18 may 2015
The Israeli Occupation Authorities (IOA) released on Sunday the former Palestinian prisoner, prisoners’ rights advocate, and journalist Bushra al-Tawil after being detained for ten months behind Israeli bars.
Bushra, who was detained several months ago in total violation of Wafa al-Ahrar (Shalit) swap deal as she was liberated during the exchange deal in 2011, was released at Jabara checkpoint in Tulkarem.
Shortly after her release, Bushra delivered the Palestinian female prisoners’ cry for help letter, denying some media reports about the isolation of five female prisoners.
Bushra, 20, was arrested on July 1 from her home in el-Bireh, in the West Bank. She is one of over 600 Palestinians rounded up in mass raids and arrests by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank in mid-June 2014.
She was first arrested at the age of 17, when she was held in administrative detention without charge or trial until her release in December 2011 as part of the Wafa al-Ahrar prisoner exchange deal.
After her re-arrest, Israeli authorities re-imposed her previous 18-month sentence in total violation of the exchange deal terms.
Bushra is the spokesperson of the Aneen Al-Qaid Media Network, a local news agency specialized in covering news about the Palestinian detainees, and political prisoners.
Bushra, who was detained several months ago in total violation of Wafa al-Ahrar (Shalit) swap deal as she was liberated during the exchange deal in 2011, was released at Jabara checkpoint in Tulkarem.
Shortly after her release, Bushra delivered the Palestinian female prisoners’ cry for help letter, denying some media reports about the isolation of five female prisoners.
Bushra, 20, was arrested on July 1 from her home in el-Bireh, in the West Bank. She is one of over 600 Palestinians rounded up in mass raids and arrests by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank in mid-June 2014.
She was first arrested at the age of 17, when she was held in administrative detention without charge or trial until her release in December 2011 as part of the Wafa al-Ahrar prisoner exchange deal.
After her re-arrest, Israeli authorities re-imposed her previous 18-month sentence in total violation of the exchange deal terms.
Bushra is the spokesperson of the Aneen Al-Qaid Media Network, a local news agency specialized in covering news about the Palestinian detainees, and political prisoners.
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Israeli soldiers and police officers used excessive force, on Sunday afternoon, against hundreds of Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem, as they marched to counter a provocative Israeli procession marking the so-called “Jerusalem Day,” wounding at least 29 Palestinians, and kidnapped five.
The Israeli extremists attacked many Palestinians, and conducted provocative acts against Jerusalemite Palestinians who were forced by the police to close their stores and shops in Jerusalem’s Old City. Palestinian sources in the Old City said hundreds of police officers and soldiers were deployed in the alleys, in addition to pushing the Palestinians away from Bab al-‘Amoud area, in an attempt to prevent them from marching to counter the Israeli procession. Mounted officers and Border Guard police officers also attacked dozens |
of Palestinian journalists, and tried to prevent them from documenting the incidents and the Israeli violations.
Eyewitnesses said dozens of Israeli fanatics were chanting “Death to Arabs,” as well as many other provocative slogans, while many also called for demolishing the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem in order “to rebuild the temple.”
Meanwhile, the Palestinians marched carrying Palestinian flags while chanting for the liberation of Palestine, and called for ending the escalating Israeli violations against the residents and their holy sites, especially in occupied Jerusalem.
It is worth mentioning that several Israeli left wing groups appealed the Israeli High Court to prevent the Israeli extremists from marching in Jerusalem’s Islamic Quarter, but the court denied the appeal.
In addition, clashes took place between the soldiers and local Palestinians in different Jerusalem neighborhoods and towns, especially in Silwan, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in addition to the neighborhoods of Suwwana, Wadi Al-Jouz, at-Tour, and the al-‘Eesawiyya town, while the soldiers kidnapped at least one Palestinian in Silwan, and injured dozens.
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) quoted the head of the Emergency Unit of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in Jerusalem, Amin Abu Ghazala, stating that at least 29 residents were injured.
Abu Ghazala said at least seven of the wounded residents were hospitalized, and that two residents suffered fractures in their arms and legs, 22 received treatment by field medics, and at least one was severely beaten by the soldiers with their guns and batons.
The Jerusalem office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said the soldiers kidnapped Amir al-Basheeti, Amir al-Karaki, Sharif al-Rajabi, ‘Obada Najeeb and Mohammad Abu Sneina.
