<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Occupied Palestine | فلسطين]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[occupiedpalestine]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/author/hajarhajar/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Palestinian Prisoners: Over 750.000 Since&nbsp;1967]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><em>Due to increasing reporting media  about severe (human rights) torture, violations and abuse of prisoners, from March 3, to this topic related news will be updated here continously below this article.</em></strong></p>
<p>UPDATED REPORT: 10.11.10 &#8211; 11:49<br />
Bethlehem – PNN &#8211; Abdul Nasir Farwaneh, director of the statistics department of the Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs, said 6700 Palestinians are in Israeli prison, including 283 children and 35 w&#8230;omen. About 70,000 have been jailed since the 2000 al-Aqsa Intifada.</p>
<p>Since the beginning of the 1967 occupation, more than 750,000 Palestinians have been imprisoned including tens of thousands of women and children. Seventy thousand have been imprisoned since the beginning of the Second Intifada in September 2000, including 820 women and 8000 children.</p>
<p>Many of these prisoners, according to Farwaneh, are “deprived of their basic human rights, exposed to the dangers of death, injury, or various illnesses, clearly violating international treaties and laws.”</p>
<p>The 6700 prisoners are split among 20 Israeli prisons and include 192 imprisoned without charge under the “administrative detention” law, five Gazan “unlawful combatants,” and nine Palestinian lawmakers.</p>
<p>Of the prisoners, 82.5% are from the West Bank, 10.4% from the Gaza Strip, and 6% of other Arab nationalities. Eight hundred twenty are serving life sentences, 598 were sentenced to more than 20 years, 479 are serving between 15 and 20 years, 1782 are serving sentences between 5 and 15 years, and only 15 prisoners will live less than a year in jail.</p>
<p><a href="http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=9123&amp;Itemid=68" target="_blank">Source: PNN</a></p>
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<strong><br />
Introduction</strong><br />
Since the beginning of the Israeli occupation of  Palestinian territories in 1967, over 700,000  Palestinians have been  detained by Israel. This forms approximately 20% of the total  Palestinian population in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT).  Considering the fact that the majority of those detained are male, the  number of Palestinians detained forms approximately 40% of the total  male Palestinian population in the OPT.</p>
<p>As of November 2008,  there are approximately, 9,493 Palestinian political prisoners being  held in Israeli prisons and detention centers. 650 of these are  administrative detainees, held without charge or trial for indefinite  periods of time. 300 of the political prisoners are aged 18 and under.   There are 65 Palestinian female political prisoners, 1 of whom is a  mother who gave birth in prison.  There remain 38 elected members of the  Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), including one female PLC member.</p>
<p><strong>Process of Arrest</strong><br />
Palestinians  are routinely arrested at checkpoints, off the street and most  commonly, from their homes in the early hours of the morning. In the  case of arrest from the family home, units from the Israeli army will  typically surround the house between midnight and 4 am and force family  members onto the street in their nightclothes, regardless of weather  conditions. Upon arrest, detainees are usually handcuffed with plastic  cuffs and blindfolded. They are not informed of the reason for their  arrest, nor are they told where they will be taken.</p>
<p>Physical  abuse and humiliation of the detainee by Israeli forces is common. Based  on numerous sworn affidavits, detainees have reported that they have  been subjected to attempted murder and rape, and thrown down stairs  while blindfolded, amongst many other forms of physical abuse. During  their arrest, detainees have often been forced to strip in public before  being taken into custody. Family members have also been forced to  remove their clothes in house- to- house arrest campaigns and raids.   Mass arrests from homes in entire neighbourhoods continue to take place  in the OPT during military incursions. Once bound and blindfolded, the  detainee is usually placed on the floor of a military jeep, sometimes  face down, for transfer to an interrogation and detention centre.   Neither the detainee nor his or her family is told why he or she is  being detained or where he or she is being taken. Addameer has received  numerous reports of abuse of detainees during the transfer process by  Israeli soldiers, consisting of beatings, kicking and threats. These  journeys can take anywhere from 20 minutes up to many hours.</p>
<p><strong>Distribution of Prisoners</strong><br />
