Day: August 1, 2024

Ramallah – Ma’an – The Palestinian Prisoners’ Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club confirmed on Thursday evening the martyrdom of prisoner Islam Al-Sarsawi (42 years old) from the Shuja’iyya neighborhood in Gaza, who was arrested during the recent storming of Al-Shifa Hospital, as a result of being subjected to torture inside the (Sde Teiman) camp. He is one of dozens of detainees who have died in the occupation’s prisons and camps, and the occupation continues to conceal their identities.

The two institutions confirmed in a joint statement that, “according to the information that was verified, Al-Sarsawi was martyred four months ago, until they obtained confirmed information about his fate today.”

The Commission and the Club explained that the martyr prisoner Al-Sarsawi was arrested along with dozens of others from inside Al-Shifa Hospital, and their fate or places of detention were not revealed at the time, as a result of the crime of enforced disappearance.

The Commission and the Club
stated that with the martyrdom of the prisoner Sarsawi, the number of martyrs of the prisoner movement since 1967 has risen to (257), including (20) prisoners who have been martyred since the beginning of the war of extermination, and whose identities have been announced, in addition to dozens of martyred prisoners from Gaza, and the occupation continues to conceal their identities.

The Commission and the Club called on the international community institutions to take immediate action to stop the crime of enforced disappearance and the crimes of torture that are escalating in an unprecedented manner in their intensity inside the occupation prisons and camps, and not to leave the male and female prisoners as prey to the occupation prison administration and its systematic policy, which today has more support than ever and by a political decision from the colonial government, to kill them, as the prisoners are facing the harshest and most severe stages as a result of the crimes of torture and humiliation.

The
Commission and the Club called for the acceleration of the formation of a UN investigation committee with a comprehensive mandate to investigate all crimes committed by the occupation against male and female prisoners, and for the human rights system to emerge from its state of inability to stop the war of extermination and prisoner aggression, which constitutes another aspect of it.

According to the two institutions, the number of prisoners in the occupation prisons has reached more than (9900), and this number does not include all detainees from Gaza.

Source: Maan News Agency

Jerusalem – Ma’an – The American newspaper “Financial Times” reported late Wednesday that “American and European diplomats are holding urgent discussions in the Middle East in an attempt to avoid a regional war.”

Politico quoted the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee as saying that “the assassinations in Beirut and Tehran are hindering the hostage negotiations.”

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Hebron – Ma’an – A 21-year-old man was injured this evening by Israeli occupation forces’ bullets in the southern area of ??Hebron, and his injury was described as serious.

Medical sources at Muhammad Ali Al-Muhtaseb Hospital in the southern region of Hebron confirmed that doctors are dealing with a young man who was injured in the back and his condition is serious but stable. He will be transferred to another hospital to complete medical treatment.

Local sources reported that the young man, Khader Nawaf Al-Rajabi, 21 years old, was shot by the occupation army near the Abu Al-Rish checkpoint and was transferred to the hospital for treatment.

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HEBRON-Ma’an- Today, the occupation forces filled two water springs with concrete and demolished two shops in the Wadi al-Baqar area east of the city of Hebron.

The two water springs are owned by citizen Rafeeq Al-Rajabi, who used the water he extracted for drinking and irrigating his crops, as he owns more than 20 dunums planted with vegetables.

The occupation forces also demolished with a bulldozer two shops owned by citizen Osama Talal Jaber, with an estimated area of ??170 square meters, in the Al-Baqaa area east of the city of Hebron.

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Ramallah – Ma’an – The prisoners’ institutions, national and Islamic forces, and all official and popular formations and frameworks announced the national program for the central activities approved nationally on Saturday, August 3, 2024, (the national and international day to support Gaza and the prisoners).

She reiterated the most important messages announced by the Preparatory Committee for this day:

First: The third of August was decided to be a founding day for what came after it through a continuous and ongoing popular movement, so that the square would be our space to express and triumph over the issues of our people, on the basis that Gaza and the prisoners are the origin of our unity and the path to our victory.

Second: At a time when we received the news of the assassination of the national leader Ismail Haniyeh, along with tens of thousands of our people who were martyred in Gaza, the West Bank and the diaspora, within the framework of the ongoing war of extermination against our people, we affi
rm that participation on this day is a national and moral duty, and it is an individual and collective responsibility.