It added that the soldiers detained dozens of Palestinians after assaulting them, and released them after taking their personal information, and told them the police will be contacting them in the coming few days.
Silwanic further stated that the police fired concussion grenades at the Palestinian protesters, and assaulted several Palestinians.
It said that, due to Israeli restrictions and extensive military deployment, the residents marched in separate different groups in Sultan Suleiman Street, al-Magharba Square and near the Suleiman Cave area, before the police attacked them, and chases dozens of Palestinians.
Israeli Ynet News said dozens of Palestinian hurled stones and empty bottles at the police, and that one officer was injured, while one Palestinian was arrested allegedly for attacking an officer.
Jerusalem Day marks the illegal occupation of East Jerusalem in 1967, and declaring it as the “eternal united capital of Israel.”
Clashes as Israel Marks Anniversary of East Jerusalem Occupation
Israeli nationalists and police clashed with Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday, as crowds of Jewish hardliners marched across the city to mark the 48th anniversary of its capture.
Known as Jerusalem Day, the anniversary marks the seizure in the 1967 Six-Day War and later annexation of East Jerusalem in a move never recognized by the international community.
According to AFP, police said two officers were wounded by Palestinian stone-throwers and at least five Palestinians were arrested near the walled Old City's Damascus Gate.
The Palestinian Prisoner's Society identified Amir al-Bashiti, Amir al-Karaki, Sharif al-Rajabi, Ubada Najib and Muhammad Abu Sneina as those taken into police custody.
The demonstrators were dispersed by baton-wielding police, some on horseback.
A police statement said that in one incident "several dozen Muslims scuffled with a group of Jews".
The Palestinian Red Crescent told Ma'an News Agency that 29 Palestinians were injured and received medical attention, with seven taken to hospital. Two of those hospitalized were hit with rubber-coated bullets in the eye and one was attacked with rifle butts.
Witnesses also saw journalists shoved by police.
Police would not say how many jubilant Zionists descended on the Old City's Muslim Quarter on their way to pray at the Western Wall Jewish holy site, only that "large crowds" were expected.
"They are coming here with the support of an extremist government that paid for their buses," a Palestinian woman, Muna Barbar, told AFP outside Damascus Gate.
Palestinian residents of the Old City were forced to closed their stories and homes in preparation for the march, as thestreets were crowded with right-wing Israelis performing flag dances and chanting in the streets.
"This rally marks a new occupation of Jerusalem every year. It is a painful and tough day for us with Israeli flags waved across the city which is turned into a military barracks and we the indigenous residents feel like aliens," Abu Rami, who lives in the Old City, told Ma'an.
Israeli leaders have repeatedly vowed that the city will never again be split, calling it their "eternal, indivisible" capital.
"Jerusalem has always been the capital of the Jewish people alone and not of any other people," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at an official Jerusalem Day ceremony.
"A divided Jerusalem is a past memory: the future belongs to a complete Jerusalem which will not be divided again."
'Zero tolerance'
Jerusalem Day is marked by a series of state ceremonies and an annual march through western Jerusalem and into the east side, which is predominantly attended by nationalist hardliners.
Every year, police deploy in strength to secure the march, which frequently provokes clashes.
This year, two non-governmental organisations appealed to the Israeli High Court to change the route so the march would not pass through the Muslim Quarter.
But last week, the court rejected the appeal, noting it did so "with a heavy heart".
In their ruling, the justices stressed there should be "zero tolerance" of anyone involved in violence, and that police should arrest anyone chanting "death to Arabs".
Spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said "thousands of police" were in and around the Old City.
Spokeswoman Luba Samri said both uniformed and undercover officers were on the streets.
"The police will show zero tolerance to any display of physical or verbal violence, will act with every means at its disposal against anyone disturbing the peace or rioting, who will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law," she said.
'March of hate'
Leftist groups, including members of the Meretz party's youth wing, held a counter-demonstration outside city hall to protest against what it called the "march of hate".
An AFP journalist said about 100 people took part amid a large police presence and there was no trouble.
One participating group, the anti-racism movement Tag Meir, said the annual march had become "a focus for extremist groups" and was routinely accompanied by "racist slurs and insults, destruction of property and physical violence against the Palestinian residents of Jerusalem".
