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[Thursday, April 24, 2014] The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that 200 detainees, held by Israel under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders, without charges or trial, started an open-ended hunger…
The right to liberty is one of the pillars of human rights. International Law — most significantly, the Geneva Conventions and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights — states,…
The Ahrar Center for Detainees Studies and Human Rights has reported that Palestinian political prisoners, held by Israel under arbitrary Administrative Detention without charges or trial, have decided to go…
Israeli forces, Sunday, abducted five Palestinians from across the West Bank and summoned four others for interrogation, according to reports by local and security sources. Undercover Israeli forces, driving a…
Israeli soldiers, on Saturday, attacked a number of Palestinian farmers and shepherds in the village of Um al-Khair to the east of Yatta, in the Hebron district, preventing them from…
The Israeli Magistrate Court’s judge, in occupied Jerusalem, extended the detention of four Jerusalemite prisoners, releasing two with conditions.Israeli forces arrested them last Wednesday, after clashes erupted in Al-Aqsa mosque.…
Journalist Majd Kayyal was released from detention Thursday, April 17, by Israel’s secret police, who held him incommunicado since his arrest on Saturday, upon his return from Lebanon.Majd Kayyal, the…
Large numbers of students from different schools, Thursday morning, participated in a sit-in organized by the Ministry of Education in Gaza, to mark the Prisoners’ Day, on April 17.Director General…
[Thursday, April 17, 2014] Palestinian detainees, held by Israeli under arbitrary Administrative Detention order, without charges or trial, said they intend to launch an open-ended hunger strike, starting next Thursday,…
The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees in Ramallah issued a statement marking the twelfth anniversary of the kidnapping and imprisonment of Palestinian leader, legislator Marwan Barghouthi, who was sentenced by an…
An Israeli court has agreed to lift beginning tomorrow the gag order on reporting anything related to the detention of the journalist Majd Kayyal, a Palestinian citizen of Israel. Originally…
The Palestinian National Council called in a statement, on Wednesday, upon the Israeli authorities to treat the Palestinian prisoners as war prisoners, after the state of Palestine became a member…
As the Palestinian people mark Palestinian Prisoners’ Day on April 17, more than 800,000 Palestinians, including children, have been kidnapped and imprisoned by Israel since 1967, while at least 5,000…
This is a translation of an interview by the Al-Quds Newspaper with Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, regarding the issue of Palestinian political prisoners held by Israel, and the…
Israel has arrested and placed in incommunicado detention the journalist and researcher Majd Kayyal, a Palestinian citizen of Israel.Originally submitted by Ali Abunimah to the Electronic Intifada on Sunday, 04/13/2014…
Israeli forces, on Sunday, kidnapped four people in the Hebron district, summoning one for interrogation, as well as storming a village in Jenin, according to reports by local and security…
The Israeli Central Court, on Thursday, extended the detention of the prisoner Shireen al-Isawiand her brother Medhat, as well as the detention of the lawyer Amjad al-Safadi, until the 29th…
In a short video produced by the human rights organization Al-Haq, 28-year-old Osamah Nayef al-Shawamreh describes in harrowing detail the torture he endured for three days in a Palestinian Authority…
An internationally renowned expert on torture says that evidence confirms a young Palestinian has died of injuries he sustained in Israeli custody due to torture.Arafat Jaradat, a 33-year-old father of…
[Thursday, April 10, 2014] The Israeli Police ordered seven Palestinians away from the al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem, for seven days, in exchange for their release. The seven were kidnapped…
The Prisoners’ Club Society said, Tuesday, that Israeli occupation forces, armed with tear gas and batons, raided Cell 10 of Section 1, in Jalbou’ prison, after forcing the prisoners out.The…
The Magistrate’s Court of Jenin made a ruling, Sunday, to release a Hamas leader on bail.Family sources said that Sheikh Abu Aoun, a prominent Hamas leader in the West Bank,…
Prisoner Wahid Abu Maria from Al-Khalil (Hebron), detained since October 2012, has halted a three-month hunger strike which he had initiated to protest his administrative detention in Israeli prisons, The…
Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails decided to begin actions, this week, in protest of Israel’s failure to release a fourth group of veteran prisoners. 13 Palestinians were injured during one…
The Israeli occupation army detained a young Palestinian man near the northern border with the Gaza Strip, raising the month’s number of detentions to six.Walla news website quoted an Israeli…
