tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34705454072000057072024-03-19T21:43:35.051-07:00BLOGS IN THE NOW !Indriyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15754515363729424333noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3470545407200005707.post-28794799783854284542012-08-31T10:10:00.005-07:002012-08-31T10:11:01.856-07:00THREAT Hassan Al Safadi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<h1>
HASSAN ZAHI AS’AD SAFADI</h1>
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<span class="text"><b>Date of birth</b>: 15 November 1978</span></div>
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<span class="text"><b>Place of residence:</b> Nablus</span></div>
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<span class="text"><b>Date of arrest: </b>29 June 2011</span></div>
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<span class="text"><b>Place of detention:</b> Ramleh prison medical center</span></div>
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<span class="text"><b>Number of administrative detention orders:</b> 3</span></div>
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<span class="text"><b>Expected end of current detention order:</b> 29 December 2012</span></div>
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<span class="text"><i>On 1 August 2012 Hassan Safadi entered his 42nd day of renewed
hunger strike. This follows his previous 71-day hunger strike, which
began on 5 March 2012 and ended upon the conclusion of Palestinian
prisoners’ mass hunger strike on 14 May.</i></span></div>
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<span class="text"><b>ARREST</b></span><br />
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<span class="text">Hassan Safadi was arrested at 2:30 am on 29 June 2011 from his home in
Nablus by a large number of Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF). The IOF
spent over an hour searching his house, during which time Hassan was
repeatedly beaten. During the arrest Hassan’s mother passed out and was
taken to a hospital, where she remained for three days.
Hassan was initially brought to Huwarra detention center before being
transferred to Al Jalameh detention center near Bethlehem. Only one
week before his arrest, Hassan had been released from Jenaid prison,
near Nablus, where he was detained for 45 days by the Palestinian
Preventive Security Force.</span><br />
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<span class="text"><b>ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION AND HUNGER STRIKE</b></span><br />
<span class="text"><br /></span>
<span class="text">Since Hassan’s most recent arrest on 29 June 2011, he has received three
administrative detention orders. His first order was from 29 June 2011
until 29 December 2011, which was subsequently renewed for another six
months until 29 June 2012. As with all other administrative detainees,
Hassan’s detention is based on secret information collected by Israeli
authorities and available to the military judge but not to Hassan or his
lawyer. This practice violates international humanitarian law, which
permits some limited use of administrative detention in emergency
situations, but requires that the authorities follow basic rules for
detention, including a fair hearing at which the detainee can challenge
the reasons for his or her detention. These minimum rules of due process
have been clearly violated in Hassan’s case, leaving him without any
legitimate means to defend himself.</span></div>
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<span class="text">The continued use of administrative
detention against Hassan forced him to launch a hunger strike on 5 March
2012, along with seven other prisoners already on hunger strike, to
protest his detention without charge or trial and demanding to be
immediately released. Israeli authorities attempted to coerce Hassan to
end his hunger strike by offering to deport him, but he refused. Hassan
also reported that on 3 May, he was held down by prison guards and
forcefully given treatment by a prison doctor via an injection in his
arm. Hassan also recounted having refused water for several days until
he was moved to Ramleh Prison medical center. Upon his arrival, he was
beaten by prison guards, and the prison doctor refused to record the
injuries sustained from the attack.</span></div>
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<span class="text">On 17 April 2012, Palestinian
prisoners launched a mass hunger strike, during which about 2,000
prisoners demanded an end to the use of long-term isolation, an
improvement in detention conditions, an end to the ban of family visits
especially for prisoners from Gaza (who were banned from visits since
June 2007) and an end to the policy of administrative detention. This
mass hunger strike ended on 14 May when an agreement was reached between
the hunger strikers’ committee and the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) and
Israeli intelligence agency, with Egyptian mediation.</span></div>
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<span class="text">Since the agreement, limited progress
has been regarding some of the prisoners demands, although the policy of
administrative detention remains. Though a few of the administrative
detainees who launched a hunger strike prior to 17 April were released
upon the expiration of their current orders, some have had their
administrative detention orders extended, including Hassan. With the
agreement in place to release these long-term hunger strikers upon the
expiration of their current orders, Hassan ended his hunger strike,
which had lasted for 71 days, and was due to be released on 29 June
2012. However, on 21 June 2012, in breach of the agreement, Israel
renewed Hassan’s administrative detention order for another six months.
As a result, Hassan re-launched his hunger strike.</span></div>
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<span class="text">The IPS immediately transferred Hassan
to Hadarim prison and placed him in solitary confinement. As Hassan’s
health had not recovered from his previous hunger strike, it
deteriorated rapidly following the resumption of his hunger strike. As a
result of this deterioration in his health, he was transferred to
Ramleh prison medical center on the tenth day of his renewed hunger
strike and currently remains there.</span></div>
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<span class="text">According to Physicians for Human
Rights-Israel lawyer Mohamad Mahagni following his visit to Hassan on 22
July, Hassan is currently being held in an isolated cell. Hassan has
reported escalating pressure from the IPS to end his hunger strike.
Hassan further noted that his court hearing on 25 July regarding the
extension of his administrative detention order has been delayed again
until 7 August, stressing that he is in no condition to travel 15 hours
every time for the court hearings. He also reported suffering from
kidney problems, sight problems, extreme weakness, severe weight loss,
headaches, dizziness and has difficulty standing.</span></div>
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<span class="text"><b>PREVIOUS ARRESTS</b></span><br />
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<span class="text">Hassan has been consistently targeted for arrest and administrative
detention by Israeli authorities. No charges have ever been brought
against him. These previous arrests date back to the mid 1990’s and
range from periods of a few months to a number of years. On 28 June
2007, Hassan was arrested and interrogated for 60 days before being
transferred to administrative detention, where he was held for 40 months
and then released on 25 November 2010.</span></div>
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<span class="text">As stated above, Hassan was also
detained by Palestinian Authority forces, being held in Jenaid prison
for 45 days and release only one week prior to his most recent arrest by
Israeli authorities.</span><br />
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<span class="text"><b>HASSAN'S FAMILY</b></span><br />
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<span class="text">Hassan’s family consists of his mother, who is 62 years old, and his 11
brothers and sisters. His brother Fareed was killed by the IOF in 1996.</span></div>
<span class="text">Hassan’s family has been denied visits to Hassan since the first day
of his arrest. His younger sister received permission to visit him in
July, but this visit was subsequently revoked as punishment for Hassan’s
participation in the hunger strike.</span><br />
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<span class="text"><b>***</b></span></div>
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<span class="text"><b>Administrative detention</b> is a
procedure that allows the Israeli military to hold detainees
indefinitely on secret information without charging them or allowing
them to stand trial. In the occupied Palestinian West Bank, the Israeli
army is authorized to issue administrative detention orders against
Palestinian civilians on the basis of Military Order 1651. This order
empowers military commanders to detain an individual for up to six month
renewable periods if they have “reasonable grounds to presume that the
security of the area or public security require the detention.” On or
just before the expiry date, the detention order is frequently renewed.
This process can be continued indefinitely.</span></div>
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<span class="text">For more information about administrative detention and <b>Addameer’s Campaign to Stop Administrative Detention</b> see: </span></div>
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<span class="text"><a href="http://www.addameer.org/admin_detention.php">http://www.addameer.org/admin_detention.php</a>. </span></div>
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<span class="text"><b>Read Addameer’s report on administrative detention:</b></span></div>
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<span class="text"><a href="http://www.addameer.org/files/pdf/administrative-detention-analysis-report-final.pdf">Administrative Detention in the Occupied Palestinian Territory: A Legal Analysis Report</a>, updated July 2010.</span></div>
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<span class="text"><b>ACT NOW!</b></span></div>
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<span class="text">Here is how you can help Hassan Safadi:</span></div>
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<span class="text">*Write to the Israeli government, military and legal authorities
and demand that Hassan Safadi be released immediately and his
administrative detention order not be renewed.</span></div>
<ul type="disc"><span class="text">
<li>Brigadier General Danny Efroni<br />
Military Judge Advocate General<br />
6 David Elazar Street<br />
Harkiya, Tel Aviv<br />
Israel<br />
Fax: +972 3 608 0366; +972 3 569 4526<br />
Email: arbel@mail.idf.il; avimn@idf.gov.il</li>
<li>Maj. Gen. Nitzan Alon<br />
OC Central Command Nehemia Base, Central Command<br />
Neveh Yaacov, Jerusalam<br />
Fax: +972 2 530 5741</li>
<li>Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Ehud Barak<br />
Ministry of Defense<br />
37 Kaplan Street, Hakirya<br />
Tel Aviv 61909, Israel<br />
Fax: +972 3 691 6940 / 696 2757</li>
<li>Col. Eli Bar On<br />
Legal Advisor of Judea and Samaria PO Box 5<br />
Beth El 90631<br />
Fax: +972 2 9977326</li>
</span></ul>
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<span class="text">*Write to your own elected representatives urging them to pressure
Israel to release Hassan Safadi and to put an end to such an unjust,
arbitrary and cruel system of incarceration without trial.</span></div>
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Indriyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15754515363729424333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3470545407200005707.post-86902726772575119492012-08-31T10:06:00.003-07:002012-08-31T10:09:46.477-07:00THREAT Samer Al Barq<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<h1>
SAMER HILMI ABDULLATIF AL-BARQ</h1>
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<span class="text"><b>Date of birth</b>: 13 December 1974</span></div>
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<b>Place of residence: </b>Jayyous-Qalqilya</div>
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<b>Marital status:</b> Married </div>
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<b>Occupation:</b> Science Teacher </div>
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<b>Date of arrest:</b> 11 July 2010</div>
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<b>Place of detention:</b> Ramleh prison medical clinic</div>
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<b>Number of administrative detention orders: </b>7</div>
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<b>Expected end of current detention order: </b>22 November 2012</div>
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<i>On 29 August 2012, Samer Al-Barq entered his 100<sup>th</sup>
day of renewed hunger strike. This follows his previous 30-day hunger
strike, which began on 15 April 2012 and ended upon the conclusion of
Palestinian prisoners’ mass hunger strike on 14 May.</i></div>
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<b>ARREST</b></div>
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In 1995 Samer travelled to Pakistan
where he completed a master’s degree in medical analysis at Karachi
University. Upon completion he began working as a science teacher at a
Karachi school. However, in late 2002, concern mounted when his family
was unable to contact him. Eventually they received a phone call from
Samer, who had travelled to Jordan in 2003 and he informed his family
that he had been detained in prison for eight by months by Jordanian
intelligence. Samer was released after this initial period of eight
months, but for only two days before being rearrested. At this time,
Samer spent four and a half years in Jordanian prisons, three of which
were spent in isolation. Samer was never tried or charged with any
offense while in Jordanian custody.</div>
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Samer was eventually released in
January 2008 and then settled in Jordan where he began working in a
medical laboratory, while he wife joined him from Pakistan. During this
time Jordanian intelligence continued to target Samer and subjected him
to intensive interrogation which lasted for periods of a few days to a
number of months. His last detention lasted from April 2010 to 11 July
2010.</div>
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On 11 July 2010 Samer was brought by
Jordanian intelligence to Allenby Bridge, the border crossing between
Jordan and the occupied Palestinian territory, where he was handed over
to Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF). Samer was then taken to Ofer Prison,
near Ramallah, where an Israeli military court issued him with an
administrative detention order. As a result, Samer has been held for
almost 800 days - without trial or charge – based on secret information.</div>
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<b>ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION AND HUNGER STRIKE</b></div>
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Since Samer’s arrest on 11 July 2010,
he has received 7 administrative detention orders. As with all other
administrative detainees, Samer’s detention is based on secret
information collected by Israeli authorities and available to the
military judge but not to Samer or his lawyer. This practice violates
international humanitarian law, which permits some limited use of
administrative detention in emergency situations, but requires that the
authorities follow basic rules for detention, including a fair hearing
at which the detainee can challenge the reasons for his or her
detention. These minimum rules of due process have been clearly violated
in Samer’s case, leaving him without any legitimate means to defend
himself.</div>
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The continued use of administrative
detention against Samer forced him to launch a hunger strike two days
before the Palestinian prisoner’s mass hunger strike, which began on 17
April 2012. During the mass hunger strike, about 2,000 prisoners
demanded an end to the use of long-term isolation; an improvement in
detention conditions; an end to the ban of family visits especially for
prisoners from Gaza (who were banned from visits since June 2007); and
an end to the policy of administrative detention. This mass hunger
strike ended on 14 May when an agreement was reached between the hunger
strikers’ committee and the Israeli Prison Service (IPS), with Egyptian
mediation. According to members of the hunger strikers’ committee, the
agreement included a provision that would limit the use of
administrative detention to exceptional circumstances and that those
held under administrative detention at the time of the agreement would
not have their orders renewed.</div>
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Nevertheless, even immediately
following the end of the hunger strike, new administrative detention
orders were issued and many administrative detention orders were
renewed, including for Samer. Just one week after the end of the hunger
strike, Samer received a new administrative detention order for a period
of three months. Following the failure of the IPS to fulfil its
obligations under the agreement by renewing Samer’s administrative
detention order, on 21 May 2012 Samer resumed his hunger strike.</div>
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On his 9<sup>th</sup> day of renewed
hunger strike, Samer was transferred from Ofer prison to Ramleh prison
clinic as a result of his deteriorating health, where he currently
remains. Independent doctors from Physicians for Human Rights-Israel
(PHR-I) have largely been denied access to Samer and the other hunger
strikers. On his 59<sup>th</sup> day of hunger strike, a PHR-I lawyer
visited Samer and Samer reported that his health had severely
deteriorated. He noted that three weeks prior, his heart rate had
dropped to 35 beats per minute, which is an alarming and
life-threatening state.</div>
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He was then transferred to Assaf
Harofeh Hospital for one night, during which he was shackled by three
limbs to the hospital bed. Samer also reported that the IPS had been
threatening him with force-treatment or force-feeding if he did not
break his hunger strike. At the time, he was suffering from vertigo,
drastic weight loss and involuntary shivering and coldness in his legs,
symptoms that may indicate peripheral nerve damage. Samer also suffers
from both kidney problems and a previous injury to his leg, both of
which need constant medical attention. As a result of both hunger
strikes there has been a critical drop in his blood sugar levels and he
also has high blood pressure.</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
Samer and fellow hunger striker
Hassan Safadi have also been subjected to severe mistreatment by the
IPS. On 5 August, Samer reported to Addameer lawyer Fares Ziad that he
was transferred from Ramleh to Ofer military court on 31 July by IPS
special forces, or <i>Nahshon</i>, known for their particularly brutal
treatment of prisoners during transfers. During this transfer, the
special forces ordered him to walk, and when he told them that he could
not, they beat him on his legs. They eventually brought him a wheelchair
but did not help him, so he was forced to crawl to the chair and wheel
it himself.</div>
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</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Samer and Hassan were also put
together in an isolation cell in Ramleh, which is only about 1.5 by 1.8
meters in size, with no windows or ventilation. Furthermore, there is no
space in the room for the wheelchair that is being used by both hunger
strikers for everyday activities, including the use of shower and
toilet. After Hassan protested these conditions and treatment, he and
Samer were both beaten. In a visit by a PHR-IL doctor on 2 August, the
doctor reported that Samer’s health would only continue to deteriorate.</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
An even more violent attack was made
against the two hunger strikers on 13 August. At approximately 9:00 am,
IPS guards entered the isolation room that the two hunger strikers share
and announced their intentions to move them to a room with other
prisoners in the medical clinic who are not on hunger strike. Samer and
Hassan refused the transfer, as they considered it an attempt to further
pressure them to break their hunger strikes by surrounding them with
individuals who would be regularly eating in front of them.</div>
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After refusing to be moved,
the Israeli prison guards attacked both Samer and Hassan. During the
attack, Hassan’s head was slammed against the iron door of the cell two
times, causing him to fall to the ground, unconscious. Prison guards
then dragged him through the hall to be seen by all the other prisoners.
Later that night, at around 10:00 pm, Samer and Hassan were taken to a
new isolation room with no mattresses. In a visit with an Addameer
lawyer on 27 August, fellow hunger striker Ayman Sharawna reported that
he was also being held in the isolation cell with Hassan and Samer.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
Despite his deteriorating medical
condition, Samer’s administrative order was once again renewed for
another three months on 22 August. He was taken again to Assah Harofeh
hospital on 27 August. As of August 29, Samer entered his 100<sup>th</sup>
day of renewed hunger strike, following his previous strike of 30 days,
making him only the second Palestinian prisoner in history to reach
this stage of hunger strike.</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b>SAMER’S FAMILY</b></div>
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Samer’s wife, Sajida, is originally
from Pakistan. She returned to Pakistan after Samer’s detention by
Israeli forces. She has not been allowed to visit him since his arrest
in July 2010 under the pretext that the IOF do not allow the entry of
foreigners who hold a citizenship of countries that do not recognize
Israel. Samer is longing to see his wife and family and is looking
forward to granting his mothers wish to go on the Hajj together. Samer’s
family support his hunger strike unconditionally and call on the
international community to work for the release of Samer and all
Palestinian prisoners who remain in Israeli jails. They are dismayed by
the lack of access to him, including denial of doctor and lawyer visits,
and are deeply saddened by the low attention towards his very urgent
condition in both local and international spheres.</div>
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Indriyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15754515363729424333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3470545407200005707.post-55291944288468112012-08-31T09:47:00.000-07:002012-08-31T09:47:34.285-07:00Statistics August<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="text" style="font-size: small;">As of 1 August 2012, there were 4,660 Palestinian
political prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention centers, including
250 administrative detainees, 6 women and 210 children.</span></div>
Indriyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15754515363729424333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3470545407200005707.post-28036407479872479762012-08-31T09:20:00.006-07:002012-08-31T09:20:58.236-07:00THREAT two brothers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="userContent">The arrest of two brothers from Bethlehem<br /> Ismail Abdullah Arouj (27)<br /> was arrested at dawn "29_8_2012" he was just released 4 days ago out of more than five years of imprisonment.<br /> While his wife was staying with their little daughter in hospital.<br /> <br />
The process of re -arresting Ismail was 18 days after the arrest of his
brother Ibrahim, sentenced to 6 months of administrative detention.<br /> <br /> August 31, 2012</span></span></td></tr>
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Indriyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15754515363729424333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3470545407200005707.post-18562324291031080552012-08-31T09:18:00.002-07:002012-08-31T09:18:40.951-07:00THREAT Hani Abu Sabaa<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ahrar Center for the Study of prisoners and human rights, his health is
deteriorating dramatically, because in Megiddo prison medical care was
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s injections.<br /> <br />
Following protests by prisoners on the matter, Abu Sabaa was conveyed
under extremely difficult circumstances to Ofer prison and here: doing
nothing, in spite of an agreement on his treatment by Doctors Without
Borders / Red Cross.<br /> <br /> Abu Sabaa suffers now, because of kidney
stones, at a severe generalized infection and an old fracture in his
left foot. Signs of torture during Israeli 'hearing'.<br /> <br /> The
Israeli court is claiming that Abu Sabaa is dangerous to the security of
the country, is also claiming that the prisoner belongs to the
organization Hamas and that he has a leadership role within the prison.<br /> <br /> August 29, 2012</div>
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Indriyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15754515363729424333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3470545407200005707.post-48833846894017113652012-08-31T02:32:00.001-07:002012-08-31T02:32:46.325-07:00THREAT Hunger Strikers since MAY 2012 <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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arrest, for three months, against Samer el-Barq, in spite of the promises of releasing him of is hunger strike<br />
Jawad Polos, Head of the Lawful Unit at the Palestinian Prisoner
Society said that the court of Ofer was held for renewing the detention,
in spite of the absence of el-Barq; he is in the hospital of Asaph
Hroophe, after 100 days of hunger strike.<br /> The Israeli occupation
authorities said that there was no importance for keeping Samer in jail,
but still detain him and renew the arrest.<br /> Samer had been arrested
30 months ago without real charges being filed, so he had started the
food strike 100 days ago, protesting on detaining illegally. His wife in
Pakistan is waiting his freedom to gather family.<br /> Polos added that
Hasan el-Safadi, who has been striking for freedom since the middle of
June, is in the hospital of Ramlah, suffering in a bad health condition <br /> August 29, 2012<br /> <br /> <br /> </div>
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Indriyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15754515363729424333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3470545407200005707.post-1798984179983755862012-06-16T00:36:00.004-07:002012-06-16T03:55:40.919-07:00THREAT Mahmoud Sarsak<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text"><b>Date of Birth</b>: 20 January 1987</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text"><b>Place of residence: </b>Rafah Refugee Camp, Gaza</span></span></div>
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<b>Occupation</b>: University student and member of the Palestinian national football team</div>
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<b>Date of arrest:</b> 22 July 2009</div>
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<b>Place of detention:</b> Ramleh prison medical center</div>
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<i>Mahmoud Sarsak is currently the
only individual held under Israel’s “Unlawful Combatants Law,” which
allows for Palestinians from Gaza to be detained for an unlimited amount
of time without charge or trial. Mahmoud began a hunger strike on 19
March 2012 and entered his 80<sup>th</sup> day on 6 June, making him the
longest hunger striker in Palestinian history. His health is rapidly
deteriorating and he is demanding his immediate release.</i></div>
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<b>ARREST </b></div>
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Mahmoud Sarsak was arrested on 22
July 2009 by Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) at Erez checkpoint while
attempting to cross to the West Bank from Gaza in order to participate
in a football match in Balata refugee camp. Mahmoud, who was 22 years
old at the time, was a member of the Palestinian national football team
and had obtained permission to travel through Erez checkpoint and enter
the West Bank.</div>
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Following his arrest, Mahmoud was
transferred to interrogation at Ashkelon. He was held in interrogation
for a total of thirty days, during which he was questioned about alleged
affiliation to the Islamic Jihad political party. No evidence was
provided to elucidate these claims and Mahmoud rejects the allegations.</div>
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A recent <a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE15/026/2012/en/d33da4e1-b8d2-41fe-a072-ced579ba45c7/mde150262012en.pdf">Amnesty International report</a> further notes:</div>
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“According to his lawyer, during
interrogation Mahmoud Sarsak was tied to a chair and kept sitting for
long hours at a time in a stress position with his arms tied behind his
back and to a pole in the floor—a practice known as shabeh. Mahmoud
Sarsak’s family were not notified of their son’s arrest and whereabouts
until two days after his arrest. […] Upon learning of his arrest, the
family appointed a lawyer who was unable to see Mahmoud Sarsak for the
first ten days because the Israeli Security Agency prevented him from
doing so.”</div>
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<b>UNLAWFUL COMBATANTS LAW AND HUNGER STRIKE</b></div>
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On 23 August 2009, Mahmoud was given a
detention order under Israel’s “Unlawful Combatants Law.” This law
allows for Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to be detained for an
unlimited amount of time without being charged or brought to trial.
Under this law, detainees are issued a permanent detention order and are
then brought before an Israeli District Court only once every six
months for judicial review of their order. In practice, the Unlawful
Combatants Law contains fewer protections for detainees than even the
few that are granted under administrative detention orders in the West
Bank. </div>
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As per customary Israeli practice,
Mahmoud would have obtained security-clearance from Israeli authorities
prior to being granted permission to cross the Erez checkpoint. This
raises serious questions about the validity of the alleged concern on
the part of Israeli authorities that justifies his detention under the
Unlawful Combatant Law. As in the case of administrative detainees,
Mahmoud’s detention is based on secret information collected by Israeli
authorities and not available to Mahmoud or his lawyer. This practice
violates international humanitarian law, which permits some limited use
of internment in emergency situations, but requires that the authorities
follow basic rules for detention, including a fair hearing at which the
detainee can challenge the reasons for his or her detention. These
minimum rules of due process have been clearly violated in Mahmoud’s
case, leaving him without any legitimate means to defend himself.</div>
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After nearly three years of detention
without charge or trial, and as part of a growing movement among
Palestinian political prisoners, Mahmoud launched a hunger strike on 19
March in protest against the latest extension of his detention. After
launching his hunger strike, he was transferred to Ohalei Keidar prison
on 8 April. He was then held in solitary confinement at Eshel prison
until his transfer to Ramleh prison medical center on 16 April as a
result of his deteriorating health.</div>
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At one point during his hunger
strike, Mahmoud was promised that his detention would not be extended
and he would be released on 1 July if he agreed to end his hunger
strike. Since he insisted to have the agreement in writing, the offer
was withdrawn. Mahmoud refused an Israeli proposal to deport him to
Norway for three months and then return. He was not included in the
final agreement that ended Palestinian prisoners’ mass hunger strike on
14 May, either in its written or oral form. When he inquired as to the
date of his release, Mahmoud was told that it will only be considered at
the next date of judicial review for his detention, on 22 August.</div>
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During a visit with Addameer lawyer
Mona Neddaf on 23 May, Mahmoud’s health was in such grave condition that
he could only speak with her for a matter of moments. Despite the
urgency of his condition, the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) denied
Mahmoud access to independent doctors from Physicians for Human
Rights-Israel (PHR-Israel) until 6 June, his 80<sup>th</sup> day of
hunger strike. This visit was only permitted after numerous petitions
filed to the Israeli District Court. The IPS also refuses to transfer
him to a civilian hospital for proper treatment.</div>
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Following the visit, the PHR-Israel
doctor reported that Mahmoud has experienced extreme loss of muscle
tissue and drastic weight loss. He has lost 33 percent of his body
weight, from an original weight of 76 kilos down to his present weight
of 51 kilos. He also suffers from frequent incidents of fainting and
loss of consciousness, in addition to lapses in memory. The doctor
further reported that Mahmoud is in danger of pulse disruptions
(arrhythmias) that are endangering his life. PHR-Israel's independent
doctor strongly recommended that Mahmoud be immediately transferred to a
hospital, as he is now at immediate risk of death. </div>
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<b>MAHMOUD AND HIS FAMILY</b></div>
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Mahmoud hails from an athletic family
and joined the Rafah Sports Club when he was only 8 years old. Football
quickly became his favorite hobby and he started playing with the adult
team at 14 years of age, due to his outstanding skill. When he joined
the Palestinian national football team as a center forward, he was its
youngest player. Mahmoud also represented Palestine in football matches
all around the world, including Norway, Turkey, Egypt, Qatar and Iraq.
In addition to playing professional football, Mahmoud was also in his
third year of university, concentrating in Information Technology
Studies, before he was arrested.</div>
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Mahmoud’s family consists of his
father, who is 70 years old, his mother, who is 60 years old, his seven
brothers and five sisters. None of his family members have seen him
since the day he was arrested, as family visits for prisoners from Gaza
have been denied since 2007. Mahmoud has been denied all requests for
phone calls to his family.</div>
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This lack of contact has been
particularly difficult for his family given that his father currently
suffers from heart disease and is undergoing medical treatment in Egypt.
