- 13 febr 2011
Witnesses: Israeli forces detain Beit Ummer teen
HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces on Saturday detained a Palestinian teenager and attacked a woman in Beit Ummar near Hebron, witnesses said.
Local popular committee spokesman Mohammad Awad said soldiers detained Mohammad At-Teet, 16, during a raid on his home. Forces beat a woman who tried to prevent the arrest, Awad said.
Soldiers fired tear gas at the teenager and in the area to prevent anyone photographing the raid, Awad added.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces shut down the weekly anti-wall rally in the town.
Residents and activists protest every Saturday against the confiscation of villagers lands to build illegal Israeli settlements.
Awad said Israeli soldiers declared the area a closed military zone, preventing activists from outside the town joining the protest.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=359427
Clashes renewed after guard fires gun at protesters in Ras al-Amoud
Clashes were renewed in Silwan neighborhoods of al-Bustan and Ras al-Amoud last night, 12 February, when an Israeli guard of the Jewish grave yard in Ras al-Amoud fired his weapon at Palestinian demonstrators. Israeli forces fired heavy amounts of tear-gas grenades at residents in response.
One angry demonstrator responded to the attack with the comment that Israeli guards in our neighborhood have carte blanche use of their weapons they have total immunity to the laws that we are subject to.
http://silwanic.net/?p=11838 16 sep 2011, 21:32 , Respect -
Maria 14 febr 2011
Inside the Military Repression of Nabi Saleh: Arrest of Children
Inside the Military Repression of Nabi Saleh: Arrest of Children from Joseph Dana on Vimeo.
Nabi Saleh. January 2011. Footage of the arrest of 11 year old Kareem Tamimi. He was detained for five hours and released by Israeli army officials. His brother, 14 year old Islam, was arrested the previous day and remains in jail. For more on the military repression of the popular struggle in the West Bank please visit The Popular Struggle Coordination Committee. popularstruggle.org.
http://vimeo.com/19782878
Testimonies collected by the rights groups reveal a pattern of children some as young as seven years old being arrested in late-night raids, handcuffed and interrogated for hours without either a parent or lawyer being present. In many cases, the children have reported physical violence or threats. Particularly troubling, are testimonies of children under the age of 12, the minimal age set by the law for criminal liability, who were taken in for questioning, and who were not spared rough and abusive interrogation.
It was taken on a Tuesday morning after Israeli authorities had completed another house raid. As the army and police were leaving, one police van stops and two border police officers jump out. 11-year-old Kareem Tamimi comes running into the frame, running towards his mother. The camerawoman begins shouting "Child! Child!" in Hebrew to the border police officers to no avail.
The border police officers capture the child, handling him as if he was a fully grown adult. Within seconds he is in the police van and on the way out of the village toward an undisclosed location. His mother's cries as she slams her hands against the windows of police van are disregarded by the border police officers.
Kareem's arrest was part of a strategy to apply as much pressure as possible on his 14-year-old brother Islam, who was arrested the previous day in a night raid, in order that Islam will deliver any script that his investigators wanted. The strategy worked, and Kareem was released later the same evening.
After this arrest happened, the army spokespersons unit alerted the media and twitter followers that another 'wanted suspect' was taken in for security questioning. They failed to mention that he was an 11-year-old child.
Tomorrow I will post another video from the current wave of military repression of Nabi Saleh. These videos, seldom seen in the mainstream media, give the Palestinian perspective on life under Israeli Occupation. This is the price that Palestinians pay if they refuse to be silent under Occupation.
http://972mag.com/author/josephd/
"We have heard many testimonies from children who describe terrifying experiences of violence during both their arrest and their later interrogation."
"One of the men grabbed me from behind and started choking me. The second grabbed my shirt and tore it from the back, and the third twisted my hands behind my back and tied them with plastic cords. 'Who threw stones?' one of them asked me. 'I don't know,' I said. He started hitting me on the head and I shouted in pain."
Jawad Siyam, a local community activist in Silwan, said the goal of the arrests and the increased settler activity was to "make life unbearable and push us out of the area".
