Cold weather and heavy rain are causing “catastrophic conditions” inside the cells in which Palestinians are being held by Israel in Etzion Prison, the Palestinian Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs Commission reported on Thursday. Rainwater, it is alleged, has flooded the cells, soaking prisoners’ bedding and clothing. Lawyer Hussain Al-Sheikh toured the prison recently on behalf […]

The Israeli magistrate’s court in Jerusalem on Sunday sentenced a 19-year-old Palestinian girl to 16 years in prison, after she was accused of attempting to stab an Israeli settler in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem in Oct. 2015.  Members of Shurouq Dwayyat’s family told Ma’an that the sentence also included a fine of […]

The Israeli Ofer military court sentenced wounded Palestinian child prisoner Natalie Shokha, 15, to one and a half years in Israeli prison on Monday, 19 December. Natalie, from the village of Rammun near Ramallah, was shot by occupation soldiers on 28 April with a live bullet in her back and chest. She and another minor […]

On Friday, Anas Shadid and Ahmad Abu Fara will reach their 91st day on hunger strike against their “administrative detention” without charge or trial by Israel. On Saturday, Palestinian doctor Mohammed Jadallah, who had visited the two in Assaf Harofeh hospita, said in a report that the coming hours were critical for the lives of […]

Today, U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade announced that a grand jury she had empaneled returned a new, superseding indictment against Rasmea Odeh for unlawful procurement of naturalization. This new indictment, just four weeks before her retrial, is a vicious attack by prosecutors desperate after a series of setbacks in their case against the Chicago-based Palestinian American […]

The Israeli government has decided to hand over the bodies of seven Palestinians back to their families to bury them after holding their bodies for months. The decision came following a petition made by Al-Quds human rights organization based in Jerusalem to the Supreme Israeli Court. Ameen Albayed of the Committee to Regain the Bodies […]

Palestinian prominent former hunger striker and leader of the prisoners’ movement Bilal Kayed was released today, Monday, 12 December, after 15 years in Israeli prisons to the cheers and salutes of his family, friends and comrades in his home village of Asira al-Shamaliyeh, throughout Palestine and internationally. Kayed, 35, conducted a 71-day hunger strike in […]

The Palestinian prisoners’ and Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movements celebrated a landmark victory on Dec. 2 as British-Danish conglomerate G4S, the world’s biggest security company and second-largest private employer, announced the sale of its Israeli unit. “This experience with G4S proves that international campaigns, working with the Palestinian prisoners’ movement, can exert real pressure […]

Protesters in New York City gathered outside the offices of G4S, the massive British-Danish security corporation, on Friday 9 December. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network gathered to protest its ongoing involvement in Policity, an Israeli occupation police training center, and to mark its sale of its Israeli subsidiary, which contracts with the Israeli prison administration. […]

Friday, 16 December 4:00 pm Best Buy Union Square – 52 E 14th St New York City Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1449156061780541/ On Friday, Anas Shadid and Ahmad Abu Fara will reach their 84th day on hunger strike against their “administrative detention” without charge or trial by Israel. The two Palestinian political prisoners issued an urgent appeal on […]