Palestin memegang
gambar-gambar tahanan yang ditahan di penjara Israel sejak sebelum 1993
perjanjian damai Oslo kerana mereka membantah penangguhan pembebasan tahanan di
luar pintu-pintu penjara Ofer, berhampiran bandar Tebing Barat Betunia (Palestinians
hold pictures of detainees being held in Israeli prisons since before the 1993
Oslo peace accords as they protest against the postponement of the release of
the prisoners outside the gates of Ofer prison, near the West Bank town of
Betunia (AFP Photo/Abbas Momani)
Srikandi גבורה - Seorang
ahli politik kanan Palestin telah menghantar surat kepada Kesatuan Eropah dan
Majlis Keselamatan PBB menyeru tindakan antarabangsa ter-hadap Israel sepanjang
penahanan tanpa caj tahanan Palestin, 130 daripada mereka mengambil bahagian
dalam mogok lapar jangka panjang.
Gesaan
itu dibuat melalui surat yang dikeluarkan pada hari Selasa, yang telah dihantar
kepada semua ahli-ahli Kesatuan Eropah, Brazil, Afrika Selatan, dan India, dan
juga kepada semua ahli Majlis Keselamatan PBB kecuali anggota tetap Australia,
yang baru-baru berhenti merujuk kepada timur Baitulmaqdis sebagai
"diduduki" - satu langkah yang menaikkan kemarahan kepimpinan
Palestin.
"Saya
menulis bagi pihak Pertubuhan Pembebasan Palestin dan Presiden Mahmud Abbas
untuk meminta campur tangan segera anda bagi pihak kira-kira 130 tahanan
Palestin dan banduan kini mogok lapar di penjara Israel," Saeb Erakat,
ketua Bahagian Rundingan di Palestin Pertubuhan Pembebasan (PLO) dan Ketua
Perunding dengan Israel dalam rundingan damai gagal, berkata dalam surat itu,
seperti yang dipetik oleh AFP.
"Kami
menyeru anda untuk menyeru Israel untuk membatalkan dasar penahanan pentadbiran
dan kepada keadaan mendalamkan hubungan 2 hala anda dengan Israel yang belum
selesai memenuhi semua obligasinya," katanya lagi.
Israel
Perkhidmatan Penjara (IPS) berkata terdapat 250 penghuni enggan makan, 90
daripada mereka telah menolak selama lebih 6 minggu. 75 daripada telah
dimasukkan ke hospital. Ini adalah mogok lapar yang pernah massa terpanjang
tahanan Palestin yang ditahan oleh Israel, menurut jurucakap IPS Sivan Weizman.
Haaretz
melaporkan pada hari Isnin bahawa Kementerian Kesihatan Israel adalah mengambil
pendirian terutamanya sukar pada penyerang kelaparan.
Minggu
lepas, sekatan ketat diletakkan pada lawatan ke hospital di mana penyerang
sedang diadakan. Berpuluh-puluh permintaan untuk lawatan oleh Doktor bagi Hak Asasi
Manusia, peguam penyerang', dan juga keluarga mereka telah ditolak.
Sebanyak
5,000 rakyat Palestin yang diadakan di penjara Israel. Hampir 200 daripada
mereka adalah dalam apa yang dikenali sebagai penahanan pentadbiran.
Penahanan
pentadbiran adalah proses di mana mahkamah tentera boleh menahan orang yang
disyaki tanpa didakwa selama sehingga 6 bulan - satu tempoh masa yang boleh
diperbaharui selama-lamanya. Prosedur ini - yang mengingatkan kepada cara
tahanan yang diadakan di Guantanamo Bay - sejak mandat British pra-1948.
Setiausaha
Agung PBB Ban Ki-moon menggesa tahanan ditarik sama ada dikenakan atau
dilepaskan dengan segera.
Tetapi
di Israel, rang undang-undang bekerja cara melalui badan perundangan bagi
membolehkan doktor untuk memaksa-makanan penyerang kelaparan supaya mereka -
sama seperti apa yang berlaku di Guantanamo Bay tahun lepas semasa mogok lapar
yang berlangsung beberapa bulan.
Parlimen
Israel Isnin meluluskan rang undang-undang untuk bacaan pertama, tetapi ia
masih perlu melalui satu siri perbahasan di peringkat jawatankuasa dan dua undi
sidang pleno lanjut sebelum ia boleh menjadi undang-undang.
