News About Prisoners

New House Bill Would Bar Israel From Using U.S. Military Aid to Detain Palestinian Children

NEW LEGISLATION PROPOSED by Rep. Betty McCollum, a Minnesota Democrat, would ban Israel from using any of the billions of dollars in military assistance it receives from the United States every year to pay for the detention, interrogation, or torture of Palestinian children living under Israeli military occupation in the West Bank. Israel’s military typically arrests […]

Israeli troops detained a 9-year-old Palestinian at school. It’s ‘becoming normal’, locals say

(CNN)- The day before we met, human rights campaigner Aref Jaber recorded the arrest of a 9-year-old Palestinian boy, taken out of school in the West Bank city of Hebron by armed Israeli soldiers. His footage shows soldiers inside Ziad Jaber elementary school, arguing with the school principal and other teachers, as they attempt to remove […]

Join the Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege: Worldwide Solidarity This Weekend

As we approach the one-year anniversary of the Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege in Gaza – also the 43rd anniversary of Land Day – Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network joins Palestinians and people around the world in encouraging all supporters of justice to join in solidarity actions at this critical time. Land Day has been marked […]

Under Israeli pressure, Germany revokes Rasmea Odeh visa

Palestinian activist Rasmea Odeh was banned from speaking at a public meeting marking International Women’s Day in Berlin on Friday after German officials revoked her visa. The event was titled “Palestinian Women in the Liberation Struggle.” The Israeli government claimed credit for the action. According to the newspaper Haaretz, strategic affairs minister Gilad Erdan issued a statement saying the German decision came after […]