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The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported, Wednesday, that fifteen more detainees have been officially diagnosed with the coronavirus in Ramon Israeli prison, bringing the number of infected detainees in…
Israeli soldiers detained fifteen Palestinians, on Monday morning, in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported. In the occupied city of East Jerusalem, soldiers detained four…
An Israeli military court ruled, on Friday, for the demolition of the home of Palestinian detainee, Mohammed Murawah Qabaha in Tura village, southwest of Jenin in the northern occupied West…
Israeli sources have reported, Sunday, that the Israeli Prison Authority will administer coronavirus vaccines to the Palestinian detainees starting sometime this week, after the Israeli Public Security Minister Amir Ohana…
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported, Saturday, that three additional detainees, held by Israel, have been officially diagnosed with the coronavirus, raising the total number of infected detainees to…
Israeli forces, on Friday and Saturday at dawn, shot and detained one Palestinian, and detained 3 others, in the occupied West Bank. Awadallah Shehadeh, 35, was standing in front of…
The Palestinian Detainees Committee has warned, Wednesday, that a cancer-stricken political prisoner held by Israel is currently in a life-threatening condition at the Soroka Israel medical center. The Committee said…
The Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainees Committee has reported that a young Palestinian man who was only released from Israeli detention camps a few months ago, had died, on Monday evening,…
The Israeli military court announced today its guilty verdict against Palestinian Issa Amro, in what human rights advocates have called a “campaign of persecution” against a nonviolent community organizer. by…
A report released by the Palestinian Prisoners Society Wednesday found that 226 prisoners in the Israeli occupation prisons have died in detention since 1967. This is in addition to hundreds…
Summary for December 17 – 23, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that…
United Nations Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Occupied Palestinian Territory (UNOCHA) Protection of Civilians Report: December 8-21, 2020 On 21 December, a 17-year-old Palestinian boy from Qabatiya (Jenin)…
On Tuesday night and Wednesday at dawn, Israeli forces detained a number of Palestinian civilians from the occupied West Bank. According to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) seven civilians were…
According to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS), Sunday night and at down on Monday, Israeli forces detained nine Palestinian civilians from various parts of the West Bank. From the northern…
Israeli police, on Sunday evening, detained a Palestinian child, identified as Mohamed Obeid, 17, from the al-‘Isawiya neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, the Palestinian Information Center reported. On Saturday night,…
Israeli security services announced the detention, Sunday, of the Palestinian man accused of throwing a molotov cocktail at an Israeli soldier, on Saturday night, east of the northern West Bank…
Summary for December 10 – 16, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that…
The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs has confirmed that another Palestinian detainee, held by Israel, has contracted the coronavirus. The Commission stated that the detainee has been identified…
A number of Palestinian civilians, overnight Monday, were detained by Israeli forces in occupied East Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Hebron, Ramallah and al-Beireh, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) reported. North of Hebron,…
The Israeli Prison Administration forced a Palestinian detainee, who is serving a life term, into solitary confinement only three weeks after he was removed from solitary after spending eight months…
The Israeli occupation authorities slapped, Thursday, a detained Palestinian teen with a new administrative detention order for the fourth consecutive time, holding him for four additional months without charges or…
Israeli troops manning a military checkpoint in the northern West Bank kidnapped on Friday afternoon Bara’ Jabir, from Jenin refugee camp. Jabir was trying to cross an Israeli military checkpoint…
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Protection of Civilians Report | November 24 – December 7, 2020 Israeli forces shot and killed…
Summary for December 3 – 9, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that…
The Israeli Prison Authority moved, Sunday, a detained wounded Palestinian child from Hadassah Israeli Medical Center, in Jerusalem, back to Majeddo prison, just days after he underwent a platinum implant…
Israeli forces invaded several parts of the occupied West Bank, on Friday night and Saturday morning, amid heightened tensions with Palestinian youths, the Palestinian Information Center reported. A number of…
Karim Ajwa, a lawyer with the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, has reported, Thursday, that a wounded Palestinian detainee was transferred from Soroka Israeli Medical Center to the infamous…
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported, Thursday, that a detained Palestinian child, who was repeatedly assaulted by the soldiers when they abducted him on November 29th, underwent surgery in…
A Palestinian child detainee, on Wednesday, was assaulted by Israeli guards when he asked to go to the prison clinic for feeling unwell, according to a statement by the Detainees…
HaMoked, the Center for the Defence of the Individual, has released a report entitled; Under Cover of Darkness: Night Arrests of Palestinian Minors by Israeli Security Forces in the West…
On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers, accompanied by prison administration officers, attacked many Palestinian detainees in Section 6 of the Negev Desert detention camp. The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said the soldiers…
A Palestinian child detainee, on Tuesday, was hospitalized after being assaulted by Israeli forces during his recent detention, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported. Family members of the boy,…
The Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainees Committee stated, Friday, that a political prisoner, held by Israel, is facing profoundly serious health complications at the Ramla prison clinic, which lacks specialists and…
Summary for November 19 – 25, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that…
