Israeli Supreme Court: Force Feeding of Hunger Strikers is Constitutional

(photo: A suffragette is force-fed in HM Prison Holloway, in the UK, during hunger strikes for women’s suffrage. ~Wikipedia) The Israeli…

News is coming about the Israeli preparations to commit the force-feeding crime against hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, who have been…

The head of the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee Issa Qaraqe stated, Saturday, that the committee will file legal charges against any…

The head of the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs (CDA), Issa Qaraqe’, and the head of the Palestinian Prisoners’…

In an unprecedented step on Tuesday, 12 January 2016, Israeli forces applied the force-feeding law against the administrative detainee, journalist…

Hunger striking Palestinian detainee, Mohammad ‘Allan, will be moved to Barzilai Israeli Medical Center, in Asqalan (Ashkelon) after doctors in…

After the Israeli Knesset passed an amendment on July 30 allowing the force-feeding of hunger-striking Palestinian political prisoners, the Medical…

Israel Legalizes Torture against Palestinian Prisoners; On Thursday, 30 July 2015, the Israeli Knesset passed in the second and third…

Dr. Hanna Ashrawi, head of the culture affairs unit at the PLO, condemned the recent Israeli parliament – keenest law…

The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee strongly denounced, Sunday, the Israeli approval of a bill that would allow force-feeding Palestinian detainees, holding…

As numerous Palestinian prisoners are engaged in hunger strikes right now, vowing to continue until death, the Israeli cabinet decided…

According to the PNN, it is an incorrect assumption that the pain of prison ends after being released. For Palestinians,…

The Israeli Knesset has postponed voting on a bill facilitating the force-feeding of hunger-striking prisoners, in its second and third…

The Knesset’s Internal Affairs Committee has ended its 2-day discussion of a controversial bill recently introduced to facilitate forced feeding…

Dozens of international, Israeli and Palestinian activists and doctors held a demonstration outside the Knesset building, in west Jerusalem, on…

Chairperson of the Israeli Medical Association (IMA), Dr. Leonid Eidelman, stated that the association refuses the force-feeding of hunger striking…

Four Israeli soldiers who were caught abusing and forcefeeding Palestinian detainees were sentenced Monday by a military court to a…

As a mass hunger strike of Palestinian prisoners enters its third week, Israeli authorities told reporters that they are considering…

By Christof Lehmann (nsnbc) : The Israeli government formed a ministerial task force to track down any foreigners in Israel who…

The Head of the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Committee Issa Qaraqe’ said that the Israeli Authorities have force-fed hunger striking detainee,…

The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs warned, on Monday, of the Israeli Medical Committee’s decision to force-feed Palestinian journalist Muhammad Al-Qeeq,…

An Arab Member of Israeli Knesset, Dr. Ahmad Tibi, said the administration of Barzilai Hospital will not force-feed hunger striking…

The Head of the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee, Issa Qaraqe’, reported,on Friday evening, that the Israeli Prison Administration will begin force-feeding…

Israeli politicians have voted to continue work on a bill to allow hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners to be force-fed. Those who…

by Yara Hawari, for Al Shabaka Palestinian Policy Network Since the establishment of Israel in 1948, the Israeli Security Agency has been…

Head of the detainees and ex-detainees committee, Ashraf Abu Sneineh, on Monday morning, said that the health of journalist prisoner,…

“Some people think being jailed is a destiny. I say freedom is a destiny.”10/24/15 | International Solidarity Movement | al-Khalil…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org,…

Palestinian prisoner Muhammad Allan, who has been on hunger strike for two months, lost consciousness Friday morning, the Palestinian Prisoner’s…

Palestinian prisoners are continuing their protests and resistance inside prison.This includes Muhammad Allan, the 31-year-old lawyer on hunger strike for…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org,…

Audio Link After Text Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday,…

The recent wave of arrests, attacks, killings and total closure of large parts of the West Bank following the disappearance…

On Friday, Day 266 of the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in the devastated and destroyed Gaza Strip, the…

On Day 220, the Israeli army continued the bombing and shelling of various areas in the destroyed Gaza Strip, killing…

Welcome shipment of flour & other staples arrives in northern Gaza; malnourished babies too weak to cry; Oxfam publishes damning…

The following report was written by a number of Palestinian human rights organizations (listed below): On 26 January 2024, the…

IsraelPalestineNews: As Palestinians starve, at least 1,000 aid trucks wait for permission to enter Gaza; more reported white flag deaths;…

More than 29,195 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October, said Gaza’s Health Ministry on Tuesday. At least 103 Palestinians…

Shortages put infants, children at heightened risk; evidence of arbitrary field executions, torture of Gazans; UK Labor Party leader supports…

Palestinians in the diaspora around the world, and those in the West Bank and in what is now Israel have…

If Americans Knew – IsraelPalestineTimeline: Sanders resolution could begin the march toward accountability in Israel; devastating Gaza hospital news; another…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health on Thursday confirmed the deaths of over 350 Palestinians in the past 24 hours, and…

On the second day after the ending of the ‘temporary pause’ in the Israeli bombardment of Gaza, the bombing escalated…

According to a report put out on November 4th by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the…

The following is a report issued by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied…

On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers demolished five Palestinian homes near Jericho and Nablus in the occupied West Bank. Media sources in…

By Kathryn Shihadah: Over 1 million Palestinians have been held in Israeli prisons over the years. Thousands have been held…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights: Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Weekly Update January 27 –…

