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The Israeli authorities have freed Hasan al-Safadi after a total of 166 days on hunger strike amid extremely harsh prison conditions. Al-Safadi ended a 93-day hunger strike on September...
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EXCLUSIVE PICTURES There are growing concerns across the Palestinian territories for the life of detainee, Hasan Al Safadi, who has now passed 52 days on hunger strike. Mr Al...
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EXCLUSIVE PICTURES On Tuesday 31 January, the families of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel organised a protest outside the headquarters of the International Red Cross in Ramallah in solidarity...
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The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) has rejected proposals to expel the hunger-striking prisoners to Gaza as a condition for their release. A leading Hamas figure in the Gaza Strip,...
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The Palestinian Authority Minister for Prisoners' Affairs, Issa Qaraqe, has said that the Israeli General Security Service (GSS) and the legal adviser to the Israeli occupation authorities are leading...
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As Palestinians commemorate Prisoners' Day, the statistics show that Israel is holding almost 5,000 political prisoners in its jails. According to the Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in...
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The Israeli occupation authorities have extended for the fifth week in a row their ban on visits by the families of prisoners from the Gaza Strip being held in...
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The General Secretary of the Arab League, Nabeel Al-Arabi, called on Tuesday for an end to Israel's violations against Palestinian prisoners, labelling them "violations of all human rights principles...
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Officials in Egypt are intensifying their efforts to obtain the release of Palestinian hunger striker Samer Al-Issawi. His protest at the conditions faced by Palestinian prisoners held by Israel...
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A Palestinian prisoner who has been on hunger strike for 230 days has refused an offer from the Israeli authorities to deport him immediately to the Gaza Strip. Speaking...
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On Tuesday, forces of the Israeli occupation raided several Palestinian cities and neighbourhoods in the Occupied West Bank detaining 11 Palestinian citizens, including a disabled former prisoner. Sources from...
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After 261 days on hunger strike in an Israeli jail, Palestinian prisoner Ayman Al-Sharawneh was deported to Gaza on Sunday evening. At dawn the following morning, Al-Sharawneh's brother Jihad...
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According to Ahrar Centre for Prisoners' Studies and Human Rights, Israel still has a number of prisoners from Jerusalem who have been in prison since before the signing of...
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January 24, 2014
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Dr Adnan Abu Amer
If Israel could go back in time to October 2011, it wouldn't have gone through with the exchange agreement with Hamas and released 1,000 of their detained senior members,...