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Israelis: Jails are 'headquarters for terror organisations" - Striking killers demand phones and computers in every cell
by Arutz 7
Israel National News- Jerusalem Post
August 15, 2004
MIM: The prisoners strike and demands for computers and group photographs might have to do with the fact that the Abu Jihad museum of prisoner affairs is moving into new premises. In addition to an archive of documents the Abu Jihad center plans to showcase the handiwork of the prisoners. One can only surmise that this could include novelty bomb belts and in the tradition of detonated Hamas leader Rantisi, a cigarette box , toothbrush,and milk carton model of the Al Aqsa mosque. The Abu Jihad museum on the Al Quds University campus could incorporate the suicide bombing exhibition in Nablus university, consisting of a full scale model of the Sbarro Pizzeria in Jerusalem after a savage attack which killed 15 people,including 5 members of the Schijveschuurder family , and wounding scores of others. http://www.gamla.org.il/english/feature/sbarro.htm
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/06/10/international1628EDT0691.DTL After the founding of Hamas, Rantisi was the first of the group's leaders to be arrested by Israel. In and out of Israeli custody several times, he spent more than seven years behind bars altogether. During one confinement, he shared a cell with Hamas' spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin and memorized the Quran -- 600 pages in most standard editions. In prison, he used empty milk, toothbrush and cigarette cartons -- though he's a nonsmoker -- to construct a model of Jerusalem's Al Aqsa Mosque, which still sits, colorfully painted, on a table in his Gaza City living room. ------------------------------------------ http://www.alquds.edu/centers_institutes/acppa/index.php MIM: The Abu Jihad Center for Political Affairs has updated their Al Quds University webpage with the following 'public service announcement:of a permanent premises within the university. No doubt the European Union will give generously to this Jihadi cultural endeavor. Note that the purpose is : "To commemorate .... the development of a Palestinian prisoner movement.. to study...their interaction with their colleagues outside jail "..(!)
--------------------------------------------------- MIM:Let's hope that the jailed Sheik Abdel Rahman, who is currently trying to eat himself to death by OD' ing on black and white M&M's to trigger his diabetes, doesn't decide to show solidarity with his hungerstriking terrorist brothers in Israel . ---------------------------------------------------------- A recent news report said that Abdel Rahman, a diabetic, was deliberately OD'ing on black and white M&M's in order to trigger his diabetes and become a martyr to his followers . Rahman was upset that he couldnt get his favorite brand of tea in jail. Maybe they can get him to switch to Kool - Aid .... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/002374.php http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,124360,00.html MIM:' Diabolical Diabetic' aka Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman Posts in response to "M&M Jihad" on the Jihad Watch website: ------------------------ "What's his address? I'll send him a case of Frosted Flakes". Bob ------------------------------- "Since that blind inmate Abdel-Rahman has a real penchant for M&M's, why doesn't the warden at the prison order up a plate of rocky-mountain oysters (from piglets), get'em candy coated and give them to him after telling him he's getting a big treat for good behaviour? He's blind so just tell him that these extra large M&M's were special ordered just for him.. After he's done wolfing them down whole, let it slip what they really were." Mahdi -------------------------------------------------- For more comments click on the 'Jihad Watch' URL -------------------------------- MIM: The real meaning of political correctness in ' The War on Terror'. Israeli security minister Tzachi Hanegbi explains that Israelis refuse to be 'better but deader'. :"The battle with the prisoners is not over humanitarian needs," Hanegbi said. "But rather the focus is their demand to continue planning attacks and killing Jews from within the jail walls." "From my perspective, the Palestinians can strike for one day, a month, or even until death." ---------------------------------------------------- Terrorists On Strike http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=67362 Meals are not being served today to hundreds of Arab terrorists imprisoned in Israel - because they have embarked on a hunger strike. The terrorists demand better humanitarian conditions, though no fewer than 70% of them are estimated to have Jewish blood on their hands in one way or another. The strike is expected to spread from the 3-4 prisons in which it began today to many others across the country. Palestinian prisoners launch open-ended hunger strike
Palestinian prisoners can strike to death but they will be force fed if necessary, Internal Security Minister Tzachi Hanegbi warned Sunday following the opening of an open-end hunger strike by some 1,400 Palestinian security prisoners in protest of jail conditions. "The battle with the prisoners is not over humanitarian needs," Hanegbi said. "But rather the focus is their demand to continue planning attacks and killing Jews from within the jail walls." The Prisons Service will not negotiate with the Palestinian security prisoners and will not give in to any of their demands, Hanegbi said Friday. To communicate to the prisoners that the hunger strike will fail to produce the results they demand, the Prisons Service has removed all electronic devices - including televisions and radios - from their cells, and have stopped the distribution of cigarettes, newspapers and sweets. The striking prisoners are also being refused visitors until further notice. Furthermore, searches of inmates' cells have produced important evidence relating to the planning