Tension prevails after ‘Israel’ transfers prisoners to Nafha Prison

OCTOBER 01, 2023

Source: Agencies + Al Mayadeen

FFLP chief Ahmad Saadat transferred to Nafha Prison إدارة سجون الاحتلال تنقل الأمين العام للجبهة الشعبية الرفيق أحمد سعدات إلى سجن “نفحة”

By Al Mayadeen English

The PFLP holds “Israel” responsible for the lives of its chief Ahmad Saadat and other prisoners who were transferred to Nafha Prison.

The Handala Center for Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs reported that the Israeli occupation transferred the Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Ahmad Saadat, and a number of prisoners, from “Ramon” Prison to Nafha Prison.

According to the Center, the transfer took place from Section 5 of “Ramon” Prison to Section 10 of Nafha Prison. It also reported a state of tension prevailing in PFLP sections in all Israeli occupation prisons.

On its part, the PFLP held the Israeli occupation prison administration fully responsible for the lives of its Secretary-General and the other prisoners who were transferred to the Nafha Prison.

In a statement, the PFLP confirmed that this Israeli attack targeting its leadership is an integral part of the comprehensive attack that the Captive Movement is being subjected to, pointing out that such attacks continued and surged after Itamar Ben-Gvir took over the Israeli occupation Police Ministry.

The statement announced that PFLP prisons declared a state of high alert in all Israeli occupation prisons and threatened to take comprehensive and continuous steps in order to respond to the crime committed by the prison administration.

According to the statement, a broad and comprehensive program of struggle would be implemented until the Israeli occupation reverses its measures in case the widespread attack on the Front’s leadership cadres and all the prisoners is not put to an end.

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The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine called on the Palestinian people, the national forces, the people of the Arab nation, and the free people of the world to provide the broadest support to its Secretary-General, its prisoners, and the whole Captive Movement.

Elsewhere, the PFLP concluded its statement by noting that its Secretary-General Ahmad Saadat and his comrades in Israeli occupation prisons achieved continuous victories over the Zionist jailer at various stages of struggle.

On Sunday morning, Israeli occupation repression units stormed Section 5 of “Ramon” Prison and transferred prisoners there to Nafha Prison.

The Palestinian Prisoners Information Office reported that the “Ramon” Prison administration shut down sections 2, 3, 7, and 8 amid a state of tension prevailing in the prison.

This comes ahead of the 22nd anniversary of the assassination of former Israeli occupation Minister of Tourism, Rehavam Ze’evi, which “Israel” accuses PFLP Resistance fighters of, in response to the occupation’s assassination of its former Secretary-General, Abu Ali Mustafa, on August 27, 2001.

After the assassination of Abu Ali Mustafa, Saadat was elected Secretary-General of the Front, only to be arrested by the occupation in 2006, on alleged charges including “indirect responsibility” for Ze’evi’s assassination.

In 2008, the Israeli occupation Military Court sentenced Saadat to 30 years in prison. During his captivity, the PFLP Secretary-General went on several hunger strikes and was transferred to solitary confinement several times by the Israeli occupation.

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Palestinian Detainees Announce General Mobilization: They Are Ready for Future Confrontations

January 8, 2023

Translated by Al-Ahed News

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Club Association said in a press statement that the detainees declared a state of general mobilization and are ready for an upcoming confrontation against the measures that the extremist “Israeli” government intends to impose, as well as the escalation of repression and abuse against them.

The statement added  that the extremist [Itamar] Ben Gvir, who last night visited the new sections of Nafha prison and issued more threats, to ask those ministers who preceded him and who had hinted at imposing the most extreme measures against the detainees for decades, what was the fate of their measures and how the prisoners managed over the course of these decades to accumulate a wide experience of struggle, even with the development of the mechanism that the prison system tried to impose.