The 60 experts who wrote to Mr Netanyahu warned that the children's abuse led to "post-traumatic stress disorders, such as nightmares, insomnia, bed-wetting, and constant fear of policemen and soldiers". They also noted that children under extended house arrest were being denied the right to schooling.
Last year the United Nations Committee Against Torture expressed "deep concern" at Israel's treatment of Palestinian minors, saying Israel was breaking the UN Convention on the Rights of Children, which it has signed.
Over the past 12 months, Defence for Children International has provided the UN with details of more than 100 children who claim they were physically or psychologically abused while in military custody.
Israel's war on Jerusalem children: 1,200 arrested in one year-
http://www.redress.cc/palestine/jcook20101214
Silwan's Captive Children When home is jail-
http://palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1681
Nabi Saleh. January 2011. Footage of the arrest of 11 year old Kareem Tamimi. He was detained for five hours and released by Israeli army officials. His brother, 14 year old Islam, was arrested the previous day and remains in jail. For more on the military repression of the popular struggle in the West Bank please visit The Popular Struggle Coordination Committee-
http://www.popularstruggle.org.
Video from wnavajitaw-
http://www.youtube.com/user/wnavajitaw 18 sep 2011, 21:31 , Respect -
Maria 17 febr 2011
Israel coerces Gaza patients to spy
Palestinian patients have kidney dialysis in the kidney department at the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza (file photo).
A human rights group has blamed Israel for violating the rights of Palestinian patients leaving Gaza for medical treatment by intensifying interrogations against them.
Data collected by al-Meezan Center for Human Rights and its international affiliates indicate a rise in the number of Palestinian patients interrogated and forced to provide information in return for a permission to leave the Gaza Strip for medical treatment, a Press TV correspondent reported on Wednesday.
The center's Sameer Siqqout said that patients have refused to talk to the press for fear of reprisals by Israeli authorities. Many patients and their companions have been arrested after being interviewed by Israeli intelligence agencies, he said.
One patient said that he has cancer and was leaving with his son when he was stopped by Israeli agents who asserted that he could cross the border only if he would spy for them.
A crippling Israeli siege has led to acute shortage of necessary equipment and medicine in the impoverished Gaza hospitals that are faced with a relatively high number of seriously ill patients.
The situation is especially dangerous for chronically ill patients that have to be on medication for extended periods and those requiring emergency operations.
Hundreds of patients in the blockaded Gaza Strip risk an imminent death unless they are provided with badly needed medications.
According to Israeli rights group Betselem, the Tel Aviv regime denies the rights of Gaza residents to seek medical care inside Gaza and to access treatment outside the territory.
Many patients have said that the Israeli Security Agency (ISA) have interrogated and photographed them against their will. Experts say that the Israeli regime also blackmails Gaza patients due to its obsession with security.
Israeli Physicians for Human Rights Organization also blames the ISA for exploiting Gaza patients in exchange for an exit permit.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza has expressed alarm that the current shortage of medicine caused by the persisting Israeli blockade has resulted in a serious health crisis for Palestinian patients.
The ministry said that it has voiced concern and has called upon the international community to stand by the patients in the Gaza Strip.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/165619.html
Palestinian worker wounded in IOF shooting
GAZA, (PIC)-- A Palestinian teen was wounded on Thursday when Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired at him while collecting gravel east of Gaza Strip.
Adham Abu Salmiya, the medical services spokesman, told the PIC reporter that the 17-year-old youth was hit with a bullet in his left leg.
The IOF shooting and targeting of gravel collecting workers had killed three Palestinians and wounded 128 others since March 2010.
http://bit.ly/elcWGA 21 sep 2011, 12:42 , Respect -
Maria 18 febr 2011
Eight Injured, One Critically, and Seven Arrested as Troops Suppress Anti-Wall Protests
Bethlehem PNN Eight people were injured, one of them critically, and seven were arrested during Friday's anti-wall protests organized in the villages of Bil`in, Ni`lin and al-Nabi Saleh in the central West Bank. The southern West Bank village of al-Ma`ssara also held a protest.
Five were injured in Bil`in where protesters marked the sixth anniversary of the weekly anti-wall protest this Friday. As has been the case every Friday for the past six years, international and Israeli supporters joined the villagers after the midday prayers and marched up to the gate of the wall separating villagers from their lands.
