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Posts Tagged ‘prisoners’

Reham Alhelsi – Palestinian Prisoners: Imprisoned for their Love of Freedom

By Reham Alhelsi • Apr 18th, 2009 • Category: Biography, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

Every year, on April 17, Palestinians commemorate the Palestinian Political Prisoners Day. On 17.4.1974 the first Palestinian political prisoner, Mahmoud Baker Hijazi, was released from Israeli prisons in the first prisoner exchange deal with Israel. That same year, the Palestinian National Council declared the 17th of April a day of solidarity with Palestinian political prisoners, [...]

How I've come to know Gilad Shalit – by Simon Black

By Guest Post • Jul 22nd, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Israel, Mary's Choice, Newswire, Palestine, War, Zionism

Media humanize Israeli soldier, but what of Palestinians, asks Simon Black
I know Gilad Shalit. Not personally, but I could tell you what he looks like, his age, where he went to school, his hometown, his father's name, what his father looks like, and how he weeps for his son.
I know that this is not the [...]

Iqbal Tamimi – "Will you remember my name?"

By Iqbal Tamimi • Jul 4th, 2008 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

When one Israeli person is killed or kidnapped, the media makes sure every single person hearing the news would know the name of that person, giving the incident a human dimension. But this has never been the case with Palestinians who have been killed, imprisoned or kidnapped by the Israeli authorities.
Palestinians are considered as a [...]

75 children and 23 women killed, the harvest of Israel’s terrorism in the first 6 months of 2008

By Iqbal Tamimi • Jul 2nd, 2008 • Category: Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

The Israeli occupying forces have killed 75 children and 23 Palestinian women during the first half of this year, says a report published yesterday by the National and International Relations Department of the PLO in Ramallah.
The report informs us that the Israeli military occupation authorities continued their violations of the rights of the Palestinians, showing [...]

Iqbal Tamimi – Israeli authorities imprison Palestinian women even after their death

By Iqbal Tamimi • Jun 17th, 2008 • Category: Features, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

Israeli occupation forces have arrested more than 10,000 Palestinian women of various backgrounds and ages since 1967.
720 Palestinian women were arrested during the Al-Aqsa Intifada, 102 of them are still detained to this date.
Arresting mothers, wives and sisters of wanted persons or detainees is one form of collective punishment, and it is aimed at forcing [...]

Palestinian prisoner Mahmoud Azzam: 10 years captive in Israeli prisons without trial.

By Iqbal Tamimi • May 25th, 2008 • Category: Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

Nafha Society for the Defence of Human Rights in Palestine sent an appeal to help the Palestinian prisoner "Mahmoud Saeed Azzam" from the town of Seelet Al Harthiya in Jenin district. This appeal came after a visit to Shatta prison where he is detained.
The Palestinian prisoner "Azzam" has been arrested from his home by Israeli [...]