Mahmoud has also not been allowed to receive any items from his family
such as clothes and books, despite his family’s continuous attempts to
provide them to him through the International Committee of the Red
Cross. Mahmoud’s only means of communicating with his family has been
through his lawyer and even these visits are not permitted on a
consistent basis. </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">**** </span></div>
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<b>ACT NOW!</b></div>
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<br /></div>Indriyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15754515363729424333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3470545407200005707.post-45102049268083802422012-05-26T22:50:00.001-07:002012-05-26T22:50:19.987-07:00a very bitter taste of life... Dirar Abu Sisi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}">It is a very bitter taste of life, I for my part *am a queen soccer fan*<br />
The whole world is now discussing about an oldfashioned, backwards
oriented lady in the Ukraine committed itself human rights violations.<br />
The brigades are on the same topic over, because Dirars threat is NOT
his isolation but his upcoming court date. On court for nothing. Let him
live in freedom finally, bring him back to Veronika and his 6 amazing
kids, place of residence: Ukraine !!!<br /> That would be really THE GOAL !!!</span></span></h6>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="hasCaption">Veronika Abu Sisis Appeal on Dirar....<br /> At 31 May will be held the hearing<br />
Journalists are a puppet who has no control over the excessive violence
that simply can lay siege to the service of those in power! With all my
heart, I please you to come and not to watch silently as they,
blatantly unfair, buried alive, to beg, to trample and kill us!<br /> Do not be puppets! Fear God, not them ! Wake up !<br /> <br /> written on April 30th, 2012</span></span><br />
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<br /></div>Indriyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15754515363729424333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3470545407200005707.post-90079660813125327382012-05-15T21:03:00.000-07:002012-05-15T21:03:26.492-07:00THREAT Jihad Yusuf Ismail An-Najjar<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Jihad Yusuf Ismail An-Najjar, born in 1981 Hebron / West Bank was arrested at a barrier at the entrance of the town in 2001.<br />He was transferred immediately to the center of “Atsion”in the south of Bethlehem, and then transferred directly to the center of investigation in “Maskobiah”/ Jerusalem and was there subjected over 1,5 months to military interrogation and solitary confinement.<br />Jihad was severely tortured in order to force him to sign a confession prepared in advance, but he refused and denied all charges against him and remained steadfast.<br />After all he was transferred to Nafha Prison and more than 150 military court hearings were held by the occupation without judgement or to prove charges against him.<br />The public prosecutor said: “We do not have any other evidence than the security risk for the public community”.<br />On 24/3/2005, another military trial was held for Jihad three judges acquitted him of the sixteen charges brought against him, including participating in activities which belong to the Hamas Movement and murder of one Israeli soldier.<br />The military prosecution rejected the court's decision and appealed the decision of acquittal, asked to extend the detention period for extra 24 hours.<br />The deadline expired without providing new evidences. Another hearing was held in 2006 where Jihad was again announced as innocent.<br />His brother, Adnan, said that this decision was against the internal security system and the prosecution appealed for the second time to extend the detention of Jihad for a period of 72 hours to submit new information.<br /><br />Life sentence<br />Military trials continued against Jihad until the date of 04/12/2007, when he was brought to the courtroom in Ofer military court.<br />Three new judges issued their decision which acquitted Jihad of all charges against him except for the attempt to kill a soldier.<br />As result Jihad got one sentence on lifetime after the two judgements of acquittal.<br />Adnan said that his brothers lawyer objected to the courts decision and appealed against the life imprisonment. After more than two years, a hearing was held for the appeals court again in 2011.<br />Only one judge leaded the hearing to read in a few minutes the decision to reject the objection of the lawyer and confirming the sentence on lifetime.<br /><br />His brother continued saying plaintively: “We do not want to stop here, we decided to go to the Supreme Court , we have not finished the era of military courts”<br />“We will do everything we can do for the release of my brother through all courts and the judiciary” Adnan added.<br />Jihad has joined his hunger striking brothers in their battle of Empty Stomachs.<br />The occupation perceives Jihad as one of those who are leading and urging for the hunger strike; and as a result, the prison administration transferred him more than once.<br />At the end of April last year the management of Asqelon Prison transferred Jihad to section 4 of Nafha; and in March 2012 he was transferred to Eichel.<br /><br /> </span><br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /> <br /></td></tr>
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<br /></div>Indriyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15754515363729424333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3470545407200005707.post-785661374138555652012-05-11T23:52:00.000-07:002012-05-11T23:52:00.163-07:00THREAT Mahmoud S., 17 years old<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Name:</strong> Mahmoud S.<br /><strong>Date of arrest:</strong> 20 March 2012<br /><strong>Age:</strong> 17<br /><strong>Location:</strong> Azzun village, West Bank<br /><strong>Accusation:</strong> Throwing stones and Molotov cocktails</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>On 20 March 2012, a 17-year-old boy from Azzun village, in
the occupied West Bank, is arrested by Israeli soldiers near a road used
by settlers.</strong><br />At around 7:00 pm, on 20 March,
17-year-old Mahmoud was with two friends by a road near their village
that is used by Israeli settlers. Two Israeli military jeeps stopped and
soldiers got out and started chasing the boys. The soldiers caught
Mahmoud who reports that he was beaten. “A soldier caught me and knocked
me down,” says Mahmoud. “Then, at least 12 soldiers started beating me
hard while I was still on the ground. They kept slapping and kicking
me. One of them hit me with his rifle. Then, one of them pulled me up
hard, twisted my hands behind my back and tied them with three plastic
cords […] the cords were very tight.” Once he was tied, Mahmoud says
that the soldiers continued to beat him until his mouth and nose were
bleeding. He was then blindfolded and placed in a military vehicle.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">“Then, one of them pushed me violently inside the jeep and kept me
lying on the metal floor. There were soldiers surrounding me inside the
jeep. They kept kicking me and insulting me using very obscene words
that I do not want to mention. They insulted my mother and my sister,”
recalls Mahmoud, who was transferred to Ari’el settlment for
questioning. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Mahmoud estimates that he arrived at the settlement at around 11:00
pm. He was then made to sit in a corridor, still tied and blindfolded,
for approximately one hour, during which time he reports being slapped
and kicked by people passing by. At around midnight, Mahmoud was taken
to a room for interrogation. Although interrogating children at night is
prohibited under Israeli civilian law, the practice is not prohibited
under military law which is applied to Palestinian children. Mahmoud’s
blindfold was removed but he remained tied. Mahmoud says the
interrogator shouted at him and slapped him across the face during the
interrogation. He was accused of throwing stones and Molotov cocktails.
The interrogation lasted until 7:00 am at which point Mahmoud confessed
to throwing stones.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Following the interrogation, Mahmoud was transferred to the
settlement of Qarne Shomron where he was given a brief medical check.
Mahmoud says that he told the doctor that he had been beaten but he was
not given any treatment. The doctor simply asked Mahmoud a number of
questions from a list he was holding. Mahmoud was then transferred to
Huwwara interrogation centre, near the city of Nablus. On arrival the
soldiers wanted to strip search Mahmoud, who refused to strip, and was
then beaten. Later that day he was transferred to Megiddo prison, inside
Israel, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention which prohibits
transfers out of occupied territory.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">For further information see: DCI-Palestine – “<a href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/documents/new-dci-report-bound-blindfolded-and-convicted-children-held-military-detention-2012">Bound, Blindfolded and Convicted: Children held in military detention</a>” and B’Tselem: “<a href="http://www.btselem.org/publications/summaries/2011-no-minor-matter">No Minor Matter: Violation of the Rights of Palestinian Minors Arrested by Israel on Suspicion of Stone-Throwing</a>”</span><br />
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Bilal Diab<br />
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authorities follow basic rules for detention, including a fair hearing at
which the detainee can challenge the reasons for his or her detention.<br />
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mentioned cases, leaving them without any legitimate means to defend
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administration detention of the above mentioned also violates article 5 (the
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well as the Israeli Constitution itself, is therefore obligated to undertake
the following: <br />
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* . Immediately and unconditionally release </span></span></div>
Hassan Al Safadi<br />
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</div>Indriyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15754515363729424333noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3470545407200005707.post-91500621797753750452012-04-24T22:09:00.001-07:002012-04-24T22:09:03.280-07:00THREAT Marwan Barghouti<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">The trial of Marwan Barghouti<br /><br />Report by Mr. Simon Foreman, lawyer and expert appointed by the Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians in accordance with the resolution adopted by the Governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union at its 173rdsession<br /><br />Introduction – Organisation of the mission<br /><br />On 3 October 2003, at its 173rdsession, the Governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union unanimously adopted a resolution expressing its concern at the plight and conditions of trial of Mr. Marwan Barghouti, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, arrested in Palestinian territory by the Israeli army on 15 April 2002 and detained since then.<br /><br />The resolution decided on the sending of an observer to Mr. Barghouti's trial. However, the hearings of the trial were suspended on 29 September 2003 after the statement by the accused of his defence. The judgment was reserved for delivery at a hearing the date of which is as yet unknown.<br /><br />The Inter-Parliamentary Union therefore entrusted me with studying the circumstances of the trial, in the light both of the information conveyed by the sources having brought the matter to the attention of the IPU Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians and of the direct contacts I was asked to make.<br /><br />Before carrying out my mission, I gathered together as much documentation on the trial as possible, including reports on hearings as published in the international press or written by experts of non-governmental organisations. I also read the indictment drawn up by the Office of the State Attorney and the defence memoir filed by Mr. Barghouti's defence.<br /><br />I travelled to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv from 8 to 10 December 2003 in order to meet the representatives of the two parties in the trial:<br /><br /> Ms. Devorah Chen, Director of the Department of Criminal Security Affairs and Special Affairs within the Office of the State Attorney, representing the prosecution in all the hearings, received me in her Tel Aviv office in the presence of her legal assistants and representatives of the Ministries of Justice and of Foreign Affairs;<br /><br /> with respect to the defence, I met in Jerusalem Mr. Jawad Boulus, Mr. Barghouti's main lawyer, and in Paris two French lawyers also picked by Mr. Barghouti for his defence, although they were finally not permitted to take part in the debates: Ms. Gisèle Halimi and Mr. Daniel Voguet. <br /><br />I also had many meetings in Paris, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv with a number of persons who had attended part of the public hearings, including journalists, observers from non-governmental organisations, a specialist in humanitarian law, Professor Géraud de la Pradelle, professor in the University of ParisX, who also attended a hearing on behalf of the International Federation for Human Rights, and the Deputy Consul in the General Consulate of France in Jerusalem, Mr. Ludovic Pouille.<br /><br />During my stay in Israel I was in touch with Ms. Nadia Sartawi, representative of the Palestinian Legislative Council, and Ms. Ruth Kaplan, in charge of international affairs in the Knesset. Ms. Kaplan had originally organised for me a meeting with Mr. Reshef Shayne MP, member of the Knesset Legal Affairs Committee, but the meeting was cancelled at the last minute because, as I understood, it was considered preferable that my contacts remain at the level of the Office of the State Attorney rather than that of the legislature.<br /><br />Finally, I must say that Ms. Chen very obligingly provided me with the almost complete official documentation of the trial, including:<br /><br /> the two decisions whereby the High Court of Justice ruled, on 3 and 14 May 2002, on the conditions of detention of Mr. Barghouti, the deprivation of his right to meet his lawyer, and his conditions of interrogation;<br /><br /> two judgments handed down on the preliminary arguments raised by the defence (jurisdiction and lawfulness of the arrest), one in connection with the detention proceedings and the other with the trial proper;<br /><br /> the official report of the hearings on the merits. <br /><br />Most of these documents being in Hebrew, their exploitation took a certain time. I warmly thank Mr. Fouad Bitar, a sworn translator, who carried out full or partial translations and helped me to analyse them.<br /><br />All these meetings and documents supplied the substance of this report, comprising two parts:<br /><br /> the first is a descriptive account of the situation since Mr. Barghouti's arrest to date, including the presentation of the various proceedings to which the case has given rise;<br /><br /> the second part is devoted to an analysis of the stages of the trial in order to examine whether Mr. Barghouti has enjoyed all the guarantees provided for under international law. <br /><br /><br /><br />I. Account of the situation of Mr. Marwan Barghouti: the trial, its context and its progress<br /><br />1. Context: the second Intifada, "Operation Defensive Shield" and the capture of Mr. Barghouti<br /><br />Marwan Barghouti, born in 1959, is an elected member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), the parliament of the Palestinian Authority established following the Oslo II Accords of 28 September 1995. He has since January 1996 been representing in it the constituency of Ramallah, one of the main West Bank towns and the headquarters of most of the Palestinian institutions, including the PLC.<br /><br />Mr. Barghouti was elected for Fatah, of which political movement he is the general secretary for the West Bank and to which the President of the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat, also belongs. Analysts generally regard him as a "moderate" on account of his support for the Oslo Accords (an opinion expressed, for example, by the former head of the Israeli intelligence services Ephraim Halevy in Haaretz in September 2003).<br /><br />As one of the young leaders of Fatah, he did not, unlike his elders, become known from years of membership of the PLO, but on the ground in Ramallah. In this respect he was looked on as one of the "figures" of the second Intifada, which began in late September 2000, before the Israeli authorities gradually came to accuse him of being one of the chief instigators of the attacks that started striking Israel in the ensuing months.<br /><br />Mr. Barghouti went underground in August 2001. On 4 August he narrowly escaped a missile strike by the Israeli army at two vehicles leaving Fatah headquarters. Marwan Barghouti was in one of them but the Israeli Government stated that another person was the target even though, according to the Deputy Minister for Internal Security Gideon Erza, he "amply deserves to die (…), for he is very much to blame for the attacks against Israel".<br /><br />The next month the authorities persuaded the Jerusalem Magistrates' Court to issue an arrest warrant for him, on 23 September 2001.<br /><br />On 18 January 2002 Mr. Barghouti published in the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune an article that attracted much attention: "Want security, end occupation".<br /><br />After very violent suicide attacks, notably on the occasion of the Easter holidays (30 killed in Natanya when a terrorist blew herself up on 27 March 2002), the Israeli army called up the reserve and in a few days launched "Operation Defensive Shield" under cover of which it penetrated massively into the occupied territories of the West Bank in order, according to the explanations given on 8 April to the Knesset by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, to "enter cities and villages which have become havens for terrorists; to catch and arrest terrorists and, primarily, their dispatchers and those who finance and support them".<br /><br />In this context the Israeli army resumed control of Ramallah, which it had evacuated six years earlier under the Oslo process, and succeeded in locating and then, on 15 April 2002, capturing Marwan Barghouti, presented by Israel as the person in charge of Tanzim, the armed branch of Fatah, and as the founder of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a clandestine movement which has claimed many suicide attacks since the start of the second Intifada.<br /><br />Mr. Barghouti has been in detention since that date.<br /><br />2. The detention of Mr. Barghouti until his trial<br /><br />On the day he was arrested, 15 April 2002, Mr. Barghouti was taken by the military forces from Ramallah, in West Bank territory, to Jerusalem and jailed in the "Russian Compound" prison. His arrest was reportedly notified to him officially at 6 p.m. by a police officer. An investigation was apparently opened against him regarding his alleged involvement in a number of attacks that took place in the preceding months.<br /><br />Three days later, on 18 April 2002, Mr. Barghouti was visited by his lawyer, Mr. Jawad Boulus.<br /><br />That visit was to be the only one for a long period since, immediately after that meeting, the officer in charge of the investigation took the decision to forbid for a period of five or six days the meetings between Mr. Barghouti and his lawyer,1 on the grounds that the ban was necessary for the purposes of the investigation and for security reasons. As permitted under Israeli regulations, the ban was extended several times until 15 May 2002. The appeals that Mr. Boulus twice filed against that ban were rejected by two Supreme Court rulings on 3 and 14 May 2002.<br /><br />As an exception to that ban, it was proposed in the first appeal to the Supreme Court that Mr. Barghouti and his lawyer be able to meet briefly in the presence of a member of the security services, who would be entitled to interrupt the meeting if one or the other started talking about the investigation. The meeting took place on 7 May 2002.<br /><br />Mr. Barghouti thus remained in solitary confinement for a month, except for two visits by his lawyer, one on 18 April where they were able to communicate freely, and the following on 7 May under the supervision of the security services and without that freedom.<br /><br />It may also be mentioned at this stage that, after two weeks of detention, Mr. Barghouti was rumoured to have fallen ill and been admitted to hospital. To disprove the rumour, the investigation services invited Mr. Boulus, on 30 April 2002, to observe his client walking in the prison courtyard, unbeknown to him.<br /><br />During that month of isolation, Mr. Barghouti was interrogated by the security services. Right at the beginning of May 2002, at a time when he was denied any contact with the outside world, the Israeli press published information from Shin Beth that Mr. Barghouti had admitted responsibility in planning the attacks and the personal involvement of the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mr. Arafat, in financing them.<br /><br />On 15 May the communication restrictions placed on Mr. Barghouti ended.<br /><br />He was permitted to see his wife on 17 May.<br /><br />On 21 and 22 May he had long working with his lawyers and described to them his conditions of interrogation: physical pressures in the form of sleep deprivation and uninterrupted interrogations, and recourse to what is known as the shabeh method, consisting in attaching the person interrogated to a chair and forcing them to sit for several hours in a painful position in this case protruding nails in the back of the chair aggravated the discomfort by preventing him from leaning back. Mr. Barghouti also said that the interrogators proffered death threats against him and his son.<br /><br />When the investigation was over, the file was transmitted to the Office of the State Attorney.<br /><br />The State Attorney is the prosecuting authority in Israel. It is also for him to decide which court is to try the case, when several might be competent to do so. In this instance, the State Attorney made it known that the choice lay between trying Mr. Barghouti before a military tribunal or before an Israeli court of general jurisdiction.<br /><br />On 11 July 2002 the Office of the State Attorney made public his decision to try Mr. Barghouti before the court of general jurisdiction, namely the Tel Aviv District Court, on the charges of premeditated murder, incitement to murder, abetting murder, attempted murder, complicity in crime, activity in a terrorist organisation, and membership of a terrorist organisation.<br /><br />3. The trial<br /><br />We shall briefly set out the charges brought against Mr. Barghouti in section (a), then the organisation of the proceedings in (b), and the organisation of the defence in (c).<br /><br />(a) The charges brought against Mr. Barghouti<br /><br />The indictment was drawn up by Ms. Chen, Director of the Department of Criminal Security Affairs and Special Affairs within the Office of the State Attorney, on 14 August 2002.<br /><br />It accuses Mr. Barghouti of having coordinated a great many terrorist operations directed against Israeli civilian and military targets since the start of the second Intifada, whether suicide attacks with explosives or armed attacks.<br /><br />The indictment lists 37 attacks or attempted attacks between December 2000 and April 2002 in which Mr. Barghouti is accused of involvement. One of the main attacks is said to be that of 5 March 2002 on a Tel Aviv restaurant: the indictment alleges that Mr. Barghouti authorised the attack and was reported to immediately after. The attack killed three and injured dozens.<br /><br />He is also accused of having helped finance terrorist operations, in liaison with President Yasser Arafat. According to the indictment, Mr. Barghouti was handed the sum of $20,000 from President Arafat to finance the training of terrorists, and he passed on to the President of the Palestinian Authority requests for funding that he received from terrorist groups, to which the President decided whether or not to accede.<br /><br />Mr. Barghouti is finally accused of having interviewed candidates for terrorist actions, deciding whether or not to admit them to the groups of which he is presented as being in charge: Fatah, an organisation described as a terrorist group; Tanzim, the armed branch of Fatah; and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a clandestine group set up after the launching of the Intifada.<br /><br />The whole set of facts held against Mr. Barghouti is qualified as premeditated murder, incitement to murder, abetting murder, attempted murder, complicity in crime, activity in a terrorist organisation, and membership of a terrorist organisation.<br /><br />(b) Organisation of the proceedings<br /><br />The charges laid against Mr. Barghouti were thus referred to the Tel Aviv District Court.<br /><br />The proceedings are split into two branches, one being the consideration of the charges and the judgment on guilt and the sentence, and the other the provisional detention pending judgment.<br /><br />* Provisional detention<br /><br />In Israeli law the judges examining the merits of the case are not competent to rule upon provisional detention, which was the subject of a request from the District Attorney's Office to Judge Zvi Gurfinkel. He was asked to order Mr. Barghouti's detention until the end of the trial.<br /><br />Before deciding on the request, Judge Gurfinkel had to address a number of objections raised by the defence disputing the competence of the Tel Aviv court to try Mr. Barghouti and rule on his provisional detention, and questioning the lawfulness of his arrest.<br /><br />Having turned down all those objections in a judgment of 12 December 2002, Judge Gurfinkel ordered the provisional detention of the accused for the duration of his trial.<br /><br />* Judgment on the merits<br /><br />To judge the facts held against Mr. Barghouti and his penal responsibility, the competent panel was made up of three judges: Ms. Sara Zerota, President, and two comagistrates, Mr. Avraham Tal and Dr. Amram Benjamini.<br /><br />The hearings before that panel were spread over one year, from September 2002 to September 2003:<br /><br /> at the first hearing, on 5 September 2002, Ms. Devora Chen, representing the prosecution, read out the charges; the defence announced that it intended to contest the competence of the Court before any examination of the charges;<br /><br /> the following hearing was therefore devoted to a statement, by the defence, of the reasons for its questioning the competence of the Court to try Mr. Barghouti;<br /><br /> on 19 January 2003, the Court handed down a judgment rejecting the defence arguments and declaring itself competent to pass judgment on the merits of the case;<br /><br /> the hearings to consider the charges took place between April and August 2003, with the appearance in particular of the witnesses called by the prosecution;<br /><br /> the prosecution presented its conclusions on 24 August 2003;<br /><br /> the defence presented its conclusions on 29 September 2003. <br /><br />Since that date the judgment has been reserved.<br /><br />(c) Organisation of the defence<br /><br />Around Mr. Jawad Boulus, Mr. Barghouti has been advised by a Palestinian lawyer, Mr. Khader Skhirat, an Israeli lawyer, Mr. Shamai Leibovitz, and two French lawyers, Ms. Gisèle Halimi (former deputy and former French ambassador) and Mr. Daniel Voguet. The lawyers not members of the Israeli Bar (Ms. Halimi, Mr. Voguet and Mr. Skhirat) were not allowed to take part in the hearings.<br /><br />* The preliminary objections<br /><br />The defence's position throughout the trial was that of questioning the right of the Israeli courts to try Mr. Barghouti, advancing a number of arguments which gave rise to preliminary objections, on which the Court had to respond before considering the case itself.