EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Palestinian Minister for Prisoners' Affairs in the Ramallah Authority has taken the lead in popular protests in solidarity with prisoners who are serving long-term sentences in...
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News A former senior Palestinian security official has revealed that around 25 per cent of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are there as a direct result of collaboration between the...
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News The Palestinian Authority has rejected a suggestion by Israel that 50 long-term prisoners could be released in exchange for abandoning the approach to the United Nations for membership. PLO...
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News Following the refusal of the Israel authorities to allow Palestinian and international medical teams into their prisons, a call has been made for an international inquiry into the conditions...
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News A Palestinian Authority report has recorded an increase in the number of prisoners suffering from loss of vision and deteriorating sight in Israeli jails as a result, it is...
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News Palestinian prisoners in Israel's Etzion Prison started an open hunger strike on Wednesday in protest at the conditions of their detention. According to the Palestinian Prisoners' Club, 25 prisoners...
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News Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has condemned Israel's aggression against the Gaza Strip and called for a permanent and comprehensive truce that would guarantee security and stability for the people...
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News The absence of any obvious commitment to human rights and the terms of the UN Charter has led the Palestinian Minister of Prisoners' Affairs to call for a UN...
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News EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Islamic Resistance Movement has organised a record breaking human chain in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. The demonstration in Gaza lasted for two hours....
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News Reports from Israel claim that more than 40 Palestinian prisoners were injured on Tuesday morning in Israel's Eshel prison, with 16 placed in solitary confinement, after Israeli soldiers with...
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News 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...
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News The Minister of Prisoners' Affairs in the Palestinian Authority, Issa Qaraqe, has revealed that the Palestinian prisoners still in Israeli prisons are threatening a new hunger strike if the...
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News 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...
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News EXCLUSIVE PICTURES As news broke of the Egyptian-brokered deal which has brought an end to the Palestinian prisoners' mass hunger strike, Palestinians and their supporters worldwide heaved a collective...
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News The Office for Refugees' Affairs of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) has reaffirmed the organisation's belief that the principles of the Palestinian people are a "single, linked unit" which...
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News The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of failing to provide clear answers to the issues which are disrupting the peace...
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News EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Palestinians throughout the occupied territories have condemned the response of the United Nations and International Red Cross to the life-threatening dangers facing thousands of prisoners on hunger...
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News A human rights organisation has reported that the Israeli prison administration is due to move so many Palestinian prisoners to and from Megiddo Detention Centre that they will be...
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News Diplomatic sources have revealed that the Egyptian government has contacted its Israeli counterpart to strike a deal for the release of its nationals being held in Israel's prisons. At...
The Palestinian Centre for the Defence of Prisoners has revealed that officials from Israel's internal security service, Shin Bet, and the prisons' administration have sought meetings with prisoners on...
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News A senior member of Fatah's central committee, and the movement's commissioner for international relations, has called for a decisive European position "to ensure that the just demands of Palestinian...
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News Palestine's Ambassador to the United Nations, Dr Riyad Mansour, has warned of a grave threat to the lives of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails. He made...
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News 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'...
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News The Israeli prison authorities have transferred a Palestinian hunger striker to a secure hospital thirteen days into his protest. A statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of...
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News A Palestinian human rights organization has reported that the management of the Negev Prison moved 6 Palestinian prisoners into solitary confinement following their announcement that they would embark on...
As Palestinian prisoners in Israel's jails begin an indefinite hunger strike to protest against their conditions behind bars, Hamas has described Israeli policies such as solitary confinement and administrative...
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News EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Palestinians across the occupied West Bank have held a number of activities to mark Prisoners' Day. Events were held in several cities, with Ramallah witnessing the largest....
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News EXCLUSIVE PICTURES On Sunday 25-03-2010, students at Jerusalem University's Media Faculty organised a festival attended by the Minister for Prisoners in the Ramallah government alongside a number of national...
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News The Palestinian Liberation Organisation has appealed to the international community to intervene with the Israeli government for the release of Hana Al Shalabi, who has been on hunger strike...
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News Officials within the Israeli prison authority have expressed concern about the increasing phenomenon of Palestinian prisoners, especially administrative detainees, going on hunger strike. The numbers have risen after Khader...
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News EXCLUSIVE PICTURES This month, the news has been dominated by the ever worsening situation in Syria. Within the Palestinian arena, the case of Khader Adnan; the West bank activists...
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News The Israeli occupation authorities have transferred 120 Palestinian prisoners from a prison in the Negev desert to an unknown location. The prisoners were not allowed to take any luggage...
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