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Israeli Forces With Attack Dogs Raided, Captured Palestinian Human Rights Workers

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Palestinian offices and homes of employees of Solidarity Foundation for Human Rights, based in Nablus, were among a host of rights workers targeted in early dark hours Tuesday morning in a coordinated Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) raids with attack dogs, blowing open door with explosives, stealing computers and files, capturing and taking the rights defenders to interrogation centers, possibly for torture. 
 
The IOF also opened fire on peaceful demonstrators this week, wounding children, journalists and human rights leaders.
 
Five employees and one former employee of Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association were detained by IOF and are being held in Israeli detention centres, according to Uruknet. The Addameer Human Rights Association condemns the IOF’s continued targeting of Palestinian civil society. 
 
At 1:00 P.M. this morning, approximately 35 IOF soldiers and attack dogs raided the home of human rights worker Fares Abu Hasan, director of the organization, by blowing open the door of his house with explosives. His family, including his wife and six children, the youngest of which is just three months old, were at home at the time, according to a written statement by the rights organization.
 
The IOF subsequently ransacked his house, destroyed personal property and stole the families’ mobiles phone, laptop computers, iPad’s and personal papers. The raid lasted two hours during which Fares was separated from his family and interrogated. He was taken to Petah Tikva interrogation centre where he remains, possibly being tortured.
 
At the same time this morning the house of Osama Maqboul, a lawyer with the human rights organization, was also raided by IOF. A large number of IOF soldiers surrounded his house. Approximately 15 soldiers entered his home. They ransacked his house, destroying much of his personal properly and stealing money, his mobile phone and computer. Osama was taken to an unknown location.
 
The IOF raided the house of the secretary of the organization, Narim Salem, captured her in the early hours Tuesday morning and took her to Petah Tikva interrogation centre. The IOF also stole Narim’s computer.
 
The IOF also captured on Tuesday morning Mohammed Abed, a lawyer, and Ahmed Bitawi, a journalist, both working with the organization.
 
The IOF also captured a former employee and lawyer with the organization, Ahmed Sharif.
 
The International Middle East Media reports this week:

Israeli forces conducted 59 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank this week. 3 civilians were wounded. 41 civilians, including 6 children were abducted. Of the abducted were 4 employees from International Tadamun (Solidarity) for Human Rights in Nablus, including a woman.

In the West Bank, 13 civilians, including 2 children, a paramedic, a journalist and a human rights activist, were wounded; 10 of whom were wounded in peaceful demonstrations and the 3 others were wounded during an Israeli incursion in Nabi Saleh village, northwest of Ramallah, and Taqou’ village, southeast of Bethlehem.

Israeli forces continued to open fire at border areas in the Gaza Strip. 16 civilians were wounded in separate shooting incidents. The wounded included 2 children, 2 journalists and a member of the Interior Ministry.

In the Gaza Strip, on 21 February, 2014, 12 civilians, including 2 children and a journalist, were wounded when Israeli forces opened fire at dozens of Palestinian civilians, east of Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip.

On the same day, Israeli forces stationed along the border fence near Sofa crossing, northeast of al-Shouka village, northeast of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, opened fire at 2 members of the Interior Ministry, who were about 300 meters away from the said fence.

On 22 February, 2014, 2 Palestinian civilians were wounded when Israeli forces moved into Nabi Saleh village, northwest of Ramallah.

On 24 February, 2014, a Palestinian civilian was wounded in Taqou’ village, southeast of Bethlehem, when Israeli forces moved into the village.

On 24 February, 2014, Israeli forces positioned along the border fence, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, opened fire at agricultural lands, east of al-Qarara village, northeast of the city, but no casualties were reported.

On 25 February, 2014, 2 civilians, including a journalist, were wounded during a demonstration organized by the Intifada Coalition in the vicinity of Nahal Oz crossing, east of al-Shuja’iya neighbourhood, east of Gaza City. A number of demonstrators threw stones at Israeli soldiers, who fired sound bombs and tear gas canisters in response. 

