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On Monday, Israeli soldiers invaded and ransacked many homes of political prisoners and ex-detainees in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank, and confiscated cash and cars, the Wadi Hilweh Information…
RAMALLAH, Monday, June 26, 2023 (WAFA) – Marking the International Day Against Torture, which coincides, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said Israel continues to torture and ill-treat Palestinian detainees and…
Press Release By Ad-Dameer Prisoner Support And Human Rights Association: Breaking Point Reached: Mass Hunger Strike by Palestinian Administrative Detainees In Israeli Prisons Next Week. A breaking point has been…
The Israeli Prosecutor’s Office announced Tuesday that they will close the investigation into the killing of an 80-year old US citizen in the West Bank in January 2022, with no…
The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has reported that the ailing Palestinian detainees in the infamous Ramla Prison Clinic have decided to launch a hunger strike, protesting constant violations and bad conditions.…
Israeli forces abducted one Palestinian, on Thursday afternoon, and injured dozens of others in separate parts of the occupied West Bank, local sources reported. Soldiers stationed at a military roadblock…
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): May 2: Today in the morning, the death of the detainee Khader Adnan, who has been on a 87-day- hunger strike in protest…
Palestinian political prisoner Khader Adnan, 45, became the first Palestinian to die in a hunger strike protesting the Israeli occupation and illegal detention of thousands of Palestinian civilians. Khader Adnan,…
A blind Palestinian detainee who Israel imprisons continues a hunger strike he started eight days ago; protesting being held under the arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charges or trial. The…
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Palestinian political prisoner, Khader Adnan, continues the hunger strike for the 83rd day, despite his deteriorating health, protecting his continued detention. The…
On Thursday, the Israeli occupation soldiers and colonizers continued their aggression against the Palestinian people and their property. These attacks included settler attacks in which armed Israeli paramilitary settlers injured…
The family of ailing political prisoner Walid Daqqah stated that his wife and daughter, Milad, were able to visit him at the “Barzilai” Israeli hospital in Ashkelon, where he underwent…
Palestinian political prisoner Khader Adnan, from the town of Arraba, south of Jenin in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, continues his hunger strike for the 74th day,…
The Israeli occupation soldiers and settlers continued on Sunday, their aggression against the Palestinian people and their property, as the Israeli occupation forces abducted 23 citizens from the West Bank,…
The Palestinian Popular Struggle Front issued a statement on the occasion of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, which takes place on Monday April 17. The statement stressed the need to internationalize the…
On Sunday, the Palestinian Detainees Committee said that the health condition of the cancer-ridden detainee, Walid Daqqah, whom Israel has imprisoned for 38 years, is very serious. Committee spokesperson Hasan…
On Thursday night, Israeli soldiers abducted two Palestinian siblings from Ya’bad town, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and confiscated their car. Media sources said the soldiers…
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Sunday, a Palestinian young man from the al-Karama crossing east of Jericho in the Jordan Valley, while he was attempting to travel to Jordan, security…
On Saturday, Palestinian researcher in detainee’s affairs, Abdul-Nasser Ferwana, said the Palestinian administrative detainee in Israeli prisons, Khader Adnan, is ongoing a hunger strike he started on February 5th, 2023.…
Israeli soldiers stormed, on Thursday evening, occupied East Jerusalem, and abducted two Palestinian young men, according to local sources. The army invaded and ransacked the family home of Wadih Mahmoud,…
Israeli forces stormed, on Thursday evening, a Palestinian home in Khirbet Humsa Al-Tahta, a Bedouin village in the northern Jordan Valley, local sources reported. According to human rights activist Aref…
RAMALLAH, Sunday, April 2, 2023 (WAFA) – The health of Palestinian prisoner Walid Daqqa, who has been in Israeli prisons for 38 years, has been gradually deteriorating, according to the…
RAMALLAH, Tuesday, March 21, 2023 (WAFA) – As the world marks Mother’s Day, the Israeli occupation forces are holding five Palestinian mothers in jail for resisting the occupation, today said…
On Sunday, the Israeli occupation soldiers continued their daily aggression against the Palestinian people and their property. During an invasion of Huwwara, south of Nablus, Israeli occupation forces wounded a…
On Friday morning, Israeli occupation forces abducted two young men, Saher Awad Al-Salaymeh and Adam Mansour Al-Salaymeh, from Al-Ram town, north of occupied Jerusalem. In addition, Israeli occupation forces abducted…