"This year we say a loud and clear 'No to the violence, the hatred and the incitement' which threaten the delicate fabric of daily life in Jerusalem," it said.
The group said its supporters would walk through the Muslim Quarter giving flowers to residents as a gesture of peace and coexistence.
Tag Meir was one of two NGOs which unsuccessfully petitioned the Supreme Court to change the route of the march.
Later Sunday, Netanyahu was to join President Reuven Rivlin for a ceremony on Ammunition Hill in East Jerusalem, a former Jordanian military post that saw some of the bloodiest fighting of the 1967 war.
Today, some 200,000 Israelis live in 15 settlement neighborhoods in East Jerusalem alongside a Palestinian population of 310,000.
Eyewitnesses said dozens of Israeli fanatics were chanting “Death to Arabs,” as well as many other provocative slogans, while many also called for demolishing the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem in order “to rebuild the temple.”
Meanwhile, the Palestinians marched carrying Palestinian flags while chanting for the liberation of Palestine, and called for ending the escalating Israeli violations against the residents and their holy sites, especially in occupied Jerusalem.
It is worth mentioning that several Israeli left wing groups appealed the Israeli High Court to prevent the Israeli extremists from marching in Jerusalem’s Islamic Quarter, but the court denied the appeal.
In addition, clashes took place between the soldiers and local Palestinians in different Jerusalem neighborhoods and towns, especially in Silwan, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in addition to the neighborhoods of Suwwana, Wadi Al-Jouz, at-Tour, and the al-‘Eesawiyya town, while the soldiers kidnapped at least one Palestinian in Silwan, and injured dozens.
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) quoted the head of the Emergency Unit of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in Jerusalem, Amin Abu Ghazala, stating that at least 29 residents were injured.
Abu Ghazala said at least seven of the wounded residents were hospitalized, and that two residents suffered fractures in their arms and legs, 22 received treatment by field medics, and at least one was severely beaten by the soldiers with their guns and batons.
The Jerusalem office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said the soldiers kidnapped Amir al-Basheeti, Amir al-Karaki, Sharif al-Rajabi, ‘Obada Najeeb and Mohammad Abu Sneina.
It added that the soldiers detained dozens of Palestinians after assaulting them, and released them after taking their personal information, and told them the police will be contacting them in the coming few days.
Silwanic further stated that the police fired concussion grenades at the Palestinian protesters, and assaulted several Palestinians.
It said that, due to Israeli restrictions and extensive military deployment, the residents marched in separate different groups in Sultan Suleiman Street, al-Magharba Square and near the Suleiman Cave area, before the police attacked them, and chases dozens of Palestinians.
Israeli Ynet News said dozens of Palestinian hurled stones and empty bottles at the police, and that one officer was injured, while one Palestinian was arrested allegedly for attacking an officer.
Jerusalem Day marks the illegal occupation of East Jerusalem in 1967, and declaring it as the “eternal united capital of Israel.”
Clashes as Israel Marks Anniversary of East Jerusalem Occupation
Israeli nationalists and police clashed with Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday, as crowds of Jewish hardliners marched across the city to mark the 48th anniversary of its capture.
Known as Jerusalem Day, the anniversary marks the seizure in the 1967 Six-Day War and later annexation of East Jerusalem in a move never recognized by the international community.
According to AFP, police said two officers were wounded by Palestinian stone-throwers and at least five Palestinians were arrested near the walled Old City's Damascus Gate.
The Palestinian Prisoner's Society identified Amir al-Bashiti, Amir al-Karaki, Sharif al-Rajabi, Ubada Najib and Muhammad Abu Sneina as those taken into police custody.
The demonstrators were dispersed by baton-wielding police, some on horseback.
A police statement said that in one incident "several dozen Muslims scuffled with a group of Jews".
The Palestinian Red Crescent told Ma'an News Agency that 29 Palestinians were injured and received medical attention, with seven taken to hospital. Two of those hospitalized were hit with rubber-coated bullets in the eye and one was attacked with rifle butts.
Witnesses also saw journalists shoved by police.
Police would not say how many jubilant Zionists descended on the Old City's Muslim Quarter on their way to pray at the Western Wall Jewish holy site, only that "large crowds" were expected.
"They are coming here with the support of an extremist government that paid for their buses," a Palestinian woman, Muna Barbar, told AFP outside Damascus Gate.
