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[Wednesday, June 11, 2014] Nonviolent Palestinian activists held a mock soccer match in front of the Ofer Prison, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, to express solidarity with…
The Israeli Ministry of Health has placed severe restrictions on visits to hospitalized detainees by private doctors, according to Hebrew newspaper Haaretz. Prompted by Shin Bet Israeli security service and…
On Wednesday afternoon, IPS unit ‘Massada’ stormed Ward No. 6 of the Negev prison where a number of Palestinian hunger strikers are being held. Local media reported the storming force…
Israeli forces kidnapped nine Palestinians on Wednesday, including four minors from West Bank cities of Hebron, Bethlehem, Nablus and Jenin.Palestinian security sources have reported that the Israeli army raided al-Aroub…
Chairperson of the Israeli Medical Association (IMA), Dr. Leonid Eidelman, stated that the association refuses the force-feeding of hunger striking Palestinian political prisoners, adding that Israeli physicians respect the wishes…
Israeli Shin Bet security service is encouraging Prime Minister Netanyahu not to negotiate with hunger-striking Palestinian administrative detainees, according to Israeli media. Israeli daily Haaretz stated that Netanyahu’s decision not…
[Friday, June 6, 2014] In a letter sent by hunger striking Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, the detainees stated their strike, and their ongoing legitimate battle, is ongoing despite aggression,…
As 120 prisoners enter their sixth week of a water-only hunger strike, and the Israeli government announces plans to begin force-feeding the hunger strikers, a United Nations committee has weighed…
A total of 196 Palestinian children were imprisoned and prosecuted in the Israeli military court system at the end of April, according to rights group Defence of Children International-Palestine (DCI-Palestine).…
Yesterday, at 4:30 am, Popular Resistance activist Mahmoud Zwahre was again arrested by the Israeli army, at his house in Al Ma’asara, just southwest of Bethlehem. An attempt to arrest…
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society has issued a statement confirming that 60 people being held in Beersheba Prison, in Eshel, are currently engaged in continuous hunger strike, and that each of…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called during Mondays’ meeting of the security cabinet to move forward the discussion on a law to force-feed hunger-striking prisoners. The proposed law was voted in…
Lawyer Ali Sa’ady of the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees managed to visit three hunger-striking detainees at the al-Jalama Israeli Prison, who told him that Israel forced them into solitary confinement,…
[Sunday Evening, June 1, 2014] Israel’s TV, Channel 10, has reported that approximately 70 hunger striking Palestinian detainees were moved to twelve Israeli hospitals and medical center, due to sharp…
Israeli forces, Sunday, kidnapped 11 Palestinians, including a minor, in the West Bank districts of Nablus and Bethlehem, according to reports by local and security sources.In the Nablus region, the…
A march was organized in the West Bank by Hamas, on Friday, in solidarity with Palestinian administrative detainees in the Israeli jails. Furthermore, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has taken a…
The Israeli Authorities have issued an arbitrary Administrative Detention order against a Palestinian who suffered a stroke prior to his arrest. He and his wife were kidnapped at the al-Karama…
Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, stated that the number of hunger striking Palestinian detainees held by Israel reached over 350 detainees in different Israeli prisons, and that dozens of…
Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, stated that scores of hunger striking detainees, held by Israel, have been moved to a number of hospitals and clinics, due to serious health…
Minister of Prisoners’ Affairs, Issa Qaraqe’ said, Sunday, that the Israeli prison administration has distributed leaflets to all Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, in an official renege on a…
Israeli forces, on Sunday, kidnapped two Palestinian teenagers from Beit Ummar, to the north of Hebron, according to reports by a local activist. Mohammad Awad, Spokesperson of the anti-settlement Popular…
[Saturday, May 24, 2014] Palestinian medical sources said dozens of Palestinians were injured after Israeli soldiers attacked a nonviolent protest in support of the detainees, in Hebron, in the southern…
[May 24, 2014] Their tongues paralyzed, their bodies collapse. They have lost the ability to move or tend to their bodily functions and needs. Their eyes carry a thousand questions,…
Fifty Palestinian detainees held at the Nafha Israeli Prison, in addition to 15 In Ramon Prison and 15 in Asqalan Prison, said they will be joining the ongoing hunger strike…
On April 24th of this year, over 100 Palestinian political detainees went on an open-end hunger strike in demand to an end of administrative detention, in which Palestinian prisoners are…
The Palestine Detainees Study Center quoted lawyer Rami al-Alamy stating that the Prison Administration at the Be’er As-Sabe’ (Beersheba) Israeli Prison had to move all hunger striking Palestinian detainees to…
[Thursday, May 22, 2014] The International Red Cross – Palestine Branch has informed the family of detainee Ayman Tbeish, from the southern west Bank city of Hebron, that their hunger-striking…
50 Palestinian prisoners held in Nafha Israeli prison, Mitzepe Ramon, will start an open-ended hunger strike on Sunday in support of the hunger striking administrative detainees, who also threatened to…
As more Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons are joining the hunger strike that started 28 days ago, at least 40 more detainees have joined the strike, while all 5200…
[Tuesday, May 20, 2014] Palestinian Prime Minister, Rami al-Hamdallah, stated there can be no peace with Israel, or even a truce, without the release of all Palestinian political prisoners held…
Imprisoned Palestinian leaders Marwan Barghouthi and Ahmad Saadat have announced that they will go on hunger strike tomorrow, according to a senior official. 40 prisoners in Al-Naqab Prison will also…
Israeli forces have taken Ahmad Qasim al-Azraq to Ofer prison, following his interrogation in Etzion.Ahmad is a resident of Aida refugee camp, the PNN reports. Sunday evening, the Israeli army…
