3. Since the beginning of the Israeli occupation of
Palestinian territories in 1967, over 800,000
Palestinians have been detained by Israel.
20% of the
total
Palestinian
population in
the Occupied
Palestinian
Territories
(OPT)
This forms approximately
5. Interrogation and Torture
The current law states that a Palestinian detainee can now be
interrogated for 90 days, and denied lawyer visits for 60 days.
Psychological and Physical Torture
Isolation and solitary confinement,
Tying prisoners up in stress positions
Sleep and sensory deprivation
Threats against the lives of family members.
73 detainees have died while in custody as a
result of torture.
6. Prisons And Detention Camps
• 4 interrogation
centers.
• 3 detention
centers.
• About 17
prisons held.
4
3
17
There are a total of:
7. As of January 2014
5,023
Palestinian political prisoners are
being held in Israeli prisons.
8. • Palestinians are tried within Israeli
military courts located within
Israeli military bases in the OPT.
• These military tribunals are presided
over by judges appointed by the
military. Most of the judges do not
have long term judicial training.
• These tribunals rarely fall within
the required international
standards of fair trial.
Israeli Military courts
9. Examples of Charges Under
Military Law
• Participation in a demonstration is deemed a
disruption of public order.
• Carrying or placing a Palestinian flag is a
crime in itself under Israeli military
regulations (in Jerusalem)
• Belonging to any political party or certain
organizations listed in military order
• Writing political slogans on the Wall
• Participating in an exhibition to benefit a
charity organization linked to Hamas is a
crime of "terrorist association”
10. Administrative Detention
Administrative detention, arrest
without charge or trial
Administrative detention is indefinitely renewable
under military regulations. A detainee may be given an
administrative detention order for a period of between
1 – 6 months, after which the order may be renewed
again.
Administrative detention is based on secret
information brought forward during military
tribunals, to which neither the detainee nor
his/her lawyer have access to.
11.
12. I hugged him then like I was
meeting him for the first time and
asked him to promise not to be
gone for too long again. Being
impeccably honest, he said “I wish
I could. They must first get out of
our lives before I can make such a
promise”
13. Imprisonment as a tool of control,
and colonization to break down
Palestinian resistance
14.
15. Child Detainees
Approximately 700 Palestinian children (under 18) from the West
Bank are prosecuted every year through Israeli military courts.
Since 2000, more than 8,000 Palestinian children have been
detained.
•Palestinian children may be charged and sentenced in military
courts from the age of 12 and are sentenced according to their
age at the time of sentencing.
There are currently 154
child prisoners,
including 14 under the
age of 16
16. Torture of Children
•According to a Defense for Children-International study of 311
children:
•60% arrested between midnight and 5:00 am
•90% blindfolded during arrest
•75% subjected to physical violence
•57% reported being threatened
•54% subject to verbal abuse and/or humiliation
•33% strip searched
17. Human Rights Defenders
Human rights defenders are
formally defined as persons
who work peacefully for any
or all of the rights enshrined in
the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights
Widespread arrests of
prominent figures in villages
that demonstrate against the
Apartheid Wall, settlements
and other human rights
violations
21. Detention conditions
• In Israeli prisons, there is
overcrowding, a lack of very
basic amenities, poor hygiene,
humidity and a significant lack
of fresh air.
• The Israeli Prison Service (IPS)
rarely provides essential
hygiene products, cleaning
supplies and soap, forcing
prisoners to purchase these
items in the prison canteen at
very high prices.
• Most prisoners complain about
the poor quality and insufficient
quantities of food prepared by
the IPS and must purchase
food to supplement their diet
from the prison canteen.
Prison conditions in Israeli prisons are harsh.
23. Medical Negligence
52 prisoners have died
from deliberate medical
negligence, five in the
past two years alone.
Intentional delay in
treatment, malpractice,
medical procedure errors,
failure to diagnose, lack
of proficiency and
efficiency
Over 1,000 prisoners
suffer from a variety of
medical issues, at least
25 of them from cancer.
Maysara Abu-Hamdiyeh
62 years old
Denial of medial treatment
led to his death from throat
cancer on 2 April 2013.
24.
25. The Case of Tha’er Halahleh
Re-arrested on 8 April 2013,
10 months after being
released from administrative
detention
Suffers from several medical
conditions from a 77 day
hunger strike in 2012.
Contracted Hepatitis from
non-sterile medical tools
during a tooth extraction by
the prison dentist during his
interrogation.
