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Today, April 17th, is Palestinian Prisoners’ Day. Yesterday IPSC branches in Dublin and Portadown hosted information stalls dedicated to the issue of political prisoners in Apartheid Israel’s jails – where torture and other physical and psychological ill treatment, denial of visitation rights, terrible food and appalling conditions are routine. Since 1967 Israeli has imprisoned over 800,000 Palestinians – around 1/4 of the male population in the OPT – and currently holds over 7,640 political prisoners, including 700 internees, 68 women and 420 children, the youngest being a 12-year-old girl. All are treated with the same callousness regardless of age or … Continue reading →
Posted April 17, 2016 in Addameer, Child Prisoners, Event Report, G4S, Human Rights, Infographic, National Rights, Photos, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners, Protest, Stop G4S, Women.
In the latest of literally thousands of such reports dating back over decades, this week Defence For Children International produced a report entitled ‘Operation Protective Edge: A War Waged on Gaza’s Children’. The findings of the report merely add more weight to the call for an arms embargo on Israel and an end to the Irish arms trade with this rogue state. The report “found overwhelming and repeated evidence of international humanitarian law violations committed by Israeli forces. These included direct attacks on children, and indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks on civilian homes, schools, and residential neighbourhoods”, that “Israel, the world’s … Continue reading →
Posted April 21, 2015 in Analysis, Arms Embargo, BDS, Child deaths, Defence for Children International, Factsheet, Gaza, Human Rights, Infographic, Irish Government, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, Sanctions, Siege of Gaza, War Crimes.
According to Addameer, the Palestinian prisoner support and human rights association, as of 1st February 2015 (the latest date for which figures are available) there were 6,000 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails. Of these, 454 were held under Administrative Detention (indefinitely renewable internment without charge or trial), 163 were minors, and 25 were female. Here’s our infographic of how that information looks. For more information, please see the Addameer factsheet here.
Posted April 17, 2015 in Addameer, Administrative Detention, Apartheid, Child Prisoners, Factsheet, Gaza, Human Rights, Infographic, Internment, National Rights, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners, West Bank, Women.
According to Addameer, the Palestinian prisoner support and human rights association, as of 1st October 2014 there were 6,500 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails. Of these, 500 were held under Administrative Detention (indefinitely renewable internment without charge or trial), 182 were minors, and 19 were female. Here’s our infographic of how that information looks For more information, please see the Addameer factsheet here.
Posted November 13, 2014 in Addameer, Administrative Detention, Apartheid, Child Prisoners, Gaza, Human Rights, Infographic, Internment, National Rights, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners, West Bank, Women.
According to Addameer, the Palestinian prisoner support and human rights association, as of 1st September 2014 there were 6,200 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails. Of these, 500 were held under Administrative Detention (indefinitely renewable internment without charge or trial), 201 were minors, and 18 were female. Here’s our infographic of how that information looks For more information, please see the Addameer factsheet here.
Posted October 10, 2014 in Addameer, Administrative Detention, Apartheid, Child Prisoners, Gaza, Human Rights, Infographic, Internment, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners, West Bank, Women.
On Sunday 22nd June 2014 the mass Palestinian hunger strike in Israeli prisons – the longest such mass strike in Palestinian history – moved into it’s 60th day. We present and an info-graphic explaining why the strike is taking place, and what is going on inside the prisons and on the strike. The strike is now taking place in the context of the mass Israeli collective punishment of the Palestinian people, ostensibly as part of a search for three missing Israeli teenage illegal settlers, who are presumed kidnapped. This collective punishment, which has seen a further 400 Palestinians arrested, at … Continue reading →
Posted June 23, 2014 in Addameer, Amnesty, Apartheid, Defence for Children International, Factsheet, Human Rights, Hunger Strike, Infographic, Internment, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners.
As the mass Palestinian hunger strike in Israeli prisons moves into it’s 50th day, we have created an info-graphic explaining why the strike is taking place, and what is going on inside the prisons and on the strike.
Posted June 12, 2014 in Addameer, Apartheid, Factsheet, Human Rights, Hunger Strike, Infographic, Internment, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners.
