This book details the personal experiences of 24 Palestinian and 7 Irish hunger strikes in their fight to win their basic rights. The intersectionality of the two struggles is highlighted in the book. The stories provide an answer as to why a prisoner might choose starvation (sometimes to death) over accepting humiliating prison conditions. The […]
The Prisoners’ Diaries provides a deeply moving series of first – person commentaries on what Palestinian prisoners have been enduring for decades in the dark recesses of Israel’s unlawful and inhumane network of prisons. Edited and published during the Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike, this collection serves to inform us that for Palestinians, imprisonment has become […]
By placing Israel’s military detention of Palestinian children in its full context – not only the Israel occupation itself, but also Palestinian resistance to it – Dreaming of Freedom offers valuable insight into the lives of children whose forays against heavily-armed soldiers, walls and tanks have inspired millions. Translated by: Yousef Aljamal About the Editor […]
The message of Palestinian prisoners to the world is that they are political prisoners who seek freedom and that there is an Israeli demonization campaign against them. Palestinians across the globe mark April 17 of each year as Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, a day that was introduced by the Palestinian National Council (PNC), the legislative body […]
Israeli prisons where Palestinian prisoners are held lack the minimum standards of human dignity. A video of an Israeli interrogator violently interrogating then 13-year-old Palestinian child prisoner Ahmad Al-Manasra went viral in November 2015. In the video, Al-Manasra repeatedly told his Israeli interrogator that he couldn’t remember as his interrogator screamed at him, accusing him of not […]
انتقل لأسفل للحصول على النسخة العربية Scroll down for English Version Faire défiler vers le bas pour la version française Scorrere per tradizione Itlalian بالتوقيع على العريضة والتي تطالب التحرير الفوري للشاب الفلسطيني احمد مناصرة لاحضان عائلته, بعد ست سنوات من التعذيب القاسي والممنهج في السجون الاسرائيلية احمد مناصرة اتهم بالمشاركة بمحاولة طعن عندما كان […]
The Israeli occupation releases Palestinian prisoner Ruba Assi, a student at Birzeit University, after imprisonment for 21 months. On Sunday evening, the Israeli occupation authorities released the Palestinian prisoner Ruba Assi, 22 years, from the town of Beit Liqia, west of Ramallah, at Al-Jalama Checkpoint, north of Jenin. Assi was detained in the Israeli “Damon” […]
Several hunger strikes have been carried out by Palestinian and Irish prisoners to protest administrative detention, along with cruel and inhuman treatment, and torture. The recent capture of six escaped Palestinian political prisoners from Israel’s Gilboa prison meant their freedom was tragically short-lived. But the escape itself, reportedly through a tunnel dug with a rusty spoon, helped […]
Long story short, we fought them with our fists. The jailers called for help from the police, but we managed to escape the prison and enter an orchard about 200 meters from the prison. When we got out, they were shooting at us. Hamza Younis is a boxer and a former Palestinian prisoner who was […]
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