JERUSALEM, Monday, March 13, 2023 (WAFA) – An Israeli court today extended the isolation of Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jails Ahmad Manasra, who was arrested at age 13 after being…
RAMALLAH, Monday, March 13, 2023 (WAFA) – The eldest serving Palestinian freedom fighter, Major General Fouad Shobaki, 63, was released from prison today after completing 17 years behind bars, according…
Palestinian Prisoners in the Israeli occupation prisons continued for the 27th day their steps of unified disobedience to the rules of the Israeli prison authorities, as a non-violent method of…
Israeli occupation soldiers and settlers continued their daily acts of aggression against the Palestinian people and property, injuring one young Palestinian with a rubber-coated steel bullet in the abdomen, causing…
On Saturday, Israeli occupation forces engaged in their daily invasion of Palestinian land throughout the West Bank, injuring a child and abducting several Palestinians after ransacking their homes. These invasions…
On Saturday, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said Khader Adnan, a political prisoner held by Israel, is ongoing with hunger strike he started 28 ago, protesting his ongoing solitary confinement.…
As countries around the world have moved to abandon the death penalty as cruel, ineffective, and costly, Israel’s elected right-wing government took a step in the opposite direction on Wednesday,…
On Friday, Israeli soldiers attacked a nonviolent procession near the Tayasir military roadblock east of Tubas in the northeastern West Bank. The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, the…
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that a detainee from Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, died at an Israeli medical center after he was…
The Jerusalem activist Mohammad Abu al-Hummus was released from Israeli custody Friday evening after having been arrested earlier Friday near Bab al-Amoud area (Damascus Gate) in occupied Jerusalem. According to…
On Tuesday, during an invasion of the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, Israeli forces abducted an Italian woman, a Palestine solidarity activist, beating and kicking her before taking her into…
TEL AVIV, Sunday, January 8, 2023 (WAFA) – Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir announced today that he is planning to cancel regulations that allow any lawmaker to meet…
‘ARA, Thursday, January 5, 2023 (WAFA) – Israeli authorities Thursday released the longest-serving Palestinian freedom fighter Karim Younis after spending 40 years behind Israeli bars. Younis, 66, from the Arab…
Just two days after her release from an Israeli prison and being denied medical treatment while imprisoned, a Palestinian female detainee with Hydrocephalus suffered a stroke and was rushed to…
Wednesday, December 21, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli “Defense” Minister Benny Gantz Wednesday morning decided not to return the body of a veteran prisoner who died in Israeli custody to his…
The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee confirmed Tuesday that the cancer-stricken Palestinian detainee, Nasser Abu Hmeid, imprisoned by Israel and serving several life terms, has died at an Israeli medical center. The…
JERUSALEM, Sunday, December 18, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation authorities have expelled French-Palestinian lawyer Salah Hammouri to France after he had been detained without charges or trial since March, said…
RAMALLAH, Sunday, December 11, 2022 (WAFA) – Nasser Abu Hmeid, 49, a critically ill Palestinian freedom fighter and cancer patient serving a life sentence in Israeli jails, was rushed to…
RAMALLAH, Tuesday, December 6, 2022 (WAFA) – The Israeli court decided today to continue retaining Palestinian-French human rights defender and administrative detainee, Salah Hammouri, 37, in Israeli jails until January…
On Wednesday, the Israeli Prison Authority informed imprisoned Palestinian-French lawyer, held under Administrative Detention without charges or trial, that it revoked his Jerusalem ID card and stripped him of all…
On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers attacked a Palestinian political prisoner held at the Negev Detention Camp, the uncle of two siblings killed by the army Tuesday, and forced him into solitary…
RAMALLAH, Monday, November 28, 2022 (WAFA) – Mohammad Masarwa, 25, from Tulkarem, lost sight in his right eye after the Israeli occupation soldiers assaulted him during his arrest at his…
On Monday, Israeli soldiers abducted a teenage girl while visiting her brother, imprisoned at the Eshil prison in Be’er As-Sabe’ (Beersheba). The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) identified the girl as…
RAMALLAH, Friday, November 25, 2022 (WAFA) – A Palestinian political prisoner who has been on hunger strike for 27 days to protest being placed in solitary confinement on Friday suspended…
JERUSALEM, Tuesday, November 22, 2022 (WAFA) – Palestinian journalist Lama Ghosheh, 30, from Jerusalem, was hoping an Israeli court hearing in her case scheduled for today would end her house…
RAMALLAH, Monday, November 21, 2022 (WAFA) – Israel is keeping a cancer-stricken Palestinian man in administrative detention despite his urgent need for medical attention, the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) stated.…
