PPS: “Detainee Who Died Last Week, Was Hit On His Spine, Neck”
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported that detainee Raed Abu Hammad, who died on April 16, was hit by Israeli interrogators on the center spine and the back on his…
Former Minister Of Detainees Released From Israeli Prison
The Israeli Authorities released on Wednesday former Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Wasfi Qabha, who was arrested along with several Hamas ministers and elected officials last year. After his release, Qabha…
Israel To Deport A West Bank Detainee To Gaza
The Israeli Authorities decided to deport a detainee from Kafr Thuluth town, near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, to the Gaza Strip. 14 other detainees will also be…
Family Of Dead Detainee Demands Investigation
The family of detainee Raed Abu Hammad, from Al Ezariyya town in east Jerusalem, demanded a full investigation into the death of their sign who died last Friday at an…
On Prisoners Day: 8500 Detainees Still Imprisoned By Israel
As the Palestinians mark the Palestinian Prisoners Day on Saturday March 17, at least 8500 detainees, including women and children, and several legislators and officials, are still imprisoned by Israel…
Gaza; Thousands Protest Against Israeli Deportation Orders
The Hamas and Islamic Jihad Movements organized on Thursday massive processions in the Gaza Strip in solidarity with the Palestinian detainees imprisoned by Israel, and against Israel’s decision to deport…
Detainee Dies Friday in Israeli Cell
Issa Qaraqe’, head of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported Friday that a detainee died at the Be’er Sheva Israeli prison after the Israeli authorities placed him in a cell…
Nine Detainees Could Face Deportation
The Israeli Authorities decided to send nine Palestinian detainees to court although they served their terms, under the pretext that they do not carry Identity Cards. The nine detainees will…
Palestinian Political Detainees Start A Hunger Strike
Thousands of Palestinian political detainees imprisonned by Israel started on Wednesday an open hunger strike. According to the Prisoners Center for Studies, around eight thousand Palestinian detainees being held in…
Israeli Court Convicts Arab Youth Of “Collaborating With The Enemy”
The Israeli Central Court in Petah Tikva convicted on Tuesday an Arab detainee from the Al Teera City, north of the country, of “collaborating with a foreign enemy” and providing…
Detainees Hunger Strike Starts Wednesday
Palestinian detainees imprisoned by Israel confirmed that Wednesday would be the first day of their hunger strike after the Prison Administration refused to recognize their legitimate demands. This is a…
PCDD: “340 Children Still Imprisoned By Israel”
The Palestinian Center for Defending the Detainees (PCDD) issued a press release on Monday stating that Israel is holding captive nearly 340 Palestinian children, depriving them of their basic rights…
Jailed Fateh Leader Gets PHD
Imprisoned Fateh leader, Marwan Barghouthi, serving five consecutive life terms in Israeli prisons, obtained his PHD degree in Political Science.Israel kidnapped the Palestinian official, an elected legislator, and accused him…
Israel To Deport Ukrainian Detainee
Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, stated that detainee Irena Sarahna from Ukraine, and married to a Palestinian from the Duheisha refugee camp in Bethlehem, was officially informed by the…
Soldiers Attempt to Strip-Search Five Palestinian Women
Five Palestinians women preferred to go home rather than heading to an Israeli prison to visit their detailed family members after Israeli soldiers stationed at a Roadblock near the central…
Imprisoned Qassam Leader Calls For Capturing More Soldiers
Abdullah Barghouthi, imprisoned leader of the Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, stated that the solution to the issue of thousands of detainees imprisoned by Israel is by…
Israeli Police Kidnaps Two Children in Hebron
The Israeli Police kidnapped recently two brothers, ages 11 and 12, in Tal Romedia neighborhood, in the central of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.Local sources reported that the…
Israeli High Court Refuses Appeal To Remove Saadat From Solitary Confinement
The Israeli High Court rejected, on Thursday, an appeal to remove the detained Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Ahmad Saadat, from his solitary confinement…
Israel Release Hamas’ Spokesperson In Tulkarem
The Israeli Authorities released, on Wednesday, Sheikh Abdullah Yassin, the spokesperson of the Hamas movement in Tulkarem, in the northern part of the West Bank. Yassin was imprisoned by Israel…
12-year-old Child To Be Prosecuted As An Adult By An Israeli Military Court
The Israeli Authorities decided to file charges against a 12-year-old Palestinian child from the southern West Bank city of Hebron after arresting him and charging him with throwing stones at…
Abbas Instructs Erekat To Ensure The Release of An Ailing Detainee Imprisoned By Israel
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported that President Mahmoud Abbas instructed head of the Negotiations Department at the Palestinian Liberation Organization to act on the release of a sick detainee…