On May 8, 2014, human rights defender and lawyer Ms. Shireen Essawi began a hunger strike after learning of the postponement of her trial for nine months and a day.…
The High Leadership Committee for Palestinian Prisoners has announced that health conditions of some of the prisoners are deteriorating. The committee points out that three prisoners, Nael Khalaf, Yasser Badrassawi…
Mass Executions Took Place Following The Nakba — Palestinian Researcher and head of the Census Department at the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, Abdul-Nasser Ferwana, states that around 20% of all…
Senior Hamas member Abbas al-Sayed, sentenced to life imprisonment, is to declare an open-ended hunger strike next Monday, in solidarity with the administrative detainees, according to to the Palestinian Center…
Israeli soldiers invaded on Wednesday at dawn, [May, 14, 2014] various districts in the occupied West Bank and kidnapped at least eleven Palestinians. Dozens of Israeli military jeeps invaded the…
East Jerusalem lawyer Shireen Isawihas announced to family members that she will begin an open-ended hunger strike in protest of her detention by Israel, according to Issawi’s relatives.Shireen was abducted…
On the night of the 28th to 29th of April 2014, the Israeli army raided the village of Kafr Qaddum to arrest five people, among them Murad Eshtewi, the media…
Rising numbers of Palestinian children are being subjected to solitary confinement for interrogation purposes in Israeli detention, according to a new report from Defense for Children International Palestine. Written by…
The following is a copy of a letter from Palestinian administrative detainees, posted on facebook by the Campaign of Exposing Israeli Crimes via Social Media.Peace upon you all. Dear all…
Rallies were held across the West Bank and Gaza Strip, on Friday, as nearly 100 Palestinian entered their 16th day of hunger strike, in protest of Israel’s ongoing administrative detention…
The latest wave of mass hunger strikes continue for the second week, as Palestinian prisoners demand the end of the policy of administrative detention. Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights…
An Israeli Military Court convicted on Thursday, May 8 2014, two Palestinian brothers of kidnaping and killing an Israeli soldier in the West Bank, in September of 2013. One of…
Over 5,000 Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons have launched a massive open-ended hunger strike in solidarity with administrative detainees who continue their strike for the 14th day in a row.Head…
The National Committee for Planning and Building, in the Israeli Ministry of Interior, has approved the expansion of Megiddo prison to hold 6,000 prisoners.According to Haaretz, the committee cancelled a…
[Tuesday, May 6, 2014] Head of the Census Department at the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, Abdul-Nasser Ferwana, stated that high rates of cancer among Palestinian political prisons run by Israel…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s former driver has been officially indicted in the Jerusalem District Court for hundreds of sexual assaults and rapes against six minors, mostly relatives of his.…
Israeli forces arrested Palestinian journalist Majdoleen Hassouna, age 26, at al-Karama crossing, between the West Bank and Jordan, upon her return from Lebanon Monday afternoon.Majdoleen Hassouna, from Beit Umareen village,…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that 120 Palestinian detainees, held by Israel under arbitrary Administrative Detention policies without charges or trial, are ongoing with their strike demanding an…
[Saturday, May 3, 2014] Former political prisoner and head of the Census Department at the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, Abdul-Nasser Ferwana, stated that, by the end of last month, April…
26 Palestinian administrative detainees within the Israeli prison system have joined the mass hunger strike, which a number of their counterparts had initiated earlier this week to protest Israel’s administrative…
The Ahrar Center for Detainees Studies and Human Rights issued its monthly report, revealing that the Israeli army kidnapped 312 Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, occupied…
[Thursday, May 1, 2014] The Legal Unit at the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) stated that hunger striking political prisoner, Adnan Shanayta, stopped drinking liquids, protesting abuse at the Tal HaShomer…
During a special conference on the Palestinian detainees, held Wednesday, April 30, 2014, in Beirut – Lebanon, former Palestinian political prisoner, Palestinian researcher Abdul-Nasser Ferwana, presented a detailed document regarding…
On Sunday, April 27, 2014, four Palestinian boys were detained in al-Khalil (Hebron), at checkpoint 55.Three Youth Against Settlements (YAS) volunteers tried to document the incident after arriving on the…
A Palestinian detainee identified as Adnan Shanayta, 25 years of age, was moved to the Assaf HaRofeh Israeli Medical Center after a sharp deterioration in his health condition resulting from…
A Palestinian lawyer was found dead in his apartment, on Tuesday, after being tortured during a 45-day detention by Israeli forces, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society.Amjad al-Safadi, aged 39,…
Held by Israel under arbitrary detention orders without charges or trial, 186 Palestinian detainees continued their hunger strike for the fourth day.In a press release, Sunday, the Palestinian Prisoners Society…
[Saturday, April 26, 2014] Nawal Saady, 53, wife of Islamic Jihad leader Bassam Sa’ady, was sentenced to five additional months, added to her already existing sentence of 20 months imprisonment,…
A driver for the Prime Minister’s Office was arrested in Jerusalem, three weeks ago, on suspicion of serially raping young girls between the ages of 8 and 12, it emerged…
Hanan Khatib, one of the lawyers of the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, stated Thursday that 15 ailing Palestinian political prisoners, held at the Ramla Prison Clinic, are facing deteriorating conditions…
[Thursday, April 24, 2014] The Ahrar Center for Detainees’ Studies and Human Rights has reported that the Israeli Prison Administration decided to move several detainees, including detained legislators, from the…
[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…