First Deputy Speaker of the Palestinian Parliament Ahmad Bahar yesterday called on Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz to release Palestinian prisoners held in the kingdom, Felesteen reported. During a meeting with the families of the prisoners, Bahar […]
Prisoners rights group Samidoun has launched a petition calling on the Israeli government to release Palestinian MP Khalida Jarrar, 54, who has been under administrative detention for almost a year. 180+ groups demand Israel free […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Israeli authorities have detained two mothers of Palestinian prisoners as they were visiting them in the Rimon prison facility. The mothers are from the Tuqu’ town east of Bethlehem. Their children, […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The Israeli army on Tuesday arrested five Palestinian school children on their way home in the Kafr Malik village east of Ramallah. The children were taken to an illegal settlement, which […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff An injured Palestinian mother has been given the 2018’s “Woman of Palestine” award in an honorary ceremony held Thursday in Gaza. “Palestinian women have been deeply involved in the Palestinian struggle,” […]
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 […]
Israeli forces released Palestinian lawmaker Muhammad Abu Tair after he was held in Israeli prison for six months under administrative detention — Israel’s widely-condemned policy of internment without charge or trial. Abu Tair was detained […]
The Council of Europe has called upon the Palestinian Authority to halt the payments it distributes to the families of Palestinian prisoners and those who have been killed by Israeli forces, the Israeli daily Jerusalem […]
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 […]
By Kathy Kelly January 11, 2018 marked the 16th year that Guantanamo prison has exclusively imprisoned Muslim men, subjecting many of them to torture and arbitrary detention. About thirty people gathered in Washington D.C., convened […]
32-year old Israa Jaabis has been languishing in an Israeli prison for nearly 2 ½ years, carrying out an 11 year sentence for, according to the Israeli Military Court, attempting to kill soldiers. Jaabis was […]
It was January 6, 1983 when Karim Younis, a Palestinian resident of Ara, an Arab village in Israel, was arrested and later sentenced to life in prison for resisting the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian […]
The Israeli army arrested a Palestinian parliamentarian in the West Bank city of Salfit this morning, according to a report by Anadolu Agency. The latest arrest raises the number of jailed Palestinian parliamentarians to 11. […]
Israel used force on Thursday to disperse a protest by women activists outside Ofer military camp and detention center just outside Ramallah in support of Ahed Tamami, the 17-year-old Palestinian girl who was detained last […]
An ultra-right-wing Israeli minister verbally harassed Palestinians from Gaza as they traveled on a bus to visit their imprisoned relatives in southern Israel’s Nafha prison, hurling abuse at women on the bus calling their sons […]
Israeli occupation forces arrested 430 Palestinians and wounded more than 3,400 others in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem and the besieged Gaza Strip since US President Donald Trump announced his decision to recognize […]
Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked announced on Sunday that bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli occupation forces would not be returned to their families for burial, Quds Press reported. “It must be clear that the […]
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 […]
More than 300 Palestinians have been arrested by Israeli occupying forces since the start of protests last week, following the announcement of US President Donald Trump recognizing Jerusalem as the Israeli capital, according to the […]
Suhair Zaqout, the spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Gaza Strip, said family visits of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have been canceled due to Jewish holidays. She added, “There […]
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) released a statement on Thursday, expressing the organization’s concern with the severely deteriorating health of three hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners currently protesting their administrative detention orders. In the […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Various activists in the Argentinian capital of Buenos Aires.have shown their solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails The Continental Forum for Prisoners is currently being held in Argentina. A mural […]
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