Palestinian residents of the Old City were forced to closed their stories and homes in preparation for the march, as thestreets were crowded with right-wing Israelis performing flag dances and chanting in the streets.
"This rally marks a new occupation of Jerusalem every year. It is a painful and tough day for us with Israeli flags waved across the city which is turned into a military barracks and we the indigenous residents feel like aliens," Abu Rami, who lives in the Old City, told Ma'an.
Israeli leaders have repeatedly vowed that the city will never again be split, calling it their "eternal, indivisible" capital.
"Jerusalem has always been the capital of the Jewish people alone and not of any other people," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at an official Jerusalem Day ceremony.
"A divided Jerusalem is a past memory: the future belongs to a complete Jerusalem which will not be divided again."
'Zero tolerance'
Jerusalem Day is marked by a series of state ceremonies and an annual march through western Jerusalem and into the east side, which is predominantly attended by nationalist hardliners.
Every year, police deploy in strength to secure the march, which frequently provokes clashes.
This year, two non-governmental organisations appealed to the Israeli High Court to change the route so the march would not pass through the Muslim Quarter.
But last week, the court rejected the appeal, noting it did so "with a heavy heart".
In their ruling, the justices stressed there should be "zero tolerance" of anyone involved in violence, and that police should arrest anyone chanting "death to Arabs".
Spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said "thousands of police" were in and around the Old City.
Spokeswoman Luba Samri said both uniformed and undercover officers were on the streets.
"The police will show zero tolerance to any display of physical or verbal violence, will act with every means at its disposal against anyone disturbing the peace or rioting, who will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law," she said.
'March of hate'
Leftist groups, including members of the Meretz party's youth wing, held a counter-demonstration outside city hall to protest against what it called the "march of hate".
An AFP journalist said about 100 people took part amid a large police presence and there was no trouble.
One participating group, the anti-racism movement Tag Meir, said the annual march had become "a focus for extremist groups" and was routinely accompanied by "racist slurs and insults, destruction of property and physical violence against the Palestinian residents of Jerusalem".
"This year we say a loud and clear 'No to the violence, the hatred and the incitement' which threaten the delicate fabric of daily life in Jerusalem," it said.
The group said its supporters would walk through the Muslim Quarter giving flowers to residents as a gesture of peace and coexistence.
Tag Meir was one of two NGOs which unsuccessfully petitioned the Supreme Court to change the route of the march.
Later Sunday, Netanyahu was to join President Reuven Rivlin for a ceremony on Ammunition Hill in East Jerusalem, a former Jordanian military post that saw some of the bloodiest fighting of the 1967 war.
Today, some 200,000 Israelis live in 15 settlement neighborhoods in East Jerusalem alongside a Palestinian population of 310,000.
16 may 2015
Several Palestinians including a journalist were injured when Israeli forces opened fire on a march in the eastern Nablus village of Huwwara commemorating the Nakba on Saturday.
Hundreds of Palestinians reportedly took part in the march that set off towards the Huwwara military checkpoint carrying black flags and demanding the Palestinians' right of return.
Israeli forces fired tear gas, stun grenades and rubber coated steel bullets at the march. Many were reported to have suffered excessive tear-gas inhalation, while several others, including a Palestinian journalist, were hit with rubber-coated steel bullets before being taken to the Rafidiya Governmental Hospital for treatment.
Palestinian medical sources told Ma'an that Nidal Ishtayeh, a Palestinian journalist working for the Xinhua Chinese news agency, was hit with a rubber-coated steel bullet above his eye. The bullet burst through the glass visor of his gas mask, showering his eye with glass.
A member of the Palestinian People's Party's politburo Khalid Mansour was also injured with a rubber-coated steel bullet, as was an Italian protester who was hit by two rubber-coated steel bullets in both her hand and chest.
The organizers of the march told Ma'an that the goal of the march had been to send a clear message to Israel that Palestinians are still holding onto their right of return.
The Nakba, or "catastrophe," was commemorated across the West Bank on Friday, May 15, and marks the date of Israel's creation in 1948, when more than 760,000 Palestinians were violently expelled from their homes. Palestinian refugees are estimated today to number around 5.5 million with their descendants, and the right to return to their homes is a prerequisite for any Palestinian peace agreement with Israel, although Israel has rejected the demand out of hand.
