Israelis Troops Clash With Female Palestinian Protesters Demanding Release of Hunger-Striking Detainee
- Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:00am by
Billy Hallowell
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A woman rushes to another laying on the ground after she was hit by a water cannon used by Israeli troops to disperse a rally marking International Women's Day and calling for the release of a Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike for 22 days, at the Kalandia checkpoint between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, March 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
RAMALLAH, West Bank (The Blaze/AP) — Several dozen Palestinians demanding the release of a hunger-striking detainee clashed with Israeli troops Thursday, part of growing protests against the practice of holding Palestinians without formal charges.
Soldiers fired tear gas and aimed a water cannon at about 50 women marching in support of Hana Shalabi, a 30-year-old West Bank woman who has gone without food for 22 days. The stream of water knocked down one of the women, while Palestinian teens threw rocks at the soldiers from behind the women’s march.
In Gaza, about 500 women marched for Shalabi, marking International Women’s Day. Also, the Palestinian Council of Human Rights Organisations (PCHRO) put out a video against the woman’s detention:
Elsewhere in the West Bank, a Palestinian stabbed an Israeli soldier in the neck during an arrest raid in the town of Yatta, seriously wounding him, the Israeli military said. The soldier opened fire, wounding the assailant and killing another man the military described as the attacker’s accomplice.
Palestinian medics identified the dead man as Zakariya Abu Eram, in his 20s.
Here is footage from another event on Tuesday in support of Shalabi:
Shalabi was arrested Feb. 16, four months after being freed along with more than 1,000 other Palestinian prisoners in a swap for an Israeli soldier held for more than five years by the Islamic militant Hamas in Gaza.
Shalabi is being held without formal charges in what Israel calls administrative detention. Previously, she had been held for two years without formal charges, according to Palestinian human rights activists. Detention orders are usually issued for six months and are frequently renewed.
Israel has defended administrative detentions as a necessary tool to stop militant activity. It says the measure is needed to protect its network of Palestinian informers.
Rights activists say international law allows this practice only in exceptional cases. The Israeli rights group B‘Tselem says Israel’s use of administrative detention “blatantly violates these restrictions.” In January, 309 Palestinians were being held in administrative detention, 90 more than a year earlier, B’Tselem said.
Last month, another administrative detainee, Khader Adnan, ended a 66-day hunger strike after reaching a deal with the Israeli authorities to free him in April.
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Ira WIlson
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 11:27pmIt’s obvious to me that the Palestinian woman is being detained in order to protect the identity of another Palestinian that is providing intel at great risk to their own life. The Palestinian detainee should expect to remain in custody indefinitely so long as the ‘informant’ could be outed. I have absolutely no sympathy for the “Palestinian cause”, nor do I expect Israel to bend to any pressure to release this woman until the ‘informant’, and family, are safe from harm.
Try offering her peanut-butter and jelly ….pretty hard to resist.
Report Post »JohnnyMidknight
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 2:51pmBilly,
Please provide more info on this subject. The subject matter makes it look like the detentions are uncalled for (and they might)..
But there is this section:
“It (Israel) says the measure is needed to protect its network of Palestinian informers.”
Were these people about to out an informant? I am afraid that Israel’s national security would prevent a full disclosure, but there is more to the story. I am sure you have been following up on leads. Have you done any investigation on this detentions? Has Israel released info as to certain cases that help explain how this helps their informers?
I am afraid that the internet is full of disinformation on a large number of issues regarding Israel. Therefore, we have to rely on the Blaze to help filter this information and provided both sides of the issue.
Report Post »Dave In Arizona
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 2:43pmAnd the male Palestinians were where? Hiding under their beds or down in some rat hole? I‘m surprised small children weren’t used instead. Cowards!
Report Post »mr.goodvibe
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:11pmIf she don’t want to eat that is her decision, pesonal responsibility sucks. Give her a ham sandwich on the 30th day.
Report Post »elihu
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 6:58pmWasp,
Report Post »There has never been a language, a currency, a country, a nationality or anything else that was “Palestinian.“ This was a crude name given to the ”region” by the Roman soldiers to inflame the original inhabitants, the Jews (like me). They derived that name by purposely mispronouncing the name of the Israelites worst enemies, the Philistines. You’re just another anti-Semite that likes to spout off here and read the comments others make of you. In other words, you are a fool who likes attention…
SON OF JEFFERSON
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 4:22pmWasp the lies you spew only works on liberals , and the weak minded , we know if Israel was disarmed the Jews would be exterminated , where as if the arabs were disarmed we would have peace
Report Post »waspanglosaxon
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 1:54pmNaw, God gave Palestine to the Palestinians. That‘s why it’s called Palestine. I don’t know why you people constantly defend this international race of criminals. They hate your guts. (No wonder they call you all “dumb goyim”.)
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 2:30pmDuring the Turkish CALIPHATE this area was called Syria… and it was the British after WWI that began calling it Palestine.
Get a History Book!
Report Post »texanpatriot
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 1:45pmBlaze — your videos are pure propaganda, drivel! Where is your balance?
How about one explaining how we got here and what these terrorist really stand for???
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 2:35pmIn 610 a.d., Mohammed arose… creating a Religion of Conquest… of the World… as cited in the Koran… and his followers have been attempting to conquer the World, ever since!
Report Post »RoyBaty
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 1:44pmI have a conscience and I hope all the “palestinians” go back to Egypt and Jordan or where ever they came from and stop jumping around and dancing whenever a westerner is killed by one of their terrorists.
Report Post »waspanglosaxon
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 1:56pmUh, ‘where they came from’ is Palestine. If you want people to ‘go back where they came from’, you’re talking to the wrong group. At least the Palestinians have the moxie to fight these zionist invaders, unlike Americans, who sit idly by while illegal aliens flood their country.
Report Post »RoyBaty
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 2:31pmIt is well known that before world war II, there were only a few goats living in the land of Israel. Just like in South Africa, when the westerners came in and created jobs and a living standard that were not available in the surrounding countries, suddenly the “palestinians” appeared.
Report Post »palerider54
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 1:39pmIf we could just get the rest of the Palestinians to go on a hunger strike until they died of starvation, problem solved. Didn’t even have to waste one bullet.
Report Post »texanpatriot
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 1:43pmAgree. But as least they are saving money feeding terrorists in their prisons.
Report Post »waspanglosaxon
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 1:08pmI think any person with a conscience aympathizes with the Palestinian people and hopes to see them recover their stolen land that was taken from them by this race of international criminals.
Report Post »palerider54
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 1:37pmYou need to shut your pie hole until you are ready to leave America, apologizing to the Native Americans on your way out.
The land the Israelis have is theirs, given by God, reclaimed through war. Get over it.
Report Post »texanpatriot
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 1:41pmYou clearly have not read the history of this conflict. You don’t even know that the word Palestine was given to the land of the Jews by Rome. There were no people called Palestinian. The land on which the Jews now live (not all of the Biblical lands given to the Jews by God Himself) goes back to ancient times.
WASPANGLOSAXON — get your facts straight before you comment.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 1:46pm@waspanglosaxon
Report Post »I would say you are spewing what your liberal leader obama is spoon-feeding you.