Words on prisoners…
“There will be no peace until each and every Palestinian detainee is
released.”
President Yasser Arafat,
Al-Quds Newspaper, 20/4/94.
“Prisons will produce cripples and invalids who will be a burden on
Palestinian society.”
Israeli General Moshe Dayan,
Al-Quds Newspaper: “Detainees in Israeli prisons…the forgotten file”,
21/2/99.
“The Wye River Accords authorizes Israel to release Palestinian
prisoners according to its wishes”.
Al-Quds Newspaper: “Ross: Israel has the right to choose the prisoners
it wishes to release”, 9/12/98.
“I also have blood on my hands. I received a direct order from Yitzhak
Shamir, who was my commander in the secret organization, to take part
in the killing of innocent residents from two Palestinian villages.”
Yitzhak Hasson, member of (Lekhi) Zionist organization, taken from a
statement made during a demonstration for peace activists which took
place on 9/12/98 near the Israeli Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv.
“Let us call on the prisoners who are on hunger strike in Israeli
prisons to end their strike.”
President Yasser Arafat,
Al-Quds Newspaper: “Meeting al-Tarawneh in Gaza”, 13/12/98.
“I visited my son Hani two days before the month of Ramadan and he had
lost 15 kg because of the inhuman living conditions he had undergone
in prison.”
A detainee’s mother.
“I only have two more days to complete my sentence.”
Prisoner released following Wye Plantation.
“President Arafat requested us to end the strike and to give him a
chance. We are, however, not optimistic because we know the way
Netanyahu thinks.”
A Detainee in Ashquelon prison,
Ha’aretz Newspaper, 16/12/98
“His Excellency President Clinton,
We are mothers, sisters, wives and daughters of detainees held in
Israeli jails. We hope that today, upon your visit to our country
Palestine and our city Bethlehem in which Jesus was born, that you
would take the case of prisoners into consideration, because it is a
human case which involves the most cruel and unjust pain, suffering
and persecution and which creates a constant tension that threatens
the peace process in the Middle East.”
A letter written by women from Bethlehem to
the American President regarding the case of prisoners,
Al-Quds Newspaper, 16/12/98
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