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Autopsy shows Palestinian prisoner died of torture in Israeli jail

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February 25, 2013

 

English.news.cn   2013-02-25 03:26:50

RAMALLAH, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) — Palestinian Minister of Prisoners Affairs Eissa Qaraqe’ said on Sunday that autopsy revealed that Palestinian prisoner Arafat Jaradat died of torture.

“Traces of severe torture appeared on Jaradat’s body: neck, face and backbone,” Qaraqe’ told reporters in a news conference held in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Jaradat, 30, died in an Israeli prison on Saturday after he was detained in one of the almost-daily Israeli army raids in the West Bank since less than a week.

Initial Israeli media reports cited sources suggesting that Jaradat died of a heart attack. Qaraeq’ denied this claims, describing it ad “untrue Israeli claim.”

“There was no signs of a heart attack or stroke,” Qaraqe’ said.

 

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Jaradat Was Tortured To Death in Israeli Prison, Autopsy Concludes

Autopsy confirms Jaradat died from torture in Israeli prison.

Autopsy confirms Jaradat died from torture in Israeli prison.

Saed Bannoura (IMEC) Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, reported on Sunday evening that the autopsy report of detainee Arafat Jardat, who died Saturday at an Israeli interrogation facility, revealed that the detainee died due to extreme torture.

In a joint press conference, held in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, with the head of the Palestinians Prisoners Society (PPS), Qaddoura Fares, Qaraqe’ said that the autopsy was conducted at the Abu Kabeer Forensic Facility.

The body of Jaradat carried clear signs of torture such as bruises, blisters and under skin blood clots in the back, especially over his spinal cord, on the neck and on his left shoulder, in addition to signs of torture on the left side of his chest, bruised mouth and face.

 

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Jaradat Lawyer: “Prior To His Death, Detainee Complained Of Pain Due To Ongoing Interrogation”

Arafat Jaradat, died in Israeli jail after complaining about sharp pain.

Arafat Jaradat, died in Israeli jail after complaining about sharp pain.

Saed Bannoura (IMEMC) Attorney Kamil Sabbagh, who represented detainee Arafat Jaradat, who died Saturday at an Israeli interrogation facility, stated that Jaradat complained to him of sharp pain due to ongoing and extensive interrogation.

The lawyer said that he represented Jaradat during a court session that was held Thursday February 21.

The court session was the first time the detainee was able to see a lawyer since the army kidnapped him more than 12 days ago. The hearing was held at the Al-Jalama detention and interrogation center.

Sabbagh said that Jaradat complained of sharp pain in the back, and several other parts of his body. Jaradat told his lawyer that he was interrogated for several hours, every day, and repeatedly complained of sharp pain but was never seen by a physician.

The lawyer said that, during the court hearing, he told the military judge about the complaints made by Jaradat, and that the judge instructed the prison administration to grant him the needed medical attention, but the request was apparently ignored.

 

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RAMALLAH: On Saturday evening Israeli settlers marched in the South Hebron Hills in the occupied West Bank, reported Ma’an News Agency

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December 10, 2012

Israeli settlers march in West Bank

Israeli settlers attack a Palestinian woman.

At the conclusion of the march, which crossed by the Bet Haggai settlement, the settlers staged a rally.

Palestinian movement in the area was restricted until the demonstration concluded, and at least one nearby checkpoint was temporarily closed.

Settlers regularly march in Palestinian areas, often provoking locals by waving Israeli flags and chanting offensive slurs.

In Hebron, the largest city in the West Bank, settlers march through the Arab market each Saturday at the end of the Jewish day of rest, often attacking shopkeepers and employing hate speech. They are generally accompanied by Israeli soldiers for protection, despite that Israeli law forbids them from entering Area A of the West Bank, supposed to be under full Palestinian legal authority.

