Palestinian prisoner

The dream of Samir Murtaja, a Palestinian prisoner now entering his seventeenth year in captivity, is to see his elderly mother – whom he hasn't seen of even heard...

The 43 year old prisoner, Zakaria Daoud Hassan Isa, from the town of al-Khader in Bethlehem who is currently serving a fifteen and a half year sentence went into...

The number of Palestinian political prisoners held by Israel for more than 20 years continuously has reached 136, according to the Director of the Department of Statistics at the...

The family of Samer Al-Barq, 38, has confirmed that Egypt will grant asylum to the Palestinian prisoner following Israel's decision to deport him after his release. Al-Barq has been...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Israel released 34 year old Palestinian prisoner, Mohammed Abu Labadah, this month following his completion of a twelve year sentence. Labadah's is a harrowing story which includes...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Israeli occupation authorities decided yesterday to expel Hana Al Shalabi to the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian administrative detainee, who has been on hunger strike for 43...

The Palestinian Prisoner Society has said that female prisoners in Israel's Hasharon Prison are suffering from difficult, and deteriorating, medical and living conditions which cannot be tolerated. Israel, claims...

Nael al-Barghouthi, the veteran Palestinian prisoner freed in the recent prisoner exchange deal, has married fellow ex-detainee Iman Nafi' in a ceremony held on Tuesday evening. At the head...

Israeli occupation forces detained on Monday evening the mother of a Palestinian prisoner during a visit, local sources in the West Bank reported. According to the sources, the Israelis...

The Israeli Supreme Court, on Wednesday, postponed hearing in the case of the Palestinian prisoner, Ayman al-Sharawneh, who has been on hunger strike for 235 days. The hearing session...

The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation has condemned the killing of a Palestinian prisoner while in Israeli custody. Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu described Arafat Garadat's death at the...

A Palestinian newspaper has reported that the Palestinian Authority (PA) decided on Monday to take the Israeli occupation to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against Palestinians in...

On Monday, official Israeli sources were reported as saying that the Palestinian Authority (PA) is in control of the on-going turmoil which erupted in the West Bank in the...

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...

The United Nations on Monday called for an independent inquiry into the deaths of Palestinian prisoners who have died in Israeli custody. It also warned that mounting tensions could...

A Military court in Ofer prison has sentenced the prisoner Wael Arja, from the town of Halhul near Hebron, to life imprisonment twice in addition to another 58 years...

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...

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 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...

The prominent member of Fatah's Central Committee, Marwan al-Barghouti, has stated that Israel's settlement activities are endangering the future of the entire region. Nevertheless, these colonising policies are not...

After 261 days on hunger strike in an Israeli jail, Palestinian prisoner Ayman Al-Sharawneh was deported to Gaza on Sunday evening. At dawn the following morning, Al-Sharawneh's brother Jihad...

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,...

Israel has bombed the Gaza Strip again, with fighter jets hitting two targets in the north and east of the territory. Although it is claimed that this is the...

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 British charity to combat poverty has accused a local private security company of involvement in torturing a Palestinian to death in an Israeli prison. It called for holding...

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...

Since the last war on Gaza, the media has abounded with forecasts and the predicted signals of a third Intifada in Palestine, particularly in the West Bank. These expectations...