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The Ofer Israeli military sentenced a Palestinian writer from Al Yamoun village, near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, to six months under administrative detention without any charges. The…
An official at the International Red Cross stated on Monday that all visitations for Palestinian detainees imprisoned by Israel were suspended until further notice. The official added that the…
Monqith Abu Roomy, director of the Media Office at the Asrana (Our detainees) Center, stated that he was contacted by two detainees who informed him of torture and abuse during…
The Ahrar Center for Detainees Studies reported that an unidentified virus infected several detainees who are already sick and hospitalized at the Al Ramla Israeli prison hospital which already lacks…
The Ahrar Center for Detainee’ Studies reported on Tuesday that the Israeli Prison Authorities transferred the Lebanese detainee Naseem Nasr, to administrative detention after he served a six-year term.The Center…
Media Office of the Nafha Society for Defending Detainees Rights and Human Rights published a report on Saturday stating that Israeli occupation forces kidnapped 250 Palestinians since the beginning of…
More than 11,000 prisoners in Israeli jails. Among them, Marwan Barghouti, candidate to the PNA PresidencyAn appeal by Members of the EU Parliament: «Justice for the Palestinian prisoners » Published…
The Municipality of Qalqilia city, in the northern part of the West Bank, voiced on Tuesday an appeal to several human rights groups to save the life of its Wajeeh…
One of lawyers of the Palestinian Prisoners Society visited Gilboa’ Israeli prison and met with a number of Palestinian detainees who informed him of ongoing violations and of urgent cases…
Family of detainee Othman Mohammad Abu Khurj, 38, from Zababda village near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, said that their son is facing gradually deteriorating medical conditions after…
The Nafha Society for Defending Human Rights and Detainees Rights reported on Saturday that the Israeli Prison Authority issued administrative detention orders against 23 without charges of trial.One of the…
Palestinian detainees imprisoned in Ofer Israeli prison issued a press release on Friday confirming their unity regardless of the political affiliation and demanding internal unity among all Palestinian factions. In…
The Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported on Wednesday that Palestinian detainees imprisoned in Megiddo Israeli detention facility will launch a one-day hunger strike on Thursday marking the Palestinian Prisoners Day.The…
The Nafha Society for Defending Detainees Rights and Human Rights reported on Thursday that one of the lawyers of the Palestinian Prisoners Society was sentenced to six months in administrative…
As Palestinians marked the Prisoners National Day on Thursday, official records showed that Israel still holds 9750 Palestinian political detainees. Since 1967, when Israel occupied the West Bank and the…
Each year, April 17th marks Palestinian Prisoners' Day, in which the Palestinian population remembers the 11,500 Palestinians currently imprisoned by the Israeli occupying forces. In Bethlehem, the commemoration started a…
Lawyer of the Nafha Society for Defending Detainees Rights and Human Rights, reported on Tuesday that the Israeli Authorities released on Monday evening reporter Amjad Zamil after one-year imprisonment.Zamil, from…
The Ahrar Center for Detainees’ Studies reported on Tuesday that the Israeli Authorities released Palestinian legislator Sheikh Hamid Al Beetawi, on Tuesday evening after nearly one year imprisonment. Al Beetawi,…
The Israeli Shin Bet Security Services admitted on Sunday that the Israeli army is arresting relatives of Palestinian political prisoners and interrogating them in order to “extract confessions from the…
The Media Office of Asrana (Our Detainees) Center slammed the prison administration at Eshil Israeli detention facility for issuing an order barring 40 detainees from Jerusalem from their visitation rights…
Palestinian researcher and specialist in the detainees affairs, Fuad Al Khuffash, prepared and published a comprehensive report on the Palestinian detainees and the conditions they are facing in Israeli prisons,…
Female detainee Shereen Mohammad Hasan, from Bethlehem city, voiced an appeal to several human rights groups to intervene for her release in order to receive adequate medical treatment, as she…
Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, stated on Sunday that Israel rejected offers made by the movement for an Egyptian mediated temporary cease-fire. Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported that the deputy head…
The Israeli military court of Salem in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, remanded on Sunday custody of seven Palestinian detainees of the Jenin city. Lawyer Mustafa aL-Azmouti told…
