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Posts Tagged ‘torture’

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 [...]