On Friday, at least 21 Palestinians were injured when Israeli soldiers fired tear gas, rubber and live bullets at Nakba Day protests across the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. A number of Palestinians were also injured in the Nablus district when clashes broke out with Israeli military forces during a prayer ceremony attended by up to 4,000 Jewish settlers at Joseph's Tomb in Nablus.
Hundreds of Palestinians reportedly took part in the march that set off towards the Huwwara military checkpoint carrying black flags and demanding the Palestinians' right of return.
Israeli forces fired tear gas, stun grenades and rubber coated steel bullets at the march. Many were reported to have suffered excessive tear-gas inhalation, while several others, including a Palestinian journalist, were hit with rubber-coated steel bullets before being taken to the Rafidiya Governmental Hospital for treatment.
Palestinian medical sources told Ma'an that Nidal Ishtayeh, a Palestinian journalist working for the Xinhua Chinese news agency, was hit with a rubber-coated steel bullet above his eye. The bullet burst through the glass visor of his gas mask, showering his eye with glass.
A member of the Palestinian People's Party's politburo Khalid Mansour was also injured with a rubber-coated steel bullet, as was an Italian protester who was hit by two rubber-coated steel bullets in both her hand and chest.
The organizers of the march told Ma'an that the goal of the march had been to send a clear message to Israel that Palestinians are still holding onto their right of return.
The Nakba, or "catastrophe," was commemorated across the West Bank on Friday, May 15, and marks the date of Israel's creation in 1948, when more than 760,000 Palestinians were violently expelled from their homes. Palestinian refugees are estimated today to number around 5.5 million with their descendants, and the right to return to their homes is a prerequisite for any Palestinian peace agreement with Israel, although Israel has rejected the demand out of hand.
On Friday, at least 21 Palestinians were injured when Israeli soldiers fired tear gas, rubber and live bullets at Nakba Day protests across the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. A number of Palestinians were also injured in the Nablus district when clashes broke out with Israeli military forces during a prayer ceremony attended by up to 4,000 Jewish settlers at Joseph's Tomb in Nablus.
11 may 2015
The Palestinian Journalist Bloc on Sunday called for prosecuting the media officers who joined a leave-taking ceremony hosted in Ramallah to bid farewell to the U.S. ambassador to the Israeli occupation.
The Palestinian Journalist Bloc pushed in a press statement for the need to take a tougher line as regards “the crime” committed by those journalists.
It further called on the Palestinian press body to adopt a joint position vis-à-vis the affair so as to step up pressure on the journalists who have been involved in such “a farce and offense to the Palestinian people and cause.”
The bloc urged the concerned journalists to pluck up their courage and make an apology for such an intolerable “normalization step.”
The statement said the U.S. ambassador to the Israeli occupation is not worth the tribute paid to him for his “country has always been the first backer of Israel’s ongoing crimes against the Palestinian people.”
“The presence of any Palestinian journalist in such a ceremony represents a breach to the honor and work ethics of journalism,” it added.
Earlier, Palestinian businessmen, lawyers, and journalists joined a leave-taking luncheon hosted at a Hotel in Ramallah to bid farewell to the U.S. ambassador to the Israeli occupation.
The Palestinian Journalist Bloc pushed in a press statement for the need to take a tougher line as regards “the crime” committed by those journalists.
It further called on the Palestinian press body to adopt a joint position vis-à-vis the affair so as to step up pressure on the journalists who have been involved in such “a farce and offense to the Palestinian people and cause.”
The bloc urged the concerned journalists to pluck up their courage and make an apology for such an intolerable “normalization step.”
The statement said the U.S. ambassador to the Israeli occupation is not worth the tribute paid to him for his “country has always been the first backer of Israel’s ongoing crimes against the Palestinian people.”
“The presence of any Palestinian journalist in such a ceremony represents a breach to the honor and work ethics of journalism,” it added.
Earlier, Palestinian businessmen, lawyers, and journalists joined a leave-taking luncheon hosted at a Hotel in Ramallah to bid farewell to the U.S. ambassador to the Israeli occupation.
8 may 2015
Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly protest in Kufur Qaddoum village, near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, leading to clashes with local youths; medical sources said two children, three journalists and in international peace activist, have been injured.
This week, the protesters marked the 67th anniversary on the Palestinian Nakba, while hundreds of residents marched accompanied by dozens of Israeli and international peace activists, and headed towards the gate that was installed by the army 13 years ago, blocking the village’s main street.
