tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79495363345727346842024-03-13T04:41:32.843-07:00The Prisoners' DiariesThis is a compilation of 22 Palestinian prisoners' experiences in Israeli jails . 1,027 prisoners were released in 2011 as part of the exchange with Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and 22 of them were interviewed by journalists. Their commentaries were translated by CPDS and edited.
The book is dedicated to Samer Issawi and all Palestinian prisoners, past, present and future, and was released on 17April 2013, in conjunction with Palestinian Prisoners' Day.Norma Hashimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09234015918187634901noreply@blogger.comBlogger130125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949536334572734684.post-22763736681704034782015-05-26T02:39:00.000-07:002015-05-26T02:51:51.356-07:00MOVE TO FACEBOOK AND WEBSITEAS of September last year we started a Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ThePrisonersDiaries?ref=bookmarks">https://www.facebook.com/ThePrisonersDiaries?ref=bookmarks</a><br />
and we now have a website <a href="http://www.theprisonersdiaries.net/">http://www.theprisonersdiaries.net/</a><br />
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Please go to our FB and website for updates and the latest news about prisoners and our books.<br />
Thank you !Norma Hashimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09234015918187634901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949536334572734684.post-58418177922387175572014-11-20T08:05:00.001-08:002014-11-20T08:05:10.936-08:00...أسرى الاحتلال إن حكوا: صبر وعناد<a href="http://www.almanar.com.lb/adetails.php?eid=949859#.VG4RJ9nVOOE.blogger">...أسرى الاحتلال إن حكوا: صبر وعناد</a>Norma Hashimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09234015918187634901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949536334572734684.post-63048871727053847792014-09-26T13:03:00.001-07:002014-09-26T13:03:55.715-07:00Hunger Strike- a film by Ashraf Mashharawi on Al Jazeera<br /><br />Watch the full documentary on Palestinian prisoners who go on hunger strikes in Israeli jails to achieve their basic human rights, and sometimes their freedom . Ayman al Sharawna and Hana Shalabi whose stories are featured in the Arabic version of The Prisoners; Diaries reenact their experiences in this powerful documentary.<br />Thanks to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/asmaa.seba">Asmaa Seba</a> the Belgian- Algerian photographer , for sharing this documentary with us , she said "From Ashraf Mashharawi, the english version , thank you for this powerful film dear Ashraf, our work to shed light on the prisoners issue is for me the most important topic because it defines the struggle for freedom and dignity, my exhibition " Une vie Suspendue" about Palestinian females former detainees is still a sensitive question in Europe because the international community don't see those Human beings as political prisoners, they consider them as terrorists, while resistants in Europe in 1944 were fighting Nazism and are depicted like heroes....."<br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u49jwfcLwuE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u49jwfcLwuE</a>Norma Hashimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09234015918187634901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949536334572734684.post-2428285458922512002014-09-14T09:42:00.001-07:002014-09-14T09:43:22.179-07:00We have started a Facebook page to enable more up to date news of Palestinian prisoners and the book and to include photos . The book is now available in 4 languages , i.e. English, Turkish , Arabic and French.<br />
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Please visit our page at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ThePrisonersDiaries">https://www.facebook.com/ThePrisonersDiaries</a>Norma Hashimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09234015918187634901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949536334572734684.post-1990561855269518002014-07-10T09:48:00.000-07:002014-07-10T09:48:00.614-07:00Protest against the Arrest of Khader AdnanSheikh Khader Adnan was abducted by the occupation forces two days ago on Tuesday 8th July 2014.<br /><br />A former Palestinian political prisoner, Sheikh Khader Adnan is known as the father of the hunger strikers - the symbol of Palestinian resistance and steadfastness, In 2011 he was abducted and caged indefinitely without any charged or trial under Israeli illegal system of punitive administrative detention. To protest his illegal imprisonment he went on hunger strike and won his freedom. His successful 66 day hunger strike in 2012 - the longest in Palestinian history at the time, inspired over 1600 other Palestinian prisoners to hunger strike. Since his release Sheikh Khader Adnan has been the voice of the Palestinian political prisoners, ceaselessly defending their rights at every opportunity and thus is a thorn in the side of the occupation.