<br /><br />The defence argued that the Tel Aviv District Court could not try Mr. Barghouti for a great many reasons deriving essentially from international law, which will be presented here in outline (we shall come back to some of these arguments in Part II of this report regarding analysis of the trial):<br /><br /> the Oslo Accords transferred to Palestinian jurisdiction the authority to try Palestinians, including with respect to attacks carried out against Israelis, and the Accords have been embodied in Israeli law;<br /><br /> Mr. Barghouti should enjoy prisoner-of-war status pursuant to the Third Geneva Convention;<br /><br /> the arrest of Mr. Barghouti was unlawful since he was abducted from his home in Ramallah, a Palestinian area, by the Israeli armed forces;<br /><br /> the transfer of Mr. Barghouti from Ramallah, a territory under Palestinian sovereignty and occupied by the Israeli army, to Israeli territory to be tried in Tel Aviv was in breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention;<br /><br /> the arrest and trial of Mr. Barghouti violated his parliamentary immunity deriving from his status as a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council. <br /><br />All those objections were rejected, first by Judge Gurfinkel ruling on the provisional detention, in a first judgment of 12 December 2002, then by the three-judge panel deciding on the merits of the case, in its judgment of 19 January 2003. In substance, the judges responded as follows:<br /><br /> on the Oslo Accords: first, the Palestinian Authority does not assume the competence transferred to it for prosecuting and punishing terrorists, which precludes reliance on the Accords; second, the competence given to the Palestinian Authority is not exclusive of the competence of the State of Israel and its courts to ensure the security of Israelis and to pass judgment on crimes against Israelis, wherever committed;<br /><br /> the accused does not meet the criteria for prisoner-of-war status, having acted as an unlawful combatant liable to penal sanctions under domestic law; furthermore, the attacks against civilians of which he is accused are war crimes punishable by the courts of the countries in which such crimes were committed;<br /><br /> the international customary rules relating to armed conflicts authorise the Israeli armed forces, for the purpose of protecting Israel's civilian population, not only to go and fight those threatening it wherever they may be but also to arrest and detain them;<br /><br /> on the Fourth Geneva Convention: it does not prohibit individual transfers of prisoners but mass-scale deportations of populations; furthermore, in accordance with the case-law of the Supreme Court, it cannot be invoked since it has not been incorporated in international customary law and has not been introduced into Israeli domestic law either;<br /><br /> there is no parliamentary immunity preventing the trial of the accused. <br /><br />To protest against those decisions, Mr. Barghouti decided to refuse to reply to the Court and asked his lawyers to withdraw. The second part of the trial thus took place without any cooperation from the accused.<br /><br />* The withdrawal of the defence<br /><br />Persisting in his refusal to recognise the right of the Israeli courts to try him, Mr. Barghouti instructed his lawyers to withdraw from the trial.<br /><br />The Court then asked the Public Defender's Office to ensure his defence by assigning him a duty defence lawyer. But Mr. Barghouti informed that lawyer that, in consultation with his own counsel, he had decided to adopt an entirely passive attitude and avail himself of his right to silence, and therefore refused any assigned counsel. He added that, should the Court oblige the Public Defender's Office to assist him, his instructions would be to forbid him any participation in the debates.<br /><br />The Public Defender's Office then asked to be relieved of its task, arguing that the accused already enjoyed legal assistance and was entitled to choose his line of defence. The Court rejected that request on the grounds that, despite the refusal of the accused, a lawyer was still needed to ensure the respect of his rights and forestall any judicial error.<br /><br />The defence thus adopted a strictly passive attitude. Mr. Barghouti refused to question the 100 or so prosecution witnesses. He refused to discuss the evidence laid against him. On the merits, he merely contested any link between him and the attacks listed in the indictment. The lawyers ha had designated remained present but seated among the public.<br /><br />* The closure of the debates<br /><br />On 24 August 2003 Ms. Chen presented the prosecution conclusions by going back over and developing the terms of the indictment. One month later, at the hearing of 29 September 2003, Mr. Barghouti was invited to present his own defence. Speaking in Hebrew for an hour, he denounced the political nature of his trial and refused to reply point by point to the prosecution. Instead he set out his view of relations between Israel and Palestine, inviting Israel to choose between coexistence with a Palestinian State and coexistence of two peoples within a single State. Renewing his support for resistance against the Israeli occupation and for the Intifada, he said he was opposed to murders of innocent victims and concluded with an announcement that he would soon be free.<br /><br />At the close of that hearing, the Court adjourned the case for consideration. No judgment has as yet been handed down. The date for the judgment is not known and will probably, according to the indications gathered, only be known at very short notice.<br /><br /><br /><br />II - Discussion: a trial falling short of international standards<br /><br />In the opinion of the persons present at the debates in the Tel Aviv District Court, the hearings were conducted in a relatively impartial climate (apart from a few incidents which we will elaborate on). However, the overall conclusion is that the manner in which the phase leading up to the trial was conducted precluded any possibility of a fair trial.<br /><br />Owing to the fact that Mr. Barghouti was captured in Palestinian territory during a military operation, before being held incommunicado for several weeks, during which time accusations against President Yasser Arafat "leaked out", the Israeli authorities not only ran the risk of holding a trial in which the political controversy almost inevitably overshadowed the legal debate, but also the risk of a trial based on an investigation using questionable methods and hence on flimsy evidence.<br /><br />The purpose of this report is not to judge the political interests that came into play during the trial, but to examine the how the Israeli authorities treated the person detained and prepared the trial against him, from an exclusively technical perspective, in the light of relevant international standards. These standards were often clearly disregarded.<br /><br />1. Mr. Barghouti's arrest and transfer to Israel<br /><br />It is likely that Mr. Barghouti's arrest had been decided on several months in advance since a legal framework had been prepared, as evidenced by the arrest warrant issued by the Magistrate's Court of Jerusalem back in September 2001.<br /><br />During my meeting with Ms. Chen, my counterparts insisted strongly that the procedural rules had been scrupulously respected. In particular, they stressed that the procedure had been conducted by the police and not by the military authorities and similarly that Mr. Barghouti would eventually be tried by a common law judge and not by a military tribunal.<br /><br />However, Mr. Barghouti was arrested by soldiers and the army does not fall under the police service. The army intervened, in this case, outside Israeli borders since the town of Ramallah, where Mr. Barghouti was arrested and in which he is an MP, is located, according to the Oslo II Accords, in "Zone A", that is, an autonomous Palestinian zone, from which the Israeli army had agreed to withdraw in 1995 and whose sovereignty (including police and judicial sovereignty) is exercised by the Palestinian Authority.<br /><br />Although the Tel Aviv District Court decided otherwise, this manner of doing things appears to directly contravene both the Oslo Accords and the Fourth Geneva Convention.<br /><br />(a) Regarding the Oslo Accords<br /><br />The Oslo II Accords represented an important step towards the creation, as was then envisaged by both parties in the near future, of a Palestinian State, entailing the transfer to the Palestinian Authority of important prerogatives of sovereignty linked notably to security and the administration of justice.<br /><br />By virtue of the Oslo Accords, the onus is on the Palestinian police and judicial authorities to ensure security in the region by judging crimes committed in Palestinian territory, and notably by sanctioning attacks aimed at Israel from Palestinian territories.<br /><br />In Mr. Barghouti's case, if indeed the Israeli authorities had been in possession of evidence to warrant his arrest, it would appear that they did not communicate any such information to the Palestinian institutions, which were therefore denied the opportunity of examining these charges and deciding whether there was reason to take the matter further.<br /><br />The response given by the judges of the Tel Aviv Court includes an admission that the Oslo Accords were not respected. It justifies non-compliance with the Accords by contending firstly that the Palestinian side has not respected the Accords either since, according to the judges, the Palestinians support rather than sanction terrorism; and, secondly, that the Accords do not establish the exclusive competence of Palestinian courts, but permits the coexistence of the rival competence of Israeli courts in cases provided for by domestic law.<br /><br />In other words, the judges found that the Israeli law that provided for the competence of Israeli courts to judge crimes committed against Israeli citizens should continue to be applied notwithstanding the Oslo Accords.<br /><br />The purpose of this report is not to make a determination on the interpretation of Israeli law and, in particular, determine whether the rules of jurisdictional competence provided for in domestic law before the Oslo Accords should be considered to have been modified by those Accords, as the defence maintained, or not, as the Court found.<br /><br />But from an international law perspective, which alone is of relevance to this report, one cannot help noting that in Mr. Barghouti's particular case, the Israeli military and judicial authorities chose to disregard the provisions of the Accord of 28 September 1995, whereby maintaining order and security in "Zone A" falls to the Palestinian side (Articles XIII and XVII), including trying criminal cases (Annex III, Article 1).<br /><br />The Tel Aviv District Court alleged that the Oslo Accords had been infringed by the Palestinian Authority itself, as though to justify its decision, thereby implying that the Accords had effectively become a dead letter. The Oslo Accords, including the Accord of 28 September 1995, are nevertheless still binding and in force according to the Israeli Supreme Court, which applied it, for example, in the ruling of 3 September 2002 (case HCJ 7015/02 and 7019/02).<br /><br />(b) Regarding the Fourth Geneva Convention<br /><br />This Convention of 12 August 1949 is relative to the "protection of civilian persons in time of war" and is applied notably to situations where a territory is occupied by the army of a foreign State (Article 2). Israel acceded to the Convention on 6 January 1952.<br /><br />Article 49 of the Convention will be cited in full for it is in no way ambiguous and requires no interpretation:<br /><br />"Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportation of protected persons from the occupied territory to the territory of the Occupying Power or that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited, regardless of their motive".<br /><br />It is very clearly stipulated that the Occupying Army is prohibited from transferring a prisoner from the occupied territory to Israeli territory, "regardless of their motive".<br /><br />If the Tel Aviv District Court had applied this rule, it would have necessarily had to conclude that Mr. Barghouti's transfer from Ramallah to Jerusalem constituted a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention. It should be noted that, pursuant to Articles 146 and 147 of the Convention, such infraction should be subject to penal sanctions.<br /><br />In order to obviate this rule, the judges of the Tel Aviv District Court applied the jurisprudence of the Israeli Supreme Court, whereby Article 49 cannot be invoked in Israeli courts but, moreover, supposedly does not prohibit the transfer of individual prisoners.<br /><br />On the first point (inability to invoke the Geneva Convention in court), the State of Israel is, in fact, a "dualist" State as far as international public law is concerned insofar as ratified treaties and conventions bind the State and hold it to its commitments vis-à-vis the international community but cannot be invoked in court if they have not been enacted and incorporated in domestic law. However, the courts spontaneously apply the provisions of international custom, which are considered part and parcel of Israeli law. But prohibiting the transfer of prisoners from an occupied territory to the territory of the occupying power is not regarded as a customary prohibition. For this reason, the courts, including the Supreme Court, continue to consider that an accused individual cannot rely upon Article 49 of the Geneva Convention.<br /><br />This restriction constitutes an obstacle before the courts alone. At the international level, as was said, breaches of the Convention engage the responsibility of the State of Israel visàvis the international community and there is nothing to prevent the Inter-Parliamentary Union from noting that and being concerned about it.<br /><br />In the courts themselves, this restriction, in fact, is of little material consequence since the Supreme Court gave its own interpretation of Article 49 of the Fourth Convention in 1988 in an Afu ruling (HCJ 785/87 of 18 April 1988) that this provision actually prohibits only the mass deportation of civilian populations. This interpretation refers to the historical context in which the provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention were adopted (the years immediately following the Second World War and the mass deportations resulting from that conflict) and concludes that the authors of the Convention could not provide for the case of an isolated individual committing acts of hostility and terror.<br /><br />This interpretation by the Supreme Court was adopted in turn by the rulings of the Tel Aviv District Court in Mr. Barghouti's case (ruling on the arrest of 12 December 2002 and ruling on the legal basis of the case of 16 January 2003). The judges thereby considered that, even if Article 49 of the Fourth Convention could be directly applied by Israeli law, which in their view it cannot, its provisions would not support Mr. Barghouti's defence.<br /><br />The position of the Israeli authorities (including its judicial authorities) regarding Article 49 of the Fourth Convention openly contradicts the provisions of the text cited above in full to show that it required absolutely no interpretation whatsoever. The authors of the Convention expressly provided not only for the case of mass deportations but also, and just as expressly, for the case of the forcible transfer of individuals.<br /><br />For this reason, in Israel itself, the Afu jurisprudence is criticised by a number of authors and even by some judges.<br /><br />But regardless of the jurisprudence prevailing in Israeli domestic law, the fact remains, as we said earlier, that breaches of the Fourth Convention engage Israel's responsibility in the international legal sphere, which is something that the Inter-Parliamentary Union is in a position to point out and regret.<br /><br />The theory that Article 49 prohibits mass deportations alone and authorises the individual transfer of prisoners is not subscribed to by any international organisation. In fact, it contradicts the doctrine of the International Committee of the Red Cross.<br /><br />It is important to emphasise that Article 147 of the Fourth Convention lists the acts which it considers to be "grave breaches". This list includes, notably, the "unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement or … depriving (a protected person) of the rights of fair and regular trial prescribed in the present Convention". Pursuant to Article 146, the High Contracting Parties are bound to provide effective penal sanctions for persons committing these grave breaches.<br /><br />The IPU Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians is therefore in a position to note that Mr. Barghouti's transfer from Ramallah (which is an occupied territory according to the United Nations Security Council's constant analysis) to Jerusalem and then to Tel Aviv for trial constitutes a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention.<br /><br />2. The right to be informed without delay of the reasons for one's arrest and detention and to be informed of one's rights<br /><br />According to Article 9(2) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, ratified by Israel in 1991, "Anyone who is arrested shall be informed, at the time of arrest, of the reasons for his arrest and shall be promptly informed of any charges against him".<br /><br />I was told that Mr. Barghouti was officially notified of his arrest not at the time of his arrest by the army but at the end of the day, upon arriving at the Russian Compound detention centre when he was handed over to a police officer.<br /><br />I asked Ms. Chen, from the State Attorney's Office, if it had been then that Mr. Barghouti was informed of the reasons for his arrest and of his rights. I was not given a clear answer. Ms. Chen stressed that Mr. Barghouti had been able to meet unconditionally with his attorney during his third day of detention and that he was very aware of his rights, particularly as he had already been arrested in the past. But it is not for the authorities to assess whether a person is sufficiently informed and dispense with informing him of his rights. Although access to a lawyer is in itself the right of persons deprived of their freedom, that does not entitle the authorities to assign to the lawyer the obligation of informing detained persons of their rights, particularly since several days may pass before they meet their lawyer, as was the case here.<br /><br />In any event, the information to which detained individuals are entitled is not confined to their rights, but should also extend to the reasons for their arrest, and should be communicated to them at the time of their arrest. Mr. Barghouti was apparently told the reasons for his arrest when it was notified to him at the end of the day on 15 April 2002, i.e. several hours later. The charges laid against him, murder and attempted murder at the time, were communicated to him when he appeared before the judge for the first time on 22 April 2002.<br /><br />3. Right to be brought promptly before a judge<br /><br />Article 9(3) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights provides that "Anyone arrested or detained on a criminal charge shall be brought promptly before a judge or other officer authorised by law to exercise judicial power and shall be entitled to trial within a reasonable time or to release".<br /><br />The purpose of this first appearance before a judge is to ensure an impartial and independent review of the legality of the arrest and detention and to determine whether the detention needs prolonging.<br /><br />In Mr. Barghouti's case, Mr. Boulus told me that the accused first appeared before a judge only on 22 April 2002, a week after his arrest, and that he appeared without the presence of his lawyer, who was heard separately and was denied access to the file.<br /><br />I asked Ms. Chen about the delay in the court appearance. During my interview with her, she was unable to verify in the case file which she did not have in its entirety the reply to each of my questions. Likewise with this question. Ms. Chen told me that the file contained the minutes of the hearing held on 22 April 2002, but she thought that a first court appearance had been held 96 hours after the arrest.<br /><br />As I did not have access to the file, I was unable to verify that point. I do wish to observe, however, that the ruling handed down by the Supreme Court of 14 May 2002 mentions a decision delivered on 22 April 2002 prolonging Mr. Barghouti's detention, but fails to mention any previous ruling.<br /><br />A delay of one week seems excessive in the light of Article 9(3) of the Convention, even though the expression used, "within a reasonable time", does not set a deadline or stipulate a maximum number of days. But it is generally considered that it should not exceed a few days and for purposes of comparison, the following delays were found to be excessive:<br /><br /> One week: the Human Rights Committee, established by the Covenant, considered a delay of one week to be excessive2. In that case, the detained individual risked the death penalty, but we should note that Mr. Barghouti risks the maximum penalty provided for by Israeli criminal law, life imprisonment.<br /><br /> One week: the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights criticised Cuba's Criminal Proceedings Act because detained individuals could theoretically remain deprived of their freedom for one week before appearing before a judge3.<br /><br /> 4 days and 6 hours: The European Court of Human Rights considered that such a delay in bringing a detained individual before a judge was unsatisfactory4. <br /><br />If it had been confirmed that Mr. Barghouti's first appearance before a judge took place only a week after his arrest, that would mean that he remained in the hands of the investigators during all that time without any jurisdictional oversight. The delay could therefore be criticised as excessive and depriving Mr. Barghouti of a fundamental guarantee provided for by international law.<br /><br />It must also regretfully be pointed out that, for his appearance before the judge to prolong his detention, Mr. Barghouti was not allowed to be accompanied by his lawyer as a result of the existing order prohibiting him from communicating with his counsel.<br /><br />Mr. Boulus explained that, for that hearing, Mr. Barghouti and his lawyer were made separately to enter the courtroom where the military judge was presiding. It was located within the Russian Compound itself, the detention centre where Mr. Barghouti was imprisoned, without any possibility of communicating with his counsel or preparing for the hearing.<br /><br />In these conditions, the guarantees provided in Article 9(3) of the Covenant were breached.<br /><br />4. Incommunicado detention<br /><br />As mentioned earlier, Mr. Barghouti was allowed to see his lawyer on 18 April 2002, three days after his arrest. Subsequently, the police officer in charge of the investigation decided to prohibit any other meeting and this decision was extended until 15 May.<br /><br />Mr. Boulus contested these decisions twice before the Supreme Court, which on both occasions rejected his request, arguing that such decisions were justified by the nature of the inquiry and in the interests of security in the region5. The Supreme Court delivered these two rulings without the possibility of discussion after hearing the reasons advanced by the investigators and after examining the documents presented by them without any of these being presented to Mr. Boulus or being open to discussion. The ruling of 3 May 2002 states: "We are convinced that, in the light of the circumstances of this case, security reasons and the nature of the investigation, it was impossible for us to reveal and explain to the defence counsel the reasons given to us". The second request followed the same procedure and resulted in the ruling of 14 May 2002.<br /><br />When she met with me, Ms. Chen assured me that the suspension of all contact between the arrested individual and his/her lawyer was a measure provided for by Israeli law not only for Palestinian but also for Jewish prisoners.<br /><br />The fact that a debatable measure is applied in many cases does not make it acceptable, and the status or religion of the individuals subjected to such a measure has absolutely nothing to do with its legality by reference to international standards.<br /><br />The Human Rights Committee, established by the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to monitor compliance, considers that all arrested persons shall be entitled to legal counsel immediately6. This right cannot be exercised just once and then revoked as it was in this case.<br /><br />This suspension decided by the authorities in charge of the investigation and approved without the possibility of discussion by the Supreme Court placed Mr. Barghouti in a situation of incommunicado detention that is difficult to justify. It is impossible "blindly" to accept the justification admitted by the Supreme Court with no questions asked. The idea of a jurisdictional authority overseeing an administrative or police-related decision means by definition that such oversight must be transparent. The fact that the judges refused to inform the lawyer of the reasons why he was barred from seeing his client means that their decision cannot, in my opinion, be taken into consideration as validly justifying these methods.<br /><br />Several institutions have condemned prolonged incommunicado detention. The United Nations Commission on Human Rights stated that such a measure facilitated torture and could itself constitute a form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment7. The Human Rights Committee considered that it could constitute a breach of Article 7 of the Covenant (prohibiting torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment) or Article 10, which states that: "All persons deprived of their liberty shall be treated with humanity and with respect for the inherent dignity of the human person"8.<br /><br />In Mr. Barghouti's case, the Israeli authorities extended the incommunicado detention for a long period, one month. During that time, they allowed Mr. Boulus on one occasion to observe his client walking in the courtyard of the detention centre in order to disprove rumours that Mr. Barghouti had been hospitalised. Subsequently, they let the MP meet with his lawyer on 7 May, under the supervision of a security guard, but they were not allowed to discuss the case.<br /><br />At the same time, the Shin Beth (Israeli internal security services) published in the press that Mr. Barghouti had confessed to involvement in various terrorist attacks and had even implicated the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mr. Yasser Arafat. Mr. Barghouti denied those claims as soon as he was given the opportunity to do so at his public trial.<br /><br />The duration of his incommunicado detention already constituted a grave violation of Mr. Barghouti's rights. It is surprising that the ban on communicating was valid only for Mr. Barghouti and that the detainee to do for a period of time when he could not react to what was being said about him, either publicly, possibly through his lawyers, or even just to the latter.<br /><br />The authorities have a price to pay for resorting to such practices: it greatly discredits the evidence they claim to have gathered during those weeks of interrogation, which nevertheless constitutes one of the bases of the charge, particularly since Mr. Barghouti has claimed that he was subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment during the interrogations. Those claims were not investigated.<br /><br />5. Allegation of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment<br /><br />While Mr. Barghouti was held incommunicado, his lawyer, Mr. Boulus, filed submissions before the Supreme Court in the course of the two appeals mentioned earlier, expressing fear regarding the treatment that would be meted out to him, particularly in relation to receiving the care he might need in consideration of his health status, and fear that he would be interrogated using the shabeh method, which combines sleep deprivation with preventing the prisoner from relaxing (being forced to sit on a chair where it is impossible to stay in a stable position and Mr. Barghouti was later to speak of nails sticking through the back of the chair to prevent him from leaning back on it) and constant interrogations lasting several hours or days without any contact with the outside world (in addition to being denied the right to have a lawyer present).<br /><br />Before the Supreme Court, the authorities declared that Mr. Barghouti was receiving all the care he needed, and that the investigations were being conducted without bringing any pressure to bear on the prisoner.<br /><br />They nevertheless submitted that there were good reasons for refusing the prisoner the right to a visit by his lawyer, as we have seen, and implicitly admitted that they had deprived the prisoner of sleep, set out in a statement in which reference was made to the case law of the Supreme Court.<br /><br />This is a reference to a judgment handed down on 6 September 1999 by the Supreme Court, drawing a distinction between sleep deprivation intended to harm the prisoner, which is prohibited, and sleep deprivation to meet the needs of interrogation, which is tolerated: "Indeed, a person undergoing interrogation cannot sleep as does one who is not being interrogated. The suspect, subject to the investigators' questions for a prolonged period of time, is at times exhausted. This is often the inevitable result of an interrogation, or one of its side-effects. This is part of the "discomfort" inherent to an interrogation. This being the case, depriving the suspect of sleep is, in our opinion, included in the general authority of the investigator" (para. 31).<br /><br />This Supreme Court decision was criticised by the United Nations Committee Against Torture at its 29th session (November 2001): "The court prohibits the use of sleep deprivation for the purpose of breaking the detainee, but stated that if it was merely incidental to interrogation, it was not unlawful. In practice, in cases of prolonged interrogation, it would be impossible to distinguish between the two conditions".