Palestinian From Hebron Sentenced To Three Years For Faxing Death Threat To Netanyahu
Israeli Ynet News reported, Wednesday, that a Palestinian man from the southern West bank city of Hebron was sentenced to three years for sending a fax to Israeli Prime Minister,…
Female Activist Kidnapped By The Army
The Ahrar Center for Detainee Studies stated that the Israeli army detained, on Monday, Montaha Taweel, 45, an activist who works to defend the rights of the Palestinian detainees, and…
More Detainees Seeking Higher Education
The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) reported that more Palestinian detainees, imprisoned at the Ramon Israeli prison, are joining the Hebrew Open University. The detainees are also holding seminars and educational…
Report: “7300 Detainees, Including 33 Women And 300 Children, Still Imprisoned By Israel”
Former prisoner, researcher and the head of the census department at the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, Abdul-Nasser Farawna, stated in a comprehensive report that there are currently 7300 Palestinians imprisoned…
Netanyahu To Release Hundreds of Palestinian Detainees
The Israeli paper Haaretz reported on Friday that Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, made a decision to release hundreds of Palestinian detainees belonging to the Fatah political party. This proposition…
German sources: Israel-Hamas prisoner swap deal about to collapse
According to the German paper Der Spiegel, a prisoner swap deal between Israel and the elected government of the Palestinian people (represented by the Hamas party) was about to collapse…
Israeli Officer Arrested For Taking Bribes From Palestinian Detainees
The Special Investigation Unit of the Israeli army arrested on Friday morning an Israeli military officer on suspicion that he took bribes from Palestinian detainees at the Negev detention camp…
Indictment Filed Against Two East Jerusalem Youths
The Israeli prosecution at the Central Court in Jerusalem filed on Thursday an indictment against two Palestinian youths from East Jerusalem, for allegedly planning to attack Israeli soldiers at the…
PPS: “More Sick Detainees In Deteriorating Conditions”
A lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) visited a number of sick detainees imprisoned by Israel at a number of detention facilities, and stated that there is an increasing…
Detainee Seriously Wounded Due To Torture
The Detainees Media Committee reported that a Palestinian detainee was seriously wounded due to extreme torture by Israeli interrogators at the Salem detention camp in the northern part of the…
Israel To Exile15 Detainees
The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees filed an appeal to the Israeli High Court demanding it to void a decision aimed at exiling15 Palestinian detainees who have already served their terms…
Hamdan: “Shalit Talks Ongoing”
Osama Hamdan, a political leader of the Hamas movement, stated Saturday that indirect talks on a prisoner-swap deal are very tough, but are also still ongoing behind closed doors. Hamdan…
Amnesty International calls for immediate release of 3 Palestinian non-violent organizers
The international human rights organization Amnesty International issued a press release Friday saying that Israeli authorities must immediately release, or bring before a fair trial, three Palestinian human rights activists…
PFLP member sentenced to Five Life-Terms
An Israeli Court in Jerusalem sentenced on Friday Ahed Abu Ghalama, head of the military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), to five life-terms and…
Israel charges peace activist with “arms possession” for picking up spent Israeli tear gas canisters
After holding anti-Wall protest organizer Abdullah Adu Rahma in prison for over a week without charges, Israeli authorities have decided to charge him with “arms possession” for picking up spent…
Report: Israel’s proposal to exile certain prisoners in swap deal is ‘acceptable’ to Hamas
According to a report in Israeli media sourced only from anonymous Israeli government sources, the Palestinian government led by the Hamas party may accept a plan by the Israeli government…
Israeli Ministers Meeting Ends With No Agreement On Shalit Deal
Israeli Sources reported Monday that Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, held a meeting with Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, Ministers Dani Yaalon, Dan Meridor, Benni Begin and Eli YIshai, and Israeli Army…
Prisoner Exchange Deal Stalled As Israel Refuses To Include Hamas Leaders
Last week’s hopeful talk of a prisoner exchange between Israel and the Palestinians has grown into increasing frustration this week as the negotiators failed to reach a compromise agreement.Today, the…
Israeli High Court Upholds Ban On Family Visits To Prisoners
Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip who had appealed to the Israeli High Court to be allowed to visit their family members held in Israeli detention camps faced disappointment on…
Once Again, High Court Affirms No Visitations For Gaza Detainees
