Al Mezan Condemns Trial of Detainees Abu Al Jediyan and Attallah; Expresses its Concern for Lives of Detainees on Hunger Strike

Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continueits violations against Palestinian detainees held in Israeli prisons in a clear disregard to its obligation under prisoners swap that had been reached through Egyptian mediation.
The IOF arrested ex-detainees who have been released in the prisoners swap agreement.
The IOF also backtracked on agreement ending prisoners’ hunger strike that had been reached through Egyptian meditation on 14 May 2012 to end a mass hunger strike through the renewal of solidarity confinement, administrative detention, and deprivation of providing appropriate medical treatment to the prisoners.
The IOF have continued its arbitrary detention policy against Palestinian civilians travelling via Erez crossing particularly patients and their escorts.
The IOF uses the crossings as traps, exploiting the Palestinian need to travel in order to receive life-saving treatment.
 The IOF blackmails patients and asks them to cooperate with them, returns some patients or their escorts, and arbitrary arrests them and presents them before courtand detains them for long periods.
Detainees who were released under prisoners swap agreement and detained again continued their hunger strike.
Prisoner Aymn Ismail Ash-Sharawna, 36, is continuing his hunger strike for the 113th consecutive day.
According to the information available to the AL Mezan Center for Human Rights, Ash-Sharawna is receiving medical treatment at Ramleh Hospital in Israel.
He suffers critical deterioration in his health condition.
Prisoner SamerTareq Al A’isawi, 33, is continuing his hunger strike for 82ndconsecutive day.
In her affidavit to Al Mezan, his sister Shirin stated that her brother suffers continuous deterioration in his health condition as he has lost 18 kilograms of weight.
The Israeli Prison Service (IPS)refuses to provide him medical treatment or releasing him.
She added that the IPS refuses to allow a doctor from the International Committee for Human Rights to visit him in Nafah prison as he cannot stand up alone;repeatedly faints; suffers pain in the joints, back, and kidneys; and blood in the urine.
In the same context, detainee SamerHelmi Abdel Lattef Al Barq, 36, is continuing his hunger strike for the 124 consecutive day.
He renewed his hunger strike on 14 October 2012.
Detainee EmadRajeh Mustafa Sarhan, resident of Jaffa, started hunger strike in protest against his solidarity confinement which started four years ago and his exclusion from the agreement to get out prisoners in solidarity confinement and detain them with other detainees that had been reached on 14 May 2012.
The health condition of detainee DirarMousaYousif Abu Sisi continued to deteriorate in his solidarity confinement after his kidnap by Israeli Mossad from Ukraine in 19 February 2012.
According to his family, he has lost more than 40 kilograms of weight since his detention due to the poor condition of his detention.
He lost sight in his left eye and suffers severe headache that prevents him from sleeping for long hours.
  On 17 October 2012, Israeli Beer Sheva court sentenced Ihab Ahmed Abu Al Jediyan, 35 years old, from Jabaliya refugee camp, to 30 months imprisonments.
Abu Al Jediyan went to Erez crossing to be interviewed by the Israeli Intelligence Agency in order to travel to the West Bank when the IOF arrested him.
According to Al Mezan’s field investigations, Abu Al Jediyan applied for permission to travel via Erez crossing to transfer his blind sons from Ash-Shorouq School for Blind Children in BeitJala in Bethlehem to Gaza Strip.
On 9 October 2012, an Isareli court sentenced patient AyoubAmeen Abdel GhaniAttallah, from BeitHanoun, to six years of imprisonments.
He was detained as he was on his way to Gaza Strip via Erez crossing after receing medical treatment at Slovenia.
The Al Mezan Center for Human Rights expresses its concern for the detainees’ health and lives and its solidarity with Palestinian and Arab detainees in Israeli prisons, and holds the Israeli authorities responsible for their well-being.
  Al Mezan strongly condemns Israel’s gross abuses of Palestinian detainees, starting with the Unlawful Combatant Law, the policy of administrative detention, and other procedures that violate detainees’ rights, including solitary confinement, medical negligence, barring of family visitation, and other practices.
Al Mezan asserts that the trail of Abu Al Jediyan and Attalah is another evidence for the role of Israeli judicial system in covering violations of human rights.
Al Mezan demands that the international community - especially the signatory parties to the Geneva Conventions - put pressure on the occupation state and force it to respect its obligations under international law, and to treat detainees humanely in keeping with the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners issued in 1955, and other relevant international standards.
  There must also be steps taken towards guarantee of the release of all Palestinian prisoners, especially those thrown in prison without charge or fair trial, including appeal to all means of defense.
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