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Israeli prison authorities have placed jailed Palestinian MP Marwan Barghouti into solitary confinement just one day after he called for "million-man marches" in Israel and the Palestinian diaspora. The...

On Wednesday (12.01.2011), Professor Essam al-Ashqar who is being held in the custody of the Palestinian Security Forces, was transferred to the Arab specialist hospital in the city of...

A Palestinian farmer was injured in an Israeli drone attack in Gaza on Wednesday. The man was working on his land to the east of Al-Burij refugee camp in...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Mohammed Abu-Tir, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), was released on Wednesday after spending one year in administrative detention in an Israeli prison. The parliamentarian,...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES In what is believed to be the first successful artificial insemination of its kind, a Palestinian mother has given birth thanks to sperm smuggled out from her...

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...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES A leading member of Hamas in the occupied West Bank has died just one week after his release from an Israeli prison. Zahir Libada, 38, was in...

Palestinian human rights sources have revealed that Bilal Diab, Thaer Hlahalah and Jaafar Izz al-Din, who have been on hunger strike in an Israeli prison for more than two...

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...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The freed prisoner, Amal Fayez Jumaah, has languished in the Nablus Specialist Hospital in the northern West Bank for more than two weeks following a serious deterioration...

Palestinian prisoners in Israel's Ishel Prison announced on Friday that they are to stage a one-day hunger strike in protest against the treatment they get from the prison staff...

Section 15 of Ofer Prison has been stormed by Israeli Special Forces trained to isolate and assault prisoners. The prison is in the occupied West Bank; section 15 holds...

Hundreds of Palestinian, Israeli and European activists protested on Friday across the West Bank in solidarity with the Palestinian hunger strikers in the Israeli jails sparking severe clashes that...

An Israeli court extended, on Thursday, February 21, the administrative detention period of the Palestinian Legislative Council member, Fathi Qraawi. The Change and Reform parliamentary bloc confirmed that the...

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...

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...

Senior Fatah member Marwan Barghouti has called on the movement's head, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, not to resume negotiations with the Israelis. Barghouti said that the results would...

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...

Fatah Central Committee and Palestine National Council member Marwan Barghouti has accused the Palestinian Authority of not putting the issue of prisoners in Israeli jails as a priority in...

Israeli occupation forces have re-arrested the former hunger striker Thaer Halahla from his house in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Halahla was one of five Palestinians arrested during...

The new Israeli government has stipulated impossible pre-conditions to the resumption of the stalled Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, the Israeli daily newspaper Maariv said on Tuesday. According to Maariv, the Israeli...

Israeli occupation forces have arrested five senior Hamas activists in Hebron as part of an arrest campaign which has seen another five men taken into detention across the occupied...

The Israeli occupation is to charge five Palestinian minors whom it claims are responsible for causing a car accident that resulted in the injury to several Israeli settlers in...

Israeli occupation forces have detained a further 12 Palestinians from Hebron and Bethlehem in raids which took place in the early hours of Monday morning. Local sources confirmed that...

Ayman Al-Sharawneh arrived in the Gaza Strip on Sunday having been deported from his home in the occupied West Bank as part of a deal with the Israeli prison...

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...

The Israeli occupation authorities detained 330 Palestinians in March. The figure includes ninety children, six women, eight journalists and a parliamentarian, reported the Palestine Prisoners' Centre (PPC). In its...

On the third day of protests which erupted following the death of a Palestinian prisoner in Israeli custody, Israel's occupation forces shot and killed two young Palestinians. Three others...

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...