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The Tulkarem office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported that female detainees in Telmond Israeli detention facility are facing repeated attacks and abuse by Israeli troops, and that these…
Many Palestinian children in Israeli Telmond Prison are being exploited by “forced labor in which they must work eight hours for a few shekels,” as reported by the Prisoners Information…
A report prepared an published by the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees revealed 700.000 (25% of the total population) Palestinians were taken prisoners by Israel in the occupied territories. According to…
The head of a Palestinian Presidential Security force, 'Force 17', was taken prisoner by Israeli forces Tuesday at an Israeli checkpoint outside the city of Nablus in the West Bank,…
The Israeli military court of Ofer near the West Bank city of Ramallah extended, on Thursday, the detention of 16 Palestinian law makers taken prisoners by the Israeli army during…
A Palestinian Prisoner Society lawyer was told by political prisoner, Samir Fahami Ibrahim Taher, of his experiences of psychological and physical torture at the hands of the Israeli prison administration.…
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismael Haniya said on Monday that Israel has negotiated with the PA spokesman Ghazi Hamad over the release of the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, Palestinian sources…
Wife of detainee Younis Kawazia, from Sa'ir village, in Hebron, said that the Red Cross office informed her on Saturday that he husband was transferred to an Israeli hospital after…
An Israeli court charged on Wednesday the head of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Dr. Aziz Dweik, with membership and and activity in “an outlawed organization”, referring to the Islamic Resistance…
A statement issued today by the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs denounced the violence being carried out by the Israeli army against unarmed people and Palestinian representatives. “…The…
Protesting naked body searches practiced by the prison authorities at the Israeli Negev detention camp against the relatives of the detainees, at least 2400 detainees announced hunger Strike on Tuesday…
Israel released Palestinian Cabinet Minister Mohammad al-Barghouti on Monday after detaining him for about six weeks. Barghouti is the fourth Cabinet minister to be released. Another four ministers and some…
An Israeli military court sentenced a Ukrainian female detainee to twenty consecutive years after charging her with transferring a bomber to Israel. Her Palestinian husband, is currently imprisoned by Israel…
The Information of Office of the Fateh Movement is calling for public attention to ’s policy of arresting women and girls intended to pressure other Palestinian political prisoners. Wednesday’s…
In a statement released yesterday, the Palestinian Prisoners Society said that more than 30 Palestinian political prisoners in Jalameh Prison are carrying out a hunger strike in protest against harsh…
A delegation from the Nelson Mandela Foundation visited Palestinian political prisoners at two Israeli prisons over the weekend. The delegation visited the Hadareem and Telmond Prisons to investigate living conditions…
In an official report, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Israeli soldiers took 600 Palestinian residents prisoners since the abduction of the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit from a…
In an official report, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Israeli soldiers took 600 Palestinian residents prisoners since the abduction of the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit from a…
The Palestine News Network reported on Monday that at least 2320 detainees in the Israeli Negev detention Facility, announced a one day Hunger Strike in protest to the Israeli attacks…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) released a report stating there are currently dozens of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons who were arrested “in peace times” and before the Oslo agreements,…
An Israeli military court sentenced two young Bethlehem men to 21 life terms and additional 15 Ahmed Salah from Deheisha Refugee Camp, 24, and Zaher Mekdad from Bethlehem City, 26,…
Palestinian detainees in Shatta Israeli detention facility continued their hunger strike for the fourth consecutive day in protest to the bad living conditions and bad treatment they face. Head of…
Human rights sources reported that upon expressing a sense of hope at the Lebanese capture of two occupying Israeli soldiers, Israeli prison authorities cut all television channels in its prisons…
Palestinian prisoners at the Israeli military detention center Hawara in the West Bank City of Nablus went on a hunger strike Wednesday to protest an Israeli higher court of justice…
Israeli forces are preventing lawyers and family members to visit Palestinian political prisoners in the Salem Prison, west of Jenin in the northern West Bank. In response, the imprisoned people…
