Date of birth: 2 July 1982
Place of detention: Hasharon prison
Date of arrest: 14 September 2009
Place of residence: Burqin, Jenin

Postal address: Hasharon Prison, Even Yehuda, P.O. Box 7, 40330 Israel

Expected end of administrative detention order: 13 March 2010

ARREST AND INTERROGATION

Hana Yahya Shalabi was arrested from her family home on 14 September 2009. At approximately 1:30 a.m. that morning, Israeli soldiers in 12 military jeeps surrounded her house in Burqin village, near the West Bank town of Jenin. The soldiers ordered Hana’s entire family outside of the house and demanded Hana give them her identity card. They then proceeded to conduct a thorough search of the family’s home. Read the rest of this entry »

1 February 2010

The Board of Directors of Rights & Democracy, a not-for-profit organization created by Canada’s parliament in 1988 to encourage and support human rights around the world, recently voted, with substantial objection, to repudiate grants given to Al Haq and Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights, two well-known Palestinian human rights organizations located respectively in the West Bank and in Gaza. Read the rest of this entry »

His Excellency President Mahmoud Abbas

RE. Calling for immediate commencement of internal investigations in compliance with UN GA Resolution A/RES/64/10

Your Excellency,
On 25 September 2009, the UN Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict released its comprehensive, contextual, professional and impartial report. The Report detailed violations of human rights and of the laws and norms of war, which amounted to war crimes and possible crimes against humanity, committed during last winter’s 23-day aerial and ground offensive in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli Occupation Forces. Whereas the bulk of the Report addressed violations by Israel, the Occupying Power, it also considered violations by Palestinian armed groups and the Palestinian authorities in Gaza and the West Bank. Read the rest of this entry »

Ramallah
14 January 2010

On 13 January 2010, Mohammad Othman and Jamal Juma’, Palestinian human rights defenders active in the campaign against the Annexation Wall unlawfully constructed by Israel in occupied Palestinian territory, were finally released from Israeli detention. Addameer and Stop the Wall contend that both were arrested in an effort to curb the success of their peaceful activities in defense of Palestinian human rights. Read the rest of this entry »

January 1, 2010

To all our friends,

I mark the beginning of the new decade imprisoned in a military detention camp. Nevertheless, from within the occupation′s holding cell I meet the New Year with determination and hope.

I know that Israel’s military campaign to imprison the leadership of the Palestinian popular struggle shows that our non-violent struggle is effective. The occupation is threatened by our growing movement and is therefore trying to shut us down. What Israel′s leaders do not understand is that popular struggle cannot be stopped by our imprisonment.

Whether we are confined in the open-air prison that Gaza has been transformed into, in military prisons in the West Bank, or in our own villages surrounded by the Apartheid Wall, arrests and persecution do not weaken us. They only strengthen our commitment to turning 2010 into a year of liberation through unarmed grassroots resistance to the Occupation. Read the rest of this entry »

Ramallah
5 January 2010

On 4 January 2010, an Israeli military court hearing at Ofer Military Court, located near the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, extended the arbitrary detention of “Stop the Wall” Campaign Coordinator Jamal Juma’, aged 47, for a further four days, scheduling his next hearing at Ofer for the morning of Thursday, 7 January 2010. It has been 20 days since Jamal, a prominent Palestinian human rights defender, was arrested from his home in East Jerusalem and taken for interrogation. Read the rest of this entry »

Addameer * Al-Haq – Law in the Service of Man * Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights*
Al Dameer Association for Human Rights * BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights
DCI – Palestine Section * ENSAN Center * Jerusalem Legal Aid Center * Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling

Ramallah, 30 December 2009

Israel has for too long been allowed to violate the rights of human rights defenders and activists. As an occupying power and State Party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), Israel is obliged to respect the rights of Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) as guaranteed under the ICCPR. Palestinian human rights defenders must be guaranteed their right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, and their right to liberty and security of person. Read the rest of this entry »

MEDIA RELEASE
Ramallah, 21 December 2009
Palestinian political prisoners must be released, categories of “security detainees” must be cancelled and political offenses must be defined if peace between Israel and the Palestinians is to be achieved.

Reaching the ‘No-Peace’ Agreement: The Role of Palestinian Prisoner Releases in Permanent Status Negotiations (Download PDF ~0.5 MB), a briefing paper from Addameer, examines Israel’s failure to comply with the bilateral agreements regarding the release of Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli detention for their involvement in activities related to the ongoing belligerent Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory. It concludes that prisoner releases can be instrumental in achieving a lasting peace, but only if prisoners themselves are recognized as political partners in the process. Read the rest of this entry »

Repression allowed Resistance denied - STW Addameer joint report (PDF ~1.3 mb)