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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

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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

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Youth News Palestine-Gaza

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

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

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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.

Later on Monday Palestinian Legislati

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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.

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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 Pale

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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 Israelis in 1990.

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Gaza-Palestine Youth News

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

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 Sei

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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 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 l

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 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 Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz on Wednesday also reported this new

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