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April 17, Toronto: Palestinian Prisoners’ Day: Perspectives on the Current Struggle

Tuesday, April 17

7:00 PM

Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St., Toronto, ON

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/352427434794172/

April 17th is International Palestinian Prisoners Day. As of 1 March 2012, there were 4,637 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention centers, including 183 children. Just like Hana Shalabi and Khader Adnan, 320 prisoners are held–without charge or trial–under administrative detention.

Speakers:

Ameena Sultan is a lawyer practicing in Toronto. She is a director and founding member of the Arab Canadian Lawyers’
Association.

Shaira Vadasaria is an anti-racist feminist activist and doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at York University. Her areas of research attend to feminist contestations of colonial violence, occupation, incarceration and the ‘war on terror’. Her current research concerns anti-colonial strategies of political mobility advanced by Palestinian womyn political prisoners.

Issam Al Yamani is a Palestinian refugee, an activist and a writer who was been in Canada since 1985.

Join us at Beit Zatoun at 7PM on April 17th to learn more about the current situation in Israel for Palestinian prisoners and to help build the next stage of this struggle.

 

Inter-Parliamentary Union calls for freedom for PLC members, end of isolation for Ahmad Sa’adati

Kampala/Geneva, 5th April –  The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) is today calling on Israel to end the practice of administrative detention and to either immediately release members of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) held under such terms or prosecute them using normal criminal procedure if there is any criminal involvement on their part.

The call is part of a series of resolutions on human rights violations of parliamentarians adopted at its 126th Assembly in Kampala, which ended today.

Twenty-three Palestinian legislators, close to 20% of the PLC’s total membership, are currently being held in administrative detention, nine of them for more than a year and one of them more than 72 years old. Among those detained is the Speaker of the Council.

The IPU expresses serious misgivings on the ability of those kept in administrative detention to benefit from due process.

The Organization is also urging Israeli authorities to end an isolation order on another Palestinian MP, Ahmad Sa’adat, arrested two months after being elected to the PLC in 2006. In poor health and reportedly without medical attention, Sa’adat has been in solitary confinement for almost three years.

International human rights bodies, including the UN Committee against Torture, have concluded on several occasions that prolonged periods of isolation are cruel, degrading and inhuman punishment.

The IPU is seeking access to Sa’adat to ascertain his conditions of detention and reaffirming its position that his imprisonment was related to his political activities as General Secretary for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), is calling for his immediate release.

It is also reiterating its call for the release of Marwan Barghouti, arrested in the West Bank town of Ramallah and transferred to an Israeli prison. Barghouti has this week been put into solitary confinement.

Elsewhere, the Organization expressed satisfaction at the release in Myanmar of the last five members-elect of the People’s Assembly as part of an amnesty of more than 600 prisoners in January.  However, stressing that they were political prisoners held on the basis of unjust laws and unfair procedures, the IPU considers it essential that the People’s Assembly repeal these laws as a matter of priority.

It deeply regretted the deaths of seven former MPs in prison or shortly after their release due to the conditions in detention and urged authorities to put in place a new Prisons Act that will ensure prisoners are treated according to international norms.

Other resolutions on human rights cases of MPs include high profile political names such as Anwar Ibrahim in Malaysia, Sam Rainsy in Cambodia and Sheikh Hasina in Bangladesh.

The IPU Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians is currently following 77 cases involving 201 MPs from around the world.  Thirty-four of these cases are public including that of Iceland’s Birgitta Jónsdóttir whose co-production of a video released by Wikileaks led to a US court order for Twitter to hand over details of her account to the government.

 

The IPU passed resolutions on 31 cases today. Of these, five were in Africa including a new case in Cameroon; three in Europe; five in the Middle East; 12 in Asia including four in Sri Lanka and 6 in the Latin American country of Colombia.

 

To access all the resolutions in full detail, please go to:

 

http://www.ipu.org/PDF/hrres190_en.pdf

 

For further information, please contact:

 

Jemini Pandya, IPU, Tel: + 41 79 217 3374 or Email: [email protected]

 

Follow IPU on Twitter at IPUparliament

 

L’UIP est préoccupée par le maintien en détention et les violations des droits fondamentaux de parlementaires palestiniens et d’autres pays

 

Kampala/Genève, 5 avril – L’Union interparlementaire (UIP) appelle Israël à mettre fin à la pratique de la rétention administrative et lui demande, soit de libérer immédiatement les membres du Conseil législatif palestinien (CLP) ainsi détenus, soit de les poursuivre selon la procédure pénale normale, s’il y a des motifs de le faire.

