This week, just as a 12-year-old’s term was reduced, a 13-year-old girl was sentenced and told to pay an unimaginable fine – and if not, her mother will be sent to jail for up to seven months By Gideon Levy April 18, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – “Haaretz“- They’re not even sure of the exact […]

Palestinian prisoners Lena Jarbouni, the longest serving woman prisoner, who has entered her fifteenth year in Israeli prisons, and Khalida Jarrar, Palestinian parliamentarian feminist, leftist and prisoner advocate, issued messages to the Palestinian people on the occasion of Prisoners’ Day, 17 April. Palestinian lawyer Hanan al-Khatib delivered the messages following her visits with Jarbouni and […]

BDS Austria and the Palästinensischen Jugend Österreich (Palestinian Youth in Austria) organized a demonstration on Sunday, 17 April marking Palestinian Prisoners’ Day at Stephansplatz in Vienna. Participants distributed information and posted art displays, large signs and banners highlighting thestruggles of Palestinian prisoners, and calling for the boycott of Israel. A long panel of displays highlighted various […]

Deportation of protected persons from occupied territory into the occupying state constitutes an unlawful deportation as per Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention – as well as constituting a grave breach of the same Convention under Article 147 – and is also recognized as a war crime under Article 8 of the Rome Statute […]

Twitterstorm to mark April 17, Palestinian Detainees Day April 17 of each year marks Palestinian Detainees Day which is celebrated across Palestine and the world. This year, more than 6000 Palestinians are in Israeli jails. The number of child detainees has more than doubled since October 2015. Palestinians Detainees , thus, deserve our support. A […]

On 17 April, Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes the struggle of 7,000 Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli jails: struggling for not only their own freedom, but for the freedom of the land and people of Palestine. Palestinian prisoners struggle through torture, solitary confinement, abuse, repression, denial of family visits, arbitrary imprisonment and […]

At night, when the power cuts off in my house in Gaza, my family and I sit in the living room with candles or gas lamps. We gather without internet, television or books; it’s just us talking and passing time until we go to bed. While it’s annoying that we don’t have electricity, I like […]

To have lived the Israeli prison experience with its numerous large and small details, and to watch Mai Masri’s film “3000 nights” means you will, once again, become a prisoner. But this time, you are a prisoner to the screen throughout the 103 minutes of screening time. While your eyes are fixed onto the pictures […]

Despairingly, Maha Owaida, the mother of Majd Owaida, 23, took part in the sit-in in solidarity with her son, who was arrested two months ago while en route to the West Bank via the Israeli-controlled Eretz crossing. Few people joined the Owaida’s family on Monday, 11th April, 2016, where the weekly sit-in for prisoners’ families […]

The Israeli authorities have forced Palestinian children detained in Ofek Prison to work for long hours for a very small wage, Palestinian sources have claimed. According to Aida Taqatqa from Beit Fajar near Bethlehem, her 16 year-old son told her that the prison administration forces Palestinian children to work for six hours a day packing […]