Over 200 organizations have joined together to call for the immediate release of Khalida Jarrar, the imprisoned Palestinian feminist, leftist parliamentarian. Jarrar, a leading advocate for Palestinian prisoners’ rights, has been jailed without charge or trial under Israeli administrative detention for nearly a year. The organizations who have expressed their support for Jarrar’s freedom include political parties, […]

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network organized a New York City demonstration outside the offices of the “Friends of the IDF” on Saturday, 23 June. The protesters distributed flyers and carried signs demanding freedom for imprisoned Palestinian leader Khalida Jarrar. Photo: Joe Catron Jarrar has been imprisoned without charge or trial for nearly a year under “administrative detention,” […]

Israeli occupation forces carried out a new punitive house demolition overnight, destroying the family apartment of Palestinian prisoner Alaa Kabha in Bartaa village near Jenin. Kabha is accused by Israeli occupation authorities of having carried out a car-ramming attack at an occupation army post near a West Bank settlement on 17 March, killing two Israeli soldiers. According […]

The Israel Defense Forces has extended the administrative detention of Palestinian lawmaker Khalida Jarrar by four months, military officials confirmed on Sunday. Jarrar, who has yet to stand trial, has been in administrative detention since July. As is the case with such arrests, details of the accusations against her remain confidential. The army claimed in the past that […]

Organisers say the boats, which will carry people needing medical care, are a message that Palestinians will not accept Israel’s blockade. GAZA CITY – Palestinians in Gaza are planning to break the Israeli blockade of the enclave by sending out two boats carrying medical patients on Tuesday. The move comes weeks after dozens of peaceful Palestinian […]

Abdul Menim Aabed, 27, is among a crowd of Gazan Palestinians who are anxious—despite the obvious danger—to be among the first to try to sail out of Gaza tomorrow on Al-Hurriyah (Liberty). The boat is being organized by the Great Return March National Organizing Committee and will carry 35 Gazans who hope to receive medical treatment or to […]

“I’m glad it’s over”, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, as Elor Azarya, the soldier-medic who shot the incapacitated Palestinian suspect Abdel Fatah Al Sharif, returned home from his prison term served for ‘manslaughter’, after merely 9 months. The release was early on several counts: First, what was clearly murder got reduced to a ‘manslaughter’ charge […]

Hebron, occupied West Bank – Haifa Abu Sbeih was only 15 when she witnessed the immediate aftermath of a horrific massacre outside her family’s home in the Old City of Hebron. She recalls standing outside her home in 1994, searching for her older brother after she heard gunshots in the Ibrahimi Mosque nearby, where an American […]