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The administrative detention - imprisonment without charge or trial - of female Palestinian detainee Sabah Faroun has been renewed for an additional three months for the sixth time yesterday, 19 September 2017. Faroun, 35, was arrested by occupation forces on 19 June 2016 after they invaded her home in the village of Al-Ezariya east of Jerusalem. Her detention had been extended sixth times and she has been repeatedly ordered to different periods in administrative detention since she was arrested. Faroun is one of five Palestinian women currently held under administrative detention, among over 450 administrative detainees. Israeli Forces raided Sabah’s home at 3:00 am and searched it...
Addameer's field researcher and human rights defender Salah Hamouri has had a previously issued administrative detention order reinstated after the Israeli High Court accepted the prosecutor's appeal not to reissue a three-month sentence (the remainder of his former sentence from when he was released in the 2011 Wafa al-Ahrar prisoner exchange). Hamouri was initially given an administrative detention for six months on 23 August 2017. On the day of the order's confirmation hearing, 5 September 2017, the Jerusalem District Court decided to instead make Salah complete the remaining time on a previously issued sentence from 2005. The Israeli prosecution appealed the judge's decision and a court...
The Jerusalem District Court has reinstated a previously issued sentence from 2005 for Addameer's field researcher and human rights defender Salah Hamouri's, who was issued a six months administrative detention order on 29 August 2017. During the order’s confirmation hearing on 5 September 2017, the judge decided to replace the administrative detention order with a three-month sentence. This three-month represents the time that was left for Salah to serve prior to his release as part of the Wafa Al Ahrar exchange deal. Hamouri was to be released on 13 March 2012, but instead, was set free on 18 December 2011 as part of the exchange deal. Addameer's attorney, Mahmoud Hassan, said that this...
Addameer's field researcher and human rights defender Salah Hamouri, had his detention period extended by an Israeli judge at the Magistrate Court in Jerusalem for an additional three days for further interrogation. Addameer's attorney, Mahmoud Hassan, has submitted an appeal against the judge's decision to extend Hamouri's detention period. Hamouri, who was arrested by occupation forces in a pre-dawn raid on 23 August 2017, has been under interrogation for five days. Salah Hamouri, 32, is a Palestinian-French dual citizen and former Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jails. Hamouri was released in Wafa al-Ahrar exchange deal in 2011 after spending seven years in Israeli occupation prisons. In...
Addameer's field researcher Salah Hammouri was arrested by Israeli occupation forces in a pre-dawn raid on 23 August 2017. Hammouri was arrested from his home in the neighborhood of Kufr Aqab. Later, Hammouri was taken to Al-Moskobyeh (Russian Compound) interrogation center, where his detention has been extended until Sunday, 27 August 2017, for further interrogation. Salah Hammouri, 32, is a Palestinian-French dual citizen and former Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jails. Hammouri was released in Wafa al-Ahrar exchange deal in 2011 after spending seven years in Israeli occupation prisons. In addition, he was banned from entering the West Bank by an Israeli military order until September...
Prominent Palestinian writer and political scientist Ahmad Qatamish was released on 13 August 2017 from Israeli prisons, after spending three months under administrative detention, without charge or trial. Qatamish was arrested by Israeli occupation forces in a pre-dawn raid on 14 May 2017, and received a three months administrative detention order on 17 May 2017. Qatamish was first arrested by the Israeli authorities in 1969 and held for a few months. He was then rearrested in 1972, this time spending 4 years in prison. After his release, Mr. Qatamish spent 17 years in hiding from 1976 to 1992 to avoid re-arrest. On 2 September 1992, however, he was arrested once more, in the presence of...
On the evening of 7 August 2017, the Palestinian Authority’s intelligence service carried out a campaign of arrests against a number of Palestinian journalists in the West Bank. Five Palestinian journalists were arrested by PA security forces, and they are: 1. Journalist Mamdouh Hamamra from Bethlehem, a correspondent for Al-Quds News Channel. 2. Journalist Amer Abu Arafa from Hebron, who works for Shehab News Agency. 3. Journalist Tariq Abu Zeid from Jenin, who works for Al-Aqsa TV. 4. Journalist Ahmad Halayqa from Hebron, who works for Al-Quds News Channel. 5. Qutaiba Qassem from Bethlehem, a freelance journalist working with several agencies. Initially, A source from the PA security...
Palestinian prisoners’ affairs institutions – the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Committee of Prisoners' Affairs and Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights – issued the following report on 8 July 2017, which indicates that, during the month of July 2017, Israeli authorities arrested (880) individuals from the occupied Palestinian territories, including (144) children, and (18) women. According to the monitoring and documentation conducted by the four organizations, Israeli occupation forces arrested 425 Palestinians from Jerusalem, 120 from Hebron and 85 from Nablus. In addition, 49 Palestinians were arrested from Jenin governorate, 47 from...
Thirteen Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) members are currently imprisoned by Israel following the occupation's arrest of PLC member Mohammad Abu Teir on Friday, 4 August 2017. Abu Teir was last released from Israeli prisons on 30 May 2017, after he spent 17 months in prison. Abu Teir was arrested from his home in Umm al-Sharayet in Ramallah, where he has lived after he was forcibly expelled from his home in Jerusalem and had his Jerusalem ID revoked. Abu Teir has spent a total of 34 years in Israeli prisons and has been repeatedly targeted by occupation forces since he was elected as a PLC members back in 2006. Democratically elected Palestinian political leaders are routinely...
The former prisoner and current hunger striking detainee Bilal Diab, who was arrested in a pre-dawn raid by Israeli occupation forces on 14 July 2017, received a six months administrative detention order, signed by the occupation military commander of the West Bank today, 25 July 2017. Diab, 32, launched an open hunger strike to demand his freedom on the same day he was seized by occupation forces. Diab has been previously arrested on multiple occasions and spent several years under administrative detention, without charge or trial. He was last released from Israeli prisons in 2015. In 2012, he embarked on a 77-day hunger strike alongside Thaer Halahleh in protest of their administrative...