It went on to say that the detainees undertook over 25 collective strikes, and imposed an equation as a result of their struggles over the course of these decades. The reality today in prisons is stronger and greater than what Ben Gvir imagines. The “Israeli” occupation authorities, led by the so-called “Israel” Prison Service, is aware that what Ben Gvir is requesting today has been requested by many before, and these threats actually evaporated due to the solidity, unity of the detainees and their willingness to confront every measure that affects their dignity or detracts from their rights.

The Prisoner’s Club pointed out that the great test for the occupation forces was actually after the heroic Operation Freedom Tunnel. However, by being united, the detainees were able to deter a number of measures that the prison administration was threatening to impose. Since September 2021, the detainees fought successive battles, and they did not stop. Indeed, those who monitor the details of the threats find that the prison administration has failed to enforce its measures. Behind these threats, it is trying to find a middle ground between what the extremist government wants and the imposed reality inside the prisons.

Ben-Gvir Visits Israeli Prison as Palestinians’ Acts of Resistance Persist

January 6, 2023

Thousands of Palestinians perform Friday prayers at AL-Aqsa Mosque (January 6, 2023).

Palestinians are persisting in forms of resistance against Israeli occupation on Friday, a day after the Zionist entity’s so-called National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir paid his first visit to a security prison in the occupied terriotries.

Clashes between Palestinians erupted in Jabal Sabih near the village of Beita south of Nablus at noon on Friday, Al-Quds News Network reported.

In Pictures: A Palestinian youth throws a tear gas canister back at Israeli soldiers in Beit Dajan village, east of Nablus, today. pic.twitter.com/78etlFgAl9

— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) January 6, 2023

Meanwhile, 60,000 Palestinian worshipers performed Friday prayers in Al-Aqsa Mosque, defying Israeli restrictive measures in occupied Al-Quds, according to Al-Qastal News Network.

Thousands of worshipers performed Friday prayers in Al-Aqsa Mosque, despite the restrictions imposed by the occupation. pic.twitter.com/hzZ1Ay5S9Y

— AlQastal News (@QastalNewsEn) January 6, 2023

Earlier at dawn on Friday, Palestinian resistance fighters attacked Israeli post of Al-Jalma near Jenin, Palestinian sources reported.

Jenin witnesses nearly-daily raids by Israeli occupation, leading to clashes with Palestinian resistance.

Ben-Gvir Visits Israeli Prison

On the other hand, Zionist supremacist Itamar Ben-Gvir paid his first visit late Thursday to a security prison to “make sure that inmates’ conditions haven’t improved in the wake of a High Court ruling in their favor,” Israeli media reported.

Ben-Gvir storms Al-Aqsa Mosque (Tuesday, January 3, 2023).

“I came last night to Nafha Prison to make sure murderers of Jews don’t receive better conditions since the construction of new prison cells,” Ben-Gvir was quoted as saying by Haaretz on Friday.

Ben-Gvir was accompanied on his visit by Prison Service Commissioner Katy Perry and senior prison service officials. He visited the new wings built last year for security prisoners, “which have mechanisms that make it harder for them to escape,” the Israeli daily reported.

Earlier on Tuesday, Ben-Gvir visited Al-Aqsa for first time as a security minister, prompting wide condemnations by Palestinian resistance factions, Palestinian Authority and several Arab states.

Source: Palestinian and Israeli media (translated and edited by Al-Manar English Website)

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Palestinian Prisoners Threaten Mass Hunger Strike to Achieve Basic Rights

March 12, 2022

Palestinian activists hold a protest in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners. (Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour, The Palestine Chronicle)

Palestinian prisoners have announced on Friday that they are preparing for a strike across all Israeli prisons, reiterating that action will continue until all prisoners’ rights are regaining, a prisoners’ statement has revealed.

The statement, which was sent to mass media, confirmed that Palestinian political groups inside prisons would together declare the start of a hunger strike, which is expected to start soon. They pledged to continue their action until they achieved all their basic rights.

Palestinian prisoners will stage a mass hunger strike on 25 March if their demands against punitive measures by Israeli prisons aren’t met. https://t.co/gMsbtKVfJj

— Samidoun Network (@SamidounPP) March 7, 2022

According to the statement, the Israeli occupation introduced many new orders restricting their rights as political prisoners.

