As Palestinian prisoners enter their second week of hunger strike, the approximately 1,500 Palestinians beginning their eighth day without food continue to face a campaign of repression inside Israeli jails. Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike continue to be denied lawyers’ visits; only several prisoners held in Ofer prison have been able to receive visits from […]

Over 1,500 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails have been on hunger strike since 17 April 2017. The demands of the Strike for Freedom and Dignity are straightforward: for their basic human rights – to no longer be denied family visits, to have the ability to contact their families via telephone, to receive appropriate medical […]

Undercover soldiers of the Israeli Prison Administration assaulted, Friday, several hunger-striking Palestinian detainees in Nitzan Prison, in Ramla, and unleashed their dogs on them, during violent searches of the detainees and their rooms. In a statement to the press, the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee, said that the soldiers also preventing the detainees from performing Friday prayers. […]

Please cut and paste letter below into email and send to Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations info-un@newyork.mfa.gov.il. and palestine@un.int or http://embassies.gov.il/un/AboutTheEmbassy/Pages/contact-us.aspx and a copy to the Israeli  embassy in your country https://embassy.goabroad.com/embassies-of/israel (Australia  only Cc:  info@canberra.mfa.gov.il,  julie.Bishop.MP@aph.gov.au,  senator.dinatale@aph.gov.au , senator.wong@aph.gov.au, ) SUGGEST YOU RESEND THE EMAIL EVERY DAY OF THE HUNGER STRIKE […]

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, […]