Atef Daghlas-Nablus
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's military court rejected a request on Wednesday for the release of prisoner Samer Arbid, the conscience of the human rights organization said.
The lawyer said in a statement received by Al Jazeera Net that a session will be held on Thursday to extend his detention.
Al-Dameer explained that the medical reports obtained showed that "there is a slight improvement on the detainee's health and is in a stable situation."
Dozens of Palestinians from different national and Islamic factions demonstrated in Nablus and other cities in the West Bank in support of Palestinian prisoner Samer Arbid, who is living in "slow death" after being attacked by the Israeli authorities during his interrogation and transfer to the hospital.
The event, which took place on Tuesday evening at Al-Shuhada Roundabout in the center of Nablus, comes at the invitation of the freed prisoners coinciding with several events held in solidarity with the prisoner Arbid and the Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike to refuse the administrative detention, especially the prisoner Tareq Qa'dan Al-Serb for more than 60 days.
On national slogans, the protesters called on all Palestinians to defend their lives in defense of the prisoners and to end their suffering.They sent several messages in which they held the Israeli occupation fully responsible for the life of the prisoner Arbid and the lives of the other prisoners, especially the hunger strikers, and called for unification and ending the division as the first step to win the prisoners and achieve their freedom.
Face directly
On the ground, the demonstrators demanded a direct confrontation with the occupation and the transfer of the battle to the street and areas of friction at the checkpoints and the separation wall as the best way to pressure the occupation to respond to the demands of the prisoners and stop its attacks on them, and asked the International Committee of the Red Cross to visit the prisoner Arbid and other prisoners and to investigate the mechanisms of torture used by the occupation and pressure to stop it .
The Director of the Palestinian Prisoner Club in Nablus called on Raed Amer in the speech of Palestinian and international human rights institutions and the international community to curb the violations against the prisoners by a media campaign in Palestine and abroad that shed light on the suffering of prisoners in Israeli prisons in all its forms. سامر عربد Free Membership.
He called on the leader of the Fatah movement, Tayseer Nasrallah, to transcend the wounds and upgrade the struggle and resistance to reach the sacrifices of the prisoners, and said that they face the Israeli jailer and his arrogance with an unrelenting will with their empty intestines through hunger strikes to extract their rights.
Several events were organized in the cities of Jenin, Nablus, Ramallah and Jerusalem in solidarity with the prisoner Arbid, as well as a great mobility in social networking sites.
Students from Birzeit University clashed with Israeli soldiers in confrontations north of Ramallah, and the Israeli occupation forces suppressed an event in front of Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. Girls in solidarity stormed the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Al-Bireh.
slow death
Samer Arbid, 44, was arrested last Wednesday from his workplace in an operation carried out by special Israeli units and severely beaten in front of his wife.
The prisoner complained to the Israeli military judge the day after his arrest, according to the lawyer of the human rights conscience Al Dameer. He said that he could not swallow and vomit constantly, in addition to having beating marks on his body and neck, but the Israeli occupation forces ignored him and did not take him to the hospital. Urgent, even continued to torture him.
According to the Palestinian Prisoner Club and other human rights and local and international organizations, the prisoner Arbeed was subjected to a military investigation by a decision of the Israeli occupation court in which the forms of torture and means of interrogation outweighed the normal procedures of interrogation. Seriously for his life, and that more than one military officer was overseeing the investigation.
Arbid, who has been denied access to his lawyer, has been in a coma since last Friday in a coma with injuries to his ribs and kidney failure during his interrogation.
The occupation accuses the captive Samer Arbid and other prisoners of being behind the operation Ein Popin near the city of Ramallah in the central West Bank, which was carried out more than a month and a half and led to the death of a settlement and wounding other settlers.