The Haifa-based Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel – and the Ramallah-based Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association sent an urgent letter to the interim Israel Prison Service (IPS) […]
Ten Palestinian political prisoners at Ofer Detention Centre, near Ramallah, launched an open-ended hunger strike to protest against the ongoing solitary confinement of two detainees, as well as against Israel’s failure to protect them against […]
A 19-year-old Palestinian, who was released yesterday from Israeli detention, has tested positive for coronavirus and was included in the 15 corona cases announced today by the Palestinian government. #UN Official: #Israel is Legally Responsible […]
Israeli authorities renewed on Sunday the administrative detention of the female Palestinian prisoner Bushra Al-Taweel, 27, from the occupied West Bank city of Al-Bireh, Quds Press reported. According to the Prisoners’ Media Office, Quds Press said this […]
The Commission for Prisoners Affairs at the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) has called on the United Nations to urge Israeli authorities to release Palestinian detainees held in Israeli jail amid fears of the spread of […]
The Prisoners and Freed Prisoners Affairs Authority said yesterday that the Israeli Prisons Administration and the Israeli Ministry of Health have denied reports that four Palestinian detainees had tested positive for the coronavirus. Speaking to […]
Four Palestinian prisoners have been diagnosed with coronavirus today, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Information Office. Israeli Prison Service informed that four Palestinian prisoners at the Israeli prison of Megiddo, three of whom are imprisoned […]
Struggling under the weight of Israeli sanctions and hermetic siege that has left Gaza’s health facilities functioning well below required international standards, the Gaza Strip’s Health Ministry continues to fight the spread of the Coronavirus […]
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) accused the Israeli prison administration of using the Coronavirus as a pretext to impose even more abusive measures upon Palestinian prisoners, rather than providing the necessary tools to help stop […]
Israeli forces today detained seven Palestinians in multiple raids across the West Bank and Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS). PPS said Israeli forces detained the head of their Jerusalem office, Nasser Qous, […]
Israeli authorities on Wednesday released a senior member of Hamas, Mazen Jamal Al-Natsheh, to his home in the occupied city of Hebron (Al-Khalil) after he spent three months in administrative detention. Hamas’ Prisoners’ Information Office […]
43 Palestinian women currently languish in Israeli jails, according to a statement issued by the Palestinian Prisoners Club (PPC) to mark Women’s International Day. Shorouq Dwayyat, from East Jerusalem, and Shatila Abu Ayyad, from the […]
Israeli authorities today re-arrested a Palestinian man on the day of his release from prison, after serving 18 years behind bars, according to Palestinian News Agency Wafa. Randy Odeh, 39, from Shuafat refugee camp in […]
Update: Hours after the publishing of the article below, which appealed to the world to prevent the demolishing of Yazan Mghames’s house, the Israeli army demolished the prisoner’s family home overnight. Dozens of Palestinian activists, […]
The mother of a Palestinian prisoner in Israel was denied today the right to visit her son in prison, reported WAFA correspondent. Israeli soldiers manning a checkpoint northwest of Ramallah stopped Amneh Abu Diak, from […]
Khalida Jarrar is a Palestinian feminist, a lawyer, educator and an elected parliamentarian. Over the years, she came to symbolize Palestinian popular resistance in the occupied West Bank, enraging the Israeli occupation authorities that arrested […]
The Israeli Prison Services (IPS) has decided to reduce food amounts served to Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli jails, as well as other services, Palestinian Prisoner Club (PPC) revealed on Monday. Israel has been intensifying a crackdown […]
In a testimony made through his lawyer to the Committee of Prisoners and Former Prisoners Affairs, Palestinian teenage prisoner Mahmoud Thawabteh revealed details about the difficult conditions inside Israeli prisons. Thawabteh, 17, was arrested from […]
(These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons, by Ramzy Baroud, Clarity Press, Inc., 2020) Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote that “the degree of civilization in a society can be judged […]
An Israeli court on Monday sentenced the head of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement, Sheikh Raed Salah, to 28 months in prison for “inciting to terror” in a series of speeches he made […]
Israeli forces today arrested ten Palestinians from several areas of the occupied West Bank and six others in Jerusalem, including minors, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS). In a press release, PPS stated that […]
(These Chains Will be Broken: Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons, Clarity Press, Atlanta, 2019) What the news reports eliminate, Ramzy Baroud’s new book, These Chains Will be Broken: Stories of Struggle and Defiance […]
(These Chains Will be Broken – Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons. Ramzy Baroud. Clarity Press, Atlanta, Georgia, 2020.) On first opening Ramzy Baroud’s new book, These Chains Will be Unbroken, there is […]
The head of the Committee of Jerusalemite Prisoners, Amjad Abu Asab, said on Wednesday that the Israeli central court sentenced 18-year-old Qaid Basiti and 15-year-old Muhammad Abu Sneineh to 24 months in jail. Israel Relocates […]
Israeli authorities transferred dozens of Palestinian child detainees outside the occupied West Bank to a prison inside Israel last week, in a move that the human rights NGO Defence for Children Palestine described as “amounting […]
On Monday, January 20, Clarity Press, Inc. of Atlanta announced the launch of These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons, by Palestinian author and journalist, Ramzy Baroud, and The […]
Israeli forces on Friday detained at least three Palestinians from the southern West Bank district of Bethlehem. Security sources confirmed that Israeli forces raided Bethlehem city, and arrested two Palestinians, including a former prisoner. "THESE […]
Palestinian prisoner Ahmad Zahran has been released after spending 113 days on hunger strike in Israeli jails, the head of the Palestinian Commission of Prisoners and ex-Prisoners’ Affairs, Qadri Abu Bakr, announced yesterday. Abu Bakr said: […]
The Israeli Bar Association, on Sunday, voted to reappoint Israeli lawyer Lea Tsemel as the chairwoman of its Military Tribunals Committee, before being pressured to rescind the appointment 24 hours later. The decision to remove […]
The Israeli authorities today extended the detention of Alaa Abu Jazar, whose 17-year-long sentence was supposed to end today, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). It said that the Israeli authorities informed the Abu […]
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