Several Human Rights groups and the family of detainee Yousef Al Shomaly,48, from Beit Sahour, near Bethlehem, voiced an appealed to release Al Shomaly after his health condition had sharply…
Israeli police detained on Sunday four Palestinians in the Israel city of Tel-Aviv, Israel says were suspected of plotting an attack in the Bet Yam locality to the south of…
Abu Mujahed, the spokesperson of the Salah Din brigade, the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, stated in an interview on Thursday that there are no new developments in…
Lawyer of Al Hoqooq Center for Detainees Studies reported on Thursday that detainee Noura Al Hashlamoon, 37, a mother of six children, from Aqbat Tafooh area in the southern West…
Israeli District Court judge decided to release a Palestinian female detainee from the northern West Bank city of Nablus after she spent one month under interrogation without charges.The detainee, Tasneem…
The Nafha Society for Defending Detainees Rights and Human Rights reported on Wednesday that the Israeli Authorities release Dr, Ghassan Hamdan, a lecturer at Al Najah National University in the…
The Palestinian Popular (Folk) Committees issued on Tuesday a press release appealing the release of a Palestinian mother and her newly born child imprisoned at Hasharon Israeli detention facility.The Committees…
The Nafha Society for Defending the Detainees’ Rights and Human Rights, reported on Tuesday that the Israeli Prison Authorities issued orders extending the remand of eight detainees under administrative detention…
The Salem Israeli Military Court sentenced on Tuesday detainee Shabeeb Hasan, from Borqa village near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, to two years imprisoned and a 2000 NIS…
The Nafha Society for Defending the Rights of the Detainees and Human Rights reported on Monday that nearly 100 detainees are currently under interrogation in Al Jalama Israeli interrogation facility…
click here to listen to audio recording of interview (in arabic, with english voiceover) Q. Please introduce yourself for our listeners Fouad al-Khuffash, the Director of the Ahrar Center for…
One again, the world celebrates the International Women’s Day while dozens of Palestinian women and mothers are still imprisoned by the occupation, stripped of their fundamental rights of even hugging…
The Mandela Institute for Human Rights and Political prisoners made statements on the "steadfastness and sacrifices of Palestinian women who play an important and significant role in the Palestinian society…
Dr. Luay Shabana, head of the Palestinian Census Department, stated on Thursday that the Israeli occupation forces kidnapped more than 700 Palestinian women since the beginning of the Al Aqsa…
The Ahrar Detainees Study Center reported on Thursday that the Israeli Authorities deported a Palestinian female detainees to Jordan after subjecting her to nearly three months of ongoing interrogation. The…
The Palestinian Popular Committees issued a press release appealing International Organizations and the International Red Cross to intervene and save the life of detainee Shukry Jamil Yaish, 32, who is…
Dozens of residents, families of Jerusalem residents imprisoned by Israel, held a protest on Wednesday in front of the Red Cross in the city demanding an immediate probe into the…
The Nafha Society for Defending Detainees Rights and Human Rights reported that detainee Fadil Shaheen, 47, died of medical negligence at the Al Ramla Israeli Prison Hospital which lacks the…
One Palestinian political prisoner held in the Israeli desert detention camp of Bir-Shiva was pronounced dead on Friday morning due to medical negligence. Fadeil Shaheen, 48, from the Gaza Strip,…
The Palestinian Popular (Folk) Committees issued a press release appealing several human rights groups and the International Red Cross to intervene and save the life of a Palestinian detainee who…
The Israeli Authorities released professor Issam Al Ashqar, 50, from the northern West Bank city of Nablus after two years in administrative detention without trial.Professor Al Ashqar was kidnapped by…
The Palestinian Popular Committees issued a press release appealing Human Rights Groups and the International Red Cross to intervene and save the life of detainee Bassam Hafith, 38, who is…
One of the lawyers of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) visited a number of detainees imprisoned by Israel who informed him of the bad treatment and the continued negligence by…
The Israeli Army radio reported that a Palestinian underage detainee imprisoned in Ophic Israeli prison complained that he was raped by an Israeli prisoner, held for criminal charges and placed…
Israeli radio reported Monday that a prisoner swap deal between Israel and holders of Israeli soldier Gil’ad Shalit in Gaza is likely, as Israel gave consent to the release of…
