1- Aggiornamento da Nablus: corteo nella citta' vecchia e alle case occupate; aggiornamento sui detenuti internazionali
2- Resconto sulla manifestazione israeliana in solidarieta' ai prigionieri politici palestinesi in sciopero della fame
3- Giornalista inglese rimane in prigione
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1- Aggiornamento da Nablus: corteo nella citta' vecchia e alle case occupate; aggiornamento sui detenuti internazionali
Domenica mattina alle 11:00 l'International Solidarity Movement, internazionali e medici palestinesi hanno marciato per la citta' vecchia passando per le case dei palestinesi occupati dall'esercito israeliano.
Centinaia di palestinesi si sono uniti alla marcia.
La manifestazione e' stata fatta per protestare contro l'assedio dell'area e contro l'occupazione delle case palestinesi. Inoltre i manifestanti stanno protestando contro la decisione dell'esercito israeliano di non permettere ai testimoni internazionali, ai medici, e altri supporti umanitari di entrare nelle case dei palestinesi occupate.
Ieri su una televisione locale l'esercito ha ordinato a tutti gli internazionali di lasciare la citta' o saranno a rischio di essere arrestati.
Inoltre hanno dichiarato la citta' vecchia zona militare chiusa e manteranno il coprifuoco.
Gli internazionali sono riusciti a far passare alcune ambulanze e continuano ad assitere i medici nei giri per le case. Gruppi di internazionali si stanno muovendo di casa in casa, seguendo i soldati, che stanno continuando a irrompere nelle case palestinesi.
Almeno 15 persone sono state ferite.
le foto:
http://www.palsolidarity.org/pictures/ismphotos.php
2- Resconto sulla manifestazione israeliana in solidarieta' ai prigionieri politici palestinesi in sciopero della fame
Attivisti dell'ISM hanno partecipato alla manifestazione di fronte al carcere di Hadarim e visitato alcuni dei familiari palestinesi che hanno i loro cari nelle prigioni israeliane. Israeliani, internazionali e palestinesi hanno manifestato di fronte a tre prigioni israeliani. Dozine
di persone sono scese in piazza battendo contro pentole e padelle in modo da farsi sentire dai prigionieri.
Dopo la manifestazione molti sostenitori dello sciopero della fame hanno visitato le tende della solidarieta' e i
famigliari dei prigionieri.
Gli attivisti dell'ISM hanno visitato una famiglia nel campo profughe di Tulkarem ed hanno parlato con la figlia di 16 anni di nome Riham. Riham e' una giovane donna dinamica e piena di energie che e' stato sparata nello
stomaco da un soldato israeliano da una toretta.
Era stata subito portata in ospedale per essere curata.
Fu costretta per due mesi a letto, e dopo l'esercito israeliano l'ha condanata a 1 anno di prigione, accusata di
aver pianificato un attacco ad un soldato.
Riham e la sua famiglia negano tutte le accuse dicendo che non aveva pianificato nulla ed era stata sparata senza provocazioni.
Un'altra famiglia dello stesso campo la cui figlia Sima e' stata condannata a 2 anni e mezzo in un carcere israeliano per aver parlato al telefono con un militante di un gruppo libanese. Lei ha quattro figli, la sua famiglia nega qualsiasi cantatto con il gruppo libanese.
Il marito di Sima fu assasinato dai soldati israeliani e due dei suoi fratelli sono al momento in carcere.
Oggi i suoi genitori stano cercando, a fatica, di crescere i suoi quattro figli e i sette di suo fratello.
->Resoconto della manifestazione in solidarieta' ai prigionieri:
Sabato mattina del 21 agosto un paio di centinaia di manifestanti ebrei ed arabi si sono uniti sotto la sigla Hidash (attivisti da Ta'ayush, gli Anarchici, Gush Shalom e internazionali dall'ISM) hanno manifestato di fronte alle carceri di Hadarim, Meggido e Shata in cui ci sono prigionieri che stanno ancora in sciopero della fame.
Al carcere di Hadarim un grosso schieramento di polizia ha minaciato di caricare e disperdere la folla, ma hanno rinunciato dopo l'intervento di Km Issam Makhul.
