Israeli Prisons

A Palestinian human rights official has accused the Israeli government of committing multiple crimes during its war on the Gaza Strip last winter, as it deliberately killed Palestinians after...

New research claims that 197 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons since the start of the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967. Human rights researcher...

The Prisoners Studies Centre has expressed concerns that the administration of Israeli prisoners commits "unprecedented" abuses against Palestinian prisoners and their possessions, and that such abuses are often conducted...

According to the Centre for Prisoner Studies in the Palestinian territories, there are 2,000 sick Palestinian and Arab detainees being held in Israeli prisons. This constitutes 25% of the...

Almost four hundred Palestinian children being held in Israeli prisons are subjected to "flagrant" violations of their human and civil rights, according to a Palestinian rights centre. A statement...

Egyptian prisoners being held by Israel who are included in the exchange deal agreed between Cairo and Tel Aviv have been moved to Beersheba prison ahead of the swap....

The Islamic University of Gaza has organized a ceremony in honor of the Palestinian prisoners recently released by Israel. The ceremony, held at the University conference building, was attended...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES On almost every street in Gaza, tents have been erected to host welcome home ceremonies and receptions for the Palestinian prisoners freed in the recent prisoner exchange...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Supreme National Committee for solidarity with Palestinian detainees on hunger strike in Israeli prisons and detention centres has organised marches and demonstrations across the West Bank....

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli prisons have embarked on a hunger strike in protest over poor conditions of detention and ill-treatment. Yesterday, Israeli prison authorities took...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The President of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Dr Aziz Duwaik, along with other deputies from the Change and Reform bloc held a sit-in on Wednesday afternoon in...

At dawn on Tuesday (06.09.2011), forces of the Israeli occupation re-arrested the exiled Jerusalem deputy, Sheikh Mohammed Abu Tair following a raid on his residence in the central West...

The number of Palestinians who have spent more than twenty five years in Israeli prisons has now reached 43 out of a total of around 6,500 Palestinian prisoners held...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Residents of Palestinian politicians detained in Israeli prisons yesterday staged a rally in Martyrs Square, Nablus, to demand their release. Several officials including parliamentarians joined the wives...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES On the 17th of April, popular and official activities were held across the occupied Palestinian territories to mark Palestinian Prisoners Day which is commemorated annually after it...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES From in front of the house of one of the longest serving prison veterans from the Gaza Strip; 57 year old Salim Ali al-Kayal who is serving...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Yesterday, the Council for Educational Counselling in the West Bank sponsored a day of recreation for former female inmates of prisons run by the Israeli occupation as...

A Palestinian human rights organization has said that a few days ago, the managing authority of Israeli jails began a wide scale transfer campaign among prisoners, particularly in Megiddo,...

A Palestinian human rights group has branded the treatment of Palestinians in Israeli prisons as "worse than Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib". According to the Prisoners' Studies Centre, Israeli soldiers...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES On Sunday (19.09.2010), country wide sit-in protests were organised under the auspices of the Palestinian Prisoners Forum, to demonstrate against repressive Israeli practices against Palestinian detainees in...

Israeli forces have demolished a number of houses and solar-power units in the occupied West Bank and thirteen Palestinians have been detained, most of them minors. In Gaza, yet...

Member states of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) have deplored Israel's ongoing violations against Palestinians and called for an immediate halt to Israeli disregard for human rights...

The Palestinian Authority's Minister for Prisoners' Affairs, Issa Qaraqe, has claimed that the Israelis arrest 700 Palestinian minors on an annual basis, including some as young as 12 and...

Coinciding with International Children's Day on 1 June, figures released by the Palestinian Ministry of Information show that 1,456 Palestinian children have been shot dead by Israelis since the...

The permanent Palestinian representative to the Arab League and Palestinian ambassador to Egypt, Barakat El-Farra, has announced a decision by the Arab League to hold an emergency council meeting...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES 50 Palestinian activists, including many former prisoners of Israel, have begun a hunger-strike in solidarity with hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners currently being held inside Israeli prisons. The Prisoners'...

A human rights organization has reported that the Israeli Prisons' Administration is deliberately and continuously transporting isolated prisoners on hunger-strike in Ashkelon, from one cell to another several times...

A high-ranking security official in the Palestinian Authority has revealed an "alarming increase" in the number of Palestinians working as agents for Israeli security bodies. He noted the...

Ambassador Hisham Badr, Egypt's permanent representative to the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, has confirmed Cairo's full support for the establishment of an international fact-finding committee...

As solidarity with Palestinian hunger strikers grows, the National Council for the Support of Prisoners in Israeli Prisons organised a demonstration on Monday in support of Hana Al-Shalabi, who...

An official Palestinian report has accused the International Committee of the Red Cross of failing to protect Palestinian prisoners "who are exposed to massive violations of their rights and...

UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon's decision to reject a request by the families of Palestinian Prisoners being held in Israeli prisons to meet with them during a recent visit to...