Ambassador accuses team of “indirectly encouraging aggression” for hosting Palestinian teen, who served a prison sentence after a video emerged showing her slapping an IDF soldier Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi, who served an eight-month sentence in Israeli jail for slapping and shoving IDF soldiers outside her home in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh […]

Preliminary results of the autopsy on Muhammad al-Rimawi show that he died as a result of severe beatings by Israeli soldiers, Palestinian authorities are saying. The Israeli army is disputing this. The autopsy was conducted at Israel’s Abu Kabir Forensic Institute in the presence of Dr. Rayan al-Ali, the Palestinian Authority’s chief medical examiner. Al-Rimawi, 24, died shortly after he was […]

Khader Adnan’s open hunger strike in Israeli jails entered on Wednesday its 25th day in a row. Mohjat al-Quds Foundation said in a press statement that Adnan started a hunger strike 25 days ago in protest at his arbitrary detention, adding that his health condition is still unknown as he is denied visits by his […]

Dareen Tatour was arrested in October 2015 over a poem called ‘Resist my people, resist’, but only handed a five-month sentence last July Israeli authorities have released a Palestinian poet who was imprisoned for “incitement to violence” because of a poem she wrote supporting Palestinian “resistance” in 2015. Dareen Tatour, a Palestinian citizen of Israel […]

Palestinians confined in Israel’s brutal prisons issued a statement of solidarity on Aug. 20 with the National Prison Strike in the U.S. Members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine expressed the utmost support for their sisters and brothers jailed in this country’s horrific system of mass incarceration who courageously launched a nationally […]

Nine months ago, before the slap across an Israeli soldier’s cheek that changed her life, the world knew little of Ahed Tamimi. Now the 17-year-old is a cause célèbre, her full head of curly blonde hair recognisable on “Free Ahed” posters from Toronto to Tokyo. In the Palestinian territories, she is revered. In Israel, she […]

RAMALLAH, West Bank — “The Tale of the Secret of Oil,” a new book for young readers, was launched this September at the Mahmoud Darwish museum in Ramallah, but unlike most book launches, the author, Walid Daqqa, was conspicuously absent. He wrote the book in prison, where he has been since 1986. “The Tale of the Secret of Oil” is Daqqa’s first […]

Palestinian youth activist Waed Tamimi, 21, the older brother of Ahed Tamimi and part of the grassroots anti-colonial indigenous land defense and resistance movement in the village of Nabi Saleh, was sentenced to 14 months in Israeli prison on 23 August 2018. In addition to the 14-month sentence, he was fined 7,000 NIS ($1,929 USD) and ordered […]

Many concerned friends of Mustapha Awad and supporters of Palestine have been worried about him and his whereabouts for weeks. The situation is highly troubling – he has been in Israeli occupation custody, under harsh interrogation for 20 out of the 24 hours of the day. Today, he remains imprisoned by the Israeli occupation. The […]

Jerusalem (AFP) – Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi left prison Sunday after an eight-month sentence for slapping two Israeli soldiers, an episode captured on video that made her a symbol of resistance for Palestinians, a prison service spokesman said. Assaf Librati told AFP Tamimi, 17, and her mother, who was also jailed over the incident, were […]