Israeli  prisons and military detention camps are primarily located within the  1948 borders of Israel. There are a total of 4 interrogation centers, as  well as secret interrogation facilities, 5 detention/holding centers,  and about 21 prisons in which Palestinians from the OPT are held. The  location of prisons within Israel and the transfer of detainees to  locations within the occupying power’s territory are illegal under  international law and constitute a war crime. The Fourth Geneva  Convention explicitly states that “Protected persons accused of offences  shall be detained in the occupied country, and if convicted they shall  serve their sentences therein.” (Article 76) Most of the Palestinian  Prisoners are being held in detention facilities located outside the  OPT.</p>
<p><strong>Family Visits</strong><br />
All Palestinian families wishing to visit a  family member imprisoned in Israel must receive an entry permit into  Israel (except for Jerusalem residents), which takes between one and  three months to obtain and is only valid for three months. The  application for the permit is submitted via the ICRC and transferred to  the Israeli side. Not only do the basic criteria for receiving entry  permits restrict the visiting population (16-45-year-old men are  prohibited from receiving permits), but also hundreds of families may  not receive permit on security grounds. As a result, hundreds of  prisoners do not receive family visits for extended periods that may  reach a number of years. Other sweeping restrictions may withhold  Palestinian family visits, such as the prohibition of visits by families  from one, or all, areas of the OPT, or to a certain prison, on security  grounds. In the past, visits have been suspended for periods of over a  year.</p>
<p>When they are not denied, visits with Palestinian prisoners  take place once every two weeks for 45 minutes. As stated, only  immediate family members are allowed to visit.  A glass window,  sometimes accompanied by bars, separates the visitor and the prisoner.  Communication takes place through a telephone or through holes in the  glass. Only three family members are permitted to visit a detainee at a  time. Since June 2007, Israeli authorities have placed a total ban on  visits by family members from Gaza to their relatives incarcerated in  Israel. This ban affects approximately 1,000 prisoners and their  families. Preventing family visits has in practice led to the isolation  of these prisoners from the outside world due to the strict limitations  or bans placed on all forms of contact and communication by “security”  prisoners. The timing of this decision to ban family visits, coincided  with the capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in Gaza, and appears to  be a form of collective punishment intended to coerce Palestinian  factions to respond to Israel’s demands. In so doing, Israel is  transforming Palestinian prisoners into pawns to achieve political gains  not related to the official reasons for their imprisonment.</p>
<p><strong>Prison Conditions</strong><br />
Palestinian  prisoners are discriminated against in terms of their conditions of  imprisonment. Due to these conditions, along with restrictions on family  visits, the prisoners are almost completely cut off from the world  outside the prison. The mental and physical implications of this  discrimination are much graver for prisoners held in isolation or  solitary confinement, who are disconnected from the prison population as  well.</p>
<p>Addameer continues to receive complaints from both adult  and child detainees about the conditions in which they are being held in  Israeli interrogation and detention centres and prisons. Prison  conditions in Israeli military detention camps are appalling. Detainees  are held in overcrowded prison tents that are often threadbare and do  not provide for adequate shelter against extreme weather in the winter  or summer.  Hygiene facilities are dire.  Toilets are located inside  prison cells with sewage often coming through the drains. The Israeli  Prison Authority (IPS) does not provide essential hygiene products, such  as toothpaste; only prisoners whose canteen accounts have been closed  receive essential personal hygiene products and cleaning products for  their cells. Prisoners report that personal hygiene products were  provided up until 2002 but from that year on were significantly limited.  All prisoners reported that IPS provided only half a liter of floor  cleaning liquid and that the rest of their personal products, including  all products used for cleaning their cell, were bought at their own  personal expense.</p>
<p>Most prisoners reported that the food provided  by the IPS was insufficient in terms of quality and quantity alike. The  prisoners buy most of their food from the canteen and recook the cooked  food they get from IPS. However, the purchasing power of prisoners is  radically divergent, and such encouragement by the Israeli authorities  is immoral as they are ultimately responsible for providing sufficient  food for prisoners. In most cases, it is the prisoners’ responsibility  to provide more than half of their necessary food, which is problematic  as most prisoners come from poor families. Sometimes, a prisoner’s  canteen account is closed, as has occurred to tens of prisoners,  especially those who have been identified with Hamas over the past year.  Prisoners report that IPS food is inappropriate for the medical needs  of those who require a special diet.</p>
<p><strong>Health Conditions</strong><br />