In the context of targeting fishermen, on 20 February, 2014, Israeli navy forces opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats off Rafah shore, south of the Gaza Strip. Two missiles landed on a site belonging to the Palestinian National Security service, along the border fence between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. No casualties were reported. The site sustained minor damage.

On the same day, Israeli gunboats stationed off the shore northwest of Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, opened fire at fishing boats sailing within a nautical mile.  

 
In protest of today’s arrests of human rights workers, Palestinian lawyers demanded immediate release of their colleagues. All lawyers are boycotting the Israeli military courts of Ofer and Salem today and tomorrow.
 
Abdel Razek Farraj, an employee with Agricultural Workers Committee was also arrested from his home in Ramallah at 2:00 A.M. Abdel has spent 11 years in Israeli jails, including five years under administrative detention, a procedure allowing the Israeli military indefinite detention on “secret information” without charge or allowing to stand trial, the same that the Obama administration’s has authorized in the United States and abroad with the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Abdel was released from his last period of administrative detention in July 2012. His whereabouts are unknown.
 
Palestinian prisoners have been subject to human rights violations, such as the use of torture during interrogations by Israeli prison authorities.

“Today’s arrests are clearly a continuation of the Israeli policy of targeting of Palestinian civil society organizations in an attempt to suppress their important work in exposing the brutalities of the occupation and defending Palestinian rights,” the rights organization said Friday.
 
Addameer called on the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations to hold Israel to account and protect civilians living under occupation according to Articles 4, 13, 27 and 47 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
 
Addameer also stresses the importance of immediate intervention of international human rights organizations to help bring about the release of all those arrested today and condemn the continued U.S. supported Israeli policy of targeting Palestinian civil society.
 
Photo Credit: Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association , Facebook
What you can do
 
*Write to the Israeli government, military and legal authorities and demand the release of all those arrested today,” the organization has urged, providing the following contact details:
Brigadier General Danny Efroni
Military Judge Advocate General
6 David Elazar Street
Harkiya, Tel Aviv
Israel
Fax: +972 3 608 0366; +972 3 569 4526
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]
Maj. Gen. Nitzan Alon
OC Central Command Nehemia Base, Central Command
Neveh Yaacov, Jerusalam
Fax: +972 2 530 5741
Minister of Defense Moshe Smilansky 
Ministry of Defense
37 Kaplan Street, Hakirya
Tel Aviv 61909, Israel
Fax: +972 3 691 6940 / 696 2757
Col. Eli Bar On
Legal Advisor of Judea and Samaria PO Box 5
Beth El 90631
Fax: +972 2 9977326



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    • paul brown

      Israeli society has gone barking mad with right-wing venom. We must boycott them as we boycotted South Africa.
      It is especially tragic that here in the US so many people vilify the victims (Muslims) and support the villains (Israelis). Let’s turn that around, finally.

      • Anonymous

        Great piece here Deb.
        Isnt it odd how the “Xtian patriots” like Lyn Liarz, Steve Quayle, Haggee & Hodges & Hagmann & Henchmen never seem to pick up on the overwhelmingly large # of cases of criminal sadism and brutality committed by The Chosen?

        nothing that interrupts the “xtian patriots’” programming from Scofield /Rothschild/Rockefellor fake ‘Israel’ ever makes a dent. They never quote “By your fruits ye shall know them…”
        Despite the fact that middle east Christians have been BEGGING western Christians for their very lives!
        Zio-filth have become like irrational psychopaths, hardly responsible for their own insanity, because they have been so enabled, aided and abetted by the apostate Scofield Bible ‘xtians’. These apostates have provided the foundation (as planned by Herzl) for the NWO- even while these same ignorant fools chase their tails decrying it! Well ‘judgement’ is coming soon… and these ‘xtian zionists’ will soon be Bolshevised like in Russia, as the enablers become the biggest factor enabling their own demise. (see Hoahide Laws, Pres Bush 1990)

        • Mayhem

          That the people you mention don’t “pick up” is probably because believers are little interested in despots and their miserable machinations. You have made false assumptions, Anonymous, Israel is not Canaan and those that call themselves Jews, but are not, are well known.

