اجعلنا صفحة البداية RSS خدمة Add to favorite Facebook Twitter

Advanced

Outrage as Israel breaks prisoner agreement
Published Thursday 21/06/2012 (updated) 24/06/2012 12:52
A girl holds a portrait of a Palestinian held in an Israeli jail during
celebrations after a deal to end a prisoners hunger strike was agreed,
in Ramallah on May 14. (Reuters/Ammar Awad)
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Prisoner rights group Addameer on Thursday said it was outraged by Israel's decision to renew the administrative detention of a former hunger striker.

Hassan Safadi ended a 71-day hunger strike on May 14 after Israel promised not to renew his detention without charge or trial.

Israel's decision to renew Safadi's administrative detention by six months "is a blatant violation of the agreement between the prisoners’ hunger strike committee and Israeli officials," Addameer said.

Safadi went on hunger strike on March 5 in protest against his detention without charge. Thousands more joined the protest which ended on May 14 in a deal between prisoners and Israeli officials.

Addameer expressed concern that the extension of Safadi's sentence may indicate that further breaches of the agreement will follow.

"(T)here is now no guarantee that any of the long-term hunger strikers will be released upon their given dates."

Under the May 14 deal, prisoners representatives secured clear commitments from Israel that five administrative detainees on long-term hunger strike, including Safadi, would be released at the end of their term, Palestinian Prisoner Society head Qadura Fares said at the time.

Israel committed not to renew the administrative detention of over 300 Palestinians held without charge if there was no new information requiring their imprisonment, Fares added.

Israel also agreed to "facilitate" prisoners' demands to end solitary confinement and allow family visits for prisoners from Gaza.

Addameer noted that detainee Dirar Abu Sisi is still in solitary confinement, and another prisoner was moved into isolation last week.

Meanwhile, there has been no change in Israel's administrative detention policy and prisoners from Gaza have still not been allowed family visits.
Print Send to friend
1 ) Julie / USA
21/06/2012 19:46
WHY in God's name would anyone trust izrahell to honor their agreement??? the zionazi criminals can NEVER be trusted!

2 ) ABE / USA
21/06/2012 21:08
Sorry Julie! The ones that can't be trusted are the Hamas terror organization!!

3 ) @ Julie-1 / USA too
21/06/2012 21:28
Both sides prisoners/prisons and PLO/Israel broke promises, and
"WHY in G-d's name would anyone trust Palestinians to honor their agreements", after the PLO both signed the Oslo Accords, and
NOT only hasn't ended the incitement to violence, as promised,
but even encouraged the 2nd Intifada, and still honors terrorists ???

4 ) matt / usa
21/06/2012 22:08
I am outraged also, that the government of gaza, the elected leaders, agreed to a truce and some people out there are still firing rockets. One cant not follow agreements themselves then cry when the other doesnt

5 ) Brian Cohen / Israel
21/06/2012 22:20
Julie - what drives you to post such rabid, hate-filled comments every single day of the week? Are the Pals paying you? Since you're so involved, explain to us then why we Israelis should trust the Palestinians since unlike you invading white Europeans, we Jews are simply coming back to our native homeland. We're will to share our homeland with them, but they are not willing to share it with us. Should we be like you, Julie, and just steal the whole thing and be done with it?

6 ) Jo / UK
22/06/2012 00:47
@5) since when did it become your homeland Brian ? If i'm ethnically Celtic living in Britain does that entitle me to claim the land around Lake Geneva based on some outdated historical anomaly ?

7 ) BDS / Canada
22/06/2012 03:43
One day these illegal zionist occupiers will be held accountable for all the crimes they commit against the peoples of Palestine.

8 ) Richard / UK
22/06/2012 05:40
It's quite amazing that when the agreement between the Israeli authorities and the prisoners' representatives has been broken on the Israel side that posters on here, e.g. #2, try to divert attention by blaming Hamas! It just shows how deceitful they are and is yet another example why anyone speaking on behalf of Israel generally lacks credibility. Sad, but true!

9 ) Richard / UK
22/06/2012 06:04
.
@ Matt, #4
.
Look back over the last few weeks, Matt, you'll find it's Israel who've been launching missiles at Gaza. The record shows "the government of Gaza" responded a few days ago for the first time in over a year. Yet despite that long successful truce, Israel did not use the opportunity to get back to the peace roadmap. Instead, Netanyahu rejected the basis for talks proposed by Obama, before it even reached the PLO Hamas. You need to check facts stop fooling yourself.

10 ) Richard / UK
22/06/2012 06:12
"Israel committed not to renew the administrative detention" and to "allow family visits for prisoners from Gaza."

