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60 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails today launched an open-ended hunger strike in solidarity with three of their fellow inmates held in solitary confinement, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. The spokesman for the […]
“No one cares about the prisoners.” Over the past few years, I have heard this phrase – or some variation of it – uttered many times by freed Palestinian prisoners and their families. Whenever I […]
Jewish settlers today cut wooden electric poles using a chainsaw in the town of Jalud, south of Nablus, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors colonial settlement activities in the northern […]
Palestinians in Gaza staged an indefinite protest Tuesday at the building of the International Committee of the Red Cross in solidarity with a Palestinian prisoner who began a hunger strike 80 days ago against his […]
‘International law’ remains one of the most discussed terms in the context of the Israeli occupation of Palestine. It is almost always present, whether the discussion pertains to the Israeli wars and siege on Gaza, […]
A Palestinian young man was injured on Friday morning after Israeli occupation forces directly hit him by a teargas canister near the village of Qaffin, near the city of Tulkarm, in the occupied West Bank, […]
It was not a half-hearted scramble by the EU to get Israel to abide by international law, but rather another maneuver biding time to rekindle suspended diplomatic meetings. Following a meeting of Israel’s Foreign Minister […]
Jewish settlers late Wednesday attacked a Palestinian vehicle with stones near Turmusayya town, northeast of Ramallah, injuring four passengers, including a pregnant woman, medical sources said. The sources confirmed that settlers pelted a Palestinian vehicle […]
A Palestinian prisoner, Daud Al-Khateeb, 45, died in Ofer prison today only four months before completing his 18-year prison sentence. Al-Khateeb died as a result of what Palestinian rights activists describe as medical negligence by […]
The health conditions of four Palestinian detainees who have been on hunger strike in Israeli jails, in protest against their detention without charge or trial, are deteriorating, today said the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS). Maher […]
Fuel shortages in the besieged Gaza Strip are forcing the enclave’s only electricity plant to shut down tomorrow morning, the Palestinian Power Authority announced yesterday. In a statement, the Power Authority said the plant “will […]
Two children and two women were injured in an Israeli bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip early Saturday, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. An Israeli warplane fired two missiles at an area east of […]
Israeli navy Friday opened gunfire towards Palestinian fishermen sailing offshore Beit Lahia town in the northern besieged Gaza Strip, injuring one, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. The Israeli navy fired rubber-coated steel bullets towards […]
When International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, confirmed last December that the Court has ample evidence to pursue a war crimes investigation in occupied Palestine, the Israeli government responded with the usual rhetoric, accusing […]
Over 60 livestock were killed this morning after being poisoned by extremist Jewish settlers in the town of al-Auja, near Jericho, in the occupied Jordan Valley, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Ahmad al-Zawahra, […]
China’s envoy to the United Nations, Zhang Jun, spoke forcefully on Wednesday against Israel’s plan to annex large swaths of the occupied West Bank, during a UN Security Council meeting. China strongly protested Israel’s ‘unilateral […]
A Palestinian prisoner held in Israel jails has died of “medical negligence”, a local NGO said on Monday. Saadi Al-Gharably, 75, died at Assaf Harofeh medical center after his health deteriorated, the Handala Center for […]
Three Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails are currently on hunger strike in protest against their administrative detention without charge or trial, today said the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS). Three Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails are […]
It’s in the Charter, article one, afforded to all or else its undone To Self-Determine is a human right. For it we struggle, for it, we fight. The use of the name is not a […]
Jewish settlers torched this morning fields planted with olive trees in the town of Huwarra, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Local activist Ghassan Daghlas told […]
Referring to the gravity of the coronavirus pandemic, a federal judge in Los Angeles on June 26, 2020, ordered the release of migrant children detained in the country’s three family detention centers. Some have been […]
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said on Thursday that 95% of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons have suffered torture, Anadolu Agency reports. This came in a statement released by PPS ahead of the International Day in Support […]
Jewish settlers today attacked Palestinian vehicles traveling on roads in the north of the West Bank, causing damage but no injuries, according to Palestinian news agency WAFA. Local activist Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activities […]
The Israeli military secretly conducted hundreds of weapons development experiments on animals, Israeli newspaper Yedioth Aharonoth reported on Sunday. Around 1,000 experiments were conducted by the Israeli Defense Ministry on different types of animals during […]
Two Palestinian brothers from the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan were forced today to demolish their own home by the Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem. Feras and Iyad Da’na said they were forced to demolish […]
Mohammed Khalil al-Halabi was born on April 2, 1978, in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. In 2006, Mohammed became the Director of World Vision in Gaza, a US charity organization that, for […]
Angry Palestinians threw Molotov cocktails and opened fire at branches of Cairo Amman Banks in Jericho and Jenin after the bank accounts of prisoners inside Israeli jails were closed, Quds Press reported on Friday. Several Palestinian groups […]
A Palestinian prisoner was taken to hospital yesterday after he was subjected to harsh interrogation following his arrest by Israeli occupation forces, the PLO’s Prisoners’ Committee has revealed. Ramzy Baroud: These Chains Will Be Broken […]
May 3 marks the World Press Freedom Day, and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said today that 12 Palestinian journalists are currently held behind Israeli prison bars. The longest-serving of these 12 journalists are Mahmoud […]
Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett stopped cement entering the besieged Gaza Strip and canceled entry permits issued to hundreds of Gaza traders, Israeli Hebrew newspaper Maariv. Bennett ordered the coordinator of the civil affairs in […]
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