Showing posts with label Kidnapping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kidnapping. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Israel's media blackout, doctored Flotilla recording condemned
HUMAN RIGHTS
Mel Frykberg, The Electronic Intifada, 8 June 2010
RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - Although Israel successfully controlled news of its deadly commando raid on the Freedom Flotilla during the first crucial 48 hours of media coverage, emerging evidence from witnesses and survivors is challenging the Israeli government's version of events.
These include claims of medical treatment being withheld; beatings and abuse of passengers who never resisted; the Israeli military doctoring audio and selectively editing videos.
Monday, June 7, 2010
An act of state terrorism
June 7, 2010
Outraged protests have spread around the world following the Israeli commando raid on a flotilla carrying desperately needed humanitarian aid to Gaza. At least nine people were killed, and many more injured when Israeli forces attacked the unarmed peace activists in the middle of the night on May 31. But the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to spin lies about the assault, with the connivance of the Israeli and American media.
Kevin Ovenden is an organizer of the Viva Palestina solidarity group and veteran of two convoys to Gaza. He spoke to about the murderous Israeli assault on the peace flotilla--and he makes the case that the Palestinian solidarity movement must seize the moment to build wider support for ending the siege.
Kevin Ovenden is an organizer of the Viva Palestina solidarity group and veteran of two convoys to Gaza. He spoke to about the murderous Israeli assault on the peace flotilla--and he makes the case that the Palestinian solidarity movement must seize the moment to build wider support for ending the siege.
What happened to us is happening in Gaza
OPINION/EDITORIAL
Iara Lee, The Electronic Intifada, 6 June 2010
At least nine of my fellow passengers were killed by the Israeli military for attempting to defy the ban on delivering aid. Far more Palestinian civilians have died as a result of the siege itself. What happened to our Flotilla is happening to the people of Gaza on a daily basis. It will not stop until international law is applied to all countries, Israel included.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
ISHR: “11 Palestinians Killed, 285 Kidnapped In April"
From IMEMC
The International Solidarity for Human Rights Foundation (ISHR) issued a report on Monday revealing that Israeli soldiers killed in April eleven Palestinians, including two children, in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Six were killed in the West Bank and five in the Gaza Strip.
In Tubas, near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, two sisters ages five and six, were killed after a speeding military jeep rammed a tractor they were riding with their family.
In Ramallah, a 21-year-old young woman identified as Samar Radwan, 21, was killed in a hit-and-run accident carried out by a Jewish settler.
Resident Mohammad Oleyyat, 62, died of a heart attack after being forced to wait at the Al Hamra roadblock, near Tubas. He carried French citizenship and was visiting relatives in Tubas.
Furthermore, detainee Raed Abu Hammad, 27, from Al Ezariyya town east of Jerusalem, died while in solitary confinement at the Be’er Shiva Israeli prison. He was in solitary confinement for 18 months.
In Beit Awwa, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, soldiers assassinated Ali Imsail Sweity, 45, after surrounding his home and demolishing it while he was inside. He was a member of the Al Qassam Brigades of Hamas movement and topped Israel’s wanted list for several years.
Furthermore, Israeli soldiers killed five Palestinians in different attacks and invasions targeting the Gaza Strip.
Residents Marwan Al Jarba, 25, Wael Abu Jalala and a third unidentified resident were killed in armed clashes with Israeli troops invading Jabalia in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. They were members of the Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad.
Resident Mohammad Salim, 24, from Al Shujaeyya, was killed in an Israeli shelling, while resident Ahmad Salem, 19, also from Al Shujaeyya was shot and killed after the army opened fire at a nonviolent protest against the so-called “security belt” Israel is enforcing in Gaza.
The ISHR stated that soldiers kidnapped 285 residents in April during different invasion and attacks, and escalated their violations against the residents and their property in occupied East Jerusalem as dozens were kidnapped during protests against settlements in Silwan town and in the Old City.
Among the kidnapped were 26 children and two women identified as lawyer Shereen Isawy, 29, from Jerusalem and Halima Shawamra, 58, from Doura near Hebron.
Isawy was kidnapped at a roadblock while returning from the headquarters of the International Workers Movement for the Defense of Children, in Sheikh Saad neighborhood in East Jerusalem. She is active in defending human rights and the rights of the detainees.
Shawamra, 58, was kidnapped in Doura and was taken as a hostage after the army broke into her home in an attempt to push her “wanted” son to surrender.
Also in April, soldiers and Israeli policemen kidnapped dozens of Palestinian workers in Israel for entering and working in the country without “valid permits”.
The International Solidarity for Human Rights Foundation (ISHR) issued a report on Monday revealing that Israeli soldiers killed in April eleven Palestinians, including two children, in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Six were killed in the West Bank and five in the Gaza Strip.
In Tubas, near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, two sisters ages five and six, were killed after a speeding military jeep rammed a tractor they were riding with their family.
In Ramallah, a 21-year-old young woman identified as Samar Radwan, 21, was killed in a hit-and-run accident carried out by a Jewish settler.
Resident Mohammad Oleyyat, 62, died of a heart attack after being forced to wait at the Al Hamra roadblock, near Tubas. He carried French citizenship and was visiting relatives in Tubas.
Furthermore, detainee Raed Abu Hammad, 27, from Al Ezariyya town east of Jerusalem, died while in solitary confinement at the Be’er Shiva Israeli prison. He was in solitary confinement for 18 months.
In Beit Awwa, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, soldiers assassinated Ali Imsail Sweity, 45, after surrounding his home and demolishing it while he was inside. He was a member of the Al Qassam Brigades of Hamas movement and topped Israel’s wanted list for several years.
Furthermore, Israeli soldiers killed five Palestinians in different attacks and invasions targeting the Gaza Strip.
Residents Marwan Al Jarba, 25, Wael Abu Jalala and a third unidentified resident were killed in armed clashes with Israeli troops invading Jabalia in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. They were members of the Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad.
Resident Mohammad Salim, 24, from Al Shujaeyya, was killed in an Israeli shelling, while resident Ahmad Salem, 19, also from Al Shujaeyya was shot and killed after the army opened fire at a nonviolent protest against the so-called “security belt” Israel is enforcing in Gaza.
The ISHR stated that soldiers kidnapped 285 residents in April during different invasion and attacks, and escalated their violations against the residents and their property in occupied East Jerusalem as dozens were kidnapped during protests against settlements in Silwan town and in the Old City.
Among the kidnapped were 26 children and two women identified as lawyer Shereen Isawy, 29, from Jerusalem and Halima Shawamra, 58, from Doura near Hebron.
Isawy was kidnapped at a roadblock while returning from the headquarters of the International Workers Movement for the Defense of Children, in Sheikh Saad neighborhood in East Jerusalem. She is active in defending human rights and the rights of the detainees.
Shawamra, 58, was kidnapped in Doura and was taken as a hostage after the army broke into her home in an attempt to push her “wanted” son to surrender.
Also in April, soldiers and Israeli policemen kidnapped dozens of Palestinian workers in Israel for entering and working in the country without “valid permits”.
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