<br /><a name='more'></a><br />Sheikh Khader Adnan is a father of 6 children. Youngest are triplets just 8 months old - Ali, Hamza and Mohammed; his other son is aged 2 - Abd-Al-Rahman. His two daughters are Maali - the eldest just 6 years old, and Besan 4 years old. Khader Adnan has a degree in Mathematics, and runs a bakery in the town of Arrabah near Jenin in the West Bank. On Tuesday (8th July 2014) he was returning home to share the Iftar meal with his family after the Ramadan fast when he was abducted at a temporary checkpoint the occupation had illegally set up near his home town. Since his abduction he is being held in limbo - he is denied a lawyer and his family are not allowed to see him. The occupation hasn't even told his family where he is being caged or what his condition is. The family thinks he is being held in Megiddo prison. Megiddo prison like many other Israeli dungeons is secured by the British security company G4S.<br /><br />Last year Sheikh Khader Adnan addressed the crowds in London at Al Quds Day via a video message which was played at the rally outside the US Embassy. The video is available:<br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DEXT08j_IBQE&h=dAQH5PBSt&enc=AZPClSa9gt0F5EwpN26eErf3iPXz-LmvU6zHl14_FfYsaB5lx6w_tx4hwg6U4gauO_JcC9Ngez-lMrihGvRMfglXqZxnp5P2MJV-8pIspUWIslqcZOqObGTC4bw6EDQxNNOFZeek6OmC4SV9-w3EGZDN&s=1">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXT08j_IBQE</a><br /><br />Before his abduction Sheikh Khader Adnan had again graciously agreed to address this years London Al Quds Day rally on 25th July via a video link. We pray for his swift release so that inshAllah he can still grace us with a message on Al Quds Day.<br /><br />In the meantime his family have kindly sent us a message which will be read out at tomorrows protest for Palestinian political prisoners, outside G4S headquarters, where we will be demanding his immediate and unconditional release:<br /><br />Date: Friday 11th July 2014, 3:00pm - 5:00pm<br />Location: G4S HQ, 105 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6QT (Closest public transport: Victoria Tube/Rail station)<br />Facebook Event: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1525494837679446/">https://www.facebook.com/events/1525494837679446/</a><br /><br />For more details of Sheikh Khader Adnan's re-arrest please see:<br /><br /><a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fsamidoun.ca%2F2014%2F07%2Falert-khader-adnan-re-arrested-by-occupation-forces%2F&h=1AQG9caH-&enc=AZOQEALn8ah65z6qXfH-hiej5nNckRO1XCzTIAiuv2-pzDTxrudbEnHUcKFjfrtpwDunoi66l-bEEPXy_cxxMYDugWJxlbXXTSLt1_ld0-07zGU2jxNtiL9jSkQDwzczh2qv-BdhkN-v1Re9kXXc-9sA&s=1">http://samidoun.ca/2014/07/alert-khader-adnan-re-arrested-by-occupation-forces/</a><br /><br />LIVE UPDATES DURING PROTEST<br /><br />We will, inshAllah, be tweeting live (hash tags <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/freekhaderadnan">#FreeKhaderAdnan</a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/releasepalprisoners">#ReleasePalPrisoners</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/stopg4s">#StopG4S</a> ) from the protest with live photos being uploaded to our twitter and facebook page. So if you can't join us on the day, please help us by sharing the photos as they get uploaded.<div>
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Norma Hashimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09234015918187634901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949536334572734684.post-59147376122106644962014-07-08T00:15:00.001-07:002014-07-08T00:15:42.243-07:00Over 6,000 Palestinians now in Israeli jails, with 830 arrested since June 12th.<br /><br />Over 830 Palestinians from the West Bank, Jerusalem and Occupied Palestine ’48 have been imprisoned in mass arrests and raids since June 12, reported the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society on Monday, after 56 were arrested overnight in the West Bank. There are now over 6,000 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails, noted researcher Abdel Nasser Ferwana.<br /><br />This came amid ongoing attacks from occupation forces, who bombed Gaza in a series of airstrikes, killing nine people: Ibrahim al-Bal’aawy, 24; Abdul-Rahman al-Zamili, 22; Mustafa Abu Morr, 22; his twin brother Khaled Abu Morr, 22; Yousef Sharaf Ghannam, 22; Joma’a Abu Shallouf, 24; Ibrahim Abdeen; Mazen al-Jedya, 33; and Marwan Salim, 23.<br /><br />An Israeli colonist ran over three Palestinian workers with his car near Haifa on July 6, killing two instantly: Zahi Abu Hamed of Qalqilya and Anwar al-Satel of Yafa.