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Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, reported that hunger striking Palestinian detainee, Samer Al-Eesawy, expressed a conditional acceptance of an Israeli officer to end his strike in exchange for his…
Israeli forces on Friday detained a man from Battir village, west of Bethlehem. Forces detained Haidar Muammar,47, during after raiding his home at dawn.
A 14-year old boy from New Orleans, Louisiana was sentenced on Wednesday to a two-week term in an Israeli prison, after having been abducted on April 5th by Israeli forces…
Israel offered hunger striker Samer Isawia deal to exile him to a UN member or European country country.A spokesman to the Israeli prime minister said that an offer was presented…
Israeli forces detained on Friday two Palestinians at in Aboud village north of Ramallah. Israeli forces erected a checkpoint at the entrance of the village, and arrested 23-year-old Mahmoud al-Barghouthi…
The coordinator of the non-violent group called ‘Youth Against Settlements’ was abducted Wednesday by Israeli troops when he responded to a summons to appear at the police station at the…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped former political prisoner, Mo’taz Obeido, 32, from Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. Obeido suffered a disability after being shot by the…
Samer al-Essawy, who has been on hunger strike over 250 days, may die at any moment, according to his doctors. After examining Essawy on Sunday, the doctors reported that his…
The Palestinian ministry of justice announced on their website on Friday that the results of Abu Hamdiyeh’s autopsy will be revealed in the coming 24 hours. The ministry’s undersecretary said…
Israeli forces detained a Palestinian at Huwwara military checkpoint near Nablus on thursday.They claimed that the 35-year-old Palestinian from Balaa village was holding a sharp object at the checkpoint. Meanwhile,…
Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, stated that Palestinian detainee Maisara Abu Hamdiyya, 64, died at the Intensive Care Unit at the Soroka Israeli hospital on Tuesday morning suffering from…
Bethlehem Monday April 1, 2013, Palestinian Minister Of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, reported that the Israeli Prison Service admitted that there are 25 Palestinian detainees suffering from cancer, and are facing…
Saturday morning March 30, 2013, the Israeli Prison Administration moved ailing detainee Maisara Abu Hamdiyya, 62, to the Soroka Israeli hospital after suffering serious health complications. Israel did not reveal…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society reported on Wednesday that there are 5 Palestinian Prisoners still on hunger strike, the longest of which is Samer al-Essawy who has been on strike since…
Israeli court in Ofer extended the detention of journalist Mus’ab Shawer,22, from Hebron. A statement received by the prisoners club said that the court postponed the session to the 5th…
Israel on Wednesday released Palestinian Legislative Council member, Nayef ar-Rjoub after spending 28 months in Israeli Jails under administrative detention, Palestinian Prisoners Club reported. Ar-Rjoub was kidnapped from his Hebron…
Palestinian prisoner Samer al Isawiis near death, according to doctors, after spending 236 days without food to challenge the Israeli policy of ‘administrative detention’, in which Palestinians are imprisoned for…
Palestinian media sources reported that detainee Ayman Sharawna, who started his open-ended hunger strike after his arrest by the army, on July 1, 2102, was released by Israel but was…
A Palestinian prisoner from Bethlehem was released on Thursday evening after spending thirteen years at an Israeli Prisoner. 36 years-old Former prisoner Ashraf Jamil Milhim from Al-Duheisheh refugee camp in…
Maariv newspaper reported that Israeli police and the Shin Bit arrested what they called a’Terrorist’ Palestinian in the center of Tel Aviv after they raided his apartment on Thursday. Police…
The European Parliament decided to send a fact-finding mission to evaluate the conditions Palestinian detainees face in Israeli prisons, especially detained children and women.The mission’s visit comes a few weeks…
Monday evening March 11, 2013, the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported that the administration at the Ofer Israeli prison moved three hunger striking Palestinian detainees into solitary confinement. The PPS…
Lawyer Shireen Al-Eesawy, sister of hunger striking detainee Samer Al-Eesawy, from Al-Isawiyya in occupied Jerusalem, stated that her brother refused an Israeli offer to force him into exile in exchange…
The Palestinian Detainees Center reported Friday that, as the world and Palestine, mark the International Women’s Day on March 8th, Israel continues its violations against Palestinian women, and is still…
Israeli Police have detained two Palestinian youth from east Jerusalem on Thursday evening. Witnesses said that Israeli police obstructed a group of five Palestinian young men in Al-Swanah neighborhood in…
