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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…
Lawyer of the Mandela Institute, Bothaina Douqmaq, visited the Dr. Aziz Dweik, the jailed head of the Palestinian Legislative Council, and a number of detained legislators and officials illegally held…
The Nafha Society which advocates the rights of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons and detention facilities called on human rights organizations to practice pressures on Israel to release an ailing…
Family of detainee Ali Hasan Odah, 27, from the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, appealed human rights organization, the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees and all institutions advocating the rights…
Um Da’oud (the mother of Da’oud) does not know how she can tell her son, Amer, who has been detained by Israel since seven years, that his father died, especially…
One girl has lost teeth, another is in poor health, and the rest live with back pain, serious skin diseae or other ailments. These descriptions are not of prisoners in…
The administration of the Ofer Israeli detention facility, near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, confined several detainees to solitary cells for objecting to the human rights violations against…
Palestinian residents, Arab nations and human rights groups in the Arab World are set to commemorate the Arab Prisoner Day on April 22, which is also the day when Sameer…
Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, lowered Wednesday expectations on the list of Palestinian prisoners, delivered by Egyptian mediators. The individuals named on thie list are part of a prisoner swap…
Thousands of Palestinian civilians and institutions marked Palestinian Prisoner's Day on April 17th by holding massive peaceful protests in support of the detainees currently being held by Israel. The protests…
Palestinian Arab member of Israeli parliament (Knesset), Mohammad Barraka, dubbed the Israeli regime on Tuesday a ‘terrorist state' in criticism of the Israeli position towards the Palestinian final status issue.…
Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniya, of Hamas, called Saturday for halt of all statements involving the prisoner swap proposal presented by Palestinians, via Egypt, to Israel. The prime minister stressed…
A report prepared and published by the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees revealed that Israeli troops kidnapped nearly 600 women since the beginning of the Intifada in September 28, 2000; 128…
Living in the Northern Mountain, overlooking the center of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and most of its neighborhoods, the family of detainee Sa’id Al Ataba, are still…
Detainee Samar Sbeih is one of several female detainees who gave birth in Israeli prisons and remained imprisoned with their children. She was taken prisoner three months after her wedding,…
Recently, a website affiliated with Hamas published a list of names of some detainees that Hamas is requesting to be freed as part of a prisoner-swap deal between Israel and…
Manal Ghanem, a 32 year-old woman, was eventually released on Sunday after having served almost 4 years in an Israeli jail. In the West Bank city of Tulkarem, where Mrs.…
The Israeli Daily Ma’areev published Sunday a list of names of the would-be released Palestinian prisoners in the framework of a likely Palestinian-Israeli prisoner swap deal. Ma’areev named 11 leading…
A report prepared and published by the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) revealed that Israeli troops shot and killed 860 Palestinian children since the beginning of the Intifada in September 2000.…
Palestinian political detainees in Gilboa’ and Shatta Israeli prisons complained that they are deprived from medical attention and treatment, and stated that several detainees are in immediate need for hospitalization.The…
Israeli TV, Channel 2, reported on Friday evening that Hamas reduced its demands on the number and names of detainees who should be freed in exchange for releasing the captured…
The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) published a report marking the Palestinian Child Day, which is celebrated every year on April 5th, and revealed that Israeli troops have taken prisoner 6,000…
The Nafha Society for Defending Human Rights and the Rights of Detainees stated that female Palestinian detainees are facing harsh living conditions in Israeli prisons, suffering from torture, repeated attacks…
In an interview with the Israeli TV, Channel 1, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday that the framework agreement for the release of the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit…
The Committee of Detainees, part of the Occupied Syrian Golan Coalition, reported on Monday that Israeli soldiers and security services broke last Wednesday morning into the cells of detainees from…
Abu Mujahid, spokesperson of the Popular Resistance Committees, one of three Palestinian groups holding the Israeli corporal Gilad Shalit captive since June 25 2006, stated on Friday that dramatic developments…
The Salem Israeli Military Court acquitted on Thursday Qassam Barghouthi, the son of jailed Fateh leader, Marwan Barghouthi, after two years imprisonment. His lawyer expects him to be freed next…
The Nablus-based Nafha Society for the Defense of Prisoners’ Rights reported that the 36 Palestinian MPs being imprisoned in the Israeli detention facilities of Majedo and Alramla, have been going…
Bethlehem resident Adnan Shnaith is imprisoned in Al Mascobia, or the Russian Compound, in West Jerusalem. He reported to a lawyer from the Palestinian Prisoner Society that since his detention…
Lawyer of Mandela Institute for Human Rights – Palestine, Botheina Doqmaq, stated that detainees living in solitary confinement in Israeli prisons are facing harsh living conditions and that they are…
Several Palestinian detainees imprisoned by Israel signed affidavits stating that they were tortured, harshly beaten and abused by Israeli soldiers and interrogators in several Israeli detention facilities, the Palestinian News…
Scores of Palestinian prisoners in Etzion Israeli military detention camp south of Bethlehem city, in the southern part of The West Bank, declared a hunger strike on Saturday. The action…
An Israeli online daily reported on Thursday that the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, expressed support for transferring four Jordanian detainees to their country of origin to continue the remainder…
On Tuesday the Mandela Prisoners Affairs Society learned that a female Palestinian prisoner, Rowayda Fraitekh, was exiled to Jordan by Israeli authorities after being imprisoned at the Telmond detention facility.…
The Israeli army took five Palestinian residents prisoner from different West Bank areas on Sunday, and barred the access of others. Mayor Amr Kashor of the Beit Elrosh village, south…
Palestinian detainees imprisoned at the Majeddo Israeli prison appealed to the international community to intervene in order to stop the continuous attacks carried out against them by the soldiers.Fateh movement…
Palestinian Legislative Council member in charge of the prisoner issue, Issa Qaraqa' received a letter from two political prisoners. Abu Ali Yatta and Jamal Huwail issued their statement from Israeli…
Palestinian journalist, Mohammad Fayyad, was released on Thursday from an Israeli prison after three years without any charges of trial. Fayyad, 39, from the Jenin refugee camp in the West…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society, PPS, reported that there are 900 Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons and detention facilities who require immediate medical attention and treatment. Some of the detainees were…