Soldiers sprayed people with Skunk, a dispersal chemical, fired live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, and tear gas at protesters. Troops also tried to arrest people after spraying pepper-spray in their eyes, but protesters managed to stop the arrest, witnesses told PNN.
Hamza Burant, 18, was critically injured with live rounds, Ahamd Abu Rahma, 16, was hit with a tear gas cannister in the hand, while Kifah Manousr, 30, Fadi Omar, 30, and Abdullah Yassen, 19, sustained minor injuries. Many were treated for tear gas inhalation.
Eyad Burant, head of the local Committee Against the Wall and Settlements, told PNN, Today we march for national unity, we ask our leaders to unite against the occupation. Next year will remove the wall.
In 2007, the Israeli High Court of Justice ruled that the wall in Bil`in is illegal and should be rerouted giving the villagers half of the lands taken to build the wall. The army still refuses to implement the court order.
Also on Friday, three protesters were injured and seven more arrested at the weekly anti-wall and settlement protest in the village of Nabi Saleh. Five of those arrested were Israelis and two Palestinians. The three injured were shot with rubber-coated steel bullets by the army.
In the nearby village of Nil`in, a number of protesters suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation. Villagers joined by Israeli and international supporters marched to the wall after midday prayers.
Near Bethlehem, in the southern West Bank, villagers of the Ma`ssara organized their weekly protest against the Israeli wall being built on lands owned by local farmers. The protesters marched after the midday prayers and tried to reach the lands where Israel is building the wall. Soldiers stopped the march at the entrance of the village and forced people back using tear gas. Many were treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation.
http://bit.ly/grnTUV 22 sep 2011, 11:56 , Respect -
Maria 19 febr 2011
Clashes in Jerusalem, Hebron
JERUSALEM, February 19, 2011 (WAFA) The East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan witnessed violent confrontations Friday night between its residents and Israeli police.
Palestinians threw stones and empty bottles at the police, and burnt tires in the streets to hold up the movement of police vehicles.
Witnesses told WAFA that police arrested several children and fired dozens of sonic bombs and tear gas, causing multiple cases of suffocation, including an entire family of 15. One family member was hit in the chest by tear gas and a three month old baby suffered severe suffocation from inhaled gas.
Meanwhile, residents of the Bab Hutta area in the Old city of Jerusalem clashed with police forces, who shot tear gas as Palestinian youth threw stones at them. Undercover Israeli police arrested three youths.
Similar clashes occurred in the southern West Bank city of Hebron where a mob of settlers stormed the city and the nearby village of Yatta. The mob threw stones severely hurting one Palestinian in the Sahla area in the center of the old city of Hebron, threatening residents with more violence if they do not leave the sections of the city that are still under Israeli control, according to witnesses.
A resident of Um Al Khair village, near the settlement of Karmiel in the Hebron area, told WAFA that the settlers have systematically attacked the village and harassed its residents.
All Israeli settlements and the settlers who inhabit them are in direct violation of international law, the United Nations Security Council resolutions and the Geneva Conventions.
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=15230 24 sep 2011, 16:06 , Respect -
Maria 20 febr 2011
Israeli soldiers kidnap student at Hawara checkpoint
NABLUS, (PIC)-- The international Tadamun (solidarity) foundation for Human Rights said that the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnapped Sunday morning a student of Al-Najah national university at Hawara checkpoint.
Ahmed Al-Betawi, a researcher for the foundation, stated that the troops at this checkpoint, southeast of Nablus city, stopped student Ahmed Al-Khafsh from Marda village on his way to Al-Najah university and rounded him up.
Betawi noted that the student was suffering severe stomach ache and was supposed to go after attending lectures at the university to the national hospital in Nablus for further medical checkups.
He added that the student showed his medical reports, but the soldiers did not care about his condition and took him to Petah Tikva interrogation center.
http://bit.ly/hOON8L
IOF photographs minors amid night raids to identify stone-throwers
NAZARETH, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupational forces (IOF) raided several homes in the village of Nabi Saleh near Ramallah since the years onset with the sole intent of waking minors living there and filming them, the Israeli B Tselem organization said.
