Issue no 95

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Issue No : 95 10th June , 2014

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FEATURED STORY

ARTICLEThousands of Malaysians gatherto support Palestine at MyGMJ

Administrative detainees continue their hunger strike for

48th day

Hamas official: The future of the reconciliation depends on Abbas

Report: 200 Palestinians torturedto death in Syria

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Solidarity stand in KL to support Palestinian prisoners

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CONTENTS

News of Palestine

PCOM›s News

Solidarity stand in KL to support Palestinian prisoners 13

Conflicting political agendas at Israel›s Herzliya conference 11

Administrative detainees continue their hunger strike for 48th day 4

Talks between Israeli officials and prisoners fail 5

Detainee Ayman Atabish on hunger striker for 103 uninterrupted days 6

Hamas says government violated reconciliation terms 7

Hamas official: The future of the reconciliation depends on Abbas 8

Report: 200 Palestinians tortured to death in Syria 9

Israel to build security fence along Jordanian border 10

Israel Insider

Malaysia & Palestinian Cause

Thousands of Malaysians gather to support Palestine at MyGMJ 12

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News of Palestine

Administrative detainees continue their hunger strike for 48th day

10/6/2014

The administrative detainees on Tuesday, June 10, 2014, entered the 48th day of their open-ended hun-ger strike as many of them were admitted to hospitals after a serious decline in their health conditions.The Israeli administrations of prisons have taken punitive measures against several hunger strikers to force them to end their strike and isolated many of them in special cells and hospital rooms.In a related incident, thousands of citizens, including families of prisoners, human rights activists and lawmakers, participated on Sunday evening in a march held in Al-Khalil city in solidarity with the hunger strikers in Israeli jails.The march was held at the invitation of Al-Ja’bari family, the Palestinian information center (PIC) reporter said.The participants marched from Al-Haras Mosque to Ibn Rushd roundabout carrying pictures of hun-ger strikers and chanting slogans urging the Palestinian resistance to kidnap Israeli soldiers to swap them for Palestinian prisoners.Some speeches delivered at the rally called on the Palestinian Authority to move to support the hun-ger strikers in Israeli jails and work on having them released. Source: PIC

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Talks between Israeli officials and prisoners fail

10/6/20

The three rounds of talks held between the leaders of the Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike and the Israeli Prison Service have all failed, the Palestinian Al-Resalah quoted the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club saying yesterday. The leadership of the hunger strike told the club’s lawyer Jawad Bolus that the three rounds of talks failed because the Israeli Prison Service refused to meet the demands of the hunger strikers; which are to end the internationally-banned admin-istrative detentions. Bolus reported the hunger strikers said that the Israeli Prison Service informed them about the anger of the Israeli government over their hunger strike. He said that the Israeli government is ready to open a special hospital for the prisoners with grave health conditions if the strike did not stop.In a press statement released yesterday the prisoners said: “The Israeli government does not care about our death.” They called for more official and popular support for their cause.According to the statement, the Israeli Prison Service held disciplinary trials in absentia for prisoners to put pressure on them.More than 250 Palestinian prisoners have been on hunger strike since April 24 in protest against administrative detention, which see them being held in custody without charges or trials for an unlimited time.

Source: MEMO

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Detainee Ayman Atabish on hunger striker for 103 uninterrupted days

8/6/2014

The Palestinian detainee Ayman Atabish, sentenced administratively to 6 months with neither charge nor trial, has been without food for 103 days and vowed to keep going until all of his fair demands are met.Atabish’s family has revealed serious concerns over their son’s health status due to the critical cardiovascular disorders the latter suffers.Prisoner Atabish, an al-Khalil native, was arrested by the Israeli Occupation authorities (IOA) 5 times, during which Atabish initiated three hunger strikes.Atabish is hospitalized at Assaf HaRofeh medical center and currently suffers critical health prob-lems including stomachaches, renal diseases, and breathing difficulties, media sources reported.Atabish had already been on hunger strike for 105 days a year ago that ended with the IOA agree-ing on ending his detention. However, he renewed his strike as the IOA reneged on its release promises and extended his administrative detention period. Source: PIC

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9/6/2014

A member of the politburo of Palestinian resistance move-ment Hamas has accused the recently-formed Palestinian unity government of violating the terms of an April reconcili-ation agreement between his group and rival faction Fatah. “The government acted wrong-ly towards those who fall un-der its mandate,” said Hamas’ Khalil al-Hayeh. “We never expected ordinary people’s livelihoods to be the first stumbling block on the road towards Palestinian national reconciliation,” al-Hayeh said at a Monday press conference in Gaza City.Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, and Fatah, which rules

