Israel has arrested 25 young men and women after raiding their homes in several neighbourhoods of Jerusalem city. The director of the Prisoners' Club in Jerusalem, Nasser Qus, said...
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News Palestinian officials said that the Palestinian and Israeli delegations have held a new round of talks on Tuesday during which tension over the Israeli settlements thwarted the meeting. A...
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News The Ahrar Centre for Human Rights and Prisoners Studies reported on Thursday that 11 out of the 15 Palestinian parliamentarians in Israeli prisons are being held under administrative detention....
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News Israel prevents a third of Palestinian prisoners family visits based on Israeli prisons service's "security reasons," a report revealed. The report by the Palestinian Prisoners Club, said that there...
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News Nine Palestinian inmates at Israel's Ashkelon Prison were wounded on Monday night when security forces swept through their rooms before transferring them to cells, it has been revealed by...
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News Nine Palestinian inmates at Israel's Ashkelon Prison were wounded on Monday night when security forces swept through their rooms before transferring them to cells, it has been revealed by...
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News Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons under administrative detention started a hunger strike on Monday to protest against their poor treatment. Head of the Palestinian Prisoners' Club Qadoura Fares announced...
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News Ahrar Centre for Prisoners Studies and Human Rights in the Palestinian territories has said that most of the female Palestinian prisoners detained in the Hasharon Israeli prison are suffering...
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News More than 95 per cent of the Palestinian prisoners jailed by Israel have been exposed to torture from the first moment they were seized, according to a report released...
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News VIDEO Officers in the Israeli army stabbed an 18-year-old Palestinian student in handcuffs after arresting him at his home near the city of Qalqilya, in the West Bank. According...
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News The Popular Resistance Committees in Palestine sent on Tuesday its "heartfelt congratulations" to the freed Palestinian hunger striker from occupied Jerusalem, Samer Al-Issawi. In a statement published on its...
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News EXCLUSIVE IMAGES In the early hours of December 31st 2013, 18 Palestinians who had been locked-up within the Israeli prison system since before the Oslo accords received a hero's...
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News EXCLUSIVE IMAGES Israel has released 26 Palestinian prisoners as part of the deal with the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah to return to negotiations. The men have been serving various...
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News The annual report of Israel's National Council for the Child, which was presented to President Shimon Peres on Sunday, reveals that one in every three children in Israel suffers...
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News Israeli occupation forces have arrested 15 Palestinians, including eight children, in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, Palestinian sources reported on Thursday. Soldiers swept through Dora neighbourhood in...
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News In its annual report, Wadi Al-Hilwa and Silwan Information Centre have said that the Israeli occupation arrested 1,450 residents from Jerusalem in 2013, including 450 children and 25 women....
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News Israeli occupation forces released a Palestinian parliamentarian and former minister from the city of Jerusalem after 24 months in administrative detention. The member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC),...
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News Photos Israeli security officers have humiliated Palestinian prisoners and worshippers in separate incidents. Prison officials entered cells in the Negev Prison at dawn on Friday and smashed prisoners' personal...
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News Dozens of Palestinian refugees fleeing from the violence in Syria have been detained by the Egyptian authorities. The conditions in which the refugees are being held have been described...
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News A number of Palestinians have been arrested by Egyptian police while travelling through Cairo. The men have been charged with "membership of Hamas". A spokesman for the Islamic Resistance...
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News The annual report of the US State Department stated that Israel discriminates against Arabs, women, foreign nationals, and people with special needs. The report, which covers the year 2012...
The European Network to support the Rights of Palestinian Prisoners (UFree) has welcomed the release of 13 Palestinians from Egyptian prisons. The network praised the Supreme Council of the...
The London-based Arabic daily newspaper, Al-Hayat, reported on February 17, 2013 that the EU's High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton, has expressed concern about the deteriorating...
The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) called on Monday for an investigation into Israel's maltreatment of Palestinian prisoners and added that the viability of life in Gaza is at...
A British Member of the European Parliament has quizzed the EU Foreign Affairs chief over torture in prisons run by the Palestinian Authority. Phil Bennion MEP asked Cathy Ashton...
The International Parliamentary Union has renewed its demands to the Israeli government for the immediate release of all Palestinian parliamentarians held in Israeli jails. "The arrest and trials of...
January 30, 2014 |
Asa Winstanley This Ramadan, Israeli restrictions on Palestinians worshippers in Jerusalem are as bad as ever. According to a weekly report of the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:...
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Inquiry January 30, 2014 |
Asa Winstanley The peace process circus continued this week, as officials from Israel met in Jerusalem with negotiators from its Palestinian Authority puppet regime Wednesday night. Meeting in secrecy at the...
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Inquiry January 25, 2014 |
Nabil Al-Sahli The plight of Palestinian detainees being held by Israel has an important place in the general framework of the Palestinian national cause because it has affected a huge number...
January 24, 2014 |
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,...
January 24, 2014 |
Ramona Wadi UNICEF's report, Children in Israeli Military Detention, Observations and Recommendations, detailing the condition of Palestinian children detained in Israel's military jails fails to address torture as a modus operandi,...
January 24, 2014 |
Ramona Wadi While three Dutch charities have announced that they will no longer accept donations by G4S due to the company's support for the Israeli occupation, the Gates Foundation has deemed...