<br /><br />Read more here<br /><a href="http://samidoun.ca/2014/07/over-6000-palestinian-prisoners-now-in-israeli-jails-830-arrested-since-june-12/">http://samidoun.ca/2014/07/over-6000-palestinian-prisoners-now-in-israeli-jails-830-arrested-since-june-12/</a>Norma Hashimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09234015918187634901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949536334572734684.post-65933396604981244052014-07-01T09:05:00.001-07:002014-07-01T09:05:31.567-07:00Israeli soldiers celebrate killing of Palestinian youth as “revenge”<a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israeli-soldiers-celebrate-killing-palestinian-youth-revenge">Israeli soldiers celebrate killing of Palestinian youth as “revenge”</a>Norma Hashimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09234015918187634901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949536334572734684.post-1809045121645360002014-06-25T11:20:00.002-07:002014-06-25T11:20:39.825-07:00A 13 Year Wait for 30 Minutes: One Woman’s Struggle to Visit Her Imprisoned Husband | IMEUSaadia Hourani is married to prisoner Imad Saftawi. She was forced to go 13 years without seeing her husband due to Israel’s draconian <a href="http://www.addameer.org/etemplate.php?id=297">web of restrictions</a> on family visits for Palestinian prisoners.<br />
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Norma Hashimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09234015918187634901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949536334572734684.post-53525817032682847982014-06-25T05:27:00.001-07:002014-06-25T05:27:21.496-07:00Turkish pathologist: Palestinian detainee was beaten before dying in Israeli jail - Diplomacy and Defense Israel News | Haaretz<br /><br />A Palestinian who expired in Israeli detention was beaten before dying, a Turkish pathologist has claimed in an expert opinion submitted to an Israeli court.<br /><br />Her opinion contradicts the view of an Israeli state pathologist, who concluded that Arafat Jaradat died of natural causes.<div><br /></div><br /><br />
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<br />Norma Hashimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09234015918187634901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949536334572734684.post-13438883983488211472014-06-25T04:36:00.001-07:002014-06-25T04:36:59.777-07:00“Were you in a hurry to heaven?” Mother of teen killed by Israeli sniper speaks<div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<br /><br />Monday was the fortieth day since an Israeli sniper fatally shot 17-year-old <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/tags/nadim-siam-nuwara">Nadim Siam Nuwara</a> near Ofer military prison in Beitunia in the occupied West Bank.<br /><br />This brutal end to a young life was <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/video-shows-unprovoked-cold-blooded-killing-palestinian-boys-israeli-forces">caught on security cameras</a> and <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/cnn-camera-catches-israeli-soldier-who-fired-killed-palestinian-teen">by CNN</a>, along with the fatal shooting of <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/tags/muhammad-mahmoud-odeh-abu-al-thahir">Muhammad Abu al-Thahir</a>, 16, and the serious wounding of 15-year-old <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/i-felt-something-hot-inside-palestinian-teen-describes-nakba-day-shooting-israeli">Muhammad al-Azzeh</a>. Human Rights Watch called the shootings an “<a href="http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/06/09/israel-killing-children-apparent-war-crime">apparent war crime</a>.”<br /><br /><a href="http://electronicintifada.net/sites/electronicintifada.net/files/140527-daniel-nuwara.jpg">140527-daniel-nuwara.jpg</a><br /><img src="http://electronicintifada.net/sites/electronicintifada.net/files/styles/large/public/140527-daniel-nuwara.jpg?itok=yJ4Aq0Bs" /><br /><br /><br />Daniel Nuwara holds a portrait of his slain brother, Nadim.<br /><br /><a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/were-you-hurry-heaven-mother-teen-killed-israeli-sniper-speaks" style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">“Were you in a hurry to heaven?” Mother of teen killed by Israeli sniper speaks</a></div>
Norma Hashimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09234015918187634901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949536334572734684.post-8186468872644202272014-06-19T06:39:00.002-07:002014-06-19T06:39:53.220-07:00The pain of almost a million arrests ( 2013 article by Gideon Levy)Just keeping things in context, now that Israel is using the disappearance of 3 Israeli settlers as a basis for further arrests and intimidation of the Palestinians.<br />
