الرئيسية

World Federation Of democratic Youth (WFDY) strongly condemns the attack and arresting of comrade Nehad Zoher member of executive committee of Democratic Youth Union of Jordan from his Arab college building by the Jordanian Intelligence force on 26/02/2007.

WFDY express its serious concern about the situation of left progressive movement in Jordan, which under the aggression and suppression launched y the Intelligence forces.

WFDY call upon all its members and friendly organsation to denounce the act of Jordanian intelligence and appeal to release immediately of comrade Nehad Zoher from prison.

Please send yours condemnation message to primer minister of Jordan in this fax number and Email address.

The number of Palestinian martyr children since 2006 and until May 29, is 28 children, and during the incursion of Gaza between June 26 and September 26, the day when this report was written, 33 children were killed in Gaza and 98 were injured during the Summer Rain Operation, which means that the number of martyr children is 59 children in seven months, and 848 children since September 2000.

On Tuesday evening, September 25, 2006 the Zionist terrorists killed a Palestinian child and injured his father and sister, after they opened fire on the citizens of the Qarara Town to the East of Khan Younis in the Southern part of Gaza District. Special Zionist forces (disguised as Arabs) invaded at around 11 pm to the area of Abu Al Dhaher to the East of Al Qarara Town in the Northern Part of Khan Younis which is 400 meters away from the border line between the Gaza District and the Zionists. The forces opened fire at the citizens killing the child and injuring two of his family members. Medical sources in Naser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the Southern part of Gaza District, revealed that the child Basheer Abdallah Awad Abu Daher (12 years) was dead when he arrived to the hospital, he was shot several times in the back. The sources added that the child’s father Abdallah Abu Daher (35 years old) was hit in the right shoulder, and his daughter (8 years) was also hit in her hand and both their injuries were from the medium level.

The occupation forces arrested more the 40 thousand Palestinians, 9400 detainees stayed in the occupation’s prisons, 555 of which were arrested before the Aqsa Uprising, and they are still detained and distributed between more than 30 prisons and confinements, 1200 of these detainees suffer from chronic diseases.

Since the beginning of the uprising in 2000 and until this date more than 4000 people were arrested, given the fact that they were arrested in a collective manner especially school children, as for the confinement conditions, children suffer from very harsh confinement and inhuman conditions that lack the minimum international standards of children and detainees’ rights. Detained children suffer from lack of food and its bad quality, lack of hygiene, insects, over crowdedness, lack of appropriate ventilation and light, medical negligence and lack of medical care, lack of clothes, lack of toys and entertainment means, isolation from the external world, lack of consultants and social specialists, confinement with adults, confinement Israeli criminal children, verbal abuse, isolation, sexual abuse, collective punishment, in addition to the spreading of disease. Furthermore, children are denied the right of education.

The administration of the prisons of the Zionist enemy often violates detainees’ rights through refraining from providing their needs, claiming that they can not answer to the needs of the large numbers of detainees. It also denies children their rights by forbidding their families from visiting them and by forbidding them from bringing in the appropriate medication and food inside prisons. The enemy also tries to evade providing the

prisoners’ needs and imposes financial fines on them by deducting them from the canteen money as a punishment, these fines imposed on children add up to 200-500 NIS.

Courts do not deal with children according to the law, but on the basis of military orders. These military orders are continuously developed to serve the interest of the occupation. There are more than 3 thousand military orders that have been amended thousands of times to suit the occupation procedures; other specific military orders have been amended more than 20 times to serve the interest of the occupation, and the military court works according to these orders.

As for juvenile confinements, sources revealed that children up to 16 years old are detained in Binjamin, Atssyion, Adumim and Howara and then they are transferred to Talmud. They also showed that children between 16 – 17 years old are dealt with as adults, they have no privacy and they imprisoned with other adults in various prisons.

As for the confinement of children born in the occupation’s prison, sources asserted that occupation forces take advantage of these issues to blackmail the female prisoners. Also, while new born children need special nutrition and care, they are subjected instead to numerous complications especially that gas is used inside prisons and women are beaten up and this could affect children.

Three children were born in prisons under very difficult conditions, the last of them was Bara’ who is the youngest Palestinian prisoner, he was born on April 30, 2006 in the Israeli women’s prisons for a confined mother, Samar Sbeih, who delivered him in very hard conditions while she was handcuffed, and for a Palestinian father, Rasmi Sbeih, who is also a prisoner.

