Sister Harb
05-05-06, 15:49
May 5, 2006, 16:36
A do***ent that propounds the hardships encountered by the Palestinian prisoners and their families at the time of the prisoners' visit and the Israeli dilatory procedures, issued by the Friends of Humanity International on 4 May 2006, on the occasion of the Palestinian Prisoner Day.
Unparalleled suffering endured by the Palestinian prisoners and their families
In view of the abominable siege which the Israeli political and military authorities have been imposing on the Palestinians on the occupied Palestinian lands since 29 September 2000, it has become extremely difficult for the Palestinian families to visit their prisoners in the Israeli jails and custodies. Moreover, the Israeli procedures applied in connection with the prisoners and their families resulted in so many complications, thus hindering or, in many cases, suspending the visits.
In the light of the fact that the current population of Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli jails approximates to nine thousands, it becomes evident that nine thousand Palestinian families at least are experiencing the agony of deprivation from getting in touch with their family members and first relatives.
Depriving the prisoner from meeting his beloved relatives (father, mother, wife, children, brothers and sisters), enjoying their company, talking to them and sharing their moments of joy and grief, and cherishing the pleasure of cuddling his children especially the small ones, constitute an incomparable suffering rarely witnessed anywhere else at the present time. It is a complex torment that inflicts agony simultaneously on the prisoners and their relatives and aggravates their anguish.
Friends of humanity and supporters of freedom all over the world pose the crucial question as for what guilt the little kid is denied the privilege of seeing his father and the aged man is deprived from seeing his son.
Every man of reason could easily infer that the Israeli authorities are imposing a retaliatory inhuman and unjustified collective punishment on a m***ive sector of the Palestinians, a situation that requires effective solidarity to eliminate causes of suffering.
Visit Difficulties and the Israeli Dilatory Procedures
• The Occupation Authorities make it a condition for the prisoners' relatives to obtain special visit permission from its security systems through the International Red Cross. Holder of this permission is allowed to p*** through the army checkpoints stationed on the green-line and to enter to the visitors' hall inside the jail. In many cases these permissions are withheld from the father, mother, son or brother (brothers above the age of 13 are totally blocked from the visit) for security reasons (depending on the security authorities). Often it is not allowed for more than two relatives to visit the prisoner, and sometimes visitors holding visit permission are debarred from the visit.
• The visits are totally obstructed during the interrogation of the prisoner. In some cases the interrogation duration may extend to 70 days.
• When visitors get on board of the vehicles ***igned to carry them to the jail, they embark on a journey of real torment. There have to go through a good number of barricades where they are forced to wait for long hours and are treated in an offensive manner by the soldiers who practice superiority and discrimination on them. They are searched and asked to change the vehicles several times. All these procedures rendered the visit venture a truly painful experience.
• The visitors set out on their visit journey at 3 a.m. (dawn) and go back home just before midnight at the most, though the drive to the jail takes only one hour and a half or two hours at the most and the visit does not exceed 45 minutes, which is even made shorter in some cases under various pretexts.
• Upon their arrival, the visitors are made to wait in unfurnished yards where they are delayed for various periods, sometimes approximating three hours. In some cases and to the surprise of some visitors, the jail administration would deny the presence of the prisoner in the jail.
• The jail administration applies search policy on the prisoners and their families before and after the visit. In many cases, the administration compels them to take off their garments amid a flood of insults, abuses and improper language addressed to the prisoners.
• The visit starts by allowing the visitors to enter into the visiting hall where they line up outside the buffer metal grid fence and gl*** wall while the prisoners line up on the opposite inner side. When the visitor and the prisoner start talking they have to yell in order to hear each other due to the two buffers and the enormous volume of voices of the people who are allowed to talk to one another only for few minutes. They focus on the lips movement to understand what is being said; some times they use microphones to talk.
• The Israeli authorities bar visits as a form of a collective punitive policy against whole Palestinian directorates (Nablus as example) for long periods.
• The Israeli authorities bar visits as a punitive action against certain prisoners.
The above procedures constitute a loop in the chain of the policies which the Israeli occupation authorities adopt against the prisoners in general. The picture becomes more obvious once one becomes familiar with the tactics of oppression and torture practiced by the authorities against the prisoner from the first moment of his detention and imprisonment through the subsequent hard times experienced inside the interrogation rooms, the intelligence executioners, the horrible torture, the inequitable sham trials, and the oppressive sentences issued against him. More and above, the prisoner undergoes other appalling cir***stances in the jail, which includes the crowded rooms, the inhuman living conditions, malnutrition, medical inattention and negligence in addition to many other dreadful cir***stances which can not be mentioned in this do***ent.
Thus, it becomes evident that the aim of the Israeli authorities is to undermine the prisoners' spirits, ruin their health, apply punitive actions against them and their families, which calls for a serious concerted effort to put an end to the prisoners' suffering and deprivation and fulfill their yearning for lasting reunion with their families.
