Israeli occupation authorities arrested 417 Palestinians from the occupied territories in November including 66 minors and 6 women.

Detainees' institutions and human rights organizations the Commission of Detainees and Ex-detainees' Affairs, the Palestinian Society Prisoner's Club, Al Dameer Association for Human Rights) pointed out that occupation authorities arrested 137 citizens from Jerusalem, 42 from Ramallah, 70 from Hebron, 22 from Jenin, 43 from Bethlehem, 12 from Nablus, 15 from Tulkarem, 7 from Qalqilia, 5 from Tubas, 2 from Salfit, 8 from Jericho and 11 from Gaza Strip.

5000 detainees are currently imprisoned in Israeli jails including 38 women, 200 minors and 450 administrative detainees, while 90 new administrative detention orders have been issued.

 

The martyrdom of detainee Sami Abu Dyak

The detainee Abu Dyak was assassinated in November 26, 2019 by the Israeli occupation forces, which used the policy of deliberate medical negligence that is classified as systematic torture tools.

He was not suffering from any disease before detention, but in September 2015 he was transferred to Soroka Hospital, where he had severe pain in his intestines. He was diagnosed of intestinal obstruction due to cancerous tumor.

He underwent a surgery in 6/9/2015 to treat the intestinal obstruction and then he got moved prison again. His health condition deteriorated after few days and then he was transferred to Assaf HaRofeh Hospital, and he was diagnosed with poisoning due to the lack of cleanliness of the prison. Then, he underwent many surgeries but to no avail due to the renal failure.

  Sami Abu Dyak, 38 years old, is from Seilet Al-Daher village near Jenin. He has been arrested in 17/7/2002 and sentenced to 3 life terms in addition to 30 years. He has a brother who is also detained and sentenced to a life term.

However, lawyers of the commission submitted another request to early-release Abu Dyak in 4/8/2019, but the Israeli authorities refused and did not care about his serious condition and kept him held in Al-Ramlah prison clinic.

His last letter from prison: "I appeal every conscientious to work for releasing me from the Israeli jails. I call on you to let me spend my last hours and days with my mother and family, I don’t want to die handcuffed in a mean cell by a jailor who prefers death to us".

The number of Captive movement martyrs since 1967 became 222 with the martyrdom of the detainee Sami Abu Dyak, including 67 detainees who were killed by medical negligence, 5 of them killed in 2019: Fares Baroud, Omar Younes, Nassar Taqatqa, Bassam Sayeh and Sami Abu Dyak.

 Detainees' institutions state that the occupation authorities hold full responsibility on killing Abu Dyak by systematic torture methods such as: depriving detainees from medical treatment and late diagnosis of the disease. There are tens of detainees who have been waiting for years to have surgeries, and some of them reached to stage in which treatment is difficult to be attained.

The battle of administrative detention is continuous

3 detainees continued their open hunger strike in November protesting against the policy of administrative detention, which is practiced by the Israeli authorities against 450 Palestinian detainees.

The detainee Ahmad Zahran is on hunger strike since 77 days, the detainee Mus'ab Hindi started his strike since 75 days and the detainee Ismail Ali who entered a strike for 112 days and ended it after having an agreement to determine the period of his detention of six months.

Zahran and Hindi are suffering from bad health conditions, where Zahran suffers from dizziness, continues headache and severe pain in all joints. He is not able to stand up or move, and he has pain in the eyes and weak vision, and he lost 27 kegs of his weight.

Hindi suffers from dizziness, continues headache, weak vision, shortness of breath, joints pain and he lost 25 kegs of his weight.

Detainees' institutions warns of the bad health conditions of Zahran and Hindi, and call on the international community and the member states that signed the Fourth Geneva Convention to practice pressure on the occupation authorities to stop violations against detainees and end the policy of administrative detention.

No exceptions in detention… tens of aged detainees in Israeli jails

Israeli occupation authorities intend to arrest old men, where they are subjected to many forms of torture, which starts from the first moment of arrest. Prisons administration isolated many of them in solitary confinement, deprived them of family visits and practiced medical negligence against them.

Occupation authorities did not exclude old women of detention and humiliation, where tens of old women have been arrested and some of them were sentenced to house arrest.

Detainees' institutions pointed out that the Israeli authorities hold tens of Palestinian elders above 60 years in harsh conditions.

A case in point is the detainee Fuad Shobaki, the eldest detainee, 81 years, and he needs a special medical care where he suffers from many chronic diseases including cancer. He is detained since 2006 and sentenced to 17 years of imprisonment.

Another case in point is the detainees Kareem Younis, 64 years old who is detained since 1983, and the detainee Youssef Abu Alkhair 73 years old, Nael Barghouthi 62 years old and Badran Jaber 74 years old.