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Jamal Farag, a 40-year old Palestinian journalist currently being held without trial in Israeli detention, has declared an open hunger strike in the Israeli Al Naqab (Negev) Prison. He is…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) published a report on the living conditions of the Palestinian detainees in the Israeli Be’er Shiva and Nafha prisons. According to the report, the detainees…
Detainee Rabee' Ali Hussein Ali, was paralyzed after soldiers fired on November 24, 2006, several rounds of live ammunition at him, one of the bullets directly hit his spine causing…
Israeli Prison Administration (IPA) at the Negev detention facility confined seven Palestinian detainees to solitary without any apparent reason. The detainees were informed that they will be moved to another…
Detainee Amna Mona, has been confined to solitary since October 5, 2006, and is facing very harsh conditions, humiliation and deprived of her internationally guaranteed rights, the Palestinian Prisoner Society…
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders considered Israeli detention of a Palestinian Human Rights fieldworker a flagrant violation of article 9 of the International Covenant on Civil…
During an Israeli court session for the abducted Palestinian ministers and legislators, Palestinian Minister of Finance, Dr. Omar Abdul-Raziq, addressed the court through his lawyer Usama Al Sa'ady, complaining from…
After months of postponements due to lack of evidence, the Israeli Salem Military Court once again put off the trials of elected Palestinian officials this afternoon. The Palestinian Authority Ministry…
A resident of Aida Refugee Camp one of thousands Palestinians with stories of abuse endured in Israeli prison. Mahmoud Ahmed Abu Salem testified under oath to a Palestinian Prisoner Society…
Palestinian Legislator, head of the detainees committee at the Legislative Council, Issa Qaraqe', said that the number of Palestinians being taken prisoner by Israeli forces has sharply increased as the…
Israeli authorities released on November 6, 2006, detainee Marwan Ali Jabbour from Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. He was taken prisoner by Israel on the…
Egyptians detainees continue their hunger strike in Israeli prison in protest of being held without a legal cause or trial. On Saturday the Egyptian Consul in the Egyptian Embassy in…
The Palestine News Network reported on Monday that seven Egyptian detainees imprisoned by Israel in the Negev Detention Camp continued their hunger strike for the thirteenth day in protest of…
Leftist member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Khalida Jarrar, confirmed late Sunday that an Israeli military court postponed sentencing of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Secretary General Ahmed…
In what the Palestinian government is calling an attempt to undermine the release of its 73 ministers and mayors from Israeli prison camps, Israeli forces invaded the Palestinian city of…
The Ramattan news Agency reported that Israeli soldiers detained on Tuesday afternoon the Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Wasfi Qabha, and two of his aides at the Betunia checkpoint, west of…
Palestinian child detainees held by Israel are facing harsh and unbearable conditions. They are subjected to living conditions that lack the basic rights guaranteed by the International Law and the…
Dozens of Palestinian detainees imprisoned in several Israeli prisons and detention centers appealed humanitarian organizations to interfere and practice pressure on the Israeli Prison Authorities in order to provide them…
Palestinian prisoners, who have recently been released from the Israeli detention Centre in the Prisoners in Negev detention centre mistreated on a daily basis. The Negev detention centre, which…
Israeli prison officials announced Thursday that they will transfer all Palestinians arrested at the Huwwara checkpoint in the northern West Bank city of Nablus to the feared Qedumim Prison east…
For the third consecutive time, the Israeli Prison Authorities renewed the Administrative Detention order against detainee, Efat Oleyyan, 42, for additional six months without pressing any charges against her or…
The Israeli Prison Administration (IPA) threatened to bar all detainees in all 28 Israeli prisons and detention facilities from receiving visitors after soldiers stationed at two facilities claimed to have…
Prison administration of the Israeli Nahfa detention camp, in the Negev Desert, barred on Monday the detainees from their visitation rights until further notice. The families, travelling under difficult conditions…
Palestinian detainees in Nigaze Israeli detention center said on Monday that 11 Egyptian political detainees continued today their hunger strike that started one week ago. The 11 detainees were taken…
Israeli forces invaded the city of Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank Wednesday and killed one resident and took four prisoners. At dawn, Israeli soldiers killed Jericho…
Ramah Habayib, a freed female detainee from Nablus city, in the northern part of the West Bank, said that female detainees in Telmond Israeli detention facility, were harshly attacked on…
A final agreement over the release of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit will be reached within two weeks, according to senior Hamas official Ahmed Yousef. Shalit is to be freed…
Palestinian political prisoners jailed in Al Naqab Prison in the Israeli Negev reported that they are suffering severe food poisoning, which is preventing them from participating in the Ramadan fast. …
Syrian-based Hamas leaders restated their demands Thursday that mediators first secure the release of Palestinian prisoners; only then would they free captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shilit. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert…
Palestinian deputy Prime Minister, Nasser Ed-Deen Al Sha'er, was released on Wednesday after the Israeli Petah Tikva court ordered his release. Yet, Al Sha'er will not be allowed to enter…
The Israeli army took prisoner seven residents of the city of Hebron and the nearby Ithna village. Local sources reported that troops stormed the village of Ithna near Hebron and…
Eyad Nakhla, a resident of Al Jalazun refugee camp in the West Bank city of Ramallah, was prohibited by Israeli soldiers from visiting his detained brother in the Nafha Israeli…
In an urgent letter sent by the detainees to the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), the detainees in Be'er Sheva Israeli prison appealed human rights organizations to save the life of…
Detainee Suad Abu Hamad, from Nazareth, said that female detainees in Telmond Israeli prison are facing harsh procedures and collective punishment after the prison administration claimed that two detainees attempted…
Since the Israeli occupation in 1967, Israeli forces have arrested 700,000 Palestinian residents of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem according to a report issued Tuesday by the…
Despite the Israeli military court’s decision last week to release 18 detained Hamas officials, the court at the Ofer military base withheld its final decision, which was supposed to be…
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,…