The  prison authority adopts a systematic policy in all detention centers.  This policy is a deliberate form medical negligence which involves  delays in providing medical treatment. Israel avoids its duty and fails  to comply with the international standards that require holding  detainees in places under healthy conditions, with provision of medical  treatment and specialised medical care for sick detainees. There is a  clinic with one nurse in all Israeli prisons. The doctor comes to the  clinic once or twice a week for no more than four hours. If the  specified time is finished, he leaves the prison and the sick prisoners  are not treated until the next week.  The medical team deals with the  cases that require medical services slowly and with deliberate  negligence. If a detainee requires medical care and the prison’s doctor  decides to refer him to the hospital, it takes months, under the pretext  that the Ar-Ramleh Prison’s hospital can only take a limited number of  patients. If it turns out, after the medical examinations, that the  patient is required to have a surgery, he has to wait for his turn,  which may take months or years, thus causing severe complications and  deterioration in the patient’s health and psychological condition.  The  only medicine given for the treatment of all diseases is painkillers.   In addition, the prison administration denies access of medicines from  outside the prison, either from the family or Palestinian organizations.  Sick detainees inside Israeli prisons live on painkillers and  tranquilizers.</p>
<p>As a result of the sub-standard conditions of  detention, detainees who are released are often faced with chronic  health problems such as skin diseases, fatigue and weakness, kidney  problems and ulcers. The medical system and clinics are also unprepared  to receive Palestinian detainees, some of whom arrive with a wide  variety of illnesses, often requiring further investigation and close  medical supervision.  The system is not prepared to screen sick  detainees and has no contact with the detainee’s family or attending  physician.  In some cases, the lack of proper attention to medical needs  has led to deterioration in the detainees’ health.</p>
<p>A further  problem is the lack of communication between the detainees and the  physician in the detention facility, both because of language  difficulties and because the physician is inevitably seen as part of the  military machine responsible for the detainee’s incarceration.  In such  conditions, it is difficult for detainees to develop relationships of  trust with the physician, who is supposed to see to their welfare and  represent their interests as patients.</p>
<p><strong>Discrimination</strong><br />
Severe  discrimination exists in the conditions of confinement of Palestinians  classified as security detainees within the Israeli prison system.  Pre-trial detainees alleged to have committed offences defined as  security offences under section 35(b) of the Criminal Procedure  (Enforcement Detention) Law – 1996 are confined in separate prisons  under separate, harsher conditions than “criminal” detainees, under  order 22 of the (Powers of Enforcement – Detention) (Conditions of  Holding in Detention) – 1997. None of these detainees have been  convicted of any offence.  Security detainees are not entitled to a  daily walk in the open air or to use the telephone, even to call their  attorney. Criminal detainees, by contrast, are permitted a daily  hour-long walk and are allowed to make a daily telephone call to their  attorneys, family and friends. Criminal detainees are provided with a  bed, while security detainees are provided a thin mattress; criminal  detainees, but not security detainees are provided newspapers, books,  TVs, radios, a razor and mirror, an electric kettle, wall light, fan and  heater. Some of the discriminatory conditions are hygiene-related: for  example, the cells of security detainees do not contain a basin, and  while criminal detainees’ cells must be sanitised and disinfected  annually and provided with detergents, this is not the case for  political detainees.</p>
<p>These discriminatory conditions severely  violate the fundamental rights of thousands of detainees, including  their right to dignity, to personal freedom and to fair and minimal  living conditions in detention centres, and may amount to cruel, inhuman  or degrading treatment or punishment.  Israeli interrogation and  detention centres are meant as temporary holding facilities. However,  some detainees, including children, who are sentenced to less than three  months imprisonment, end up serving their entire sentence at these  facilities due to a lack of space in Israeli prisons. This results in  poor conditions and overcrowding.</p>
<p><strong>Education</strong><br />
Palestinian  prisoners can receive books via the ICRC and their families during  visits, but restrictions are always imposed by the prison on the kinds  and number of books they are allowed to receive. They receive newspapers  in Arabic, such as Alquds, free of charge, but other newspapers, in  Hebrew or English, are distributed only to those holding a subscription.  The newspapers are always distributed after a delay and are not up to  date.</p>