The number of women prisoners is 120, 64 of those have been sentenced, while 50 of them are detained and the remaining six are administrative detainees with no charges.

As for school and university student detainees, there are 1594 students in Israeli prisons, 400 of those are children as they are less than 18 years old. The total number of detainees from people working in the educational field is 205 teacher and employee.

12 schools and universities were closed by military orders, teaching has been stopped as a result of the Israeli incursions in 1125 schools and institutions of higher education. 43 schools have been turned to military barracks. The number of Palestinian students and teachers who were killed by Israeli bullets is 845 students from schools and colleges, while the number of students, employees and teachers injured by Israeli bullets was 4780.

4% from the detained children are detained without specific charges (administrative detainment)

56% of children are confined in prisons inside the prisons of the Zionist entity

425 children are still arrested in confinement and investigation centers, 11 of these children are females. Also 450 prisoners were children when they were arrested and are now 18 years or older but they are still imprisoned.

As for the nature of sentences the court issues against these children, it has been noted that the sentences are related to the charges, and that four of these children have been sentenced to life, which contradicts with all national and international laws.

More than 95% of the children in the occupation’s prisons were arrested since the beginning of the incursions in 2002, at the same time some children were arrested during the beginning of incursions in Gaza but nobody was able to reach them because of the blockade and incursion in Gaza.

As for the diseases among arrested children, they most occur because of injuries that happened before arresting the children or because of torture; the medication provided in prison is only meant to keep the prisoners lives and does not represent any kind of medical care or medication. Furthermore the conditions detainees have been living under since the beginning of the Intifada until today have been deteriorating to the worst.

There are no consistent statistics that specify the number of martyrs in

Iraq

, estimations show that the number ranges between 120000 and 200000 since 2003.

Around 1294 civilians were killed in May 2006 (58 women and 17 children), 2687 were injured (178 women and 41 children). In June 2006, 1554 civilians were killed (176 women, 58 children), most of these injuries took place in Baghdad. Furthermore, 1375 anonymous bodies were found in May 2006, and 1595 bodies in June 2006. If we add the numbers presented by the Ministry of Health and the Judicial Medicine Institute in Iraq the total number of civilians killed reach up to 2669 during the month of May, and 3149 during the month of June 2006. According to the reports of the Ministry of Health, the number of civilians killed reaches up to 6826, while the number of injured people reaches up to 13256 in the period between January and June 2006. If we ad the numbers of the Judicial Medicine Institute in Baghdad, the total number of civilians killed in the period between January and June 2006 in Iraq is around 14338.

Also the rate of death danger increased to 58 doubles in comparison to what it used to be in 2003 because of killings, massacres, assassinations, bombings, explosions and attacks in addition to other methods of intentional killing practiced by members of the American forces and the allied Iraq army.

Half of the Iraqi population is children under 18 years old, 270000 of them were born after 2003, and those did not receive the appropriate medical care or vaccinations that would protect them from diseases until this moment.

The daily death average of children is 200, this is caused by lack of medical health and terrors of war

According to the studies of International organizations in Iraq,

Iraq

will soon become a transit for transporting Heroin.

Trafficking is another danger threatening the children of

Iraq

, sources referred to that under the lack of security and stability which the Iraqi people live under, hundreds of Iraqi families found in children’s trafficking a source of income, while other families opted for forbidding their children from going to school as they fear trafficking gangs.

Children work to secure a source of income for their families and themselves. Studies show that 86% of children between 12 and 14 work all day, while 60% of them work all year, and 10% of these children are uneducated. Studies show that the percentage of school drop outs have increased among students whose ages are less than 15 years old – 25% of students who are less than 15 years old live in rural areas and are classified as living in acute poverty. The main reason for dropping out of school is the families’ inability to pay tuition and expenses and because schools are located in faraway areas, which might endanger their lives.

The total number of displaced people inside

Iraq

is around 1.3 Million people, or around 5% of the total number of citizens.

Numbers of Iraqi displaced people has increased during the past 10 days to around 20 Thousand people, and in a statement for the Ministry of Refugees and Displaced People, the total number of displaced people was around 182154 people since February 2006. Furthermore, around 27744 people fled away from Baghdad in the past five months, and it is most probable that these statistics do not state the worst, as it only includes registered displaced people, and it does not take into consideration for instance the people who fled Iraq.

Attacks targeting teachers, university professors and students resulted in the death of many people and increased the number of intellectuals and academics who left the country. Reports show that 250 Iraqi scientists and intellectuals were killed by the American occupation forces (Attached is a list of the names we got, their scientific degree and places of their work).