Hamas says government violated reconciliation terms

the occupied West Bank, signed a reconciliation deal in late April in hopes of ending years of division.The deal called for the formation of unity government of techno-crats to run Palestinian affairs in Gaza and the West Bank until leg-islative polls are held within six months.Unveiled last week, the new government faced its first chal-lenge when paying public-sector salaries in both territories late last month, as the government’s emp-ty coffers kept it from dispersing the salaries of civil servants that had been employed by Hamas.Al-Hayeh said Monday that the reconciliation agreement had called for a national unity govern-ment to represent all Palestinians

and not just West Bank resi-dents.“All Palestinians are now un-der the mandate of the gov-ernment,” al-Hayeh asserted, going on to point out that civil servants in Gaza had not re-ceived their salaries for the last eight months.Since 2006, the Gaza Strip has groaned under an Israeli block-ade that has deprived the coast-al enclave’s roughly 1.8 million inhabitants of their most basic needs and forced thousands of workers – especially those in the construction sector – into unemployment.

Source: ALRAY

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Hamas official: The future of the reconciliation depends on Abbas

9/6/2014

The stances taken by the head of Fatah and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will determine the prospects for the national reconciliation government’s success, a Hamas spokesperson said. Osama Hamdan told Al-Resalah yesterday that Fatah’s behaviour reveals a lack of genuineness regarding the implementation of the reconciliation agreement. For rec-onciliation to be achieved, Fatah and Abbas need to build bridges of trust, Hamdan said. “Reconciliation cannot take root through rosy promises, it needs practical steps from all sides,” he added.Hamdan stressed that his movement has given a lot for the sake of ending the recon-ciliation, starting with the formation of the consensus government. “Hamas did and will continue to do all what it can do. All sides must show national responsibility.”Abbas had said that he will not offer Gaza’s government employees salaries from the Palestinian Authority, and that the Rafah border crossing will continue to be closed until the presidential border guards return to the Gaza-Egypt borders.The reconciliation is facing major challenges in light of the pressures that Gaza’s employees have been subjected to. Some of them have had their salaries delayed and are threatened with losing their jobs.

Source: Al-Ressalah

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8/6/2014

Some 200 Palestinian prisoners have died as a result of torture while being held in the Syrian regime’s jails since the start of the uprising, the Action Group for Palestinians of Syria said. The group said that in June four Palestinian refugees were tortured in Syrian prisons. They are: Mo-hammad Ali Farhood, Ashrab Abdel Nasser, Ghassan Salamah and Osama Hafawi. Most of the bodies have not been handed over to relatives; relatives were however called to inform them to head to the security headquarters in order to collect the detainee’s belongings without allow-ing them to ask about the body.In an earlier statement the group had demanded the Syrian regime disclose the fate of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners who are unaccounted for, saying what is happening to Palestinians held in Syr-ian prisons is a “war crime by all standards” . Source: PIC

Report: 200 Palestinians torturedto death in Syria

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Israel to build security fence along Jordanian border

9/6/2014

The Israeli army is preparing to build a 500 kilometre long security fence along the eastern border with Jordan similar to the security barrier it had built along the Egyptian border to counter “infiltration dangers”, Commander of the Eilat Terri-torial Brigade General Roi Alkabetz said. Alkabetz said during a lecture at the In-stitute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv that the project needs a huge budget but refused any justification for a delay in allocating the funds.Alkabetz said the military battalion op-erating in the southern area of Eilat con-siders the eastern border with Jordan a cause for concern during the coming pe-riod. “The Kingdom of Jordan is friendly to Israel and cooperates with us better than Egypt, but the common border with Jordan is completely unsecure. Millions of refugees who arrived in Jordan from Syria and Iraq could pose a clear security threat to Israel and it is likely that they in-clude hostile elements which carry weap-ons and threaten the security of Israel.”General Alkabets said “I know that it sounds like a slogan, but the truth is that calm here is misleading and things could change in a single moment. In this area

there are enough of those with bad intentions, and this will not change soon.”Israel built a huge 240 kilometre security fence along the border with Egypt. The Israeli army expressed its satis-faction with the wall saying it has proven effective over the years.According to General Alkabetz the main reason for the calm prevailing on the Egyptian front is completing the construction of the wall along the border with Egypt, and preserving military activity in the region.“Practically we have built the wall as an emergency plan to cope with tens of thousands of job seekers who have arrived in Israel from Africa, but a major turnover was in the area of security, as infiltrators and smuggling jobs constituted a permanent base for terrorism,” he added.The General pointed out that “over the last three years there have been 14 operations, including 10 gunfire oper-ations against Eilat. The data means that the wall formed a real barrier on the border with Egypt. Besides repelling terrorism, or at least preventing the entry into the Israeli territories, the wall contributed to permanently stop the infiltrators.”According to the Israeli army data in 2011; nearly 10,455 infiltrators entered Israel from Sinai, while since the be-ginning of this year, only seven infiltrators tried to enter but were caught.