Israeli occupation soldiers forced a Palestinian child to take an unknown pill after abducting him at Johar mountain in Hebron, southern the occupied West Bank.Local sources said that child Ziyad…
Israeli occupation authorities still detain 11 Palestinian MPs and one minister. Most are administrative detainees, AHRAR Centre for Prisoners Studies and Human Rights said.The centre pointed out that Israeli forces…
Occupation forces abducted on Monday, at dawn, three Palestinians after raiding several areas across the West Bank, according to reports by security and media sources.Security forces said that Israeli forces…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) on Monday revealed that Israeli courts extended the detention of 51 prisoners, under the pretext of continuing investigation and judicial procedures against them. PPS said…
Israeli occupation forces abducted, on Sunday morning, several citizens from the West Bank. Local sources reported that military forces accompanied by vehicles raided Beit Ummar village, to the North of…
As negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian officials reach a standstill, Palestinian negotiators have voiced their objection to the Israeli decision not to release the last of four groups of Palestinian…
Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday abducted eight Palestinians from the West Bank cities of Nablus, Hebron, Jenin and Bethlehem, according to reports by media and security sources.Occupation forces raided the…
Israel has told the PLO that it will not free the final group of prisoners they had been expecting alongside US-brokered peace talks, a senior Palestinian official said on Friday.(Ma’an/AFP)…
Israel’s Economy Minister, Naftali Bennett, said that Israel will reconsider the fourth and final release of Palestinian prisoners.Bennett said, on Tuesday, that the release of the 104 prisoners detained before…
Israeli forces abducted four people on Wednesday, including a Fatah official, from the districts of Jenin and Bethlehem, according to reports by media and security sources.Forces stormed the town of…
[Tuesday, March 25, 2014] Nine people from the districts of Hebron, Jenin, and Nablus, in addition to another in Jerusalem, were kidnapped by occupation forces on Tuesday, according to reports…
Spokesperson of Waed Association for Prisoners and Ex-prisoners, Abdullah Qandil, said that prisoner Dirar Abu Sisi was transferred today [Monday, March 24, 2014] from “Eshel” prison to “Soroka” hospital, in…
Israeli forces stormed a headquarters of the Palestinian civil defense forces in Salfit, detaining three members, in a dawn raid conducted on Friday.A public relations official for the civil defense…
Attorneys of the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees Affairs expressed grave concerns over the health status of several Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons. The health status of several Palestinian prisoners…
A Palestinian teenager who confessed to throwing stones after he was tortured in Israeli custody faces attempted murder charges and a severe prison sentence.Photo: Ali Shamlawi, 17, was held in…
[Wednesday Evening, March 21, 2014] Hundreds of Palestinians gathered at Manger Square in Bethlehem city, in occupied Palestine, and held a massive procession in support of Palestinian political prisoners held…
A day after the Israeli government announced a delay in the promised release of 30 long-term Palestinian prisoners, Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon threatened, on Wednesday, to resign from…
The Israeli Salem military court, on Wednesday, issued actual prison sentences against two Palestinian juveniles from the town of Jalboun, near Jenin, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Club (PPC).The court…
Two Palestinian prisoners suspended a 70-day hunger strike, Wednesday, after the Israeli authorities agreed to their demands, according to lawyer Jawad Bulous of the Palestinian Prisoner Society.Bulous visited hunger strikers…
Israeli occupation forces, on Tuesday, abducted five Palestinians, including three teenagers, from Bethlehem province.A security source said that Israeli forces raided the city of Bethlehem, taking Mohammed Jamal Abu Jalgheef,…
Fadi Obeidat, a lawyer of the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, has reported that two detainees, including a 70-year old, are facing serious health deterioration while Israel is denying them the…
[Monday, March 17, 2014] Israeli soldiers, stationed at the Taybeh roadblock, south of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, violently attacked a Palestinian woman, and tried to force her…
Palestinian Authority Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs lawyer Hiba Masalha said that she visited hunger striker Waheed Abu Maria in Wolfson Hospital, on Saturday, and that he is in critical condition.Abu…
Occupation forces, on Sunday, kidnapped six people in Qalqilya and an elderly in the Jerusalem area, as well as summoning another from Bethlehem for interrogation, according to reports by local…
