Amnesty: Palestinian journalist on hunger strike in Israeli jail faces risk...
Amnesty International warned Tuesday that a prominent Palestinian journalist on hunger strike in protest against his administrative detention by Israel is facing an imminent risk of death. The...
View ArticlePalestinian Mohammad Allan on hunger strike again
Former Palestinian prisoner Mohammad Allan has once again gone on an open-ended hunger strike after being re-arrested by Israeli forces and being jailed without trial following an improvement in his...
View ArticleIsraeli MPs vote for bid to force-feed Palestinian inmates
The Israeli regime’s legislators have voted to continue pursuing a bill to allow force-feeding of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike while opponents insist the move is intended as a form of torture...
View ArticleFive Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jail
Five Palestinian inmates currently being held at a detention camp in the Negev desert continued their hunger strike in protest against their detention without charge or trial. Fadi Obeidat, a lawyer...
View ArticleFears grow over health of hunger-striking Palestinian
The hearing of a hunger-striking Palestinian journalist whose weight has fallen below 30 kilograms must be moved forward in order to save his life, the defendant's lawyers said. The Israeli Supreme...
View ArticleRights group urges release of Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli jails
A Palestinian rights group has called on the international community to pressure the Tel Aviv regime to release several Palestinian prisoners who have been on hunger strike in Israeli jails for weeks....
View ArticleHunger-striking Palestinian reporter's appeal rejected
An Israeli military court has rejected an appeal to end the detention of a Palestinian journalist who is in critical condition because of an ongoing hunger strike, which has spanned 54 days so far....
View ArticleIsraeli court rejects Palestinian bid for jail release
An Israeli military court has dismissed an appeal by a hunger striking Palestinian journalist to end his administrative detention. Palestinian Minister for Prisoner Affairs Issa Qaraqe told Ma’an news...
View ArticleIsrael denies Palestinian hunger strikers medical care
Israeli authorities have refrained from providing medical check-up and healthcare for three prisoners, two Palestinians and a Jordanian, on hunger strike in the regime’s jails, a senior Palestinian...
View ArticlePalestinians slam Israeli law to force-feed hunger striking prisoners
Palestinians have blasted an Israeli law that allows the Guantanamo-style force-feeding of Palestinian prisoners who are on hunger strike in Israeli jails. On Thursday, Israel's parliament (Knesset)...
View ArticlePalestinian journalist 'nearing death' in Israeli jail
A Palestinian political prisoner has been taken to hospital and is in a critical condition as he continues to refuse food in protest at being imprisoned by Israel without charges, a Palestinian...
View ArticleHunger-striking Palestinian journalist 'nearing death'
A Palestinian political prisoner has been hospitalised and is in critical condition as he continues to refuse food in protest of being imprisoned by Israel without charges, a Palestinian official has...
View ArticleIsraeli regime to force-feed Palestinian hunger striker
The head of the Palestinian Committee for Prisoners' Affairs says the Israeli regime is due to force-feed a Palestinian prisoner who has been on a hunger strike for weeks now. Issa Qaraqe said on...
View Article120 Palestinians inmates on hunger strike in solidarity with 3 prisoners
At least 120 Palestinian prisoners have gone on an open-ended hunger strike to express their solidarity with three fellow inmates who are refusing food in protest at their arbitrary detention by the...
View ArticlePalestinian reporter Qiq freed from Israeli jail
A Palestinian journalist, who recently went on a three-month hunger strike in protest against his administrative detention, has been released from an Israeli jail. Muhammad al-Qiq was freed from the...
View ArticleIsrael 'deliberately trying to kill Palestinian hunger strikers'
The Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs says the Tel Aviv regime purposefully seeks to kill Palestinian hunger strikers who are refusing to take their food portions in protest against their...
View ArticlePalestinians shut down shops in support of hunger strikers in Israeli jails
Palestinians have staged a general strike across Israeli-occupied territories in solidarity with Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti and hundreds of other prisoners in Israeli jails on hunger strike...
View ArticlePalestinians urge ‘week of rage’ as Israel plans to force-feed hunger strikers
Leaders of a mass hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners have called for a “week of rage” against Israel amid reports that Tel Aviv plans to bring in foreign doctors to force-feed the inmates refusing...
View ArticlePalestinians slam Israel for refusing talks with hunger strikers
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories — Palestinian leaders on Wednesday denounced Israel's refusal to negotiate with Palestinians on hunger strike in Israeli jails, warning of a "new Intifada" if any of...
View ArticleIsrael remands 38 Palestinians in administrative detention
Israeli officials have issued 38 new administrative detention orders against Palestinians, including a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council as well as two former hunger strikers. The...
View ArticleHunger Striker Mohammed Allan Falls Unconscious In Test For Israeli...
RAMAT GAN, Israel (AP) -- Hospital-bound and shackled, Palestinian detainee Mohammed Allan was 60 days into his hunger strike, launched in protest of his detention without charge in an Israeli jail,...
View ArticleScores of jailed Palestinians launch hunger strike
At least 120 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel have launched a hunger strike against their forced removal from one section to another inside a notorious jail. The prisoners launched their hunger...
View ArticlePalestinian hunger-striker at Israeli jail can no longer speak: Lawyer
A Palestinian prisoner who has been on hunger strike for over two months in an Israeli jail has lost his power of speech, his lawyer and family say. Jawad Boulus, lawyer for Mohammed al-Qiq, said his...
View ArticleWeekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied...
(Source: PCHA - Palestinian Centre for Human Rights) Print Israeli forces continue systematic crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) (14- 20 April 2016) Israeli forces continued to use...
View ArticleIsraeli force-feeding law pits doctors against state
Hospital-bound and shackled, Palestinian detainee Mohammed Allan was 60 days into his hunger strike, launched in protest of his detention without charge in an Israeli jail, when he slipped into...
View ArticlePalestinian hunger striker tests Israeli force-feeding law
Reprints + - FILE - In this Sunday, Aug. 9, 2015 file photo, Palestinian girls, from left, Ghofran, Lane, and Mary stand next to a poster showing their uncle Mohammed Allan at the family house in the...
View ArticlePalestinians urge boycott in solidarity with hunger strikers
The committee of Palestinian prisoner families in the West Bank city of Nablus has called for the boycott of the upcoming municipal elections in a show of solidarity with a mass hunger strike by...
View ArticleWeekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian...
Print Israeli forces continue systematic crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) (30 August - 13 September 2017) A Palestinian civilian from al-Dheishah refugee camp, south of Bethlehem,...
View Article“We Are in Tombs”
Summary “It was designed so that those who go in don’t come out again unless dead. It was designed for political prisoners.” –Ibrahim Abd al-Ghaffar, former warden, during a television interview in...
View ArticleLonger jail imprisonment expected for two Palestinian hunger strikers
Israel’s Supreme Court is highly expected to prolong the imprisonment of two Palestinians, who have gone on hunger strike for more than two months in protest against their administrative detention in...
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