Israeli forces Monday overnight detained 13 Palestinians, including a cancer-stricken patient, from various parts of the West Bank, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Local and security sources told WAFA that Israeli forces rounded […]
Dozens of Palestinians suffocated by tear gas on Sunday, as Israeli forces quelled a protest held in solidarity with hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. According to WAFA […]
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) renewed on Friday its call to end the crisis of the Palestinian hunger strikers inside Israeli prisons, as their health conditions seriously deteriorate. Head of the ICRC […]
Expressing grave fear for the lives of five Palestinians currently on hunger strike in Israeli prisons, United Nations Human Rights experts have called on Israel to either release or charge the prisoners, and completely end […]
Palestinian prisoner Miqdad al-Qawasmi, 24, is in “extremely dangerous” condition over three months into a hunger strike to protest his administrative detention, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Al-Qawasmi is the least healthy of […]
The Social Committee of the Fatah Movement’s Prisoners’ Affairs in Gaza organized a protest on Wednesday demanding the release of the remains of Palestinians held in Israel’s so-called ‘Cemeteries of Numbers’ Bodies of hundreds of […]
Nisreen Abu Kmeil, 46, from Haifa, was allowed by the Israeli occupation authorities on Wednesday to be reunited with her seven children and husband in the Gaza Strip after her release from an Israeli prison, […]
Far-right Israeli lawmaker Itamar Ben-Gvir on Tuesday carried out a provocative visit to hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner Meqdad Qawasmeh, and got into a confrontation with Ayman Odeh, the leader of the Arab Joint List, the Israeli […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Egyptian mediators have been unable to bring Israeli and Hamas representatives closer during indirect talks regarding a potential prisoner exchange deal, Israeli sources reported today. According to Arab48.com, the Israeli Hebrew-language newspaper Maariv reported an […]
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 […]
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 […]
Israel’s public attorney on Sunday filed an indictment against six Palestinian prisoners, who had tunneled out of a high-security prison in northern Israel last month before being rearrested, reports Anadolu Agency. Indictments were filed on […]
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 […]
Imprisoned Palestinian leader, Marwan Barghouti declared that “the Palestinian Authority (PA) has no authority,” adding that the battle for Jerusalem “revealed the inability and fragility” of the Palestinian political system, Sama news agency reported on […]
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 […]
Israeli authorities on Sunday have released Palestinian political prisoner Khalida Jarrar after serving two years in prison, Quds News Network reported. Khalida Jarrar, who is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of […]
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), […]
Palestinians are observing a general strike in the southern West Bank district of Bethlehem to mourn the death of a cancer-stricken prisoner, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Heading a call from nationalist factions, […]
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, […]
Israel on Wednesday reopened a crossing with the occupied West Bank for the first time since a daring escape by six Palestinian political prisoners two weeks ago, The New Arab website reported. COGAT, the Israeli […]
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 […]
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