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Palestinians are celebrating on Sunday the 20th anniversary of the First Intifada, the popular uprising that put the Palestinian cause back on the world agenda.
The Intifada (literally "shaking off" in Arabic) began with mass protests in Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on December 9, 1987 after an Israeli military vehicle ran over a group of Palestinian workers at Erez checkpoint.
Israeli forces killed more than 1,500 Palestinians during the uprising, and left thousands of others injured or disabled.
This year the anniversary comes during an unprecedented state of division in Palestinian society with Hamas in control of Gaza Strip, and the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority in charge of the West Bank. Efforts by other Palestinian factions to repair the divisions have failed so far.
Meanwhile, Palestinian resistance groups, especially in the Gaza Strip, are using homemade projectiles in the place of the stones which were the symbol of the First Intifada.
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Youth News Palestine-Gaza

Israeli forces seized a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, along with nine other Palestinians throughout the West Bank.
In Hebron, Israeli forces detained forty-seven-year-old Hamas lawmaker Hatim Qafisheh after storming his home in the southern part of the city.
Qafisheh's brother, Fayiz, said Israeli soldiers broke into the house only to find that Qafisheh was not there. They reportedly waited half an hour until Qafisheh returned from the hospital, where he had been accompanying his niece.
Qafisheh was detained and then released by Israel in the summer of 2006. In 1992, Israeli authorities deported him to Lebanon. He has spent a total of more than eight years in Israeli prisons.
In the city of Nablus, Israeli soldiers seized fifty-six-year-old Hamas leader Sheikh Mahir Al-Kharaz. Five other Palestinians were detained in the same raid.
Israeli forces also detained two Palestinians in the city of Qalqilia, and two others from the northern city of Jenin.

Youth News Palestine-Gaza

A group of Palestinian prisoners is saying that the violence at Israel's Ketziot prison last Monday may have been worse than originally reported.
A statement signed by prisoners from five Palestinian factions accused the Israeli Prison Administration of being responsible for injuring 300 prisoners and burning six tents at the desert prison compound.
The prisoners said attacking guards aimed their guns at prisoners' upper bodies, indicating an intent to kill or maim.
A prisoner named Mohammad Al-Ashqar was killed in the early morning raid. His body was transfered to the West Bank on Thursday.
The statement also said that 30 prisoners are now suffering from damaged eyesight as a result of bullet wounds.
The letter was signed by members of Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP).
A Palestinian prisoner who was released from Ketziot on Friday said that daily humiliation and poor physical conditions inside the facility

Youth News Palestine-Gaza

Israeli forces seized 14 Palestinians in the West Bank on Friday morning, Israeli radio said.

The Israeli army conducted raids in Nablus, Jenin, and Ramallah.

Israeli radio also reported that Palestinian teenagers threw rocks and empty bottles at an Israeli bus near Ramallah. No one was injured.

The wardens at the Negev Desert Israeli jail on Monday morning ransacked and threw gas canisters into Palestinian prisoners' tents, and severely beat them, reported the Palestinian Centre for Studies.

Director of the Palestinian Civil Liaison Hasan Ash-Shiekh on Monday night said that the Israeli authorities officially informed Palestinians of the death of detainee Muhammad Al-Ashqar at Ktziot prison in Beer Sheva.

PLC member Issa Qaraqi and undersecretary of the ministry of prisoners' affairs Ziad Abu Ein confirmed the reports. They also said that the minister of prisoners' affairs visited Muhammad Al-Ashqar twice at the Israeli Soroka Hospital after he was critically injured.

More than 250 prisoners have been reported injured.

The centre has been investigating developments in the situation since the early hours of Monday morning.

Tents

SALFIT, An Israeli military court has sentenced the Palestinian detainee, Rabi Ali Harb, 25, to two years behind bars without any consideration to his health condition as a paralyzed patient.

The family of Harb in Salfit denounced the "harsh sentence" and called for his immediate release, in view of his health condition and to allow his treatment abroad.