 

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“a flagrant violation of the principles of international law and of Israel’s obligations as the occupying power.”, say Five foreign ministers barred from entering the West Bank

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August 7, 2012

Israel bars five foreign ministers from entering West Bank in ‘flagrant violation’ of international law

By Madison Ruppert

Editor of End the Lie

Five foreign ministers of nations belonging to the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) harshly criticized Israel for refusing to allow them to enter the city of Ramallah in the West Bank for a meeting, with one calling the move “a flagrant violation of the principles of international law and of Israel’s obligations as the occupying power.”

Mohammed Kamel Amr, the Egyptian Foreign Minister, stated during a press conference on August 5, 2012 in Amman, Jordan that the NAM Ministerial Committee on Palestine condemned the “blatant action by Israel.”

This type of unabashed flouting of international law on the part of Israel is nothing new by any means, but this comes at especially tense times, as the New York Times notes in reporting, “The cancellation of the Ramallah conference came as an Israeli airstrike killed a Palestinian militant and seriously wounded another in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah.”

The attack killed 22-year-old Eid Oukal and wounded Ahmed Sai’d Isma’i, both allegedly members of the Popular Resistance Committees in Palestine.

However, the timing is not only noteworthy because of the recent violence. Indeed, there is perhaps a much more significant reason for Israel to refuse entry to the NAM ministers.

The ministers were scheduled to sign a declaration explicitly supporting a renewed push for Palestine to be officially upgraded to non-member state, a move which Israel obviously does not endorse.

The foreign ministers of Algeria, Bangladesh, Cuba, Indonesia and Malaysia were all denied entry but it does not appear to have weakened the resolve of the NAM ministers on the Palestine Committee in any way.

In fact, Amr stated that the Israeli action “only strengthens NAM’s resolve to assist the Palestinian people in their legitimate quest for dignity and their inalienable right to statehood.”

The document which was going to be signed by the foreign ministers of the 13 nations on the NAM Palestine Committee, dubbed the “Ramallah Declaration,” also condemns settlements and supports a Palestinian state.

According to the Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki, the statement is “a political declaration that endorses and supports the Palestinian people’s right to have a state, condemns settlements, and supports the Palestinian bid to obtain non-member status at the UN,” as reported by Press TV.

Maliki even went as far as to call the Israeli move a “war crime,” according to the Jerusalem Post.

It appears that the efforts of Palestine within the United Nations have been scaled back slightly, evidenced by the fact that they are no longer attempting to gain full member status in the international body.

The new request, according to Press TV, will be submitted to the UN General Assembly on September 27, 2012, precisely one year after Mahmoud Abbas, President Palestinian Authority, originally attempted to obtain the status of a full member state.

However, this account is contradicted by the New York Times which is reporting that Abbas stated that he would not seek a General Assembly vote on the issue until some point in late November.

The previous request died in committee, but unlike the Security Council which has the strongly pro-Israel United States holding veto power, the General Assembly is likely to support the Palestinian effort.

The status they are now seeking is, in my opinion, much more realistic since they are only seeking the same status enjoyed by the Vatican, thus giving them access to the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Yet this might be a bit more controversial than one would think since, as the New York Times rightly noted, the Palestinians could “pursue legal cases against Israeli settlers and officials for actions in the West Bank.”

It will be interesting to see if the rabidly anti-Palestinian states in the United Nations will be willing to even allow the Palestinian people to have the lowly status they are seeking or if they will continue to refuse to give them any and all recognition across the board.

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Lebanese television released a video apparently showing a Palestinian prisoner in Israel confessing that he was recruited by Israeli security forces to poison Arafat.

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July 10, 2012

‘Israel sent me to poison Arafat’s food,’ Palestinian prisoner says

Daniel Siryoti and Reuters
Israel Hayom
Yasser Arafat
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A Palestinian prisoner says Israel sent him to poison the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in his Ramallah compound in 2004.

Video released by Lebanese media apparently shows Palestinian prisoner in Ketziot prison saying he was recruited by Israeli security forces to infiltrate Yasser Arafat’s compound in 2004 and put poison in his food – Israeli expert denies allegations that Arafat died from polonium poisoning.

