Press Release - May 16, 2000
A massive number of Israeli occupation forces have attacked Majido Prison, which contains 650 prisoners. This dangerous move was carried out after enforcing a strong besieging of the prison, sounding the alarms and firing hundreds of tear gas canisters and sound bombs at the prisoners, their belongings and their tents. The attack led to injuring more than one hundred prisoners. The injuries included burns, suffocation, poisoning and burning section 6 and part of section 5 of the prison.

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Press Release - May 16, 2000
There was an explosion of violent clashes on Monday, May 15, 2000, in protest against the continuation of holding Palestinian prisoners into custody. The clashes led to the killing of three Palestinians in the cities of Nablus and Ramallah, the victims were:Ayid Mustafa Alsafadi, 18, from Areef in Nablus, Bashar Al Shanteer, 18, from Askar Refugees’ Camp in Nablus, and Ahmad Jamal Auda, 22, from Dir Al Hatab in Nablus. In addition to killing two Palestinian children in Qalqilia when they were run over by an Israeli settler, the children were Mahmoud, 8 years old, and Muhamad Zeid Al Aqra, 6 years old.

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Press Release - May 27, 2000
Palestinian Authority Security Apparatus are continuing their arrest campaign against Palestinian citizens with more than 30 Palestinians detained within the past week, many of whom have been released. However, Addameer Association has learned that at least 10 Palestinians remain in detention in Palestinian Authority prisons.

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Press Release - May 27, 2000
Human rights activist and employee of Addameer Association, ‘Ahed Yusif, was arrested by the Palestinian Preventative Security in Ramallah on the morning of Friday 26Th May, 2000.

The arrest was carried out at 3:00 AM without an official warrant or explanation. Yusif’s house was searched and his family harassed during the arrest.

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Press Release - May 28, 2000
Palestinian Preventive Security forces (PSS) from Ramallah raided the home of Palestinian citizen Intissar Tawfick Hamdan - 27 years old and an employee of the Teacher’s Creativity Center - without her knowledge and without her being present in the house at the time of the raid.

The house raid occurred on Friday 26 May 2000 at 3:00 am in the morning, when PSS officers welded shut the house and began searching the interior of the house. Neighbors witnessed the security forces taking papers and photographs from the house. The homes of the neighbors who witnessed this were also searched and asked personal questions concerning Intissar and who she knows. Intissar discovered that her house had been raided and sealed only the next day when she returned home.

Intissar received a phone call from the PSS on Saturday requesting her presence at the PSS headquarters in Ramallah for questioning. She went to the headquarters at 2pm in the afternoon and was released at 12:30am, on condition that she not leave the area and to return for further investigation next Monday after 4pm. They interrogated her without informing her if there were any charges against her, and asked her personal information, such as what political party she belongs to, who her friends are, who she wants to marry, etc.

The above procedures are a clear violation of basic human rights, in particular:

1. The breaking into Intissar’s house, after smashing down the door, without a legal search warrant and without the presence of the owner of the home.
2. The detention and interrogation of the owner of the home without legal summons explaining the reasons for the interrogation.

Press Release - June 01, 2000

To all supporters of the issue of Palestinian Prisoners in the Israeli prisons:
We, the families of Palestinian and Arab prisoners, mothers, wives, and children, as well as institutions, organizations, national and Islamic bodies in the solidarity tents in support of Palestinian prisoners would like to express our deep gratitude to you for your much-appreciated letters of solidarity with us through the international solidarity campaign for Palestinian and Arab prisoners. Your strong support of our position in this campaign is highly appreciated and we hope that our campaign will result in the release of all prisoners.

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Press Release - December 12, 2000
Israeli Occupation Authorities escalated it’s continuing wide spread arrest campaign that started since the beginning of the latest Intifada. While the arrest campaign was mainly concentrating on arresting Palestinians, accused in taking part in the last events, on checkpoints and crossing it is now characterized by it’s systematic raids on houses of Palestinians residing in areas under full Israeli control and in Jerusalem.

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