Third: We also affirm that the war of extermination and comprehensive aggression against our people and our land is an extension of long decades of colonialism, and that our struggle today and the victory for the blood of our martyrs and our prisoners in the prisons of the Israeli occupation is an extension of our ongoing struggle in the face of the Israeli colonial system and all the forces supporting it, and in the face of the silence and helplessness that gave this system the green light to practice this level of crimes and brutality.

Fourth: Until the ongoing genocide against our people stops, and until the freedom of our prisoners, and until the freedom of Palestine, we address once again our people and all free people in the world, and as a national and moral duty, with a call to go out to the squares under the slogan of victory for Gaza and its heroes, and for our people in all Pales
tinian geographies, and for our sons and daughters, the prisoners in the occupation’s prisons. Let us go out with faith, strength, and determination, breaking on this day the term of helplessness and silence, and let anger be our slogan.

Central events program on the third of August in support of Gaza and the prisoners:

Ramallah: 12:00 noon, Al-Manara Roundabout.

Hebron: 12:00 noon, Ibn Rushd roundabout.

Nablus: 12:00 noon, in front of Martyrs Square.

Jenin: 12:00 noon, Yahya Ayyash roundabout.

Bethlehem: 12:00 noon, in front of the Prisoners’ Monument, towards Manger Square.

Tulkarm: 11:00 AM, Jamal Abdel Nasser Roundabout.

Tubas: 8:00 pm, in front of the Martyrs’ Roundabout.

Qalqilya: 12:00 noon, in front of Qalqilya Municipality.

Salfit: 11:00 AM, Al-Quds Open University.

Jericho: 8:00 pm, Jericho City Circle.

Umm al-Fahm: 3:30 pm, next to Al-Anis Hall.

Preparatory Committee for the International Day in Support of Gaza and Prisoners

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New York – Ma’an – The Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, Minister Riyad Mansour, sent three identical letters to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, the President of the United Nations General Assembly, Dennis Francis, and the President of the Security Council for this month, Russia, represented by its Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzia, in which he warned that Israel is waging a heinous war against our people deliberately and arbitrarily, and in flagrant violation of the resolutions issued by the Security Council.

Mansour added that after nearly 300 days of Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinian people, we are still witnessing more horrors with the killing of Palestinian children, women and men; the killing of humanitarian and medical workers and journalists; the kidnapping, torture and rape of civilians in Israeli prisons; and the continued bombing and destruction of Palestinian homes and neighborhoods.

Meanw
hile, in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Israeli occupation forces and settlers continue their violent terrorist attacks, killing at least 569 civilians, including children. The illegal Israeli colonial campaign is escalating, with land seizures, theft and demolition of homes and property, and the forced displacement of thousands of civilians in the past ten months alone.

Mansour pointed out that Israel proves every day that it will continue to act as a rogue state. “Today’s assassination and all the crimes that preceded it and followed it in the following hours are proof of that.” He recalled that the Palestinian leadership and President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the assassination of former Prime Minister and Head of the Political Bureau of Hamas Ismail Haniyeh, the blatant violation of the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the repeated violations of Lebanese and Syrian territory, including Tuesday’s attack on Beirut.

Mansour called for accountability for this assassination, and for t
he brutal killing and injury of more than 130,000 Palestinian children, women and men during this past period.

He told UN officials that the Council was failing to act to impose a ceasefire and put an end to Israeli crimes, warning that failure to hold Israel accountable allowed it to commit these crimes and emboldened government officials, military leaders and extremist settlers to escalate their terrorist attacks.

‘We once again call with the utmost urgency on the Security Council, the General Assembly and all law-abiding and peace-loving states to act immediately to stop the horrific and criminal Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people and the entire region,’ Mansour said, noting that Israel is blatantly seeking to destabilize the entire region and provoke a comprehensive war in the Middle East in a profound way that has serious repercussions for the region and beyond.

He called on the international community, especially the Security Council, to support international resolutions and the obliga
tions of states to stop the genocidal attack committed by Israel against the Palestinian people and prevent the outbreak of a regional war, stressing that international peace and security are at risk at these critical moments.

Source: Maan News Agency