 

Cette demande fait partie de toute une série de résolutions adoptées à la 126ème Assemblée de l’UIP qui s’achève aujourd’hui à Kampala, quant à des violations des droits de l’homme.

 

Vingt-trois parlementaires palestiniens, soit près de 20 % des membres du CLP, sont actuellement en détention administrative, pour neuf d’entre eux depuis plus d’un an. Le Président du CLP est du nombre. Soulignons aussi que l’un de ces détenus a 72 ans.

 

L’UIP doute sérieusement que ces personnes bénéficient d’une procédure équitable.

 

Elle demande en outre instamment aux autorités israéliennes de lever la détention au secret d’un autre parlementaire palestinien, M. Ahmad Sa’adat, arrêté deux mois après avoir été élu au CLP, en 2006. M. Sa’adat, qui est pourtant en mauvaise santé, ne bénéficierait pas du suivi médical requis et serait détenu à l’isolement depuis près de trois ans.

 

Les organismes internationaux de droits de l’homme, et notamment le Comité des Nations Unies contre la torture, ont affirmé à plusieurs reprises que les périodes prolongées d’isolement équivalaient à un traitement cruel, dégradant et inhumain.

 

L’UIP demande à rencontrer M. Sa’adat, de façon à pouvoir se rendre compte de ses conditions de détention. Elle continue à soutenir que son incarcération est liée à ses activités politiques de Secrétaire général du Front populaire pour la libération de la Palestine (FPLP) et demande qu’il soit immédiatement libéré.

 

Par ailleurs, l’UIP a de nouveau appelé à la libération de Marwan Barghouti, arrêté à Ramallah, en Cisjordanie, avant d’être transféré dans une prison israélienne. Cette semaine, M. Barghouti a été placé en isolement cellulaire.  

 

Au Myanmar, les cinq derniers parlementaires-élus encore emprisonnés ont été remis en liberté en janvier dans le cadre d’une opération d’amnistie touchant plus de 600 prisonniers, ce dont l’UIP s’est félicitée. Elle a toutefois souligné qu’il était urgent que l’Assemblée du peuple abroge les lois et procédures iniques autorisant la détention de prisonniers politiques.

 

Déplorant vivement le décès de sept anciens parlementaires morts en prison ou juste après leur remise en liberté en raison des conditions de détention qu’ils avaient subies, l’UIP a engagé les autorités à adopter un nouveau code des prisons qui garantirait un traitement des prisonniers conforme aux normes internationales.

 

Au nombre des autres résolutions sur les droits de l’homme des parlementaires, on citera celles qui concernent les cas très médiatisés d’Anwar Ibrahim en Malaisie, de Sam Rainsy au Cambodge et de Sheikh Hasina au Bangladesh.

 

Le Comité des droits de l’homme des parlementaires de l’UIP suit actuellement 77 cas concernant 201 parlementaires de différents pays du monde.  Trente-quatre de ces cas sont publics, dont celui de Birgitta Jónsdóttir, la parlementaire islandaise qui avait coproduit une vidéo diffusée par Wikileaks. Un tribunal américain a ordonné que des données figurant sur son compte Twitter soient communiquées au gouvernement des Etats-Unis.

 

Aujourd’hui, l’UIP a adopté des résolutions sur 31 cas, dont cinq se rapportaient à des pays d’Afrique, y compris un nouveau cas au Cameroun. Trois résolutions avaient trait à des cas européens; cinq concernaient le Moyen-Orient, 12, l’Asie, dont quatre le Sri Lanka, et six, la Colombie.