<br /><br />In the case of Mr. Barghouti, the state attorney did not deny before the Supreme Court that he had been deprived of sleep, but he said that the programme of investigations allowed him to sleep "for a reasonable number of hours" (Order of 3 May 2002). During the second appeal before the Supreme Court, the authorities declared that Mr. Barghouti could "sleep for a reasonable number of hours", and in its decision of 14 May 2002, the Court stated that it had examined in the absence of both Mr. Barghouti and his lawyer the conduct of the inquiries and had been "convinced that no inadmissible measure had been used against the appellant". The Court failed to indicate what, in its opinion, would make a distinction between an admissible and an inadmissible measure, but the Order of 14 May 2002 was drafted by the President of the Court, Mr. Barak, who was also the drafter of the decision of 6 September 1999 which concluded that " depriving the suspect of sleep is, in our opinion, included in the general authority of the investigator".<br /><br />When Mr. Barghouti was able to talk freely to his Counsel at the end of May 2002, he said that he had been subjected to shabeh. He also claimed that his interrogators had threatened to kill both him and his son.<br /><br />When I asked Ms. Chen how these allegations had been dealt with, she replied that Mr. Barghouti had not made them before the Court, particularly the allegation about sleep deprivation, as he ought to have done. Had he raised the issue of the conditions under which he was being interrogated, the matter would have been discussed before the Court, which would have devoted the time needed for it. The interrogators would have been called to testify, and Mr. Barghouti and his lawyers would have had the opportunity to question them. Had these inquiries conducted before the Court confirmed Mr. Barghouti's allegations, that would have affected the outcome of the trial, and more specifically all the statements that had been made by Mr. Barghouti as a result of the use of these methods would have been disregarded.<br /><br />Ms. Chen expressed regret that Mr. Barghouti had turned to the media or to such organisations as the Inter-Parliamentary Union to complain about the treatment while failing to use the procedure provided by the law.<br /><br />But the argument that the most appropriate procedure for investigating allegations of mistreatment is for the prisoner to raise those allegations in the course of the trial in which he is the defendant is a dubious one. For it means, in effect, that allegations of maltreatment can only be investigated if the defendant agrees to cooperate in his own trial and, ultimately defend himself in the way that the prosecution wants him to defend himself. Whatever one may think of the defence system adopted by Mr. Barghouti, the defendant in a criminal trial must remain totally free to choose whatever method of defence he sees fit. Mr. Barghouti has chosen to challenge the jurisdiction of the Tel Aviv District Court on highly relevant grounds under international law. Even though the Court rejected those grounds, Mr. Barghouti decided subsequently to refuse to take part in the trial, answer any questions put to him, and cross-examine any witnesses.<br /><br />For the allegations of maltreatment to be examined in the manner indicated by Ms. Chen, Mr. Barghouti should have asked the Court to disregard the statements made to the investigators during the inquiries, on the ground that they had been obtained as a result of unacceptable pressure. This would have meant that Mr. Barghouti would have had to bring up his statements again, and also take part in the debate on the quality of the evidence before the Court, which would not have been compatible with his decision to deny the jurisdiction of the Court.<br /><br />In reality, the only appropriate way for allegations of maltreatment to be examined is to open an inquiry into them, as provided, for example, by Article 12 of the United Nations Convention against Torture, which was ratified by Israel in 1991. One cannot accept the proposition that this inquiry can only be conducted in the course of a trial against the defendant.<br /><br />6. Access to a lawyer and the right of defence<br /><br />According to Article 14(3) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, any person accused of a criminal offence has the right " to communicate with counsel of his own choosing" (para. (b)) and "to defend himself [...] through legal assistance of his own choosing" (para. (d)). Exercise of this right, which the Israeli authorities ought to have guaranteed to Mr. Barghouti, has been thwarted on various occasions.<br /><br />(a) Restrictions on communications between Mr. Barghouti and his counsel<br /><br />The refusal to permit Mr. Barghouti to meet his lawyers between 18 April and 15 May 2002 has already been examined above. Mention has already been made of the exception was made to this ban on 7 May when Mr. Boulus was able to meet his client, but only in the presence of a security guard and with a prohibition on making any reference to the case. These restrictive conditions are in clear violation of Article 14 (3) (b) of the aforementioned Covenant, which guarantees freedom of communication between the accused and his counsel. According to the construction placed on this text by the Committee on Human Rights, it "(requires) counsel to communicate with the accused in conditions giving full respect for the confidentiality of their communication" (General commentary 13(9)).<br /><br />Mr. Barghouti's French lawyers have encountered the greatest difficulties whenever they have asked to be able to see him, even though the Israeli Ambassador to France had said that it would be possible. Although a first meeting was able to be held on 5 September 2002, the second meeting on 21 November 2002 in Tel Aviv prison was cut short after one hour by a prison security official, who was apparently furious because the French lawyers had been let in.<br /><br />Lastly, on 29 September 2003 neither Ms. Halimi nor Mr. Boulus was given permission to meet Mr. Barghouti in Beer Sheva prison in the Negev. Mr. Boulus has told me that he has been refused visits on several occasions since the end of the trial, and that he has reported this to the President of the Israeli Bar Association.<br /><br />Lastly, the meetings in the prison have not been confidential, but have taken place under the supervision of a prison guard.<br /><br />(b) Prohibition on advocates who are not members of the Israeli Bar from taking part in the Court debates<br /><br />Neither Ms. Halimi, nor Mr. Voguet and Mr. Skhirat have been permitted to take part in the Court hearings. The French lawyers were only permitted to sit in the public gallery. This situation seems to be dictated by current Israeli legislation.<br /><br />(c) Pressure on the lawyers<br /><br />On one of her visits to Israel as part of defence remit Ms. Halimi was detained on arrival at Tel Aviv airport and interrogated for two hours. Her case papers were taken away from her and examined, and even photocopied, in violation of the rules governing professional confidentiality. Those intimidating measures prompted an official protest from the Paris Bar through the Bar President.<br /><br />Mr. Boulus has told me that the prison authorities lodged a complaint against him with the Israeli Bar Association, accusing him of having acted as an intermediary between Mr. Bargouti and an Israeli newspaper which had published an interview with him while he was imprisoned (a charge that Mr. Boulus has denied).<br /><br />These events do not lead to the conclusion that such severe systematic pressure is being brought to bear on him that it jeopardises his defence, but they are deplorable and demonstrate the tense climate in which professional lawyers have to perform their services.<br /><br />We would recall that in the General Comments on the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Committee on Human Rights emphasised that lawyers should be protected from all "restrictions, influences, pressures or undue interference from any quarter" (general comment 13, para. 9).<br /><br />7. The debate in court<br /><br />(a) Publicising the trial proceedings<br /><br />According to journalists and the observers who were able to attend the trial, the climate was sometimes very tense.<br /><br />On several occasions the press reported incidents, insults, the expulsion of the accused, and protests from the public against the lawyers.<br /><br />The Israeli authorities hoped to give this trial considerable publicity. The media coverage was huge. Rostrums were installed outside the courtrooms so that the spokespersons of the judicial and government authorities were able to talk to the press. Numerous victims of bomb attacks and their families were present in Court.<br /><br />Yet despite this wish for wide publicity to be given to the trial proceedings, it would appear that access to the courtroom was not so easy for everyone.<br /><br />Mr. Bargouti's wife and son, for example, failed to obtain permission to leave Ramallah to attend the trial. An observer from the International Federation for Human Rights was refused entry into Israel when she arrived to attend a court session in early October 2002.<br /><br />Mr. Boulus and Ms. Halimi have told me that during the early sessions of the trial, access to the courtroom was difficult even for the lawyers, let alone for the other independent observers who had come to witness the trial. At one of the first sessions, Mr. Bargouti and his lawyers were mobbed, and had to be removed through an emergency exit.<br /><br />After that, a modus vivendi was established between the court authorities and the defence. Several places were set aside for the defence in the courtroom, two other rooms were linked by video to the courtroom for the general public and the journalists, except for those who were individually authorised to enter the courtroom itself.<br /><br />(b) Lack of presumption of innocence<br /><br />An incident occurred during Mr. Barghouti's first appearance, on 5 September 2002, before the panel presided over by Ms. Zerota.<br /><br />After Mr. Barghouti had described himself as a "fighter for peace for both peoples", she interrupted him and said "one who fights for peace doesn't turn people into bombs and kill children".<br /><br />Such a statement was most surprising coming from a judge who has the responsibility of ruling on the guilt of the defendant, and who, from the very outset of the trial, expressed a categorical opinion on the case. Mr. Barghouti probably should have been entitled to ask his judge to withdraw from the case because of this failure of her duty to show impartiality.<br /><br />Another similar incident occurred outside the courtroom which necessarily upset the tranquillity of the proceedings: in July 2003, some newspapers announced that the Israeli Government was tempted to negotiate the release of Mr. Barghouti under a prisoner exchange scheme, and that the Israeli Attorney General, Mr. Elyakim Rubinstein, had written to the Prime Minister to oppose this, declaring, in a letter which was made public, that Mr. Barghouti was a "first-rate architect of terrorism". Once again, this statement prejudged the outcome of a trial that was still ongoing, and demonstrated contempt for the presumption of innocence, which is surprising coming from a person in his position.<br /><br />(c) The evidence adduced<br /><br />In support of the charges, the State Attorney's Office filed above all the statements and declarations made by the accused and by a few other individuals.<br /><br />I have not been able to gain access to the material evidence adduced, which essentially comprises documents seized by the army in Mr. Barghouti's office. Mr. Boulus explained to me that they were mainly letters addressed to Mr. Barghouti in his capacity as a parliamentarian, and that no document originated by Mr. Barghouti had implicated him in the acts of which he was being accused.<br /><br />The prosecution had called some 100 witnesses. The transcripts of the sessions, which were given to me in Hebrew and which I was able to consult with the assistance of a sworn translator, Mr. Bitar, stated that 96 prosecution witnesses had been heard.<br /><br />This figure should be seen in proportion, because 63 of these 96 people were investigators or individuals associated with the investigation into Mr. Barghouti, or investigations into the attacks that had been ascribed to him, and who were therefore unable to give a personal testimony regarding his involvement.<br /><br />Furthermore, 12 of these witnesses were victims or witnesses of bomb attacks and had given their account of them, but they had no information regarding the personal involvement of the accused.<br /><br />According to the prosecution, only 21 of the prosecution witnesses were actually in a position to testify directly regarding Mr. Barghouti's role in these attacks. But none of these 21 individuals in fact accused him. About 12 of them explicitly told the court that he was not involved. Most of them quite simply refused to answer the questions of the court, generally on the ground that it had no jurisdiction to judge Mr. Barghouti.<br /><br />Faced with the refusal of most of the subpoenaed persons to testify, the court had to fall back on the written statements collected by the investigators. I have not had the opportunity to examine these documents but, according to the trial transcripts, some of the subpoenaed witnesses had signed statements when heard by the investigating services, declaring that Mr. Barghouti might have been informed of certain bomb attacks before they had taken place, or that he may have sent money to finance the attacks, or had ordered the purchase of weapons for the attacks. Several witnesses told the court that these statements had been obtained under duress.<br /><br />8. The conditions under which Mr. Barghouti has been detained until now<br /><br />Today, and ever since the end of this trial, Mr. Barghouti has been held at the Beer Sheva prison in the Negev Desert in southern Israel (the region furthest away from his family, who live in Ramallah).<br /><br />He is being kept in solitary confinement, and the only visits permitted are from his lawyers (who sometimes encounter the difficulties mentioned in paragraph 6(a) above). With the sole exception of one visit from his wife on 17 May 2002, he has not been able to see any family member since his arrest.<br /><br />He is confined to a tiny cell (measuring about 140 x 180 centimetres) which he is not permitted to leave, even to take his meals, and is only allowed 45 minutes' exercise a day in a very small yard.<br /><br />Mr. Barghouti is suffering from pulmonary problems, and he has sometimes had serious difficulties in gaining access to medical treatment.<br /><br /><br /><br />Conclusion<br /><br />This report is addressed to the Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians, for its session of 1822 April 2004. As yet there is still no news about the verdict of the Tel Aviv District Court, which has reserved judgment since 29 September 2003.<br /><br />According to the case papers, from Mr. Barghouti's arrest on 15 April 2002 to the trial itself, the Israeli authorities and the prosecution had tried to turn it into a media event, a symbol, putting on trial one of the men who epitomise the Intifada, and presenting him as a terrorist.<br /><br />From the beginning of the investigations until the final day of the trial, the prosecution put almost as much effort into staging a media event as it did into working on the legal aspects:<br /><br /> by organising information leaks, claimed to have come from the interrogations of Mr. Barghouti, at a time when he had been held incommunicado, so that neither he nor his lawyer could possibly have answered any questions;<br /><br /> by deciding to organise a public trial before the Tel Aviv District Court, rather than a trial behind closed doors before military judges, as has generally been the case in the past for other individuals arrested by the Israeli army in the Occupied Territories;<br /><br /> by staging the trial as a major media event, selectively admitting and accompanying members of the public, and organising press contact points even in the precincts of the Court. <br /><br />It is true that of all the Palestinian prisoners currently being detained by Israel, Mr. Barghouti is the most senior member of the Palestinian Authority hierarchy, and is said to be close to Mr. Arafat.<br /><br />Nevertheless, this has also been the result of the Israeli Government’s decision to make his capture and subsequent trial, into a political as well as a judicial or security issue. It is therefore hardly surprising that this has led to excesses, such as the following:<br /><br /> the statement by the Israeli Deputy Minister of Homeland Security saying that Mr. Barghouti "thoroughly deserves death";<br /><br /> the statement by the Attorney General calling him a terrorist;<br /><br /> the way in which his lawyers have been prevented from meeting him, and particularly the long interrogations to which his French lawyer, Ms. Halimi, was subjected on her arrival at the airport;<br /><br /> Israel's refusal to allow in an observer from the International Federation for Human Rights. <br /><br />These incidents have quite obviously been facilitated by the climate that has made this trial increasingly more a political, rather than a judicial, matter, but also by a breakdown of Israeli law placing it in breach of international law, by authorising prisoner transfers (which is clearly prohibited by the Fourth Geneva Convention) or tolerating interrogation methods which should be prohibited, in addition to the laws making it possible to keep a prisoner incommunicado for excessively long periods.<br /><br />The Israeli authorities are right to point out that their country is up against blind terrorism posing serious security problems that they have to address. This report is not the right place to discuss the origins of this terrorism, or ways of putting an end to it, but it does illustrate that the methods chosen to deal with it have been inconsistent with the rule of law, and sight has been lost of such equally essential principles as the absolute priority that must under all circumstances be given to respect for the physical integrity of prisoners.<br /><br />The numerous breaches of international law recalled in this report make it impossible to conclude that Mr. Barghouti was given a fair trial.<br /><br />Most of the persons contacted are convinced that Mr. Barghouti will receive a severe sentence, but all are equally convinced that the verdict will have no legitimacy because it will have been dictated far more by intense media pressure and political interests than by any rigorous application of procedures respecting the integrity of the defendant and his right of defence.<br /><br />The Barghouti case has very clearly demonstrated that, far from bringing security, the breaches of international law have, above all, undermined the authority of Israeli justice by casting discredit on its conduct of investigations and the procedures used.<br /><br /> The duration of that ban has not been clarified. The ban was the subject of two Supreme Court rulings as we shall see further, a ruling of 3 May 2002 that the ban was for a duration of six days and one of 14 May 2002 that it was for five days.<br /> Mc Lawrence versus Jamaica, 29 September 1997, para. 5.6.<br /> Seventh report on the human rights situation in Cuba, 1983.<br /> Brogan et al. versus United Kingdom, 29 November 1988, para. 62.<br /> Decisions of 3 May 2002 and 14 May 2002, cited earlier.<br /> Observations on Georgia, 9 April 1997, para. 28.<br /> Resolution 1997/38 para. 20.<br /> Albert Womah Mukong versus Cameroon, 21 July 1991, and Megreisi versus Libya, 23 March 1994.<br /><br /><br />source IPU ~ <br /><br />The IPU is the international organization of Parliaments (Article 1 of the Statutes of the Inter-Parliamentary Union). It was established in 1889.<br /><br />The Union is the focal point for world-wide parliamentary dialogue and works for peace and co-operation among peoples and for the firm establishment of representative democracy.<br /><br />To that end, it:<br /><br /> Fosters contacts, co-ordination, and the exchange of experience among parliaments and parliamentarians of all countries;<br /> Considers questions of international interest and concern and expresses its views on such issues in order to bring about action by parliaments and parliamentarians;<br /> Contributes to the defence and promotion of human rights - an essential factor of parliamentary democracy and development;<br /> Contributes to better knowledge of the working of representative institutions and to the strengthening and development of their means of action.<br /></span></td></tr>
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<br /></div>Indriyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15754515363729424333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3470545407200005707.post-37370173584363606592012-04-23T00:10:00.001-07:002012-04-23T00:10:30.508-07:00THREAT Bilal Diab<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><br /></b><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Bilal Nabil Saeed Diab</b></span><br /><b><br /><br />Date of Birth</b>: 4 February 1985</div>
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<b>Place of residence:</b> Kufr Ra’i, Jenin</div>
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<b>Occupation: </b>Barber</div>
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<b>Date of arrest:</b> 17 August 2011</div>
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<b>Place of detention:</b> Ramleh prison medical center</div>
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<b>Number of administrative detention orders:</b> 2</div>
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<b>Expected end of current detention order:</b> 14 August 2012</div>
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<i>On 19 April 2012, Bilal Diab entered his 51<sup>st</sup>
day of hunger strike in protest of his administrative detention. His
health is rapidly deteriorating and he is refusing to stop his hunger
strike until he is released.</i></div>
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<b>ARREST </b></div>
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Bilal Diab was arrested on 17 August
2011, when Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) came to his home in the
village of Kufr Ra’i, near Jenin, at 12:30 am. The family and a large
group of friends and neighbors were sitting in the front yard, spending
time together late into the night for Ramadan, when approximately 40
masked men, wearing civilian clothes, surrounded the house and entered
the yard by climbing the walls of the neighbors’ houses. Bilal, along
with four others, were sitting on the roof. After about 10 minutes,
Israeli military jeeps arrived, accompanied by an intelligence officer.</div>
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The IOF began to throw sound bombs
and shoot teargas into the yard, and then forced everyone to stand
against the wall. Some of Bilal’s family members and friends were taken
to a nearby store, where they were held until the arrest process was
over. The rest of the group was kept in the front yard. Bilal’s brother,
Issam, was thrown violently to the ground. His hands were shackled
behind his back and then two soldiers stepped on his head.</div>
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Bilal and four of his friends were
questioned for about 15 minutes. His four friends were then released,
but Bilal was shackled, blindfolded and thrown to the ground. He was
then dragged across the ground for 250 meters until reaching the
military jeep. Bilal was taken to Megiddo prison, and then transferred
to Salem Detention Center for interrogation.</div>
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<b>ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION AND HUNGER STRIKE</b></div>
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Bilal was issued an administrative
detention order for 6 months on 25 August 2011. As with all other
administrative detainees, Bilal’s detention is based on secret
information collected by Israeli authorities and available to the
military judge but not to Bilal or his lawyer. This practice violates
international humanitarian law, which permits some limited use of
administrative detention in emergency situations, but requires that the
authorities follow basic rules for detention, including a fair hearing
at which the detainee can challenge the reasons for his or her
detention. These minimum rules of due process have been clearly violated
in Bilal’s case, leaving him without any legitimate means to defend
himself.</div>
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Bilal’s administrative detention
order was renewed for another six months on 14 February 2012. Bilal
began an open hunger strike in protest of his administrative detention
on 29 February. When he started his hunger strike, he was in Al-Naqab
prison. On 21 March, he was transferred with another hunger striking
prisoner, Thaer Halahleh, to Ramleh prison medical center. They are both
currently being held in isolated cells, in the same section as
prisoners with criminal offenses. Physicians for Human Rights-Israel
(PHR-Israel) noted that “after losing consciousness a number of times,
Mr. Diab was hospitalized twice at Assaf Harofeh Hospital, but was
subsequently returned to [Ramleh prison medical center].” Bilal’s
lawyer, Jamil al-Khatib, expressed concerned about his health condition.
Bilal had also undergone a 14-day hunger strike in the previous month
in solidarity with Khader Adnan.</div>
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Addameer lawyers have been denied
access to Bilal and Thaer since they were transferred to Ramleh prison
medical center. The Israeli Prison Service (IPS) claims that Bilal is
receiving appropriate treatment and that he cannot be visited. These
claims are contrary to evidence provided by Bilal through his lawyer and
family that he is enduring difficult conditions in an isolated cell.
Following repeated requests to the IPS and an urgent appeal submitted to
the District Court on 1 April demanding access, a PHR-Israel
independent doctor visited Bilal and Thaer on 9 April. Bilal had been
refusing to drink water for two days, demanding to be transferred to a
civilian hospital. The International Committee of the Red Cross
communicated to his family on 12 April, however, that even though he had
not been transferred to a hospital, he had started drinking water
again, including vitamins and salts.</div>
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Bilal had a hearing in the appeal of
his administrative detention order on 4 April, which he attended in a
wheelchair. At the time, the decision on his appeal was postponed
repeatedly for two weeks. On 18 April, the Israeli military judge
announced this his final decision will come on 22 April.</div>
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<b>PREVIOUS ARREST </b></div>
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Bilal previously spent seven years in
Israeli prison. He was first arrested with his brother Bassam on 2
October 2003, when he was 18 years old, and served a seven-year
sentence, before being released on 17 February 2010. He was not
permitted to see his brother during this period, though they were both
in prison.</div>
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<b>BILAL’S FAMILY</b></div>
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Bilal and his family have been
consistently targeted for arrest by Israeli authorities. Bilal’s family
consists of his mother, who is 65 years old and suffers from diabetes
and other ailments, two sisters and ten brothers, most of whom have been
arrested at least once.</div>
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According to his family, their home
was raided by the IOF more than 18 times throughout the Second Intifada;
each time, at least one family member was arrested. In addition to
being arrested in 2003 along with Bilal, Bilal’s brother Bassam was also
arrested in February 2010 and sentenced to seven months in prison.
Bilal’s brother Issam was arrested in 2006 and spent 10 months in
administrative detention before being sentenced to 16 months in prison.
Allam was held for six months in administrative detention in 2003, while
Hammam was arrested in both 1993 and 1998 and spent 14 months in prison
each time. Azzam, who is 34 years old, was arrested in 2001 and given a
life sentence. He is currently in Ashkelon prison. On 29 March, he went
on hunger strike in solidarity with Bilal.</div>
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Bilal’s mother applied for permission
to visit her son through the International Committee of the Red Cross,
but was denied for “security reasons.” Bilal has had no family visits
since the day he was arrested. His family is calling on the
international and local communities to start acting now on behalf of
Bilal, as “he is facing death.” They also demand the end to
administrative detention.</div>
