International Middle East Media Center
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,…
Palestinian female detainees in Telmond detention facility complained of bad living conditions and violations carried out by the Israeli soldiers in Telmond detention facility. The detainees appealed the international humanitarian…
The Prisoners Supporters Society reported, on Monday, that the Palestinian detainees in Shatta detention facility are facing bad conditions, lack medical attention and treatment, in addition to harsh treatment they…
Palestinian detainees in Qadumim Israeli detention facility in the West Bank are facing bad living conditions, treatment, and medical neglect, Prisoners Supporters Society reported. Fayez Al Zorba, lawyer of the…
Arab member of Knesset, Abdul Malek Dahamsheh called on Israeli authorities and Israeli defense minister, Shaul Mofaz, to improve the conditions of prisoners in the Nafha detention facility following his…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society reported on Thursday that the structural conditions of Al Damoun detention facility are imposing real threats on the lives of the Palestinian detainees. “Israeli is detaining…
The Popular Committee for releasing the Palestinian Legislator Marwan Barghouthi demanded the Jordanian government to act in order to pressure Israel to release the Jordanian detainees and reveal the location…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society reported on Tuesday that a special Israeli military force attacked several child detainees in Ofer detention facility, and confined some of them to solitary. The society…
Detainees Media Center reported on Saturday that the Israeli Prison Authorities transferred 331 detainees to Ofer detention facility, north of the West Bank city of Ramallah. 124 detainees of the…
Detainees Information Center reported that detainee Wael Abdullah Tahaina, 35, detained in the Negev Detention Camp, is suffering serious complications in the “Seventh Cranial Nerve” causing convulsions in his eye,…
Prisoners Supporters Society reported that Palestinian detainees are facing bad living conditions and treatment in Be’er Shiva detention facility. The detainees are deprived of proper medical treatment, and are not…
Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association – Ad Dameer, reported that ending the military rule over the Gaza Strip should include the release of all of the Gaza Strip detainees…
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society reported on Wednesday that the detainees in Azion detention facility, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, are facing bad living conditions, and torture. Lawyer Hanan…
Erina Sarahna, a 27-year-old Croatian detainee and a wife of a Palestinian from Deheishe refugee camp in Bethlehem, rejected a military order to deport her from Palestine. Prison Administration at…
Israel is weighing criteria to govern the release of a number of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, Israeli vice Premier Shimon Peres said on Tuesday, at the same day, Israeli…
The Israeli ministerial committee in charge of issuing new laws, approved on Sunday evening, a new law which directly violates the rights of Palestinian detainees; the law will be submitted…
Palestinian detainees who spent more than two years in the Negev detention camp, without charges, said that the Israeli Prison Authorities is offering them to be “voluntarily deportedâ€Â, instead of…
Israeli under-cover military units, members of the Nahshon division, broke on Tuesday afternoon, into the cells of Al Maskobiyya detention facility, and attacked the detainees. Detainee Khalil Hoshiyyah, who was…
Ofer Israeli military court transferred 200 out of 500 Palestinian detainees to administrative detention without trial; the court said it does not have the time to prosecute them. 500 Palestinians…
Addameer Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association along with the family of Manal and Nour Ghanem have launched a campaign to demand the Israeli government immediately release Manal Naji Mahmoud…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society reported that the Israeli Prison Authority moved, on Friday, Sheikh Hasan Yousef, on the Hamas political leaders, to Ofer detention facility, and filed charges against him.…
Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society, Raed Mahameed, reported that he visited a number of female detainees in Telmond detention facility, who informed him thay carried out a partial hunger…
Lawyer Shadi Younis, who represents detainee Yahia Sinwar from Gaza, demanded the Israeli Prison Authorities to provide Sinwar with the needed medical treatment. Sinwar is currently in at the hospital…
Lawyer of Ramallah office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society Sana’ Dweik, reported that young detainees in Hasharon detention facility are placed in over crowded rooms, and deprived of their basic…
Female detainees in Telmond detention facility sent a letter to Palestine News Network complaining of bad conditions and treatment they face in Telmond detention facility. “We are living in real…
The Palestinian Prosiners’ Society appealed humanitarian organizations to release detainee Abdul-Raouf Zakarna, 45, from the Wets Bank city of Jenin, who is suffering from bad health conditions. Detainee Zakarna is…
The Palestinian Prosiners’ Society appealed humanitarian organizations to release detainee Abdul-Raouf Zakarna, 45, from the Wets Bank city of Jenin, who is suffering from bad health conditions. Detainee Zakarna is…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society reported on Sunday afternoon, that detainee Yacoub Abu Asab, from Jerusalem, was poisoned after eating corrupt food in Al Maskobiyya prison, in Jerusalem. Lawyer of the…
Detainee Shukry Al Khawaja, from Na’lin village near the West Bank city of Ramallah, lost his sight in his right eye as a result of a disease contracted in an…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society reported that female detainees in Telmond detention facility are facing daily hardships, repeated insults and abuse. Lawyer of the society, Raed Mahameed, reported that he met…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society reported on Wednesday, that a special army unit, known as “Nahshounâ€Â, broke into Asqalan Central Detention Facility, on Tuesday at night, in order to bar the…
Lawyer of the Prisoners’ Supporters Society, Sana’ Al Dweik, reported that the health conditions of Palestinian detainees placed in Al Ramleh detention facility hospital are sharply deteriorating, and that several…
Detainees in Al Damoun Israeli detention facility demanded local and international humanitarian organizations impose pressure on Israel in order to provide them with their basic rights guaranteed by the International…
