🇵🇸 1/2 - Some context and background on Palestinians detained & imprisoned by Israel :

1) A Palestinian "prisoner" does not refer to someone tried & convicted in a normal court of law that follows due process. Palestinians are detained by Israeli soldiers, https://www.addameer.org/israeli_military_judicial_system/military_courts

No arrest warrant, no right to a phone call, no lawyers present. 2) Palestinians are interrogated without lawyers present & widespread abuses amounting to torture, are documented by human rights orgs. This links to some #testimonies. https://addameer.org/publications/systematic-use-torture-and-ill-treatment-israeli-interrogation-centers-cases-torture

3) Palestinian children are also tried in specially designed "juvenile military courts". Between 500 & 700 🇵🇸 kids are tried in these courts each year. Sworn affidavits of nearly 800 child detainees show 86% were not informed of the reason for their arrest https://www.dci-palestine.org/military_detention

80% were strip-searched, 42% were denied adequate food & water, 31% were denied access to a toilet, 97% were interrogated without a family member present, 55% were shown or made to sign a paper in Hebrew, not Arabic. https://www.savethechildren.net/news/%E2%80%9Ctreated-animals%E2%80%9D-palestinian-children-face-inhumane-treatment-israeli-run-prisons

4) Israel widely uses "administrative detention" against hundreds of Palestinians. This allows for the indefinite detention of a Palestinian without charge - renewable every 6 months. Since '67, around 60,000 Palestinians were administrative detainees. https://www.btselem.org/administrative_detention

Source : Noure Odeh
#Palestine #Apartheid #Judiciary #Detention #Prison #Minors #Children #Addameer #Btselem
22/11/2023

🇵🇸 2/2 - Some context and background on Palestinians detained & imprisoned by Israel

5) At least 800,000 🇵🇸shave been imprisoned at one point in their lives since 1967 by Israel, making the issue of prisoners a topic that touches all families. In July @FranceskAlbs said this mass incarceration policy was another expression of apartheid. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/07/dismantle-israels-carceral-regime-and-open-air-imprisonment-palestinians-un

6) Israel detains Palestinians from Gaza under an obscure law that strips away meaningful judicial review and due process rights. That says a lot given that Palestinian detainees from the West Bank barely have any rights. https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/03/01/gaza-unlawful-combatants-law-violates-rights

7) More than 10,000 Palestinian women have been imprisoned since 1967. Currently around 80 are imprisoned & detained by Israel.

8) Palestinians can be detained for raising a 🇵🇸, throwing stones, "incitement", or affiliation with any political faction. https://www.addameer.org/israeli_military_judicial_system/military_orders

9) Since 10/7, Israeli forces have detained around 3,000 Palestinians, including 30 journalists, community leaders, and non-violent resistance leaders & has denied lawyers & ICRC access. HR orgs have documented horrific tales of torture of detainees https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/11/israel-opt-horrifying-cases-of-torture-and-degrading-treatment-of-palestinian-detainees-amid-spike-in-arbitrary-arrests/#:~:text=Israeli%20authorities%20have%20dramatically%20increased,of%20torture%20and%20death%20in"

10) Released prisoners say in addition to cutting off water & electricity, detainees report that many have had their limbs, legs, and hands broken, and many others from unrecognizable from the beating. Soldiers are filming the abuse : https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=ltu-F_2ai1M

Source @Noure Odeh
#Palestine #OPT #Apartheid #Judiciary #Prison #Detention #Minors #Children
22/11/2023

🇵🇸 Marah Bakr, freed Palestinian prisoner reunited with her mother

Marah Bakr, released from Ofer prison on the 22 November, reunites with her family. The release is part of a temporary truce deal, through which at least 39 Palestinian women and children were released.

Bakr had been incarcerated since the age of 17 and spent eight years behind bars in Israeli prisons

Palestinian Prisoner Channel : https://t.me/RNN_Prisoners
Source : Middle East Eye
#Palestine #OPT #Prison #Detention #Prisoners #PrisonerExchange #PrisonerSwap
24/11/2023

🇵🇸 39 Palestinian prisoner women and children return home.

Al Jazeera's Nida Ibrahim from the Occupied West Bank.This footage was filmed on the 24/11/2023
#Palestine #OPT
#Prison #Prisoners #Detention
#PrisonerExchange #PrisonerSwap

🇵🇸 ‘No Pain like Mine’: The Story of Palestinian Prisoner Israa’ Ja’abis

To understand the context of the Palestinian prisoners’ stories, the Palestine Chronicle provides excerpts from Ramzy Baroud’s volume These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons.

Israa’ Ja’abis was born on July 22, 1984, in Al-Quds (Jerusalem), the fourth of nine sisters and brothers. She was arrested following an electrical system failure in her car which caught fire while she was still trapped inside. It resulted in first, second and third-degree burns on her face and all over her body, including the loss of eight fingers.

#Palestine #OPT #IsraaJaabis
#Prison #Detention #Prisoners
#PrisonerExchange #PrisonerSwap

🇵🇸 Palestinian woman speaks out on imprisonment conditions in Israeli custody | 2021

Arrested after being wounded by Israeli soldiers, recently-released Palestinian detainee Amal Takatka speaks out on the conditions of her seven-year imprisonment in Israeli jails.

Source : Middle East Eye
#Palestine #OPT #Prison #Detention #Prisoners

🇵🇸 Israa Jaabis, a Palestinian woman who suffered severe burns and was charged with attempted murder after her car exploded near an Israeli checkpoint in 2015, has been welcomed home by her family.

Speaking to media after her release late on Saturday night, Jaabis said: “My wounds are visible and my struggles, I don’t need to talk about.”

She described the emotions of yearning to be with family as the price prisoners pay.

She also expressed concerns about other Palestinians she had been imprisoned with who were not released, including young girls who she said cried when she was released “because they’ve been subjected to a lot of things”.

“I’m talking about the small girls. They’ve been through things that nobody should witness,” #IsraaJaabis told journalists.

Source : Al Jazeera English
#Palestine #OPT #WestBank #Prison #Prisoners #Oppression #PrisonerSwap
26/11/2023

🇵🇸 Freed Palestinian captive Shorouk Dwayyat welcomed by family

Freed Palestinian prisoner #ShoroukDwayyat was welcomed by her family with tears of joy after she was released on the second day of a prisoner swap between Hamas and Israel.

Shorouk was 16 when she was arrested and sentenced to 16 years in an Israeli prison back in 2015.

Shorouq held the longest sentence among the female prisoners, having been sentenced 16 years in prison when she was only 16 years old. She was imprisoned for nine years.

Sources : @PalestineResist Middle East Eye
#Palestine #OPT #WestBank #Prison #Prisoners #Detention #Oppression #PrisonerSwap
26/11/2023

Inside Israel's mass imprisonment of Palestinians – The New Arab

The situation of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons is very dangerous nowadays. This is the worst time prisoners have seen since Israel occupied the Palestinian territories in 1967,” Muhammad Abdul Samad, a spokesperson of the Palestinian Commission for Detainees and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs, told The New Arab, highlighting how the war on Gaza has dramatically impacted the lives of Palestinian detainees.

"One million Palestinians have passed through Israeli prisons since the occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza Strip in 1967

There's hardly a Palestinian house without a family member in jail or a former prisoner. It affects every Palestinian"

#Palestine #Prison #Detention #Prisoners #HR #Torture #Judiciary #Apartheid
29/11/2023

🇵🇸 'They Assaulted All The Girls' - Jailed For Posting a Palestinian Flag | AJ+

Palestinian teenager Zeina Abdo was jailed for posting a Palestinian flag on social media. 🇵🇸  

She says Israel retaliated against Palestinian detainees after Hamas’ attack on October 7th.

Source : Al Jazeera +
#Palestine #OPT #WestBank #Repression #Detention #FemalePrisoner #Prison #Prisoners #Judiciary #Testimonies
30/11/2023

🇵🇸 A released Palestinian female prisoner has claimed that female prisoners faced threats of sexual assault and that some were subjected to beatings which at times occurred when they were naked in prison bathrooms.

Ruqayah Amr, one of the Palestinian prisoners released as part of the truce agreement between Hamas and Israel made the claims during an interview with Al Jazeera Arabic TV.

She claimed Israeli guards would threaten prisoners, stating, “They would show us fabricated videos, but the girls would refuse to look at them. [The Israeli guards would say] look what we are going to do to you,” Amr added. “It’s something I can’t even talk about.”

Amr's claims add to previous ones reported by Middle East Eye that allege Israeli guards have threatened sexual assault against female inmates and assaulted them inside their cells.

Via : @MiddleEastEye_TG
#Palestine #Detention #Prison #Prisoners #FemalePrisoner #HR #IOF #SexualAssault #RuqayahAmr
30/11/2023

🇵🇸 Freed Palestinian prisoner: 'I was explicitly threatened with rape'

Lama Khater, a #writer released in the sixth batch of Palestinian prisoners as part of the truce agreement, revealed that Israeli forces threatened to rape her and burn her #children. Describing the harrowing conditions, she stated: "Today, male and female prisoners are enduring what can be considered forced #starvation, in complete #isolation."