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<a href="http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/the-pain-of-almost-a-million-arrests.premium-1.506216">http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/the-pain-of-almost-a-million-arrests.premium-1.506216</a>Norma Hashimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09234015918187634901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949536334572734684.post-53988341052410968492014-06-18T01:51:00.002-07:002014-06-18T01:51:26.506-07:00French edition of The Prisoners' Diaries to be published by Erick Bonnier Editions, Paris.<br />
The French edition entitled Journaux de Prisonniers ,was translated by Jean Marie Flemal, with an Introduction written by Dr Christophe Oberlin, a microsurgeon who volunteers with the Palestine Children's Relief Fund.<br />
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<a href="http://www.erickbonnier-editions.com/essais/le-voile-d%C3%A9masqu%C3%A9/journaux-de-prisonniers/">http://www.erickbonnier-editions.com/essais/le-voile-d%C3%A9masqu%C3%A9/journaux-de-prisonniers/</a>Norma Hashimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09234015918187634901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949536334572734684.post-51889646238711498362014-06-18T01:42:00.001-07:002014-06-18T01:43:43.792-07:00Palestinian administrative detainees tell Israel: We will not end our hunger strike<br /><br />A senior official from the Israel Prison Service has met with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike, the Ahrar Centre for Detainees Studies and Human Rights said. The prisoners told the official that they do not intend to end their hunger strike.<br /><br />
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<br /><br />Ramallah, June 10, 2014—Ahmad was 15 when he was arrested during a 3 am raid by Palestinian security forces at El Far’a refugee camp in September 2013. He was accused of throwing stones, burning tires and insulting members of the Palestinian security service, and was dragged from his house blindfolded and with his hands bound by a plastic cord.<br /><br />As he was placed into a waiting jeep, one of the men arresting him lit a lighter under his wrists to remove the cord. “I was screaming in pain. But he just kept doing it,” said Ahmad, recounting his ordeal to Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCI-Palestine), a children's rights organization based in the West Bank.<br />Read more at<br />
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<a href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/documents/children-blindfolded-and-beaten-hands-palestinian-authority">http://www.dci-palestine.org/documents/children-blindfolded-and-beaten-hands-palestinian-authority</a>Norma Hashimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09234015918187634901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949536334572734684.post-43877735112044638842014-06-11T03:15:00.001-07:002014-06-11T03:15:30.252-07:00Palestinian prisoners refuse settlement as they set record for longest mass hunger strike<br />Palestinian prisoners refuse settlement as hunger strike sets record<a href="http://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/peaceprocess">#PeaceProcess</a><br /><br /><br />An estimated 300 prisoners are participating in the hunger strike that is now the longest in Palestinian history<br /><img src="http://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_article_page/public/main-images/PalPrisonersHungerstrike.10June2014.jpg?itok=08xngNNX" /><br />Palestinians hold portraits of detainees during a demonstration in Jerusalem in June (AFP)<br /><a href="http://www.middleeasteye.net/users/joe-catron"><img src="http://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/article_author/public/pictures/picture-539-1399532109.jpg?itok=GDhKjbp3" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.middleeasteye.net/users/joe-catron">Joe Catron</a><br />Tuesday 10 June 2014 23:13 BST<br /> <br />Topics: <br /><a href="http://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/peaceprocess">PeaceProcess</a><br />Tags: <br /><a href="http://www.middleeasteye.net/tags/hunger-strike">Hunger strike</a>, <a href="http://www.middleeasteye.net/tags/administrative-detention">Administrative Detention</a>, <a href="http://www.middleeasteye.net/tags/protests">Protests</a><br /><a href="http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-prisoners-refuse-settlement-hunger-strike-sets-record/855621504#comments">0 comments</a><br /><br /><br />Palestinian prisoners participating in the longest mass hunger strike in Palestinian history have rejected a settlement proposed by the Israeli prison and intelligence services, incarcerated members of a Palestinian party tell MEE.<br /><br />An estimated 300 prisoners are participating in the strike which started on 24 April to protest against administrative detentions by Israeli forces. On Tuesday, the strikers entered their 48th day, passing a record set in a 1976 strike, according to human rights associations.<br /><br /><br /><br />- See more at: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-prisoners-refuse-settlement-hunger-strike-sets-record/855621504#sthash.ptDi7deR.dpuf<br />
