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The Speaker of Parliament and leader of the Ennahda movement has said that Tunisia needs help from its international partners. "Especially those who believe in democracy, as it is...

Palestinian political prisoner Maher Al-Akhras has been on hunger strike for 83 days now. A father of six children, Al-Akhras was arrested by Israel in July and has been...

Hundreds of contracting professors in Morocco demonstrated on Sunday in Rabat to demand that the government integrate them into the public sector employment. Three years ago, the Government launched...

Israel has detained 1,600 Palestinians in the first few months of 2019, including 230 children and 40 women. According to a new report by the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO)'s...

Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons are gearing up for a mass hunger strike. Already horrific conditions in these jails deteriorated further in recent months, especially since the announcement by...

Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli prisons announced the launching of an open hunger strike to protest against the occupation's attacks on them. The movement said a statement signed by...

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Morocco's capital Rabat on Sunday to demonstrate against the jailing of leaders of a protest movement in the predominantly...

Israel has sent a strongly worded letter to European governments accusing them of providing "a voice for terror" ahead of meeting on the conditions in which Palestinian detainees are...

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners ended a 40-day hunger strike today initially launched over conditions in Israeli jails, the Israel Prison Service and a Palestinian official said. About 1,100 inmates...

The head of the PLO's Committee for Prisoners and Freed Prisoners has revealed that the hunger strikers have added Israel's recognition of them as prisoners of war to their...

After Yair Lapid's party discovered that the PA pays monthly salaries to the prisoners, he proposed a draft bill stipulating the reduction of nearly $2.8 million annually from the...

The longest-serving Palestinian prisoner held by Israel has insisted that the hunger-strikers will continue and escalate their protest, Arab48 reported yesterday. "This," said Karim Younis, 60, "is not only...

When this article is published in Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper, the Palestinian prisoners will have completed an entire month on hunger strike. They are surviving on water and salt alone....

Despite Hamas suffering from arrests and threats from the occupation authorities and the PA, the suffocating crisis it has been living under after the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood...

Nearly a month ago, Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons started a hunger strike, but since the beginning of the strike, we haven't seen or heard a clear position from the...

While the Palestinian Nakba enters its 70th year tomorrow, the Palestinian prisoners' hunger strike will finish its first month, after all the Israeli attempts to break the national prisoner...

Dozens of Sudanese and Palestinian students and national union members held a sit-in outside the United Nations Headquarters in Khartoum yesterday in support of Palestinian hunger strikes which who...

The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement in Egypt announced today its support to the Freedom and Dignity Hunger Strike, which was launched in April by the Palestinian prisoners...

Water and salt play an important role in the continuity of Arab prisoners in Israeli prisons and the success of such strikes. Water and salt are all that they...

The Palestinian Authority today held Israel fully responsibility for the lives of the Palestinian hunger striking prisoners being held in Israeli jails, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. In an interview...

A Palestinian hunger striker has ended his participation in the "Freedom and Dignity" movement as a result of the severe deterioration of his health. Atef Abd al-Karim Mariah from...

As many as 40 Palestinian prisoners held in the Israeli Megiddo prison have joined the collective hunger strike which began on 17 April, the Media Committee of the Freedom...

Settlers set up barbeques outside Ofer Prison while Palestinian prisoners held inside continue the fourth day of their hunger strike to demand their basic rights.

Imprisoned Palestinian journalist Muhammad Al-Qeeq – who staged a months-long hunger strike in 2016 – was transferred to Ohalei Kedar prison today after having been held in the Ramla...

The Israel Prison Service (IPS) has suspended family visitation rights to Palestinian prisoners, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) told Ma'an today. The move comes as the...

Karim Younis, the longest-serving Palestinian prisoner in Israeli custody, announced that he would join a mass hunger strike on April 17, organised by Fatah-affiliated prisoners and led by imprisoned...

Ever since the launch of Arab protests in Tunis, Egypt and Yemen, efforts to promote the Palestinian cause have generally fallen by the wayside. With the exception of the...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES UNWRA staff have organised a general strike; they have halted studies, closed all schools and gathered thousands of teachers outside the main headquarters in Gaza City in...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Palestinian prisoners are refusing food for the day in solidarity with the four prisoners on hunger-strike. The most prominent of the four, Samer Issawi, has been on...