My name is Farihan Daraghmeh Farah. I am a proud Palestinian woman and a humanitarian. I am also the mother of the youngest Palestinian prisoner in an Israeli jail. As I write this piece, on International Women’s Day, these are the things that define me. But as any parent—or any person—can imagine, no detail defines […]

Protesters in New York City gathered outside the Best Buy at Union Square on Friday, 3 March to protest the imprisonment of Lena Jarbouni and fellow Palestinian women prisoners and urge Hewlett-Packard (HP) corporations to get out of the business of profiting from occupation, apartheid and colonialism. Photo: Joe Catron Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network […]

In his award-winning documentary Ghost Hunting, director Raed Andoni brings a group of former Palestinian prisoners to an empty warehouse in Ramallah and asks them to rebuild the interrogation centre where they were detained. The film explores the hidden trauma of Palestinians who have passed through the notorious Al Moskobyia detention centre in Jerusalem. Andoni began the […]

New York City activists protested on Friday, 24 February in response to the re-sentencing of longest-held Palestinian prisoner Nael Barghouthi, demanding his freedom and urging a boycott of HP products for its complicity and involvement in Israeli imprisonment, occupation and settler colonialism. Photo: Joe Catron Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network gathered outside the Best Buy […]

Palestinian prisoner Nael Barghouthi, 59 has been imprisoned for 36 years in Israeli jails, and he is the longest-held Palestinian political prisoner. Today, on the basis of so-called “secret evidence,” he is threatened with the re-imposition of life imprisonment with no charges and no legitimate trial. Along with over 1,000 fellow prisoners, he was released […]

Israel engaged in extensive human rights violations in 2016, including detaining or continuing to imprison thousands of Palestinians without charges or trial, torturing many of those held in custody, promoting illegal settlements in the West Bank and severely hampering the movement of Palestinians, according to the Amnesty International Annual Report, published on Wednesday. The report […]

It’s cold. Really bitterly cold. The wind is whipping across the open countryside and the military compound I’m standing in is the first thing which breaks its path. It is the first week of January and I’m in Palestine, queuing to get inside so that I can see for myself the child detainees as they are […]

Palestinian child prisoner Huzaifa Ishaq Abdel-Jawad Taha, 17, a Jerusalemite from the village of Kafr Aqab, was ordered to 12 years in Israeli prison on Sunday, 12 February. He is the latest Jerusalemite Palestinian child to receive a lengthy prison sentence after being accused of attempting to carry out a Palestinian resistance action by stabbing […]

Palestinian child prisoner Mohammed Taha, 16, sent the following letter to his family from Israeli prison, where he is serving an 11-year sentence. A Palestinian refugee from Jerusalem’s Shuafat refugee camp, Mohammed is one of a number of Palestinian children – especially Palestinian Jerusalemites – serving lengthy sentences in Israeli jails. Mohammed was accused along […]

Protesters in New York City gathered on Friday, 3 February outside the Best Buy in Union Square to demand freedom for Palestinian prisoners and call upon Hewlett-Packard (HP) to end its corporate contracts with Israeli institutions, including the Israel Prison Service. The protest focused on the case of Salah Khawaja, Palestinian human rights defender, member […]