A lot of under age people were witnesses of massacres, dismembered corpses and mutilated bodies. On June 21, 2006 for instance the principle of Abdallah Bin Kulthoum School in Basrah was killed infront of his students.

The total number of detainees reached 25707 on the June 30 2006 – 12616 of them are confined at the multi national forces, while the Ministry of Justice is confining 4346 detainees and the Ministry of Defense is confining 730 people. According to the numbers presented by the Ministry of Human Rights which follows the Government of Kurdistan 2147 people have been arrested from Kurdistan.

Iraqi Police forces usually treat juveniles in the same harsh manner they treat adults with, as they are usually confined for long periods of time in police confinements without being referred to a social specialist or a lawyer, and without even being allowed to see any of their family members. For example 20 students were arrested in a police confinement in Basrah for eight months; these students are all 18 years old.

Sources revealed terrible confinement conditions, torture and maltreatment incidents in the Police station in Dyali, where 1480 people are being confined without a judicial order, we also have to note that the same confinement is detaining women and juveniles.

Two reports issued by the US Department of Defense on June 16 revealed violations for detainees rights during the questioning process in the facilities of the multi national forces. One of the reports mentioned in details some of the incidents in which the US Forces’ Special Operations Mission was involved in, between 2003 and 2004. These incidents involve giving Iraqi detainees bread and water only for lunch for 17 days. Investigations were ended and charges were not pressed against any of the military members and they have not been punished. On June 19 two charges of intentional murder and hurdling justice were pressed against three American soldiers suspected of killing three detainees when they attempted to run from prison and after they threatened the soldiers with death if they reported the incident. On June 30, the American Military forces announced opening a judicial investigation regarding the responsibility of one of its soldiers, serving in the multi national forces, in raping a 13 year old girl in March 2006, and killing her afterwards with one of her family members in the area of Qasr Abyad near AL Mahmoudya. The result of this investigation can easily be predicted if we take a look at the results of previous investigations in crimes committed by occupation forces, as was the case when three British soldiers were released on June 6 after being charged with killing a 15 year old boy as he drowned after being forced to dive into one of the water streams.

1300 Martyrs, 500 casualties, 2 million displaced and homeless people, 1314 villages and cities have been isolated and destroyed. Thousands of returnees are still suffering from poverty and have no refuge except their persistence even if they had to sleep on the ground over the rubble of their houses and their burnt land. There is no exact number of missing people till now.

800 civilians were killed including women and children, thousands were killed on the hands of Israeli forces, most of these injuries resulted from cannon and air raids, which regularly targeted civilian targets such as roads, bridges civilian buildings, electricity and communication transmission centers and fuel storage in Lebanon.

The Israeli air forces conducted more than 7000 raid over more than 7000 Lebanese targets between 12 July and 14 August, while the Israeli Navy conducted 2500 additional bombing operation.

Despite the wide range of these attacks, they focused on special areas. In addition to the loss in human lives which add up to 1183 people one third of which were children and 40542 casualties and 970000 people were displaced.

The Lebanese infrastructure was drastically damaged. The estimations of the Lebanese government show that 31 vital points (such as airports, ports water treatment plants, sewage and electric facilities) were totally or partially destroyed, just like 80 bridges and 94 roads.

More than 25 fuel stations and nine hundred trade institutions were bombed, and the number of housing estates, offices and shops that were totally destroyed is around 630000

Two public hospitals in Bint Jbeil and Mays il Jabal were totally destroyed because of the Israeli attacks, and three other hospitals were also badly damaged.

On 6:00 am on30 July, a phone call to the Red Cross Center in Sour revealed that there were many injured people in Qana after an Israeli raid over a building. An ambulance went immediately to the location but couldn’t get there soon enough because of other subsequent Israeli raids; they were finally able to reach Qana through bypass roads. Pediatrics arrived to the location of the massacre, there were children and women covered with dust, their blue bodies indicating that they had suffocated. Apparent bodies were pulled out first then bodies under rubble. One unforgettable image was of a year and a half child hiding under his mother who tried to protect him, but both of them ended up dead. Qana was full of corpses, the smell of death and innocent victims which could not be interpreted except for an intentional violation of human rights.

Direct attacks on civil targets are forbidden, also non discriminatory attacks which do not distinguish between military and civil targets. For example bombing an entire area because there is one military target between houses and buildings is considered illegal.

Names of people who were killed according to the Lebanese Red Cross and Sour Hospital: