🇵🇸 HaMoked
(@HaMokedRights): "New data: Israel Prison Service is holding 6,809 Palestinians: This includes 2,070 administrative detainees - an unprecedented number; & 105 "unlawful combatants" (details below) It does NOT include some 4,000 Gaza workers - so actually Israel holds about 11,000 Palestinians" | nitter –

"You can compare the new data to previous months here: https://hamoked.org/prisoners-charts.php TL;DR There has been a huge increase => 1,500 new detainees, almost all of them from the West Bank

Video : Israeli occupation forces carry out a mass detention campaign in the Al-Fawwar refugee camp, south of the occupied West Bank on the 03/11/2023

#Palestine #Prisoners #HamokedRights #detention

🇵🇸 Al-Shabaka الشبكة (@AlShabaka): "The Systematic Torture of Palestinians in Israeli Detention Since the establishment of Israel in 1948, it has been torturing Palestinians. Yara Hawari writes that the use of torture in Israeli detention is systematic & legitimized through law (2019) " | nitter –

The Systematic Torture of Palestinians in Israeli Detention - Al-Shabaka – 2019
Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network

#Palestine #Torture #Detention #WestBank #AlShabaka

🇵🇸 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

🇵🇸 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

🇵🇸 Interrogations, Arrests, and Indictments of Palestinian Citizens of Israel since 7 October - Adalah –

Since 7 October 2023, Palestinian citizens of Israel have faced political persecution and a severe crackdown on their freedom of expression and assembly. The repression of speech is the result of widespread and coordinated efforts between government offices, Israeli institutions, and far-right groups, all targeting Palestinian citizens and those who dare to express dissent against the military’s retaliatory attacks on Gaza.

Adalah's legal team cooperates with the High Follow-up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel and its Emergency Committee, as well as with lawyers, popular committees and partner NGOs in many towns and villages to monitor and document rights violations and to represent Palestinian citizens of Israel facing these criminal charges.

https://www.adalah.org/uploads/uploads/Criminal_Proceedings_Report_Eng_Nov_13.pdf

#Palestine #Apartheid
#Adalah #Report #Repression #Detention #OPT #Judiciary
November 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