La polizia ha proibito l'utilizzo dei megafoni, alche i
manifestanti hanno cominciato a battere su pentole e padelle.
Poi da dentro la prigione uno dei prigionieri in sciopero e' riuscito a chiamare KM Makhoul e Barake, usando uno dei telefonini, che nostante le continue perquisizioni da parte dell'amministrazione penitenziaria, i prigionieri riescono a tenere.
Il prigioniero ha detto che la caciara dei manifestanti si sentiva perfettamente da dentro al carcere e che il morale dei scioperati rimane alto.
Sana Salameh, la moglie di uno dei prigionieri, che e' detenuto dal 1986, ha detto che le autorita' penitenziarie hanno tolto ai prigionieri le sigarette, che fa si che la fame si sente maggiormante, e il sale che i prigionieri leccavano durante le ore calde.
Inoltre tutte le cure mediche sono state interrotte e rinizieranno solo quando lo sciopero finira'. "In passato non sono mai arrivati fino a questo punto" dice Sana.
3- Giornalista inglese rimane in prigione
Judge Kobo della corte distrettuale di Tel Aviv ha chiesto la liberazione della gionalista inglese, Ewa Jasiewics, a patto che non entri nei territori palestinesi o entri in contatto in qualsiasi avvenimento in cui sia
coivolto l'Esercito israeliano. Comunque sia questa decisione e' stata appelata dallo Stato di Attorney e Ewa rimane in carcere.
Ci sara' un udienza lunedi' 23 agosto nella corte distrettuale di Tel Aviv, dove si decidera' la deportazione o meno di Ewa.
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International Solidarity Movement Updates
1. Nablus Update: March thru the Old City and to the Occupied
Homes; Update on Detained Internationals
2. Report on Israeli Demonstrations in Support of Palestinian
Political Prisoners on Hunger Strike
3. British Journalist Remains in Detention
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1. Nablus Update: March to Occupied Homes and Thru the Old City;
Update on Detained Internationals
Sunday morning at 11:00AM, the International Solidarity Movement,
internationals and Palestinian medics marched thru the Old City to
the Palestinian homes occupied by the Israeli Army. They were
joined by hundreds more Palestinians.
The march is in protest of the continued siege in the area and the
occupation of Palestinian homes. In addition, the demonstrators are
protesting the Israeli Army decision not to allow international
witness, medical aid and other humanitarian relief to the families
inside the homes that have been taken over by Israeli Soldiers.
Yesterday, on local television stations, the Israeli Army ordered
all internationals to leave the are or risk arrest.
In spite of the fact that the Israeli Army announced that the center
of the Old City was a closed military zone and they maintain curfew
on the area, the demonstrators marched thru the streets demanding
that the Israeli Army allow internationals and medics access and
that they end their siege on the Old City.
Internationals managed to aid in the passage of several ambulances
and continue to assist with medical evacuations. Groups of
internationals are moving house to house following the Israeli Army
and their on-going breaking and entering of Palestinian homes. At
least 15 people have been wounded.
For photos of the march see:
http://www.palsolidarity.org/pictures/ismphotos.php
Update on Three Detained Internationals:
The three internationals from the UK, Germany and Austria, who were
detained last night, were taken to Ariel Police Station and then
transferred to Ben Gurion Airport detention Center in Tel Aviv. The
three were released today under the condition they do not enter a
closed military zone.
2. Report on Israeli Demonstrations in Support of Palestinian
Political Prisoners on Hunger Strike
ISM activists from Tulkarem joined the demonstration in front of
Hadarim Prison and visited several Palestinian families who have
loved ones in Israeli prison. Israelis, Internationals and
Palestinians demonstrated in front of three prisons August 21 in
solidarity with the Palestinian political prisoners who began a
hunger strike August 15, 2004. The demonstrations brought dozens of
protestors who banged on pots and pans so that the prisoners could
hear them. After the demonstrations many supporters of the hunger
strike visited the solidarity tents and families of imprisoned
Palestinians. The Tulkarem group visited two families who have
suffered from Israeli incarceration.