 

On trouvera le texte intégral des résolutions sur le site en anglais pour l’instant (le français sera disponible prochainement) :

http://www.ipu.org/PDF/hrres190_en.pdf

 

 

Pour toute information complémentaire, veuillez vous adresser à :

Jemini Pandya, UIP, tél: + 41 79 217 3374 ou courriel: [email protected]

Suivez l’actualité de l’UIP sur Twitter @ IPUparliament

New Berlin, NY woman on hunger strike for Palestinian prisoners

The following article ran in the New Paltz Daily Star on April 6, 2012:

Woman on hunger strike for Palestinian prisoners

By Jake Palmateer

A New Berlin woman said Thursday that she is 15 days into a hunger strike over Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.

“I’m getting weaker,” Sandra Twang said.

Twang said she is protesting Israel’s administrative detention policy for Palestinians and was inspired by the recent hunger strikes of two prisoners.

“I have been reading about the Palestinians for a couple years now and the conditions they live under,” Twang, 57, said by phone to The Daily Star.

Twang said she learned last year of a prisoner named Khader Adnan.

Khader Adnan went on a 66-day hunger strike last year after being detained by Israeli authorities. He was eventually released from detention.

“During his hunger strike he did appeal to the courts and his appeal was denied,” Twang said. “I just watched with such sadness and such rage.”

And earlier this year, she followed another case — that of Hana Shalabi.

Shalabi went on a 44-day hunger strike after she was arrested. Her strike ended when she was released from prison and deported to the Gaza Strip.

Earlier this week, Shalabi sent letters to U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.; Rep. Richard Hanna, R-Barnevald; and President Barack Obama.

In her letters, she urges them to request Israel to:

“¢ charge and allow due process for all Palestinians being held under administrative detention or release them;

“¢ end the practice of administrative detention in accordance with international and human rights law;

“¢ respect international, human rights and humanitarian law during arrest and detentions in the Palestinian territories.

Twang, a certified nursing assistant, said she has been on worker’s compensation since last June for a back injury. She said she has consulted with her doctor, who agreed to monitor her hunger strike.

Twang, who lives with her 17-year-old son, said she started off drinking tea and water, along with vitamins. But she said she is now drinking mostly just water with lemon.

“My stomach is getting to the point where it doesn’t want (tea) anymore. I am still able to get my vitamins down every day,” she said. “I get very shaky sometimes. I can still get around and still do chores, but I have to rest a lot.”

Twang said she has gone from 198 pounds to about 183.

Twang said she has not decided how long she will continue her hunger strike. That, she said, will depend on what sort of feedback she gets.

“My government needs to take Israel to task,” Twang said.

A representative from Schumer’s office called her Wednesday to acknowledge her letter was received, and he urged her to stop the hunger strike.

Radio Against Apartheid features Addameer

The following description comes from Radio Against Apartheid. Download the full episode here.
This week on Radio Against Apartheid, we honor the memories of Juliano Mer Khamis, Martin Luther King Jr., and Trayvon Martin.

We are joined on the program by a representative of Addameer, the Palestinian Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association to talk about the recent hunger strikes of Hana Al Shalabi, Khader Adnan, the process of administrative detention, and the “kangaroo courts” of the Israeli military in the occupied territories.
Palestine News Network provides a tribute to the memory of Juliano Mer Khamis, and gives a wrap-up of this week’s news in the occupied territories.
Finally, we are proud to conclude the show with a song from Philadelphia’s own tUnE-yArDs, who back in January canceled their show in Tel Aviv as a demonstration of their support for the Palestinian call for a cultural boycott of Israel.
It should be noted that in the United States prisoners are being unjustly held in solitary confinement. Two such cases which have gotten the attention of the BBC and Amnesty International are those of Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace, two black men held in solitary for almost 40 years.
Please sign Amnesty’s petition to LA state governor Bobby Jindal to have them both released to general population, and to hold the state accountable for this cruel and inhumane punishment.
Direct download: Show_23.mp3

Columbia University to livestream “Carceral Politics and Palestine” tonight, 6 PM EST

The Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University is hosting “Carceral Politics and Palestine” tonight, Thursday April 5. For those not able to attend, Columbia will be livestreaming the event, which you can watch below:

Live stream videos at Ustream

This panel will explore comparative approaches to Israeli prisons and detention. PANELISTS:

Judith Butler, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Lena Meari, Center for Palestine Studies Fellow, Columbia University
Mai Masri, Independent Documentary Filmmaker, Beirut, Lebanon
Angela Davis, Prison Activist and History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz

This event is brought to you by the Center for Palestine Studies and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and generously co-sponsored by:

The Barnard Center for Research on Women
The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
The Heyman Center
The Department of Anthropology
The Office of Diversity, GSAS
Center for Gender and Sexuality Law
The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society

April 17, Brussels: International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners

Internationale dag voor de Palestijnse gevangenen

Dagprogramma

  • Manifestatie in Brussel 
     dinsdag 17 april 2012
    12u00-14u00 
     Europese Commissie te Brussel (Schuman-Rotonde)

en een

  • Solidariteitsavond 
    18 tot 22 uur 
    film (25 min.): “Libres dans la prison de Gaza” 
    Chris Den Hond en Mireille Court (2012)

OPROEP

Wij eisen de onmiddellijke vrijlating van alle Palestijnse politieke gevangenen die door Israël worden vastgehouden. Zij zijn het slachtoffer van een onwettig en onrechtvaardig rechtssysteem, dat voortkomt uit het systeem van racisme en discriminatie in Israël.

In het bijzonder eisen we dat een einde gemaakt wordt aan volgende praktijken:

  • Administratieve detentie,
  • Marteling en mishandeling,
  • Eenzame opsluiting,
  • Het illegale gebruik, in de bezette Palestijnse gebieden, van militaire rechtbanken om burgers te veroordelen.
  • Het gebruik van “geheime bewijzen”, hetgeen een flagrante schending betekent van het recht op een normale en eerlijke rechtspraak
  • De arrestaties onder de kwetsbare groepen van de bevolking, zoals kinderen, gehandicapten, ouderen en zieken.

Toelichting:

Op 4 januari 2012, bevonden zich 4417 Palestijnse politieke gevangenen in Israëlische gevangenissen, waaronder 170 kinderen en zes vrouwen. Net zoals dat het geval is voor Khader Adnan of Hana Shalabi, worden 310 gevangenen vastgehouden zonder proces of enige vorm van aanklacht, maar op basis van de wet op de administratieve detentie . Onder hen bevinden zich 20 parlementairen…

Sinds 17 april 2011 bracht het ongezien verzet van de Palestijnse gevangenen en de inzet van verzets- en solidariteitsorganisaties de strijd voor de vrijlating van Palestijnse gevangenen opnieuw in het centrum van de wereldbelangstelling.

Op 27 september 2011  begonnen honderden Palestijnse gevangenen in Israëlische gevangenissen een hongerstaking tegen de eenzame opsluiting, waaronder die van Ahmed Saadat, leider van de PFLP, en tegen het ontzeggen van familiebezoek en de vernedering van gevangenen tijdens de gevangenistranferts.

Eind 2011 werden 1.027 Palestijnse gevangenen vrijgelaten in ruil voor een Israëlische soldaat via een overeenkomst tussen Israël en Hamas. Inmiddels zijn een aantal van hen opnieuw gevangen genomen en duizenden andere Palestijnen gearresteerd.

Op 17 december 2011, na zijn arrestatie en zijn plaatsing in administratieve detentie, begon Khader Adnan een hongerstaking, die 66 dagen heeft geduurd. Hana al-Shalabi, een van de gevangenen die was vrijgelaten in ruil voor de Israëlische soldaat, werd opnieuw gearresteerd op 16 februari 2012, minder dan vier maanden na haar vrijlating. Ze is begonnen met een hongerstaking, die tot op de dag van vandaag doorgaat, tegen haar administratieve detentie.

Door het inzetten van het wapen van de hongerstaking, het wapen van hun lichaam, als enige dat hen nog rest, en het ondernemen van andere acties, hebben de Palestijnse gevangenen een golf van wereldwijde solidariteit losgemaakt. Niet voor niets groeide Khader Adnan uit tot de Palestijnse Bobby Sands. Meer dan ooit staan de Palestijnse gevangenen en hun strijd symbool voor de eenheid van het volk en voor het recht en de plicht om weerstand te bieden aan de onderdrukking.