In a sworn statement, detainee Mahmoud Taleb Amro, 32, from Doura village, west of Hebron, testified that a soldier in Al Damoun detention urinated on him while he was is…
Salem Israeli military court, near the West Bank city of Nablus, convicted on Sunday Palestinian Legislative Council member Husam Khader, of what was described as “terror related†charges, working for…
Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society, Sana’ Dweik, reported that the detainees are facing daily hardships and bad living conditions in Israeli detention centers, while dozens of detainees are still…
Detainee Ahmad Yousef Tameemy, from Ramallah, has been placed in Ramleh detention hospital over the last 12 years, suffering from kidney failure. Several detainees are complaining of medical neglect and…
Detainees in the Negev detention facility appealed Human rights organizations to interfere in order to enable detainee Khaled Hasan Hassan, 39, from Qibia, West of Ramallah, receive the needed medical…
Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society, Adnan Khader, reported that Israeli interrogators in Qadumim detention facility stripped a Palestinian detainee in front of soldiers and female conscripts. Khader stated that…
Ofer Israeli military court extended the detention of Sheikh Khader Adnan, the spokesperson of the Islamic Jihad in the West Bank for another month. Lawyer Elia Theodore, who represents Adnan,…
Palestinian detainee in Al Damoun detention facility, north of the country, complained to lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society, Raed Mahameed, that one of the inner walls in the prison…
Jordanian detainee Sultan al-Ajlouny, who was arrested 23 years ago, appealed the Jordanian government and parliament and the Jordanian media in order to intensify their efforts in order to end…
Lawyers for the Palestinian Prisoners Society recently visited several detainees in Israeli detention facilities at Gilboa’ and Be’er Shiva. According to the lawyers, Fawwaz Shalloudi and Raed Mahameed, detainees in Be’er…
The mother of detainee Yousef Qandeel, from Jenin refugee camp, said that he is suffering of a deteriorating health condition as a result of medical neglect and bad living condition…
Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society, Sana’ Harbawi, reported that she visited several detainees in Asqalan detention center on Wednesday, who informed her of the bad living conditions and treatment…
Israeli soldiers arrested Haya Mohammad Hoshiyya, 25, in an attempt to put psychological pressure on her detained husband, the Bethlehem office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society reported on Thursday. Ayed…
Two Palestinian detainees announced Hunger Strike in protest to harsh conditions and medical neglect in Israeli prisons. The two detainees, Mohammad Ala’ ed-Deen, from Bethlehem, and Salah Barghouthi from Ramallah,…
Several detainees in the al-Damoun detention facility have contracted diseases of the kidney and other health problems as a result of the polluted drinking water in the facility, according to…
Palestinian informed sources reported on Friday that the prisoner Ikram Al-Taweel had received a renewal order for her administrative detention from the Israeli prison authorities. Al-Tawil a 27-year-old single female…
Ansar al-Sajeen, of the Prisoners’ Support Society, demanded that the Israeli prison authorities probe the death of detainee Jawad abu Mgheisib, 18, who died at the Negev detention, apparently from medical neglect.…
Marwan Sa’id al-Qawasmi, a 20-year-old from Hebron who is being held in Israel’s Kfar Atzion detention camp, is suffering from critical health conditions, according to attorney Mohammad al-Shadfan of the…
The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees reported on Thuyrsday, that detainee Jawad Adel abu Mgheisib, 18, died at the Negev Desert Detention of medical neglect and mistreatment. The ministry stated that…
Israeli Prison Authorities transferred detainee Ghalib Hasan Jaradat, 23, from Sielet al-Harithiyya, west of Jenin to solitary confinement in Hadarim detention. Jaradat was arrested during a special under-covered military operation…
Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoner society, Hasan al-Sheikh, reported that he met two child detainees in Aztion detention center, near Hebron, who informed him of the ill treatment and abuse they…
Palestinian detainee Manal Ghanim demanded international humanitarian organizations to intervene for her release, in consideration that her child, Nour, will be two years old in two months, and thus will be…
The Ramallah office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society, PPS, reported on Saturday that detainee Abdul-Ra’ouf Mustafa Ismail, 38, from Silwad near Ramallah, is suffering from critically deteriorating health conditions, in…
The Detainees Media Center reported on Saturday evening, that Israeli Prison Authorities intends to transfer 600 detainees from central prisons to the Negev detention camp, in the Negev desert. The…
Detainee Abboud Mahmoud Samaro, from Nablus, appealed to humanitarian organizations and the Red Cross to intervene with Israeli authorities to seek his release so he can receive medical treatment abroad. Samaro…
Twenty detainees in Israel’s Majeddo detention center resumed a hunger strike they announced last week to protest the bad living conditions and inhuman treatment they face. Lawyer Mahmoud Azim, who is…
The WAFA news agency reported on Monday that a Palestinian detainee has lost his sight as a result of torture during interrogation in the Asqalan Israeli detention center. Lawyer of the…
The administrations of the Ofer detention center, near Ramallah, and the al-Maskobiyya prison in Jerusalem are responsible for the lives of three sick detainees who are in need of immediate medical treatment,…
Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons called on the Palestinian factions and the Palestinian Authority to avoid any more conflicts and to conduct talks to end the violence that erupted this…
The Tulkarem office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society reported that detainees in Hadarim Israeli prison are facing harsh living conditions and repeated attacks carried out by the soldiers. Hanan al-Khateeb,…
Wednesday afternoon, five residents were arrested, two injured, after the Israeli army attacked a peaceful procession against the Separation Wall in the village of Mnezel, south of the West Bank…
The family of an 18-year-old Palestinian detainee who was injured as he was arrested by Israeli forces has appealed to humanitarian organizations and the Palestinian Legislative Council to take up…