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<br /></div>Indriyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15754515363729424333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3470545407200005707.post-49710918677075583352012-04-16T10:40:00.006-07:002012-04-16T10:40:42.458-07:00Thank You Ashraf<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr align="center"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">Thank you</span> <span class="hps">Ashraf</span> <span class="hps">without you</span> <span class="hps">this site</span> <span class="hps"><br />would</span> <span class="hps">never have been created</span><br /> <span class="hps">Indriya.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<br /></div>Indriyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15754515363729424333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3470545407200005707.post-44111678452677435102012-03-29T15:19:00.002-07:002012-03-29T15:19:30.438-07:00THREAT Ahed Abu Ghoulmeh<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">Ahed Abu Ghoulmeh <br />called upon prisoners’ organisations and human rights organisations to launch an international and legal campaign to end isolation and solitary confinement, which he said was akin to execution.<br />Abu Ghoulmeh was abducted along with Ahmad Sa’adat from Jericho prison in 2006, and is currently held in isolation.<br /><br />Abu Ghoulmeh said that the Israeli prison management reneged on its promises to the prisoners in October 2011, when it promised to end isolation in exchange for the prisoners ending their open-ended hunger strike, which had lasted for twenty days at that point. <br />The prisoners’ main demand was an end to the policy of isolation and solitary confinement; however, immediately after the strike had been ended, the prison administration officially renewed the isolation of Sa’adat, Hassan Salameh, and others.<br /><br />Abu Ghoulmeh emphasised that this action exemplifies the complete lack of any commitment by the government of Israel to any agreements with the prisoners, including those stated to be included in the prisoner exchange. For example, the occupation stated its commitment to end arbitrary punitive measures against Palestinian prisoners that had been used during the holding of occupation soldier Gilad Shalit as a prisoner of war; however, those measures have not only continued, but have escalated.<br />Abu Ghoulmeh is in isolation in Ashqelon prison; he has been sentenced to life imprisonment and has been denied family visits, books and newspapers.<br /><br />Khalida Jarrar, member of the Political Bureau of the PFLP, also called upon Palestinian lawyers to take up legal challenges against isolation within all courts of law, and to take legal steps to protest this policy which is contrary to international human rights standards. Jarrar’s statement came during a visit with the family of Abu Ghoulmeh, including Wafa Abu Ghoulmeh, Ahed’s wife and prisoners’ rights activist, in Ramallah, in a delegation including Bashir Khairie, Nael Khalil, Fuad Hadli, and PA Minister of Prisoners Issa Qaraqe.<br /><br />Qaraqe concurred that the policy of isolation is one of the most serious violations of prisoners’ rights, and is a policy of slow death, as it has been termed by the prisoners. <br />There are currently 16 Palestinian prisoners in isolation; some have served nearly ten years. They are: <br />*Ahmad Sa’adat; <br />*Ahed Abu Ghoulmeh; <br />*Jamal Abu Hija; <br />*Walid Khalid; <br />*Hassan Salameh; <br />*Mansour Shahatit; <br />*Bajis Nakhleh; <br />*Dirar Abu Sisi; our actual campaign !!!<br />*Mohammed Jibran; <br />*Abdullah Barghouti; <br />*Mohammad Arman, <br />*Ahmad Maghrabi; <br />*Mahmoud Arda; <br />*Mahmoud Issa; <br />*Ibrahim Hamad; and <br />*Abbas Sayyed<br /><br />Update 29 March 2012<br />Israeli occupation authorities renewed the isolation for three months, against Ahed Abu Ghoulmeh , a leader at the Movement of the Palestinian Popular Front.<br />Abu Ghoulmeh had been arrested in 2003, and got, in occupation courts, one life in prison and turned to the isolation sections.<br /><br />Some prisoners had started, days ago, an open food strike, protesting the isolation.</span></td></tr>
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<br /></div>Indriyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15754515363729424333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3470545407200005707.post-79734675056120910322012-03-29T15:06:00.004-07:002012-03-29T15:07:00.918-07:00THREAT Jawad Siyam<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">Prosecution of Jawad Siyam, Director of the Wadi Hilweh Information Center<br /><br />A few days ago, the Magistrate Court unexpectedly summoned the director of the Wadi Hilweh Information Center, Jawad Siyam, to a hearing held on Tuesday, 17 January. His private lawyer was informed that the charges against him would be compared with the charges filed against him in 2011 and considered accordingly, meaning that he would effectively be re-tried on the same charges. Jawad was arrested multiple times during the first four months of 2011 which he spent between house arrest and prison. Jawad was cleared of all charges in 2011.<br /><br />UPDATE January 24, 2012<br />List of accusation against the director of the Wadi Hilweh Information Center expanded<br />Tuesday, 24 January, 2012 | 00:32<br /><br />Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) -- The Israeli General Prosecutor succeeded in expanding the list of accusations against Jawad Siyam the director of the Wadi Hilweh Information Center- Silwan . In an extraordinary event, the Israeli police requested that charges be filed against Siyam through the Israeli General Prosecutor adding a number of new accusations to the list filed against him in 2011. Magistrate Court Judge Shloomi accepted the police request. The accusations were filed with 9 police officers and a settler acting as witnesses. MQ, an Arab resident of Jerusalem, claimed that Siyam chased and severly assaulted him in Wadi Al Joz during the time that Siyam was under house arrest. MQ was taken to hospital at that time. MQ also claimed that Siyam physically assaulted him in another incident accompanied by 20 youth under the pretext of Siyam’s intention to help mobilize the ownership of Palestinians properties to the settlers (Elad)<br /><br />MQ also claimed that Jawad Siyam had a significant relationship with the Palestinian Authorities. Later MQ again claimed that Siyam chased him, blocked the road with his car and threatened to kidnap MQ’s son if he didn’t obey Siyam’s demands . Settlers tried to help M.Q with the conviction of Siyam by following Siyam and installing surveillance cameras that monitor his house on a 24 hour basis. Israeli Forces arrived at his house to arrest him while he was attending a session in the court facing another charge. The judge released him and he was re-arrested within less than 24 hours.Siyam’s house has been stormed many times with no clear purpose other than looking for anything that might convict him. Siyam has been arrested many times and was under house arrest for part of 2011. Upon his release from house arrest and he was again arrested on unsubstantiated claims such as throwing stones from al Aqsa Mosque, and destroying cars’ windows. He was also banned from entering the old city of Jerusalem.Siyam’s wife and brother and many of his colleagues have also been exposed to prosecution. Siyam’s lawyer, Leya Tsimel, considered the list of accusations ridiculous and a clear case of political prosecution due to his anti- demolition and settlement activism in Silwan. Silwanic website has documentation proving the fabrication of the case against Siyam . Israeli forces have also pressured Siyam to close the Information Center and issued demolition orders against the Information Center 48 hours after its opening.Legal activists promised that if Siyam is convicted they will publish files exposing unacceptable practices in the attempted prosecution of Siyam.<br />Siyam said to Silwanic , “I don’t fear them, they are messing up and they are also trying to convict me while they don’t have any real evidence, and they are collecting whom can keep on making legal complains about me”<br /><br />Update 09 March, 2012<br />The Israeli state prosecution in the three ongoing cases against Wadi Hilweh Information Center director Jawad Siyam has called 19 witnesses to testify against him.<br /><br />Three sessions commenced today in the Jerusalem Magistrates Court at 10am and will continue for three days, to be followed by a hearing with more witnesses. The witnesses will include ELAD settler group employees, police interrogators, and a Palestinian man involved in land acquisition for settler groups, who has constructed a claim of assault against Siyam.</span></td></tr>
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<br /></div>Indriyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15754515363729424333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3470545407200005707.post-23845208439751239862012-02-29T06:16:00.003-08:002012-03-29T15:21:24.998-07:00THREAT ISOLATION of political prisoners<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}">Solitary confinement experiences ...<br /> *Mahmoud Issa / 3 sentences on lifetime + 49 years and<br /> *Sheikh Jamal Abu El Haija / 9 sentences on lifetime<br /> <br /> <span class="text_exposed_hide"></span><span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> At Ramleh, Mahmoud was held with Jamal Abu El Haija, in a cell measuring <br />
3.5 x 3 meters, with very little ventilation and only one window
measuring 80 x30 centimeters above the door and overlooking the
corridor. The iron door had only one opening through which meals were
delivered and again closed immediately afterwards. Mahmoud stayed
isolated under these conditions 23 hours a day, and was allowed to leave
his cell only for one hour to go to the 4.30 x 3.30 meter prison yard,
half of which was covered by iron and four layers of barbed wired, steel
bars, and iron rods. In the prison yard there were no recreation
facilities for the inmates, and they remained handcuffed until they
returned to their cell. Mahmoud did not meet other detainees there apart
from Abu El Haija. Communication between cells was forbidden.</span></span></span></h6>
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<br /></div>Indriyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15754515363729424333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3470545407200005707.post-80580834166505324442012-02-27T16:37:00.001-08:002012-02-27T16:37:17.654-08:00ACT NOW for Ahmed Al Moughrabi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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and judged 2002 with 18 sentences on lifetime, denied of family visits
since 2004, held in solitary confinement since 2004.<br /> <br /> Your Excellency,<br /> <br /> I am writing to express my deeply concerns about the conditions Ahmed Al Moughrabi is held at Ramon Prison Israel since 2004.<br />
As is the case with so many others there are very serious, well-founded
concerns that the treatment of Ahmed Al Moughrabi is politically
motivated.<br /> The conditions of isolation to which Ahmed Al Moughrabi,
as well as many other Palestinian prisoners are subjected are
sufficiently harsh as to have aroused international concern.<br /> <br /> •
The Fourth Geneva Convention, Article 119, clearly stipulated the
illegality of the continuing isolation of the prisoner more than thirty
days, regardless of the offense he made.<br /> <br /> In addition to the
needless brutality of the conditions to which Ahmed Al Moughrabi is
being subjected, I am concerned that the coercive nature of these
conditions -- along with their serious psychological effects such as
depression, paranoia, or hopelessness -- may undermine his ability to
meaningfully cooperate. Thus, such harsh conditions are counter to the
interests of justice.<br /> Given the nature and effects of the solitary confinement to which Ahmed Al Moughrabi is being subjected, I call upon you<br /> <br /> • to rectify the inhumane, harmful, and counterproductive treatment of Ahmed Al Moughrabi immediately.<br /> • furthermore, I call upon you to immediately take steps to fulfill the following measures:<br /> • To immediately demand the end to the use of isolation and solitary confinement against Palestinian prisoners;<br />
• To take effective and public action to meet the critical demands of
the Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike, to respect the prisoners'
dignity and human rights;<br /> • To take effective and public action against Israel's widespread use of torture against Palestinian prisoners and detainees;<br /> • To immediately demand that sick and injured prisoners are provided with adequate and appropriate medical treatment;<br />
• To pressure Israel to allow unobstructed family visits by
Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza, without glass, shackles or
other obstructions; <br /> • To pressure Israel to respect prisoners' rights to unrestricted lawyers' visits;<br /> • To urgently increase the frequency of visits by the ICRC to Israeli prisons;<br />
• To insist that visits by ICRC staff to Israeli prisons also include
the provision of urgently needed items such as clothes, underwear,
shoes, sanitary products and educational materials;<br /> • To coordinate
this work with the needs and demands of the Palestinian public,
including prisoners' families and human rights organizations.<br />
Palestinian prisoners' lives and health are at stake in their courageous
effort to defend their dignity and human rights within a system that is
rife with physical and psychological torture, abuse, and deprivation. <br /> <br /> Please be assured that the international community is watching this case very closely.<br /> <br /> Sincerely,<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> FAX, CALL, MAIL, STORM !!! <br /> Secretary General Ban Ki-moon <br /> United Nations<br /> New York, NY 10017 USA<br /> 212-963-5012 fax: 212-963-7055 FAX !!!<br /> Email: ecu@un.org<br /> <br /> <br /> Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations Office and Specialized Institutions in Geneva <br /> Avenue de la Paix 1-3<br /> 1202 Geneva<br /> Fax: +41 22 716 05 55,<br /> Email: mission-israel@geneva.mfa.<br /> gov.il<br /> <br /> The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)<br /> Civil Society Section Telephone: +41 22 917 9656<br /> Mail: civilsociety@ohchr.org<br /> <br /> <br /> Menachem Mazuz <br /> Attorney General<br /> Fax: + 972 2 627 4481; + 972 2 628 5438; +972 2 530 3367<br /> Brigadier General Avihai Mandelblit<br /> <br /> Military Judge Advocate General <br /> 6 David Elazar Street<br /> Hakirya, Tel Aviv, Israel<br /> Fax: +972 3 608 0366, +972 3 569 4526<br /> Email: arbel@mail.idf.il, avimn@.idf.gov.il<br /> <br />
Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister Office of the Prime Minister 3,
Kaplan Street, PO Box 187 Kiryat Ben-Gurion, Jerusalem, Israel Fax:
+972- 2-651 2631 Email: pm_eng@pmo.gov.il <br /> <br /> Write to Israeli
Embassies and Consulates in your own country. A directory of Israeli
embassies can be found on the website of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign
Affairs at the following link: <a href="http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Sherut/IsraeliAbroad" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>Sherut/IsraeliAbroad</a><br /> <br />
Call the Israeli Embassy in Washington DC (1.202.364.5500) or call the
office of Jeffrey Feltman, Assistant Secretary of State for Near East
Affairs (1.202.647.7209)<br /> <br /> List of Embassies in Israel<br /> <br /> Embassy of Albania in Tel Aviv, Israel<br /> 54/26 Rehov Pinkas<br /> Tel Aviv, 62261<br /> Phone: +972 35465866<br /> Fax: 972 3 5544545<br /> Email: embassy.telaviv@mfa.gov.al<br /> <br /> Embassy of Angola in Israel<br /> 8 Shaul Hamelech Blvd<br /> 64733<br /> Tel Aviv<br /> Phone: +972 (3) 6912093<br /> Fax: +972 (3) 6912094<br /> <br /> Embassy of Argentina in Israel<br /> 112 Rehov Hayarkon, 2nd Fl.<br /> 63571<br /> Tel Aviv<br /> Phone: 972 3 527 1313 - 4 or 527 1413<br /> Fax: 972 3 527 1150<br /> <br /> Honorary Consulate of Armenia in Jerusalem, Israel<br /> 1, Vitron street<br /> Atolot Industrial Zone<br /> Jerusalem<br /> Phone: (9722) 5833- 053<br /> Fax: (9722) 6565861<br /> Email: momjian@netvision.net.il<br /> <br /> Australian Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel<br /> 4th Floor, Europe House<br /> 37 Shaul Hamelech Blvd.<br /> Tel Aviv 64928<br /> Israel<br /> Phone: +972 3 6935000<br /> Fax: +972 3 6935002<br /> Web Site: <a href="http://www.israel.embassy.gov.au/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>www.israel.embassy.gov.au/</a><br /><span> Email: telaviv.embassy@dfat.gov.a</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>u<br /> Office Hours: Mon -Thurs: 08:00 to 16:30 Fri: 08:00 to 13:00<br /> <br /> Austrian Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel<br /> Beit Crystal,<br /> Hachilason Str. 12, 6th floor<br /> Ramat Gan 52522<br /> Tel Aviv<br /> Israel<br /> Phone: (+972/3) 612 0924<br /> Fax: (+972/3) 751 0716<br /> Web Site: <a href="http://www.austrian-embassy.org.il/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>www.austrian-embassy.org.il</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>/</a><br /> Email: tel-aviv-ob@bmeia.gv.at<br /> <br /> Honorary Consulate of The Bahamas in Tel Aviv, Israel<br /> 10 Paamoni St.<br /> 62918<br /> Tel Aviv<br /> Phone: 972 03 6925771 or 972 03 6058902<br /> Fax: 972 03 5465604<br /> <br /> Embassy of Belarus in Tel Aviv, Israel<br /> 2 Kauffman str.<br /> 68012<br /> Tel Aviv<br /> Phone: (9723) 510-22-36<br /> Fax: (9723) 510-22-35<br /> Email: belarus@netvision.net.il<br /> <br /> Consulate General of Belgium in Jerusalem, Israel<br /> 5 Biber Street<br /> Sheikh Jarrah<br /> 97200 Jerusalem<br /> Phone: (+972) (2) 582.82.63<br /> Fax: (+972) (2) 581.40.63<br /> Email: Jerusalem@diplobel.org<br /> <br /> Embassy of Brazil in Israel<br /> Beit Yachin 2<br /> Kaplan St. – 8th Floor<br /> Tel Aviv, Israel 64734<br /> Phone: (9723) 696-3934<br /> Fax: (9723) 691-6060<br /> Web Site: <a href="http://www.brazilianembassy.org.il/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>www.brazilianembassy.org.il</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>/</a><br /> Email: embrazil@netvision.net.il<br /> <br /> British Embassy<br /> 192 Hayarkon Street<br /> Tel Aviv 63405<br /> Phone: (972) (3) 7251222<br /> Fax: (972) (3) 5101167 Consular<br /> (972) (3) 5243313 Trade and Investment<br /> (972) (3) 5271572 Chancery<br /> (972) (3) 5278574 Management<br /><span> E-mail: webmaster.telaviv@fco.gov.</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>uk<br /> <br /> British Consulate-General<br /> 19 Nashashibi Street<br /> Sheikh Jarrah Quarter<br /> PO Box 19690<br /> East Jerusalem 97200<br /> Phone: (972) (2) 541 4100<br /><span> E-mail: Britain.Jerusalem@fco.gov.</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>uk<br /> Website: <a href="http://www.britishconsulate.org/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>www.britishconsulate.org/</a><br /> <br /> Canadian Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel<br /> 3 Nirim Street, 4th Floor<br /> Tel Aviv, Israel<br /> 67060<br /> Phone: (011 972 3) 636 3300<br /> Fax: (011 972 3) 636 3380<br /> Web Site: <a href="http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/telaviv/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>telaviv/</a><br /> Email: taviv@international.gc.ca<br /> <br /> Embassy of Chile in Israel<br /> Beit Sharbat, 8vo Piso,<br /> 4 Kaufman St.,<br /> Tel Aviv 68012.<br /> Phone: 972(3) 5102751 - 5102753<br /> Fax: 972(3) 5100102<br /> Web Site: <a href="http://www.embachile.org.il/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>www.embachile.org.il/</a><br /> Email: echileil@inter.net.il<br /> <br /> Honorary Consulate of Chile in Tel Aviv<br /> 25/10 Keilat Zion St.Herzlyia 46153,<br /> Tel Aviv, Israel<br /> Phone: 972-9-9506776<br /> Fax: 972-9-9554334<br /> Email: lzeldis@netvision.net.il<br /> <br /> Honorary Consulate of Chile in Jerusalem<br /> Calle Hagichom N22 P.O.B. 781,<br /> Jersusalem CP 91007.<br /> Phone: 972-2-6738138<br /> Fax: 972-2-6738138<br /> Email: yehoram@yehoramgaon.com<br /> <br /> Honorary Consulate of Chile in Eilat<br /> 6 Arnevet,<br /> Nve Midbar, Eilat<br /> Phone: 972-8-6377372<br /> Fax: 972-8-6315593<br /> Email: caboths@eilatcity.co.il<br /> <br /> Embassy of China in Israel<br /> 222 Ben Yehuda St.<br /> P.O.BOX 6067<br /> Tel Aviv<br /> Phone: + 972-3-5467277<br /> Fax: + 972-3-5467311<br /> Web Site: <a href="http://www.chinaembassy.org.il/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>www.chinaembassy.org.il/</a><br /> Email: chinaemb_il@mfa.gov.cn<br /> Office Hours: 9:00-12:30 (Monday-Thursday)<br /> <br /> Embassy of Colombia in Tel Aviv, Israel<br /> 52 Pinkas St., Apt.26<br /> 6th Floor, 62261<br /> Tel Aviv<br /> Phone: 009 972 3 5461434<br /> Fax: 009 972 3 5461404<br /> <br /> Embassy of Cyprus in Israel<br /> 50, Dizengoff Str.<br /> Top Tower 14th Floor<br /> 64332<br /> Tel-Aviv<br /> Phone: + 972 3 5250212, 6292546, 6297033 (Amb.), + 972 9 9500948 (Res.)<br /> Fax: + 972 3 6290535<br /> Email: cyprus@netvision.net.il<br /> <br /> Embassy of the Czech Republic in Israel<br /> Zeitlin Str. 23<br /> P.O.Box 16361<br /> 61664<br /> Tel Aviv<br /> Phone: 009723/6918282-3<br /> Fax: 009723/6918286<br /> Web Site: <a href="http://www.mfa.cz/telaviv" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.mfa.cz/telaviv</a><br /> Email: telaviv@embassy.mzv.cz<br />
Office Hours: Monday - Friday: 07.45 - 16.45 Monday - Friday: 09.00 -
12.00 (Public) Monday, Wendesday and Friday: 09.00 - 11.00 (Visas)<br /> <br /> Royal Danish Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel<br /> 4, Berkovitz Street<br /> P.O. Box 21080<br /> 61210 Tel Aviv<br /> Israel<br /> Tel Aviv<br /> Phone: +972 (0)3 544 2144<br /> Fax: +972 (0)3 546 5502<br /> Email: tlvamb@um.dk<br /> <br /> Embassy of the Dominican Republic in Israel<br /> Rehov Soutine 19, Apt. 1, 64684<br /> P.O. Box 21536<br /> 61215<br /> Tel Aviv<br /> Phone: (972-3) 527 7073<br /> Fax: (972-3) 527 7074<br /> Email: embajdom@netvision.net.il<br /> <br /> Embassy of El Salvador in Israel<br /> 4 Avigail, Apto. 4<br /> Abu-Tor 93551<br /> Jerusalem<br /> Phone: 0972 267 28411; 0972 267 28412<br /> Fax: 0972 267 33641<br /> Email: salemba@zahav.net.il<br /> <br /> Embassy of Eritrea in Ramat-Gan, Israel<br /> 33 Jabotinsky st.<br /> Twin Building #1<br /> 52 511<br /> City: Ramat-Gan<br /> Phone: +972-3-6120039<br /> Fax: +972-3-612561<br /> Embassy of Ethiopia in Israel<br /> 48 Derech Petach Tikva Bldg<br /> B, Fl. 8B<br /> 66184<br /> Tel Aviv<br /> Phone: 972-3- 6397831/2<br /> Fax: 972-3- 6397837<br /> Web Site: <a href="http://www.ethemb.co.il/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.ethemb.co.il/</a><br /> <br /> Embassy of Finland in Israel<br /> 9th floor, Canion Ramat Aviv 40<br /> Einstein Street, 69101<br /> P.O. Box 39666<br /> 61396<br /> Tel Aviv<br /> Phone: +972-3-745-66-00<br /> Fax: +972-3-744 0314<br /> Email: sanomat.tel@formin.fi<br /> Office Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00-12.00<br /> <br /> Embassy of Georgia in the State of Israel<br /> 74/5 Hei Be 'Iyar Kikar<br /> Hamedina<br /> Tel Aviv 62198<br /> Israel<br /> Phone: (+9723) 6043232<br /> Fax: (+9723) 6021542<br /> Email: geoemba@netvision.net.il<br /> <br /> Embassy of Germany in Tel Aviv, Israel<br /> 3, Daniel Frisch St.<br /> 19. Stock<br /> 64731 Tel Aviv<br /> Israel<br /> Phone: 03-6931 313<br /> Fax: 03-6969 217<br /> Web Site: <a href="http://www.germanemb.org.il/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>www.germanemb.org.il/</a><br /><span> Email: ger_emb@mail.netvision.net</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>.il<br /> Office Hours: Monday through Thursday: 8:00 - 16:00 Friday and Holidays: 8:00 - 12:30<br /> <br /> Embassy of Greece in Tel Aviv, Israel<br /> Tower Building<br /> 3 Daniel Frisch St.<br /> 16th floor<br /> 64731<br /> Tel Aviv<br /> Phone: (009723) 6953060 or 609 4981 or 6951088<br /> Fax: 6951329<br /> Email: gremil@netvision.net.il<br /> <br /> Embassy of India in Tel Aviv, Israel<br /> 140 Hayarkon Street<br /> PO Box 3368<br /> Tel Aviv-61033<br /> Phone: 00-972-3-5291999<br /> Fax: 00-972-3-5291953<br /> Web Site: <a href="http://www.indembassy.co.il/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>www.indembassy.co.il/</a><br /> Email: indemtel@indembassy.co.il<br /> <br /> Embassy of Ireland in Israel<br /> 3 Daniel Frisch Street<br /> The Tower, 17th Floor<br /> 64731<br /> Tel Aviv<br /> Phone: +972-3-6964166<br /> Fax: +972-3-6964160<br /> Email: telavivembassy@dfa.ie<br /> <br /> Embassy of Italy in Tel Aviv, Israel<br /> Trade Tower Building<br /> 25 Hamered Street<br /> Tel Aviv<br /> Phone: 972 3 510 4004<br /> Fax: 972 3 510 0235<br /> Web Site: <a href="http://www.italian-embassy-israel.org/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>www.italian-embassy-israel.</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>org/</a><br /> Email: italemb@netvision.net.il<br /> <br /> Jamaican Consulate in Israel<br /> 10 Kremenetski Street<br /> 67899<br /> Tel Aviv<br /> Phone: 972-36231-400 or 972-36231-331<br /> Fax: 972-362-31401<br /><span> Email: mgmt@jamaican-consulate.co</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>.il<br /> <br /> Embassy of Jordan in Tel Aviv, Israel<br /> 14, Rehov Abba hillel<br /> Silver Ramat Gan<br /> 009723<br /> Tel Aviv<br /> Phone: 7517722<br /> Fax: 7517712<br /> Email: jordanembassy@012.net.il<br /> Office Hours: Monday - Thursday:9:00-3:00<br /> Sunday:9:00-3:00<br /> <br /> Embassy of Kazakhstan in Tel-Aviv, Israel<br /> 52a, Hayarkon Street,<br /> Tel Aviv 63432,<br /> Israel<br /> Phone: code +9723 tel. 516-34-11, 516-34-64, 516-36-19<br /> Fax: 516-34-37<br /> Web Site: <a href="http://www.kazakhemb.org.il/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>www.kazakhemb.org.il/</a><br /> Email: kzisrael@netvision.net.il<br /> <br /> Embassy of the Republic of Kenya in Tel Aviv, Israel<br /> 15 Abba Hillel Silver, 3rd Floor<br /> Ramatgan 52136<br /> P.O. Box 3621<br /> Tel-Aviv, Israel<br /> Phone: + 972-3 5754633<br /> Fax: + 972 3 5754788<br /> Web Site: <a href="http://www.kenyaembassyisrael.org/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>www.kenyaembassyisrael.org/</a><br /> Email: kenya7@netvision.net.il<br /> <br /> Latvian Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel<br /> Amot Investments Tower 15th Floor<br /> 2, Rehov Weizman<br /> Tel Aviv 64239,<br /> Israel<br /> Phone: (972) 3 777 58 00; (972) 3 777 58 12<br /> Fax: (972) 3 695 31 01<br /> Email: embassy.israel@mfa.gov.lv<br /> <br /> Honorary Consulate of Malta in Haifa, Israel<br /> 9 Andrei Sakharov Street<br /> P.O. Box 1723<br /> Haifa 31016<br /> Phone: 00972 (4) 865 2536<br /> Fax: 00972 (4) 865 2744<br /> Email: maltaconsul.haifa@gov.mt<br /> <br /> Honorary Consulate of Malta in Tel Aviv, Israel<br /> 14 Hasharon Str.<br /> 66185 Tel Aviv<br /> Phone: 00972 (3) 560 8828<br /> Fax: 00972 (3) 560 8828<br /> Email: maltaconsul.telaviv@gov.mt<br /> <br /> Embassy of Mexico in Israel<br /> 25 Hamered St.<br /> Trade Tower 5<br /> 68125<br /> Phone: 972-3-5163938, 972-3- 516-3532, 972-3-516-2534<br /> Fax: 972-3-5163711<br /> Web Site: <a href="http://www.sre.gob.mx/israel" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://www.sre.gob.mx/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>israel</a><br /><span> Email: communication1@embamex.org</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>.il<br /> Office Hours: Monday to Thursday of 08:30 a.m. to 5:00 pm Friday from 08:30 am to 3:00 pm<br /> <br /> Embassy of the Union of Myanmar in Israel<br /> 26 Hayarkon<br /> Tel-Aviv 68011<br /> Phone: +972-3-517 0760, 517 0761<br /> Fax: (972) (3) 517 1440<br /> Web Site: <a href="http://metelaviv.com.il/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://metelaviv.com.il/</a><br /> Email: teltaman@aquanet.co.il<br /> <br /> Embassy of Nepal in Tel Aviv, Israel<br /> Textile Center Building,<br /> 7th Floor, 2 Kaufman St.<br /> Tel Aviv-68012<br /> Phone: 5100111, 5168085 & 5168086<br /> Fax: +972 3 5167965<br /> Email: nepal.embassy@012.net.il & nepembtelavia@gmail.com<br /> <br /> Royal Netherlands Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel<br /> Beit Oz 14, Abba Hillel St<br /> Ramat Gan 52506<br /> Phone: 03-7540777<br /> Fax: 03-7540748<br /> Web Site: <a href="http://www.netherlands-embassy.co.il/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>www.netherlands-embassy.co.</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>il/</a><br /> Email: nlgovtel@012.net.il<br /> Office Hours: Monday through Thursday Friday Embassy 08.00-15.00 08.00-13.00 Consular affairs 09.00-12.30 09.00-12.30<br /> <br /> Consulate of Netherlands in Eilat, Israel<br /> HaGiladim 1,<br /> Ganei Schachmon<br /> 88000 Eilat<br /> Israel<br /> Phone: +972 8 6335466<br /> Fax: +972 8 6337189<br /> Email: prigal@actcom.co.il<br /> <br /> Netherlands Information Office<br /> Sha'arei Ha'Ir<br /> 216 Jaffa Street, 5th floor<br /> Jerusalem 94383<br /> Israel<br /> City: Jerusalem<br /> Phone: +972 2 537 29 91<br /> Fax: +972 2 537 70 41<br /> Email: nlgoverjer@zahav.net.il<br /> <br /> Royal Norwegian Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel<br /> 40 Einstein Street<br /> Canion Ramat Aviv 13th floor<br /> 69101 Tel Aviv<br /> P.O. Box 17575<br /> 61175 Tel Aviv, Israel<br /> Phone: +972 3 744 1490<br /> Fax: +972 3 744 1498<br /> Web Site: <a href="http://www.norway.org.il/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.norway.org.il/</a><br /> Email: emb.telaviv@mfa.no<br /> Office Hours: Monday - Thursday: 08.30 - 16.00<br /> Friday 08.30 - 15.00<br /> <br /> Royal Norwegian Consulate General in Tel Aviv, Israel<br /> 119 Rothschild Blvd.<br /> 65271 Tel Aviv<br /> P O Box 14067<br /> 61140 Tel Aviv<br /> Israel<br /> Phone: 03-6855092 / 6850584<br /> Fax: 03-6855095<br /> Email: management@amina.co.il<br /> <br /> Royal Norwegian Consulate General in Haifa, Israel<br /> Migdal Armon<br /> 18 Hanevi'im st.