26. Women in Detention
• Beatings, insults, threats, sexual harassment
and humiliation are techniques used by Israeli
interrogators to intimidate Palestinian women
and coerce them into giving confessions.
• In prison, degrading and intrusive body
searches often occur during transfers to court
hearings and can sometimes take place in the
middle of the night as a punitive measure.
• Between 2003–2008, there were four cases of
women giving birth in Israeli detention.
Pregnant prisoners transferred to the hospital
to give birth are typically chained to their beds
until they enter delivery rooms and shackled
once again minutes after delivery.
There are currently
17 female
Palestinian political
prisoners
27. Family Visits
• Most prisons are located in
Israel so Palestinian families
from the occupied territory
who wish to visit a family
member detained in Israel
must receive an entry permit
into Israel.
• Only first degree relatives may
visit prisoners.
• Men between the ages of 16
and 45 are typically prevented
from visiting prison. They
receive special permits only
once or twice a year.
• When allowed, visits only last
45 min and take place through
a glass divider.
,
28. Family Visits
• In 2007, Israeli authorities
suspended all family visits to
prisoners from Gaza.
• In 2009, the Israeli High Court
of Justice rejected an appeal
against this policy.
• Following the hunger strike
agreement of May 2012,
Israel agreed to resume
family visits from Gaza.
However, as of the end of
August, only 221 of the 449
prisoners from the Gaza Strip
had received family visits.
,
30. Military Order 1651
Article 186
Affects re-arrested prisoners who were released in an
exchange deal.
A military committee formed that can return the former
sentencing for a prisoner who has amnesty from the
Military Commander.
Prisoner Exchange – 18 October 2011
13 people ex-prisoners currently detained
HUNGER STRIKERS: Samer Issawi, Ayman Sharawna,
Ayman Abu Daoud
33. Mass Hunger Strikes
1,200 prisoners took part
in a mass hunger strike
from 17 April – 14 May
2012
Demands included:
Removal from isolation,
reinstate family visits for
Gaza prisoners, curbing
administrative detention,
improving conditions
34.
35. G4S
British-Danish security company
Worlds largest security firm, with 700,000 employees
Provides and operates the entire security system of Ktziot
Prison, the central control room of Megido Prison and
security services to Damon prison
Provides peripheral defense systems on the walls of Ofer
prison and operates the control room for the Ofer Military
Base Compound
Editor's Notes
Almost every family of 5 has had 1 family member arrested since 1967. what are the implications of this on society?
Almost half of the breadwinners are arrested in the the OPT…
Prior to the new amendment in August 2012, a Palestinian detainee could be interrogated for a total period of 188 days, during which he/she can also be denied lawyer visits for a period of 90 days.
During the interrogation period, a detainee is often subjected to some form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment ranging in extremity, whether physical or psychological. Indeed, the isolation and solitary confinement of prisoners is regularly used as a form of psychological torture. The use of practices that constitute torture during interrogation has been outlawed within the Israeli judicial system; however, it is permitted in individual cases in which the Israeli Security Agency (ISA) deems a detainee a threat to state security or a ‘ticking bomb’. In some instance detainees have died while in custody as a result of torture.
On 18 October 2011, 477 prisoners were released as part of an exchange which also saw the release that same day of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was held by captured in Gaza in 2006. Out of this number, 205 were transferred to the Gaza Strip or abroad. Another 550 Palestinian prisoners were released as part of the deal in December 2011.
Talk about the large number of soldiers in the court room – how is the court room set up?
In Ofer the courts are temporary buildings, crowded with soldiers; several defendants go in at once, keep their legs shackled and sometimes their hands shackled to each other
Lawyer does not get to meet with the defendant beforehand in many cases. Information is withheld from the defense. 2 different languages.
Talk about how this is a way to stop any resistance to occupation...to silence the community and to subdue to younger population from resisting
Yasser Mansour
51 Palestinian prisoners have died in detention from medical negligence
Economic exploitation
Talk about hana al-shalabi and how they are subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment like being forced to undress and sexual harrasement. How one woman was told “we brought you a young girl”
it provides security equipment for Israeli prisons in which Palestinians are detained and tortured. Second, it offers security services to businesses in illegal Israeli settlements. Third, it provides equipment for Israeli checkpoints located within occupied Palestinian territory. Fourth, it provides security services for Israeli police in the West Bank.