ISM activists visited a family from the Tulkarem refugee camp and
spoke with their sixteen year-old daughter, Riham. Riham is a
vibrant, dynamic young woman who was shot by an Israeli soldier from
a guard tower. She was shot in the stomach and was taken to a
hospital for treatment. While she was recovering from the gun shot
wound she was shackled to a bed for two months. She was then
sentenced to one year in an Israeli prison. She was accused of
planning to attack a soldier. Riham and her family deny that she
had planned anything and that she had been shot by an Israeli
soldier without any provocation.
The ISM group visited another family from the Tulkarem Refugee
Camp. The daughter, Sima, has been sentenced to 2 ˝ years in an
Israeli prison for allegedly communicating by phone with members of
a militant group in Lebanon. She has four children. Her family
denies any contact with groups in Lebanon. Sima's husband was
assassinated by the Israeli Army and two of her brothers are
presently in Israeli prisons. Today their parents are struggling to
raise Sima's four children and her brother's seven children.
Report on the demonstrations in support of the hunger strikers and
information on the prisons:
Saturday, August 21, Solidarity Actions with the Prisoners on Hunger
Strike
Reported by Rayna Moss <legalese@netvision.net.il>
On Saturday morning, August 21, several hundred Israeli Jewish and
Arab demonstrators came at the call of the Hadash Party (activists
from Ta'ayush, the Anarchists, Gush Shalom and also internationals
from the ISM) and held together protests in front of the Hadarim,
Meggido and Shata Prisons, in all of which Palestinian prisoners are
on hunger strike.
At Hadarim, a large police force threatened to disperse the
demonstrators, but desisted after the intervention of KM Issam
Makhul. The police did forbid the use of loud-speaker, whereupon the
demonstrators accompanied their chanting by drumming on pots and
pans.
Suddenly, from out of the prison a member of the prisoners' strike
committee managed to call KM's Makhoul and Barake, using one of the
"hidden" mobile phones which prisoners manage to keep despite
constant searches and confiscations by the prison administration.
(The demand for having access to phones, as criminal prisoners in
Israeli jails do, is one of the main issues in the Palestinian
prisoners' hunger strike). The caller told that the demonstrators'
racket was clearly audible inside, and that the strikers' morale
remains high.
Sana Salameh, the wife of a prisoner held at Hadarim since 1986,
told that prison authorities had confiscated the prisoners'
cigarettes, the smoking of which makes hunger easier, and also the
lumps of salt which prisoners used to lick in the hot hours. And all
medical treatment in the prison is now dependent on breaking the
strike. "They did not do such things in the past. There had been a
tacit understanding not to push things to extremes, which does not
exist any more".
From the prison gates, many of the demonstrators traveled to the
centre of the Israeli-Arab town of Baka Al-Garbiya, where prisoners'
families had erected a solidarity tent. The group also went to see
the newly-erected, eight-metre high "Separation Wall", erected at
the edge of the town and cutting it off from Baka Al-Sharkiya which
is part of the West Bank. "We used to go back and forth between the
two Baka's, as if it was one town. Many of the people there are also
our relatives. Now, to get there you need a permit which takes a lot
of effort to get" an inhabitant told the group.
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3. British Journalist Remains in Israeli Detention
Supreme Court Returns Case to District Court
Judge Kobo of Tel Aviv District Court last week ordered Ewa
Jasiewicz be released from detention on the condition that she not
enter the Occupied Palestinian Territories nor engage in any
activities or participate in events that may involve the Israeli
Army. However, this decision was appealed by the State Attorney and
Ewa remains in Israeli detention.
This morning, August 22, a hearing was held at the Supreme Court in
Jerusalem where the decision was made to return Ewa's case to the
District
Court.
There will be a hearing, Monday, August 23, at 8:00a.m. at Tel Aviv
District Court. The decision as to whether Ewa is deported or
allowed to enter Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories
will be decided.
Ewa has the support of Journalist Unions in Europe, Australia and other countries. Her case is considered a fight for freedom of press, freedom of speech and the public right to know. Ewa is convinced she is not being released because, as a self-described advocacy journalist promoting human rights, she exposes human rights
abuses of the Israeli Army in the occupied West Bank.
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