and execution of the strike. Prison officials said that only 1,400 Palestinian prisoners out of the 3,800 locked up in Israeli prisons joined the strike Sunday and that the rest are scheduled to gradually join in "with the peak being [Prime Minister] Abu Ala's scheduled speech on Wednesday at which he is expected to call out in support of the prisoners." The Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades threatened Sunday to kidnap Israeli soldiers in a bid to secure the release of prisoners. "We reiterate our call for our fighters everywhere to conduct more special operations and focus on the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers," the group said in a statement faxed to AFP's offices in Gaza. The Palestinians say they are striking in protest of the Prisons Service refusal to supply them with public phones, to remove glass partitions which separate the inmates from visitors and to halt strip searches. Prison officials said that the prisoners are drinking but did not accept breakfast or lunch. Hanegbi said that the common denominator between the three requests is the prisoner's real demand – to continue directing murderous attacks against Israelis. He said that since the beginning of the year, prison officials have confiscated 850 cellular phones, which are frequently used to plan and direct the attacks. "They want us to stop doing the searches which are necessary since we find hundreds of phones hidden in their bodies," Hanegbi said. "But we have caught the phones and have prevented them from planning attacks." "There is no other country in the world that provides as much humanitarian conditions as Israel provides to these prisoners. They have everything they need, and more. They even have televisions and Al-Jazeera. But we cannot allow them to continue killing Jews from prison," Hanegbi said on Channel 1 TV Sunday. "They have a feeling that Israeli governments will fold when faced with hunger strikes. But I went to [Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon and asked him for support, and I also presented him with all the consequences of our position - including international pressure. And his answer was absolutely clear: there will be no caving in on security measures," Hanegbi added. In response to the hunger strike, prison officials took away a number of privileges from the inmates, including their televisions and visitation rights. Issa Karakeh, who leads the Palestinian Prisoners' Association, said those considered leaders among the prisoners were placed in solitary confinement. "The prisoners are not asking to be released from prison but are just asking to improve their conditions," Leah Zemil, an attorney who represents several Palestinian security prisoners said. Zemil said that the prisoners are asking for improved health care, hygiene conditions and a change in visitation rights. Hanegbi said that there is no chance that Israel will give in to the prisoner's demands and will succumb to the pressure from the hunger strike. "They can strike till death," he said. "Every time in the past when the prisoners launched a hunger strike, the government caved in but this time I went directly to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and received his support to take a strong and stiff stand against the prisoners." "We in the Palestinian Authority are obliged to stand behind these prisoners, who are only asking for an improvement in their living conditions," Abdel-Razek told Israel Radio. Nafesh Magbel, commander of the Hadarim Prison, said prisoners would be weighed every day and given infusions if necessary. "They are spoiled, just spoiled," Magbel said. "They are continuing to operate terror attacks while in prison." Meanwhile Sunday, special Prisons Service units, Nahshon and Mazada, mobilized together with other reinforcements in different security prisons, including Nafha, Eshel and Hadarim, in preparation for potential disturbances and riots. The Prisons Service maintains that the enforced policies are crucial to the security of Israel. Before glass partitions were installed in visiting halls, prison security guards caught family members smuggling parts of cellular phones to prisoners in numerous separate incidents. Cell phone components were even found in the hairpin of a young girl visiting a detained relative. The phones were later assembled in the prisons and used by inmates to manage terrorist activity from within the prisons. Numerous terror attacks have been linked back to prisoners who organized them from within their cells. Since the beginning of the intifada hundreds of illegal cellular phones were confiscated from prisoners. "The Prisons Service won't budge in conceding to these demands because the security of Israel is at risk," assistant spokesperson for the Prisons Service Sharon Gutman said. "We do not impede visits, but we insist that interactions with visitors be under regulation and supervision, as in any prison in the world," she added. Prison officials say that the strike is not in protest of poor conditions in the jails but rather, according to intelligence reports, has overtly political motives: it is an attempt by the security prisoners to reestablish their position and raise their popularity on the Palestinian street. A second reason for the strike raised by prison authorities is that the Palestinian Authority has for months withheld the $8 million it provides annually to inmate's families. Officials explained that the Prisons Service is concerned by the strike. "They may begin to pass out and it is our job to preserve the sanctity of life and protect inmates from any physical harm," one officer said. Altogether there are 3,800 security prisoners in Israeli prisons, with most of them held in the Nafha, Shikma, and Eshel prisons in the south. ------------------------------------- http://www.israelnationalnews.com/print.php3?what=news&id=67731
---------------------------------- MIM: Update : Martyrs 0- Ex Hunger Strikers 840 and counting
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