Israeli forces has released a Palestinian detainee from Hebron who was arrested on Monday. Minister of detainees Issa Qaraqe said that the prisoner who is physically disabled after being injured…
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) issued a report stating that Israel is mistreating Palestinian children it is holding in its detention and interrogation centers, and added that…
The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees reported that dozens of soldiers of the Nachshon Brigade invaded, on Monday night after midnight, sections 3 and 4 of the Ramon Israeli prison where…
The Al-Quds Center for Legal Aid and Human Rights issued a press release denouncing the Israeli Supreme Court that informed the Center’s lawyer, Haitham Al-Khatib, that the body of detainee…
Monday March 4, 2013, Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, stated that the Palestinian detainees in the Gilboa’ Israeli prison, are holding a one-day hunger strike, as an initial step,…
The Ahrar Center for Detainees Studies and Human Rights reported, Thursday, that Israeli soldiers kidnapped 382 Palestinians, including 10 women, in different parts of the occupied West Bank, and the…
Thursday February 28, 2013, The Ofer Israeli Military Court sentenced a Palestinian child to 19-months imprisonment allegedly for throwing stones at Israeli soldiers in Hebron, in the southern part of…
The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) reported on Wednesday evening that both hunger-striking detainees Samer Al-Eesawy and Ayman Al-Sharawna were moved to hospital suffering serious health complications.Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society reported Wednesday that detainees Ja’far Ez-Eddeen and Tareq Qa’daan, have suspended their hunger strike until March 6, the date set by the Ofer military court to…
Occupied Ramallah, 26 February 2013 – Addameer Prisoners’ Support and Human Rights Organization’s Documentation Unit confirmed that the number of prisoners on hunger strike in the Occupation’s jails has increased…
Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, reported on Sunday evening that the autopsy report of detainee Arafat Jardat, who died Saturday at an Israeli interrogation facility, revealed that the detainee…
Attorney Kamil Sabbagh, who represented detainee Arafat Jaradat, who died Saturday at an Israeli interrogation facility, stated that Jaradat complained to him of sharp pain due to ongoing and extensive…
Saturday February 23, 2013; Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, stated that a Palestinian detainee held under interrogation at an Israeli detention and interrogation facility, died Saturday after being tortured…
Hunger striking Palestinian detainee, Samer Al-Eesawy, was sentenced Thursday by the Israeli District Court in Jerusalem to 8 months imprisonment starting from the date of his arrest on July 7,…
Ramallah-Jaffa, 20 February 2013 – Addameer, Al-Haq and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-Israel) express their grave concern for the health of four Palestinian hunger-strikers and outrage at the continued use…
The Maan News Agency reported that the Palestinian Authority (P.A) in the West Bank is holding indirect talks with Tel Aviv in an attempt to resolve the crisis of Palestinian…
On Tuesday February 19, head of the Legal Unit of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), Lawyer Jawad Boulos, reported that the Israeli District Court in Jerusalem rejected an appeal for…
Letter from prisoner Samer Al-Isawi; as it came from the Ministry of prisoners: I turn with admiration to the masses of our heroic Palestinian people, to our Palestinian leadership, to…
Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, reported Sunday that hunger striking detainee, Ayman Sharawna, was moved to the Soroka Israel hospital in Be’er As-Sabe’ (Beersheba), due to a serious deterioration…
Wednesday February 13; Israeli soldiers invaded Beit Duqqu village, northwest of occupied East Jerusalem, broke into and searched several homes and kidnapped ten Palestinians.Local sources reported that dozens of Israeli…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported Wednesday that 360 Palestinian detainees will be holding a one-day hunger strike in solidarity with the hunger striking detainees.The strike will be conducted on…
The Ahrar Center for Detainees Studies and Human Rights reported Monday that tension is mounting at the Eshil Israeli detention center after Israeli soldiers broke into the detainees’ rooms and…
Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, reported that the Israeli violations against the Palestinian detainees are seriously escalating, an issue that could push the detainees to conduct an open-ended hunger…
Akram Rikhawi finally tasted freedom today after Israel released him from nearly a decade of imprisonment. Rikhawi had gone on and off hunger strike since last April in protest of…
Wednesday February 5 2013; The International Solidarity Foundation for Human Rights reported that an Israeli court decided Wednesday to release hunger striking detainee Akram Reekhawi, likely on Thursday.The Foundation said…