<a href="http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-prisoners-refuse-settlement-hunger-strike-sets-record/855621504">http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-prisoners-refuse-settlement-hunger-strike-sets-record/855621504</a>Norma Hashimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09234015918187634901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949536334572734684.post-13607260947389950922014-06-07T07:53:00.004-07:002014-06-07T07:53:41.937-07:00G4S finally announces it will end all Israeli contracts within 3 years ( Inminds report)<br /><br />Cautious Victory - G4S finally announces it will end all Israeli prison contracts within 3 years<br /><br />7th June 2014, <a href="http://www.inminds.com/">www.inminds.com</a><br /><br />Yesterday the Financial Times reported that G4S has announced for the first time that it will end all its contacts with Israeli prisons within 3 years:<br /><br /><br />"G4S has confirmed that it will end all its Israeli prison contracts within the next three years after an annual general meeting that was severely disrupted by human rights protesters.. Mr Almanza said for the first time that the move would also include prison service contracts all over Israel."*<br /><br /><br /><br />This follows last years announcement that due to "reputational dangers" to their business, mentioning the protests outside their London Headquarters, G4S would exit the contracts in the Occupied Palestinian Territories when they terminate in 2015. However, at the time they still maintained that they would continue their prison contracts in Israel. <br /><br />We have held regular protests outside G4S HQ in London for nearly two years, since August 2012 when the Palestinian Prisoners Campaign was launched at Al Quds Day, with a protest at least every fortnight. Congratulations to all the dedicated activists who kept the pressure on G4S to finally force them to change their stated position and announce they will abandon all prison contracts in Israel. <br /><br />Of course our campaign against G4S continues, this announcement on its own will not change anything other that ensure we go forward with extra vigour so that they follow-through on their promise. Our next protest will be next friday 13th June 2014 outside G4S HQ, the focus will be the Palestinian mass hunger strike against Israel's illegal practice of administrative detention where more than 2,000** Palestinians are caged every year without charge or trial for an indefinite period of time. This is another crime which G4S is inextricably complicit in, with 86% of administrative detainees caged in prisons they secure. Details for the protest will follow shortly.Norma Hashimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09234015918187634901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949536334572734684.post-88750766280776856222014-06-07T06:59:00.001-07:002014-06-07T06:59:40.455-07:00Gates Foundation sells stake in G4S<br />
<br /><br /><br /><br />Gates Foundation Sells Stake in U.K. Prison Operator G4S<br />By Tom Metcalf <br />June 06, 2014 12:46 PM EDT<a href="http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-06/gates-foundation-sells-stake-in-u-k-security-company-g4s.html#disqus-tab"></a><br /><br /><a href="http://mobile.bloomberg.com/photo/2014-06-06/gates-foundation-sells-stake-in-u-k-security-company-g4s"><img src="http://mobile.bloomberg.com/image/index/pKISbwVuPwu-CpydsHPB-_ZzUeF8YNn3pSP_hdYcB-jSL2AMQ21hWT8c9-7mpv9YsmUaeHRYMdFCDCO35IufK6XFnae-esmSr63iZI-6Us6ViF2lOKE2lEh3qYWNLEUnI2BJg9iv4dVMjoLRuELOFCCwXSA09owLBbAbs1-wt4UpucWd_1s*" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The Gates Foundation Asset Trust, the entity that manages the investments for the $40.2 billion <a href="http://mobile.bloomberg.com/topics/bill-%26-melinda-gates-foundation/">Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation</a>, has liquidated its entire stake in <a href="http://mobile.bloomberg.com/quote/GFS:LN">G4S Plc (GFS)</a>, the world’s biggest security-services provider.<br /><br />“Like other large foundations, the foundation trust evaluates its holdings regularly, both for performance and fit,” <a href="http://mobile.bloomberg.com/topics/john-pinette/">John Pinette</a>, a spokesman for the Gates family, said in a statement. “As a result of this, the foundation trust no longer holds an investment in G4S.”