On Monday, the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee said that political prisoner Samer Al-Isawi started a hunger strike fifteen days ago and was moved to solitary confinement in the Ramon Israeli prison.…
On Thursday evening, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said the Israeli occupation authorities moved a detained Palestinian woman to a hospital due to her need for professional medical attention. The…
A Palestinian political prisoner from the Balata refugee camp in the northern West Bank city of Nablus is ongoing with a hunger strike for the tenth day, protesting being held…
On Wednesday, the Palestinian Detainees And Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission said that prisoner a political prisoner held by Israel started a hunger strike 17 days earlier, protesting harsh sanctions imposed on…
RAMALLAH, Wednesday, October 19, 2022 (WAFA) – The Prisoners’ Affairs Commission today called for ICRC to intervene immediately to end the ban on family visits for prisoners in Israeli jails.…
By Kathryn Shihadah: Over 1 million Palestinians have been held in Israeli prisons over the years. Thousands have been held in “administrative detention,” which means imprisonment without a trial or…
On Tuesday, the Palestinian Detainee’s Committee confirmed that fifty Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention camps are continuing the hunger strike despite the health deterioration of a few…
The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has confirmed that fifty political prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention camps are continuing the hunger strike after twenty detainees joined the strike Sunday, protesting their…
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said thirty Palestinian detainees imprisoned by Israeli under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charges or trial are ongoing with a hunger strike their started six…
On Sunday, 30 Palestinian detainees, imprisoned by Israel under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders, without charges or trial, started a hunger strike. A few days earlier, the detainees stated that they…
On Tuesday evening, Israel released the imprisoned Palestinian journalist, Lama Ghosha, after imposing restrictions on her, including house arrest and barring her from Social Media outlets. Ghosha will still have…
The Palestinians Detainees’ Committee has reported that two siblings imprisoned by Israel under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charges or trial are ongoing with the hunger strike they started 31…
On Saturday, the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee reported that two siblings imprisoned by Israel under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charges or trial continue a hunger strike they started 27 days…
On Saturday, Palestinian sources confirmed that a Palestinian political prisoner held by Israel has died at an Israeli medical center. The sources said Mousa Haroun Abu Mahameed, 40, died at…
RAMALLAH, Wednesday, August 31, 2022 (WAFA) – Palestinian detainee in Israeli jails, Khalil Awawda, suspended tonight his 172-day hunger strike after reaching an agreement with Israel to set a ceiling…
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society reported on Wednesday that special forces of the Israeli Prisons Administration stormed several sections of the Negev prison in southern Israel. The raid targeted Palestinian prisoners…
Despite his deteriorating health condition and the escalating risks to his life, administrative detainee Khalil Awawda said he is ongoing the hunger strike for the 161 day, demanding canceling the Administrative…
RAMALLAH, Wednesday, August 17, 2022 (WAFA) – Four Palestinian detainees in Israel are currently on hunger strike in protest against their prolonged detention without charge or trial, including one who…
In the early morning hours on Wednesday, Israeli forces conducted their daily raids of West Bank towns and villages, aimed in part at keeping the Palestinians living under the Israeli…
RAMALLAH, Sunday, August 14, 2022 (WAFA) – Palestinian detainee Khalil Awawdeh, who has been on hunger strike for 154 days in protest of his prolonged detention without charge or trial…
RAMALLAH, Saturday, August 13, 2022 (WAFA) – Despite his critical health condition, Palestinian detainee Khalil Awawdeh, 40, has been on hunger strike for 153 days in protest of his prolonged…
On Thursday, hundreds of Palestinians marched in the funeral procession and ceremony of a Palestinian woman who died in Israeli prisons 41 days earlier due to medical neglect and mistreatment…
On Thursday evening, the Palestinian Detainees Committee confirmed that the Israeli occupation authorities slapped a female Administrative Detainee with another four-month detention order without charges or trial. The Committee said…
On Friday, Palestinian political prisoner Raed Rayyan ended the hunger strike, which lasted for 113 days, after reaching an agreement limiting his Administrative Detention orders before releasing him. The Palestinian…
