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URGENT APPEAL FOR FUNDS!The International Middle East Media Center will close unless we raise funds now. Or use the Paypal Donation buttons on the left column Your HELP is essential to keep IMEMC ALIVE Latest News ArticlesIsraeli Defense Minister calls for collective punishment of families of Jerusalem attackers 02:12 Sat 05 Jul One Palestinian wounded, 4 missing in a tunnel collapse in Rafah 00:58 Sat 05 Jul Hamas suspends talks on Shalit 00:42 Sat 05 Jul B’Tselem: “Palestinian child abused during arrest, tortured during interrogation” 00:32 Sat 05 Jul The Israeli army attacks protesters in Um Salamunah 16:49 Fri 04 Jul The Khader village protests the Israeli wall 16:43 Fri 04 Jul Two international activists and a Palestinian injured in Bil'in Weekly Protest 16:12 Fri 04 Jul PCHR Weekly Report: 2 Palestinians children killed, 8 wounded 07:44 Fri 04 Jul Detained Hamas leader remains in solitary confinement after six years 02:29 Fri 04 Jul Palestinian Workers Union slams Israel’s arrest of 50 Palestinian workers 02:02 Fri 04 Jul Full StoryAn Appeal to end the solitary confinement of a Palestinian journalistThe family of detainee Waleed Khalid Harb, 38, the director of Palestine Newspaper, from Iskaka village near the West Bank city of Salfit, appealed the International Journalist Union and Reporters Without Borders to intervene for his release, and for ending his solitary confinement. The family stated that Harb spent nearly six years under administrative detention orders, without charges or trial, and a total of 12 years imprisonment. He has been barred from his visitation rights, and confinement to solitary, since ten months. Harb is considered the oldest Palestinian administrative detainee. The family called on International Human Rights organizations, and the Red Cross, to intervene and oblige Israel to end his solitary confinement. It is worth mentioning that from his prison cell, Harb wrote several books and poems. |