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UN: The Israeli Apartheid Wall Denies Palestinian Life: 122 Gazans In Life Terms Jail
10 July 2009
RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- The UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs (OCHA) said Wednesday that the separation wall which is built by Israel in the West Bank has serious humanitarian impacts on the daily life of Palestinians. In a statement, the UN office demanded Israel to implement the decision issued five years ago by the international court of justice in The Hague which called on Israel to tear down the separation wall. It also said that Israel still ignores the decision and insists on expanding the wall, adding that 60 percent out of a total 709 kilometers of the wall was built so far. The international court of justice in The Hague had condemned in July 2004 the construction of this wall as illegal and called on Israel to remove it. PFLP: It is wrong to wager on American stands The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has reiterated its refusal to wager on the American administration's stands under Barack Obama regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict. PFLP central committee member Hussein Al-Jamal in a press statement on Wednesday pointed to the American approval of the Israeli construction of 2,500 housing units in settlements established in the West Bank, which contradicts the American "theoretic" stand regarding the settlement question. The approval indicates that the alliance between the American "imperialism" and the Israeli occupation authority was stronger than all Arab bets on the new American administration, Jamal said, asking Arab regimes and Palestinian parties to beware of falling into normalization (with Israel). Any serious change in the American stands should be based on resolutions of the international legitimacy topped by resolution 194 stipulating the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homeland, the PFLP official highlighted. 122 Gazans serve life terms in jail amidst deliberate medical neglect The PA ministry of prisoners and ex-prisoners' affairs has disclosed on Tuesday that 122 Palestinian citizens from Gaza Strip were serving life terms in Israeli jails in harsh conditions amidst deliberate medical neglect. In a press release he issued and a copy of which was obtained by the PIC, Riyadh Al-Ashkar, the ministry's information officer, explained that at least one of those detainees, Saleem Ali Al-Kayyal, had been in jail for more than 25 years, 16 captives had, so far, served between 20-25 years, 75 of them served more than 15 years but less than 20 years, four served between 10-15 years in jail, and 20 detainees served between 5-10 years, and six of them had been in jail for about five years. He added that 53 of the detainees were affiliated with Fatah faction, 50 from Hamas Movement, 12 were from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and seven from the Islamic Jihad. According to Ashkar, 37 of the detainees hail from Gaza city and the surrounding suburbs, 26 of them hail from northern Gaza Strip cities, 24 from the central Gaza governorate, 25 from Khan Younis city and the south eastern part of the Strip, and ten were from Rafah district. Ashkar also highlighted that at least 30 of the detainees suffer different kinds of serious and mild diseases, including two detainees identified as Raed Mohammed Daraybeh, and Emad Al-Dein Ata Zurab who suffer from cancer. According to Ashkar, Daraybeh endured a rare kind of back cancer that seriously affected his health condition and caused muscle waste despite the surgical operations carried out on him in Israeli hospitals due to the deliberate delay in treating him on the part of the Israeli prisons authority (IPA). "Doctors of Daraybeh recommended an urgent surgery for him in the spinal cord; but the IPA were wittingly ignoring the doctors' recommendation, thus putting his life at extreme risk", Ashkar pointed out. He also revealed that Palestinian prisoner Awedha Mohammed Kullab, who had been in jail since 1988, was suffering from serious psychological disease that made him unable to recognize his own family and to reject their visitation. The ministry stressed the need to pay more attention to the issue of the prisoners, and not to deal with it as an issue of numbers only, adding that each and every Palestinian prisoner in the Israeli jails has in his mind tens of stories of pain and suffering throughout the years he served in jail, in addition to the suffering and agony of their families that is no less than the suffering of the prisoners themselves.
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