Source: MEMO

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Conflicting political agendas at Israel›s Herzliya conference

The annual Herzliya conference on the future of Israeli secu-rity which convened on Sunday highlighted the conflicting po-litical agendas of senior Israeli officials. While Israeli Minister of the Economy Naftali Bennett pro-posed a plan for a unilateral annexation of parts of the oc-cupied West Bank, the Minister of Justice Tzipi Livni called for continuing the peaceful path. Bennett called for annexing settlements in the West Bank unilaterally while improving economic conditions for Pales-tinians to protect Israeli secu-rity.Meanwhile, Minister of Fi-nance Yair Lapid slammed Ben-nett’s plan and vowed to bring down the government if it is adopted. He called instead for a “divorce” from Palestinians and withdrawing from the West Bank via an agreement.Livni, on the other hand, seemed more decisive in her proposition, stating that “the settlement project threatens the Zionist project and constitutes an economic and security bur-den on Israel.”She added that Israel is using settlers as “human shields” to protect it from Palestinians, warning that every new con-struction in settlements under-mines Israeli legitimacy in the

Israel Insider

international community.Concerning the latest Palestinian reconciliation, Livni said there should be differentiation between the government and Hamas. The government should not be considered illegitimate, whereas Hamas should be exposed before the international community.Livni held the new Palestinian government responsible for any “hos-tile act” from Gaza.Chairman of the Likud party and opposition leader Buji Herzog said in his speech at the conference that Bennett’s annexation plan is “ex-tremely dangerous for Israeli security.”Herzog proposed his political plan, which calls for reaching a peace agreement within 5 years, while maintaining military presence in Jordan Valley, and a demilitarized Palestinian state.Herzog called on Abas to disarm Hamas in Gaza as part of his respon-sibilities in accordance with the latest reconciliation agreement. Source: ALRAY

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Thousands of Malaysians gatherto support Palestine at MyGMJ

7/6/2014

The Malaysian Global March to Jerusalem (MyGMJ) movement today joined other countries in condemning the actions of Israel on the anniversary of the occupation of Jerusalem 47 years ago.The organisers of the event, in a show of solidarity with the Palestinian people, urged the Israeli regime to free Palestine from the chains of oppression.Its Project Director, Khalid Jurait said this was the third year the program was being held in Ma-laysia.“Every June 6 and 7, similar events are held by Muslims around the world to remember the fall of the rest of Palestine state to Israel in the 6-Day War of 1967.”, he said.MyGMJ Chairman, Dr. Mohd Tahir Abdul Rahman said such events should be continued to re-mind the younger generation on the plight of the Palestinian people.“There’s a lack of awareness and concern on the struggle of the Palestinian people (by the youths) so we want to educate them on what is happening to our brothers and sisters there (Jerusalem),” he said.The MyGMJ event was culminated at the Shah Alam Independence Square where a variety of per-formances were held with the presence of thousands of Malaysians who came from various states.This year’s MyGMJ highlighted also the plight of the Palestinian administrative detainees in Is-raeli jails who are on an open-ended hunger strike since April 24th. The crowds revealed their unyielding concern over the administrative hunger strikers. “Mai and Malh” (“Water and Salt”) was among the slogans chanted by the crowds in solidarity with the Palestinian hunger strikers. The Global March to Jerusalem is an annual event held in the first week of June to mark the an-niversary of the start of the Israeli occupation of Jerusalem following the Six Day War in 1967.This year, at least 23 countries around the world are marking the 47th year of the event, according to organisers.

Source: Agencies

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Solidarity stand in KL to support Palestinian prisoners

9/6/2014

Tens of activists and Palestinian families partici-pated on Sunday evening in a solidarity stand held in Bukit Bintang – Kuala Lumpur to support the Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli jails who re-frain from having their meals since April 24th to protest their unlawful detention with neither charge nor trial.The solidarity stand was organized by the Palestin-ian Cultural Organization Malaysia (PCOM). The participants carried pictures of hunger strikers and (#water_and_salt) slogan and distributed brochures on the prisoners’ cause to the passers.

The activity included also a flash-mob that re-flected the suffering of the Palestinian prisoners from the moment of arrest throughout his deten-tion period.Administrative prisoners, among many other Palestinian detainees, have been on an open-ended hunger strike for 48 uninterrupted days, in what came to be known as the Battle of the Empty Stomachs, to protest Israeli arbitrary de-tention policy carried out against Palestinians with neither charge nor trial.

Source: PCOM

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