          In the day of the interweb you, Anonymous, can no longer cloak all believers in that darkness. Shame on you. Israel, everyone can now see, is the head of the 12 tribes, Jacob, and the appointed of God. I wish to be counted among their number; of Israel. Is ‘jew’ even complimentary today? ‘political’ sure isn’t complimentary and nets-n-yahoo can kiss my feet.

        • Anonymous

          Sure Mason / Mayhem,

          Explain why the zionist Filth have the most evil symbol of all of black magic on their flag- a HEX- the Star of Remphan. Why dont you learn some history- or if you’re another Born-Again Bimbo- some spiritual discernment? You have none, thats clear.

          As for Nets-n-yahoo and his treasonous AIPAC sayanim in America? They can ki$$ my a$$, its feces-for-farisees time. Inshallah

        • Omega Files

          Anonymous: Zionists and the Ashkenazi Jews belong to the synagogue of Satan. Apples and oranges brother, the connection that you are trying to make will not hold in debate.

          Revelation 2:9: “I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.”

          First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill went to Chaim Weizmann, a Jewish chemist, and asked him if he could find a way to make several tons of synthetic gunpowder. Without it bullets couldn’t be fired, artillery was useless, and cannons on ships were mere ornaments. The outcome of the war was at stake. Weizmann and his associates discovered how to make this massive amount of synthetic gunpowder within weeks which then led to a victory over Germany. After the war, Lord Balfour asked Weizmann what England could do to honor him. Weizmann asked that his people (the Jews) be given a homeland. Lord Balfour created a historic document known to this day as the Balfour Declaration, giving the Jewish people what God had already guaranteed in Genesis – a homeland. Though the Balfour Declaration went through several drafts, the final version was issued on November 2nd, 1917, in a letter from Balfour to Lord Rothschild, president of the British Zionist Federation. The ‘Zionists’ of the world continued to return to the Land of Promise. One must wonder how this family always seems to be in the right place at the right time.

          The Rothschilds may not have had the total control over our economy as they have since 1913 – or even before that in 1863 with the National Banking Act – , but they have definitely had their dirty little hands in our business ever since America was created. This global International Banking Cartel has the Rothschilds at the very top and it also includes the Rothschilds of Paris and London; the Warburgs of Hamburg; the Israel Moses Seifs of Rome; the Lazards of Paris; the Rockefellers, the Kuhn Loebs of New York; the Goldman Sachs and the Lehmans. What’s interesting is that if you ask most people about Zionism, they will say ‘that’s the Jews’, but while this is the impression the Rothschild networks in politics and the media have sought very successfully to sell as ‘common knowledge’, it is not true. The Rothschild Zionists have sought to sell the ‘Zionism-means-all-Jewish-people’ lie so that they can condemn as ‘anti-Semites’ and ‘racists’ anyone who exposes the truth about Rothschild Zionism and its agents in government, banking, business, media, military, etc. No one who only gets their news from the Zionist controlled mainstream media would know any of this because they only push one line ­ Zionism means all Jewish people, end of story. They attack and undermine them in every way they can to stop the simple and devastating truth coming to light ­ that the Rothschild Zionists control the mainstream media, Hollywood and the movie industry, governments and public education, and of course, they control global finance and commerce.

        • Mayhem

          Omega Files has my proxy in this regard, Anonymous And have no doubt; I will be corrected, by these our brothers and sisters, should i stray far from what were are told. Do you even get that, Anonymous? The path is narrow and we are told that few will make it yet you’re able to come at Truth from all sides, all angles. Talk about being behind the 8 ball. Yet truth is being seen, over and over again, winning. Thanks for your help with this.

        • Mayhem

          How could it possibly be incumbent upon me to explain that which i despise, Anonymous? You ask far too much of me. This is where your confusion is centered; keep up your efforts you will eventually get with the truth.

