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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…
Israeli authorities, on Wednesday, agreed to free two Palestinian Jerusalemites on the condition that they be deported from Jerusalem, a prisoners’ committee spokesman said.Amjad Abu Asab, a spokesman for a…
[Saturday January 11, 2014] The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees has reported that Palestinian political prisoners held at the Israeli detention facility ‘Ramon’ started a hunger strike to protest the latest…
[Thursday January 9, 2014] Six people from Jerusalem, Salfit, Jenin, Ramallah and Hebron were arrested by Israeli forces today, according to local and security sources. A Palestinian boy from Himza,…
Freed detainee, Naim Shawamra, was moved to a hospital in Jordan after Israeli authorities finally granted the approval, following extended delays, Palestinian officials in the occupied West Bank said.Palestinian Minister…
The following is an excerpt from an extensive article, posted on January 1, 2014, by the Electronic Intifada, detailing the thoughts of former Palestinian prisoner and hunger strike leader Samer…
Nahshon Israeli forces raided, on Tuesday, Ramon Israeli prison, breaking into Section 2 and assaulting prisoners.The Palestinian News Network (PNN) reports that, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), the…
[Tuesday at Dawn, December 31, 2013] Israel released 26 veteran Palestinian detainees, as part of the third phase of releasing all detained Palestinians held by Israeli since before the first…
[Monday December 30, 2013] Israeli forces have arrested six Palestinians in the West Bank cities of Hebron and Bethlehem, in addition to four others from Jerusalem, according to security sources,…
Israel will be releasing, on Monday [December 30, 2013], 26 veteran Palestinian detainees who have been held since before the first Oslo agreement of 1993. The detainees will be released…
Israeli forces arrested three youth from Bethlehem and Hebron, early Sunday, according to security sources.Israeli forces arrested youth in their early 20s, according to the sources, after raiding and wreaking…
[Friday December 27, 2013] The Census Department of the Palestinian Ministry of Detainee published its annual report stating that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, this year,3874 Palestinians, including 931 children. Four detainees…
[Wednesday December 25, 2013] Israel is expected tp release a group of Palestinian prisoners, all of which have been in jail since before 1994. The release is to take place…
[Monday December 23, 2013] Different Palestinian factions in occupied Palestine congratulated Samer Al-Eesawy, who was released from an Israeli detention facility on Monday, after conducting a 9-month hunger strike.The factions…
Israeli authorities have released Monday evening (23rd December) the Jerusalemite prisoner, Samer Issawi, who engaged in one of the longest hunger strikes in history after spending more than 11 years…
[Monday December 23, 2013] Samer Issawi, iconic Palestinian political prisoner and hunger strike organizer, was released today, following over 17 months in Shatta Prison.Family members said that Israeli forces raided…
More than a dozen people from different areas of the West Bank were arrested by Israeli forces, Monday, December 23, according to security and local sources.Among the detainees are five…
[Thursday, December 19, 2013] Israel said that it would be handing over, to the Palestinian Authority (P.A) in the West Bank, the remains of 36 Palestinians buried in the Numbers…
Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PSS), Hanan Khatib, has reported that the health conditions of two Palestinian detainees have sharply deteriorated, due to lack of adequate and specialized medical…
The Israeli Ofer Prison administration has transferred the prisoner Mutassim Samara, a leader in the Captive Movement, to Megiddo prison, after being moved from Negev to Ofer Prison only one…
[December 11, 2013] AIC (Alternative Information Center) — Shaykh Sayah Atouri has returned to his home in the Naqab (Negev-area) village of Al Araqib, Tuesday, after winning his appeal to…
[Tuesday, December 10, 2013] Marking The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Adopted by the UN on December 10 1948), the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israel is ongoing…
The Palestine Center for Detainees Studies has reported that detainee Hussein Mohammad Amro, who suffers with diabetes, is refusing to take insulin in protest of his continued detention. Two detainees…
Palestinian Researcher specialized in detainee’s affairs, Abdul-Nasser Farawna, stated that the Israeli occupation army is still holding captive 4,900 Palestinians in 17 prisons, prison camps, detention and interrogation facilities. Among…
Detainees held at the Majeddo Israeli prison are facing a severe health crisis, due to the lack of adequate medical treatment by the prison, reports the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS).In…
Palestinian detainees held at the Israeli Asqalan Prison have started an open-ended hunger strike, after special units of the Israeli army invaded the prison on Monday, November 18, 2013, the…
[Saturday November 16, 2013] The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that the current number of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel under arbitrary Administrative Detention Orders, without charges or any due…
The Israeli government is considering forcing Palestinian detainees from Jerusalem and historic Palestine into exile should they be released under an agreement with the Palestinian Authority.The detainees have been imprisoned…
[Tuesday Morning November 4, 2013] The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that detainee Hasan Abdul-Halim Toraby, 22 years of age, died at the Al-‘Affoula Israeli Hospital, after being denied…
The Palestine Prisoners Center for Studies have reported that the Ofer Israeli Military Court sentenced detainee Hussein Ali Qawasma, from the southern West bank city of Hebron, to a life…
[Wednesday at Dawn October 29, 2013] Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, various officials and thousands of Palestinians welcomed 21 veteran Palestinian detainees, released from Israeli prisons, as part of diplomatic moves…
A Palestinian child, identified as Mohammad Mahdi Suleiman, 15 years of age, could face a life-term by an Israeli court for “throwing stones at the soldiers, and endangering their lives”.The…
[Tuesday October 29, 2013] Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, stated that Israel will be releasing the second phase of detainees, 26, held by since before the First Oslo Agreement…
The Israeli Ministerial Cabinet held a meeting on Sunday, to discuss the release of 26 Palestinian detainees as part of direct talks with the Palestinian Authority, and determined the names…
The Israeli government decided to release the remains of 36 Palestinians, buried at the numbers graveyard. The remains are for Palestinians involved in bombings and attacks; the decision angered the…
Israeli daily, Maariv, has reported that the Israeli cabinet will be holding a vote on a new law meant to prevent the government from releasing Palestinian political prisoners. The votes…
Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, stated Monday [October 21, 2013] that Israel will be releasing the second phase of Palestinian detainees on the agreed upon time, October 29. The…
[Wednesday October 16, 2013] Dozens of Israeli soldiers broke into the Negev detention camp, allegedly to install new iron gates, leading to clashes with Palestinian detainees who protested the move.Palestinian…
The Palestinian Ministry Of Detainees issued a press release revealing that Israel is currently holding captive 5200 Palestinians in 17 prisons, detention camps, and interrogation facilities.It said that this year…