Our latest infographic on East Jerusalem, looking at Israel’s policies of ethnic cleansing and discrimination against Palestinian Jerusalemites in numbers. Sources for the figures are The PLO Negotiations Affairs Department, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, Applied Research Institution of Jerusalem, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights, and +972 Magazine.
Posted June 7, 2014 in Apartheid, Apartheid Wall, Home Demolitions, Human Rights, Infographic, Jerusalem, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, Refugees, Settlements, UN, War Crimes, West Bank.
According to Addameer, the Palestinian prisoner support and human rights association, as of 1st May 2014 there were 5271 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails. Of these, 192 were held under Administrative Detention (indefinitely renewable internment without charge or trial), 196 were minors, and 17 were female. Here’s our infographic of how that information looks For more information, please see the Addameer factsheet here.
Posted May 29, 2014 in Addameer, Administrative Detention, Apartheid, Child Prisoners, Gaza, Human Rights, Infographic, Internment, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners, West Bank, Women.
Today, Thursday April 17th is Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, and to mark the occasion the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign will be hosting two events in Dublin – A vigil from 5-7pm outside St. Stephen’s Green to highlight private security firm G4S’ complicity with Israeli abuses in apartheid’s prison regime. (Click here for more info) and Two film screenings focusing on Palestinian child prisoners beginning at 7.30pm in the Pearse Centre on Pearse St; the Dublin premiere of ‘Small Hands in Handcuffs’ & excerpts of ‘Stone Cold Justice’. (Click here for more info) Since the beginning of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories … Continue reading →
Posted April 16, 2014 in Addameer, Amnesty, Apartheid, BDS, Campaigns, Child Prisoners, Defence for Children International, Demonstration, Divestment, Email Campaign, Event, Factsheet, Film Premiere, Film Screening, G4S, Human Rights, Impunity, Infographic, National Rights, Petition, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners, Stop G4S, War Crimes, Women.
In the past three days, two Israeli soldiers have been killed by Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. These attacks have generated countless headlines, both in Israel and internationally. Alas, the same cannot be said for the 7 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the weeks since the Palestinian-Israeli ‘peace talks’ reopened at the end of July last (or indeed, the 11 other Palestinians already killed this year). Of course, in the Israeli press and polity, the killings have led to denunciations of Palestinians as not being ‘serious’ about peace. Ignore for a moment the fact that the killings were … Continue reading →
Posted September 23, 2013 in Addameer, B'Tselem, BDS, Child Prisoners, Gaza, Home Demolitions, Human Rights, Impunity, Infographic, Media Bias, National Rights, PCHR, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners, Settler Violence, Siege of Gaza, West Bank.
According to Addameer, the Palestinian prisoner support and human rights association, as of 1st August 2013, there were 5,068 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails. Of these, 134 were held under Administrative Detention (indefinitely renewable internment without charge or trial), 195 were minors, and 13 were female. Here’s our infographic of how that information looks (note, on August 13, 26 ‘pre-Oslo’ prisoners were released as ‘good will’ measure as part of the latest round of ‘peace talks’). For more information, please see the Addameer factsheet here.
Posted September 6, 2013 in Addameer, Apartheid, Child Prisoners, Gaza, Human Rights, Infographic, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners, West Bank, Women.
The Israeli human rights organization Yesh Din last week published statistics regarding investigations by the Israeli Military Police Criminal Investigations Department (MPCID) into the circumstances surrounding the death of Palestinians since September 2000, as well as figures for convictions and penalization relating to these incidents. This is what those figures look like: According to B’Tselem, at least 6,660* Palestinians have been killed to date by the Israeli occupation military forces in the occupied Palestinian territories since September 2000. The figures published by Yesh Din show that the MPCID opened only 179 criminal investigations concerning the killing of Palestinians by Israeli … Continue reading →
Posted September 2, 2013 in Apartheid, B'Tselem, BDS, Child deaths, Gaza, Human Rights, Impunity, Infographic, Jerusalem, Multimedia, Press releases, War Crimes, West Bank, Women, Yesh Din.