Harb is held in the Ramle prison hospital since his arrest. He was seriously wounded with IOF soldiers' bullets on his arrest in Ramallah that hit his abdomen, kidney and spinal cord and led to his paralysis.

The family repeatedly appealed to legal institutions to pressure the IOA to release Harb and to secure his treatment abroad but to no avail.

Palestine Youth News- Nablus

IOF troops kidnapped 31 Palestinian citizens most of them children during its military escalations against the Nablus city and its villages, shortly after the IOA decided on Sunday to release 90 Palestinian prisoners affiliated with Fatah as a goodwill gesture to PA chief Mahmoud Abbas.

Israeli political sources confirmed that the decision to release 90 Palestinian prisoners received a majority approval by the Israeli cabinet and it is subject to conditions including that the released prisoners should not have killed any Israeli and should be loyal to Fayyad's unconstitutional government.

In contrast to the Israeli goodwill gesture, Palestinian local sources reported that the IOF troops reinforced by a bulldozer and a truck to transfer detainees, kidnapped at dawn Monday nine Palestinians seven of them affiliated with PFLP from

The mother of Palestinian prisoner Ashraf Al-Baluji died on Saturday without seeing her dream of having her son released come true, the Wa'ed society for prisoners and ex-prisoners said in a statement.

The IOA was barring the mother from visiting her son for several years at security pretexts and she died without seeing Ashraf.

The mother had high hopes that her son might be released in the prisoners exchange deal with Israel in return for the freedom of IOF captive Gilad Shalit but the swap deal did not materialize so far.

Ashraf, who has been in occupation jails for almost 17 years, is serving three life sentences on charges of killing three

Gaza-Palestine Youth News

The Israeli occupation forces abducted twenty-four Palestinian citizens from different areas of the West Bank on Monday at dawn.

Israeli sources alleged that the Palestinian abductees were found to be in possession of weapons.

An Israeli military vehicle was stoned near Ramallah. The Israeli forces apprehended a Palestinian man on suspicion of throwing stones.

Hamas

In Nablus, in the northern West Bank, Israeli troops seized five members of Hamas from Balata refugee camp.

Hamas sources announced that Yaser Al-Badersawy, Wae'l Al-Hashash, Raed Al-Khateeb, Sabry Thogan and Asad Abu Ghoush were abducted by the Israeli forces.

Islamic Jihad

The Israeli forces abducted eleven members of Islamic Jihad from the northern West Bank governorate of Tulkarem and the neighbouring villages of 'Attil, 'Illar and Seida.

The seized Palestinians were male and aged 18 to 24.

During the arrest campaign the Israeli troops raided several Palestinian homes and forced the inhabitants to wait in open areas until the operation was complete.

Gaza-Palestine Youth News

Israel frustrated a deal with Hamas to exchange captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit for Palestinian prisoners 14 weeks ago, Israeli Television's Channel 2 reported on Tuesday.

The deal which was negotiated through Egyptian mediation involved exchanging Shalit for 350 Palestinian prisoners.

The TV channel added that Israel insisted that only 40 of the names on the list of Palestinian prisoners could be released, which resulted in the failure of the deal. Channel 2 reported that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office had admitted that there was such a deal but said that some of the names on the list of Palestinian prisoners had "blood on their hands."

Twenty-one-year-old Corporal Shalit was captured on the 25th of June 2006 and is currently in the custody of Hamas, the Popular Resistance Committees and the Army of Islam.

Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails will be forced to wear Guantanamo Bay style jumpsuits, according to the director of a centre for prisoners' rights.

The Director of the Al Asra Centre, Ra'fat Hamdouneh has appealed to the international community, the Red Cross and human rights organizations to open an immediate investigation into practices carried out in the Israeli jails where Palestinian prisoners are held, saying that many of the practices violate the Geneva Convention.

He said that prisoners are stripped of their clothes and are forced to wear blue nylon jumpsuits, like the orange jumpsuits worn by prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.

The Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz on Wednesday also reported this new procedure, adding that the detainees in the West Bank will be forced to wear white overalls, whereas those from the Gaza Strip will wear blue