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Recent Articles about Palestine Prisoners
Dweik calls for the release of all legislators imprisoned by Israel Jul 02 09 PLC head could be released next week Jun 18 09 Saadat on hunger strike Jun 11 09 Latest News ArticlesIsraeli sub crosses the Egyptian Suez Peninsula. 11:01 Sat 04 Jul Bahraini officials arrive in Israel to take five Bahraini nationals back home 10:24 Sat 04 Jul Israel cuts off water to Arab Druze towns on hottest day of year 01:49 Sat 04 Jul Israel pledges to compensate UN for shelling its facilities in Gaza 23:53 Fri 03 Jul Three children diagnosed with swine-flu 23:31 Fri 03 Jul Soldiers attack the Nil'in weekly Protest 17:26 Fri 03 Jul Three Injured during the weekly Bil'in protest 16:13 Fri 03 Jul Israeli Housing Minister Concerned over increasing Arab population 11:32 Fri 03 Jul Soldiers wound a Palestinian woman at a roadblock in the Jordan valley 08:04 Fri 03 Jul Soldiers break into the Al Aqsa Mosque yard, kidnap three Palestinians 05:37 Fri 03 Jul Full StoryDetained Palestinian Judge continues his hunger strikeFor the sixth day, Sheikh Abdullah Harb, from Jenin, chief judge of the Jenin Appeal Court, continued his hunger strike against his detention in the Al Jalama Israeli detention facility.
The Jenin office of The Nafha Society for Defending Human Rights and the Rights of the Detainees reported that Sheikh Harb is persistent to continue his strike in protest to the Israeli violations. The Society demanded the release of Justice Harb, and stated that he should at least be transferred to another facility in the meantime. Sheikh Harb was kidnapped by Israeli soldiers stationed at a military roadblock and was imprisoned and interrogated under inhuman conditions. The Society reported that the abductions of Sheikh Harb is considered a direct Israeli attack against one of the religious and legal symbols of the Palestinian people, and demanded the Red Cross to interfere in order to release him. |