"Israeli forces enter the village s homes at night to photograph minors, B`Tselem said in a recent statement. The soldiers order that anyone over ten years of age is woken, then they take their images and leave.
The organization said at least four such operations had taken place in January 2011.
"Israel uses the photos to later identify people who throw stones during demonstrations that take place every Friday. After that the minors are arrested from their homes at night.
The organization said video taken by its volunteers documents that a 14-year-old boy was arrested and interrogated while his parents were prohibited from accompanying him. The clip reveals how the soldiers rudely treat the childs parents and then proceed to carry out the arrest. The boy remains in detention upon three weeks of the incident.
Hundreds of Palestinian minors are held in Israeli jails in violation of human rights principles and international conventions.
http://bit.ly/hXZYHl
Ten citizens suffer breathing difficulties in clashes with IOF soldiers
TUL:AREM, (PIC)-- Ten Palestinian citizens suffered breathing problems in Deir Al-Ghusun village, north of Tulkarem city, when Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired at them teargas canisters.
Witnesses reported that clashes broke out on Saturday after the IOF soldiers attacked an anti wall march in the village using rubber bullets and teargas bombs.
Participants chanted anti settlement and anti wall slogans and called for restoring national unity. They also expressed outrage at the US veto against a UN Security Council decision condemning Israeli settlement activity in the occupied West Bank.
Meanwhile, a number of villagers in Beit Ummar village, north of Al-Khalil, were injured when the IOF troops violently quelled the village s weekly anti wall march on Saturday.
Medical sources said that the soldiers fired gas and sonic bombs at the demonstrators wounding the head of the village s municipal council in his left leg with shrapnel of a stun grenade.
They said that a child was hit with rubber bullets in his foot and hand while many others were treated for breathing problems.
http://bit.ly/f84Do3 29 sep 2011, 14:47 , Respect -
Maria 23 febr 2011
Palestinian hit by gunfire sent to IDF jail despite injury
Tribunal Judge who ordered the youth to remain in IDF custody says the suspect posed a threat which warranted his continued detention.
A Palestinian youth arrested by the Israel Defense Forces for throwing stones has been remanded to detention in a military jail, despite sustaining a fractured elbow when he was shot by Israeli settlers.
Tribunal Judge Tsvi Frenkel, who ordered the youth to remain in IDF custody until his case is heard in court, said the suspect posed a threat which warranted his continued detention.
The incident occurred on January 28, when a group of Israelis went hiking near the Palestinian village of Beit Ummar near Hebron. During the trip, which was not coordinated with the army, the Israelis said they were attacked by gunfire and stones. In response, one of the armed Israelis opened fire, killing a Palestinian and injuring another one.
An IDF investigation did not find any evidence of gunfire in the direction of the Israeli hikers. Police arrested four of the Israelis, who were remanded into custody. Days later, they were released. Authorities do not intend to indict them.
Police officials said that because the bullet allegedly fired by the Israelis was not handed over by the Palestinian police, they could not perform ballistics tests to determine its origin.
Last Thursday, Murad Halil, the young Palestinian wounded in the incident, was summoned to the West Bank police station for questioning. When he arrived, he was informed that he was under arrest for throwing stones a charge Halil denies.
Halil`s lawyer, Nery Ramati, said there was no point in remanding Halil to custody since his right arm is in a cast. The IDF judge disagreed.
Ramati appealed the decision to the appellate tribunal, which ordered Halil to undergo a medical exam that would determine whether he`d be able to throw stones within the next year.
http://bit.ly/eLn7LY
Three Palestinian youths injured in Silwan clashes
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Three Palestinian young men were injured when clashes broke out between Palestinian young men and Israeli occupation forces in Silwan town, occupied Jerusalem, on Tuesday night.
Local sources said that the Israeli forces intentionally provoked citizens leading to confrontations in which the soldiers fired rubber bullets and teargas canisters while the youth tossed Molotov cocktails at them.
The sources said that the confrontations continued until a late hour on Tuesday night, adding that the Israeli forces sent military units to encircle the town.
