organization:palestinian prisoners center for studies

  • Palestinian dies weeks after being shot by Israeli forces in al-Duhiesha
    Sept. 3, 2017 5:04 P.M. (Updated: Sept. 3, 2017 6:16 P.M.)
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=778950

    BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A 21-year-old Palestinian succumbed to critical injuries in an Israeli hospital on Sunday, weeks after he was shot by Israeli forces during a violent detention raid into al-Duheisha refugee camp in the southern occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem.

    Raed al-Salhi was shot in the liver during a predawn military raid on Aug. 9. Another resident of the camp Aziz Arafeh was also shot in the leg.

    The two injured young men were detained by Israeli forces and taken to Israel’s Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem. Arafeh has reportedly remained in a stable condition.

    Head of the Palestinian Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs Issa Qaraqe told Ma’an on Sunday afternoon that al-Salhi succumbed to his wounds.

    Shortly after the announcement of al-Salhi’s death, mourners launched a march in al-Duheisha, chanting condolences to his mother and calling for revenge for the killing.

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    • Israel transfers body of slain Palestinian between Israeli hospitals
      Sept. 4, 2017 1:25 P.M. (Updated: Sept. 4, 2017 1:25 P.M.)
      http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=778955

      BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities on Monday continued to hold the body of Raed al-Salhi, 22, a resident of the al-Duheisha refugee camp in the southern occupied West Bank, who succumbed to critical injuries in an Israeli hospital on Sunday, weeks after he was shot by Israeli forces during a violent detention raid in the camp.

      Head of the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs Issa Qaraqe said in a statement Monday that al-Salhi’s body was transferred from the Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem to the Rishon Lezion hospital in central Israel after he was pronounced dead on Sunday.

      Al-Salhi was being held in the intensive care unit following a predawn military raid on Aug. 9, when Israeli forces shot him several times in his chest at close range, puncturing his liver and causing severe damage to his internal organs.

      It remained unclear when al-Salhi’s body would be buried or when he would be handed over by Israeli authorities, who routinely detain the bodies of slain Palestinians for extended periods and impose strict restrictions on their funerals.

      Meanwhile, spokesperson for the Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies, Riyad al-Ashqar, said in a statement that Israeli authorities shot al-Salhi “without justification and with the intention of killing him.”

  • 308,000 Palestinians detained by Israel since the First Intifada

    https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/15729-308000-palestinians-detained-by-israel-since-the-first-inti

    Some 308,000 Palestinians have been held in Israeli jails since the outbreak of the First Palestinian Intifada in 1987, the Anadolu Agency reported. The Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies said some of these Palestinians had been detained for years, while others had been detained for days. “The conditions of the detainees during the First Intifada had been worse than their conditions now,” the centre said in a statement issued on the anniversary of the uprising. The centre noted that around 30 Palestinians continued to be held in Israeli jails since the 1987 uprising. It called on international human rights organisations to document what it called “Israeli violations” during the uprising so that these violations would continue to bear witness to “Israel’s crimes”.

    December 8 marked the 27th anniversary of the outbreak of the First Palestinian Intifada in protest of the living conditions at the Palestinian refugee camps, high unemployment and what the Palestinians saw as insults to their national pride and a daily repression by Israeli authorities against them. The uprising broke out in the Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, when an Israeli truck driver ran over a group of Palestinian workers at the Beit Hanoun crossing.

    The uprising has seen a number of operations against Israeli targets where the Palestinians attacked Israeli soldiers and settlers with knives, according to Palestinian sources, before it calmed down in 1991, and finally stopped with the signing of the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation in 1993.

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