Freedom shock’ after 23 years in Israeli prison

‘Freedom shock’ after 23 years in Israeli prison

Report from World Bulletin http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=116071

After 23 years in an Israeli prison, Halid Asakre, one of the Palestinian prisoners, returned to his homeland and was welcomed as a hero.

Israel has released 26 Palestinian prisoners as part of a deal ahead of the resumption of peace talks. Many prisoners, who were freed despite their sentences of life imprisonment, went back to their families who had lost all hope for their sons’ return. After 23 years in an Israeli prison, Halid Asakre, one of the Palestinian prisoners, returned to his homeland and was welcomed as a hero.

Derar Abu Sisi on hunger strike

Written by Hamza Deirawi

في ظل التطورات المحيطة في الشرق الأوسط, تستغل إسرائيل الفرصة لتبقي الأسير#ضرار_أبوسيسي في العزل الانفرادي, وقد دخل اليوم يومه السابع في اضرابه المفتوح عن الطعام وأن اسرائيل تهدده من قبل محاميه أنها لن تخرجه من العزل الانفرادي الا ميتا...
مع العلم أنه حاصل على شهادة دكتوراه في الهندسة الكهربائية وهو متزوج من امرأة أوكرانية مسلمة تعيش في غزة وهو أب لستة أبناء... ويذكر أن الموساد الاسرائيلي اختطفه من أوكرانيا بتاريخ 19/2/2011 ومنذ ذلك الحين لم يزره أهله وهو معزول عن بقية الأسرى في السجون الإسرائيلية...مع العلم أنه يعاني من أمراض ومشاكل صحية متعددة... مع العلم أنه الأسير الوحيد المتبقي في العزل الانفرادي...

In light of the surrounding developments in the Middle East, Israel exploites the opportunity to keep the detainee #Derar_AbuSeci in solitary confinement. Today, he has entered his seventh day in open hunger strike and Israel is threatening him through his lawyers that he will not be released out from solitary confinement unless he is dead ...
Knowing that he holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, and he is married to a Ukrainian Muslim woman living in Gaza, and a father to six children ... It is noteworthy that the Israeli Mossad kidnapped him from Ukraine on 19/2/2011 and since then no one of his family have ever visited him, and he is isolated from the rest of the Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails ... with the knowledge that he is suffering from multiple diseases and health problems ...
Just to reimind you that #Derar_AbuSeci is the only Palestinian detainee who is left isolated in sloitary confinement. 

Read more at http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9275:pchr-is-concerned-over-the-life-of-prisoner-derar-abu-sisi-kept-in-solitary-confinement-in-ashkelon-prison&catid=36:pchrpressreleases&Itemid=194

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Failing to abide by regulations, Israeli soldiers inflict serious injuries to Palestinian children

Failing to abide by regulations, Israeli soldiers inflict serious injuries to Palestinian children Israeli forces are prohibited from firing rubber-coated metal bullets at women and children. Where firing rubber-coated metal bullets is allowed, police and military procedures state that they must only be fired from a distance of 50-60 meters (165 – 195 feet) and at the legs of people.The regulations prohibit directly targeting demonstrators with tear-gas canisters. Despite these regulations, at least 24 children have been shot and injured by live ammunition, rubber-coated metal bullets or tear-gas canisters since January 2013, including two that died from their wounds, according to evidence collected by Defense for Children International Palestine (DCI-Palestine). While Israeli forces regulations allow the use of these weapons for crowd control in certain narrow circumstances, only a third of these cases involve children directly participating in demonstrations where clashes with Israeli forces later occurred. Read the full report by Defence for Children International here

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“We derive our energy to persist from you,” Hassan Karajah writes from Israeli prison

“We derive our energy to persist from you,” Hassan Karajah writes from Israeli prison

A Prisoner hugs his paralysed mother

From Shahd Abusalama-

This is in a special visit coordinated for a detainee in Israeli prisons to meet his sick paralyzed mother without a barrier. Such visits are rarely allowed for prisoners. 

This man is the father of the young man whom I shared this photo from.

In the description he wrote, "My dear father, thoughts are flooded inside my mind while watching the released prisoners hugging their mothers and wiping their tears. I can almost see you in every one of them. I can smell you on their clothes. I can hear your voice in either their laughs or sighs. I miss you my dad and I am longing for your warm lap. Your freedom will mean life to me. You will restore it one day, God willing!

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In the Prisoners' Diaries, Abdulrahman Shehab describes his father's reaction when the jailer opened the door to allow him and the family to take a family photo with his incarcerated son, after 17 years of only communicating through a glass barrier. He was so overwhelmed he had almost fainted.