The protesters chanted against the ongoing Israeli occupation, escalating violations, the Annexation Wall and illegal colonies on Palestinian lands.
Coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements Morad Eshteiwy stated that the soldiers attacked the weekly nonviolent protest, and fired dozens of gas bombs, rubber-coated metal bullets, and sprayed the protesters with waste-water mixed with chemicals.
The soldiers literally showered the protesters, and the village, with dozens of gas bombs, fired in various directions.
The attack led to clashes between the locals and the soldiers who shot and injured three journalists, identified as Ashraf Abu Shaweesh, cameraman of PalMedia News Agency, Mohammad ‘Enaya, cameraman on the Palestine Satellite Channel, and Ayman Noubani, cameraman of the WAFA Palestinian News Agency.
The three camera operators were shot by gas bombs in their arms, and suffered severe effects of teargas inhalation.
In addition, two children identified as Ahmad Emad, 14 years of age, and Sayyaf Mashour, 10, were shot with rubber-coated metal bullets in their legs, while an international activist, identified as Martin, suffered various cuts and bruises after falling onto the ground after the soldiers fired gas bombs towards him.
This week, the protesters marked the 67th anniversary on the Palestinian Nakba, while hundreds of residents marched accompanied by dozens of Israeli and international peace activists, and headed towards the gate that was installed by the army 13 years ago, blocking the village’s main street.
The protesters chanted against the ongoing Israeli occupation, escalating violations, the Annexation Wall and illegal colonies on Palestinian lands.
Coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements Morad Eshteiwy stated that the soldiers attacked the weekly nonviolent protest, and fired dozens of gas bombs, rubber-coated metal bullets, and sprayed the protesters with waste-water mixed with chemicals.
The soldiers literally showered the protesters, and the village, with dozens of gas bombs, fired in various directions.
The attack led to clashes between the locals and the soldiers who shot and injured three journalists, identified as Ashraf Abu Shaweesh, cameraman of PalMedia News Agency, Mohammad ‘Enaya, cameraman on the Palestine Satellite Channel, and Ayman Noubani, cameraman of the WAFA Palestinian News Agency.
The three camera operators were shot by gas bombs in their arms, and suffered severe effects of teargas inhalation.
In addition, two children identified as Ahmad Emad, 14 years of age, and Sayyaf Mashour, 10, were shot with rubber-coated metal bullets in their legs, while an international activist, identified as Martin, suffered various cuts and bruises after falling onto the ground after the soldiers fired gas bombs towards him.
6 may 2015
The Palestinian authority (PA) apparatuses rounded up four Palestinian citizens and attempted to apprehend four others on accounts of their political affiliations.
Sources based in al-Khalil said the PA General Intelligence Service attempted to kidnap four students affiliated with the Islamic Bloc at the Polytechnic University after chasing them down inside the campus.
The PA forces came down heavily on the family of the representative of the Islamic Bloc at the Polytechnic university, Abdul Rahman al-Khatib, and ordered them to give their son in to the PA devices at the soonest time possible.
Meanwhile, the PA devices have been keeping the university student Hazem al-Sherif in custody for the six day running.
In Tulkarem, the PA preventive forces apprehended the Hamas leader and ex-prisoner Iyad Naser after having summoned him for interrogation.
The Jenin-based Preventive forces re-captured the university student As’ad Hamran, enrolled at al-Quds Open University, a few hours after he was released from the PA penitentiaries.
The campaign culminated in the abduction of the photojournalist Mohamed Awad, working for the Watan Tv Channel.
In Nablus, the PA apparatuses captured the ex-prisoner Hosni al-Amoudi and have kept Hazem Asei’ra in custody for the 10th day running.
Along the same line, the Monetary Authority detained the journalist Zied Abu Ara, working for the Quds Press news agency.
Sources based in al-Khalil said the PA General Intelligence Service attempted to kidnap four students affiliated with the Islamic Bloc at the Polytechnic University after chasing them down inside the campus.
The PA forces came down heavily on the family of the representative of the Islamic Bloc at the Polytechnic university, Abdul Rahman al-Khatib, and ordered them to give their son in to the PA devices at the soonest time possible.
Meanwhile, the PA devices have been keeping the university student Hazem al-Sherif in custody for the six day running.