An Israeli army spokesman claimed that five firebombs were hurled at police patrols in Silwan at a late hour on Tuesday.
http://bit.ly/ikhyKI
Shin Bet investigators sexually assault minor
RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- According to a testimony lawyers took during a visit, a Palestinian minor detained in the Israeli Etzion prisons said Shin Bet investigators attempted to sexually assault him.
After the incident the investigators bargained to release the victim for a confession, the lawyers said, adding that they threatened to sexually assault him another time if he refused to detail the names of individuals who threw stones at Israeli patrol cars.
Israel has detained many Palestinian minors in small cells and denied them the right to family visits, Palestinian sources say.
The majority were arrested while playing in the roads, outside of school or during house raids, the sources add.
Several human rights organizations have confirmed that Israeli investigators and prison authorities have used sexual harassment and psychological pressure against minors.
The sources also say the detained children are neglected medically like the older detainees. There are about 30 ill minors in Israeli prisons.
http://bit.ly/gsscqR 3 oct 2011, 22:20 , Respect -
Maria 24 febr 2011
Israeli Military Abducts Two Children in Hebron
On Thursday morning, the Israeli soldiers abducted two Palestinian children from the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, and searched several houses.
Mohammad Awad, Media spokesman for the Palestinian Solidarity Project, stated that the Israeli occupation abducted Omar Alkam,15 years old, and Mohanad Sabarna,17, after invading their houses and ransacking their belongings.
Security Sources reported to Palestine News Agency WAFA, that the Israeli military invaded the town of Yatta, south of Hebron, and searched many houses. These houses belong to Ismael abu Sobha, Mohamad Moghnem, Ibrahim al-Hlais and Adel Nassar.
Furthermore, the Israeli army invaded Hebron, town of Halhoul, Sa`er, al-Fawwar Refugee Camp; stopped Palestinian citizens vehicles and checked the identities of Passengers.
http://www.imemc.org/article/60706
Dozens treated for breathing problems in Shufat night clashes
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Dozens of Palestinian young men were treated for breathing difficulty in Shufat refugee camp, occupied Jerusalem, on Wednesday night after Israeli forces used teargas in abundance against them.
Local sources said that the Israeli troops closed down the camp's entrance for a few hours before traffic and movement of citizens going in and out of it.
They added that large numbers of army troops were still positioned at the outskirts of the camp by Thursday morning, spreading fears of a possible large scale incursion.
In the West Bank, Jewish settlers threw stones and empty bottles on Wednesday at Palestinian vehicles passing along the road leading to northern Ramallah villages and to Salfit.
Witnesses reported that a number of cars were damaged but no casualties were suffered.
http://bit.ly/gapx9p 8 oct 2011, 11:06 , Respect -
Maria 25 febr 2011
Israeli troops kill Palestinian infant
Israeli troops have attacked a peaceful Palestinian protest rally in an East al-Quds (Jerusalem) neighborhood, killing a three-month-old infant.
The three-month-old female infant died after inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli police in the Silwan neighborhood. Israeli police also fired rubber bullets during clashes with Palestinian protesters.
Palestinians hold weekly protest rallies in Silwan against Tel Aviv's harsh policies towards Palestinians following the Friday Prayers.
Elsewhere in the occupied territories, Israeli forces also fired tear gas and rubber bullets on Palestinian and international activists in the West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron), wounding at least nine people.
Several Palestinian protesters were also arrested.
Protesters were marking the 17th anniversary of the massacre of 29 Palestinians by a Jewish extremist in the city when they were attacked by Israeli troops.
Protesters were also calling for the reopening of one of the city's main streets, which Israel closed off to Palestinians following the 1994 massacre in the region.
The protesters also voiced support for the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions and condemned Washington's policy toward the expansion of Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian lands.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/167044.html
Clashes Continue in Silwan
Confrontations erupted on Thursday evening between Israeli forces and Palestinian residents of the East Jerusalem village of Silwan,
Violence was concentrated in the Baten al-Hawa area, where Israeli soldiers have been occupying the roof of a Palestinian residence for over six months now.
Dozens of residents suffered the asphyxiating effects of tear gas inhalation when fired by Israeli troops. Youths threw Molotov cocktails at soldiers in response.
