Israelis imprison 34 Palestinians without charge or trial: Rights group
Israeli authorities have reportedly issued the so-called administrative detention order for 34 Palestinian detainees in defiance of widespread criticisms against the practice. The rights group...
View ArticleIsrael relocates Palestinian hunger strikers to different jail
The Israeli regime has transferred to a different prison at least six Palestinian inmates who have been staging a hunger strike over their detention. According to reports on Tuesday, five of the...
View ArticleHunger strike by Palestinian inmates enters 5th day
A hunger strike launched by Palestinian detainees in protest against their dire conditions in Israeli custody has entered its fifth day, with more prisoners expected to join the action. At least 120...
View Article250 Palestinian detainees begin mass hunger strike
Some 250 Palestinians being held in Israel’s Negev prison have begun an open-ended hunger strike in protest to their administrative detention. The hunger strike will go on “until Israel’s policy of...
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 prisoners continue hunger strike
Several Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are currently on hunger strike in protest at their illegal detention. The Palestinian National Authority's Committee for Prisoners' Affairs said on Friday...
View ArticleFemale 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 ArticlePalestinian hunger strikes: 'My husband is dying'
Closer to death than life, Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Qeeq has been refusing food for nearly three months to protest against his ill treatment by Israeli authorities while in administrative...
View ArticleSenior Catholic patriarch joins Palestinian hunger strikers
The Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, and Alexandria and Jerusalem has reportedly started refusing food in a show of solidarity with hundreds of Palestinians, who have gone on hunger strike in...
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 Article76 Palestinian hunger strikers in critical condition in Israeli jail
Seventy-six Palestinian hunger strikers have been hospitalized for a critical deterioration of their health conditions, as a mass hunger strike by Palestinian inmates in Israeli jails has entered its...
View ArticlePalestinians demand release of hunger-striking journalist from Israeli jail
A group of Palestinians have gathered outside an Israeli prison in the occupied West Bank, demanding the release of a hunger-striking journalist who is in a critical health condition, Press TV reports....
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...
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