<br /><br />The Crawley, England-based <a href="http://mobile.bloomberg.com/quote/GFS:LN">company</a> has attracted criticism for its contracts with the Israel prison system. The U.K.’s Guardian newspaper said in an editorial on June 4 that G4S should “end the corporation’s participation in Israel’s brutal occupation” in the West Bank.<br /><br />Since 2011, G4S has conducted a series of reviews in relation to its business in Israel, according to the company’s website. Its latest investigation concluded there was “no plausible case against G4S on the ground of alleged war crimes commited by Israel.”<br /><br />A regulatory filing on May 28 showed that the stake, held by the trust and <a href="http://mobile.bloomberg.com/topics/bill-gates/">Bill Gates</a>’s investment company, Cascade Investment LLC, had fallen below three percent. The billionaire’s stake was first disclosed last June, when Cascade’s holding crossed the 3 percent threshold for the first time.<br /><br />Adam Mynott, a spokesman for G4S, declined to comment.<br /><br />Gates oversees an $81.7 billion fortune, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He is almost $14 billion richer than Mexico’s <a href="http://mobile.bloomberg.com/topics/carlos-slim/">Carlos Slim</a>, the world’s second richest person.<br /><br />
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<br />With Palestinian political prisoners now more than one month into an ongoing hunger strike, daily solidarity events and direct actions are being held across Palestine. The hunger strike began in April against Israel's continued use of Administrative Detention - a system of imprisonment without charge, trial or access to legal defence. A previous hunger strike in 2012 was ended after Israel agreed to limit its use of Administrative Detention, a false promise that never translated to action on the Occupation's part.<br /><br />- See more at: http://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/11792-salt-and-water#sthash.qbXFkXdv.dpuf<br /><br /><a href="http://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/11792-salt-and-water#sthash.qbXFkXdv.cmfs">Salt and Water</a>Norma Hashimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09234015918187634901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949536334572734684.post-28245650861674915262014-06-01T06:08:00.001-07:002014-06-01T06:08:26.347-07:001,500 Palestinian detainees on hunger strike<br /><br />RAMALLAH: The number of Palestinian detainees on hunger strike in Israeli jails reached 1,500 Sunday, a Palestinian NGO said.<br /><br />"More non-administrative detainees have joined the hunger strike in solidarity with administrative detainees, bringing the total number of striking detainees to 1,500," the Prisoners' Club said in a statement.<br /><br />Read more: <a href="http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2014/Jun-01/258417-1500-palestinian-detainees-on-hunger-strike-ngo.ashx#ixzz33OOglZ2x">http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2014/Jun-01/258417-1500-palestinian-detainees-on-hunger-strike-ngo.ashx#ixzz33OOglZ2x</a> <br />(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Norma Hashimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09234015918187634901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949536334572734684.post-73612512006207763052014-05-19T17:35:00.000-07:002014-05-19T17:35:15.540-07:00Palestinian inmates’ situation, desperate: AnalystInterview on Press TV with Paul Larudee of Free Palestine movement in Berkeley<br />
<a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/04/25/360043/palestinian-inmates-situation-terrible/">http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/04/25/360043/palestinian-inmates-situation-terrible/</a>Norma Hashimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09234015918187634901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949536334572734684.post-22556931815375366282014-05-17T21:22:00.003-07:002014-05-17T21:22:58.970-07:00Tortured as a child in the Israeli prison system: One man's personal account<br />
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<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Tortured as a Child in the Israeli Prison System: One Man's Personal Account<br />VIVIEN SANSOUR, IMEU, MAY 14, 2014 <br /><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://imeu.net/engine2/uploads/3/childprisoner.jpg" /><br /><br /><br />"Before I went to prison I was not afraid of anything, but after - I feel like something in me has died." These are the words of Muayad, who was taken from his home in the Azeh refugee camp in Bethlehem by Israeli soldiers just a few days after he turned 16 years old in 2008. Muayad, who is now 22, spent more than a year and a half in an Israeli prison. <div>