Onze actie in Brussel onderschrijft de oproep voor 17 april 2012 van Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Defence for Children International – afdeling Palestina, UFREE Network, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoners Solidarity Network, Campaign Free Ameer Makhoul en Campaign Free Ahmad Sa’adat. Die oproep draagt de titel  “De wereld moet luisteren en de oproep van Khader Adnan beantwoorden“.

Addameer

Een oproep van :

U kan als verantwoordelijke van een organisatie of vereniging de oproep mede onderschrijven door een mail te sturen naar : [email protected]

April 6, Philadelphia: Palestinian Prisoners: Generations Behind Bars

Palestinian Prisoners: Generations Behind Bars
Friday, April 6
3:00pm until 4:30pm
Temple University, Anderson Hall Room 821, 1114 W Berks Street
Philadelphia, PA
https://www.facebook.com/events/391013160917072/

Temple Students for Justice in Palestine Present:

“Palestinian Prisoners: Generations Behind Bars”

In direct violation of International Law, Palestinians suffer indefinite and arbitrary imprisonment under Israeli Occupation. Palestinian youths especially are targeted and held for large periods of time without due process. The recent hunger strikes of Hanaa Shalabi and Khader Anan have brought attention to these illegal detentions.

Jeff Pickert, a representative from the Palestinian Solidarity Project, will lead a presentation on the subject matter. Having lived in the West Bank for more than a year, the talk will center on his experiences in the non-violent resistance movement. In addition he will examine the problem of child arrests and home raids in the West Bank and speak on his work with the Palestinian Youth Bail Fund.

This event is sponsored by the History Department and CLA and is apart of the Dissent in America teach-ins series.

For more information on the Palestinian Solidarity Project please refer to their website: http://palestinesolidarityproject.org/palestinian-youth-bail-fund/

Questions/ Comments/ Concerns: email us at [email protected]

April 5, Philadelphia: Captive Youth: Palestinian Political Prisoners and Human Rights

Captive Youth: Palestinian Political Prisoners and Human Rights
Thursday, April 5
6 pm – 8 pm
JMHH 250 Jon H. Huntsman
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
https://www.facebook.com/events/170017949786568/

In direct violation of International Law, many Palestinians suffer indefinite and arbitrary imprisonment by Israeli military occupying forces. Palestinian youth and children especially are targeted and held for large periods of time without due process, as the recent hunger strikes of Hanaa Shalabi and Khader Adnan have highlighted.

Jeff Pickert, an American representative from the Palestinian Solidarity Project and the Youth Bail Fund, has lived and worked in the West Bank to protect the human rights of Palestinian civilian youth. He will present on the growing non-violent resistance movement in the Occupied Territories, and the effects of child arrests and home raids on Palestinian families and society.

For more information on the Palestine Solidarity Project, please visit: http://palestinesolidarityproject.org/

April 5, New York: Carceral Politics in Palestine and Beyond

CARCERAL POLITICS IN PALESTINE & BEYOND: Gender, Vulnerability, Prison
Thursday, April 5, 2012
6 pm – 8 pm
Room 1501, International Affairs Building, Columbia University
420 West 118th Street, New York, NY

DOORS OPEN AT 5:30 PM. The event will begin promptly at 6 PM.

***seating is on a first-come, first-seated basis.

REGISTER: https://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/register.php?eventID=57504&REGISTER_SESSION_NAME=8e0688276aa31ffd3aa9e8e1f470b012&state=init&
This panel will explore comparative approaches to Israeli prisons and detention.

PANELISTS:

JUDITH BUTLER, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
ANGELA DAVIS, Prison Activist and History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz
MAI MASRI, Independent Documentary Filmmaker, Beirut, Lebanon
LENA MEARI, Center for Palestine Studies Fellow, Columbia University
This event is brought to you by the Center for Palestine Studies and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and generously co-sponsored by:
The Barnard Center for Research on Women,
The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race,
The Heyman Center, and
The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.

