6 Palestinians Kidnapped from Qurta and Zububa, 5 Injured during anti-Wall protest in Ni'ilin, Israeli occupation soldiers abuse detainees

 

 Israeli occupation forces abduct four from village south of Nablus

Date: 22 / 06 / 2008  Time:  12:45
Nablus - Ma’an –

Israeli occupation forces kidnapped four Palestinian civilians during an overnight raid in the village of Ourta, south of Nablus on Sunday.

Witnesses said that Israeli occupation forces stormed a number of houses, detaining Bara’ Qussai Yahya ‘Awwad, Majdi Suleiman, Mahmoud Awwad and Nadim Awwad.

Israeli occupation forces kidnap two Palestinian teenagers in Jenin area

Date: 22 / 06 / 2008  Time:  11:21
Jenin - Ma’an –

Israeli occupation forces kidnapped two Palestinian teenagers in Zububa, a village northwest of the West Bank city of Jenin, on Saturday night.

Palestinian security sources said that Israeli occupation forces raided civilian houses, ultimately kidnapping 19-year-old Adnan Sha’abneh and 16-year-old Bader Nabil Jamal.

Security sources also said that, at dawn on Sunday Israeli occupation troops invaded the city of Jenin, in the northern West Bank, deploying in city streets and firing their weapons at random.

Meanwhile five Israeli occupation forces jeeps invaded the town of Qabatiya, south of the city of Jenin. Witnesses said Israeli occupation troops hid between houses and among trees, hoping to ambush suspected Palestinian fighters. The Israeli occupation forces later withdrew. No arrests were reported.

Five civilians injured in protest against Apartheid, Land-Grab Wall in Ni'lin

Date: 22 / 06 / 2008  Time:  17:04
Ramallah – Ma'an –

Five Palestinian civilians were injured by Israeli occupation forces during a sit-in protest against land confiscation and the Apartheid, Land-Grab Wall called by Popular Committee for Resisting the Wall in the village of Ni'lin, west of Ramallah, on Sunday. Three were hit by rubber-coated metal bullets, and two were suffocated by tear gas bombs.

Salah Al-Khawaja, coordinator of the Popular Committee in Ni'lin, described the events: This morning, Nil'in residents, farmers and foreign solidarity activists headed towards the Israeli bulldozers for a sit-in protest to obstruct the military vehicles and stop them uprooting our olive trees. Israeli occupation forces showered them with gas bombs, which changed the peaceful protest into a confrontation between the Israeli occupation forces and the young men.

He added that an Israeli occupation soldier was hit in the head by a stone, and that the bulldozers had been prevented from razing land for two hours.

Al-Khawaja explained that this protest was part of a campaign of popular resistance against construction of the Apartheid, Land-Grab Wall in Ni'lin. A large rally at the construction site and the village lands threatened with confiscation is scheduled for Tuesday. He noted that villagers had also marched on Saturday towards the settlement built on their land, and affirmed that such actions express their continuing rejection of illegal Israeli settlements.

If completed, Israel's separation wall will result in the de facto confiscation of 2,500 dunams of Ni'lin land. Expanding the illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank and other methods of closure, in addition to the wall, will completely separate the villages of of Ni'lin, Mediya, Shukba, Shabteen and Budrus from the rest of the West Bank.

 Israeli occupation soldiers 'routinely' abuse defenseless Palestinian detainees, report says

Date: 22 / 06 / 2008  Time:  15:04
Bethlehem – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation soldiers routinely abuse bound and defenseless Palestinian detainees, a report by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) says.

The report, published on Saturday morning, reveals a widespread pattern of abuse of bound Palestinian detainees, and what the committee says is the "absolute indifference" of the Israeli occupation forces, the Israeli ministry of defense and the Knesset towards this problem.

The report, titled “No Defense: Soldier Violence against Palestinian Detainees,” focuses on a large number of incidents of violence against detainees after they had been arrested, and could not possibly present a danger to the soldiers. PCATI compiled 90 detailed testimonies between June 2006 and October 2007.

According to the report, Israeli troops abuse Palestinians as various junctures: immediately following kidnapping them, in the vehicle transporting the detainees, and during the time they are held in Israeli occupation forces camps prior to their transfer to interrogation and detention centers.

The documents such practices as "beating, degradation and additional abuse," including the use of dogs.

The Israeli occupation soldiers who carry out kidnappings of Palestinians do not treat minors with special care and at times – as revealed by various testimonies – exploit their weakness, PCATI added.

"Although the phenomenon of violence against Palestinian detainees by soldiers is blatantly illegal, it is reinforced by a weak legal system which conducts only a small number of investigations and legal proceedings that concern cases of abuse by soldiers," PCATI says.

Israeli non-government organization accuses IOF of abusing Palestinian detainees

[ 22/06/2008 - 11:36 AM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI), a non-government organization, has accused the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) of regularly abusing Palestinian detainees including minors.

The PCATI, in its annual report published on Sunday, registered 90 cases of abuse in which violence was used against those detainees either on their arrest, on their way to detention or during incarceration.

It said that the abuse was also reported against minors who should enjoy special protection in accordance with the international law, and added, "The soldiers do not treat the minors with care and often, as various reports show, they take advantage of their weakness".

"Many reports state that the alleged abuse occurred while the Palestinians were bound and did not constitute a threat to the soldiers," the organization said in its report that covered the period from June 2006 to October 2007.

PCATI also denounced the IOF troops' use of soldiers to terrorize and humiliate Palestinian prisoners.

The IOF command claimed that the army worked by and respected the international laws concerning detention of persons suspected of involvement in "terrorist acts".

 

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