The Media Department of the Nafha Society for Defending the Rights of the Detainees and Human Rights, reported that the Israeli army kidnapped 300 residents since the beginning of February,…
One of the lawyers of the Nafha Society for Defending the Rights of the Detainees and Human Rights managed recently to visit a female detainee, an activist in human rights,…
The Detainees Study Center reported on Thursday that the Israeli Prison Administration (IPS) started carrying transfers among Palestinian female detainee as several detainees were moved to different prisons. Ra'fat Hamdouna,…
One of the lawyers of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) visited a number of female detainees in Hasharon Israeli detention facility and met with a number of detainees who informed…
On the anniversary of the death of a Christian detainee who died in an Israeli prison twenty years ago, Abdul-Nasser Farawna, head of the Census Department at the Palestinian Ministry…
The Nafha Society for Defending Human Rights and the Rights of the Detainees stated that there are 41 Palestinian detainees who are currently hospitalized in Al Ramla Prison Hospital and…
On Tuesday afternoon the Israeli Central Court in Jerusalem sentenced Basil Asmar, to one life-term and additional twenty years for “participating in the assassination of the Israeli Minister of Tourism…
The Israeli Prison Authorities continues its violations against the Palestinian political detainees and continued to bar several sick detainees from their right to medical treatment, in addition to barring dozens…
The Palestinian Center for Detainees’ Studies issued a press release on Monday revealing that Israel is currently holding more than 365 Palestinian children captive in its prisons, including 100 children…
Family of detainee Zeidan Mohammad Zeidan, 22, from the northern West Bank city of Jenin, voiced an appeal to save the life of their detained son as he is seriously…
Palestinian humanitarian law organizations stated on Saturday that Israeli Authorities have stepped up policy of administrative detention.The sources said that 120 Palestinians have been kidnapped by the Israeli army from…
Detainee Mojahid Mustafa Qreeny, 25, from Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, was recently freed after five years in detention at the Shatta Israeli prison.…
Friends of Humanity International released today Wednesday a detailed report* about the condition of the Palestinian prisoners inside the Israeli jails in 2007. The report confirms that the imprisonment of…
One of the lawyers of the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) visited Al Ramla Prison Hospital on January 23 and managed to meet with a number of Palestinian detainees who are…
Palestinian sources reported on Tuesday that Israeli soldiers attacked detainee Woroud Qasim, 20, from the Arab town of Al Teera, as she tried to talk to her brother before the…
The lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society visited the Israeli detention center of Gilbo’a last week and met several prisoners revealing a seroius problem, a statement by the society stated…
One of the lawyers of the Palestinian Prisoners Society visited Hasharon Israeli prison on January 23 and met with a number of detainees, including underage detainees illegally imprisoned by Israel.…
This is not fiction or a tale meant for amusement or to make the reader sad; it is one of the real-time stories of the suffering of the Palestinian people,…
Family of detainee Ali Rajih Asfour, 31, from Ya’bod town near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, voiced an appealed to human rights groups to intervene for the release…
Palestinian political detainees, members of the Hamas movement, imprisoned in the Negev Israeli detention camp, announced that they will fast on Monday in solidarity with the residents in the Gaza…
Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, reported on Friday that detainee Fatima Al Ziq, from Gaza, delivered her baby, Yousef, in Kfar Saba Israeli hospital.…
Friends of Humanity International publishes a report about the tragic conditions experienced by the Palestinian isolated prisonersFriends of Humanity International issued today Sunday a report* about the Palestinian prisoners withering…
Family of detainee Saleh Dar Mousa contacted the Nafha society, which defends the Rights of Palestinian Detainees and Human Rights, and appealed them to intervene to save the life of…
The family of detainee Waleed Khalid Harb, 38, the director of Palestine Newspaper, from Iskaka village near the West Bank city of Salfit, appealed the International Journalist Union and Reporters…
Friends of Humanity International publishes a report about the tragic conditions experienced by the Palestinian isolated prisonersFriends of Humanity International issued today Sunday a report* about the Palestinian prisoners withering…