<br /> 33501 Haifa<br /> P O Box 4388<br /> 31043 Haifa, Israel<br /> Phone: 04-8605888<br /> Fax: 04-8605866<br /> Email: ckg@forumfilm.co.il<br /> <br /> Royal Norwegian Consulate in Eilat, Israel<br /> 1153 Los Angeles st<br /> Desert House Apt 14<br /> 88201 Eilat<br /> P O Box 590<br /> 88104 Eilat, Israel<br /> Phone: 08-6334277<br /> Fax: 08-6330491<br /> Email: jprigal@actcom.co.il<br /> <br /> Embassy of the Philippines in Tel-Aviv, Israel<br /> No. 18 Bnei Dan Street<br /> Tel-Aviv, 62260<br /> Tel-Aviv, Israel<br /> Phone: (9723) 546-1499; 544-0527; 602-0549<br /> Fax: (9723) 604-1038<br /> Email: filembis@netvision.net.il / telavivpe@dfa.gov.ph<br /> <br /> Consulate General of Philippines in Haifa, Israel<br /> 104 Ha'Atzmaut Street<br /> Haifa, Israel<br /> Phone: (+972) (4) 852-3030<br /> Fax: (+972) (4) 852-6264<br /> <br /> Embassy of Romania in Tel Aviv, Israel<br /> 24 Adam Hacohen St.<br /> Tel Aviv, Cod.p. 64585<br /> Israel<br /> Phone: (00) (972) (3) 5230066 or 5242482<br /> Fax: (00) (972) (3) 5247379<br /> Email: rouembil@netvision.net.il<br /> <br /> Embassy of Russia in Tel-Aviv, Israel<br /> 120 Hayarkon Str., 63573 Tel Aviv, Israel<br /> Phone: +9723 529-0691, 522-6744<br /> Fax: +9723 522-6713<br /><span> Email: amb_ru@mail.netvision.net.</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>il<br /> <br /> Consulate of San Marino in Israel<br /> 19 Keren Hazeitim St. Savyon<br /> Tel Aviv<br /> Phone: +972-3-5356625<br /> Fax: +972-3-5347038<br /> <br /> Consulate of San Marino in Israel<br /> 49 Aeshel Street 46603<br /> Jerusalem<br /> Phone: +972-3-9576575<br /> Fax: +972-3-5753590<br /> <br /> Embassy of Serbia in Israel<br /> 10, Bodenheimer St.<br /> Tel Aviv<br /> Phone: +972-3-6045535 / 6049372<br /> Fax: +972-3-6049456<br /> Web Site: <a href="http://yuamb/@netvision.net.il" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://yuamb/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>@netvision.net.il</a><br /> Email: yuamb@netvision.net.il<br /> <br /> Honorary Consulate of Seychelles in Tel Aviv, Israel<br /> 2, IBN Gvirol Street, Ellahu Building, (12th Floor)<br /> 64177<br /> Phone: (+972-3) 6950275<br /> Email: a.g@miltel-ltd.com<br /> <br /> Consulate of Sierra Leone in Israel<br /> Textile Centre, 2 Kaufman St PO Box 50207 61500<br /> Tel Aviv<br /> Phone: +972-3-5102666<br /> Fax: +972-3-5102166<br /> Email: jlliraz@bgailaw.co.il<br /> <br /> General Consulate of Singapore in Tel Aviv, Israel<br /> 15 Floor, Platinum House<br /> 21 Har'aba'ah Street<br /> Tel Aviv 64739<br /> Israel<br /> Phone: (972 3) 684 5700<br /> Fax: (972 3) 686 9535<br /> Email: Rinaa@sfk.co.il<br /> <br /> Embassy of Slovenia in Israel<br /> Top Tower, 50 Dizengoff Street PO Box 23245 61231<br /> Tel Aviv<br /> Phone: +972-3-6293563<br /> Fax: +972-3-5282214<br /> Email: vta@mzz-dkp.gov.si<br /> <br /> Consulate of Slovenia in Israel<br /> Omega Center, Matam 31905<br /> Haifa<br /> Phone: +972-4-8550917<br /> Fax: +972-4-8550918<br /> Email: adi-el@012.net.il<br /> <br /> South African Embassy in Israel<br /> Top Tower<br /> 16th Floor<br /> 50 Dizengoff Street<br /> Tel Aviv, 64332<br /> Phone: + 972 3 525 2566<br /> Fax: + 972 3 525 3230; + 972 3 525 6481<br /> Web Site: <a href="http://www.safis.co.il/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.safis.co.il/</a><br /> Email: attache@saemb.org.il, info@saemb.org.il<br /> <br /> Embassy of Spain in Israel<br /> Rehov Daniel Frisch, 3<br /> Tel Aviv<br /> Phone: (+972-3)-696-5218 / 696-5210 / 696-5219<br /> Fax: +972-3-696-52-17<br /> Email: embespil@mail.mae.es<br /> <br /> Consulate of Spain in Israel<br /> Sheikh Jarrah Quarter<br /> Jerusalem<br /> Phone: (+972-2)-5828006 / 5828680 / 5324103<br /> Fax: +972-2-5326731<br /> Email: conspjer@mail.mae.es<br /> <br /> Embassy of Sweden, Tel Aviv<br /> Asia House<br /> 4, Rehov Weizmann<br /> 64 239 Tel Aviv<br /> Israel<br /> Phone: +972 (0)3 695 81 11<br /> Fax: +972 (0)3 695 81 16<br /> Web Site: <a href="http://www.swedenabroad.com/telaviv" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>www.swedenabroad.com/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>telaviv</a><br /><span> Email: ambassaden.tel-aviv@foreig</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>n.ministry.se<br /> Office Hours: Monday-Friday 10 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. Visa (applications and processing) Monday-Friday 10.00-12.30<br /> <br /> Honorary Consulate of Sweden, Eilat<br /> Rehov Hageladim 1<br /> Schunat Shachamon<br /> 88000 Eilat<br /> Israel<br /> Phone: +972 (0)8 633 54 66<br /> Fax: +972 (0)8 633 04 91<br /> Email: upg7@bezeqint.net<br /> <br /> Honorary Consulate of Sweden, Haifa<br /> 2, Kikar Chayat<br /> 31334 Haifa<br /> Israel<br /> Phone: +972 (0)4 864 31 62<br /> Fax: +972 (0)4 866 49 02<br /> Office Hours: Sunday-Thursday 8 a.m. to 4.00 p.m., Friday 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.<br /> <br /> Consulate-General of Sweden, Jerusalem<br /> 58, Nablus Road<br /> Sheikh Jarrah<br /> Jerusalem 91002<br /> Phone: +972 (0)2 582 8212<br /> Fax: +972 (0)2 582 8801<br /> Web Site: <a href="http://www.swedenabroad.com/jerusalem" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>www.swedenabroad.com/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>jerusalem</a><br /><span> Email: generalkonsulat.jerusalem@</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>foreign.ministry.se<br />
Office Hours: Monday-Tuesday, Thursday-Friday 9 a.m. to 12 noon Visa
(applications and processing): Monday-Tuesday, Thursday-Friday 10.30
a.m. to 12 noon<br /> <br /> Embassy of Switzerland in Tel Aviv, Israel<br /> 228 Hayarkon St.<br /> Tel Aviv<br /> 63405<br /> Phone: 03 546 44 55<br /> Fax: 03 546 44 08<br /> Web Site: <a href="http://www.eda.admin.ch/telaviv_emb/e/home.html" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://www.eda.admin.ch/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>telaviv_emb/e/home.html</a><br /><span> Email: vertretung@tel.rep.admin.c</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>h<br /> Office Hours: 9am - 11am<br /> <br /> Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Tel-Aviv, Israel<br /> Azrieli Center 1<br /> Round Build, 21st FL<br /> 132 Petach-Tikva Rd<br /> Tel-Aviv 67021, Israel<br /> Phone: (002-972-3) 6074788<br /> Fax: (002-972-3) 6954742<br /> Email: mofa@teco.org.il<br /> <br /> Royal Thai Embassy, Israel<br /> 21 Shaul Hamelech Blvd.<br /> 64367 Tel Aviv<br /> Phone: (972-3) 695-8980, 695-8984<br /> Fax: (972-3) 695-8991<br /> Web Site: <a href="http://www.thaiembassy.org/telaviv" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>www.thaiembassy.org/telaviv</a><br /> Email: thaisr@netvision.co.il<br /> Office Hours: Office Hours: Monday to Thursday: 08.30 - 12.00 hrs. / 13.00 - 17.30 hrs. Friday: 08.30 - 12.00 hrs.<br /> <br /> Consulate of Turkey in Israel<br /> Rehov Nashashibi 20 Cheikh Jarrah<br /> Jerusalem<br /> Phone: +972-2 532-1087 / +972-2 532-1087<br /> Fax: +972-2 582-0214<br /> <br /> Embassy of Turkey in Israel<br /> Rehov Ben Yehuda 1<br /> Tel Aviv<br /> Phone: +972-3 517-1731 / +972-3 517-6157<br /> Fax: +972-3 517-6303<br /> <br /> Embassy of Ukraine in Israel<br /> 50 Yermiyahu St.<br /> 62594<br /> Tel Aviv<br /> Phone: 972-3-6040242<br /> Fax: 972-3-6042512<br /> Web Site: <a href="http://www.ukraine-embassy.co.il/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>www.ukraine-embassy.co.il/</a><br /> <br /> Embassy of United States in Tel Aviv, Israel<br /> 71 Hayarkon Street<br /> Tel Aviv<br /> Israel<br /> Phone: (+972) 3-519-7575<br /> Fax: (+972) 3-517-3227<br /> Web Site: <a href="http://telaviv.usembassy.gov/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>telaviv.usembassy.gov/</a><br /> Office Hours: 08.00-16.30<br /> <br /> Consulate General of United States in Jerusalem, Israel<br /> 18 Agron Road<br /> Jerusalem 94190<br /> Israel<br /> Phone: 972-2-6227230 / 972-2-6253288<br /> Fax: 972-2-6259270<br /> Web Site: <a href="http://jerusalem.usconsulate.gov/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>jerusalem.usconsulate.gov/</a><br /><span> Email: Jerusalemvisa@state.gov,us</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>congenjerusalem@state.gov<br /> Office Hours: 08.00-16.30<br /> <br /> Consular Agency of United States in Haifa, Israel<br /> 26 Ben Gurion Boulevard<br /> Haifa, Israel<br /> Phone: (+972) (4) 853-1470<br /> <br /> Embassy of the Republic of Uzbekistan in Israel<br /> 52395 Mate Aharon St., 4<br /> Ramat Gan<br /> Phone: (03) 579 60 26<br /> Fax: (03) 579 61 58<br /> Web Site: <a href="http://www.uzbekistan.org.il/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>www.uzbekistan.org.il/</a><br /> Email: uzecon@barak-online.net<br /> <br /> A directory of members of the European Parliament can be found here:<br /> <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/public" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>www.europarl.europa.eu/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>members/public</a><br /><span> /</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>geoSearch.do;jsessionid=45E</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>7355AB5D96FFD0DA60BA4AE91E</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>4F2.node2?language=EN<br /> <br /><span> michael.spindelegger@bmeia</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>.gv.at, kab.bz@diplobel.fed.be, info@mvp.gov.ba, iprd@mfa.government.bg, imprensa@itamaraty.gov.br,</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>
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vminfo@vm.ee, umi@formin.fi, bernard.kouchner@diplomati</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>e.gouv.fr, inform@mfa.gov.ge, guido.westerwelle@auswaert</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>iges-amt.de, gpapandreou@parliament.gr,</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>
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JUST GO FOR Hana Al Shalabi !!!<br />
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Sample Letter: <br />
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Your Excellency, <br />
<br />
I am writing to urge you to immediately suspend the administrative detention
order of Hana Al Shalabi, Jenin, Sharoun prison. <br />
<br />
<br />
As is the case with so many others there are very serious, well-founded
concerns that the charges brought against Hana Al Shalabi were politically
motivated. <br />
<br />
Israeli administrative detention orders are the subject of review and further
appeal by a military court, neither lawyers <br />
nor detainees are permitted to see the “secret information” used as a basis for
the detention orders.<br />
This violates international human rights law, which permits some limited use of
administrative detention in emergency situations, but requires that the
authorities follow basic rules for detention, including a fair hearing at which
the detainee can challenge the reasons for his or her detention.<br />
1 These minimum rules of due process have been clearly violated in Hana Al Shalabi's case, leaving her without any legitimate means to defend herself.<br />
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1 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Art. 9. <br />
2 Fourth Geneva Convention, Art. 78.<br />
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In addition to contradicting international human rights and humanitarian law Hana Al Shalabi's administration detention also violates article 5 (the right to
liberty and security) of the European Convention on Human Rights. <br />
<br />
It is in this context that I call on you to act and in accordance with
international human rights treaties to which Israel is a signatory state, as
well as the Israeli Constitution itself, is therefore obligated to undertake
the following: <br />
<br />
* . Immediately and unconditionally release Hana Al Shalabi; <br />
<br />
pending the conclusion of the review--and the dismissal of all charges if the
convictions are found to be in violation of the above-mentioned international
legal norms (the observance of which the Israel is treaty-bound to observe.) <br />
<br />
* . Immediately put an end to its practice of administrative detention and
arbitrary arrests; <br />
<br />
<br />
* Immediately and thorough legal investigation into charges that Hana Al Shalabi
was tortured, as well as investigations into other questions of legal
irregularities surrounding this case--all carried out in strict accordance with
established international norms of justice. <br />
<br />
<br />
Please be assured that the international community is watching this case very
closely. <br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Sincerely, <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Secretary General Ban Ki-moon <br />
United Nations<br />
New York, NY 10017 USA<br />
212-963-5012 fax: 212-963-7055 FAX !!!<br />
Email: ecu@un.org<br />
<br />
<br />
Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations Office and Specialized
Institutions in Geneva <br />
Avenue de la Paix 1-3<br />
1202 Geneva<br />
Fax: +41 22 716 05 55,<br />
Email: mission-israel@geneva.mfa.<br />
gov.il<br />
<br />
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)<br />
Civil Society Section Telephone: +41 22 917 9656<br />
Mail: civilsociety@ohchr.org<br />
<br />
<br />
Menachem Mazuz <br />
Attorney General<br />
Fax: + 972 2 627 4481; + 972 2 628 5438; +972 2 530 3367<br />
Brigadier General Avihai Mandelblit<br />
<br />
Military Judge Advocate General <br />
6 David Elazar Street<br />
Hakirya, Tel Aviv, Israel<br />
Fax: +972 3 608 0366, +972 3 569 4526<br />
Email: arbel@mail.idf.il, avimn@.idf.gov.il<br />
<br />
Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister Office of the Prime Minister 3, Kaplan
Street, PO Box 187 Kiryat Ben-Gurion, Jerusalem, Israel Fax: +972- 2-651 2631
Email: pm_eng@pmo.gov.il <br />
<br />
Write to Israeli Embassies and Consulates in your own country. A directory of
Israeli embassies can be found on the website of the Israeli Ministry of
Foreign Affairs at the following link: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Sherut/IsraeliAbroad" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Sherut/IsraeliAbroad</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
<br />
Call the Israeli Embassy in Washington DC (1.202.364.5500) or call the office
of Jeffrey Feltman, Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs
(1.202.647.7209)<br />
<br />
List of Embassies in Israel<br />
<br />
Embassy of Albania in Tel Aviv, Israel<br />
54/26 Rehov Pinkas<br />
Tel Aviv, 62261<br />
Phone: +972 35465866<br />
Fax: 972 3 5544545<br />
Email: embassy.telaviv@mfa.gov.al<br />
<br />
Embassy of Angola in Israel<br />
8 Shaul Hamelech Blvd<br />
64733<br />
Tel Aviv<br />
Phone: +972 (3) 6912093<br />
Fax: +972 (3) 6912094<br />
<br />
Embassy of Argentina in Israel<br />
112 Rehov Hayarkon, 2nd Fl.<br />
63571<br />
Tel Aviv<br />
Phone: 972 3 527 1313 - 4 or 527 1413<br />
Fax: 972 3 527 1150<br />
<br />
Honorary Consulate of Armenia in Jerusalem, Israel<br />
1, Vitron street<br />
Atolot Industrial Zone<br />
Jerusalem<br />
Phone: (9722) 5833- 053<br />
Fax: (9722) 6565861<br />
Email: momjian@netvision.net.il<br />
<br />
Australian Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel<br />
4th Floor, Europe House<br />
37 Shaul Hamelech Blvd.<br />
Tel Aviv 64928<br />
Israel<br />
Phone: +972 3 6935000<br />
Fax: +972 3 6935002<br />
Web Site: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.israel.embassy.gov.au/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">http://www.israel.embassy.gov.au/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
Email: telaviv.embassy@dfat.gov.au<br />
Office Hours: Mon -Thurs: 08:00 to 16:30 Fri: 08:00 to 13:00<br />
<br />
Austrian Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel<br />
Beit Crystal,<br />
Hachilason Str. 12, 6th floor<br />
Ramat Gan 52522<br />
Tel Aviv<br />
Israel<br />
Phone: (+972/3) 612 0924<br />
Fax: (+972/3) 751 0716<br />
Web Site: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.austrian-embassy.org.il/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">http://www.austrian-embassy.org.il/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
Email: tel-aviv-ob@bmeia.gv.at<br />
<br />
Honorary Consulate of The Bahamas in Tel Aviv, Israel<br />
10 Paamoni St.<br />
62918<br />
Tel Aviv<br />
Phone: 972 03 6925771 or 972 03 6058902<br />
Fax: 972 03 5465604<br />
<br />
Embassy of Belarus in Tel Aviv, Israel<br />
2 Kauffman str.<br />
68012<br />
Tel Aviv<br />
Phone: (9723) 510-22-36<br />
Fax: (9723) 510-22-35<br />
Email: belarus@netvision.net.il<br />
<br />
Consulate General of Belgium in Jerusalem, Israel<br />
5 Biber Street<br />
Sheikh Jarrah<br />
97200 Jerusalem<br />
Phone: (+972) (2) 582.82.63<br />
Fax: (+972) (2) 581.40.63<br />
Email: Jerusalem@diplobel.org<br />
<br />
Embassy of Brazil in Israel<br />
Beit Yachin 2<br />
Kaplan St. – 8th Floor<br />
Tel Aviv, Israel 64734<br />
Phone: (9723) 696-3934<br />
Fax: (9723) 691-6060<br />
Web Site: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.brazilianembassy.org.il/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">http://www.brazilianembassy.org.il/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
Email: embrazil@netvision.net.il<br />
<br />
British Embassy<br />
192 Hayarkon Street<br />
Tel Aviv 63405<br />
Phone: (972) (3) 7251222<br />
Fax: (972) (3) 5101167 Consular<br />
(972) (3) 5243313 Trade and Investment<br />
(972) (3) 5271572 Chancery<br />
(972) (3) 5278574 Management<br />
E-mail: webmaster.telaviv@fco.gov.uk<br />
<br />
British Consulate-General<br />
19 Nashashibi Street<br />
Sheikh Jarrah Quarter<br />
PO Box 19690<br />
East Jerusalem 97200<br />
Phone: (972) (2) 541 4100<br />
E-mail: Britain.Jerusalem@fco.gov.uk<br />
Website: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.britishconsulate.org/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">http://www.britishconsulate.org/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
<br />
Canadian Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel<br />
3 Nirim Street, 4th Floor<br />
Tel Aviv, Israel<br />
67060<br />
Phone: (011 972 3) 636 3300<br />
Fax: (011 972 3) 636 3380<br />
Web Site: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/telaviv/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/telaviv/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
Email: taviv@international.gc.ca<br />
<br />
Embassy of Chile in Israel<br />
Beit Sharbat, 8vo Piso,<br />
4 Kaufman St.,<br />
Tel Aviv 68012.<br />
Phone: 972(3) 5102751 - 5102753<br />
Fax: 972(3) 5100102<br />
Web Site: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.embachile.org.il/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">http://www.embachile.org.il/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
Email: echileil@inter.net.il<br />
<br />
Honorary Consulate of Chile in Tel Aviv<br />
25/10 Keilat Zion St.Herzlyia 46153,<br />
Tel Aviv, Israel<br />
Phone: 972-9-9506776<br />
Fax: 972-9-9554334<br />
Email: lzeldis@netvision.net.il<br />
<br />
Honorary Consulate of Chile in Jerusalem<br />
Calle Hagichom N22 P.O.B. 781,<br />
Jersusalem CP 91007.<br />
Phone: 972-2-6738138<br />
Fax: 972-2-6738138<br />
Email: yehoram@yehoramgaon.com<br />
<br />
Honorary Consulate of Chile in Eilat<br />
6 Arnevet,<br />
Nve Midbar, Eilat<br />
Phone: 972-8-6377372<br />
Fax: 972-8-6315593<br />
Email: caboths@eilatcity.co.il<br />
<br />
Embassy of China in Israel<br />
222 Ben Yehuda St.<br />
P.O.BOX 6067<br />
Tel Aviv<br />
Phone: + 972-3-5467277<br />
Fax: + 972-3-5467311<br />
Web Site: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.chinaembassy.org.il/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">http://www.chinaembassy.org.il/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
Email: chinaemb_il@mfa.gov.cn<br />
Office Hours: 9:00-12:30 (Monday-Thursday)<br />
<br />
Embassy of Colombia in Tel Aviv, Israel<br />
52 Pinkas St., Apt.26<br />
6th Floor, 62261<br />
Tel Aviv<br />
Phone: 009 972 3 5461434<br />
Fax: 009 972 3 5461404<br />
<br />
Embassy of Cyprus in Israel<br />
50, Dizengoff Str.<br />
Top Tower 14th Floor<br />
64332<br />
Tel-Aviv<br />
Phone: + 972 3 5250212, 6292546, 6297033 (Amb.), + 972 9 9500948 (Res.)<br />
Fax: + 972 3 6290535<br />
Email: cyprus@netvision.net.il<br />
<br />
Embassy of the Czech Republic in Israel<br />
Zeitlin Str. 23<br />
P.O.Box 16361<br />
61664<br />
Tel Aviv<br />
Phone: 009723/6918282-3<br />
Fax: 009723/6918286<br />
Web Site: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.mfa.cz/telaviv" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">http://www.mfa.cz/telaviv</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
Email: telaviv@embassy.mzv.cz<br />
Office Hours: Monday - Friday: 07.45 - 16.45 Monday - Friday: 09.00 - 12.00
(Public) Monday, Wendesday and Friday: 09.00 - 11.00 (Visas)<br />
<br />
Royal Danish Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel<br />
4, Berkovitz Street<br />
P.O. Box 21080<br />
61210 Tel Aviv<br />
Israel<br />
Tel Aviv<br />
Phone: +972 (0)3 544 2144<br />
Fax: +972 (0)3 546 5502<br />
Email: tlvamb@um.dk<br />
<br />
Embassy of the Dominican Republic in Israel<br />
Rehov Soutine 19, Apt. 1, 64684<br />
P.O. Box 21536<br />
61215<br />
Tel Aviv<br />
Phone: (972-3) 527 7073<br />
Fax: (972-3) 527 7074<br />
Email: embajdom@netvision.net.il<br />
<br />
Embassy of El Salvador in Israel<br />
4 Avigail, Apto. 4<br />
Abu-Tor 93551<br />
Jerusalem<br />
Phone: 0972 267 28411; 0972 267 28412<br />
Fax: 0972 267 33641<br />
Email: salemba@zahav.net.il<br />
<br />
Embassy of Eritrea in Ramat-Gan, Israel<br />
33 Jabotinsky st.<br />
Twin Building #1<br />
52 511<br />
City: Ramat-Gan<br />
Phone: +972-3-6120039<br />
Fax: +972-3-612561<br />
Embassy of Ethiopia in Israel<br />
48 Derech Petach Tikva Bldg<br />
B, Fl. 8B<br />
66184<br />
Tel Aviv<br />
Phone: 972-3- 6397831/2<br />
Fax: 972-3- 6397837<br />
Web Site: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.ethemb.co.il/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">http://www.ethemb.co.il/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
<br />
Embassy of Finland in Israel<br />
9th floor, Canion Ramat Aviv 40<br />
Einstein Street, 69101<br />
P.O. Box 39666<br />
61396<br />
Tel Aviv<br />
Phone: +972-3-745-66-00<br />
Fax: +972-3-744 0314<br />
Email: sanomat.tel@formin.fi<br />
Office Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00-12.00<br />
<br />
Embassy of Georgia in the State of Israel<br />
74/5 Hei Be 'Iyar Kikar<br />
Hamedina<br />
Tel Aviv 62198<br />
Israel<br />
Phone: (+9723) 6043232<br />
Fax: (+9723) 6021542<br />
Email: geoemba@netvision.net.il<br />
<br />
Embassy of Germany in Tel Aviv, Israel<br />
3, Daniel Frisch St.<br />
19. Stock<br />
64731 Tel Aviv<br />
Israel<br />
Phone: 03-6931 313<br />
Fax: 03-6969 217<br />
Web Site: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.germanemb.org.il/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">http://www.germanemb.org.il/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
Email: ger_emb@mail.netvision.net.il<br />
Office Hours: Monday through Thursday: 8:00 - 16:00 Friday and Holidays: 8:00 -
12:30<br />
<br />
Embassy of Greece in Tel Aviv, Israel<br />
Tower Building<br />
3 Daniel Frisch St.<br />
16th floor<br />
64731<br />
Tel Aviv<br />
Phone: (009723) 6953060 or 609 4981 or 6951088<br />
Fax: 6951329<br />
Email: gremil@netvision.net.il<br />
<br />
Embassy of India in Tel Aviv, Israel<br />
140 Hayarkon Street<br />
PO Box 3368<br />
Tel Aviv-61033<br />
Phone: 00-972-3-5291999<br />
Fax: 00-972-3-5291953<br />
Web Site: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.indembassy.co.il/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">http://www.indembassy.co.il/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
Email: indemtel@indembassy.co.il<br />
<br />
Embassy of Ireland in Israel<br />
3 Daniel Frisch Street<br />
The Tower, 17th Floor<br />
64731<br />
Tel Aviv<br />
Phone: +972-3-6964166<br />
Fax: +972-3-6964160<br />
Email: telavivembassy@dfa.ie<br />
<br />
Embassy of Italy in Tel Aviv, Israel<br />
Trade Tower Building<br />
25 Hamered Street<br />
Tel Aviv<br />
Phone: 972 3 510 4004<br />
Fax: 972 3 510 0235<br />
Web Site: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.italian-embassy-israel.org/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">http://www.italian-embassy-israel.org/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
Email: italemb@netvision.net.il<br />
<br />
Jamaican Consulate in Israel<br />
10 Kremenetski Street<br />
67899<br />
Tel Aviv<br />
Phone: 972-36231-400 or 972-36231-331<br />
Fax: 972-362-31401<br />
Email: mgmt@jamaican-consulate.co.il<br />
<br />
Embassy of Jordan in Tel Aviv, Israel<br />
14, Rehov Abba hillel<br />
Silver Ramat Gan<br />
009723<br />
Tel Aviv<br />
Phone: 7517722<br />
Fax: 7517712<br />
Email: jordanembassy@012.net.il<br />
Office Hours: Monday - Thursday:9:00-3:00<br />
Sunday:9:00-3:00<br />
<br />
Embassy of Kazakhstan in Tel-Aviv, Israel<br />
52a, Hayarkon Street,<br />
Tel Aviv 63432,<br />
Israel<br />
Phone: code +9723 tel. 516-34-11, 516-34-64, 516-36-19<br />
Fax: 516-34-37<br />
Web Site: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.kazakhemb.org.il/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">http://www.kazakhemb.org.il/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
Email: kzisrael@netvision.net.il<br />
<br />
Embassy of the Republic of Kenya in Tel Aviv, Israel<br />
15 Abba Hillel Silver, 3rd Floor<br />
Ramatgan 52136<br />
P.O. Box 3621<br />
Tel-Aviv, Israel<br />
Phone: + 972-3 5754633<br />
Fax: + 972 3 5754788<br />
Web Site: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.kenyaembassyisrael.org/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">http://www.kenyaembassyisrael.org/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
Email: kenya7@netvision.net.il<br />
<br />
Latvian Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel<br />
Amot Investments Tower 15th Floor<br />
2, Rehov Weizman<br />
Tel Aviv 64239,<br />
Israel<br />
Phone: (972) 3 777 58 00; (972) 3 777 58 12<br />
Fax: (972) 3 695 31 01<br />
Email: embassy.israel@mfa.gov.lv<br />
<br />
Honorary Consulate of Malta in Haifa, Israel<br />
9 Andrei Sakharov Street<br />
P.O. Box 1723<br />
Haifa 31016<br />
Phone: 00972 (4) 865 2536<br />
Fax: 00972 (4) 865 2744<br />
Email: maltaconsul.haifa@gov.mt<br />
<br />
Honorary Consulate of Malta in Tel Aviv, Israel<br />
14 Hasharon Str.<br />
66185 Tel Aviv<br />
Phone: 00972 (3) 560 8828<br />
Fax: 00972 (3) 560 8828<br />
Email: maltaconsul.telaviv@gov.mt<br />
<br />
Embassy of Mexico in Israel<br />
25 Hamered St.<br />
Trade Tower 5<br />
68125<br />
Phone: 972-3-5163938, 972-3- 516-3532, 972-3-516-2534<br />
Fax: 972-3-5163711<br />
Web Site: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.sre.gob.mx/israel" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">http://www.sre.gob.mx/israel</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
Email: communication1@embamex.org.il<br />
Office Hours: Monday to Thursday of 08:30 a.m. to 5:00 pm Friday from 08:30 am
to 3:00 pm<br />
<br />
Embassy of the Union of Myanmar in Israel<br />
26 Hayarkon<br />
Tel-Aviv 68011<br />
Phone: +972-3-517 0760, 517 0761<br />
Fax: (972) (3) 517 1440<br />
Web Site: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://metelaviv.com.il/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">http://metelaviv.com.il/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
Email: teltaman@aquanet.co.il<br />
<br />
Embassy of Nepal in Tel Aviv, Israel<br />
Textile Center Building,<br />
7th Floor, 2 Kaufman St.<br />
Tel Aviv-68012<br />
Phone: 5100111, 5168085 & 5168086<br />
Fax: +972 3 5167965<br />
Email: nepal.embassy@012.net.il & nepembtelavia@gmail.com<br />
<br />
Royal Netherlands Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel<br />
Beit Oz 14, Abba Hillel St<br />
Ramat Gan 52506<br />
Phone: 03-7540777<br />
Fax: 03-7540748<br />
Web Site: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.netherlands-embassy.co.il/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">http://www.netherlands-embassy.co.il/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
Email: nlgovtel@012.net.il<br />
Office Hours: Monday through Thursday Friday Embassy 08.00-15.00 08.00-13.00
Consular affairs 09.00-12.30 09.00-12.30<br />
<br />
Consulate of Netherlands in Eilat, Israel<br />
HaGiladim 1,<br />
Ganei Schachmon<br />
88000 Eilat<br />
Israel<br />
Phone: +972 8 6335466<br />
Fax: +972 8 6337189<br />
Email: prigal@actcom.co.il<br />
<br />
Netherlands Information Office<br />
Sha'arei Ha'Ir<br />
216 Jaffa Street, 5th floor<br />
Jerusalem 94383<br />
Israel<br />
City: Jerusalem<br />
Phone: +972 2 537 29 91<br />
Fax: +972 2 537 70 41<br />
Email: nlgoverjer@zahav.net.il<br />
<br />
Royal Norwegian Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel<br />
40 Einstein Street<br />
Canion Ramat Aviv 13th floor<br />
69101 Tel Aviv<br />
P.O. Box 17575<br />
61175 Tel Aviv, Israel<br />
Phone: +972 3 744 1490<br />
Fax: +972 3 744 1498<br />
Web Site: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.norway.org.il/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">http://www.norway.org.il/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
Email: emb.telaviv@mfa.no<br />
Office Hours: Monday - Thursday: 08.30 - 16.00<br />
Friday 08.30 - 15.00<br />
<br />
Royal Norwegian Consulate General in Tel Aviv, Israel<br />
119 Rothschild Blvd.<br />
65271 Tel Aviv<br />
