Tag: Abductions

  • Detained peace activist: we slept with cockroaches

    Daniel Edleson | YNet News 2 July 2009 An Israeli citizen who was among 21 peace activists apprehended by the IDF en route to the Gaza Strip says she was held under conditions resembling a “horror movie.” Houida Araf, who was released on Wednesday, told Ynet that she and a fellow Israeli peace activist were…

  • Free Gaza Movement’s two Palestinian ’48 organisers now released from Israeli prison and detention

    2 July 2009 For Immediate Release: Lubna Masarwa and Huwaida Arraf, both organisers of the Free Gaza Movement, have now been released from Ashdod Detention Facility, where military authorities had held them from 9.00 p.m. on 30th June until 1.00 p.m. on 1st July, 2009, having arrested and detained them while in Gazan territorial waters…

  • Finding fish, but Israelis too

    Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service 1 July 2009 At 6am on Jun. 16, Sadallah and his brother Abdel Hadi Sadallah, in their early twenties, went roughly 400 metres out to sea off the coast of Sudaniya in Gaza’s northwest. “We wanted to bring in nets we had left out the night before,” says Sadallah.…

  • Inhumane treatment of Palestinian prisoner

    30 June 2009 The 23 year old Palestinian women, Somod from Nablus, was recently released after having been imprisoned in Israel for four and a half years. Despite her young age, she suffered from inhumane treatment such as rape-threats, isolation, and denial of access to basic sanitation facilities. She went to court as many as…

  • A fierce attack on the village of Bil’in

    At around 4am soldiers from the Israeli military stormed the village of Bil’in by foot. They abducted Suleiman Sif, aged 16 years, from his home and dragged him to an unknown destination. This raid is part of a broad campaign over the last two weeks by the army to strike terror into the villagers of…