This makeshift military base has been a point of contention and scene of violence on many occasions, with clashes erupting in the past when it had been previously set on fire.
Meanwhile in the Bir Ayyub district, which is also in Silwan, an Israeli military jeep was torched during clashes. Live ammunition has been used by Israeli forces and the atmosphere throughout the village is extremely tense.
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Maria 26 febr 2011
Confrontations in Siwlan expanding
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation police forces fired teargas canisters at citizens in Bustan suburb in Silwan town, south of occupied Jerusalem, soon after the Friday congregation.
Local sources said that the confrontations in the suburb expanded to nearby neighborhoods, which are witnessing daily violent clashes between citizens and those forces.
Citizens noted that the police forces used tear gas bombs in an unprecedented manner, which caused breathing difficulty among a big number of civilians including tens of children.
Medical sources said that a young man was hit with a rubber bullet in his spinal cord, describing his condition as "serious".
The policemen arrested a 21-year-old youth near Wadi Hilwa in Bustan suburb on Friday.
http://bit.ly/eG4aO3 14 oct 2011, 16:02 , Respect -
Maria 27 febr 2011
Illegal Detention Of Palestinian Children
(7:35) Illegal Detention Of Palestinian Children
The Occupied Palestinian Territory has been held by Israel under military occupation since June 1967. Under international law the Fourth Geneva Convention applies to the Palestinian civilian population who hold protected persons status. Israel ratified the Fourth Geneva Convention in 1951. Article 76 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states as follows:
Protected persons accused of offences shall be detained in the occupied country, and if convicted they shall serve their sentences therein
According to information obtained from the Israeli Prison Service, there are currently six Israeli prisons used to detain Palestinian children (12 - 17 year olds)*. All but one of these prisons (Ofer Prison) is inside Israel in contravention of Article 76 of the Convention. According to figures compiled by DCI-Palestine and the Israeli Prison Service, there are currently 343 Palestinian children in Israeli detention facilities, of which 194 are being detained illegally inside Israel. There are a number of practical consequences of detaining Palestinian children illegally inside Israel, including:
* Making it difficult, and in some cases impossible, for family members to visit their children due to freedom of movement restrictions; and
* Making it difficult for the childrens lawyers, including lawyers from DCI-Palestine, to visit their clients and provide legal assistance.
Recommended action
Please send Urgent Appeals urging:
1. An immediate end to the practice of detaining Palestinian children inside Israel in contravention of Article 76 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
2. Ensuring that all Palestinian child detainees are held in separate facilities from adults and in conditions that meet international standards.
3. Ensure that all Palestinian child detainees held in Israeli detention facilities receive at least one family visit per week.
Palestinian Children Affected by Armed Conflict: New UNICEF Report
UNICEF released a report last week, Children Affected by Armed Conflict: Israel & the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) 2010 Annual Review , detailing violations against Palestinian children in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. http://bit.ly/eISkVt [pdf]
According to the report, eleven Palestinian children were killed in 2010, and 360 more were injured in Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
In 2010, grave violations continued to be committed against children in the occupied Palestinian territory, reported UNICEF.
Among the eleven Palestinian children killed, a total of five boys were killed in the Gaza buffer zone as a result of Israeli military activities.
Two were fatally shot by the Israeli security forces as they approached the fence separating Israel from the Gaza strip with an assault rifle; three were killed as a result of mortar shells fired by the Israeli security forces; two boys were killed by the detonation of an unexploded artillery shell in Gaza, according to the report.
In the West Bank, four boys were killed in settler related incidents; three by the Israeli security forces and one boy was killed directly by settlers.
Another serious issues detailed in the report is the ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children in Israeli detention centers. 90 cases were documented in Israeli facilities and one case by the Palestinian Preventative Security Forces. Twenty-four of the children were below the age of 15 years, including two ten year olds and one seven year old.
UNICEF also documented fourteen cases of sexual violence involving 13 Palestinian boys and one girl in Israeli detention in 2010.
In comparison, in 2009, nine cases of sexual violence involving eight Palestinian boys and one girl between the ages of 15-16 in Israeli military detention were documented, UNICEF reported.
