News About Prisoners

URGENT! Protect Palestinian Children!

The situation on the ground for Palestinian children is rapidly deteriorating, so CODEPINK has joined our allies at the American Friends Service Committee, Jewish Voice for Peace, and more for a new campaign called No Way to Treat A Child. At the end of February, there were 440 Palestinian children in Israeli military detention. This is […]

anazra enters his 68th day of hunger strike

AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Palestinian prisoner Sami Janazra, from Fawar refugee camp in al-Khalil, entered on Monday his 68th day of hunger strike in protest against his administrative detention.  Janazra’s family warned of his serious health deterioration as he started suffering frequent fainting and became unable to move or to walk. The family called for activating […]

Israeli Forces Target 2 Female Students, Detain 24 other Palestinians in West Bank Raids

Israeli forces stormed the central West Bank town of Birzeit north of Ramallah overnight on Sunday, targeting two female students and detaining at least 24 other Palestinians during raids across the occupied Palestinian territory. Locals told Ma’an that Israeli forces detained a female engineering student, Alaa Assaf, from Birzeit University. Israeli forces stormed the Assaf […]

Hunger Strike Update: Janazrah to face hearing on 10 May on 68th day of hunger strike; solidarity actions growing

Palestinian prisoner Sami Janazrah has been on hunger strike for 67 days. Janazrah, 43 and the father of three, is a Palestinian refugee living in Al-Fuwwar refugee camp. He has been held in Israeli administrative detention – imprisonment without charge or trial – since 15 November 2015, and launched his hunger strike to demand his […]