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Palestinians staged a rally in Gaza City on Monday to show support for detainees in Israeli prisons, Anadolu News Agency reports. The rally comes as detainees plan to launch...
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The Red Cross has warned that urgent action is needed to prevent the collapse of water systems in northwest Syria following the deadly earthquakes that hit the country on...
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Israeli occupation forces on Friday shot a Palestinian child in the head during a raid of the Aqbat Jabr refugee camp in Jericho, east of the occupied West Bank....
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Article
November 26, 2022
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Iqbal Jassat
The US' destructive wars on Muslim countries launched in the wake of 9/11 under the misplaced rubric known notoriously as the "War on Terror" spawned senseless deaths and bloodshed...
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There are currently six Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike, protesting against the condition of their detention
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The family of Palestinian prisoner, Ahmed Manasra, yesterday called for his "immediate release due to his deteriorating health and psychological condition." "The psychological and physical health of my son...
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The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen announced on Friday that it transferred more than 100 released prisoners to Yemen, in coordination with the International Committee of the Red Cross, as...
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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) revealed yesterday that 8.5 million Iraqis live among deadly mines and unexploded remnants of war. "Iraq is one of the most...
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On Thursday, the Sahrawi Red Crescent sent an urgent appeal calling on the United Nations and humanitarian organisations to provide urgent assistance to Sahrawi refugees in order to cover...
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Save the Children has said that foreign kids related to extremist fighters and held in refugee camps in northeast Syria could be stuck there for 30 years if repatriations...
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The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO)-run Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees' Affairs on Friday called on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to visit women prisoners in Israel's...
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The two global Red Cross societies, on Thursday, expressed alarm at the "humanitarian tragedy" unfolding at the borders between Belarus, Poland and Lithuania, as thousands of migrants hoping to...
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Blog
September 14, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
What does the Palestinian Authority care about the conditions of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails? If the rhetoric of Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh is all we have to go...
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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) revealed on Friday that three million Yemeni children are unable to enrol in education this year due to the ongoing conflict...
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The fifth annual men's wheelchair basketball tournament kicked off yesterday in the northern Gaza Strip after a hiatus of nearly 18 months due to the coronavirus and the Israeli...
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Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki yesterday called on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to urgently intervene to save the life of detainee Al-Ghadanfar Abu Atwan, who has been on hunger strike for 65 days....
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The Houthis are ready to exchange all prisoners with the Yemeni government, the group's Al-Masirah TV reported the head of the Prisoner Affairs Committee saying yesterday. According to the channel, Abdul...
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At least 43 migrants drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy, while another 84 were rescued, the Tunisian Red...
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The Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Wednesday that the Palestinian civilian casualties of the latest Israeli offensive against the besieged Gaza Strip...
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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Friday expressed its "grave concern" over the escalation of violence in the governorate of Marib, which has been witnessing intense...
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On Sunday, Iraq handed over to Iran the remains of 55 soldiers killed during the 1980-88 war between the two countries. Kazim Yasseri, director of the Shalamcheh border crossing...
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Yemen's Houthi rebels said Sunday they are ready to exchange all prisoners with the Yemeni government, one day after a major prisoner swap between the two warring rivals, Anadolu Agency...
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Planes carrying prisoners exchanged by the warring parties in Yemen took off from three airports on Thursday in an operation to return about 1,000 men home and help build...
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Libya's humanitarian crisis is worsening, compounded by the halt of oil operations, blockade of ports, and spread of COVID-19, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross...
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The International Committee of the Red Cross warned on Saturday that two-thirds of Yemenis do not have food, and almost as many have no access to health care. In...
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Palestinian Authority (PA)'s Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh yesterday discussed the issue of Palestinian prisoners being held by the occupation with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) representative...
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The Palestinian Journalist Support Committee (SJC) appealed to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and human rights groups to immediately intervene and stop Israel's crimes and violations...
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On the occasion of Palestinian Prisoners' Day, which falls on 17 April every year, the Arab Parliament called on the United Nations (UN), international human rights bodies and the...
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Coronavirus outbreaks across the Middle East threaten to shatter the lives of millions of already destitute people in conflict zones, and could fuel socio-economic upheaval, the International Committee of...
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Lebanon confirmed the country's third case of coronavirus on Thursday, after a man arriving from Iran on Feb. 24 tested positive, the health ministry said, according to news agency...
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A major prisoner exchange deal has been agreed between Yemen's internationally-recognised government in exile and the Houthi-led government based in the capital Sanaa, the UN confirmed yesterday. This is...
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Returning to his fields for the first time in 14 years, Palestinian farmer Naser Abu Isaeed surveyed the toll taken by conflict on formerly productive soil, Reuters reports. "I...