Attivisti israeliani per i diritti umani arrestati : " Loro non ci spezzeranno"

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Un tribunale israeliano ha ordinato l'immediata liberazione incondizionata del difensore dei diritti umani palestinese Nasser Nawaja ,nonostante ciò Venerdì mattina  era ancora in  in custodia. Gli avvocati  presenteranno una mozione contro la polizia israeliana per oltraggio alla corte.
In Israele   si sta intensificando la repressione contro  i gruppi israeliani per i diritti umani.

Corte israeliana rilascia l'attivista di B'Tselem , ma le autorità ancora lo tengono in custodia. Pic.twitter.com/lvAIcBO2p2

- B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم (btselem) 21 gennaio 2016

Nel frattempo un giudice ha  revocato l'ordine di censura per i media israeliani per cui sono noti i nomi degli altri arrestati :  Ezra Nawi e il regista Guy Butavia, attivisti del  gruppo palestinese-ebraico Ta'ayush.

Campagna diffamatoria dei coloni

NAWI, Butavia e Nawaja sono stati arrestati dopo che la televisione israeliana ha trasmesso un video girato da un gruppo di destra finanziato  dai coloni nella Cisgiordania occupata.
Due agenti  di  Ad Kan si sono  infiltrati in  Ta'ayush e hanno creato un falso :  i palestinesi hanno venduto terre ai coloni 
Hanno usato questo espediente  per registrare Nawi  e fargli fare  dichiarazioni compromettenti : chiunque vende terre ai coloni avrebbe sofferto ritorsioni da parte dell'Autorità palestinese.
Ad Kan è stata fondata da Aviram Zeevi, un ex funzionario del ministero della sicurezza interna, insieme con ufficiali dell'esercito attuali ed ex, ufficiali per attaccare le organizzazioni israeliane per i diritti umani.
Ta'ayush è stato probabilmente preso di mira dai coloni perché difende i diritti degli agricoltori palestinesi nel sud di Hebron Hills zona della West Bank.

"Arresto politico"

  Butavia  sostiene che la polizia israeliana sta lavorando in accordo con Ad Kan.
" E' un arresto politico. E 'unico scopo è quello di minare la nostra attività per i diritti umani nei territori occupati  e  contro i crimini dell'occupazione Loro non saranno in grado di spezzarci ." B'Tselem ha condannato la "campagna diffamatoria dei coloni" di Ad Kan  contro l'organizzazione in quanto denuncia  il trasferimento forzato dei palestinesi di  Hebron Hills  che Israele cerca di coprire:

 La campagna diffamatoria vuole coprire quanto avviene  a sud di Hebron #WestBank https://t.co/TzqjjW13W7

- B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم (btselem) 19 Gennaio 2016

“They won’t be able to break us,” says arrested Israeli activist

Ali Abunimah Rights and Accountability 22 January 2016

An Israeli court ordered the immediate, unconditional release of Palestinian human rights defender Nasser Nawaja on Thursday, but as of Friday morning he remained in custody. Lawyers are filing a motion against Israeli police for contempt of court. Nawaja, who works as a field researcher for B’Tselem in the occupied West Bank, was picked up as part of an intensifying crackdown on Israeli human rights groups.

Israeli court releases B’Tselem field researcher unconditionally, but authorities still hold him in custody. pic.twitter.com/lvAIcBO2p2

— B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم (@btselem) January 21, 2016

Meanwhile, a judge lifted the gag order preventing media subject to Israeli censorship from reporting that police had earlier arrested Ezra Nawi and filmmaker Guy Butavia, activists with the Palestinian-Jewish group Ta’ayush.

Settler smear campaign

This came as a video emerged of Butavia being transported in a courthouse by Israeli police.
Butavia can be heard challenging his detention as politically motivated.
Nawi, Butavia and Nawaja were arrested after Israeli television aired a video filmed by a right-wing group funded by the Shomron Settlement Committee, a government-funded group of settlers in the occupied West Bank.
Two agents for Ad Kan infiltrated Ta’ayush and concoted a fake land deal in which Nawaja’s family land was supposedly sold to Israeli settlers.
They used this set-up to record Nawi allegedly making incriminating statements that anyone selling land to settlers would suffer retaliation from the Palestinian Authority.
Ad Kan was founded by Aviram Zeevi, a former official of the internal security ministry, together with current and former army officers, to attack Israeli human rights organizations.
Ta’ayush was likely targeted by the settler-backed group because it defends the rights of Palestinian farmers in the South Hebron Hills area of the West Bank.

“Political arrest”

In the video above, which shows Butavia being transported while in police custody, the activist alleges that Israeli police are working hand in hand with Ad Kan.
“The people sitting across from me [during interrogation] had Ad Kan forms in their hands,” Butavia states. “They simply received all the questions and the entire interrogation, ready made, from Ad Kan. The Israeli police is working for the Shomron Settlement Committee.”
“This is entirely a political arrest. It’s whole purpose is to undermine our activity for human rights in the [occupied] territories and against the crimes and criminals of the occupation,” Butavia states. “They won’t be able to break us.”
B’Tselem released this brief video condemning what it called the “settler smear campaign” by Ad Kan and highlighting the forced displacement of Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills that Israel seeks to cover up:

 

"They won't be able to break us," says arrested Israeli activist

 Richard Silverstein

 

 

 

 

 

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