Israeli forces kidnapped, on Saturday, four people from the districts of Hebron and Jenin, as well as summoning one for interrogation, according to statements by security sources.Occupation forces stormed Bani…
Israeli forces, this past week, kidnapped five Palestinians from the districts of Jenin and Bethlehem, in the West Bank, in addition to two others from Jerusalem, according to reports by…
Israeli authorities have renewed the administrative detention of an aging Hebron citizen to three months, for the fourth time.Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies said in a statement that Husain Amr,…
Israeli occupation forces re-arrested, Thursday at dawn, freed ex-prisoner Midhat al-Isawi from al-Isawiyya village, in occupied Jerusalem. Wadi Helwa Information Centre reported that Israeli forces abducted Midhat, brother of the…
Lawyer for the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said, after visiting a number of Israeli prisons, that the health condition of four Palestinian hunger striking prisoners has dramatically deteriorated due to…
The Israeli Authorities handed, on Tuesday evening, the remains of five Palestinians who were buried at the Numbers Graveyard for many years. The bodies were moved to the Taybeh roadblock,…
The District court judge in Jerusalem cancelled, last Thursday, an indictment against the 19-year-old Ahmad Daoud Obeid, from the village of Esawyeh.The Wadi Hilweh Information Center reports that Mohammad Mahmoud,…
A Tel Aviv court, on Monday, sentenced a Palestinian-Israeli with a 25-year prison term over the 2012 bombing of a bus during a major Israeli campaign in Gaza.Photo: Mohammed Mafarja,…
Palestinian prisoners in Negev prison said, on Sunday, that they sent a notification to the Israeli Prison Service, saying that they will launch a hunger strike next month.(Al Ray) Palestinian…
An Israeli military vehicle, on Saturday, hit a Palestinian girl in the southern West Bank, injuring her seriously, according to a local spokesman. Nidal al-Haddar, spokesman for Yatta’s popular committee,…
The Head of the Census Department at the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, Abdul-Nasser Ferwana, stated that, since 1967, Israel has kidnapped and imprisoned more than 15,000 women, including 1,000 since…
A request by a European Union official to visit Palestinian political prisoners, held by Israel, was denied by Israeli Foriegn Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, of the extreme right-wing “Israel Our Home”…
The Prison Administration at the Negev Detention Camp, in the Negev Desert of occupied Palestine, moved detainee Majed Taha Qaraqe’, age 40, to the Soroka medical center after suffering serious…
The Israeli army abducted, on Thursday, four Palestinians from the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp. The detainees were identified as: Ahmed Shafeeq Abu Zaina, 24, Khaled…
The Israeli army, on Wednesday, abducted two people from the West Bank city of Hebron, including a minor, in addition to a youth from the Jerusalem area, according to local…
The Ahrar Center for Detainees Studies and Human Rights have reported that Israel is currently holding captive 21 Palestinian women at the Hasharon prison, under very dire conditions and ongoing…
The Ahrar Center for Detainees Studies and Human Rights has reported that Israel is currently holding captive eleven democratically elected Palestinian legislators and one minister.In a press release, head of…
A number of Palestinian Prisoners in Shatta prison were injured, last Thursday, when Israeli forces raided cells 7 and 10 ,in the prison, smashed their belongings and sabotaged the section.Some…
Israeli occupation forces abducted, on Monday, eleven Palestinians from the West Bank.Four Palestinians from Hebron and two others from Tulkarem were taken, while another in Ein Yabrud village, north of…
[Monday, March 3, 2014] Israeli forces raided al-Sawiya high school, south of Nablus, and detained two students, accrding to a Palestinian Authority official.Ghassan Daghlas told Ma’an News Agency that Israeli…
The District court sentenced, on Wednesday, two Jerusalemite children to prison terms of 9 and 6 months. Silwanic reports that according to Amjad Abu Asab, director of Jerusalemites detainees and…
Occupation forces kidnapped, on Friday, two Palestinians from Jaba’ village south of Jenin, north of the West Bank.According to a PNN report, security sources said that Israeli forces raided the…
The Israeli Supreme Court approved, on Monday [February 26, 2014], the appeal submitted by the public prosecution against the district court’s decision to imprison 21-year-old Mohammad Abdullah Mahmoud for 6…
[Tuesday, February 25, 2014] A Palestinian detainee from occupied Jerusalem died, in an Israeli hospital, of injuries suffered nearly two weeks ago, after Israeli soldiers violently assaulted him while at…
Lawyer of Prisoner’s Club Society, Fawwaz Shloudi, said that the Israeli occupation administration transferred the 15-year-old Palestinian prisoner Ubaida Asaid from Ofek criminal prison to Hasharon prison.Shloudi said that Asaid…
