrading treatment, storming their homes and destroying their belongings.
In addition, Palestinian detainees are exposed to physical and psychological abuse during arrests and in interrogation centers.
Abu Baker confirmed that implementing these measures against our detainees contradicts all international charters and agreements that guarantee human rights.
Abu Baker pointed out that these procedures won't break the will of Palestinians, but it actually increases their power a d steadfastness until establishing their state with Jerusalem as its capital.
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Thirteen women are detained in Israeli prisons, two of them under the administrative detention 26/10/2022 The Commission of Detainees' Affairs stated that more than (17000) arrest cases have been recorded against Palestinian women since 1967, including mothers, wives, pregnant women, minors and representatives in the Legislative Council.
(125) Palestinian women had been arrested since the beginning of 2022.
The first Palestinian woman detainee was the militant "Fatima Bernawi" from Jerusalem, who has been arrested in 14/10/1967 and served (10) years in prison.
The Commission pointed out that the Israeli authorities is holding (30) women in its prisons, including the detainees Shurouq Badan and Bushra Taweel under the administrative detention.
Testimonies of detainees showed that the Israeli authorities implement the same measures and abusive practices used against men during detention, and that all women have been subjected to physical and psychological torture and degrading treatment, without taking into consideration their physical and psychological safety.
The Commission stated that the experience of women in prison confirmed that the Palestinian women have maintained their dignity and principles and confronted the brutality and barbarism of the Israeli jailer.
The Palestinian women succeeded in turning the prison into a school and stood firmly in front of the Israeli suppression.
They succeeded in building a cultural and intellectual organisation inside the prisons, making a state of challenge in spite of all restrictions. It is worthy to mention that Palestinian women in Israeli prisons are suffering from difficult health conditions, the hardest of whom is the detainee Israa Jaabees (36 years). She has been arrested in 11/10/2015 and sentenced to 11 years.
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The Commission of Detainees' Affairs clarified in a statement issued today, the details of health conditions for 4 detainees in Remon and Nafaha prisons, where they are suffering from bad health conditions due to medical ignorance, depriving them of treatment and giving them only painkillers.
A case in point is the detainee Baker Abu Obaid (41 years) from Tulkarem. He suffers from severe headache, and his health condition deteriorated after going on a hunger strike in 2017.
He is just given painkillers and sedative drugs. Another case in point is the detainee Issam Zain Al-deen (38 years) from Nablus.
He is currently held at Nafaha prison, and suffering from skin allergies and he is in need for medical checkups to have the appropriate treatment. Moreover, the detainee Iyad Qawasmeh (55 years) from Hebron, is suffering from back pain, and he is waiting for having a surgery, but the administration of Remon prison procrastinate in conducting medical checkups to diagnose his case.
The last case in point is the detainee Ali Sbaih (45 years) from Jenin. He suffers from severe toothache since 2012 , where he cannot sleep out of pain. The clinic of Remon prison only provides him with painkillers.
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The Commission of Detainees' Affairs confirmed that the detainee Sabe' Titi (33 years) from Balata camp/ Nablus, is going through a hunger strike since 9 days, protesting against his isolation and depriving him of using the canteen.
The lawyer of the Commission, Yousef Mateya, stated after his visit to Remon prison that the administration of prisons still isolating the detainee since a month, where the Israeli forces arrested him in 10/4/2022.
The Salem court sentenced him to 6 months under administrative detention, and renewed the sentence for additional 6 months, under the pretext of a confidential file.
It is worthy to mention that the detainee Sabe' Titi is the brother of the female detainee Aseel Titi, who has been arrested during visiting her brother at Remon prison, under the pretext of committing stabbing attack against a jailer.
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With the approach of the National day of the Palestinian woman
The Commission of Detainees' Affairs publishes a fact sheet on Palestinian women detainees in Israeli prisons
24/10/2022
The Commission of Detainees' Affairs published a fact sheet highlighting the suffering of women detainees in Israeli prisons, with the approach of the National Day of Palestinian women, which marks 26th of October each year.
This day had been adopted by the Palestinian Council of Ministers in 2019. The Commission pointed out that the Palestinian organisations decided to organise events starting today, where many protests and marshes in solidarity with Palestinian detainees will be held in all cities.
* facts about Palestinian women detainees:
_the total number of detainees in Israeli prisons is 4700
_ 30 women detainees _ 2 women under the administrative detention
_ the first female detainee is Fatma Bernawi, who was detained in 1967 and sentenced to life imprisonment.
_ 2550 women had been arrested since the Oslo Accord
_ 17.000 women had been arrested since 1967
_ the highest rate of women arrests was in Jerusalem with 45% of the total arrests _ 17 women had high sentences, the highest of which goes for ( Shurouq Dwayat and Shatella Abu Ayyad) who were sentenced to 16 years and the detainee ( Aysha Afghani) with 15 years.
_ there is a minor in the Israeli prisons called Nufouth Hammad from Shiekh Jarrah/ Jerusalem
_ There are 6 injured women in Israeli prisons, the worst case is the detainee Israa Jaabees _ there are two women who died in Israeli prisons (Saadeya Faragallah and Fatma Taqatqa.