The increase in documented cases of sexual violence from 2009 to 2010 reflects improved and increased documentation and also raises concern over the continued use of torture and ill-treatment against Palestinian children during arrest, interrogation and detention.
According to a reported published Thursday (24/2) by the Palestinian Ministry of Information, Israel arrested 32 Palestinian minors in the first two weeks of February, adding to the 320 that it already holds in prison.
http://bit.ly/eeITTz
Five Jerusalemites wounded in confrontations with Israeli forces
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Israeli police forces stormed a number of suburbs in occupied Jerusalem at a late hour on Saturday night and engaged in clashes with Jerusalemite youths until dawn Sunday, locals reported.
They said that the clashes started after the forces stormed the suburbs of Bustan, Wadi Hilwa, and Silwan Daraj while firing at the young men injuring five Jerusalemites.
Wadi Hilwa information center said that among the injured were two 15-year-old boys.
Silwan town, south of the Aqsa Mosque, is witnessing escalating attacks on the part of Israeli police forces and Jewish settlers.
http://bit.ly/gzq6Kh 22 oct 2011, 23:18 , Respect -
Maria 26 oct 2011, 12:49 , Respect -
Maria 28 febr 2011
Israeli policemen detain 9 Palestinian boys including 7-year-old
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation police rounded up nine Palestinian boys in Silwan and Ras Al-Amud in occupied Jerusalem on Monday including a 7-year-old child.
Local sources said that Israeli border policemen accompanied by special units stormed the Old City and broke into many houses and wreaked havoc in them.
They said that Khalil Al-Resheq, 7, was among the detainees along with 11-year-old Muslim Odeh and 14-year-old Ahmed Abu Madi while the others were 16 years old and one 19-year-old.
http://bit.ly/hoKGXi
Israeli police detain 4 teenagers in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (Ma`an) Israeli police detained four Palestinian teenagers in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras Al-Amoud overnight, after what families described as invasive home searches that left apartments ransacked.
Those detained were identified by family members as 14-year-old Ahmad Abu Madhi, 16-year-old Yasin Abu Madhi, 16-year-old Ahmad Nabulsi, and 19-year-old Ibrahim Abu Madhi.
http://bit.ly/h3UrrT 30 oct 2011, 21:44 , Respect -
Maria 3 mrt 2011
Palestinian boy claims police beat him
Eleven-year-old boy caught throwing stones in east Jerusalem suffers head, stomach trauma.
An 11-year old boy arrested in east Jerusalem for throwing stones claims officers beat him while his hands were tied. Hospital tests confirm the boy sustained injuries to the eye, head, and stomach.
M. was arrested on Monday in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan. It was his fifth run-in with the law, and his two brothers were also arrested. The three were interrogated in the presence of their father, an imam and one of the leading figures in Silwan residents' protest against Israeli forces.
But during the interrogation M. complained he was not feeling well and was released home. Later that evening, he vomited blood and his parents took him to the hospital.
There, doctors found that the boy was suffering from a fractured bone in his eye cavity as well as head and stomach wounds.
Upon being discharged Thursday, M. told Ynet that officers disguised as Arabs (aka Mista'arvim) had tied his hands beat him. "After school I went to a friend's house," he recounted.
"Then five officers caught me I recognized them because they had pepper spray. After they tied me up they beat me in the stomach and head. They handed me to the police but I didn't feel well and vomited blood."
He added, "When they hit me I was afraid because all the kids ran away. I started crying and told the Mista'arvim: 'I'm a little boy and I didn't do anything, leave me alone'." Now, he says, he is no longer afraid, but his eye still hurts.
M.'s father, against whom a restraining order from Silwan is in effect, believes his son suffered for his reputation. "I'm afraid because I feel I cannot protect him from the police," he said. "I have been arrested in the past but that's no reason to hit my boy."
The father added that his son had not been throwing stones on the day he was beaten. "The officers that beat him have no brains and no limits. They say Israel is democratic, but law and democracy don't protect us," he said.
M.'s mother says he has nightmares "that police knock on our door and take the children away".
