Protest

De repressie van dissidente groepen in Israel wordt steeds harder. Hieronder een aantal artikelen van Electronic Intifada, en een verslag van de arrestatie van Muhaned Abu Awad van zijn zus, doorgegeven door Nurit Peled van Israeli-Palestinian Bereaved Parents for Peace.

Israel steps up arrests of grassroots activists, Press release, Adalah-NY, CodePink: Women for Peace, Jewish Voice for Peace and the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, 20 January 2010

While prominent protest and boycott organizers from the Palestinian organization Stop the Wall Jamal Juma' and Mohammad Othman were released last week after nearly one

and four months of detention respectively, nightly arrests continue in the West Bank, with eight more arrests on 18  January in the West Bank village of Nilin.

Israel jails Palestinian peace activists, By Mel Frykberg, The Electronic Intifada, 19 January 2010

RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - Israel has long argued that Palestinians should pursue their political objectives in a nonviolent way. However, several prominent Palestinian peace activists have recently been arrested and jailed for doing just that. Abdallah Abu Rahmah, 39, the coordinator of the Bilin Popular Committee, which has challenged Israel's illegal expropriation of Palestinian land both in an Israeli court and a Canadian one, has been charged with "illegal arms possession, stone throwing and incitement."

Israel threatening, arresting and deporting to crush dissent, By Mel Frykberg, The Electronic Intifada, 21 January 2010

AMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - Israel is lashing out at international criticism and attempting to crush local dissent in what appears to be growing sensitivity to

reproach of its policies. Several recent incidents have dominated media headlines, including the arrest of a Jewish-American journalist on the grounds of security,

threats by an Israeli minister against international diplomats and the arrest of Israeli and Palestinian peace activists.

Muhaned Abu Awad

Muhaned Abu Awad, 20, son of Khaled Abu Awad - the general manager of Israeli-Palestinian Bereaved Parents for Peace - and a peace activist himself, was brutally arrested Friday night, as part of Israeli policy to arrest Palestinian Fatah members and young peace activists so there will be no one to talk to, ever. Muhaned's uncle was killed by an Israeli soldier in a checkpoint because he left his car to stop an argument between soldiers and children. Another uncle was murdered at 13 years of age when he crossed the street, no one was ever charged for this murder. Muhaned's brother was gravely wounded by Israeli soldiers who patrolled the village against orders on the day Arafat died.  Both brothers, like their father and uncle Ali (star of the film Encounter Point) are constantly active in Israeli-Palestinian dialogue groups and non-violent resistence. Below is the testimony of his sister regarding the arrest.

"The soldiers came at 3:00 AM and they started to throw bombs on the door of our home, to scream and to say bad words to us but we didn't realize that they were talking with us and then we realized that they were talking to us after they said open the door or we will blow up the house while you are inside and the car. We opened the door and we saw a lot of soldiers surrounded the house and with weapons pointed at us. They said put your hands on your heads and they asked about our names then they asked Mohannad to go to them and to stop away from them and to bring down his pants and to raise up his blouse, then they told him to roll back on them. Then two soldiers became violent and took him and tied his hands and put something on his eyes, they did the same to Shadi and Moayyad. Then I told them there are small kids inside the home I need to be with them, they told me you go inside and bring all the ID cards and wake the kids from their sleep. I went inside and my mother wanted to come too but they didn't allow her to come with me. I went and then they told my mum and my sister and my aunt to go inside the home and I went out to give them the ID cards then they told me go back to them and tell them in one minute they need to leave the home or we will blow it up. I told them but the kids are sleeping, they screamed and said you have one minute to leave the home and we took the kids while they were sleeping and we went out. Then they told us to go to the neighbours' house and lock the door. They went inside our home and turned everything upside down with their dog. After 30 minutes my brother Shadi came to us and asked they send Mohannad here, we told him no and then we went out of the home and we didn't find him. They took him with them without telling us.

I want him back."

Prof. Nurit Peled-Elhanan

Bron: diverse