In a press conference held on Sunday in Ramallah, 14 year old Iman, the daughter of a Palestinian held in an Israeli prison, revealed the contents of a letter which…
A press release issued by the Media Office of the Islamic Jihad movement in the West Bank revealed that prison administration and soldiers at the Megiddo Israeli detention facility broke…
In the Negev Desert, 1,200 Palestinian political prisoners have launched a hunger strike to protest the arbitrary practices of the prison administration praticed against them. The strike comes in the…
Israeli sources reported Monday night that the Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee passed a controversial bill that would significantly reduce the rights of Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails.…
Inside sources told the Palestine News Network Monday that negotiations on securing the release of an Israeli soldier captured by Palestinian resistance fighters are underway. The soldier was captured during…
Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a Hamas leader imprisoned by Israel, dismissed reports by the Israeli daily Haaretz in which the paper claims he said Hamas would negotiate with Israel. Haaertz reported…
Palestinian Prisoners Society reported that Palestinian detainees in Al Maskobiyya Israeli Prison in Jerusalem are facing bad treatment, torture and are suffering from deteriorating mental and health condition as a…
The Palestinian Prisoner Society )PPS) is currently preparing to send a delegation of lawyers to visit Palestinian political prisoners in Al Naqab (Negev Desert) Prison inside southern Israeli borders. The…
Israeli soldiers deported on Tuesday detainee Rasmi Subaih, 24, from the West Bank city of Tulkarem, to Gaza after detaining him in the Negev Administrative Detention Facility without trial for…
The Prisoner Supporters Society released a statement Sunday indicating that the Israeli Prison Administration is barring visits to the Palestinian political detainee Ibrahim Hamid, member of the Al Aqsa Brigades,…
Five months after Israeli soldiers arrested a Palestinian Lawyer, the Israeli Salem Military Court sentences him on for eleven consecutive months, the Palestine News Network reported. The lawyer, Dirar Moneer…
Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), Mustafa Al Azmouty, said that the conditions at Salem Israeli detention camp, west of the West Bank city of Jenin, are sharply deteriorating,…
An Israeli military court extended Administrative Detention of several young Palestinians formn the West Bank, Palestinian sources reported. Under thjis military order, Palestinians are subject to a renewable detention without…
Palestinian political prisoner, General Fuad Shobaki, denies reports attributed to him by Israeli prison authorities. During interrogations, Israeli forces claim Shobaki confessed to weapons smuggling. Shobaki is one of the…
The Nablus office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported that the detainees in Huwwara Israeli detention facility, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, are suffering from bad…
Israeli soldiers attacked on Tuesday several detainees in Al Damoun detention facility after breaking into a section of the facility and violently attacking and beating them, causing several injuries. Al…
The Prisoner Support Society reported Tuesday morning that political prisoners in Israeli Al Damoun detention facility are being repeatedly attacked by the soldiers, while their lawyer are not allowed to…
The US-led political and economic blockade continues, yet contrary to popular belief, it is not only affecting Palestinian Authority employees and the merchants they buy from. Palestinian organizations are also…
Israel on Wednesday released Palestinian journalist Awadh Rajoub after spending six months in jail for what the Israeli army describes as “security-related” violation. Rajoub, 28, was charged with harboring pro-Hamas…
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) leader Ahmed Sa’adat, seized during an Israel Defense Forces raid on a Palestinian jail last March, was indicted in a military court…
Palestinian detainees in Ofer Israeli detention facility, west of Ramallah, reported that one tent caught fire in the youngsters section at the Benjamin Israeli detention facility; the causes of the…
Detainee Abdul-Rahman Al Otewy, appealed humanitarian organizations to interfere for his release from Israeli prisons and transfer him to “anywhere in the world” since he is suffering a sever deterioration…
According to a report Monday morning, Palestinian police cannot provide food for prisoners detained in its prisons because there is no money to pay for it. In addition, a senior…
Apparently, chains became the daily companion of the Palestinian political prisoners, even when hospitalized and in need to surgery. Wajeeh Qawwas, mayor of Qalqilia who was elected while he was…
Female detainees in Telmond Israeli prison reported that they intend to organize a series of steps in protest to a decision of an Israeli court to separate detainee Manal Ghanim,…
Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) visited on Thursday several detainees in Huwwara detention facility, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, and met with several detainees who…
Defence for Children International- Palestine Section said that a five-year old boy was detained, together with his father, by Israeli soldiers for long hours under baseless pretexts on Wednesday. The…
The financial crisis facing Palestine due to the US-led economic boycott against the new Palestinian Hamas-led government has reached Palestinian political prisoners. Sources in the Palestinian political prisoner movement in…
Lawyer of the Prisoners Committee reported on Monday that Israeli prison Authorities barred him from visiting detainee Raja’ Al Ghoul who was transferred to Al Ramleh detention facility in spite…
Defense for Children International – Palestine section and the Arab human rights institution charged in a joint statement that the Israeli occupation government was escalating its arrests of Palestinian minors.…
A report prepared and published by the Palestinian Prisoners Society marking the Palestinian Prisoners Day (April 17) revealed that the number of Palestinian detainees who died in Israeli prisons and…
The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees’ Affairs reported that more than 9,400 detainees are still imprisoned in 28 Israeli prisons and detention facilities. A statistical report published by the ministry revealed…
9000 Palestinian detainees in 21 central Israeli prisons and detention facilities carried out on Sunday a one-day hunger strike in protest to the bad living conditions they face and the…
Before the Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons are transferred to court, they have to go through a long journey of hardships and suffering as a result of the Israeli measures…
The Palestine News Network received the following statement from the Sumoud Political Prisoners Group Monday, reprinted in full below. "Palestinian Legislative Council member and General Secretary of the Popular Front…
Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), Adel Khalaila, visited several detainees in Hadarim Israeli detention facility who informed him of the bad living conditions and treatment they face in…
The Palestine Net news network interviewed on Friday at noon, detainee Fuad Al Khafsh, deputy director of the Ministry of Detainees and x-Detainees, detained in the Negev detention facility. Al…
The Palestinian Legislative Council will form a panel to investigate last week’s Israeli raid on a Jericho prison. The committee will submit its findings to the parliament within 10 days.…
In honor of Mother’s Day in Palestine this year, the “Never Forget” Organization in Jenin Refugee Camp opened a handcrafts bazaar. Hundreds gathered for the opening with the National anthem,…
Over the last several days, Israeli Authorities have ruled to extend the administrative detention of more than 60 Palestinians in the Negev Prison Camp, a camp made up mainly of…
Qassam Abu Baker, 16, from Yabad village, near the West Bank city of Jenin, lost his finger during investigation in Israeli detention center of Salem. Qassam’s brother Rami said that…
On the eve of March 8th, International Women’s Day, 116 female detainees are still imprisoned in Israeli prisons and facing ongoing violations of their rights and inhuman living conditions, says…
Rajaa Al Ghoul, a Palestinian prisoner being held by Israeli forces, has a heart condition which, combined with abuse and sub-human living conditions in the prison, have caused her health…
Israeli authorities transferred Sheikh Hassan Yousef, one of the West Bank’s most prominent leaders and a Member of the Legislative Council, from Askalan prison to the Negev Prison camp, where…
A new report by Defense for Children International revealed that Israeli forces have arrested over 200 Palestinian children in the last two months, holding them in adult facilities with no…
Detainee Itaf Oleyyan told Ahmad Al Khateeb, the lawyer of Risalat Al Hoqouq Center that she has been on hunger strike for the last eight days in protest of the…
The Detainees Media Center reported on Monday that 2098 detainees are currently imprisoned in twenty sections, at the Negev detention facility.According to data collected by the center, 859 of the…
Mohammad Mansour, a Palestinian organiser for non-violent resistance to the Israeli occupation, faces trial Thursday for allegedly engaging in an ‘illegal protest’ with the International Solidarity Movement in 2004. In…
Wednesday morning, Israeli Prison Authorities released a jailed Palestinian legislator, and extended the the detention of another elected legislator for an additional eight days. The two legislators are members of…
Israeli army released on Monday Ezziddin Amarna, 35, a blind detainee, from the Hadarim detintion facility after spending five years in prison. He was arrested at his house in the…
The Palestine News Network reported that the prison administration in Hasharon Israeli detention facility have carried out repeated attacks against the Palestinian detainees, and recently broke into their cells. On…
