(Rocks vs. Tanks?)
Police on Monday arrested seven Israeli Arabs, three of them youths, for allegedly hurling stones and setting fire to tires near the entrance to the Mishad municipal council in the north.
Authorities have arrested 49 people for disturbing the peace since the Israel Air Force began its aerial offensive in the Gaza Strip on [...]
WEST BANK, (WAFA)- Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested, last night, twenty-two Palestinians including two children from the West bank cities of Bethlehem and Ramallah.
Israeli troops arrested four Palestinians from Al-Jalazon Refugee Camp near Ramallah after breaking into and vandalizing their houses.
In the meantime, IOF units arrested eighteen Palestinians from Bethlehem, two of them were under [...]
The Palestinian Prisoners Society reported on Wednesday that detainee Jom’a Ismail Mousa, age 65, from Shu’fat refugee camp in East Jerusalem, died as a result of medical negligence on the part of the Israeli Prison Services.
The detainee spent most of his time in the al-Ramla prison hospital, which lacks the basic medical equipment.
Mousa was sentenced [...]
RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Tens of Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli Ofer prison west of Ramallah were injured or suffered suffocation on Saturday evening after Israeli jailors assaulted them with batons, rubber bullets and gas canisters.
Sources in both Wa’ed society catering for prisoners and ministry of prisoners said that the Israeli Nahshon unit members, specialized in quelling [...]
An elderly Palestinian prisoner is so ill he could be dying, according to an appeal by detainee expert Abed An-Nasser Awni Farawneh on Wednesday in Nablus.
Farawneh told Ma’an that he had received multiple phone calls from detainees in the Israeli-operated Negev Prison, where a 61-year-old inmate’s health has deteriorated since he started a hunger strike [...]
By Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Dec 17 (IPS) - Israel released over 200 Palestinians from Israeli jails in a “goodwill gesture” Monday. This followed the Muslim feast of Eid Al-Adha and was an attempt to boost the waning popularity of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Several prisoners spoke to the assembled local and international media about [...]
Video By Al Jazeera
Since 1967, some 75,000, men and women have been in and out Israelis prison where they had been jailed for long periods of time. A large number of them say have been subjected to severe torture that left many of them physically and mentally handicapped. Some of the old ex-prisoners have kept [...]
Ramallah, (PIC)– Palestinian sources in the West Bank said that Amer Ghazal, a political prisoner in one of Abbas’s jails has suffered complete paralysis as a result of the torture he underwent at the jail.
The sources, which preferred to remain un-named, said on Friday that Ghazal underwent severe torture, including prolonged periods of (Shabh), which [...]
by Muhammad Khawajah
I am twelve years old and live with my family in Ni’lin in the Palestinian territories.
We live on the ground floor of the house, my two uncles and their families live on the first floor, and my grandmother lives on the second floor.
On Thursday [11 September], around 3:00am I woke up from my [...]
Israeli Prison Authorities released on Monday Souna Al Ra’ey,40, after twelve years in detention after she allegedly carried an attack against Israeli soldiers at the Allenby Bridge, in retaliation to the death of her brother who was killed by Israeli soldiers in an Israeli detention camp.
In an interview with Guevara Al Bodeiry, Al Jazeera [...]
“Israel is carrying out almost daily arrests against Palestinians by saying they are wanted for security reasons.”
By [...]
Bethlehem / Najib Farrag - An official delegation returned after a week of French events in solidarity with Palestinian political prisoners.
The delegation included several West Bank heavy hitters on the prisoners’ rights scene. Greeting them in Paris was the French Foreign Ministry and Dr. Hind Khoury, former Jerusalem Affairs Minister and Bethlehem resident whose home [...]
(BBC Monitoring via COMTEX) –
Nablus -Ma’an -The Israeli military announced on Thursday [16 October] that it had released a Hamas-affiliated member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) from Nablus after a 17-month administrative detention and a fine of NIS 20,000.
The 52-year-old Daoud Abu Seer told Ma’an in a phone interview that the international community “should [...]
by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News
According to the Saudi Arabian newspaper Ukaz, the top Israeli negotiator, Amos Gilad, informed an unnamed Palestinian source that Israel is ready to free all of the prisoners demanded by the Hamas party in exchange for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Gilad’s office denied the report.
The Hamas party [...]
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