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A Palestinian rights centre has called for an investigation into the high incidence of illness and disease among Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails. A significant number die very soon...

A report issued by the Public Defender's Office at the Israeli Justice Ministry has described the conditions endured by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails as "very harsh". The issues...

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...

The Palestinian Ministry for Prisoners' Affairs has revealed that Israel has stopped family visits for Palestinians from Gaza who are being held in Israeli jails. "Those visits which were...

Prisoners' support groups have said that the families of around 100 prisoners from Gaza in Israeli jails will be able to visit their loved ones from next month. Visits...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The death of Palestinian prisoner, Arafat Jaradat, in Israeli custody on Saturday has caused a wide-scale wave of protests and demonstrations across the Palestinian territories. Israel has...

After a long hearing session which took place in an Israeli hospital on Monday, the Palestinian prisoner Samer al-Issawi has agreed to bring an end to his hunger strike...

The Israeli prison service gives Palestinian prisoners prostatitis-infected injections before they are released, Russian newspaper Pravda revealed on Friday. Pravda reported former female prisoner Rania al-Saqqa saying that prisoners...

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...

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...

An Arab member of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, has accused the country's prison administration of "slow murder" following the death in custody of Maysara Abu-Hamdiyya. Haneen Zoabi, MK,...

President Mahmoud Abbas has blamed Israel's "arrogance and intransigence" for the death of Maysara Abu-Hamdiyya on Tuesday. The 65 year-old prisoner was in an Israeli hospital when he died,...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Four thousand five hundred Palestinian prisoners being held by Israel have gone on a 3-day hunger strike as demonstrators take to the streets in protest at the...

More than 30 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails were reported to have been wounded by guards on Tuesday afternoon as they took part in a protest against the death...

A Palestinian being held prisoner by Israel has died in hospital after being denied proper treatment for cancer over several months. Maysara Abu-Hamdiyya, 65, died on Tuesday morning in...

Palestinian researcher and former prisoner Abdul-Nasser Ferwaneh released statistics on Tuesday showing that Israeli occupation forces have detained around 9500 Palestinian minors since the beginning of the second Intifada...

On Tuesday evening, an Israeli court extended the administrative detention of four members of the Palestinian Legislative Council from the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, in the West Bank. According...

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....

Palestinians tortured and isolated Detention without trial, the presumption of guilt, denial of family visits, solitary confinement, torture, violent interrogation and denial of access to appropriate health care; such...