      • Anonymous

        Try B’tSelem website, even the IDF refusenik admissions. One of the things these nasty pathetic sadists do is to smear feces all over the walls of Palestinians homes after they’ve bashed their way into their properties and evicted them. Such cases are DOCUMENTED. Pharisees + Feces is well known and discussed across the West Bank, but dont expect the jew-controlled media to ever tell you any of this

    • Ret. Marine

      It has been known for years that terrorist use human rights org. to disguise themselves as operatives for the terror org to justify their existence.. Israel officials are not stupid by any means and will use all available resources to catch up to the bad guys, no matter how they disguise themselves or the org. they may represent themselves within. I don’t condon their actions its part and partial to protecting their citizens, its their duty to act in such manner, as does our own gubbermint. Boycotts only show the contempt for the rule of law regarding any country, those who advocate such actions fear they are about to be exposed as dupes, and rightly so, they need to be exposed for the wickedness they are involved in. The light of truth shines very brightly in all cases, and shall always expose those wrong doers and their involvement in terror activities against individuals and states alike. Good on Israel for doing what they deem necessary for the protection of their own. God Bless, shield his people from the sons of darkness, i.e. Arabs and their useful idiot friends of the west pretending to be patriots. Take care (fellow Patriots) not to get involved in any org. involved in the tactics of terror as a political means to change human nature, or events no matter what faith, region, or ideology.
      Semper Fi. 1972-2004

      • socmarine87

        Thank you for saving me the time it would have taken me to type the same thing. I agree 100%. When I see human rights associated with Palestinian. Syrian etc it make me nauseous.
        Thank you for your year’s of servicec and sacrifice.

        Keep your head on a swivle people.

      • Anonymous

        When The Chosen attack Palestinians? No problem for the so-called Born Again Evangelicals – tho their taxes pay for it? That so many of these invisible Palestinians are actually fellow CHRISTIANS (going back all the way to time of Christ) seems to matter even less to these Sarcophagus Xtian zionists. Their idol is Rev 2:9, the Khazar satanists.
        What is really amusing about all of this is that the truth came from Pharisee scholars and expoerts in Jerusaelm itself, from the archeology and historians at Tel Aviv U among others.

    • paul brown

      I’m afraid these two comments prove my point. Americans have been brainwashed.
      The Palestinians are descendants of people who lived in this area long before the Israelites migrated to it. They have at least as much right to the place as the Jews. Instead, the Palestinians have been herded like cattle into walled-off sectors where they are repeatedly assaulted and displaced for illegal Israeli settlements. They need all the humanitarian help they can get, but the Israelis violently interfere with attempts to make life better for them.

      The West (starting with the Romans) demolished the tribes in the Middle East and replaced them with artificial colony states. Then after the Holocaust they didn’t know what to do with the horribly decimated Jews. They opted for a totally cynical and illegal way to get them off their hands and out of their consciences.

      Some Jews, especially in the US, had been pushing Zionism since the late 19th century. They had been buying land and assimilating with the Arabs peacefully until the forced colonization by the Zionists, who used a brutal program of terror to displace the Arabs, who weren’t just nomads, but had farms and cities like Arabs in other parts of the Middle East.

      The Israeli program of terror has continued to this day, far more brutal than Arab counteractions, supported by the West, mostly the US. The world condemns US and Israeli oppression of the Palestinians.

      US interest in Israel is partly due to the large support from Jewish and Christian Zionists but also as a military foothold to maintain US oil interests in the area. Much of the extremist action has been instigated by the US, most notoriously the mujahedin in Afghanistan, which the US officials have proudly taken credit for, and which created Al Qaeda. Most of the insurrections in the area were instigated and supported by the US, and did not benefit the people – see Egypt, Libya, and Syria as three examples.

      As for our soldiers who have served in the Middle East, they should have our sympathy for having fought and suffered in yet another illegal and monstrous war based on the lies of our military-industrial state. Their efforts were a terrible waste in a massive crime against humanity.

      Neither Israel’s criminal right wing nor the US military-industrial complex want peace, but the rest of the world does. Ironically, Assad of Syria has proposed that the Middle East be a WMD-free zone, but the US and Israel are having none of it.

      • Mayhem

        On this we concur to the degree i could hardly agree more, paul brown.

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