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Posts Tagged ‘torture’

Israeli ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children – a report

By Haitham Sabbah • Jun 27th, 2009 • Category: Children's Corner, Features, Haitham's Choice, Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

DCI-Palestine* released a report which documents the widespread ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children at the hands of the Israeli army and police force – Palestinian Child Prisoners: The systematic and institutionalized ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children by Israeli authorities.
The release of the report came just days after an article was published in The [...]

MOHAMMED OMER; ONE YEAR AND COUNTING

By Steve Amsel • Jun 26th, 2009 • Category: Action Alert, Biography, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

WRITTEN BY MOHAMMED OMER AND STEVE AMSEL

A Journalist Beaten — One Year Later

by Mohammed Omer
Released: 26 Jun 2009

June 26, 2008 is a day I will never forget. For the events of that day irrevocably changed my life. That day I was detained, interrogated, strip searched, and tortured while attempting to return home from a European [...]

10-year-old subjected to torture by Israeli soldiers

By Mary Rizzo • Jul 5th, 2008 • Category: Action Alert, Children's Corner, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

Iqbal Tamimi and I urge you to please write to the addresses below to ask for formal investigation on an incident of torture of a child by Israeli soldiers who stormed his house. Abuse and torture is always wrong, but to do it to a child is absolutely evil and cannot remain unchallenged. Not only [...]

Khalid Amayreh – Full account of Muhammed Omer’s hair-raising encounter with the Shin Bet

By Khalid Amayreh • Jul 1st, 2008 • Category: Biography, Features, Interviews, Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Newswire, Our Authors, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

From his hospital bed at the European Hospital in Gaza and with barely audible voice, award-winning Palestinian journalist Muhammed Omer has given a full account of the hair-raising encounter he had last week with Shin Bet agents at the Allenby Bridge border-crossing between Jordan and the West Bank.
Omer, a co-winner of the 2008 Martha Gelhorn Prize for Journalistic Excellence, said [...]

350 Palestinian children are suffering inside Israeli prisons

By Iqbal Tamimi • May 12th, 2008 • Category: Action Alert, Children's Corner, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Support and Human Rights Centre ADDAMEER, declared that the Israeli Zionist forces have arrested almost 6200 Palestinians since the last Intifada started in September of 2000. 350 of those languishing in prison are children who, against international conventions, are still imprisoned in Israeli jails and detention centers.
Those youngsters undergo severe punishment and [...]