Maher al-Akhras, a Palestinian political prisoner who held a hunger strike for 103 days, rejecting his arbitrary Administrative Detention without charges or trial, was released on Thursday morning. The Palestinian…
Jacqueline Fararja, a lawyer with the Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, has reported, Monday, that a detainee from Ramallah, in central West Bank, was diagnosed with the coronavirus,…
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, eighteen Palestinians from their homes in several parts of the occupied West Bank, after the army invaded and ransacked dozens of homes, and…
Several Palestinians, on Saturday at dawn, were detained from various West Bank locations, and a number of them were injured by Israeli soldiers, the Palestinian Information Center reported Local sources…
Summary for November 12 – 18, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-faceted violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that…
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, ten Palestinians, and summoned for interrogation Jerusalem Affairs Minister, from several parts of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has…
The Israeli authorities continue to deny a Palestinian female detainee, Israa’ Ja’abis, the urgently needed surgeries and medical treatment resulting from the serious burns to %50 of her body, before…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that the number of Palestinian detainees who are infected with the Coronavirus in Israeli prisons has arrived to 132 after a detainee was…
Summary for November 5 – 11, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-faceted violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that…
According to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS), Israeli soldiers, on Wednesday, detained former Jerusalem Affairs Minister, Khaled Abu Arafeh, 59, when he responded to a summons by the Israeli Intelligence.…
Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Executive Committee of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) issued a statement mourning the death of a Palestinian detainee in an Israeli prison and held…
The Palestinian Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Commission has confirmed that a cancer-stricken Palestinian detainee, who also contracted the coronavirus while in prison, died, on Tuesday, following a serious deterioration in his…
Israeli forces detained thirteen Palestinian civilians overnight, and at dawn Tuesday, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) reported. From the northern West Bank city of Jenin, Israeli soldiers detained Nayef Hosni…
The Palestinian Detainees Committee has reported that the Israeli Prison Authority has sealed, Monday, all sections in Gilboa’ prison, after dozens of detainees tested positive for coronavirus. The Committee said…
On Sunday, an Israeli court issued a sentence of 10 months in prison to Hamdallah Mardawi, who was abducted in September at the King Hussein border crossing between Jordan and…
A Palestinian human rights defender, identified as Mohammad Zghayyar, 33, from the southern West Bank city of Hebron, has suspended a hunger strike, which lasted for twenty days, after an…
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Highlights from the Reporting Period On 25 October, a 16-year-old Palestinian boy died during an Israeli search-and-arrest operation in…
The Palestinian detainee, Maher Al-Akhras, has suspended his 103 day long hunger-strike, Friday, after coming to an agreement with the occupation state, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) reported. The PPS…
Al Mezan Center for Human Rights is gravely concerned over reports of an ongoing surge in COVID-19 cases among Palestinian detainees in Israeli custody. Al Mezan reports that 85 Palestinians…
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that the Israeli Prison Authority has announced that 12 Palestinian political prisoners, held in Section 3 of Gilboa Israeli detention facility, are infected…
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, ten Palestinians, including three former political prisoners and two women, from their homes in several parts of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian…
Israeli police officers invaded, on Monday at dawn, the home of Mohammad As’ad Kana’na, a senior political leader of Abnaa’ el-Balad secular movement in Arraba town, in the Lower Galilee,…
By Neve Gordon for Middle East Eye Facing imminent death, 49-year-old Maher al-Akhras has been refusing to eat in prison for more than three months. The Palestinian father of six…
By Anjuman Rahman for Middle East Monitor: They destroyed the front door, entered my room, covered my face with a bag, and took me away,” explained Abdullah. “They told my father…
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society reported that the health of hunger striking detainee, Maher Al-Akhras has declined in recent days. On Sunday, the Palestinian Administrative Detainee has been on hunger strike…
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that a hunger-striking detainee has suspended the hunger strike he started on October 20th, after an agreement was reached regarding his administrative detention.…
Summary for October 22- 28, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-faceted violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that are…
The Israeli High Court denied, Thursday, an appeal for the release of detainee Maher al-Akhras, who is currently nearing death after 95 days of an ongoing hunger strike. The Palestinian…
The Israeli occupation army released, Wednesday, a Palestinian woman, who was shot and injured four years ago, after an alleged stabbing attack targeting a soldier at the Qalandia Terminal, north…
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) reported that the Israeli forces, Monday at dawn, invaded homes, and detained four Palestinian civilians from the northern West Bank city of Jenin, namely; Hani…
The long-term hunger striker Maher al-Akhras, on the 90th day of his water-only hunger strike, was finally allowed to receive a visit from his wife and daughter on Sunday. It…
Palestinian prisoner Maher al-Akhras, whose health is rapidly deteriorating toward organ failure after 89 days of hunger strike, was transferred Friday by Israeli authorities from the Kaplan Hospital, where he…
The International Red Cross (IRC) has expressed serious concern about the health condition of the hunger-striking detainee, Maher al-Akhras, 49, who continues his strike for the 88th day, demanding to…
Four human rights groups, on Tuesday, called on the Israeli occupation to release the administrative detainee, Maher al-Akhras, who has continued his hunger strike for 86 days, the Palestinian WAFA…
