[Ppnews] 4500 Palestinians Still Imprisoned By Israel

[Political Prisoner News]

Report: "4500 Palestinians Still Imprisoned By Israel"

Tuesday January 03, 2012 04:55
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 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies
http://www.imemc.org/article/62764

Abdul-Nasser Farawna, a former political detainee and a Palestinian 
researcher specialized in detainees affairs, published a report 
revealing that as the world marks 2012, and despite the fact that 
Israel released 1027 detainees as part of the prisoner-swap deal, at 
least 4500 Palestinian detainees, and dozens of Arab detainees, are 
still imprisoned in several Israeli interrogation facilities, prisons 
and detention centers.

The imprisoned Arab detainees are from several Arab countries, but 
mainly from Jordan, Syria and Egypt.

The report revealed that the vast majority of the Palestinian 
political prisoners (82%) detained by Israel are from the occupied 
West Bank, and the remaining 18% are from the Gaza Strip, the Arab 48 
territories, and occupied East Jerusalem.

It also indicated that the number of detainees gradually increases 
due to ongoing Israeli arrests of Palestinians, adding that in 2011 
Israeli soldiers kidnapped 3312 Palestinians (approximately 9 a day).

The detainees are held in 17 prisons and detention camps, mainly in 
Nafha, Ramon, Asqalan, Bir Sheva, Ha-Sharon, Hadarim, Ramla, 
Ad-Damoon, Ofer, Majeddo, Negev and several other prisons.

There are more than 130 detainees who are underage, and hundreds of 
adult detainees who have been imprisoned by Israel since they were 
underage, in addition to 240 detainees who are held under 
administrative detention, 42 elected legislators and two elected 
government ministers.

Hundreds of detainees suffer from chronic diseases, cancer, Diabetes, 
liver diseases, disabilities and other health conditions.

There are 6 female detainees who are still imprisoned by Israel after 
Tel Aviv excluded them from the prisoner-swap deal. Three of them are 
from historic Palestine (the 1948 territories).

Also, there are 122 detainees who have been imprisoned since before 
the Oslo peace agreement and the establishment of the Palestinian 
Authority in 1994; they are referred to as the "Old Detainees" as 
they have been imprisoned since at least 18 years, while 52 of them 
have been imprisoned since more than 20 years, and 23 detainees who 
have been imprisoned since more than 25 detainees.

This includes detainee Kareem Younis, from Ar'ara in the 1948 
territories, who has been imprisoned since 29 years now, and Syrian 
detainee, Sidqi Al-Maqt from the Golan Heights, who has been 
imprisoned since 26 years.

The detainees are held under tough conditions, deprived of their 
basic rights guaranteed by International Law and the Fourth Geneva 
Conventions, while Israeli attacks and violations against them are 
dangerously escalating, especially after the first phase of the 
prisoner-swap deal was implemented last October.

In his report, Farawna stated that, instead of improving the 
conditions of the detainees as stated in the swap-deal, and removing 
all political prisoners from solitary confinement, Israel is still 
keeping dozens of detainees in solitary confinement, still attacking 
the detainees and violating their rights, and is still depriving Gaza 
Strip detainees from their right to visitations with their families.




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