On Thursday, the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has reported that the cancer-stricken detainee, Nasser Abu Hmeid, 49, is in a serious health condition, adding that his health is gradually declining, an…
In an act of collective punishment directed toward the families of two Palestinian men imprisoned for the murder of an Israeli colonial settler, Israeli forces invaded the town of Salfit…
RAMALLAH, Monday, July 25, 2022 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today condemned the inhuman treatment of and abuse by the Israeli occupation authorities and the Israel…
RAMALLAH, Sunday, July 24, 2022 (WAFA) – Some 75 Palestinian detainees imprisoned by Israel started today an open hunger strike in solidary with the two striking administrative detainees Khalil Awawda…
At least seventy-five Palestinian political prisoners held by Israel have decided to launch an open-ended hunger strike in solitary with two hunger-striking Administrative Detainees imprisoned by Israel without charges or…
In a meeting with a lawyer of the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee, hunger-striking detainee Raed Rayyan, held at the Ramla prison clinic, said he is facing several serious complications after 103…
On Saturday morning, the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee reported that two detainees held by Israeli under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charges or trial are ongoing their hunger strike. It said…
GENEVA, July 14, 2022 (WAFA) – UN human rights experts today urged the Israeli occupation authorities to immediately release Ahmad Manasra, a 20-year-old Palestinian detained in Israeli prisons since he…
Two Palestinian detainees imprisoned by Israel under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders continue the hunger strikes, protesting their continued detention without charges or trial. Ra’ed Rayyan, 28, from Beit Duqqu town,…
The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has reported that two detainees held by Israel under the illegal, arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charges or trial are ongoing their hunger strikes. The Committee…
Palestinian political prisoner Raed Rayyan, 27, held by Israel under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charges, is continuing the hunger strike for the 95th day, while detainee Khalil Awawda, 40,…
On Saturday, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) reported that the Palestinian woman, the oldest female detainee imprisoned by Israel, died in an Israeli prison less than seven months after Israeli…
Palestinian political prisoner, Raed Rayyan, held by Israeli under the arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charges or trial, is continuing the hunger strike for the 86th day, protesting his continued…
Hasan Abed-Rabbo, the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs spokesperson, said that Administrative Detainee Raed Rayyan, 47, held by Israel without charges or trial, is continuing the hunger strike for…
Just two days after suspending his hunger strike that lasted for 111 days, Israeli reneged on an agreement to release a Palestinian Administrative Detainee, held without charges or trial, and…
Hasan Abed-Rabbo, the spokesperson of the Palestinian Detainees Committee, stated that two detainees are continuing the hunger strike, including one who began the strike 77 days earlier, protesting their continued…
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) follows up with deep concern the health condition of prisoner Ahmad Manarsa (21), who has been arrested in “Eshel Prison” in Beersheba and…
On Thursday, the family of Jamal Zaid, 64, said that he has decided to refrain from undergoing dialysis in Israeli prisons to protest his continued arbitrary Administrative Detention without charges…
On Monday, the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee reported that two detainees, held by Israel under the arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charges or trial, continue the hunger strike despite their deteriorating…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Khalil Awawda, 40, and Raed Rayyan, 27, are continuing the hunger strikes they started 94 and 59 days ago, protesting their continued…
On Thursday, The Palestinian Detainees Committee reported that Israeli soldiers abducted 530 Palestinians in May of this year in several parts of the occupied West Bank. The Committee said most…
RAMALLAH, Tuesday, May 31, 2022 (WAFA) – Khalil Awawda, 40, from the Ethna town west of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, has been on hunger strike for three…
The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has reported that two political prisoners held by Israel are continuing the hunger strikes for the 81st and 46th days, protesting their continued Administrative Detention without…
On Wednesday, the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee reported that a wounded and detained Palestinian is critical at an Israeli hospital. The Committee said Mohammad Odah, 18, from Ramallah in the central…
NABLUS, Tuesday, May 17, 2022 (WAFA) – A Palestinian cancer-stricken former prisoner Monday evening died due to complications from Israeli medical negligence at the time of his detention, according to…