Israeli occupation forces kidnapped, on Sunday, seven Palestinians from different areas in the West Bank during the last 12 hours.Al Ray reports that in Hebron, Israeli forces took Ma’mon al-Fakhory,…
A man imprisoned in Rimonim Prison, central Israel, was killed Sunday by Israeli forces after he shot and injured three prison guards, according to Israeli media.Ma’an News Agency reports that…
A Palestinian prisoner, held in a Beersheba prison for driving without a license, has been hospitalized following an assault by Israeli prison guards, his family said on Friday.Jihad Abd al-Rahman,…
Israeli forces kidnapped, early Saturday, four Palestinians from the West Bank and summoned two minors to appear before Israeli intelligence in Bethlehem district, according to security sources.WAFA reports that forces…
Israeli forces took 11 Palestinians from the West Bank cities of Nablus and Hebron, on Thursday. Seven were taken from the village of Kufur Qadoum, west of Nablus. Eyewitnesses, according…
The Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association (Ad-Dameer) has reported that one of its lawyers visited, on Thursday – February 20, 2014, hunger-striking detainee Abdul-Majid Khudirat at the Ramla prison…
The International Solidarity Foundation for Human Rights (ISFHR) has reported that a Palestinian detainee from the northern West Bank district of Nablus fainted before his military court hearing, on Thursday…
Four Palestinian hunger strikers’ health conditions have seriously deteriorated, the Palestinain Information Center (PIC) has reported. The four hunger strikers were transferred from Ramla prison infirmary to Israeli hospitals.(PNN) According…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that a disabled Palestinian detainee, held by Israel and facing several health complications, was moved into solitary confinement, last week, for demanding to…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that eight Palestinians detainees, held by Israel, have been holding hunger strikes demanding to be released, as they are held without charges or…
80 Palestinian prisoners, held in Nafha prison, have complained about the ill-conditioned ward No. 3, which houses bugs and mice. A lawyer for Prisoners’ Club society, recently delegated to the…
Israeli occupation forces, on Saturday at dawn, arrested two young men from Hebron and Jenin and summoned three others to an intelligence office, including two ex-prisoners. Local sources said that…
Israeli forces, on Thursday, arrested seven Palestinians, including three minors from Bethlehem and Nablus governorates.Israeli forces arrested Mustafa Ibrahim Abu Sror, 20, and Moath Tayseer Mashayekh, 21, after raiding their…
Israeli forces arrested a number of youth, including children, on Wednesday, in the old city of Jerusalem, serving demolition orders to several citizens in Silwan town.Al Ray reports that the…
Israeli soldiers have arrested two Palestinians in the town of Ni’lin, West of Ramallah in Palestine.Both were political leaders of the Hamas movement. According to the Palestinian News Network (PNN),…
90 families of Gaza prisoners left the coastal enclave, on Monday at dawn, to visit their sons in Nafha prison via Erez crossing to the north of Gaza city.Director of…
A report published by the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees in Ramallah, on February 8, revealed that several ailing detainees currently imprisoned by Israel, including cancer patients, are suffering serious deterioration…
Israeli forces arrested two West Bank Palestinians, Sunday, including an elderly, in addition to two others from the Jerusalem area, according to local sources.They said that forces arrested a Palestinian…
February 4, 2014, Head of the Census Department at the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, Abdul-Nasser Ferwana, said that Israel is currently holding captive around 4,800 Palestinians in seventeen prisons, detention…
In an interview, conducted by the Al-Quds Daily Newspaper, and published Saturday, February 1, 2014, Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, said Israel has kidnapped more than 3000 Palestinians in…
[Thursday, January 30, 2014] Three Palestinian detainees, held by Israel under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charges, have been on hunger strike since March 9, and are determined to continue…
Jerusalemite Ubaida Asaid, age 16, has begun an open-ended hunger strike to protest against transferring him to Ofek criminal jail.The father of the boy said that the IPS transferred his…
The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees has reported that seven Palestinian detainees are currently holding open-ended hunger strikes in Israeli detention facilities, and that some of them are facing very serious…
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[Monday, January 20, 2014] An Israeli force raided former prisoner Samer al-Issawi’s home in the Issawiyeh District of occupied east Jerusalem, local media said. Shireen al-Issawi, Samer’s sister, said that…
Five Palestinians were arrested in Jenin and in Bethlehem’s Aida refugee camp, at dawn on Thursday.According to Aida residents, Israeli soldiers stormed the camp amidst heavy shooting and firing of…