At night, when the power cuts off in my house in Gaza, my family and I sit in the living room with candles or gas lamps. We gather without internet, television or books; it’s just us talking and passing time until we go to bed. While it’s annoying that we don’t have electricity, I like […]

To have lived the Israeli prison experience with its numerous large and small details, and to watch Mai Masri’s film “3000 nights” means you will, once again, become a prisoner. But this time, you are a prisoner to the screen throughout the 103 minutes of screening time. While your eyes are fixed onto the pictures […]

Despairingly, Maha Owaida, the mother of Majd Owaida, 23, took part in the sit-in in solidarity with her son, who was arrested two months ago while en route to the West Bank via the Israeli-controlled Eretz crossing. Few people joined the Owaida’s family on Monday, 11th April, 2016, where the weekly sit-in for prisoners’ families […]

The Israeli authorities have forced Palestinian children detained in Ofek Prison to work for long hours for a very small wage, Palestinian sources have claimed. According to Aida Taqatqa from Beit Fajar near Bethlehem, her 16 year-old son told her that the prison administration forces Palestinian children to work for six hours a day packing […]

In commemoration of Palestinian Prisoner Day, April 17, TPD team will be posting the audio recordings of the English version of the book to remind people all over the world that Palestinian prisoners are still suffering to this day. Today, we will post the story of Nael Albarghouthi, the longest serving prisoner in the world. […]

  The Israeli Court on Tuesday refused to release the youngest Palestinian youngest prisoner in Israeli jails, 11-year-old Ali Alqam. The boy, from Shuafat refugee camp, reportedly will be sent to a Ministry of Welfare supervised residence for approximately one year, Ynet Hebrew newspaper said. According to PIC, the court censored the majority of the ruling’s details […]

Jalazone refugee camp, occupied West Bank – Abed Abu Sharefa’s hand was on the front door of his home in Jalazone refugee camp as Israeli soldiers worked to break through from the other side and arrest him. The scar under his left eyebrow, where the metal door blew inwards, is still visible seven years on. […]

The family of 12-year-old Shadi Farrah, imprisoned in a detention center in Tamra, called for international attention and support from human rights organizations for the case of their son. Farrah has been imprisoned, along with another Palestinian Jerusalemite child, Ahmad Zaatari, 13, since 30 December 2015. They were arrested by Israeli occupation forces and accused […]

RAMALLAH (Ma’an) – Five Palestinians are currently on a hunger strike in Israeli prisons to protest solitary confinement and Israel’s policy of administrative detention — internment without charge or trial.Amjad al-Najjar, the director of the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society’s office in Hebron, said in a press statement on Saturday that prisoner Sami Janazrah has been on hunger […]

21 March 2016 As Palestinians celebrate the occasion of Mothers’ Day, 13 Palestinian mothers held in Israeli prisons and detention centers are unable to see their families. Palestinian mothers are often denied their right to a fair trial, family visits, and kept for several days or months under interrogation where they are subjected to torture […]