Facebook will allow an independent investigation into content moderation of Arabic and Hebrew posts after the social media giant has been accused of removing and suppressing pro-Palestine content, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. […]
More Palestinian prisoners will join the hunger strike, should the Israel Prison Service (IPS) not meet their demands and lift its sanctions, Quds Press reported on Friday. The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) said in a […]
US State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters on Thursday that the United States has concerns with the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and will oppose its “disproportionate” attention on Israel, Reuters news agency […]
The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has detailed the horrific story of a Palestinian teenager who was kidnapped and tortured by a group of Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank about two months ago, […]
The President of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), Gianni Infantino, raised the idea that Israel might co-host the World Cup in 2030, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s office announced in a statement Tuesday. […]
Language is politics and politics is power. This is why the misuse of language is particularly disturbing, especially when the innocent and vulnerable pay the price. The wars in Syria, Libya, Afghanistan and other Middle […]
Some 400 Islamic Palestinian prisoners started a hunger strike on Wednesday in protest of Israel’s repressive measures, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) said in a press release that […]
In a historic campaign, Google and Amazon employees have urged their respective companies to pull out of contracts with the Israeli government and its army, which they said contributed to the “systematic discrimination” and “displacement” […]
After 15 months of deliberation, the Advertising Standards Authority UK (ASA) has refused to formally investigate a complaint from a group of Anglo American shareholders that challenges advertisements claiming De Beers and Forevermark diamonds are […]
Palestinian political prisoner Zakaria Zubeidi has entered on Monday the seventh day of his hunger strike in protest against his continued detention in solitary confinement, Arab48 reported. According to his lawyer, Avigdor Fieldman, Zubeidi – who […]
Israel Prison Services (IPS) continues to ignore Palestinian prisoner Iyad Haribat’s need for medical treatment, rights group Palestinian Prisoners’ Club revealed. Haribat, 39, was detained in 2002 and sentenced to life imprisonment, the Middle East […]
Facebook has “wrongfully removed” content by Palestinians and pro-Palestine activists, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Friday. According to the New York-based international NGO, Facebook unfairly removed posts describing human rights abuses […]
Israeli occupation authorities released female Palestinian journalist Bushra Al-Taweel on Tuesday, after holding her in administrative detention for 11 months, The Middle East Monitor reported. Last November, the Israeli army arrested Al-Taweel while she was […]
A Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike was moved to hospital on Monday, as five other detainees also continue to refuse food in protest at their detention without charge by Israeli authorities, The New Arab reported. […]
The Irish government renewed its position that calls for the application of international laws and conventions concerning the situation of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Foreign minister Simon […]
Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor and the Global Institute for Water, Environment and Health (GIWEH) said in a joint oral statement during the 48th session of Human Rights Council (HRC) that the long-term Israeli blockade has […]
Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons started a week of protests on Sunday against the continuous restrictions imposed on them by the Israeli prison authority, the Palestinian Prisoners Club (PPC) reported. Palestinian prisoners start week of […]
The Israeli court of Ofer rejected an appeal on Sunday to release Palestinian prisoner Kayed Fasfous, who has been on hunger strike for 81 days in protest of his administrative detention, the official Palestinian news […]
Palestinian administrative detainee Kayed Fasfous, 32, from the southern West Bank town of Dura, has been on hunger strike for 80 days demanding his freedom, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Fasfous, from the […]
Six Palestinian political prisoners who broke out of a high-security Israeli prison are now being held in solitary confinement, a lawyer for one of the detainees has said, according to The New Arab. The six prisoners […]
The six Palestinian political prisoners who escaped Gilboa Prison and were then recaptured are being tortured inside Israel’s jails, according to their lawyer, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported Wednesday. According to WAFA, Khaled […]
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) member, Khalida Jarrar, visited her daughter’s grave after her release from an Israeli prison Sunday, The Middle East Monitor reported. Jarrar made her way to the cemetery […]
Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike, Alaa Al-Araj, was transferred to a hospital on Wednesday following a deterioration in his health, the Palestinian Information Center reported his wife saying. According to The Middle East Monitor (MEMO), […]
A Palestinian ex-prisoner died Wednesday night in a Ramallah hospital after a long struggle with cancer, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. The Prisoners’ Affairs Commission announced in a press statement that Hussein Masalma, […]
A Palestinian detainee held in an Israeli prison is refusing insulin therapy for his diabetes in response to Israel’s extension of his administrative detention order, one day before he was due to be released, the […]
Hundreds of Palestinians today took part in sit-ins held in front of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) premises across multiple West Bank cities, in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners, the official Palestinian news […]
A Palestinian prisoner entered his 67th day of hunger strike on Monday, as he and five others continue their protest against their administrative detention, according to the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Committee. Kayed Fasfus, entered […]
An Israeli court in Nazareth extended the remand of four re-arrested Palestinian political prisoners for 10 days, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported on Sunday. The Israeli court had already extended their remand for […]
Attorney Hanan al-Khateeb, a lawyer with the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission, said after meeting with prisoner Yacoub Qadri, one of four re-captured Palestinian prisoners, that he is subjected to psychological torture by Israeli investigators […]
Palestinian prisoners today called off a hunger strike they were planning to start on Friday after the Israel Prison Services (IPS) agreed to their demands that included ending the collective punishment imposed against them following […]
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