Palestinian Human Rights and Political activist Samer Jaber submitted a letter to the US Consul General in Jerusalem Michael Ratney during his visit to Bethlehem on Tuesday.In his letter, which…
The Ahrar Center for Detainees Studies and Human Rights reported that the Israeli Prison Administration is denying the Palestinian political prisoners access to books and educational materials.The Center said that…
Palestinian political prisoner, Ayman Sharawna, resumed his open ended hunger strike, that he suspended less than a month ago, due to a very serious health deterioration and while awaiting trial.…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported, Monday evening, that a former Palestinian political prisoner from Hebron, died at a hospital in Jerusalem after falling into a coma 50 days ago…
Saturday January 19, Palestinian detainee Samer Al-Eesawy, was moved from the Ramla Prison Clinic to the Assaf Harofeh Israeli hospital, after a sharp deterioration in his health condition due to…
Palestinian detainees, held at the Israeli Eshil prison, declared hunger strike in protest to the transfer of 27 detainees into solitary confinement, and to the ongoing violations carried out by…
Wednesday January 16; the Israeli District Court in Jerusalem denied an appeal filed by the defense attorney of hunger striking detainee, Samer Al-Eesawy, requesting the court to void its deliberation…
Despite the rain and extreme weather conditions, undercover soldiers of the Israeli Prison Administration broke into section 15 of the Ofer Israel Prison, and attacked several detainees.The detainees said that…
Lawyer of the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, Fadi Obeidat, stated that Israeli physicians at the Ramla Prison Clinic decided to amputate the left leg of detainee Nahedh Al-Aqra’, 41, from…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) – Hebron branch, reported Sunday that the Israeli army kidnapped since the beginning of this month 88 Palestinians in the southern West Bank city of…
The Palestinian Detainees Studies Center reported that the Israeli Salem military court sentenced three Palestinian children from Azzoun town near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, to four months…
Palestinian Minister of Detainee, Issa Qaraqe’, stated that hunger striking detainee Ismail Sharawna, who started his hunger strike more than 162 days ago, and is facing serious health deterioration, decided…
The Palestinian Ministry Of Detainees reported that this year witnessed a sharp increase in Israeli violations against Palestinian children, and said that Israeli soldiers kidnapped this year 900 Palestinian children…
Former Political Prisoner, Palestinian Researcher, Abdul-Nasser Farawna, stated that Israel is currently holding captive 4600 Palestinians, including 182 children and 11 women, in addition to 1200 detainees who are ill,…
The Ahrar Center for Detainees Studies and Human Rights reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, since the beginning of this month until Tuesday December 18, 173 Palestinians in different parts of…
Israeli soldiers of the Nachshon Brigade attacked hunger-striking detainee, Samer Al-Eesawy, and his family when he tried to salute them as he was being taken into court. Al-Eesawy has been…
The International Solidarity Foundation for Human Rights issued a press release revealing that 18 seriously ill detainee, permanently at the Al-Ramla Prison Clinic are facing life-threatening conditions due to the…
The Husam Society for Detainees and Ex-detainees reported that Israeli soldiers subjected wives and mothers of Palestinian detainees to illegal strip search before they visited their detained family members on…
The Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association (Ad-Dameer) said that it is deeply concerned regarding the lives of Palestinian detainees who are conducting extended hunger strikes in Israeli prisons, especially…
The Palestinian Detainees Research Center published a report on Sunday revealing that Israeli soldiers kidnapped 650 Palestinians in November; adding that 85 women and 7 children were among the kidnapped…
Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHR) issued a statement revealing that an independent PHR doctor visited hunger striking detainee, Ayman Sharawna, who has been on hunger strike for 141 days,…
Urgent Alert: Ayman Sharawni, day 129 to the Hunger Strike is still prevented from seeing PHR Israel’s independent doctor.Today is Ayman Sharawni’s 129th day of hunger strike, the longest hunger…
The Israeli Internal Security Services, Shin Bet, claimed that it managed to arrest a Palestinian from the Gaza Strip who allegedly participated in transferring large sums of cash for the…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Thursday evening, Dalaal Zamel, the mother of detainee Mahran Abu Khamis, at a flying checkpoint installed west of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Soldiers…
The Ahrar Center for Detainees’ Studies and Human Rights reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped 292 Palestinians in October from different parts of the West Bank, including 26 children.Fuad al-Khuffash, head…