Friends of Humanity International
Vienna, 4/5/2006
Hirschstettnerstr***e 19-21/D00, 1220 Vienna, Austria
Tel : 0043 1 2028501
Fax: 0043 1 2028547
E-mail: mfi.info@aon.at
© Copyright 2003 by palestine-info.co.uk
A do***ent that propounds the hardships encountered by the Palestinian prisoners and their families at the time of the prisoners' visit and the Israeli dilatory procedures, issued by the Friends of Humanity International on 4 May 2006, on the occasion of the Palestinian Prisoner Day.
Unparalleled suffering endured by the Palestinian prisoners and their families
In view of the abominable siege which the Israeli political and military authorities have been imposing on the Palestinians on the occupied Palestinian lands since 29 September 2000, it has become extremely difficult for the Palestinian families to visit their prisoners in the Israeli jails and custodies. Moreover, the Israeli procedures applied in connection with the prisoners and their families resulted in so many complications, thus hindering or, in many cases, suspending the visits.
In the light of the fact that the current population of Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli jails approximates to nine thousands, it becomes evident that nine thousand Palestinian families at least are experiencing the agony of deprivation from getting in touch with their family members and first relatives.
Depriving the prisoner from meeting his beloved relatives (father, mother, wife, children, brothers and sisters), enjoying their company, talking to them and sharing their moments of joy and grief, and cherishing the pleasure of cuddling his children especially the small ones, constitute an incomparable suffering rarely witnessed anywhere else at the present time. It is a complex torment that inflicts agony simultaneously on the prisoners and their relatives and aggravates their anguish.
Friends of humanity and supporters of freedom all over the world pose the crucial question as for what guilt the little kid is denied the privilege of seeing his father and the aged man is deprived from seeing his son.
Every man of reason could easily infer that the Israeli authorities are imposing a retaliatory inhuman and unjustified collective punishment on a m***ive sector of the Palestinians, a situation that requires effective solidarity to eliminate causes of suffering.
Visit Difficulties and the Israeli Dilatory Procedures
• The Occupation Authorities make it a condition for the prisoners' relatives to obtain special visit permission from its security systems through the International Red Cross. Holder of this permission is allowed to p*** through the army checkpoints stationed on the green-line and to enter to the visitors' hall inside the jail. In many cases these permissions are withheld from the father, mother, son or brother (brothers above the age of 13 are totally blocked from the visit) for security reasons (depending on the security authorities). Often it is not allowed for more than two relatives to visit the prisoner, and sometimes visitors holding visit permission are debarred from the visit.
• The visits are totally obstructed during the interrogation of the prisoner. In some cases the interrogation duration may extend to 70 days.
• When visitors get on board of the vehicles ***igned to carry them to the jail, they embark on a journey of real torment. There have to go through a good number of barricades where they are forced to wait for long hours and are treated in an offensive manner by the soldiers who practice superiority and discrimination on them. They are searched and asked to change the vehicles several times. All these procedures rendered the visit venture a truly painful experience.
• The visitors set out on their visit journey at 3 a.m. (dawn) and go back home just before midnight at the most, though the drive to the jail takes only one hour and a half or two hours at the most and the visit does not exceed 45 minutes, which is even made shorter in some cases under various pretexts.
• Upon their arrival, the visitors are made to wait in unfurnished yards where they are delayed for various periods, sometimes approximating three hours. In some cases and to the surprise of some visitors, the jail administration would deny the presence of the prisoner in the jail.
• The jail administration applies search policy on the prisoners and their families before and after the visit. In many cases, the administration compels them to take off their garments amid a flood of insults, abuses and improper language addressed to the prisoners.
• The visit starts by allowing the visitors to enter into the visiting hall where they line up outside the buffer metal grid fence and gl*** wall while the prisoners line up on the opposite inner side. When the visitor and the prisoner start talking they have to yell in order to hear each other due to the two buffers and the enormous volume of voices of the people who are allowed to talk to one another only for few minutes. They focus on the lips movement to understand what is being said; some times they use microphones to talk.
• The Israeli authorities bar visits as a form of a collective punitive policy against whole Palestinian directorates (Nablus as example) for long periods.
• The Israeli authorities bar visits as a punitive action against certain prisoners.
The above procedures constitute a loop in the chain of the policies which the Israeli occupation authorities adopt against the prisoners in general. The picture becomes more obvious once one becomes familiar with the tactics of oppression and torture practiced by the authorities against the prisoner from the first moment of his detention and imprisonment through the subsequent hard times experienced inside the interrogation rooms, the intelligence executioners, the horrible torture, the inequitable sham trials, and the oppressive sentences issued against him. More and above, the prisoner undergoes other appalling cir***stances in the jail, which includes the crowded rooms, the inhuman living conditions, malnutrition, medical inattention and negligence in addition to many other dreadful cir***stances which can not be mentioned in this do***ent.
Thus, it becomes evident that the aim of the Israeli authorities is to undermine the prisoners' spirits, ruin their health, apply punitive actions against them and their families, which calls for a serious concerted effort to put an end to the prisoners' suffering and deprivation and fulfill their yearning for lasting reunion with their families.
Friends of Humanity International
Vienna, 4/5/2006
Hirschstettnerstr***e 19-21/D00, 1220 Vienna, Austria
Tel : 0043 1 2028501
Fax: 0043 1 2028547
E-mail: mfi.info@aon.at
© Copyright 2003 by palestine-info.co.uk