The Israeli High Court of Justice approved a military decision to continue disallowing families of Palestinian detainees from Gaza, from visiting their detained loved ones. The decision was made late…
Hamas: “We Are Waiting Israel’s Response On Shalit Deal”
Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, stated Thursday that it waiting Israel’s response on Shalit deal and that Israel can decide whether the prisoner of war returns home by the beginning on…
Al Maqt, A Detainee Behind Bars Since 24 Years
Former detainee, specialist in Detainees’ Affairs, Abdul-Nasser Farawna, stated that detainee Sidqi Al Maqt, from the Golan heights, is hoping a prisoner-swap deal would free him after 25 years in…
French Medical Crew Examined Shalit
The Al Hayat newspaper, based in London, reported that four French physicians examined the captured prisoner of war, Gilad Shalit, in the Gaza Strip last week marking the first time…
Hamdan Denies Shalit Was Moved To Egypt
Osama Hamdan, a political leader of the Hamas movement, denied reports claiming that the prisoner of war, corporal Gilad Shalit, was moved to Egypt as part of the efforts to…
Abuse Continues Against Families Visiting Their Detained Loved Ones
Several parents of Palestinian detainees imprisoned by Israel complained of ongoing harassment and abuse against them while trying to visit their detained loved ones. The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) reported…
Kuwaiti Paper: “Shalit Already In Egypt, Countdown Started”
The Al Jareeda Kuwaiti newspaper reported that countdown for prisoners swap has already started as the captured Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, is already in Egypt accompanied by the head of…
Hamas Official: “Swap-deal Reached An Advanced State”
A senior Hamas official stated Tuesday that a prisoner-swap deal between Israel and Hamas managed to reached an advanced level that requires both sides to make decisive and difficult decisions.…
Israeli secret agency defends use of torture
he Israel Security Agency, Shin Bet, responded to a petition in Israel’s High Court on Monday, defending their use of torture against detainees. OSCAILTIMAGE(attachments/dec2009/torture_technique.jpg 300 0) Image Caption Goes Here…
Israeli Soldiers Get ‘Slap On The Wrist’ For Force-feeding Detainees
Four Israeli soldiers who were caught abusing and forcefeeding Palestinian detainees were sentenced Monday by a military court to a demotion of one rank and a small fine of less…
400 Detainees Approved For Release, Talks On 50
A senior Hamas source stated that the movement and Israel agreed during indirect talks on 400 names of Palestinians detainees who would be released in return for the release of…
Israel To Release 980 Palestinian Detainees For Shalit
Israel decided to release 450 Palestinian detainees as part of a prisoner-swap deal to secure the release of the captured soldier, Gilad Shalit, and would also release additional 550 detainees…
Ala’ Jaradat of Addameer on Palestinian prisoners
This is a one-hour audio interview with Ala’ Jaradat about the conditions facing Palestinian political detainees – including family visitation, administrative detention, imprisoned children and women, and mothers whose children…
Detainee To Be Allowed To Receive Medical Treatment Abroad, Won’t Be Allowed Back
Palestinian sources reported Wednesday that the Israeli Authorities decided to release detainee Akram Oneiter, 25, who will be receiving urgent medical treatment abroad under the condition that he does not…
More Than 370 Children Currently Imprisoned By Israel
Riyadh Al Ashqar, head of the media department at the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees in Gaza, stated that Israel is currently holding captive more than 370 child detainees under the…
Blind Detainee Moved To Interrogation
The Media Committee of Hamas political prisoners stated that detainee Ebada Bilal, 30, from the northern West Bank city was moved last week to Petah Tikva Israeli interrogation facility and…
Israel Renews Administrative Detention Against Member Of Nablus City Council
The Tadamun (Solidarity) human rights institution reported that the Israeli Prison Authorities renewed the administrative detention against member of Nablus City Council, Dr. Majida Fidda, for additional three months without…
Shalit deal could reached Friday
Moneer Mansour, head of the Friends of the Palestinian Detainee Society, stated that a prisoner-swap deal between Israel and Hamas could be executed on the eve of the Al Adha…
Cats Are Illegal; A Potential Terrorist Threat
The Israeli Prison Administration at the infamous Negev detention camp decided to banish and punish wild cats for befriending Palestinian political prisoners and providing them with light services. It seems…
Believed To Be Dead Since 40 Years, Detainee Seen Alive
The family of Mohammad Issa Abu Ghaniyya, believed to be dead since 1969, stated that they were recently informed that some detainees saw their son alive at the Karmonid Israeli…
Palestinians Behind Bars with No Recourse to Justice
Hundreds of Palestinians are kept behind bars in Israel without charges having been filed and with no access to a fair trial. Not even their lawyers are allowed to look…