P O Box 14067<br />
61140 Tel Aviv<br />
Israel<br />
Phone: 03-6855092 / 6850584<br />
Fax: 03-6855095<br />
Email: management@amina.co.il<br />
<br />
Royal Norwegian Consulate General in Haifa, Israel<br />
Migdal Armon<br />
18 Hanevi'im st.<br />
33501 Haifa<br />
P O Box 4388<br />
31043 Haifa, Israel<br />
Phone: 04-8605888<br />
Fax: 04-8605866<br />
Email: ckg@forumfilm.co.il<br />
<br />
Royal Norwegian Consulate in Eilat, Israel<br />
1153 Los Angeles st<br />
Desert House Apt 14<br />
88201 Eilat<br />
P O Box 590<br />
88104 Eilat, Israel<br />
Phone: 08-6334277<br />
Fax: 08-6330491<br />
Email: jprigal@actcom.co.il<br />
<br />
Embassy of the Philippines in Tel-Aviv, Israel<br />
No. 18 Bnei Dan Street<br />
Tel-Aviv, 62260<br />
Tel-Aviv, Israel<br />
Phone: (9723) 546-1499; 544-0527; 602-0549<br />
Fax: (9723) 604-1038<br />
Email: filembis@netvision.net.il / telavivpe@dfa.gov.ph<br />
<br />
Consulate General of Philippines in Haifa, Israel<br />
104 Ha'Atzmaut Street<br />
Haifa, Israel<br />
Phone: (+972) (4) 852-3030<br />
Fax: (+972) (4) 852-6264<br />
<br />
Embassy of Romania in Tel Aviv, Israel<br />
24 Adam Hacohen St.<br />
Tel Aviv, Cod.p. 64585<br />
Israel<br />
Phone: (00) (972) (3) 5230066 or 5242482<br />
Fax: (00) (972) (3) 5247379<br />
Email: rouembil@netvision.net.il<br />
<br />
Embassy of Russia in Tel-Aviv, Israel<br />
120 Hayarkon Str., 63573 Tel Aviv, Israel<br />
Phone: +9723 529-0691, 522-6744<br />
Fax: +9723 522-6713<br />
Email: amb_ru@mail.netvision.net.il<br />
<br />
Consulate of San Marino in Israel<br />
19 Keren Hazeitim St. Savyon<br />
Tel Aviv<br />
Phone: +972-3-5356625<br />
Fax: +972-3-5347038<br />
<br />
Consulate of San Marino in Israel<br />
49 Aeshel Street 46603<br />
Jerusalem<br />
Phone: +972-3-9576575<br />
Fax: +972-3-5753590<br />
<br />
Embassy of Serbia in Israel<br />
10, Bodenheimer St.<br />
Tel Aviv<br />
Phone: +972-3-6045535 / 6049372<br />
Fax: +972-3-6049456<br />
Web Site: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://yuamb/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">http://yuamb/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">@netvision.net.il<br />
Email: yuamb@netvision.net.il<br />
<br />
Honorary Consulate of Seychelles in Tel Aviv, Israel<br />
2, IBN Gvirol Street, Ellahu Building, (12th Floor)<br />
64177<br />
Phone: (+972-3) 6950275<br />
Email: a.g@miltel-ltd.com<br />
<br />
Consulate of Sierra Leone in Israel<br />
Textile Centre, 2 Kaufman St PO Box 50207 61500<br />
Tel Aviv<br />
Phone: +972-3-5102666<br />
Fax: +972-3-5102166<br />
Email: jlliraz@bgailaw.co.il<br />
<br />
General Consulate of Singapore in Tel Aviv, Israel<br />
15 Floor, Platinum House<br />
21 Har'aba'ah Street<br />
Tel Aviv 64739<br />
Israel<br />
Phone: (972 3) 684 5700<br />
Fax: (972 3) 686 9535<br />
Email: Rinaa@sfk.co.il<br />
<br />
Embassy of Slovenia in Israel<br />
Top Tower, 50 Dizengoff Street PO Box 23245 61231<br />
Tel Aviv<br />
Phone: +972-3-6293563<br />
Fax: +972-3-5282214<br />
Email: vta@mzz-dkp.gov.si<br />
<br />
Consulate of Slovenia in Israel<br />
Omega Center, Matam 31905<br />
Haifa<br />
Phone: +972-4-8550917<br />
Fax: +972-4-8550918<br />
Email: adi-el@012.net.il<br />
<br />
South African Embassy in Israel<br />
Top Tower<br />
16th Floor<br />
50 Dizengoff Street<br />
Tel Aviv, 64332<br />
Phone: + 972 3 525 2566<br />
Fax: + 972 3 525 3230; + 972 3 525 6481<br />
Web Site: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.safis.co.il/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">http://www.safis.co.il/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
Email: attache@saemb.org.il, info@saemb.org.il<br />
<br />
Embassy of Spain in Israel<br />
Rehov Daniel Frisch, 3<br />
Tel Aviv<br />
Phone: (+972-3)-696-5218 / 696-5210 / 696-5219<br />
Fax: +972-3-696-52-17<br />
Email: embespil@mail.mae.es<br />
<br />
Consulate of Spain in Israel<br />
Sheikh Jarrah Quarter<br />
Jerusalem<br />
Phone: (+972-2)-5828006 / 5828680 / 5324103<br />
Fax: +972-2-5326731<br />
Email: conspjer@mail.mae.es<br />
<br />
Embassy of Sweden, Tel Aviv<br />
Asia House<br />
4, Rehov Weizmann<br />
64 239 Tel Aviv<br />
Israel<br />
Phone: +972 (0)3 695 81 11<br />
Fax: +972 (0)3 695 81 16<br />
Web Site: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.swedenabroad.com/telaviv" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">http://www.swedenabroad.com/telaviv</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
Email: ambassaden.tel-aviv@foreign.ministry.se<br />
Office Hours: Monday-Friday 10 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. Visa (applications and
processing) Monday-Friday 10.00-12.30<br />
<br />
Honorary Consulate of Sweden, Eilat<br />
Rehov Hageladim 1<br />
Schunat Shachamon<br />
88000 Eilat<br />
Israel<br />
Phone: +972 (0)8 633 54 66<br />
Fax: +972 (0)8 633 04 91<br />
Email: upg7@bezeqint.net<br />
<br />
Honorary Consulate of Sweden, Haifa<br />
2, Kikar Chayat<br />
31334 Haifa<br />
Israel<br />
Phone: +972 (0)4 864 31 62<br />
Fax: +972 (0)4 866 49 02<br />
Office Hours: Sunday-Thursday 8 a.m. to 4.00 p.m., Friday 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.<br />
<br />
Consulate-General of Sweden, Jerusalem<br />
58, Nablus Road<br />
Sheikh Jarrah<br />
Jerusalem 91002<br />
Phone: +972 (0)2 582 8212<br />
Fax: +972 (0)2 582 8801<br />
Web Site: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.swedenabroad.com/jerusalem" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">http://www.swedenabroad.com/jerusalem</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
Email: generalkonsulat.jerusalem@foreign.ministry.se<br />
Office Hours: Monday-Tuesday, Thursday-Friday 9 a.m. to 12 noon Visa
(applications and processing): Monday-Tuesday, Thursday-Friday 10.30 a.m. to 12
noon<br />
<br />
Embassy of Switzerland in Tel Aviv, Israel<br />
228 Hayarkon St.<br />
Tel Aviv<br />
63405<br />
Phone: 03 546 44 55<br />
Fax: 03 546 44 08<br />
Web Site: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.eda.admin.ch/telaviv_emb/e/home.html" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">http://www.eda.admin.ch/telaviv_emb/e/home.html</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
Email: vertretung@tel.rep.admin.ch<br />
Office Hours: 9am - 11am<br />
<br />
Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Tel-Aviv, Israel<br />
Azrieli Center 1<br />
Round Build, 21st FL<br />
132 Petach-Tikva Rd<br />
Tel-Aviv 67021, Israel<br />
Phone: (002-972-3) 6074788<br />
Fax: (002-972-3) 6954742<br />
Email: mofa@teco.org.il<br />
<br />
Royal Thai Embassy, Israel<br />
21 Shaul Hamelech Blvd.<br />
64367 Tel Aviv<br />
Phone: (972-3) 695-8980, 695-8984<br />
Fax: (972-3) 695-8991<br />
Web Site: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.thaiembassy.org/telaviv" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">http://www.thaiembassy.org/telaviv</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
Email: thaisr@netvision.co.il<br />
Office Hours: Office Hours: Monday to Thursday: 08.30 - 12.00 hrs. / 13.00 -
17.30 hrs. Friday: 08.30 - 12.00 hrs.<br />
<br />
Consulate of Turkey in Israel<br />
Rehov Nashashibi 20 Cheikh Jarrah<br />
Jerusalem<br />
Phone: +972-2 532-1087 / +972-2 532-1087<br />
Fax: +972-2 582-0214<br />
<br />
Embassy of Turkey in Israel<br />
Rehov Ben Yehuda 1<br />
Tel Aviv<br />
Phone: +972-3 517-1731 / +972-3 517-6157<br />
Fax: +972-3 517-6303<br />
<br />
Embassy of Ukraine in Israel<br />
50 Yermiyahu St.<br />
62594<br />
Tel Aviv<br />
Phone: 972-3-6040242<br />
Fax: 972-3-6042512<br />
Web Site: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.ukraine-embassy.co.il/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">http://www.ukraine-embassy.co.il/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
<br />
Embassy of United States in Tel Aviv, Israel<br />
71 Hayarkon Street<br />
Tel Aviv<br />
Israel<br />
Phone: (+972) 3-519-7575<br />
Fax: (+972) 3-517-3227<br />
Web Site: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://telaviv.usembassy.gov/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">http://telaviv.usembassy.gov/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
Office Hours: 08.00-16.30<br />
<br />
Consulate General of United States in Jerusalem, Israel<br />
18 Agron Road<br />
Jerusalem 94190<br />
Israel<br />
Phone: 972-2-6227230 / 972-2-6253288<br />
Fax: 972-2-6259270<br />
Web Site: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://jerusalem.usconsulate.gov/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">http://jerusalem.usconsulate.gov/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
Email: Jerusalemvisa@state.gov,uscongenjerusalem@state.gov<br />
Office Hours: 08.00-16.30<br />
<br />
Consular Agency of United States in Haifa, Israel<br />
26 Ben Gurion Boulevard<br />
Haifa, Israel<br />
Phone: (+972) (4) 853-1470<br />
<br />
Embassy of the Republic of Uzbekistan in Israel<br />
52395 Mate Aharon St., 4<br />
Ramat Gan<br />
Phone: (03) 579 60 26<br />
Fax: (03) 579 61 58<br />
Web Site: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.uzbekistan.org.il/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">http://www.uzbekistan.org.il/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
Email: uzecon@barak-online.net<br />
<br />
A directory of members of the European Parliament can be found here:<br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/public" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/public</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
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michael.spindelegger@bmeia.gv.at, kab.bz@diplobel.fed.be, info@mvp.gov.ba,
iprd@mfa.government.bg, imprensa@itamaraty.gov.br, imprensa@planalto.gov.br,
pm@pm.gc.ca, ministar@mvpei.hr, minforeign1@mfa.gov.cy, podatelna@mzv.cz,
udenrigsministeren@um.dk, vminfo@vm.ee, umi@formin.fi, bernard.kouchner@diplomatie.gouv.fr,
inform@mfa.gov.ge, guido.westerwelle@auswaertiges-amt.de,
gpapandreou@parliament.gr, titkarsag.konz@kum.hu, external@utn.stjr.is,
dcpf@mea.gov.in, minister@dfa.ie, gabinetto@cert.esteri.it,
segreteria.frattini@esteri.it, mfa.cha@mfa.gov.lv, tonio.borg@gov.mt,
secdep@mfa.md, post@mfa.no, DNZPC.Sekretariat@msz.gov.pl, pm@pm.gov.pt,
msp@mfa.rs, ministry@mid.ru, miguel.moratinos@maec.es, beatriz.lorenzo@maec.es,
registrator@foreign.ministry.se, info@eda.admin.ch, info@mfa.gov.tr,
haguew@parliament.uk, stewartkb@state.gov,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>Indriyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15754515363729424333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3470545407200005707.post-4658760029873917602012-02-23T07:55:00.000-08:002012-02-23T07:55:02.312-08:00Martyrs of Palestinian Prisoners' Movement 1967 - 2010<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="hasCaption">Since 1967; 198 Palestinian political prisoners have been killed by the IOF while in detention;<br /> <br />
70 as a result of torture at the hands of Israeli Shabak and Israeli
Prison Authority (IPA), 71 killed in cold blood after being arrested, 50
as a result of medical negligence by the IPA and 7 being shot dead
inside prisons by the Israeli prison authorities.<br /> <br /> -<br /> <br /> 1Ahmad Mohammad Salamah Al-Neweri, from Nuseirat RC, Gaza, killed on 08.06.1967 after arrest<br /> <br /> 2 Khalil Kamil Husein Syam, from Nuseirat RC, Gaza, killed on 08.06.1967 after arrest<br /> <br /> 3 Zaki Hashim Mohammad Syam, from Nuseirat RC, Gaza, killed on 08.06.1967 after arrest<br /> <br /> 4 Yousif Al-Jabali, from Nablus, killed on 04.01.1968 as a result of torture in Nablus prison<br /> <br /> 5 Khalil Salamah Qreinat Al-Rashaideh, from Bethlehem, killed on 28.04.1968 due to medical negligence<br /> <br /> 6 Mustafa Mohammad Hafith Harb, from Gaza, killed on 02.07.1968 due to torture<br /> <br /> 7 Fathi Abdel Fattah Al-Natsheh, from Hebron, killed on 28.07.1968 due to torture in Sarfand prison<br /> <br /> 8Younis Mubarak Hussein Abu Sbeitan, from Deir Al-Balah, Gaza, killed on 11.10.1968 due to torture in Sarfand prison<br /> <br /> 9 Qasem Ahmad Al-Ja’bari, from Hebron, killed on 27.05.1969 after being thrown from a military helicopter after his arrest<br /> <br /> 10 Qasem Abdallah Abu 'Aker, from Beit Hanina, Jerusalem, killed on 23.03.1969 due to torture in Jerusalem detention centre<br /> <br /> 11 Ahmad Msalam Abu 'Amerah, from Gaza, killed on 15.08.1969 due to torture in Gaza prison<br /> <br /> 12 Mohammad Khreizat, from South Lebanon, killed on 14.10.1969 was executed 2 days after his arrest<br /> <br /> 13 Qasem Abu Khadra, from Akka, killed on 04.11.1969 due to torture<br /> <br /> 14 Awn Said Hussein Al-'Ar’er, from Gaza, killed on 10.03.1970 due to torture in Majdal prison<br /> <br /> 15 Ahmad Khamis Ahmad Abu Dayyah, from Jabalia RC, Gaza, killed on 30.03.1970 executed upon arrest<br /> <br /> 16 Yousif Mohammad Mustafa I’seleh, from Jabalia RC, Gaza, killed on 30.03.1970 executed upon arrest<br /> <br /> 17 Ahmad 'Afaneh, from Jabalia RC, Gaza, killed on 30.03.1970 executed upon arrest<br /> <br />
18 Abdel Qader Jabir Ahmad Abu Al-Fahim, from Jabalia, Gaza, killed on
11.05.1970 due to medical negligence after his participation in Askalan
hunger strike<br /> <br /> 19 Haris Ali Abu Hayyeh, from Deir Al-Balah, Gaza, killed on 21.07.1970 executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 20 Othman Badawi Othman Al-Bahsh, from Nablus, killed on 28.08.1970 due torture in Nablus prison<br /> <br /> 21 Ali Ibrahim Ahmad Abu Sultan, from Nuseirat RC, Gaza, killed on 01.10.1970, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 22 Samih Said Abu Hasaballah, from Nuseirat RC, Gaza, killed on 12.10.1970, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 23 Deib Mousa Nasif Shtayyeh, from Salfit, killed on 25.10.1970 due to torture<br /> <br /> 24Hashim Ibrahim Hashim Karim, from Ash-Shati’ RC, Gaza, killed on 24.12.1970, due to torture in Ramleh prison<br /> <br /> 25 Salim Al-Haj Mahmoud Hasan Safi, from Dura, Hebron, killed on 06.01.1971 due to torture in Hebron prison<br /> <br /> 26 Mustafa Mohammad I’qel Al-Darabee’, from Dura, Hebron, killed on 22.02.1971 due to torture in Beir Al-Sabi’ prison<br /> <br /> 27 Muhyi Al-Din Sleiman Al-'Uri, from Ramallah, killed on 02.03.1971 due to torture in Ramallah prison<br /> <br /> 28 Al-Haj Ramadan 'Ashour Al-Banna, from Jerusalem, killed on 18.06.1971 due to medical negligence in Ramleh prison<br /> <br /> 29 Mohammad Hassan Mahmoud Wishah, from Bureij RC, Gaza, killed on 01.09.1971 due to torture in Gaza prison<br /> <br /> 30 Hasan Ibrahim Mahmoud Abu Rukba, from Jabalia RC, Gaza, killed on 21.09.1971 executed upon arrest<br /> <br /> 31 Hasan As-Sawarkeh, from Al-'Arish, killed on 27.03.1972 due to tortur in Askalan prison<br /> <br /> 32 Isa Mutlaq Abdel Hamid, from Qabalan, killed on 09.06.1972 due to torture<br /> <br /> 33 Mustafa Al-Awawdeh, from Hebron, killed on 27.07.1972 due to torture in Hebron prison<br /> <br /> 34 Nasr-AlDin Fahmi Mohammad Al-Shakhshir, from Nablus, killed on 02.05.1973 due to torture in Askalan prison<br /> <br /> 35 Farez Husni As’ad Tashtoush, from Nablus, killed on 27.09.1973 due to torture in Nablus prison<br /> <br /> 36 Omar Shalabi, from Syria, killed on 22.10.1973 due to torture in Askalan prison<br /> <br /> 37 Salim Mohammad Mustafa Abu Sitta, from Khan Younis, Gaza, killed on 13.10.1974 due to torture in Gaza prison<br /> <br /> 38 Omar Ahmad Awad-Allah, from Jabalia RC, Gaza, killed on 20.01.1975 due to medical negligence in Askalan prison<br /> <br /> 39 Jamil Diab Ali Barakat, from Rafah, Gaza, killed on 25.10.1975 due to torture<br /> <br /> 40 Fouad Mohammad Salameh Hmeid, from Jabalia RC, Gaza, killed on 19.01.1976 due to torture in Ashqelon prison<br /> <br /> 41 Ahmad Deeb Ahmad Dahdoul, from Salfit, killed on 21.03.1976 due to torture<br /> <br /> 42 Mohammad Yousif Al-Khawaja, from Nilin, Ramallah, killed on 02.06.1976 due to torture & executed in Ramallah prison<br /> <br /> 43 Omran Ridwan Qrei’ Abu Khalaf, from Hebron, killed on 05.06.1976 due to medical negligence in Hebron prison<br /> <br /> 44 Khadir Isa Nimir Hilani, from Ramallah, killed on 14.06.1976 executed in Nablus prison<br /> <br /> 45 'Ajaj Yasin Jabir 'Alawneh, from Jab’, killed on 16.10.1976 due to medical negligence in Jenin prison<br /> <br /> 46 Nassar Sweilem Al-Hweitat, from Jordan, killed on 02.08.1977 due to medical negligence in Ramleh prison<br /> <br /> 47 Farid Hafith Ghannam, from Jab’, killed on 28.05.1978 due to medical negligence in Nablus prison<br /> <br /> 48 Yousif Ahmad Hasan Karim, from Khan Younis, Gaza, killed on 13.07.1978 due to torture in Gaza prison<br /> <br /> 49 Nasir Al-Heb, from Syria, killed on 16.07.1978 due to torture in Ramleh prison<br /> <br /> 50 Said Abu Sitteh, from Khan Younis, Gaza, killed on 18.01.1979 due to torture in Gaza prison<br /> <br /> 51 Idris Ibrahim Mohammad Nofal, from Gaza, killed on 21.08.1979 due to medical negligence in Gaza prison<br /> <br /> 52 Rasim Mohammad Halaweh, from Jabalia, Gaza, killed on 20.07.1980 due to medical negligence during Nafha hunger strike<br /> <br />
53 Ali Shihadeh Mohammad Al-Ja’fari, from Dheisheh RC, Bethlehem,
killed on 20.07.1980 due to medical negligence during Nafha hunger
strike<br /> <br /> 54 Anis Mahmoud Dawleh, from Qalqilia, killed on 31.08.1980 due to medical negligence in Ashqelon prison<br /> <br /> 55 Faiz Abdel Fattah Mohammad Al-Tarayrah, from Bani N’em, Hebron, killed on 25.01.1981 due to torture<br /> <br /> 56 Salah Mohammad Ali Abbas, from Iraq, killed on 29.09.1981 due to medical negligence in Ashqelon prison<br /> <br /> 57 Ali Ibrahim Al-Shatrit, from Halhoul, Hebron, killed on 17.10.1981 due to medical negligence in Ashqelon prison<br /> <br /> 58 Salameh Mohammad Sleiman Al-Hasouni, from Si’eer, Hebron, killed on 22.11.1981 due to torture<br /> <br /> 59 Salim Ahmad Yahia Abu Sbeih, from Hebron, killed on 07.04.1982 due to medical negligence in Jneid prison<br /> <br /> 60 Yacoub Mohammad Dababeesh, from Gaza, killed on 28.10.1982 due to torture in Ashqelon prison<br /> <br /> 61 Hamzah Omar Othman Abu Sh’eb, from Jama’een, killed on 25.02.1983 due to torture in Tulkarem prison<br /> <br /> 62 Michael Lazaro, from Greece, killed on 12.03.1983 due to medical negligence in Ramleh prison<br /> <br /> 63 Khalil Ibrahim Abu Khadijah, from Ramallah, killed on 05.04.1983 due to torture in Ramallah prison<br /> <br /> 64 Ishaq Mousa Al-Maragha, from Silwan, Jerusalem, killed on 16.11.1983 due to medical negligence in Beir As-Sabi’ prison<br /> <br /> 65 Bilal Jamil Hamdan Al-Najjar Al-Burini, from Burin, Nablus, killed on 28.03.1984 executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 66 Jamal Mahmoud Qabalan, from Khan Younis, Gaza, killed on 13.04.1984 executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 67 Mohammad Abu Jami’, from Khan Younis, Gaza, killed on 13.04.1984 executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 68 Mahmoud Arabi Freitikh, from Nablus, killed on 16.04.1985 due to torture in Jneid prison<br /> <br /> 69 Mahmoud Salim Rabah Najajrah, from Nahhalen, Bethlehem, killed on 23.09.1985 due to medical negligence<br /> <br /> 70 Ghassan Ishaq Yousif Al-Lahham, from Dheisheh RC, Bethlehem, killed on 02.10.1985 due to torture in Ramleh prison<br /> <br /> 71 Tariq Al-Hindi, from Jerusalem, killed on 02.02.1986 due to torture in Ashqelon prison<br /> <br /> 72 Tariq Yasin Hashim Al-Hammouri, from Hebron, killed on 03.04.1987 due to torture in Jneid prison<br /> <br /> 73 Awwad Abdel Salam Hamdan, from Tulkarim, killed on 22.07.1987 due to torture<br /> <br /> 74 Khadir Ilyas Fouad At-Tarazi, from Gaza, killed on 09.02.1988 due to torture<br /> <br /> 75 Qandil Kamil Abdel Rahman 'Ilwan, from Jabalia, Gaza, killed on 24.02.1988 due to medical negligence in Ashqelon prison<br /> <br /> 76 Ibrahim Mahmoud Al-Ra’i, from Qalqilia, killed on 11.04.1988 tortured & executed in Ramleh prison<br /> <br /> 77 Iyad Mohammad 'Aqil, from Bureij RC, Gaza, killed on 02.08.1988 due to torture<br /> <br /> 78 Nabil Mustafa Jamil Ibdah, from Beit Hanina, Jerusalem, killed on 10.08.1988 due to torture in Maskubiyyeh prison<br /> <br /> 79 Hani Deib Salim Ash-Shami, from Jabalia RC, Gaza, killed on 11.08.1988 due to torture<br /> <br /> 80 Ata Yousif Ahmad Ayyad, from Thahriyyeh, Hebron, killed on 14.08.1988 due to medical negligence<br /> <br /> 81 As’ad Jabra Zaki Ash-Shawwa, from Gaza, killed on 16.08.1988, executed in Ansar <br /> <br /> 82 Bassam Ibrahim Ali Al-Samoudi, from Yamoun, killed on 16.08.1988, executed in Ansar <br /> <br /> 83 Mohammad Mousa Mohammad Hammad, from Silwad, Ramallah, killed on 24.08.1988 due to medical negligence in Kfar Yona prison<br /> <br /> 84 Abdel Min’im Abdallah Hasan Kolk, from Khan Younis, Gaza, killed on 14.10.1988 due to medical negligence in Ramleh prison<br /> <br /> 85 Ibrahim Yasir Al-Mutawwar, from Hebron, killed on 21.10.1988 due to torture<br /> <br /> 86 Nidal Zuhdi Omar Deib, from Ramallah, killed on 08.02.1989, executed in Megiddo prison<br /> <br /> 87 Mahmoud Yousif 'Ilyan Al-Masri, from Rafah, killed on 07.03.1989 due to torture in Gaza prison<br /> <br /> 88 Omar Mahmoud Al-Qasem, from Jerusalem, killed on 04.06.1989 due to medical negligence in Ashqelon prison<br /> <br /> 89 Mohammad Salih Hasan Ar-Rifi, from Gaza, killed on 10.08.1989 due to medical negligence in Ansar <br /> <br /> 90 Abdallah Mohammad Ibrahim Abu Mahruqa, from Deir Al-Balah, Gaza, killed on 12.09.1989, executed in Ansar <br /> <br /> 91 Jamal Mohammad Abdel Mu’ti Abu Sharkh, from Ash-Shati’ RC, Gaza, killed on 03.12.1989 due to torture in Gaza prison<br /> <br /> 92 Khalid Kamil Ash-Sheikh Ali, from Gaza, killed on 12.12.1989 due to torture in Gaza prison<br /> <br /> 93 Badir Mohammad Said Qaradeh, from Nablus, killed on 18.12.1989, executed upon arrest<br /> <br /> 94 Ra’iq Hussein Mousa Sleiman, from Ramin, killed on 13.02.1990 due to medical negligence in Megiddo prison<br /> <br /> 95 Sabri Mansour Abdallah Abed Rabbo, from Al-Jeeb, killed on 07.07.1990, executed in Ofer prison<br /> <br /> 96 Husam Salim Hani Qar’an, from Qalqilia, killed on 28.08.1990 due to torture in Ansar <br /> <br /> 97 Abdallah Yousif 'Alawneh, from Jenin, killed on 11.11.1990 due to torture<br /> <br /> 98 'Atiyah Abdel 'Ati Az-Za’aneen, from Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed on 13.11.1990 due to torture in Gaza prison<br /> <br /> 99 Ali Hasan Abdel-Halim Ash-Shahid, from Tulkarim, killed on 08.06.1991 due torture<br /> <br /> 100 Sami Nu’man Sleiman Zu’rub, from Khan Younis, Gaza, killed on 22.08.1991 due to torture in Gaza prison<br /> <br /> 101Jasir Ahmad Said Abu Rmeileh , from Tulkarim, killed on 20.10.1991 due to medical negligence in Jneid prison<br /> <br /> 102 Mousa Abdel Rahman, from Nouba, killed on 18.01.1992, executed in prison<br /> <br /> 103 Mustafa Abdallah Al-Akkawi, from Jerusalem, killed on 04.02.1992 due to torture in Hebron prison<br /> <br /> 104 Ahmad Ibrahim Barakat, from Nablus, killed on 05.05.1992 due to torture in Ansar <br /> <br /> 105 Samir Omar Khamir Omar, from Ash-Shati’ RC, Gaza, killed on 31.05.1992 due to torture<br /> <br /> 106 Mohammad Sleiman Hussein Breis, from Khan Younis RC, Gaza, killed on 29.06.1992 due to torture in Ramleh prison<br /> <br /> 107 Hazim Mohammad Abdel Rahim Eid, from Al-Am’ari’ RC, Ramallah, killed on 09.07.1992 due to torture in Hebron prison<br /> <br /> 108 Mustafa Mahmoud Mustafa Barakat, from 'Anabta, killed on 04.08.1992 due to torture in Tulkarem prison<br /> <br /> 109 Hussein As’ad Ubeidat, from Jerusalem, killed on 04.10.1992 due to medical negligence during Ashqelon hunger strike<br /> <br /> 110 Ayman Ibrahim Barhoum, from Rafah, Gaza, killed on 27.01.1993 due to torture in Ansar 3<br /> <br /> 111 Samir Mohammad Khamis Salameh, from Rafah, Gaza, killed on 15.02.1993 due to torture in Beir As-Sabi’<br /> <br /> 112 Ayman Said Husein Nassar, from Deir Al-Balah, Gaza, killed on 02.04.1993 due to torture in Gaza prison<br /> <br /> 113 Mohammad Salameh Al-Jundi, from Al-'Arroub, Hebron, killed on 10.05.1993 due to torture in Hebron prison<br /> <br /> 114 Yahia Abdel Latif Ali An-Natour, from Tulkarim, killed on 10.09.1993 due to medical negligence in Jneid prison<br /> <br /> 115 Ahmad 'Adel Hasan Ismail, from An-Naqourah, killed on 07.10.1993 due to medical negligence in Nablus prison<br /> <br /> 116 Abdel Samad Salman Hreizat, from Yatta, Hebron, killed on 25.04.1995 due to torture in Maskubiyyeh prison<br /> <br /> 117 Ma’zouz Ahmad Mohammad Dalah, from Nablus, killed on 25.04.1995 due to torture<br /> <br /> 118 Walid Abdel Rahim Al-Sruji, from Tulkarim, killed on 04.03.1996 due to torture<br /> <br /> 119 Majid Abdallah Daghlas, from Burqin, Nablus, killed on 29.06.1996 due to torture<br /> <br /> 120 Riyadh Mahmoud Hammoudeh 'Idwan, from Rafah, Gaza, killed on 12.01.1997 due to medical negligence in Beir As-Sabi’ prison<br /> <br /> 121 Khalid Ali 'Ayish Abu Dayyeh, from Bethlehem, killed on 21.05.1997 due to torture in Maskubiyye<br /> <br /> 122 Nidal Zakariya Abu Srour, from Aida RC, Bethlehem, killed on 29.01.1998 due to torture in Maskubiyye<br /> <br /> 123 Yousif Diab Al-'Ar’eer, from Gaza, killed on 20.06.1998 due to medical negligence in Ramleh prison<br /> <br /> 124 Ibrahim Mohammad Al-Barad’ah, from Sourif, Hebron, killed on 21.11.2000, executed upon arrest<br /> <br /> 125 Mohammad Yousif Al-Mughrabi, from Dheisheh RC, Bethlehem, killed on 10.12.2000, executed upon arrest<br /> <br /> 126 Mohammad Khalil Mohammad Ad-Dahhameen, from Hebron, killed on 12.04.2001 due to medical negligence in Megiddo prison<br /> <br /> 127 Hasan Said Ahmad Abu Sha’ira, from Azza RC, Bethlehem, killed on 14.06.2001, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 128 Mahmoud Mousa Sleiman Khalil, from Jenin, killed on 01.07.2001, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 129 Jamal Deif Allah Hasan Thalji, from Jenin, killed on 01.07.2001, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 130 Mustafa Yousif Mohammad Yasin, from Jenin, killed on 23.07.2001, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 131 Ali Ibrahim Al-Joulani, from Jerusalem, killed on 05.06.2001, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 132 Hisham Mousa Abu Jamous, from Rafah, Gaza, killed on 25.08.2001, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 133 Sufian Ahmad Al-'Arda, from 'Arrabah, Jenin, killed on 12.09.2001, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 134 Tha’ir Muhsin Al-Mahdawi, from Al-Far’a RC, Nablus, killed on 14.09.2001, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 135 Jamal Hasan Khadir Abu Mallouh, from Deir Istia, Salfit, killed on 06.11.2001, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 136 Iyad Odeh Mohammad Al-Khatib, from Deir Istia, Salfit, killed on 06.11.2001, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 137 Ali Ibrahim Abu Hajleh, from Deir Istia, Salfit, killed on 06.11.2001, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 138 Isa Khalil Mohammad Dababseh, from Yatta, Hebron, killed on 07.11.2001, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 139 Midhat 'Azo Abu Dalal, from Nuseirat RC, Gaza, killed on 18.11.2001, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 140 Mohammad Ibrahim Hussein, from Gaza, killed on 18.11.2001, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 141 Yousif Khalid As-Surkaji, from Nablus, killed on 22.01.2002, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 142 Jasir As’ad Samaro, from Nablus, killed on 22.01.2002, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 143 Nasim Shafiq Abu Al-Rus, from Nablus, killed on 22.01.2002, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 144 Karim Munir Mafarjeh, from Ramallah, killed on 22.11.2002, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 145 Nassar Hasan Abu Salim, from Rantis, Ramallah, killed on 26.01.2002, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 146 Tariq Hasan Mohammad Al-Hindawi, from Gaza, killed on 12.02.2002, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 147 Anwar Awni Mustafa Abdel Ghani, from Tulkarim, killed on 15.02.2002, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 148 Abdel Ghani Abdel Rahman Abu Daggah, from Gaza, killed on 08.03.2002, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 194 Mahmoud Said Salah, from Jerusalem, killed on 08.03.2002, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 150 Basim Mohammad Abu Shihadeh, from Gaza, killed on 24.03.2002, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 151 Khalid Fathi Awad Allah, from Jericho, killed on 29.03.2002, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 152 Ismail Ibrahim Zeid, from Beit Anan, Jerusalem, killed on 29.03.2002, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 153 Said Mohammad Mahdi, from Gaza, killed on 29.03.2002, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 154 Abdel Rahman Taqfiq Abdallah, from Nablus, killed on 29.03.2002, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 155 Omar Mohammad Mousa, from Jericho, killed on 08.03.2002, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 156 Ahmad Fathi Mahmoud 'Ajjaj, from Seida, Tulkarim, killed on 30.03.2002, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 157 'Azmi 'Adel Mahmoud 'Ajjaj, from Seida, Tulkarim, killed on 30.03.2002, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 158 Baha’ Khalid Ash-Sharqawi, from Az-Zababdeh, Jenin, killed on 02.04.2002, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 159 Hazim Ahmad Reihan Qabha, from Ya’bad, Jenin, killed on 14.04.2002, executed after arrest<br /> <br />
160 Ahmad Hussein Abdel Salam Jawabreh, from Arroub RC, Hebron, killed