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Norma Hashimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09234015918187634901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949536334572734684.post-72415031365368984502014-05-14T18:40:00.003-07:002014-05-14T18:40:54.230-07:00The mass hunger strike returns: Palestinian prisoners refuse food to protest detention without trialOver 100 prisoners on hunger strike in an attempt to pressure Israel to end its policy of holding prisoners on secret evidence with no recourse to challenge their detention in court.<div>
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Norma Hashimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09234015918187634901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949536334572734684.post-91459324746153606522014-05-11T16:29:00.001-07:002014-05-11T16:29:45.813-07:00Palestinian prisoners intensify new hunger strike protest<a href="http://www.middleeastmonitor.com/blogs/politics/11376-palestinian-prisoners-intensify-new-hunger-strike-protest#sthash.6k3n7MUW.cmfs">Palestinian prisoners intensify new hunger strike protest</a>Norma Hashimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09234015918187634901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949536334572734684.post-78166496237876374082014-05-08T18:13:00.002-07:002014-05-08T18:13:55.669-07:00Boosted by unity deal, Palestinian prisoner hunger strike hits third week<br />
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On Monday, as representatives of their parties spoke in Gaza, veteran prisoners Marwan Barghouti, a Fatah PLC member, and Abbas al-Sayed, a senior Hamas leader, both recipients of multiple life sentences by Israeli military courts, announced they would join the strike in solidarity with administrative detainees, former Palestinian minister of prisoners' affairs Wasfi Qabha said.<br />
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Their participation is likely to spur their movements to greater support for the strike, as well as boosting the reconciliation bid, according to al-Wuhaidi.<br />
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"Because of the dispute between the factions before, even the issue of detainees was affected," he said. "Our efforts weren't at their maximum, and didn't meet the expectations of the prisoners."<br />
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Unity between factions, he thinks, will help them coordinate their efforts to support the prisoners, whether through the diplomacy and negotiations of Fatah or the armed resistance favoured by Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and others. "Reconciliation is necessary to pressure the Israelis by uniting our strategies," said al-Wuhaidi.<br />
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- See more at:<a href="http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/boosted-unity-deal-palestinian-prisoner-hunger-strike-hits-third-week">http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/boosted-unity-deal-palestinian-prisoner-hunger-strike-hits-third-week</a><a href="http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/boosted-unity-deal-palestinian-prisoner-hunger-strike-hits-third-week#sthash.cJojPtja.cmfs">Boosted by unity deal, Palestinian prisoner hunger strike hits third week</a>Norma Hashimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09234015918187634901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949536334572734684.post-74315625942397273132014-05-06T10:24:00.000-07:002014-05-06T10:24:13.186-07:00Israeli journalist slams occupation's treatment of detained Palestinian children<br /><br />Israel's daily newspaper <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/twilight-zone/.premium-1.588490">Haaretz</a> has published an article strongly criticising the Israeli occupation army's treatment of detained Palestinian children. "What kind of country throws a teen out of an army jeep?" the newspaper titled the article by Israeli journalist Gideon Levy.<br /><br /><br />Levy goes on to explain the whole story: "Without money, a phone or identity papers, Fadel Tamimi's 14 year old son was thrown out of an Israeli army jeep, in the dead of night, 15 kilometres away from home, after being interrogated."<br /><br /><br />Read more here.<br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/11286-israeli-journalist-slams-occupations-treatment-of-detained-palestinian-children">https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/11286-israeli-journalist-slams-occupations-treatment-of-detained-palestinian-children</a>Norma Hashimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09234015918187634901noreply@blogger.com0