'Police violent towards kids'
Now the parents plan to file a complaint with the Police Investigations Unit. Attorney Nasrin Alian, of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) told Ynet that "Jerusalem Police must launch an investigation and not allow those responsible for the boy's injuries to evade trial and punishment".
Alian warned that officers were becoming violent towards children in Silwan, citing numerous cases that have been brought to the ACRI's attention.
"Our investigation revealed that despite all of these complaints no one has been brought to trial and the police's investigations have mostly been closed without results. Police brutality against children is something that must be stopped, and we demand that the internal security minister and the chief of police intervene."
According to data collected by ACRI, 1,267 cases were opened between November 2009 and October 2010 in which Palestinian minors were accused of throwing stones. The organization claims that police have adopted a routine of arresting children in the middle of the night as a scare tactic.
Jerusalem Police stated in response, "The minor was caught red-handed throwing stones, and was interrogated in the presence of his father. During the interrogation he felt poorly and was released to receive medical treatment."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4037421,00.html 3 nov 2011, 23:42 , Respect -
Maria 3 mrt 2011
Muhammad al-Za'tari: Innocent, Accused of Stabbing Settler, and Tortured for Five Months
Maysa Abu Ghazala Jerusalem PNN/Exclusive - At 14, Muhammad Imad al-Za`tari is not old enough, according to international law, to be treated as an adult. But in the eyes of the Israeli authorities, he is responsible for his actions and eligible for long and cruel imprisonment.
Muhammad was arrested on September 24, 2010 and accused of stabbing an Israeli settler in the al-Tur neighborhood of East Jerusalem on September 22, the day that a Palestinian man named Samer Sirhan was shot dead by an Israeli security guard in Silwan. At the time of his arrest, he was 14 years old.
Israeli troops raided his home at dawn on the 24th, inspected it thoroughly, and destroyed furniture. He was interrogated over a period of at least one week, in which no charge was formally leveled against him. Nothing was heard of him through the media. The Israeli interrogators, Muhammad recounts, insisted on him saying the word yes before they closed the assault file.
Muhammad was arrested once before, on February 8, 2010, during a wedding party for released prisoner Ahmed Abu al-Hawa. He was charged with assaulting an Israeli secret policeman and put under house arrest until his file expired. Then as now, the methods of the interrogators were to hear the word yes.
Muhammad explained the interrogation methods in an interview with PNN:
In the beginning the interrogators tried to scare me and said they had captured seven of my friends and that they said I stabbed [the settler], he said. The police also presented Muhammad with pictures of his father and brother and said they had arrested them, as well.
Muhammad continued, I stood there and the interrogator stood in front of me and he grabbed my wrist and threatened to take me to Ofer Military Prison to wash shoes and underwear.
Another interrogator put Muhammads head against the wall of the room and a third said, We ran a DNA test on the knife and it says it was you who did the stabbing.
There was no defined time for the interrogation, explained Muhammad, but sometimes they lasted for hours.
There was no break, no sleep, and long hours of standing, with no family and no visits, recounted Muhammad. One day they took me to Ofek prison, where I was in a room with two others.
After several military court sessions, a judge decided to release Muhammad into house arrest. At first, Muhammad was taken to a hostel in Haifa, where Muhammad said there were all sorts of fun, a sports center, pool, and computers, but also there was marijuana, thieves and drug peddlers. They took be directly back to Ofek.
Muhammad moved from one court to another without result, once being awoken at 2:30 a.m. only to be returned to his cell at 10 at night. There were hours of waiting and ill-treatment. During his first two court dates, he was not informed of his family and told they did not want to see him.
[In Haifa], I was painting houses and cleaning for the animals, said Muhammad. I would be punished if I didn`t do the chores. I would be forbidden from family visits or going to get my own food.
The taste of freedom was sweet and unexpected for both Muhammad and his family when a court date was set for March 2, 2011 after being postponed from February 21 and a judge exonerated him based on a discrepancy in eyewitness testimony as to the color and type of the knife allegedly involved in the stabbing.
We are trying to educate the new generation, explained Muhammads mother, who said she was afraid during Muhammads imprisonment, especially when he was in jail. Israel wants to bring it down.
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