Israeli Central Court Rejects An Appeal To Remove PFLP Leader From Solitary Confinement
The Israeli Central Court in Be’er Sheva rejected an appeal filed by the lawyer of the detained Secretary-General of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Ahamad Saadat,…
Voice Of The Detainees Radio Officially Launched In Gaza
For the first time, a Palestinian radio only specialized for the detainees affairs, was officially launched in the Gaza Strip challenging Israel’s restrictions on visitations and communication between the families…
Farawna: “8200 Detainees Still Imprisoned By Israel”
Palestinian researcher, specialized in detainees’ affairs, former detainee, Abdul-Nasser Farawna, stated Saturday that 8200 Palestinians are still imprisoned by Israel, among them 32 female detainees, 320 children, and 400 imprisoned…
Nobel prize winner calls for release of Palestinian prisoners
The Israeli scientist who recently had the honor of being the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for Chemistry said that she believes Israel should release the eleven thousand…
Israel Releases Two Detainees From The Golan After 25 Years Imprisonment
The Israeli Authorities released on Thursday two detainees from the occupied Golan Heights after imprisoning them for 25 years for resisting the occupation.The two, Bishir Al Maqt and Asem Al…
Palestinian peace activist imprisoned after advocating boycott against Israel
Israel has extended the detention of a West Bank peace activist, who Palestinians claim is being imprisoned solely for his advocacy of international boycotts against Israel.Mohammad Othman, a 33 year…
Two Palestinian political figures released, with preconditions
The Israeli police released on Sunday evening Hatim Abdul-Qader, head of the Jerusalem branch the Fateh movement, and Sheikh Kamal Al Khatib, deputy head of the Islamic Movement in Israel,…
Soldiers detain 70 workers packed in a refrigerator truck
Israeli soldiers detained on Sunday 70 Palestinian workers packed in a refrigerator truck and heading to Israel seeking work. Israeli sources reported that the workers and the truck driver reportedly…
Israel releases female detainee from Gaza, the last of 20 included in swap deal
The Israeli Authorities released on Sunday Rawda Habib, the last of 20 female detainees freed in exchange for a videotape clearly showing the captured Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, is still…
Abu Mujahid: “Israel would have killed Shalit if it knew his whereabouts”
Abu Mujahid, spokesperson of the Popular Resistance Committees, stated that Israel is bitter for failing to receive any information about the location of the captured soldier, Gilad Shalit, and that…
PA Ministry of Detainees: “40 Palestinian women still imprisoned by Israel”
The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees reported Saturday that after releasing the 20 female detainees in exchange for a videotape of Shalit, Israel will still be holding captive 40 Palestinian women…
Shalit Video For The Release Of 20 Female Detainees
Israeli sources reported Wednesday that the Israeli cabinet approved the release of 20 Palestinian female political prisoners in exchange for a video that proves without any doubt that the captured…
Abbas: “No peace agreement until all detainees are freedâ€
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, said during a welcome ceremony to 199 Palestinians who were freed by Israel on Monday, that there will be no peace deal with Israel until all…
The Israeli Bar Association: “Many Palestinian detainees are in solitary confinement since 5 years’
The Israeli Bar Association issued a report on the Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons and revealed that there several detainees who spent many years in solitary confinement without any legal…
Israel releases 199 Palestinian prisoners
Israel has released 199 Palestinian prisoners on Monday morning ahead of a visit to the region by Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state. Palestinian sources reported. The Israeli cabinet…
Israel to release 199 Palestinian detainees on Monday
The Israeli Authorities are to release 199 Palestinian detainees on Monday morning at 9:30, as a gesture of “good will” towards the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas. The release of the…
PRC welcomes the upcoming release of detainees, maintains firm position on swap deal
Abu Mojahid, media spokesperson of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) welcomed the upcoming release of Palestinian detainees imprisoned by Israel, and stressed the Committees’ firm position regarding a prisoner swap…
Half of the detainees Israel intends to release will finish their terms by next year
The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees reported on Tuesday that nearly half of the detainees that Israel intends to release as “a good will gesture” will finish their terms in 2009.…
Al Jazeera demands an Israeli apology
A lawyer for the Qatar-based Al Jazeera News Agency demanded that the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, apologize for publishing a faulty report in its printed and online editions. The report in…