Lawyer of the Hebron office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), Hasan Al Sheikh, visited on Tuesday several detainees in Gush Azion detention facility who informed him of daily violations…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) appealed to humanitarian organizations, locally and internationally, to pressure the Israeli authorities to stop the violations and abuse carried against Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons…
Conditions in the Israeli Telmond Prison are deplorable for the women being held there, according to Hanan Al Khatib, a lawyer with the Palestinian Prisoner Society who was able to…
Dozens of Palestinian detainees of Al Aqsa martyrs brigades imprisoned in the Palestinian Authority prison in the West Bank city of Jericho announced, on Friday, that they intend to quit…
The Palestinian Maan News Agency reported on Tuesday that the Prisoners Media Center announced that 2200 Palestinian detainees in the Israeli Negev Detention camp began a hunger strike on Tuesday.…
Detainee Ahmad Yousef Al Tameemy, 45, from Ramallah, demanded through his lawyer Johana Lehrman, who represents Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, the disqualification of Judge Noga Ohad of the Tel Aviv…
Family of detainee Sami Ismail Al Fawaghrah, 42, from Bethlehem, voiced an appeal to local and international human rights organizations to save the life of their detained son, who is…
The Palestinian Ministry of Interior reported, on Wednesday, that a Palestinian officer died in Soroka hospital in Be’er Shiva, of wounds sustained last month during a raid against drug dealers…
Detainees in the Negev detention facility reported that several detainees were infected with scabies disease, while the prison administration is not providing them with the needed medical treatment and medication.…
Palestinian detainee Baha’ Ahmad Al Arameen, 23, from Al Ezariyya town, near Jerusalem, said that he was extremely clubbed and hit by the soldiers after arresting him from his home…
Family of detainee Dhirar Ahmad Ibrahim, 28, from Kafer Ra’ey, near Tulkarem, appealed humanitarian organizations, locally and internationally, to pressure the Israeli Authorities in order to provide their ailing detained…
The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees and Freed Detainees, reported on Sunday that Israeli soldiers arrested 3495 residents in 2005, from several Palestinians areas; 1600 of them remained in custody. An…
Israeli soldiers supported by ten armored vehicles and jeeps, invaded Atteel village, north of the West Bank city of Tulkarem and arrested eight residents. A local source in Atteel reported…
Israeli Prison Authorities barred visitations of detainees imprisoned in Gilboa’ and Shatta detention facilities, and informed the Red Cross of the decision without providing any further details. Families of dozens…
The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees and Freed Detainees, reported that 9200 Palestinian detainee are still detained in more than 28 Israeli prisons, detention facilities, and interrogation centers. The ministry released…
Forty-two detainees of the Islamic Jihad, and thirty detainees of Al Aqsa Brigades, the military wing of Fateh movement, detained by the Palestinian Authority (P.A), started on Saturday morning, an…
The Salem Israeli military court, refused on Friday to release detainee Moath Nassar, 23, from Tulkarem, after spending three years in administrative detention, and transferred him for interrogation. The Maan…
Israeli Prison Authorities in Hasharon detention facility barred, on Thursday, the family of detainee Hani Tawfiq Mansour, 27, from visiting him after confining him to solitary imprisonment. The detainees informed…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) demanded placing the detainees files, imprisoned in Israeli prisons and detention facilities, in front of the International Court of Justice, in Lahai, in order to…
Mustafa Maloukh, 18, from Ramallah submitted a sworn testimony to the lawyer of Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, who visited him recently. The attorney preferred to remain unnamed in the report issued…
Prisoners and detainees at the Damoun prison expressed their deep concern for the life of detainee Ra’fat Amin Mohammed Turkman, from the village of Bier Al Basha near Jenin. Turkman…
Israeli Internal Security Minister, Gideon Ezra, replied to a petition filed by an Arab member of the Knesset, Dr. Azmi Bishara, regarding closing Al Damoun detention facility as a result…
The Palestinenet news website reported that Abdul-Rahim Mallouh, the jailed member of the executive committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, vice-secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine,…
An Israeli Court sentenced, on Sunday, the Palestinian jailed legislator Husam Khader to seven years imprisonment and additional seven years on parole. Coordinator of the Popular Committee for defending Khader,…