on 28.05.2002 due to medical negligence in Megiddo prison<br /> <br /> 161 Ala’ Khadriyyeh, from Nablus, killed on 27.10.2002, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 162 Yasin Said Al-Agha, from Khan Younis, Gaza, killed on 10.12.2002, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 163 Jadallah Mousa Shoukeh, from Bethlehem, killed on 13.12.2002, tortured & executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 164 Ibrahim Talib Abu Hawwash, from Nablus, killed on 25.12.2002, tortured & executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 165 Omran Abdel Ghani Gheith, from Hebron, killed on 30.12.2002, tortured & executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 166 Faiz Sabri Jabir, from Tulkarim RC, killed on 31.12.2002, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 167 Walid Mohammad 'Amre, from Dura, Hebron, killed on 19.02.2003 due medical negligence in Nafha prison<br /> <br /> 168 Mohammad Ahmad Al-'Is’is, from Bethlehem, killed on 06.03.2003, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 169 Jasir Jabir Hasaneen, from Khan Younis, Gaza, killed on 10.06.2003, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 170 Ahmad Khamis 'Atiyyah, from Qalqilia, killed on 22.11.2003, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 171 Bashir Mohammad Ahmad 'Iweis, from Balata RC, Nablus, killed on 08.12.2003 due to medical negligence in Megiddo prison<br /> <br /> 172 Abdel 'Afo Mustafa Al-Qassas, from Nablus, killed on 06.01.2004, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 173 Fawwaz Said Mohammad Al-Bulbul, from Tulkarim, killed on 16.09.2004 due to medical negligence in Megiddo prison<br /> <br /> 174 Falah Hasan Masharqa, from Nur Shams RC, Tulkarim, killed on 23.09.2004, tortured & executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 175 Mohammad Hasab Abu Hadwan, from Jerusalem, killed on 04.11.2004 due to medical negligence<br /> <br /> 176 Mahmoud Abdel Rahman Kmeil, from Jenin, killed on 03.12.2004, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 177 Salah Omar Sheikh Al’eid, from Rafah, Gaza, killed on 10.12.2004, executed after arrest<br /> <br />
178 Rasim Sleiman Abu Gharra Ghneimat, from Kufr Malik, Ramallah,
killed on 27.01.2005 due to medical negligence in Megiddo prison<br /> <br /> 179 Abdel Fattah Yousif Mahmoud Raddad, from Sida, Tulkarim, killed on 05.05.2005 due to medical negligence<br /> <br /> 180 Ali Mohammad Tawfiq Abu Al-Rub, from Jenin, killed on 15.06.2005 due to torture<br /> <br /> 181 Bashar 'Arif Abdel Wali Bani Odeh, from Tammoun, Jenin, killed on 23.06.2005 due to medical negligence in Jalbou’ prison<br /> <br /> 182 Jawad 'Adel Abdel Aziz Abu Maghseb, from Deir Al-Balah, Gaza, killed on 28.07.2005 due to medical negligence in Naqab<br /> <br /> 183 Sleiman Mohammad Mahmoud Darayja, from Taybeh, killed on 26.04.2006 due to medical negligence in Hasharon prison<br /> <br /> 184 Mazin Hani Shabat, from Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed on 05.11.2006, executed after released at a checkpoint<br /> <br /> 185 Salim Rajih Abu Al-Haija, from Al-Yamoun, Jenin, killed on 09.11.2006, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 186 Mahmoud Rajih Zaki Abu Hasan, from Al-Yamoun, Jenin, killed on 09.11.2006, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 187 Jamal Hasan Abdallah As-Sarrahen, from Beit Ola, Hebron, killed on 16.01.2007 due to medical negligence in Ansar in Naqab<br /> <br /> 188 Wa’il Yousif Al-Qarrawi, from At-Turi, Jerusalem, killed on 09.03.2007 due to tortured<br /> <br /> 189 Maher Ata Mustafa Dandan, from Balata RC, Nablus, killed on 09.06.2007 due to medical negligence in Jalbou’ prison<br /> <br /> 190 Shadi Said As-Sa’aydeh, from Maghazi RC, Gaza, killed on 31.07.2007 due to medical negligence in Nafha prison<br /> <br />
191 Omar 'Ayed Salman Mallouh Al-Masalmeh, from Beit Awwa, Hebron,
killed on 25.08.2007 due to medical negligence in Ramleh prison<br /> <br /> 192 Mohammad Safi Al-Ashqar, from Sida, Tulkarem, killed on 22.10.2007, executed by Israeli prison authority<br /> <br /> 193 Fadi Abdel Latif Abu Al-Rub, from Qabatia, Jenin, killed on 28.12.2007 due to medical negligence in Jalbou’ prison<br /> <br /> 194 Fawwaz Awni Freihat, from Al-Yamoun, Jenin, killed on 07.01.2008, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 195 Fadil Odeh Atiyah Shahin, from Gaza, killed on 29.02.2008 due to medical negligence in Beir As-Sabi’ prison<br /> <br /> 196 Jum’a Ismail Mousa, from Jerusalem, killed on 24.12.2008 due to medical negligence in Ramleh prison<br /> <br /> 197 Obeideh Mahir Abdel Mu’ti Ad-Dweik, from Hebron, killed on 13.09.2009, executed after arrest<br /> <br /> 198 Ra’id Mahmoud Ahmad Abu Hammad, from Izariyyeh, Jerusalem killed on 16.04.2010 due to medical negligence.<br /> </span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>Indriyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15754515363729424333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3470545407200005707.post-72272196781092808412012-02-20T15:50:00.000-08:002012-02-20T15:50:03.306-08:00THREAT Bassem Tamimi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">THREAT Bassem Tamimi ~ unbreakable !<br /><br />*the first section is about Bassems actual "trial", credits to occupied palestine<br />*the second section a letter he has written to Ofer court on behalf of his "defending" in 2009.<br /><br />Palestinian activist to judge: I do not recognize your rules<br /><br />Bassem Tamimi from Nabi Saleh testified yesterday as part of the defense’s case in the ongoing trial against him. Tamimi, suspected of protest related charges, was arrested on March last year, and remains in detention since.<br /> Bassem Tamimi photo: ActiveStills <br />After 11 months in an Israeli jail, Bassem Tamimi, a prominent Palestinian activist from Nabi Saleh, was given a chance to plead his case before the military court in regards to the allegations against him, denying them in full while owning up to his and his village’s struggle against the Occupation and the theft of their lands. Tamimi, who was recognized by the European Union as a human rights defender last year, said, “International law gives us the right to peaceful protest, to demonstrate our refusal of the policies that hurt us, our daily life and the future of our children”.<br />Media contact: Jonathan Pollak +972-54-632-7736<br />Tamimi began his testimony by telling of his past experience in Israeli prisons and interrogation rooms. He recounted how he was tortured so badly by the Israeli Shin Bet in 1993 that he suffered a severe Intracranial hemorrhage which left him unconscious for a week and partially paralyzed.<br />He then continued to explain the reason behind the Nabi Saleh protests, saying “I do not know and do not care if they are permitted by your law, as it was enacted by an authority I do not recognize”. He narrated how the settlers from the nearby Halamish continuously took over lands belonging to his village since the 1970s abetted by the army and how, when villagers tried to prevent the latest attempts to seize their lands, the Israeli army exerted repression tactics against them. “Every time we try to help them work the land, before we reach it, they disperse us using rubber bullets, tear gas and using excessive force. This is what happens every Friday”, he said.<br />Based on coerced statements extracted unlawfully by the Israeli police from two minors, Tamimi is charged with organizing his village of 500 people in a formation of 11 battalions and assigning them different roles during the demonstrations. When asked of his reply to the charges against him Tamimi answered:<br />This is ridiculous and makes no sense, how stupid would I be to try and organize a 500 people village in 11 battalions [...] If indeed there were such battalions how come the Shin Bet or anyone else did not continue the investigation and arrests after mine was carried out? No one continued to look into this issue to try and dismantle this ‘army’ of mine…True justice would not have me stand here before this court at all, let alone while I am imprisoned and shackled. This case is baseless and made up with the sole goal of putting me behind bars…<br />During the course of Tamimi’s trial, new evidence has emerged, including proof of systematic violations of Palestinian minors’ rights during police interrogations (see video below) as well as first hand verification given by a military commander of disproportional use of force by the army in response to peaceful demonstrations.<br /><br /><br />Non-violence activist Bassem Tamimi's address to Israel's Ofer military court during his trial for organizing protests in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. A military judge refused to allow Tamimi to read his full statement in court.<br /><br />Your Honor,<br /><br />I hold this speech out of belief in peace, justice, freedom, the right to live in dignity, and out of respect for free thought in the absence of Just Laws.<br /><br />Every time I am called to appear before your courts, I become nervous and afraid. Eighteen years ago, my sister was killed by in a courtroom such as this, by a staff member. In my lifetime, I have been nine times imprisoned for an overall of almost 3 years, though I was never charged or convicted. During my imprisonment, I was paralyzed as a result of torture by your investigators. My wife was detained, my children were wounded, my land was stolen by settlers, and now my house is slated for demolition.<br /><br />I was born at the same time as the Occupation and have been living under its inherent inhumanity, inequality, racism and lack of freedom ever since. Yet, despite all this, my belief in human values and the need for peace in this land have never been shaken. Suffering and oppression did not fill my heart with hatred for anyone, nor did they kindle feelings of revenge. To the contrary, they reinforced my belief in peace and national standing as an adequate response to the inhumanity of Occupation.<br /><br />International law guarantees the right of occupied people to resist Occupation. In practicing my right, I have called for and organized peaceful popular demonstrations against the Occupation, settler attacks and the theft of more than half of the land of my village, Nabi Saleh, where the graves of my ancestors have lain since time immemorial.<br /><br />I organized these peaceful demonstrations in order to defend our land and our people. I do not know if my actions violate your Occupation laws. As far as I am concerned, these laws do not apply to me and are devoid of meaning. Having been enacted by Occupation authorities, I reject them and cannot recognize their validity.<br /><br />Despite claiming to be the only democracy in the Middle East you are trying me under military laws which lack any legitimacy; laws that are enacted by authorities that I have not elected and do not represent me. I am accused of organizing peaceful civil demonstrations that have no military aspects and are legal under international law.<br /><br />We have the right to express our rejection of Occupation in all of its forms; to defend our freedom and dignity as a people and to seek justice and peace in our land in order to protect our children and secure their future.<br /><br />The civil nature of our actions is the light that will overcome the darkness of the Occupation, bringing a dawn of freedom that will warm the cold wrists in chains, sweep despair from the soul and end decades of oppression.<br /><br />These actions are what will expose the true face of the Occupation, where soldiers point their guns at a woman walking to her fields or at checkpoints; at a child who wants to drink from the sweet water of his ancestors' fabled spring; against an old man who wants to sit in the shade of an olive tree, once mother to him, now burnt by settlers.<br /><br />We have exhausted all possible actions to stop attacks by settlers, who refuse to adhere to your courts' decisions, which time and again have confirmed that we are the owners of the land, ordering the removal of the fence erected by them.<br /><br />Each time we tried to approach our land, implementing these decisions, we were attacked by settlers, who prevented us from reaching it as if it were their own.<br /><br />Our demonstrations are in protest of injustice. We work hand in hand with Israeli and international activists who believe, like us, that had it not been for the Occupation, we could all live in peace on this land. I do not know which laws are upheld by generals who are inhibited by fear and insecurity, nor do I know their thoughts on the civil resistance of women, children and old men who carry hope and olive branches. <br /><br />But I know what justice and reason are. Land theft and tree-burning is unjust. Violent repression of our demonstrations and protests and your detention camps are not evidence of the illegality of our actions. It is unfair to be tried under a law forced upon us. I know that I have rights and my actions are just.<br /><br />The military prosecutor accuses me of inciting the protesters to throw stones at the soldiers. This is not true. What incites protesters to throw stones is the sound of bullets, the Occupation’s bulldozers as they destroy the land, the smell of teargas and the smoke coming from burnt houses. I did not incite anyone to throw stones, but I am not responsible for the security of your soldiers who invade my village and attack my people with all the weapons of death and the equipment of terror.<br /><br />These demonstrations that I organize have had a positive influence over my beliefs; they allowed me to see people from the other side who believe in peace and share my struggle for freedom. Those freedom fighters have rid their conscious from the Occupation and put their hands in ours in peaceful demonstrations against our common enemy, the Occupation. They have become friends, sisters and brothers. We fight together for a better future for our children and theirs.<br /><br />If released by the judge will I be convinced thereby that justice still prevails in your courts? Regardless of how just or unjust this ruling will be, and despite all your racist and inhumane practices and Occupation, we will continue to believe in peace, justice and human values. We will still raise our children to love; love the land and the people without discrimination of race, religion or ethnicity; embodying thus the message of the Messenger of Peace, Jesus Christ, who urged us to "love our enemy." With love and justice, we make peace and build the future.<br /><br /><br /></span></td></tr>
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<br /></div>Indriyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15754515363729424333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3470545407200005707.post-25570887018049602562012-02-20T13:30:00.000-08:002012-02-20T13:30:03.814-08:00THREAT Rashid<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><br />Defense for Children International (DCI) in Palestine submitted a complaint to the legal supervisor of the Israeli government and the Israeli prisons' administration on behalf of a 16 year old child, Rashid C, from Hares village. DCI demanded an immediate investigation into the physical and psychological abuse and maltreatment of Rashid by the Israeli intelligence services during his arrest and interrogation at Al-Jalama Interrogation and Detention Center in November 2011.<br /><br />Rashid was arrested by Israeli soldiers on 4th November 2011, and immediately he was handcuffed and forced to sit down on an iron floor of a military vehicle for a long period of time.<br /><br />Five hours after his arrest, Rashid was transferred to the Interrogation and Detention Center in al-Jalama. The soldiers searched him, though he was completely naked, and he was then interrogated by Israeli intelligence officials. During the interrogation, Rashid was cuffed to a small iron chair and was threatened with torture if he didn't cooperate with them.<br /><br />Rashid told DCI that the soldiers cursed, yelled and spat at him while he was on the chair during the interrogation. He was also banned from using the bathroom despite his continuous requests.<br /><br />Rashid also said that he was detained at the al-Jalama center in solitary confinement in a small dirty cell, with no lighting, for 13 days.<br /><br />Abusing and maltreating children and torturing them is a violation of Israeli legal commitments according to the United Nations (UN) Convention against Torture, international law that is specialized in civil and political rights and the fourth Geneva convention.<br /><br />Mr. Juan Mendez, UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, in his report to the UN public organization published in October 2011, called for a complete ban on the solitary confinement of children:<br /><br />"Considering the severe mental pain or suffering solitary confinement may cause, it can amount to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment when used as a punishment, during pre-trial detention, indefinitely or for a prolonged period, for persons with mental disabilities or juveniles," he warned.<br /><br />DCI started to investigate the Israeli treatment of Rashid, especially the conditions of his detention and the nature of his interrogation. The DCI also called for a lawyer that Rashid could choose to accompany him during his interrogation.<br /><br />http://www.facebook.com/DCIPS<br /><br /></span></td></tr>
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<br /></div>Indriyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15754515363729424333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3470545407200005707.post-2891241031519890432012-02-20T05:44:00.000-08:002012-02-20T05:44:15.320-08:00THREAT The Adnan Family<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="hasCaption">Mr Adnan:<br /> He (my son) does not enjoy going
on a hunger strike because of the joy of going on a hunger strike _ He
is striving for the freedom of his people and the people of his country _
He lives with his head held up high_ standing tall... with no way for
the occupation to get to him _<br /> <br /> I thank you one more time and I
thank the israeli people who are compassionate about the cause of my son
Adnan_ because the occupation does not share the news of what is going
on inside its territories in Tel Aviv_ Yaffa_ Qariat Eshmona_ Jerusalem_
it obscures the news from the israeli people _<br /> <br /> The occupation
does not want life for my son_ it wants to see him dead as quickly as
possible_ but the will of God is guarding and protecting him on the 61st
day and I just visited him today and the will of God is protecting him
and keeping him alive<br /> His health is stable_ thanks be to Allah and
his spirits are as high as the skies and all the Israeli officials are
struggling_ and it is now clear to all people what the ocuupation is
doing against our peaceful people (of Palestine) and you israelis<br /> <br /> bystander:<br /> “we are not israelis Sheikh”<br /> <br /> Mr Adnan:<br />
I am talking to the israelis in Qariat Eshmona and the israelis through
you I address the israelis through you_ that my son was arrested while
he was at his house_ while he was with his wife and children and was
taken prisoner_ and he was unarmed_ and Shalit was waging war against
the people of Gaza and destroying their houses_ and shooting them_ and
Shalit was released_ where is the mother of Shalit and where is his
father? Why aren’t they feeling compassion for me and my humantirian
cause?? Where are they?<br /> They are on the wrong side and we are on the
right side _ Our being on the right side is stronger than their being
on the wrong side _ They took our homes _ They raped our land and
destroyed it and destroyed our mosques and they are still destroying _<br /> Where are you people of pride and dignity???<br /> Is there anyone amongst you or amongst the Arabic leaders who carries the dignity of Al-Mu’tasim ?<br />
When a Muslim woman in Ammoria called “Oh Al-Mu’tasim” (calling out for
help), he armed armies and sent them from “the house of Maqdess” all
the way to “Ammourya” and he got her released and the king of the Romans
paid the penalty<br /> I am not asking for much _ I am reaching out and asking for the Arabic and Islamic world<br />
to take a stand_ a stand that is a proud one and not a broken stand in
front of the enemy_ the enemy that is arrogant_ abusive and ruthless<br /> <br /> The doctor in the hospital is telling my son “if you are a man Khader_ refuse to drink water”<br />
Does he not know that our lives are in the hands of God? Is this
medicine? And is this the way they study medicine and is this the
reality of the doctors who are working at that hospital?<br /> Is that doctor speaking in the name of the Torah sacraments which are sacred?<br />
Does he not know that life and death is given by GOD? God gives it to
the ones he chooses _ A man does not die from hunger or thirst_ God
protects the people he chooses to _<br /> <br /> I just left from visiting
my son and I am determined that he continues his hunger strike till
victory and till the goal of the Palestinian people of freedom and
independence is achieved _ Freedom for him and all the detainees and
priosners in Israeli jails_ My son does not care about hunger or thirst
but he cares about his freedom and the freedom of his people<br /> <br /> I
call on President Ahmadenajad the Iranian president who has not said one
word so far about my son _ and i call on Rajestani and Hassan
NassrAllah and we all know who Hassan NassrAllah is_ he says he is the
supporter of resistance _ Isn’t my son the one who is resisting with an
empty stomach???<br /> <br /> Where are you Hassan Nasrillah? I have heard nothing from you _<br /> Where are you Youssef Qardawi? I did not hear anything from you _<br /> Where are you Sheikh to the Al Azhar mosque? I have heard nothing from you _<br /> And as if this matter does not concern you all_ does not concern you in any way_ not in a close way or a distant way<br /> Where are you Mahmoud Abbas???<br /> Where are you Abu Mazen?<br />
You who are keeping and exercising complete diplomatic relations with
the zionist entity with whom you negotiate_ and you are waiting until my
son dies_ then you will wave your flags and say “I consider Khaled a
martyr”….<br /> <br /> I want my son to come out alive and well_ through the
pride of proud people or the humiliation of the humiliated ones _ I
want him to return to his family and his people and all those who love
him all over the homeland<br /> <br /> Khader’s message has reached from the
furthest East to West_ South to North _ and from the East to the West I
am contacted by people in the USA_ people that are close to the White
House_ the White House that is actually the Black House _ May God make
them even darker_ as they are not supporters of justice or supporters of
peace _ they want the surrender of our people_ the Palestinians_ this
Muslim people who are struggling in “Bait el Makdess” Jerusalem<br /> <quote from the Prophet (PBUH) ><br /> I thank you for being here<br /> I thank you for your support<br /> I thank you for your cooperation<br /> this is the message of Khader _ the speaker on behalf of Arabic and Muslim people<br /> Peace be upon you…<br /><br /><b>PEACE BE UPON YOU AND YOUR BRAVE LOVED ONES MUSA </b></span></span></td></tr>
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<br /></div>Indriyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15754515363729424333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3470545407200005707.post-83951508682010266922012-02-19T03:12:00.000-08:002012-02-21T23:51:33.161-08:00THREAT Dirar Abu Sisi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Dirar Abu Seesi</b> or: <b>Abu Sisi</b> (Arabic: <b>ضرار أبو سيسي</b>; born in 1969 in Jordan) </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Married to Veronika, father of six</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">is the Deputy Engineer for the Gaza Strip<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip"></a>'s sole electrical plant, which provides 25% of Gaza's power,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Interfax_2-0"></sup> and, according to Israel, also a Hamas weapons engineer. In February 2011, he traveled to Ukraine,
his wife's native country, to apply for citizenship, after coming to
believe that Gaza was no longer a safe place to raise his six children.
He disappeared in Poltava on February 19, and later turned up in an Israeli prison.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Haaretz_3-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirar_Abu_Seesi#cite_note-Haaretz-3"></a></sup> On April 4, he was indicted for his alleged aid to Hamas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Abduction">Abduction</span></span></h2>
<span style="font-size: small;">On the evening of February 18, after formally filing the papers for citizenship, Abu Seesi was traveling by train to the Kiev airport for a reunion with his brother Yussef, who was residing in the Netherlands and whom he had not seen in 15 years. Just outside the city of Poltava,
two men, whom the family believes were Ukrainian security agents,
entered the train and removed Dirar. After that, he disappeared. His
wife Veronika, who was in Ukraine at the time as well, did not hear from
him for a week. During that period of silence, she summoned the
Ukrainian press and stated that the Mossad
On February 27, the Palestinian Interior Ministry demanded that the
Ukrainian Interior Ministry disclose the reasons for his disappearance.</span> <span style="font-size: small;">had kidnapped him.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Dalia Kerstein, executive director of the Israeli human rights NGO, HaMoked,
confirmed that the Gazan engineer was in an Israeli prison. Kerstein
identified Abu Seesi’s Israeli attorney Michal Orkabi, who confirmed
that she represented him, but she could provide no further information
due to a security gag order imposed by the Petah Tikva Magistrates' Court preventing her from speaking about the case.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Interfax_2-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirar_Abu_Seesi#cite_note-Interfax-2"></a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Mitnick_4-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirar_Abu_Seesi#cite_note-Mitnick-4"></a></sup> On March 20, the gag order was partially lifted with Israel admitting it was holding Abu Seesi.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-LA_Times_5-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirar_Abu_Seesi#cite_note-LA_Times-5"></a></sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The United Nations High Commission for Refugees
became involved in the case when it determined that Abu Seesi was
classified as a refugee. An Associated Press article revealed that the
UNHCR's Ukrainian representative asked Ukraine to account for any role
its own officials may have played in the disappearance.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Haaretz_3-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirar_Abu_Seesi#cite_note-Haaretz-3"></a></sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Veronika Abu Seesi claims that Israel kidnapped him because he was
the “brain of the power system” and that he had rebuilt it himself after
it was destroyed during Operation Cast Lead in 2009. The Wall Street Journal and Washington Post
both report that Abu Seesi had devised a technique enabling the plant
to rely solely on diesel fuel supplied by Egypt that could fully power
the plant. This would enable it to bypass Israel as its sole source of
fuel to run the plant.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Mitnick_4-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirar_Abu_Seesi#cite_note-Mitnick-4"></a></sup><i>Der Spiegel</i> indicated that Abu Seesi's abduction was owing to information he had in relation to missing Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was being held by Palestinian militants in Gaza.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirar_Abu_Seesi#cite_note-7"></a></sup> Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a live interview with YouTube World View and Channel Two News, said that Abu Seesi is a Hamas man being held in Israel, and he disclosed valuable information.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8"></sup> Israeli officials were insinuating earlier that Abu Seesi was involved in weaponry for Hamas.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-LA_Times_5-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirar_Abu_Seesi#cite_note-LA_Times-5"></a></sup></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Indictment">Indictment</span></span></h2>
<span style="font-size: small;">On April 4, 2011, Abu Seesi was indicted in the Beersheba
District Court, charged with "membership in a terrorist organization,
conspiracy to commit a crime, and the production of illegal weaponry,
assistance to an illegal organization and other various crimes".
According to the indictment, Abu Seesi was the central developer of the Qassam rocket<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirar_Abu_Seesi#cite_note-9"></a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirar_Abu_Seesi#cite_note-10"></a></sup></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">among other rockets and anti-tank missiles, was responsible for
upgrading older rockets for Hamas and served as the commander of Hamas'
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Military Academy.</span></td></tr>
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<br /></div>Indriyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15754515363729424333noreply@blogger.com0