photo credit: Michael Kennedy

Addameer and PHR: Conditional Release: Hana Shalabi Expelled to Gaza Strip Today

Joint Statement, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel

Ramallah-Jaffa, 1 April 2012− As organizations dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights and closely connected to Hana Shalabi’s case, Addameer and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-Israel) are alarmed at the announcement that Hana Shalabi will be expelled to the Gaza Strip today, only three days after purportedly ending her 43-day hunger strike. Addameer and PHR-Israel condemn the Israeli Prison Service (IPS)’s denial of access to both parties to visit Ms. Shalabi in the days leading up to the deal for her release and expulsion to the Gaza Strip and since the deal was reportedly finalized on 29 March. Addameer and PHR-Israel fear that, given her grave medical condition, the restriction of access of Ms. Shalabi’s physician and lawyers, in addition to the prevention of family visits, were used as methods of coercion. Furthermore, serious concerns exist regarding the availability and arrangement of adequate medical care matching Ms. Shalabi’s urgent needs in light of her swift transfer.
Ms. Shalabi deserves utmost respect for her steadfastness in her hunger strike. While her release from administrative detention should be welcomed, Addameer and PHR-Israel are obligated to highlight their concerns with those aspects of the deal that are fundamentally at odds with international law. Ms. Shalabi’s release is contingent upon her expulsion for a period of three years to the Gaza Strip, which, although part of the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), has been hermetically sealed off from the rest of the oPt by Israel. Therefore, with no guarantees that she or her family will be permitted to travel, her expulsion could essentially become an extension of her previous isolation from her home and family while in prison.
There are numerous examples of similar agreements made by Israel regarding the forced transfer or deportation of Palestinian political prisoners or “wanted” persons. Most recently, in the October 2011 prisoner exchange deal, 18 West Bank prisoners, including those from East Jerusalem, were expelled to the Gaza Strip for a period of three years while an additional 146 were forcibly relocated there on a permanent basis as conditions of their release. An additional 41 prisoners were deported outside of the oPt. In past deals, individuals who were expelled to the Gaza Strip for short-term periods were not necessarily allowed to return home after completing the agreed upon period.
The terms of these expulsions violate Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits forcible transfers and deportations of protected persons, a proscription that is part of customary international humanitarian law. Unlawful deportation or transfer also constitutes a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention (GC IV) and qualifies as one of the most serious war crimes. Given the stark asymmetry in power, resulting from the belligerent occupation, between the Palestinian and Israeli parties involved, neither the potential “consent” of the prisoners nor the fact that these deals have been negotiated by a Palestinian authority can serve as justification for the deportations as this contravenes the spirit of articles 7, 8 and 47 of the GC IV concerning the inviolability of the protections afforded by the Convention.
In Ms. Shalabi’s case, further concerns are raised when considering her fragile medical condition after such a protracted hunger strike. The transfer of Ms. Shalabi from Meir Hospital to the medical center of the IPS in Ramleh Prison on 28 March throws into doubt whether considerations of her medical care were given appropriate weight. A 43-day hunger strike causes a clear threat to the life of the hunger striker, and requires close and professional medical observation, which is not provided by the IPS medical center. The attentive follow-up to such a long hunger strike is also essential to the sustained health of the individual. The fact that Ms. Shalabi was transferred to the IPS medical center while still on hunger strike, without informing her independent physician, and that she began eating without being under observation by a hospital casts additional doubts on the decision-making process of the IPS and the non-medical considerations that might have influenced the decision to discharge her from the hospital. Moreover, the IPS has created obstacles that have made it nearly impossible to adhere to the instructions provided by the Malta Declaration regarding medical care of hunger strikers, mainly by denying access of an independent physician to the hunger strikers. In the cases of both Khader Adnan and Ms. Shalabi, the first visit by an independent physician was enabled only after court intervention.
Ms. Shalabi’s independent physician was again not consulted upon the announcement of her expulsion to the Gaza Strip today. Addameer and PHR-Israel fear that transferring her while she is still recovering from her hunger strike to the destabilized Gazan medical system might further jeopardize her medical condition.
Addameer and PHR-Israel reiterate that forcible transfer and conditional release is not an alternative to Israel ending its practice of administrative detention. It is imperative to demand a permanent resolution to Israel’s practice of arbitrary detention, in compliance with international humanitarian law. Addameer and PHR-Israel call on the international community to intervene and demand that Israel immediately comply with its legal obligations, cease its policy of administrative detention and provide adequate and trusted healthcare for all hunger striking prisoners.
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