<p>Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons are allowed to  study only at the Open University of Israel. They may not continue their  studies at any institution they studied at prior to their arrest, even  if the university so approves. A years-long struggle to change this  practice has been unsuccessful. The IPS claims that prisoners are barred  from participating in study programs of Arab universities for security  reasons. Many prisoners are unable to register at Israeli universities  because of financial and language restrictions. Additionally, detainees  being held at military detention centres, as opposed to prisons, are  prohibited from registering at any university. Prisoners who are held in  isolation are also not allowed to study even at the Open University of  Israel.</p>
<p>In some Israeli prisons, limited provisions are made for  the education of Palestinian minors who are detained. At Telmond Prison,  for example, Palestinian child prisoners receive daily instruction, but  study an Israeli curriculum. Child detainees, both male and female,  held in Megiddo and Ketziot have absolutely no access to education. The  administration often does not allow books in to the prison for  independent study, and even when they are allowed, time for study is  often prohibited or taken away as a form of punishment. In June 2007,  the Israeli authorities banned all prisoners from taking their final  high school year tawjihi exam.  Israeli criminal juvenile offenders are,  however, allowed to continue their formal education uninterrupted while  in detention.</p>
<h1>Resources | Reports</h1>
<ul>
<li><strong><a href="http://unispal.un.org/databases/dprtest/ngoweb.nsf" target="_blank">UN Mtg on Palestinian political prisoners (Vienna) &#8211; read statements</a> | UN | Mar 8, 2011</strong></li>
<li><a href="http://addameer.info/wp-content/images/addameer-quarterly-update-on-palestinian-prisoners-july-2010-en.pdf" target="_blank">Update Report: July 2010</a></li>
<li><a href="http://addameer.info/?page_id=410" target="_blank">All reports and Factsheets of Addameer</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.btselem.org/English/Administrative_Detention/" target="_blank">B&#8217;Tselem Administrative Detetion Factsheet</a></li>
<li><a href="../2010/12/28/90-palestinian-detainees-denied-lawyer/">A 90% of Palestinian Prisoners denied lawyer</a></li>
<li> <a href="../2011/01/23/illegal-detention-of-palestinian-children-video/">Illegal Detention of Children</a></li>
</ul>
<h1>Resources Arabic</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.ppsmo.ps/portal/" target="_blank">Palestinian Prisoner Society</a></li>
</ul>
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<li><a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/ips-refuses-to-remove-palestinian-prisoners-tumor/">IPS refuses to remove Palestinian prisoner&#8217;s tumor</a> | PIC | Mar 27, 2011</li>
<li><a href="../2011/03/13/relatives-of-political-detainees-call-for-rally/">Relatives of political detainees call for rally</a> | PIC | Mar 13, 2011</li>
<li><a href="../2011/03/13/palestinians-forgotten-in-european-jails/">Palestinians forgotten in European jails</a> | PIC | Mar 13, 2011</li>
<li><a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/man-loses-vision-after-tortured-in-israel-custody/">Man loses vision after tortured in Israel custody</a> | PIC | Mar 9, 2011</li>
<li><a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/ministry-of-prisoners-10000-women-kidnapped-by-israel-since-1968/">Ministry of prisoners: 10,000 women kidnapped by Israel since 1968</a> | PIC | Mar 9, 2011</li>
<li><a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/60811" target="_blank">Gaza’s Ministry Of Detainees Calls On Egypt To Release Palestinians Prisoners</a> | IMEMC | Mar 8, 2011</li>
<li><a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=366541" target="_blank">133 Palestinians held in Israel&#8217;s jails for over 20 years</a> | Maan | Mar 8, 2011</li>
<li><a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/mofaz-demands-more-pressure-on-palestinian-prisoners/">Mofaz demands more pressure on Palestinian prisoners</a> | PIC | Mar 7, 2011</li>
<li><a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/soldiers-break-into-eshil-be%E2%80%99er-sheva-prison-attack-detainees-search-their-rooms/">Soldiers Break Into Eshil-Be’er Sheva Prison, Attack Detainees, Search Their Rooms</a> | IMEMC | Mar 4, 2011</li>
<li><a href="http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/news/middle-east/2101-palestinian-prisoner-qdeansq-reaches-136-in-total" target="_blank">Palestinian prisoner &#8220;Deans&#8221; reaches 136 in total</a> | Mar 3, 2011</li>
<li><a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/askalan-prisoners-complain-of-being-shackled-during-visits/" target="_blank">Askalan prisoners complain of being shackled during visits</a> | PIC | Mar 3, 2011</li>
<li><a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/mandela-ioa-holds-palestinian-woman-in-cell-with-homicide-convicts/" target="_blank">Mandela: IOA holds Palestinian woman in cell with homicide convicts</a> | PIC | Mar 3, 2011</li>
<li><a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/iof-detains-7-palestinians-including-crippled-man-90-in-al-khalil-in-february/" target="_blank">IOF detains 7 Palestinians including crippled man, 90 in Al-Khalil in February</a> | PIC | Mar 3, 2011</li>
<li><a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/muhammad-al-zatari-innocent-accused-of-stabbing-settler-and-tortured-for-five-months/">Muhammad al-Za&#8217;tari: Innocent, Accused of Stabbing Settler, and Tortured for Five Months</a> | Mar 3, 2011</li>
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