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<h1><font size=5 color="#FF0000"><b>Two articles follow<br><br>
</font>Palestinian detainees to protest Israeli decisions against
them</b></h1>
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</b></h1><font size=3> Tuesday March 24, 2009
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by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News
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</font>The Prisoners Center for Studies (PCS) reported on Tuesday that
Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons have decided to protest against
the Israeli decisions against them, specifically calls for placing some
in solitary confinement, and denying them visits and the right to
education. <br><br>
The PCS said that the decision came after the Israeli government decided
several measures of collective punishment were taken against them
following failed prisoner-swap talks with Hamas. <br><br>
The measures also include barring prisoners from watching al-Jazeera new
agency, and placing some of them in solitary confinement for indefinite
periods, in addition to denying the detainees the right to
education.<br><br>
The center said that the detainees will not surrender and will not accept
that Israel removes achievements they obtained through years of struggle
and hunger strikes. <br><br>
Furthermore, the PSC stated that there will be cooperation between the
detainees and several factions and institutions in Palestine in order to
organize massive protests marking April 17, the Palestinian Prisoners
Day. <br><br>
Ra’fat Hamdouna, head of the center, said that there are serious threats
and violations against the detainees, especially the recent decision of
the Israeli government to impose further restrictions on them. <br><br>
Hamdouna appealed to the international community and different human
rights groups to intervene and stop Israel's violations of human rights
and international treaties that call for protecting
detainees. <br><br>
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<h1><font size=5><b>Likud, Kadima MK’s submit bill to worsen conditions
of Palestinian
detainees</b></font></h1>
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</b></h1><font size=3> Tuesday March 24, 2009
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</font>Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported o Monday that Likud member
of Knesset (MK), Yariv Levin, and Kadima MK, Yoel Hasson, submitted a
bill that calls for worsening the living conditions of imprisoned Hamas
members. <br><br>
They said that those who are responsible for “terrorist attacks, and for
holding captive Gilad Shalit, should be denied all privileges”, Israeli
online daily, Haaretz, reported. <br><br>
The bill calls for placing some detainees in solitary confinement for
extended periods, denying visitations, issuing Administrative Detention
orders against the detainees who finish their terms, and barring detained
students from continuing their education. <br><br>
Several members of Knesset already declared their support to the new
proposal. The MK’s who expressed support to the illegal bill are of the
Yisrael Beiteinu Party, Shas Party, National Union Party, the Likud, and
the Jewish Home. <br><br>
It also aims at increasing Israel’s bargaining power over Hamas in talks
for the release of the captured Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, Haaretz
said.<br><br>
The two MK’s claimed that Palestinian detainees imprisoned by Israel “are
living in better conditions than the captured soldier”. <br><br>
Likud MK, Levin, who used to the vice-president of the Israeli Bar
Association, claimed that the bill “would be balanced, and will be in
line with the international law”. <br><br>
He also claimed that the bill will not violate the Geneva Convention. He
said that the Convention only applies to prisoners of war and Israeli
does not recognize the Palestinian detainees as prisoners of war.
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Furthermore, Haaretz reported that a ministerial committee in Israel
urged on Thursday the government to revoke some right of Palestinian
detainees in order to increase the pressure on Hamas. <br><br>
Such a decision is a violation to the basic rights of the detainees and
constitutes collective punishment. Israel claims this decision is against
detained Hamas members, but on the ground all detainees are imprisoned
together and face the same aggression.<br><br>
All Palestinian detainees are prisoners of war as Israeli is illegally
occupying the Palestinians land and fully ignores and disregards the
international law which labels occupation as a war crime. <br><br>
Hundreds of detainees died in Israeli prisons since 1967. Most of them
died due to extreme torture, while the rest died as the Israeli Prisons
Authority denied them access to adequate medical treatment.<br><br>
Israeli legalizes torturing detainees to obtain confessions, and several
detainees died due to torture. Approximately 10.000 Palestinians,
including hundreds of women and children, are imprisoned by Israel. The
number of Israelis imprisoned by the Palestinians in One. <br><br>
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