Palestinian inmates on hunger strike in support of fellow prisoners
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) says 50 Palestinian prisoners from the movement of Fatah and Islamic Jihad have gone on an open hunger strike in solidarity with their fellow inmates Muhammad...
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 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 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 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 ArticleUN rights office voices concern as health of Palestinian hunger strikers...
Print 20 June 2014 The United Nations today voiced concern as the health of a number of Palestinian hunger strikers protesting Israel’s ongoing use of administrative detention is reportedly...
View ArticleRights groups call for Palestinian artist’s release from Israeli jail
A number of human rights organizations have called for public support to press the Israeli regime to release a Palestinian circus artist held under administrative detention. The UK-based Amnesty...
View ArticleIsraelis clash with Palestinians supporting hunger strikers
Scuffles have broken out between Israeli forces and Palestinians protesting in solidarity with hunger striking prisoners in the occupied West Bank, leaving several demonstrators injured. The...
View ArticlePalestinians prisoners in Israel end 62-day hunger strike after deal
RAMALLAH (Palestinian Territories): Dozens of Palestinian prisoners who had refused food for 62 days have suspended their hunger strike after reaching a deal with the Israel Prisons Service, their...
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 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 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
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 ArticlePalestinians prisoners in Israel end 62-day hunger strike after deal
RAMALLAH (Palestinian Territories): Dozens of Palestinian prisoners who had refused food for 62 days have suspended their hunger strike after reaching a deal with the Israel Prisons Service, their...
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 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 ArticlePalestinian prisoners across 4 Israeli prisons to go on hunger strike Tuesday...
(Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Palestine) RAMALLAH (Ma'an) - Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli custody at Nafha, Rimon, Ktziot and Hadarim prisons announced their decision Saturday evening...
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 ArticleIsrael force-treats hunger-striking Palestinian journalist: Rights group
A medical rights group says Israeli authorities are force-treating Palestinian hunger striker Muhammad al-Qiq in defiance of international law that considers the practice a violation of human rights....
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