An Israeli court in Jerusalem today sentenced two 13-year-old Palestinian boys from occupied East Jerusalem to two years in an Israeli juvenile detention centre after the two were charged with attempted murder and possession of knives. Muhammad Mahmoud, a lawyer for the defence, told Ma’an that Shadi Anwar Farah and Ahmad Raed Zatari were sentenced […]

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 […]

Addameer: Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association released a documentary short film produced by Odeh Film titled “Precarious Childhood: Arrests of Jerusalemite Children.” The video depicts the lives of several Jerusalemite families whose children are taken by force, arrested and imprisoned by Israel. The children narrate their experiences of arrest, interrogation, and treatment by Israeli […]