Palestine 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 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 ArticlePalestinian hunger striker tests Israeli force-feeding law
Click photo to enlarge 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...
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 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 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 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 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 ArticleNGO slams Israel court for snubbing plea to unchain Palestinian hunger striker
A rights group has criticized an Israeli court for refusing to order the unchaining of a Palestinian hunger striker shackled to his bed, saying the ruling perpetuates prisoners’ abuses. Physicians for...
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 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 ArticleIsrael re-arrests Palestinian hunger striker Allan
The Israeli regime has reinstated the administrative detention of Palestinian prisoner Mohammed Allan who has recently been on a two-month hunger strike. "Mohammed Allan, whose condition has improved,...
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