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Invoking Bobby Sands and Mandela, 95 Israelis endorse Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike

Dear Comrades, friends, and partners in the struggle, We, a group of conscientious Israeli-Jews, would like to express our deep respect and solidarity with you – the 1,500 or more Palestinians who embarked on a collective open ended hunger strike to demand your basic rights. Given the brutal measures inflicted on political prisoners around the […]

UN Chairperson of Committee against torture : Stop violations against Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons

Why this is important We the undersigned organization, are seeking your intervention to stop violations against Palestinian detainees inside Israeli Prisons. Since the illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories, about 800.000 Palestinians have been detained, representing about 22% of the Palestinian population in the Occupied Territories. Currently, over 6500 Palestinians are detained inside Israeli prisons […]

Hunger strike enters second week: more strikers join Palestinian prisoners’ protest

As Palestinian prisoners enter their second week of hunger strike, the approximately 1,500 Palestinians beginning their eighth day without food continue to face a campaign of repression inside Israeli jails. Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike continue to be denied lawyers’ visits; only several prisoners held in Ofer prison have been able to receive visits from […]

Israeli Soldiers Assault Hunger Striking Detainees In Nitzan Prison

Undercover soldiers of the Israeli Prison Administration assaulted, Friday, several hunger-striking Palestinian detainees in Nitzan Prison, in Ramla, and unleashed their dogs on them, during violent searches of the detainees and their rooms. In a statement to the press, the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee, said that the soldiers also preventing the detainees from performing Friday prayers. […]

URGENT APPEAL:Support Palestinian Prisoner Freedom and Dignity Hunger-strike Demands

Please cut and paste letter below into email and send to Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations info-un@newyork.mfa.gov.il. and palestine@un.int or http://embassies.gov.il/un/AboutTheEmbassy/Pages/contact-us.aspx and a copy to the Israeli  embassy in your country https://embassy.goabroad.com/embassies-of/israel (Australia  only Cc:  info@canberra.mfa.gov.il,  julie.Bishop.MP@aph.gov.au,  senator.dinatale@aph.gov.au , senator.wong@aph.gov.au, ) SUGGEST YOU RESEND THE EMAIL EVERY DAY OF THE HUNGER STRIKE […]

1500 Palestinian prisoners launch largest collective hunger strike in years: Take action in support!

Over 1,500 Palestinian political prisoners have announced they will launch a collective hunger strike today, Monday, 17 April, on Palestinian Prisoners’ Day 2017. The strike, which will come under the slogan “Freedom and Dignity,” highlights a number of key demands of the Palestinian prisoners, including family visits, appropriate medical care, ending abusive conditions and stopping […]

Why We Are on Hunger Strike in Israel’s Prisons

HADARIM PRISON, Israel — Having spent the last 15 years in an Israeli prison, I have been both a witness to and a victim of Israel’s illegal system of mass arbitrary arrests and ill-treatment of Palestinian prisoners. After exhausting all other options, I decided there was no choice but to resist these abuses by going […]

UN Chairperson of Committee against torture : Stop violations against Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons

Why this is important We the undersigned organization, are seeking your intervention to stop violations against Palestinian detainees inside Israeli Prisons. Since the illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories, about 800.000 Palestinians have been detained, representing about 22% of the Palestinian population in the Occupied Territories. Currently, over 6500 Palestinians are detained inside Israeli prisons […]