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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 StoryPopular Committees appeals the release of an ailing detainee imprisoned by Israel Tuesday February 26, 2008 00:36 by IMEMC Staff
 The Palestinian Popular (Folk) Committees issued a press release appealing several human rights groups and the International Red Cross to intervene and save the life of a Palestinian detainee who is suffering from a heart disease and imprisoned by Israel. The Committees stated that detainee Majdi Safwat Yassin, from Aneen village near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, is suffering from heart issues and high blood pressure and that all what he is provided with is pill from controlling blood pressure. The administration is still rejecting to allow him to be seen by a physician. Azmi Shiokhy, secretary-general of the Committees, stated that there are dozens of detainees who need immediate medical attention but the Israeli Prison Administration is denying their right to medical treatment. He voiced several appeals to international human rights groups and the International Red Cross to intervene and visit all Israeli detention centers and prisons to observe the daily violations against the detainees. |
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