Recent speculation that the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned to death continued over the weekend when Lebanese television released a video apparently showing a Palestinian prisoner in Israel confessing that he was recruited by Israeli security forces to poison Arafat.

In the video released Friday, which appears to have been filmed in 2006, a Palestinian prisoner in the Ketziot prison is seen “interrogating” another Palestinian inmate who confesses that he was sent by Israel to kill the late Palestinian leader.

The prisoner claims in the video that, together with a group of Palestinian collaborators, he poisoned Arafat by putting toxic substances in his food while the Palestinian leader was barricaded in his Ramallah compound in 2004.

According to the video, the prisoner was apparently recruited by Israeli security forces in 2002. After a series of training sessions at an Israel Defense Forces base, he said he and the other Palestinians were instructed to infiltrate the Mukataa, Arafat’s compound, where with the help of collaborators who were in charge of securing the building, they managed to convince one of the cooks to insert poison into the rice and soup served to Arafat.

The prisoner said the Israeli security forces paid him and the others a generous amount for poisoning Arafat, but also made clear that if they did not perform the task, they would be killed.

Meanwhile, during a press conference in Paris on Friday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Ramallah would not object to having Arafat’s body dug up from his grave to see if he was poisoned, if Arafat’s family submitted an official request for it.

Abbas noted, however, that the Palestinian Authority had not yet received any formal request to open Arafat’s grave.

The Palestinian Authority president said the Palestinians would launch an investigation into the circumstances of Arafat’s death after a Swiss lab said last week it had found elevated levels of a lethal radioactive isotope on Arafat’s belongings.

Abbas said he even raised the issue with French President Francois Hollande, as Arafat died at the Percy Military Hospital near Paris in 2004.

An Israeli counter-terrorism expert on Thursday discarded the recent allegations that Arafat died by poisoning and claimed that traces of polonium-210 found on the his personal belongings were planted long after Arafat’s death.

In an interview with The Jerusalem Post, Dr. Eli Karmon of the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center’s Institute for Counter-Terrorism said that recent allegations that Arafat was poisoned with highly radioactive polonium are not based on facts.

According to a recent report on the Qatari based news network Al-Jazeera, abnormally high levels of polonium were found on organic remains on the deceased Arab leader’s personal belongings.

The polonium traces were analyzed by Swiss specialists after Arafat’s widow, Suha, agreed to provide Al-Jazeera with a few personal items that belonged to the former Palestinian president.

However, Karmon said that it was impossible that after eight years there were still high levels of polonium, if Arafat had indeed been poisoned with the substance.

“If it had been used for poisoning, minimal levels should be seen now. Yet much higher levels were found. We suspect that someone had planted the high level of polonium-210 recently into the clothes of Arafat,” said Karmon in an exclusive interview with CCTV on Saturday.

Karmon also added that if it were true that Arafat’s belonging had traces of polonium, the places where those items were kept would also retain traces of the radioactive substance.

“Did Al-Jazeera check the home of Suha Arafat in Paris and Malta where she kept the items for traces of polonium?” asked Karmon, since Al-Jazeera’s report did not include those analysis.

“If Suha Arafat safeguarded these contaminated materials, why, after seven years, was she not poisoned too? She touched these things and Arafat in the hospital,” he added.

“The Palestinian side has also made investigation since Arafat died in 2004, finding that people around Arafat, including those who had dined with him, have no signs of intoxication,” he said.

Since the TV network released the report, the mystery and speculations surrounding Arafat’s death were revived once again, after suspicions of poisoning during Arafat’s illness and subsequent death led the Palestinian National Authority to point a finger to Israel.

“We know that the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) would issue a nuclear smuggling report saying that the nuclear smuggling activities were quite rampant recently. So the ordinary people can get the radioactive elements from the black market of nuclear smuggling,” said Karmon.

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