Palestinian political prisoner Hasan Safadi was released from an Israeli detention facility, on Monday, after being detained for 16 months under administrative detention without charges or trial; he held two…
Palestinian detainee, Ayman Ash-Sharawna, has been on hunger strike for 115 days, and stopped drinking water on Wednesday, escalating his strike as Israel still refuses to release him, and due…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported on Wednesday evening that ailing Palestinian detainee, Mohammad At-Taj, imprisoned by Israel is facing deteriorating health conditions and requires urgent specialized medical attention.The PPS…
Palestinian sources reported that the Israeli side informed the Egyptian mediator that the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu approved the return of 18 West Bank detainees, who were deported to…
Palestinian sources reported the health condition of isolated detainee, Engineer Dirar Abu Sisi, 43, has sharply deteriorated at the Asqalan (Ashkelon) Israel prison, and added that he currently suffers from…
The family of Sheikh Hasan Yousef, an elected Palestinian Legislator of the Change and Reform Bloc of the Hamas movement, stated that Yousef is facing a deteriorating health condition in…
The International Solidarity Foundation for Human Rights reported that Palestinian detainees, Mohammad Rafeeq At-Taaj, 42, imprisoned at the Hadarim Israeli prison was moved to hospital due to a sharp deterioration…
Former Political Prisoner, Palestinian Researcher, Abdul-Nasser Farawna, issued a report marking the 12th Anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Intifada (September 28 2000), and said Israeli soldiers conducted more than 75.000 arrests,…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped a Palestinian woman from occupied East Jerusalem while she was trying to visit her sons detained at the Eshil Israeli Prison In Beershiva (Be’er As-Sabe’). The army…
Palestinian Minster of Detainee, Issa Qaraqe’, reported Thursday that arrangements are being conducted to transfer ailing hunger striking detainee, Samer al-Barq, to Egypt after a sharp decline in his health…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) demanded Israel to release Kamal Salah Al-Husseini who, on September 9, was taken prisoner by Israeli soldiers during clashes that took place in occupied East…
Head of the Legal Unit at the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), Jawad Boulos, stated on Monday evening that hunger striking detainee, Samer Al-Barq, was moved to the Intensive Care Unit…
Three men on hunger strike to protest the conditions of their imprisonment by Israel are near death, according to a Red Cross spokesman who spoke with Agence France Presse on…
Dirar Abu Sisi, the 43-year-old deputy engineer of the only power plant in the Gaza Strip, went on a one-day hunger strike Thursday to protest against being held in solitary…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPPS) reported, Thursday, that detainee Hasan Safady was moved to the Assaf Harofeh Israeli hospital after his health condition witnessed a sharp deterioration following 85 days…
Ramallah, 12 September 2012 – Addameer is deeply concerned that the lives of the three remaining Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli prison are in immediate danger as their prolonged hunger…
Imprisoned Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Ahmad Saadat, stated during a court session at the District Court in Jerusalem, that “Zionist leaders, and leaders…
Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Al-Haq and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-IL) fear for the lives of the three remaining Palestinian hunger strikers held by Israel.Of utmost concern…
Egyptian daily, Al-Ahram, reported that the case of the Israeli spy, Odah At-Tarabeen, imprisoned in Egypt, has surfaced again after the Israeli Radio reported last Tuesday that Israel is willing…
The Israeli Military Court at the Salem military base, north of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, sentenced, Thursday, a 16-year-old Palestinian child, from Ya’bod village, near Jenin, to…
5 years ago, Yahya Ahmad (28) was arrested while trying to cross the border fence to search for work in Israel. He was subsequently sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment…
The detainees clashed with the soldiers for approximately two hours after the army tried to force them to undergo a strip search in Ramon prison. Seven detainees were injured, and…
Samer Isawiwas freed from Israeli prison after last year’s exchange of a captured Israeli soldier for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. But today he is awaiting hearings in two Israeli courts,…
Syrian political prisoner (from the occupied Golan Heights) Sidqi Suleiman Al-Maqt will be released from Israeli prison Wednesday after 27 years in captivity. Al-Maqt is currently 45 years old.Born on…
The Israeli Radio reported Monday that the Israeli army and security forces kidnapped in May four Palestinians who allegedly planned to kidnap Israeli soldiers in order to trade them with…