More than 1,600 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody launched an open-ended mass hunger strike Monday morning on Palestinian Prisoners’ day, led by imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi, under the banner of “Freedom and Dignity” for [ More … ]
Two Palestinian teenagers held in Israel’s Ofer detention center have been shot, abused, and tortured during their detention and interrogation by Israeli authorities, according to a statement released Tuesday by the Palestinian Committee for Prisoners’ [ More … ]
Tensions escalated on Wednesday afternoon at Israel’s Nafha prison in the southern Negev desert, as reports surfaced of a Palestinian prisoner allegedly stabbing an Israeli officer inside the prison. Israeli news sites reported that a [ More … ]
Prisoner Media Office in Gaza disclosed the articles of the agreement between Hamas’s prisoners and Israeli Prison Service (IPS) by which the hunger strike was halted. In a press statement on Saturday, the Office announced [ More … ]
Over 365 Palestinian prisoners, mostly from Hamas, started an open-ended hunger on Thursday and Friday in Israeli jails in protest at different repressive and punitive measures taken against them. “Al-Karama (dignity) Battle 2” is the [ More … ]
Multiple Palestinian prisoners continued their hunger strike Saturday in protest against their administrative detentions in Israeli prisons. Bilal Kayed, who continued his hunger strike Saturday for the 46th day, which he began after he was [ More … ]
The two Palestinian brothers Muhammad and Mahmoud al-Balboul entered the third week of their hunger strike to protest their detention in Israeli prisons without charge or trial, according to a statement released by a lawyer [ More … ]
The Israeli authorities transferred the Palestinian hunger-striker Bilal Kayed to the Soroka hospital, in Beer Sheba, after his health has taken a serious turn for the worse, who has been on hunger strike for 30 [ More … ]
The health of the Palestinian prisoner Bilal Kayed continued to deteriorate on Saturday, as he entered the 25th day of a hunger strike he began in protest of being placed in administrative detention by Israel [ More … ]
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