The statement hailed the persistence and resilience of the prisoners, who have had restrictions and sanctions imposed on them following the escape of six prisoners from the highly secured Nafha Prison in September 2021.

(MEMO, PC, Social Media)

Palestinian Prisoner’s Club to Al-Ahed: Prisons Revolution Non-stopping

March 11, 2022

By Mostafa Awada

After 33 days of escalatory steps by the Palestinian detainees, the ‘Israeli’ occupation’s prisons administration announced cancelling its measures related to the electronic gates and doubled inspection in ‘Nafha’ Prison.

In this context, the Head of the Palestinian Prisoner’s Club told al-Ahed News that prisoners in ‘Nafha’ returned to their previous lifestyle.

Qaddoura Fares added that the ‘Prisons’ revolution’ will continue until all measures related to isolating the old detainees and transferring them from their sections every now and then come to an end.

The Club emphasized on Thursday evening that a deal was made regarding the demands of the ‘Nafha’ Prison detainees, in which the prison’s administration backtracked its measures related to the electronic gates and the doubled inspection.

In a brief statement, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Club noted that the agreement was made after a dialogue session that was held on Thursday, stressing that everything depends on the implementation of the deal.

The prisoners will stay ready for an open-ended strike on March 25th until all other demands are met, it also mentioned.

It is worth noting that the ‘Nafha’ Prison issue was one of the main demands of the Supreme Committee for the Detainees’ National Emergencies, in which the prisons’ administration had refused earlier to backtrack its measures, keeping the matter unsettled until the detainees announced on Thursday evening that they have reached an agreement.

‘Nafha’ Prison detainees have been recently subjected to systematic and escalating oppression ever since they started their struggle some 33 days earlier.

Among the many steps in their struggle were shutting the sections, rejecting the so-called ‘security inspection’, disobedience, and revolting against the occupation’s prisons’ laws.

Palestinian shot dead by the occupation for alleged car-ramming

Dec 21 2021

Net Source: Al Mayadeen

By Al Mayadeen

Al Mayadeen correspondent says Israeli media claimed an attempted car-ramming occurred near the Israeli Dotan military checkpoint against IOF soldiers.

Israeli media claimed that the car tried to ram Israeli soldiers

Al Mayadeen correspondent reports receiving news of an alleged attempt of car-ramming against Israeli soldiers near an Israeli military checkpoint, in the north of the occupied West Bank. Israeli media reported  that the Israeli occupation “shot a Palestinian who tried to car-ram a number of Israeli soldiers near Jenin.”

Palestinian media quoted local sources as saying the occupation soldiers on Tuesday targeted a young man’s car with live ammunition, wounding him and setting his car on fire, near the Dotan military checkpoint, which is located on the lands of Ya’bad town, southwest of Jenin.

Local witnesses said the car exploded after it was completely engulfed by fire, while the plain of Ya’bad witnessed a massive deployment of the occupation forces.

Palestinian factions mourn the martyr

Resistance Committees in Palestine mourned the “heroic martyr who carried out the heroic car-ramming operation near the Zionist Dotan checkpoint, south of Jenin.”

The Resistance Committees noted that this operation against the Israeli occupation’s soldiers was “a natural response to the crimes of the Zionist enemy against our prisoners in Zionist prisons.”

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) also mourned the martyr of the Jenin operation. The DFLP said the Jenin operation was proof that “our Palestinian people will not forget their captives and prisoners.”

“This is a revolution that will not stop or retreat, no matter what the challenges and sacrifices may be, until the end of the occupation and the establishment of our Palestinian state with al-Quds as its capital,” Hamas spokesman Hazem Qasim tweeted.

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Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) spokesperson for the West Bank Tariq Ezzedine confirmed that the escalation of guerrilla operations in the occupied West Bank was evidence of the resistance’s “vitality and continuity towards escalation, and a response to the crimes of the Zionist occupation.”

