Israeli forces raid Palestinian MP house

Wed Dec 15, 2010

Israeli military forces have broken into the house of Palestinian lawmaker Samira al-Halaika and questioned her along with her son during a raid in the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron).

The Hamas politician said that four Israeli army vehicles stopped in front of her home in the Shuyukh district of the city at noon on Tuesday and questioned all those inside, including her son Osama, the Palestinian Information Center reported.

Last month, Israeli army soldiers stormed Halaika's house, locked up all her family members in one room and took away her eldest son, Anas, in a pre-dawn raid.

Halaika said she would hold Israel responsible for any repercussions that might befall her son.

More than 11,500 Palestinians are currently held in Israeli prisons under harsh conditions, according to Palestinian sources. A total of 270 of the detainees are under the age of 18 years and 33 of the prisoners are women.

According to Palestinian data, the prisoners are subjected to various kinds of mistreatment and torture in Israeli detention facilities and are often deprived of visits by their family .

The Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners states that almost half of the 315 prisoners arrested before the Oslo Agreement have been in Israeli jails for more than 20 years.

There are more than 1,500 illness cases among prisoners in Israeli jails including heart problems, kidney failures, and cancer. Israeli authorities deprive these ailing prisoners of adequate medical care and often medication is limited to painkillers alone.

There also prisoners kept in solitary confinement, which leads to psychological problems. The data indicates that about 14 prisoners have been subjected to isolated confinement for more than five years.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/155578.html.