Female Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike backing Allan
A female Palestinian prisoner in an Israeli jail has joined her brother and fellow inmate in an open-ended hunger strike in solidarity with hunger-striking prisoner Muhammad Allan, who is in a coma due...
View Article50 Palestinians go on hunger strike in Israeli jail
Tens of Palestinian inmates have reportedly gone on hunger strike at an Israeli prison to protest against mistreatment as well as poor conditions at the detention facility. The Palestinian Prisoners'...
View ArticlePalestine committee calls for ending child detentions
At least 1,000 Palestinian children have been detained by Israeli forces since the beginning of the year, says the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs. “Some of these minors were held under...
View ArticlePalestinian hunger striker's health critically worsening: Committee
Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti's health conditions have been critically deteriorating during the past week after he joined a hunger strike with over a thousand other Palestinian inmates in Israeli...
View ArticleIsrael to force-feed 1st Palestinian hunger striker following law approval
Israeli officials have announced a decision to force-feed a Palestinian detainee who has been on hunger strike for nearly two months, his lawyer says. Jamil al-Khatib said on Saturday that Israeli...
View ArticlePalestinian Authority slams Israel’s refusal to talk to hunger-striking...
The Palestinian Authority’s head of detainees' affairs says that the death of any hunger-striking prisoner may lead to a “new Intifada.” Issa Qaraqe...
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...
View ArticlePalestinians hold massive rally in support of hunger striker
Palestinians have come out in force to voice support for a Palestinian prisoner, who has lost consciousness after going on an unlimited hunger strike. On Sunday, the 62nd day of the protest action...
View ArticleSystemic Indifference
Summary On April 6, 2015, Raul Ernesto Morales-Ramos, a 44-year-old citizen of El Salvador, died at Palmdale Regional Medical Center in Palmdale, California, of organ failure, with signs of widespread...
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 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 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 ArticlePalestinian hunger striker tests Israeli force-feeding law
EINABOS, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian hunger striker Mohammed Allan spent his college years as an activist and leader in the student wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group at a West Bank...
View ArticleWeekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian...
Print Israeli forces continue systematic crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) (11-17 May 2017) Israeli forces killed a Palestinian civilian in al-Nabi Saleh village weekly protest and...
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 ArticleMass hunger strike looms against Israeli detention
More to this story In pictures: Palestinian prisoners freed Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike 'to be released' Israel authorises force-feeding of prisoners Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails...
View Article150 Palestinian prisoners go on hunger strike: NGO
A Palestinian non-governmental organization says nearly 150 Palestinian prisoners have gone on hunger strike over the past week. “120 Palestinian prisoners in Israel’s Nafha Prison [who were recently...
View ArticleIsraeli force-feeding law pits doctors against state
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 Article48 Palestinian prisoners continue hunger strike in Israeli jails
Nearly 50 Palestinian prisoners have been on hunger strike for days at detention facilities in the occupied territories in a protest action against the Israeli regime’s practice of administrative...
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