The Commission confirmed that the Palestinian women participated in struggle over the past decades, and has been subjected to detention and torture such as men, without taking into consideration their privacy.
Women detainees face difficult life conditions in Damoun prison, where cameras still installed in the yard.
In addition, they are detained in rooms with high humidity, and they are subjected to medical ignorance and prevented from family visits under feeble excuses.
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The Commission of Detainees' Affairs commended the report prepared by the special rapporteur, Francheska Albanees, on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967, which was submitted to the Human Rights Council in its seventy- seventh session.
The Commission stated that the report showed many issues related to human rights, especially the Palestinians right to self-determination.
Moreover, the United Nations confirmed in its report that the right of self-determination is an inalienable right for Palestinian people, and that recognizing the Palestinian struggle by the General Assembly to regain the right of self-determination represents a significant recognition of Palestinian national resistance.
In this context, the Commission called for implementing what has been provided in the report to refute the Israeli narrative and reinforce the legal status of the Palestinian detainees and the legitimacy of their resistance .
The Commission also pointed out that the report has highlighted the collective arbitrary arrests, administrative detention, and arresting children, ministers, teachers and human rights defenders.
The Commission considers this report as a significant bill which contains confirmations on the Palestinians right to self-determination and resistance.
Moreover, the report included many paragraphs and frank statements denouncing the collective arbitrary arrests and the administrative detention without charges or trials. The Commission pays tribute to all efforts done in this context, especially the diplomatic and official levels, and the role of human rights organisations, in addition to the popular role and hunger strikes which affected the international public opinion.
The Commission called on the concerned authorities to invest in this report and build on it in order to practice pressure against the Israeli authorities to respect the international law when dealing with the Palestinian people, especially detainees .
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The Commission of Detainees' Affairs called on the International Committee of the Red Cross to intervene immediately with the occupation authorities and prisons administration to stop the policy of cancelling family visits.
The Commission pointed out that the Red Cross informed us about the cancellation of family visits in all prisons without any real justification, relating this to the incidents took place at Remon prison during family visits before two weeks.
The Commission stated: cancelling family visits is based on vengeful intentions and aims at manipulating any event in their favour.
The Commission expressed its deep concern about these procedures and practices which increase the suffering of detainees and their relatives, and stopping these actions should depend on humane and legal basis, where the visits should be organized by international sides headed by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
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The Israeli occupation authorities arrested (445) Palestinians in September 2022, including (35) minors and (19) women, where the highest rate of arrests goes to the city of Jerusalem with (181) arrest cases, including (31) minors and (16) women, followed by Jenin with (59) cases, then Hebron with (55) cases.
(245) administrative detention orders have been issued on September, including (102) new orders and (143) extending orders.
September witnessed an increase in violations and crimes committed by the occupation authorities, such as field executions, the policy of collective punishment and conducting organized arrests which have been accompanied by flagrant violations against detainees and their families.
Detainees' institutions and human rights organizations ( the Commission of Detainees' Affairs, the Palestinian Society Prisoner's Club, Addameer Association and Wadi Hilweh Information Centre) pointed out that there are currently (4700) Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, including (30) women, (190) minors and (800) administrative detainees of whom two females and six children.
The detainee Khalil Awawdey pays the price for challenging the jailer and resisting the administrative detention
Awawdeh was born in November 1981 in Ethna town / Hebron. He is married and a father of four daughters (Tulin, Lauren, Marya and Mariam). He was arrested many times under the administrative detention and other rules and he spent 10 years in prison, the last of which was in December 2021 and he has been sentenced to 6 months of administrative detention, his sentence was also extended many times.
Thus, the administrative detention is an undetermined period of detention, which forced the detainee Awawdeh to start a hunger strike on March 3, 2022 in a protest against his administrative detention. He conducted the strike for 111 days, and then he had an agreement with the administration of prisons, but the last broke the promise and extended his arrest for 4 months. He restarted another hunger strike despite his difficult health conditions, in challenge with this arbitrary detention. In this way, he scored an important victory through which he was able to end his arbitrary administrative detention, shed light on the crime of "administrative detention" and proved the efficacy of the hunger strike weapon as a means of struggle.
In the face of this challenge and the great insistence scored by the detainee "Khalil Awawdeh", the Israeli authorities tried to break his will and take revenge of him and his family and delayed his release.
He is currently held at the so-called Al-Ramla prison. He suffers from severe pains all over his body and unable to walk and uses a wheelchair. He is waiting for his freedom and having the appropriate treatment in the Palestinian hospitals.
Administrative detainees confronting the crime of administrative detention
30 detainees from the Popular Front decided to enter an open hunger strike in 25/9/2022, in a protest against the policy of administrative detention perused by the Israeli authorities as a punitive measure against Palestinian people. Detainees are deprived of their freedom and held inside prisons without a trial or charges.
Once the detainees announced their strike, the administration of prisons started to impose different punishments against them, represented in isolating them in cells, financial penalties and depriving them of family visits.
Cases in point:
-The detainee Nidal Abu Aker, who spent around 18 years in prison, have been rearrested in 1/8/2022 and sentenced to 6 months of administrative detention, after one month of being released.