A poll released Friday revealed that 71% of Israelis would support a trade of Palestinian political prisoner Marwan Barghouthi, who is one of 10,000 Palestinians held in prison camps by…
Statistics issued by the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society about the number of abducted Palestinians in the past year in the Nablus district show that at least 700 were kidnapped. Ra’ed Amer,…
Bassel Asmar, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), was convicted Monday of being an accessory to the killing of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavem Zeevi…
The Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai on Monday called for the release of jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouthi in exchange for the release of an Israeli soldier captured by…
Hamed Al Bitawi, the Hamas Parliamentarian, was today moved from the Al Jalamah detention camp to an Israeli prison hospital after concerns over his health heightened. The Al Bitawi family…
The Hebron office of the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) reported that the Israeli army kidnapped 69 residents, including 11 children, from Hebron district in the southern part of the West…
Several detainees imprisoned by the Israeli Authorities at the Al Jalama interrogation facility reported that they are facing continuous attacks and inhuman treatment by the soldiers and interrogators.The detainees told…
The Popular Committees in Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, have appealed to the Red Cross and several Human Rights Groups to intervene in order to save…
Asem Dabaya, a released Palestinian prisoner from the northern West Bank city of Jenin, lost his eye during the interrogation he was subjected to an Israeli detention camp. Dabaya, 24,…
The National Committee for Defending the Palestinian Legislators slammed the Israeli authorities for extending the remained of Ahmad Sa’adat, Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)…
In a report released on Wednesday, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel accuses the Israeli intelligence services of the widespread torture of Palestinian detainees.The accusations contained within the report…
The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) issued a press release on Monday stating that the Israeli authorities have extended the detention of the head of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Dr. Aziz…
The Golan Heights Detainees Committee has issued a press release documenting the harsh living conditions that Syrian Detainees from the Golan Heights are facing in Israeli detention facilities.The Committee stated…
In the early hours of Saturday morning, Israeli forces surrounded the home of Palestinian Cabinet Minster Wasfi Qabha, who was eventually abducted and taken to an undisclosed location. Local sources…
The family of detainee Omar Kamal Abu Ni’ma, from Tulkarem refugee camp in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, has appealed to the International Red Cross and other human…
At least 25 Palestinian detainees were injured on Sunday in the Israeli Negev detention facility after Israeli soldiers attacked them with batons when they protested against the transfer of 250…
Under very difficult conditions, the three brothers Ra’fat, Izzat, and Mohammad Amin Turkman are imprisoned by the Israeli Authorities, while Ra’fat and Izzat are suffering from bad health conditions and…
Lawyer of the Nafha Society for Defending the Rights of the Detainees, Sana’ Dweik, stated that she met with three detainees in Holi-Qidar – Bir Sheva Israeli detention facility who…
Bothiana Douqmaq, and Hilal Jaber, lawyers of the Mandela institute reported that they managed to visit a number of detainees in Gilboa’ and Shatta Israeli detention facilities. The detainees complained…
Palestinian sources reported on Friday that one Palestinian detainee was recently transferred from Gilboa’ Israeli detention facility to an Israeli hospital when he was attacked last week by several Israeli…
“We want a solution, my brother was kidnapped by the army twenty years ago, and each time there is a prisoner swap deal, Israel excluded him. Through the years, Israel…
Monday morning, dozens of Israeli soldiers bro into the Gilboa’ Israeli detention facility, attacked rooms of Palestinian political detainees and fired rubber-coated bullets and gas bombs.Resident Nidal Yaghmour, the brother…
Lawyer of Mandela Institute Botheina Douqmaq, visited several detainees in the Nafha Israeli detention facility, and was informed by the detainees that they will hold a one-day hunger strike in…
A freed Palestinian detainee from Safareen village, near Tulkarem in the northern part of the West Bank, was barred from entering Jordan although he carries a Jordanian nationality.The detainee, Abdul-Rahman…
Israeli Prison Administration transferred Sheikh Mahmoud Al Sa’adi one of the jailed leaders of the Islamic Jihad, to Majeddo prison, after he spent four months under interrogation and torture at…