Israeli forces detained an 18-year-old Palestinian girl for allegedly attempting to stab soldiers at Checkpoint 300 in northern Bethlehem city on Thursday, in the southern occupied West Bank. Israeli media reported that soldiers at the […]
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday evening, a young Palestinian man from the al-Yamoun town, and obstructed traffic at Haifa Road, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and at Qabatia Junction, south of […]
By Shaimaa Abo Lebdah The suffering of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails is not new; imprisonment in retaliation for any kind of resistance to the occupation― from slapping a soldier (like Ahed Tamimi), to throwing […]
Actor Jesse Williams, who plays Dr. Jackson Avery in the popular TV show Grey’s Anatomy, has joined other prominent actors, artists, authors, sports people and icons in backing a call by Dream Defenders for the […]
Israel is violating the international Convention on the Rights of the Child by detaining a Palestinian teenager for slapping an Israeli soldier, UN human rights experts said on Tuesday. After an incident in which she […]
Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi, 16, has gone on trial before an Israeli military court. Israel has faced criticism for prosecuting the teen who has become a powerful symbol of the Palestinian resistance. Only family members […]
Sixty per cent of Palestinian children who were arrested by Israeli occupation forces were verbally, physically or psychologically tortured, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club (PPC) revealed yesterday. In a statement, the PPC said that the Palestinian […]
The Israeli Defence Ministry has proposed a bill that would see Israel deduct money from the Palestinian Authority (PA) in protest of the payments given to the families of Palestinian prisoners and those who have […]
Yesterday Palestinian kindergarteners protested Israel’s jailing of 350 Palestinian children, in a march organized by the Hebron (Al-Khalil)-based group Human Rights Defenders and the Palestinian residents of Shuhada Street. Israel detains children as young as […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth How did a 14-year-old Palestinian girl who has never set foot in the open-air prison of Gaza find herself being dumped there by Israeli officials – alone, at night and […]
The trial of Palestinian protest icon Ahed Tamimi before an Israeli military court has been postponed for a week and is now scheduled to begin on Feb. 13. Tamimi, who turned 17 in prison last […]
More than 700 Jewish young people from the U.S. wrote letters of solidarity to Ahed Tamimi, the iconic Palestinian 17-year-old who was arrested by Israeli authorities last month and charged with 12 counts including assaulting […]
Over 40 US organizations in New York rallied to demand the release of Ahed Tamimi, a 17-year-old Palestinian girl held in Israeli military detention since Israeli forces raided her home in the West Bank village […]
Over 40 US organizations will rally to demand the release of Ahed Tamimi, a 16-year-old Palestinian girl held in Israeli military detention since Israeli forces raided her home in the West Bank village of Nabi […]
Israeli forces have killed three Palestinian minors and detained 52 others since the start of this year, according to the Palestinian Information Ministry. In a statement on Sunday, the ministry accused Israeli authorities of “escalating […]
French academics and writers published a collective letter in Le Monde on January 23, focusing on the case of Ahed Tamimi and the plight of the approximately 360 Palestinian child prisoners in Israeli prisons. The […]
By Rima Najjar I wish Caryl Churchill would write a follow up to her play Seven Jewish Children and call it Seven Palestinian Children. Churchill’s play, first produced in February of 2009, was “for Gaza”, […]
Thousands from around the world have signed a petition on Change.org, calling for the unconditional release of highly regarded human rights defender, Muther Amira. The Palestinian Social Worker and Human Rights activist. previously served as […]
13-year old Razan Abu Sal was arrested and sentenced Tuesday to four months in prison. She was tried in an Israeli military court, being tried and sentenced under martial law. She was also fined 2500 […]
By Rima Najjar Zionism is an insidious ideology. Its ideologues often gain traction by well-placed and oft repeated constructs – in films and TV series, in posts and comments on social media, and even in […]
By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth Sixteen-year-old Ahed Tamimi may not be what Israelis had in mind when, over many years, they criticised Palestinians for not producing a Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela. Eventually, colonized peoples […]
The Democratic Socialists of America party issued a statement January 5th, demanding the release of Ahed Tamimi. The 16-year old Palestinian girl who was arrested and imprisoned by the Israelis for slapping an Israeli soldier […]
On Thursday evening, an Israeli court ordered the release of Nour Tamimi on a 5000 Israeli Shekels bail, after holding her captive for two weeks. The court denied an appeal by the prosecution, demanding keeping […]
14-year old Malak al-Ghaleeth was released after spending 7 months in an Israeli prison. According to Alray Palestinian Media Agency, al-Ghaleeth was arrested in May 28th, 2017 at a military checkpoint in northern Occupied Jerusalem. […]
By Ramona Wadi Since the detention of teenage Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi by Israeli security forces, social media has erupted in a frenzy calling for her release. Her constant defiance of Israel’s occupation has made […]
By Rima Najjar The detention of Ahed Tamimi of the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, along with her human rights activist mother Nariman Tamimi, for “lightly slapping” an Israeli soldier, as Amira Hass put […]
Fourteen-year-old Muhammad Fadel al-Tamimi remains in a medically-induced coma as of Tuesday, days after he was hot in the face with a rubber-coated steel bullet by Israeli forces. The Palestinian teenager, a resident of the […]
An Israeli army unit composed of 20 vehicles raided early Tuesday the village of Nabi Saleh, northwest of Ramallah, and detained a 17-year-old girl, according to Mohammad Tamimi, a local activist. He told WAFA that […]
A newly-published video shows an Israeli soldier striking a Palestinian child in the head with his gun during a settler procession in Hebron (Al-Khalil), the occupied West Bank. In newly-published video, via human rights NGO […]
By Farah Najjar A 16-year-old Palestinian boy, shown in a photo that has been roundly condemned as symbolizing the Israeli army’s use of excessive force, has been charged with throwing stones at a group of […]
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