-The detainee Thaer Taha, (43 years old) from Ramallah, got arrested for the first time in 1999 before two weeks of his wedding. He was sentenced to three years and a half, and got married after setting him free. However, he was rearrested against and spent around 13 years in prison.
Deprivation of visits,, revenge and collective punishment
The administration of prisons seeks to take revenge from our detainees, aiming to undermine the will and determination of detainees.
The administration of prisons resorted lately to deprive detainees of family visits aiming at taking revenge from detainees and their families, without any justification. Cancellation of visits does not depend on specific events, rather, any small incident can cancel visits in all prisons.thus, practices such that create more stress among detainees and their families.
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The Commission of Detainees' Affairs called on the international community to intervene immediately to put an end to the policy of murder and execution committed by the occupation authorities against the Palestinian detainees.
The Commission stressed on the need for the international community to stick to their humane obligations towards the Palestinian people, and practice their power and authority to hold the Israeli terrorism.
The Commission pointed out that the ongoing attack against our detainees, including torture, murder and medical ignorance, led to an increase in the number of martyrs of Captive Movement.
There are currently (232) martyrs from the Captive Movement, the last of whom is the martyr Maher Ghawadreh.
(73) detainees have martyred due to torture, (73) due to medical ignorance, (79) due to deliberate murder after arrest and (7) after shooting them inside the prisons. In addition, there are hundreds of former detainees who died after getting released due to illnesses they got in prison because of torture and medical ignorance.
The Commission sends a public message to the whole world saying: you are partners in these crimes as long as you keep silent.
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The lawyer of the Commission, Mutaz Shqairat, informed that the number of administrative detainees who are conducting a hunger strike increased to 50 detainees, protesting against the unjust policy of administrative detention.
In this context, striking detainees boycott the Israeli courts as a protest step against their administrative detention, where the administration of prisons escalated suppression against them and confiscated the electrical appliances.
In addition, the administration of prisons is practicing a deliberate medical ignorance, and preventing them from having medical checkups.
It is worthy to mention that 30 detainees have started a hunger strike before 17 days, and other 20 detainees out of 800 joined the strike since 3 days.
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The lawyer of the Commission of Detainees' Affairs, Fawaz Shaloudi, after visiting him at Ramlah prison, stated that the detainee Awawdeh (40 years old) uses a wheelchair, where he had a problem in the nerves of the brain and the eyes due to the hunger strike he went through.
He entered the hunger strike in 3/3/2022 protesting against his administrative detention and suspended the strike after 111 days upon promises to limit the period of his detention and release him.
However, after suspending his strike he has been sentenced to a new administrative detention rule for 4 months .Thus, he decided to go on a hunger strike until 31/8/2022. An agreement has been made between his lawyer and the administration of prisons to set him free on 2/10/2022.
The Commission of Detainees' Affairs pointed out that the administration of prisons had got around the decision of releasing the detainee Awawdeh, claiming that they will file an indictment against him.
Awawdeh sent a letter by the Commission's lawyer, saying: (I am recovering slowly, my morale is very high and I was not affected by keeping me in prison. I'm satisfied with God's will, and if they sentenced me to the administrative detention again, I won't hesitate to enter a hunger strike. I'm 50 kg now, and I can't walk without help).
The Commission calls on the international community organisations to intervene immediately to release the detainee Awawdeh. It's worth noting that he is married and a father of 4 daughters. He is a former detainee who spent the total of 12 years, including 6 years under the administrative detention.
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The occupation authorities issued (1610) administrative detention orders so far this year. (30) administrative detainees are currently on hunger strike for (12) days , as an option that does not have an alternative, in protest against their administrative detention.
The Commission of Detainees' Affairs illustrated that the occupation authorities have issued (245) orders of administrative detention last September, with (1610) orders so far this year.
The Commission stated that the administrative detention orders included (723) new orders accounted for around (44.9%) of the total number, and (887) renewal orders accounted for (55.1%) of the total orders.
The Commission demonstrated that the number of administrative detention orders of this year has exceeded the the orders of last year (2021), which recorded about (1595) orders. This means that there is an obvious increase in administrative detention orders.
The Commission of Detainees' Affairs called on the Palestinian people to stand by the administrative detainees and support them in their ongoing battle against the policy of administrative detention.
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* The military court of appeal at Ofer prison releases the detainee Musheer shahateet from Hebron, after submitting a request by the lawyer of the Commission of detainees to reduce his sentence, where he was supposed to be free on 20/10/2022
* The detainee Zakaria Zubaidi is currently isolated in difficult conditions at Remon prison, where he is kept most of the time handcuffed which causes severe pain. The head of the Commission, Qadri Abu Baker, called on human rights organisations to intervene immediately to put an end to his suffering.
* The detainee Wael Ne'arat is suffering from bad health conditions in the isolation of Remon prison. He has numbness in his hands and legs, in addition to visual impairment and hair fall due to diabetes, however, the administration of prisons refused to conduct medical tests for him. He went on a hunger strike before two weeks as the administration of prisons refused to provide him with diabetes test strips.