High tension in Israeli Prisons

The Israeli occupation’s prisons are in a state of high tension, Al Mayadeen correspondent reported, underscoring that there had been no contact with any prisoners in Section 12, which rendered the fate of some 80 prisoners unknown.

“Many are fearing for the lives of the Section 12 prisoners in Nafha prison over the Israeli prisons administration’s systemic suppression campaign,” our correspondent said, noting that some of the prisoners are ill and of the elderly.

It is noteworthy that Israeli media reported on December 17th, that one settler was killed and two others were wounded in an alleged shooting attack at the entrance to the Homesh settlement in the West Bank.

In turn, Israeli settlers attacked, on December 18th, several citizens in their homes in the village of Qaryut, south of Nablus. In addition, settlers destroyed a number of vehicles near the entrance of the town of Sebastia, north of Nablus.

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Palestinian Resistance Factions Hail Stab Attack on Israeli Officer in “Nafha” Prison

 December 20, 2021

The Palestinian resistance factions hailed the stab attack carried out by the prisoner Youssef Al-Mabhuh on an Israeli officer in Nafha prison late Monday.

Hamas movement affirmed that this operation is a normal response to the Zionist escalation against the Palestinian female prisoners, holding the enemy responsible for any crime against all the Palestinian prisoners.

The resistance committees also greeted, in a statement, all the Palestinian prisoners in the ZIonist jails, praising the heroic operation of Al-Mabhuh against the Israeli officer.

It is worth noting that Al-Mabhuh, who descends from Gaza. carried out the stab attack on the Zionist officer in retaliation for the Israeli Prison Service’s abuse of female prisoners in Damon Prison.

Source: Al-Manar English Website

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‘Israel’ Practices Collective Revenge against Palestinian Detainees, Scandalous Medical Negligence in Nafha Prison

September 22, 2021 

By Staff

In wake of the heroic Gilboa Prison Break, ‘Israeli’ prisons administration tended to punish detainees to compensate its intelligence failure.

In further details, the Commission of Detainees and Ex-detainees stressed that the ‘Israeli’ prisons’ administration has been recently intending to apply the policy of ‘collective revenge’ and tightening its grip against Palestinian detainees in different prisons, namely in “Nafha.”

In a statement, the Commission said that the Nafha Prison administration is intending to carry out punitive measures against the detainees, in addition to tight security measures, all-night inspections, and exposing the faces of detainees to light every five minutes.

Additionally, the Nafha Prison administration is specifically tightening the measures against the Islamic Jihad detainees, preventing them from remaining in their organizational cells, and transferring them instead to other cells.

The Commission also pointed to two separate cases involving sick detainees, one of which is the case of detainee Mahmoud Abu Wahdan from Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus. He is serving three life sentences.

Abu Wahdan suffers from hemiplegia causing paralysis in the right side of his body. As a result, he is unable to move his right leg and hand, as well as his tongue, which caused a twisting of the face from the right side.

The Commission reported that he was transferred to the ICU in Soroka Medical Center, where he underwent many tests, including a blood test and CT scan. It turned out that he had been subjected to psychological pressure. The Commission pointed out that Abu Wahdan’s condition is now stable, but he is now taking four types of medication and is waiting for an MRI scan to determine the cause of the hemiplegia.

In 2003, the prisoner was also beaten on the head, which lead to vision problems. He needs a referral to an ophthalmologist.

The second case is that of detainee Jamal Amro from the city of Al-Khalil. He is serving a life sentence. Amro is in very poor health and is in dire need of urgent medical care.

He has tumors in the liver and kidneys and suffers from stomach and intestinal problems. He recently experienced nerve problems, and his hands often tremble. Amro also has severe dental problems.

The Commission indicated that the Nafha administration was procrastinating in providing him with treatment and deliberately neglected him medically, as he has been suffering from these health problems since 2018.

It further added that a date was set for a gland operation at Soroka Medical Center a month and a half ago, and on the day of the operation, he was informed of its cancellation. The reason was that the prison doctor refused to take him out claiming that he does not need an operation.