By Muhammad Hussein for Middle East Monitor The Deal: Israel and Hamas conduct a prisoner exchange following the Gilad Shalit deal struck a week earlier, releasing over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners…
The Israeli forces stormed various Palestinian neighborhoods in the occupied West Bank, overnight Saturday to dawn Sunday, the Palestinian Information Center reported. In the central West Bank city of East…
Summary of Israeli Violations of Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory for October 8–14, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multifaceted violations against Palestinian civilians…
The Palestinian Detainees Committee has reported that thirty detainees in Israeli prisons have joined the hunger strike, two days after thirty detainees started the strike in solidarity with Maher al-Akhras.…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that thirty detainees held in Ofer Israeli detention center has launched a hunger strike in solidarity with Maher al-Akhras, who continues his strike…
Israeli forces stormed, on Tuesday, the Qaddoura refugee camp in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, according to Palestinian security sources. Sources told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that the…
Israeli forces detained, Sunday night and Monday at dawn, many Palestinian civilians during military incursions into various towns in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Local sources…
Israeli forces detained several Palestinian civilians from various parts of the West Bank, over night Friday, including 12 from Hebron, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported. It said Israeli…
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) September 22 – October 5, 2020 On 5 October, Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian, aged 28, near…
Summary for October 1-7, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-faceted violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that are characterized…
The wife of the Palestinian administrative detainee, Maher Al-Akhras, 49, who has been on hunger strike for 73 days, has announced that she will begin a hunger strike and participate…
Israeli occupation forces detained nine Palestinian civilians, overnight Monday until Tuesday at dawn, from various West Bank cities, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) released in a statement. The PPS stated…
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported, Sunday, that Maher al-Akhras, a political prisoner held by Israel without charges or trial, is ongoing with the hunger strike for the seventieth…
Israeli forces detained a Palestinian youth in Hebron city, on Saturday morning, in the southern West Bank and placed road barriers in several places, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Local…
The Israeli forces detained dozens of Palestinians, in the predawn hours of Thursday, from the occupied West Bank, including a journalist and former prisoners. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) released…
The Israeli occupation forces, overnight Tuesday, arrested ten Palestinian civilians from the West Bank, including a young man with special needs, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) reported. It said that…
The Israeli intelligence agency, Shin Bet, on Wednesday, detained Palestinian activist Aida as-Sidawi, from her home in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Sidawi stated…
The Israeli forces, on Monday, and Tuesday morning, detained a number of Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Local sources stated that Israeli soldiers…
The Israeli forces detained, on Monday, three Palestinian young men from their homes in Jerusalem and Bethlehem, in the central West Bank, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Local sources said,…
Israeli military court sentenced, on Sunday, a Palestinian child from Jenin refugee camp, in the northern occupied West Bank, to serve 5 years in prison, the Palestinian Information Center reported.…
The Israeli police detained a Palestinian woman and her husband, Al-Maqdisi, on Sunday, after invading their home in Al-‘Isawiya town in occupied East Jerusalem, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Local…
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that the Israeli decision to freeze the Administrative Detention of detainee, Maher Al-Akhras, 49, after 59 days of ongoing hunger strike, is an…
The Israeli forces detained several Palestinian youths, early Wednesday morning, from across the occupied West Bank, including former prisoners, the Palestinian Information Center reported. The Jerusalem police arrested a young…
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said that eighteen Palestinians were detained, overnight Monday, by Israeli forces, across the occupied West Bank. From the northern West Bank Jenin refugee camp, occupation…
Israeli forces detained at least five Palestinians, on Monday, including 61 year old activist from the occupied Palestinian territories, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. Local sources said that soldiers…
Israeli soldiers detained four Palestinians, on Saturday, after they tried to cross into Israel, from the besieged Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Army spokesperson said that its forces…
Israeli forces detained four Palestinians, on Saturday, after they attempted to enter Israel from the besieged Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Information Center reported. The Israeli military spokesperson stated that soldiers…
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society reported that Israeli prison authorities, Wednesday night, stormed sections 5 and 6 of the high-security Megiddo prison, assaulting the prisoners, and spraying them with tear-gas. The…
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) Summary for September 10 – 16, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-faceted violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties,…
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, Thursday, 23 Palestinians, including a father and his son, in addition to two siblings, after invading and ransacking their…
Israeli forces, overnight Sunday, detained a number of Palestinian young men, including a high school student, in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Information Center reported. Local sources said the…
The Israeli authorities have detained 297 Palestinians from the Occupied Palestinian Territory during the month of August 2020, 12 of whom were children, 10 of whom were women, according to…