Over 1,500 Palestinian political prisoners have announced they will launch a collective hunger strike today, Monday, 17 April, on Palestinian Prisoners’ Day 2017. The strike, which will come under the slogan “Freedom and Dignity,” highlights a number of key demands of the Palestinian prisoners, including family visits, appropriate medical care, ending abusive conditions and stopping […]

HADARIM PRISON, Israel — Having spent the last 15 years in an Israeli prison, I have been both a witness to and a victim of Israel’s illegal system of mass arbitrary arrests and ill-treatment of Palestinian prisoners. After exhausting all other options, I decided there was no choice but to resist these abuses by going […]

Why this is important We the undersigned organization, are seeking your intervention to stop violations against Palestinian detainees inside Israeli Prisons. Since the illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories, about 800.000 Palestinians have been detained, representing about 22% of the Palestinian population in the Occupied Territories. Currently, over 6500 Palestinians are detained inside Israeli prisons […]

Palestinian prisoner Lena Jarbouni, the longest-serving woman prisoner in Israeli jails, was released from HaSharon prison on the morning of Sunday, 16 April. Jarbouni, 43, from Arraba al-Botouf village near Akka in occupied Palestine ’48, was welcomed by her family and friends who greeted her after 15 years of imprisonment. In a brief interview with […]

Palestinian child prisoner Natalie Shokha was released on Sunday, 9 April after a year in Israeli prison. Natalie, 15, from the village of Rammon near Ramallah, has been imprisoned since April 2016. Her release came after a higher court rejected an appeal by the Israeli occupation against a decision to release her after completing two-thirds […]

Documented cases of killing and maiming of children prove that Israel is a child rights violator, rights groups say. Occupied East Jerusalem – Flanked by his mother and aunt, Ahmed Mahmoud strolled up the narrow street that leads to the main road in Issawiya in occupied East Jerusalem. It was mid-afternoon in early December 2016, […]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) +- An Israeli court on Thursday sentenced two Palestinian children from Occupied Jerusalem to house arrest and steep fines. 14-year-old Yazen Faroukh and 12-year-old Youssef Hijazi, from Jerusalem’s town of Silwan, south of al-Aqsa Mosque, were sentenced to house confinement and ordered to pay 2,000 shekels each to be released from Israeli […]

For the first time since his indictment, the former Palestinian-Israeli MK explains the injustice that motivated his actions In late December, Palestinian-Israeli MK Basel Ghattas of the Joint List  – the Palestinian coalition in the Israeli Knesset – was arrested for allegedly smuggling mobile phones to Palestinian prisoners. Earlier this month as part of a […]

Palestinian student Kifah Quzmar has been imprisoned since 7 March by Israeli occupation forces, subjected to interrogation for over 20 days and on hunger strike against his confinement. Student organizations have initiated an international statement demanding his freedom and that of fellow student prisoners. Organizational endorsements are invited – please add your group’s name!  This […]

Kathrada was also a staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause and accused Israel of apartheid policies Leading South African anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada, who was one of Nelson Mandela’s closest colleagues, died early Tuesday aged 87, Kathrada’s charity foundation said. Kathrada was among those tried and jailed alongside Mandela in the Rivonia trial in 1964, […]