Freedom Now: Campaign to Release Palestinian Child Prisoners Each year, hundreds of Palestinian children from the Occupied Palestinian Territories are arrested, interrogated, and imprisoned by the Israeli military authorities. Since 1992, Defence for Children International/Palestine Section (DCI/PS) has represented many of these children in Israeli military courts, monitoring the conditions of their detention, and intervening…
Prisoner club: Israel uses electric shock torture against children The Palestinian prisoner club accused the IOA of committing new crimes of corporal torture against children through giving them electric shocks and beating them severely. The club said that Palestinian child Hamza Al-Za’aol, who was kidnapped on the fourth of May on a charge of throwing…
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Palestinian detainee enters his 32nd year in detention by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News ‘There are 327 detainees who spent a minimum of 15 years behind bars, including 20 who were detained more than 20 years ago, 12 detained more than 25 years ago, and two who were detained more than 30 years ago.’ The…
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Upper Nazareth to build orthodox neighborhood on former Arab land to counter number of Arabs IMEMC, ‘The mayor of Upper Nazareth: “As a man of Greater Israel, I think it is more important to settle in the Galilee than in Judea and Samaria… I urge the settlers there to come here.” ‘ The mayor of Upper…
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Putting out a contract on art by Yitzhak Laor …Below is the text of the contract that authors and artists sign with the Foreign Ministry in exchange for funding for the most important component in their international career: their trips to cultural and literary events, including film, theater, and dance festivals. … “Contract Between the…
Israeli Checkpoints in the Occupied Territories MIFTAH, August 21, 2008 ‘The quarter of a million Israeli settlers in the West Bank do not have to pass through the checkpoints. They are given access to bypass roads, only available to them, which connect West Bank settlements to Israel…The checkpoints scattered all over the West Bank affect…
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