In Tulkarem, the PA preventive forces apprehended the Hamas leader and ex-prisoner Iyad Naser after having summoned him for interrogation.
The Jenin-based Preventive forces re-captured the university student As’ad Hamran, enrolled at al-Quds Open University, a few hours after he was released from the PA penitentiaries.
The campaign culminated in the abduction of the photojournalist Mohamed Awad, working for the Watan Tv Channel.
In Nablus, the PA apparatuses captured the ex-prisoner Hosni al-Amoudi and have kept Hazem Asei’ra in custody for the 10th day running.
Along the same line, the Monetary Authority detained the journalist Zied Abu Ara, working for the Quds Press news agency.
3 may 2015 World Press Freedom Day
Hamas
senior official along with a Palestinian media organization demanded
on Sunday prosecuting Israel for killing, injuring and arresting
Palestinian pressmen.
Member of Hamas political bureau Izzat al-Risheq called for prosecuting Israel for its violations of the rights of the Palestinian pressmen. He opined that the media is part of Palestine liberation project.
Risheq referred to the importance of media in exposing the Israeli crimes and its impact on the international public opinion. In a statement posted on his Facebook page on Sunday, Risheq hailed, on the World Press Freedom Day, the Palestinian journalists and workers in the field of media in Palestine.
Risheq called for prosecuting Israel for killing Palestinian journalists. “We recall our martyrs who were assassinated by Israel while doing their duties bravely and honestly while their killers are still free,” he said.
In the same context, the Union of Palestinian Radio and Television demanded prosecuting Israel at the international level for killing 17 pressmen in its military aggression on Gaza in last summer and for arresting 28 others since the beginning of the year.
The Union said, in a report on Sunday, that the Palestinian journalists are deprived of their rights of freedom of media coverage in accordance with the international law and international human rights charters.
According to the report, 6 Palestinian journalists are still detained in Israeli jails bringing the number of the arrested workers in the field of media to 20. Meanwhile, 23 other pressmen were injured in the past four months in covering field stories.
The report noted that 13 pressmen and media activists were arrested in the Palestinian Authority jails in the West Bank and Gaza since the beginning of 2015. Of those, 11 were summoned for investigation and some of them were exposed to repeated arrests, it added.
The Union called for a human rights campaign for releasing the 20 journalists detained in Israeli jails and to intervene for halting the policy of arresting Palestinian pressmen on work backgrounds.
It also called for respecting the freedom of speech guaranteed by the Palestinian law.
The Union urged all Palestinian journalists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to vote for electing a united press syndicate to represent all of them on professional, legal and transparent bases.
Member of Hamas political bureau Izzat al-Risheq called for prosecuting Israel for its violations of the rights of the Palestinian pressmen. He opined that the media is part of Palestine liberation project.
Risheq referred to the importance of media in exposing the Israeli crimes and its impact on the international public opinion. In a statement posted on his Facebook page on Sunday, Risheq hailed, on the World Press Freedom Day, the Palestinian journalists and workers in the field of media in Palestine.
Risheq called for prosecuting Israel for killing Palestinian journalists. “We recall our martyrs who were assassinated by Israel while doing their duties bravely and honestly while their killers are still free,” he said.
In the same context, the Union of Palestinian Radio and Television demanded prosecuting Israel at the international level for killing 17 pressmen in its military aggression on Gaza in last summer and for arresting 28 others since the beginning of the year.
The Union said, in a report on Sunday, that the Palestinian journalists are deprived of their rights of freedom of media coverage in accordance with the international law and international human rights charters.
According to the report, 6 Palestinian journalists are still detained in Israeli jails bringing the number of the arrested workers in the field of media to 20. Meanwhile, 23 other pressmen were injured in the past four months in covering field stories.
The report noted that 13 pressmen and media activists were arrested in the Palestinian Authority jails in the West Bank and Gaza since the beginning of 2015. Of those, 11 were summoned for investigation and some of them were exposed to repeated arrests, it added.
The Union called for a human rights campaign for releasing the 20 journalists detained in Israeli jails and to intervene for halting the policy of arresting Palestinian pressmen on work backgrounds.
It also called for respecting the freedom of speech guaranteed by the Palestinian law.
The Union urged all Palestinian journalists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to vote for electing a united press syndicate to represent all of them on professional, legal and transparent bases.
