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EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Islamic Resistance Movement has organised a record breaking human chain in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. The demonstration in Gaza lasted for two hours....

As organisations dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights, the Palestinian Council of Human Rights Organizations (PCHRO) and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-Israel) are gravely concerned for...

The Palestinian Centre for the Defence of Prisoners has revealed that officials from Israel's internal security service, Shin Bet, and the prisons' administration have sought meetings with prisoners on...

Palestinian demonstrators today blocked the entrance of the UN headquarters in Ramallah in protest against its silence on the issue of the hunger-strikers in the Israeli jails. The protesters...

Israel's Ministry of Health has issued guidelines permitting the force-feeding of any hunger striker who passes 28 days of a protest. The order has been signed by Dr. Michael...

On Thursday at dawn, the Israeli occupation released Tariq Qedan and Jaafar Izzidin, two Palestinian hunger strikers who have been on strike for 93 days. Qedan, 42, and Izzidin,...

Al-Tadamun human rights organisation said on Tuesday that the Israeli occupation has renewed the administrative detention of 11 Palestinians, including a former hunger striker and two Palestinian lawmakers. The...

Palestinian administrative detainees in Israeli prisons began an open-ended hunger strike on Monday in protest against their detention for extended periods of time without trial, Palestine's Prisoners Centre said....

A Palestinian rights centre has revealed that hundreds of Palestinians are serving life sentences in Israeli jails. The Al-Ahrar Centre for Prisoners' Studies and Human Rights said in a...

A spokesperson for EU High Representative Catharine Ashton has demanded that the Israeli government respect international human rights obligations regarding Palestinian prisoners and their families. This demand came as Ashton replied...