Khater describes how an Israeli solider told her that his rage would only be satisfied if he killed 50,000 children in Gaza.

Khater confirmed that at least 10 Palestinian females from the Gaza Strip were transferred to jail two days before the truce. She added that these women were arrested by Israeli forces while fleeing from northern to southern #Gaza. According to Khater, Israel seems to target mothers, forcing them to separate from their children.

Source : Middle East Eye
#Palestine #OPT #Detention #Prison #FemalePrisoner #Prisoner #SexualAssault #Testimonies #LamaKhater
30/11/2023

🇵🇸 A Palestinian Teenager’s Experience in an Israeli Prison
- This is Palestine | Podcast -

As of the time of this recording, Israel has temporarily halted its brutal bombing campaign on the Gaza Strip. As part of the agreement to “pause” the bombing, Israel is releasing Palestinian kids and women held in Israeli prisons in exchange for the release of Israelis held in Gaza. The vast majority of those released have never been convicted. In this episode, we highlight the story of a young Palestinian teenager who was released by Israel, how and why he ended up in Israeli prisons and the treatment of the prisoners before and after the start of the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip.

www.imeu.org
#Palestine #OPT #WestBank #Prison #Detention #Prisoners #Testimonies #Podcast
01/12/2023

🇵🇸 Apartheid Israeli justice system in West Bank

Israel operates two systems of law in the occupied territories. Palestinians under the military. Israelis under civil law"

A report by CNN's Nima Elbagir sheds light on the controversial Israeli justice system and how Palestinians in the West Bank are subject to the jurisdiction of Israel's military courts, while Israeli settlers arrested in the West Bank are tried in civilian courts within Israel

CNN broke down the numbers in a list of 300 Palestinian prisoners identified by Israel as eligible for release. 80% are listed as just detained, which means they have not been formally sentenced

The report talks about Fatima Shahin, who spent seven months in an Israeli prison. She was initially accused of attempting to murder an Israeli in the West Bank. However, she was never formally charged with any crime

Source : Middle East Eye
#Palestine #OPT #WestBank
#Apartheid #Judiciary #Detention #Prison #Prisoners #Testimonies
#FatimaShahin #MilitaryCourts
03/12/2023

🇵🇸 What happens to arrested Palestinian women?

After speaking to several women who had been arrested in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera’s Hoda Abdel-Hamid traced the phases of detention that female prisoners have to face:

They are first brought to Ofer prison.They are then taken to another location for interrogation for several days.After that, they are moved to Demon, a prison for female Palestinian detainees in Israel.

“They say inside those jails they are entirely cut off from the world and conditions are very harsh because they say prison guards were taking revenge or their anger out on them for what happened on October 7,” Abdel-Hamid said, reporting from #Hebron.

Source : Al Jazeera
#Palestine #OPT #WestBank #Prison #Detention #FemalePrisoner #Prisoners #Oppression #OferPrison #DemonFemalePrison #Testimonies
03/12/2023

🇵🇸 Special Rapporteur Says Israel’s Unlawful Carceral Practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Are Tantamount to International Crimes and Have Turned it into an Open-Air Prison | OHCHR - July 2023

Currently, there were 5,000 Palestinians in Israeli prisons, including 160 children, and approximately 1,100 of them were detained without charge or trial.  Her report did not condone any acts of violence committed by Palestinians, while living under an unlawful occupation or in their pursuit to end it. 

However, it must be acknowledged that most Palestinians had been convicted through a series of violations of international law, such as discrimination, persecution, and breaches of due process and for ordinary acts of life and in the exercise of legitimate civil and political rights. 

A widespread and systematic arbitrary deprivation of liberty of Palestinians was a structural component of their subjugation. 

#Palestine #OPT #Prison #Prisoners #Detention #HR #UNSR #OHCHR #InternationalLaw

🇵🇸 Palestinian detainees suffer from worsening conditions in Israeli prisons

Since the beginning of Israel's war on Gaza, over 3,000 Palestinians have been detained in the Occupied West Bank, many without charge.
There are more reports of deteriorating conditions inside Israeli jails.

Al Jazeera's Hoda Abdel-Hamid reports from Hebron in the occupied West Bank has spoken to some recently released prisoners about the abuses they experienced behind bars.  

#Palestine #OPT #WestBank #Hebron #Prison #Detention #Prisoners #FemalePrisoner #HR #Oppression #Apartheid #Documentary #Testimonies
04/12/2023