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Monday April 9, 2012 2:31 PM (EST+7)
INTERVIEW: Released prisoner raises questions over her transfer to Gaza
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RAMALLAH, April 9 (JMCC) - Former Palestinian prisoner Hana Shalabi raises questions about the deal to release her to the Gaza Strip and thus end her month-and-a half hunger strike in an interview with the Electronic Intifada.
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 A poster image of Palestinian prisoner, Hana Shalabi, who is on hunger strike to protest her detention without trial.
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Multimedia
 Aljazeera: Palestinian prisoners denied visits
Sept. 14, 2010 9:58 AM (EST+7)
An 11-year-old boy arrested, Nabi Saleh
Feb. 22, 2011 11:21 AM (EST+7)
CNN: Interview with 'Son of Hamas' author Muab Yousef
March 3, 2010 11:26 AM (EST+7)
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 Documents
 Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
Kept in the Dark, Btselem and HaMoked report, October 2010
List of Bodies Returned to the Palestinian Authority on May 31, 2012
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Publications
Poll No. 1 - On Palestinian Attitudes to the Peace Process and Palestinian Expellees
Poll No. 1 - On Palestinian Attitudes to the Peace Process and Palestinian Expellees
The Israeli Assassination Policy in the Aqsa Intifada
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Background
Cairo talks
Prisoners
Prisoners
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Resources
Ahmad Saadat must be released and his safety ensured, Amnesty International, June 12, 2002
al-Mezan human rights organization website
Defense for Children International Palestine Section official website
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She says that lawyer Jawad Boulous' statements to her and to others were contradictory and seeks an explanation.
Shalabi, who is from Burqin in the West Bank, agreed to be released to the Gaza Strip and remain there for three years, although Israel has not allowed the return of Palestinians deported in other time-limited arrangements.
RA: Did you feel pressure to accept deportation to Gaza? Did this idea come from the Israelis?
HS: There is a mystery behind this, and I want the lawyers for the Prisoners Society and my lawyer Jawad Boulos, to clarify this to me and to the public. Jawad Boulos told the prisoners’ affairs bodies that Hana wanted to be deported, while he told me personally that the Shabak [the Israeli General Security Service also often known as “Shin Bet”] and the Israeli courts had no option for me, and that they didn’t want me to return to the West Bank and that the only option left is to deport me. Boulos was the last one to visit me, shortly before I was sent to Gaza.
RA: Did you ask to see anyone that the Israelis refused to allow to visit you?
HS: I asked to see the senior Islamic Jihad leader inside the prison, Sheikh Bassam al-Saadi, from whom I received a letter that the enemy [Israel] bargained with him that I was to be deported to Gaza for one year, but al-Saadi refused. Yet Jawad Boulos, my lawyer, agreed to [Israel’s] option that I was to be deported to Gaza for three years.
The deal to release Shalabi was criticized by officials in the Palestinian Authority and Islamic Jihad, which Hana is said to belong to. Human rights groups said deportation should never be considered an acceptable option, as it defies international law.
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A poster image of Palestinian prisoner, Hana Shalabi, who is on hunger strike to protest her detention without trial.
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