Israel’s military has dropped all charges against five soldiers who were accused of assaulting and gang-raping a Palestinian man detained at the Sde Teiman prison in 2024. The prison has become notorious for the gruesome torture of Palestinians. The man was hospitalized with broken ribs, a punctured lung, rectal damage and other injuries. The former […]

The indictment said the soldiers assaulted the Palestinian prisoner and sodomized him with a knife, causing multiple injuries. The Israeli military says it is dropping charges against five soldiers who were accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee in a purported assault partially caught on camera. It’s a bombshell development in a case that has divided Israel […]

Hamas, too, receives support from Iran and could be used as a proxy. As part of the Gaza peace plan and an earlier Israel-Hamas ceasefire brokered in January 2025, thousands of Palestinian prisoners have been released from Israeli prisons. Among them were several hundred who were not permitted to return to Gaza or the West Bank because of their […]

Palestinian human rights organisations say Israeli authorities have sharply increased the use of administrative detention against Palestinian detainees, issuing more than 180 detention orders within just 15 days. In a joint statement released on Wednesday, the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Club said Israeli authorities were continuing a dangerous escalation […]

Five soldiers were indicted over alleged violent abuse and rape of Palestinian man at detention centre in 2024 Israel’s top military lawyer has dropped all charges against five soldiers accused of the violent abuse and rape of a Palestinian detainee from Gaza. The military advocate general, Itay Offir, said prosecutors lacked key evidence after the […]

The UN on Wednesday warned that more than 1,500 Palestinians have already been displaced in the occupied West Bank in 2026, reaching 90% of the total figure recorded in 2025, Anadolu reports. Citing the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said at a news conference that “new figures indicate that […]

Hundreds of freed Palestinian prisoners and detainees have been welcomed with tears and screams of joy as they were released by Israel to be reunited with their families in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. The release involved about 250 prisoners who had been convicted of crimes including murder and deadly attacks against Israelis – […]

Around 1,200 Israeli public figures announced their opposition to a proposed law that would impose the death penalty on Palestinian prisoners, a bill being advanced by the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, describing it as a “moral stain,” local media reported on Tuesday. The Israeli figures, including Nobel Prize laureates, former senior military officials, […]

Ramallah, occupied Palestine – At least 662 arrests were carried out by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank and Jerusalem during July alone, including 39 arrests among children and 12 among women, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) and the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association said today. This brings […]

DOHA, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Leaders of Arab and Islamic states will warn that Israel’s attack on Qatar and other “hostile acts” threaten coexistence and efforts to normalise ties in the region, according to a draft resolution to be put before an Arab-Islamic summit on Monday. The summit is being convened in Doha in a […]