Al Qassam: “Abbas and Fayyad are obstructing an honorable prisoner-swap dealâ€
The Al Qassam Brigade, the armed wing of Hamas, stated on Monday that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and his Prime Minister, Sr. Salaam Fayyad, are obstructing all efforts to achieve…
Israel approves release of 200 Palestinians
The Israeli ministerial committee on Palestinian prisoners is scheduled to meet on Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to approve release of approximately 200 prisoners. The Israeli cabinet approved…
Jordan to release four prisoner who were detained by Israel
An senior Jordanian official stated on Friday that the Jordanian government decided to release four prisoners who were transferred from Israel to Jordan more than a year ago during talks…
Suleiman demands Israel conclude Shalit negotiations within three months
Egyptian Intelligence Chief, Omar Suleiman, demanded Israel to speed up talks on the file of the captured Israeli Soldier, Gilad Shalit, and reach a prisoner swap deal with the Palestinian…
Israeli ministerial committee recommends release of 150 prisoners
An Israeli committee recommended on Monday that Israel release 120 to 150 Palestinian prisoners who do not ‘have blood on their hands’. The recommendation was made following a promise by…
Al Qassam Brigades: “Prisoner swap will only be conducted by our termsâ€
The Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, stated on Saturday that its demands for a prisoner swap deal are nonnegotiable, and added that no matter what Israel tries,…
150 Palestinian prisoners in Israel to be released before September
150 Palestinian prisoners are to be released from Israeli prisons at the expected date of 25 August, though names have not yet been released. Local sources reported. Minister of Prisoner…
Detainees in Huwwara on hunger strike in protest to medical negligence
One of the Lawyers of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported on Wednesday that the detainees imprisoned at the Huwwara Israeli prison announced a hunger strike in protest to medical…
Israel releases 5 Palestinian prisoners in final stage of Hezbollah prisoner exchange
The Israeli daily Haaretz news reported on Wednesday morning that Israel released five Palestinian prisoners as part of a swap deal with the Lebanese Hezbollah group that brought back the…
Detainee with cancer reaches critical condition due to medical negligence
One of the lawyers of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) met with Palestinian political detainee Jamal Darabia, 35, from Gaza, imprisoned in Eshil Israel prison, who is suffering from cancer…
Five detained legislators wounded while being transferred to court
Palestinian sources reported that five Hamas legislators, imprisoned by Israel, were wounded while being transferred to an Israeli court as the military truck driver kept stepping on the breaks without…
Female member of Nablus city council moved to administrative detention
The Ahrar Center for Detainees’ Studies reported that the Israeli Authorities transferred Kholoud Al Masry, 42, member of Nablus City Council, to administrative detention after a decision from a judge…
Ahrar Center: “Four detainees and their wives are imprisoned by Israelâ€
The Ahrar Center for Detainees’ Studies slammed the ongoing Israeli imprisonment of thousands of Palestinians and stated that there are four detainees and their wives who are imprisoned by the…
Army court sentence a Palestinian farmer to 100 days in detention
The Israeli army court of Ofer sentenced on Tuesday Jamal Canaan, 50 from the village of N'ilin, located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, to 100 days in…
Israel considers compromise in prisoners swap deal
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has announced that he is willing to form a comittee to re-examine the criteria that have hamstrung prisoner swap negotiations with Hamas. Israeli Daily Ha’aretz…
Palestinian Prisoners Society meets to support prisoners
About fifty members of the Palestinian Prisons Society met nearby the Red Cross headquarters in Bethlehem at 11 am on Thursday. The Society meets once or twice a month to…
The Ofer Military Court extends remand of a Palestinian author
The Ofer Israeli military court, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, extended the remand of Palestinian Author and media writer Mohammad Al Qeeq for the fourth time since…
Haniyya cheers coming prisoner swap deal with Israel
The Prime Minister of the dissolved government of the Palestinian people, Ismail Haniyya, stated Monday that the Palestinian people will soon celebrate a dignified prisoner swap deal, adding that the…
Diplomatic sources: Israel may be willing to trade Barghouthi for Shalit
According to a report leaked by diplomatic sources close to Egyptian mediators, the Israeli government may be willing to release jailed Palestinian resistance leader and former Presidential candidate Marwan Barghouthi…
Thirteen detainees wounded in Majeddo prison
In a letter that was leaked on Wednesday from the Majeddo Israeli prison, the detainees stated that Israeli soldiers broke into the prison and attacked them with batons and clubs.…