As Americans plan holiday meals and bake Christmas cookies, let’s be aware of the Palestinians who have been on hunger…

Hunger striking prisoners Kayed Al-Fasfous and Miqdad Al-Qawasmi (Photo: QNN) (November 7, 2021) by Zubayr Alikhan for the Palestine Chronicle…

An ultra-nationalist Israeli lawmaker’s behavior on Tuesday is a microcosm of the conduct and attitude of Israel as a whole:…

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories (OCHA): Escalation in the Gaza…

Summary for December 3 – 9, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian…

Summary for November 5 – 11, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-faceted violations against Palestinian…

By Neve Gordon for Middle East Eye Facing imminent death, 49-year-old Maher al-Akhras has been refusing to eat in prison…

Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) Summary for September 24 – 30, 2020 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit…

This week, PCHR documented 322 violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law (IHL) by Israeli occupation forces…

"UNRWA’s temporary task became permanent."

A new report by the group ‘Forensic Architecture’ has found that widespread pesticide contamination from Israel into Gaza has occurred…

On Monday, 08 April 2019, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Movement in the Israeli Prisons declared the start of a hunger strike…

Israeli forces continued with systematic crimes, in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), for the week of 04 – 10 October,…

Israeli forces continued with systematic crimes, in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), for the week of 16 – 29 August,…

(photo: illegal settlement of Ofra, north of Ramallah — REUTERS) At the beginning of the year 2018, the Israeli Knesset…

Israeli forces continued with systematic crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) for the week of 28 June – 04…

A number of illegal Jewish Israeli settlers recently attempted to abduct two Palestinian children in the village of Madma, to the south…

Israeli authorities implemented a third round of electricity supply cuts to the Gaza Strip on Wednesday — honoring a request…

The Gaza Strip’s power authority said, on Sunday, that it had met all of the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) stipulations to…

Karim Ajwa, a lawyer with the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee, has reported, Wednesday, that several ailing Palestinian detainees, suffering with serious…

Palestinians organize solidarity demonstrations as a mass, open-ended hunger strike spreads in Israeli prisons. On the first day of the…

Today, 17 April 2017, marks the Palestinian Prisoners’ Day. Over 6,500 Palestinian and Arab prisoners have been detained in the…

Two Palestinian hunger strikers, Ahmad Abu Fara and Anas Shadid, rejected an Israeli proposal to issue a final four-month administrative…

The following article on the situation and struggle of Palestinian prisoners today was written inside Israeli prison by Palestinian prisoner…

by Ahmad Jaradat, Senior Project Coordinator, Alternative Information Center In Bethlehem, hundreds of Palestinians participated in a march in solidarity with…

In the month of April, each year, Palestinian detainees, the Palestinian people, and the world mark the International Day of…

Israeli authorities have decided to forcibly treat hunger striking detainee, journalist Muhammad al-Qeeq, without his consent, according to Minister Issa…

Palestinian prisoner Muhammad al-Qeeq stopped taking vitamins on Thursday, as he entered the 51st day of a hunger strike which…

A Jordanian prisoner in Israeli custody ended a 47-day hunger strike on Sunday, reaching an agreement with the Israeli Prison…

On 16 October 2015, Israeli Ambassador Roet addressed the UN Security Council in an emergency session on the escalating situation…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Center for Studies on Monday issued an urgent call for action on 17 hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners, seven…

The Palestinian National Authority’s Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs (PNA) said, Friday, that eight Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails were on…

Israeli forces have continued with systematic attacks against Palestinian civilians and their property in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) for…

Palestinian lawyer/political prisoner Mohammed ‘Allan entered his 64th day of hunger strike Tuesday after waking from a four-day coma, and…

What is normalization in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and why does it matter?The concept of normalization emerged at the Camp David…

The head of the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee Issa Qaraqe has reported that 32 Palestinian detainees, held by Israel, have joined…

Muhammad Allan entered his 50th day of hunger strike, Wednesday, as the al-Asra Prisoner’s Center for Studies called for action…

Two Palestinians detained in an Israeli jail have been on hunger strike for almost eight days, in protest of administrative…

Following an assessment on Saturday that long-time hunger striker Khader Adnan was near death, Israeli authorities finally reached a deal…

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Tuesday it was concerned about the deteriorating health and critical condition…

Islam Hamed was arrested for the first time at the age of 17 by the Israeli authorities. He was sentenced…

Israeli forces have continued with systematic attacks against Palestinian civilians and their property in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) for…

A preliminary agreement has been reached between representatives of Palestinian prisoners and Israeli prison authorities, stopping protests which detainees should…

Israeli forces have continued with systematic attacks against Palestinian civilians and their property in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) for…

Fear is power: and Israel uses it aggressively to promote its goal of taking over the land. Itâ??s not new;…

Tens of Palestinians asphyxiated due to suppression of the Bil’in weekly demonstration against the illegal Israeli occupation and its apartheid…

The Israeli Prison Service maintains a systematic policy of medical negligence toward Palestinian detainees.17 September 2014 | Elizabeth Austwick |…

As Israeli PM Bejamin Netanyahu pledges to expand and intensify the military assault on Gaza, in the shadow of failed…

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said, Tuesday, that prisoner Raed Faisal Fares Moussa is still engaged in an open-ended hunger strike,…

Israeli Public Security Minister, Yitzhak Aharonovitch, stated Wednesday that Israel did not sign any agreement with hunger striking Palestinian detainees,…

Over 120 Palestinian detainees imprisoned by the state of Israel have now entered the 60th day of hunger strike, in…