"Meanwhile, there has been no change in Israel's administrative detention policy and prisoners from Gaza have still not been allowed family visits."

This really is appalling behaviour by Israel.



11 ) Brian's Friend / US
22/06/2012 07:25
@6) Jo, my advice is that you don't belong in UK and should settle in Syria or Iran, based on surmised ideological rantings. Also, you ought to warm your cockles with the Bible as well as Koran, to gain better historical understanding where civilizations have originated. Just as your Mom and Pop made you "belong" to the family, so do the Jews belong to the re-emergent Jewish State. No point in arguing de facto exiastence (unless you are a rabid Islamist, Palestinian or a Leftist)

12 ) Brian Cohen / Israel
22/06/2012 07:27
Sorry, Jo, but I didn't know that you had declared a statute of limitations on refugee status. Please let us know how long it is. A century? Less? More? How long before Celts stopped being refugees with any claim on their homeland? Please let us know. We'll wait that long for your limit to run out on the Palestinians, then they can go live with you in the UK or buy some nice houses on Lake Geneva.

13 ) Julie / USA
22/06/2012 07:51
@5 - the INHUMAN & CRIMINAL atrocities, war crimes, murder, ethnic cleansing, genocide, torture, thievery, egregious violations of UN resolutions, international law & human rights against INNOCENT CIVILIANS by izrahell exponentially EXCEED all crimes committed by Pals. AND...armed resistance against the illegal vicious occupation is LEGAL. rabies does indeed exist, in the zionazis of izrael. go talk to your MANY jewish bros worlwide who also emphatically reject izraeli zionism with us.

14 ) Colin Wright / USA
22/06/2012 09:20
To Brian Cohen #5 'Julie - what drives you to post such rabid, hate-filled comments every single day of the week?' There is the possibility it's Israel's behavior that does it. ...and please. Can you stop with the lies? Your post illustrates my theory that it is impossible for anyone to write one hundred words in defense of Israel without uttering a falsehood. All your posts do. It gets boring.

15 ) Colin Wright / USA
22/06/2012 09:22
To Jo #6 'If i'm ethnically Celtic living in Britain does that entitle me to claim the land around Lake Geneva based on some outdated historical anomaly ?' It'd be more appropriate if you claimed the entire area around Lake Titicaca. For the analogy to work, you want some area it's highly improbably many of your ancestors ever actually inhabited.

16 ) Colin Wright / USA
22/06/2012 09:25
To matt #4 'One cant not follow agreements themselves then cry when the other doesnt' Usual false analogy. The only people still firing rockets are those who didn't sign any agreement. More to the point: why is it that Israel never keeps her word?

17 ) Colin Wright / USA
22/06/2012 09:28
Re posters 2-5. Zzz...it's like swatting mosquitoes. I just can't be bothered. I know it's a contraction in terms, but surely there must be an Israel supporter with some intelligence, some originality, and some intellectual integrity somewhere. Wherever he is, would he please start posting?

18 ) Colin Wright / USA
22/06/2012 09:30
'Outrage as Israel breaks prisoner agreement' Kinda morbidly amusing, though. They fall for it EVERY TIME. Israel keeps breaking agreements, and they keep thinking she'll keep the next one. It's like Lucy and the football... Poor Pals. I'm sure I'd cease to find it amusing if I were under the Nazi jackboot like they are.

19 ) Ahmad / Egypt
22/06/2012 11:32
which native homeland u talking about !!! Displacing people from their homes so they have become refugees. registered in UN officials or take civilians from inside their houses in midnight!! or killing them ....!!? cohen explain this.....

20 ) Tibi / Tubas
22/06/2012 14:08
If Israel were clever, it would always have NO intention of keeping deals,
that were coerced by abductions (top discourage them), and
the PLO was clever, and NEVER had intention of the deal made in Oslo,
that was coerced by Their Exile, and the Occupation !!!!

21 ) Jo / UK
03/07/2012 17:42
@11)Brian's friend, Then what are you doing hanging around in the US, surely that's not your 'native homeland?!!' as well ? Israel too hot for you, guess it's much more safer in the USA. @15)Thanks Colin, in the interests of accuracy I think your absolutely right.
Name Country
Comment
Characters
Note: Comments will be reviewed for appropriate content. Click here for more details.

Share/Bookmark

Relative: Hunger striker moved to isolation cell in Israeli jail
Israeli military court approves Issawi deal
Palestinians decry jailhouse informers

Close Next Previous
All Rights Reserved © Ma'an News Agency 2005 - 2013