Undang-undang
draf sudah menendang sehingga banyak pembangkang - bukan sahaja di kalangan
Arab, liberal dan berhaluan kiri ahli parlimen, tetapi daripada Israel
Persatuan Perubatan (IMA), yang telah menggesa Menteri Keadilan Tzipi Livni
untuk menyekat ia.
Persatuan
itu memberi amaran dalam sebuah surat kepada beliau bahawa rang undang-undang
ini adalah "dalam jumlah bertentangan dengan etika perubatan dite-rima di
peringkat antarabangsa," serta kod perubatan Israel.
Ia
menambah bahawa "kita tidak boleh menerima undang-undang yang meletakkan
doktor dalam pertempuran mereka harus mempunyai tiada bahagian, dalam jumlah
berbeza dengan tugas profesional dan etika."
"Undang-undang
yang dicadangkan adalah salah dari segi etika dan profesional, ia bukan sahaja
akan merosakkan pesakit dan keadaan kesihatan, tetapi juga DUNIA Israel berdiri,"
kata surat itu.
Dokumen
itu telah ditandatangani oleh Doktor Leonid Edelman, ketua IMA, dan Profesor
Avionam Reches, persatuan pengerusi biro etika.
PALESTINIANS
Seek UN, EU Action Against ISRAEL
Over DETAINEES. . .
A
senior Palestinian politician has sent letters to the EU and UN Security
Council calling for international action against Israel over the detention
without charge of Palestinian prisoners, 130 of whom are taking part in a
long-term hunger strike.
The
call was made through a letter issued on Tuesday, which was sent to all members
of the European Union, Brazil, South Africa, and India, as well as to all UN
Security Council members with the exception of permanent member Australia,
which recently stopped referring to east Jerusalem as “occupied” – a move that
infuriated Palestinian leadership.
“I
am writing on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization and President
Mahmud Abbas to request your immediate intervention on behalf of the
approximately 130 Palestinian detainees and prisoners currently on hunger
strike in Israeli prisons,” Saeb Erakat, head of the Negotiations Division of
the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and chief negotiator with Israel in
the failed peace talks, said in the letter, as quoted by AFP.
“We
call on you to call on Israel to annul the policy of administrative detention
and to condition deepening your bilateral ties with Israel pending fulfillment
of all its obligations,” he continued.
The
Israel Prison Service (IPS) said there are 250 inmates refusing food, 90 of
whom have refused for over six weeks. Seventy-five of those have been
hospitalized. This is the longest ever mass hunger strike of Palestinian
prisoners held by Israel, according to IPS spokeswoman Sivan Weizman.
Haaretz
reported on Monday that the Israeli Health Ministry is taking a particularly
tough stance on the hunger strikers.
Last
week, stringent restrictions were placed on visits to the hospitals where
strikers are being held. Dozens of requests for visits by Doctors for Human
Rights, the strikers’ lawyers, and even their families were rejected.
As
many as 5,000 Palestinians are being held in Israeli jails. Nearly 200 of them
are in what is known as administrative detention.
Administrative
detention is the process where military courts can hold suspects without charge
for up to six months – a period which can also be renewed indefinitely. The
procedure – which is reminiscent to the way inmates are held at Guantanamo Bay
– dates back to the pre-1948 British mandate.
UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for the striking prisoners to either
be charged or released immediately.
But
in Israel, a bill is working its way through the legislature to enable doctors
to force-feed hunger strikers against their will – just like what happened at
Guantanamo Bay last year during a hunger strike which lasted several months.
The
Israeli parliament Monday approved the bill for its first reading, but it still
has to go through a series of debates at the committee stage and two further
plenum votes before it can become law.
The
draft law is already kicking up a lot of opposition – not only among Arab,
liberal, and left-wing lawmakers, but from the Israel Medical Association
(IMA), which has already urged Justice Minister Tzipi Livni to block it.
The
association warned in a letter to him that the bill is “in total contradiction
to internationally accepted medical ethics,” as well as Israel’s medical code.
It
added that “we can’t accept a law that places doctors in a battle they should
have no part of, in total contrast to their professional and ethical duties.”
“The
proposed law is wrong ethically and professionally, it won’t only damage the
patients and their medical condition, but also Israel’s world standing,” said
the letter. The document was signed by Doctor Leonid Edelman, head of the IMA,
and Professor Avionam Reches, chairman of the association's ethics bureau.
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