The Israeli government has decided to hand over the bodies of seven Palestinians back to their families to bury them after holding their bodies for months. The decision came following a petition made by Al-Quds human rights organization based in Jerusalem to the Supreme Israeli Court. Ameen Albayed of the Committee to Regain the Bodies […]

Palestinian prominent former hunger striker and leader of the prisoners’ movement Bilal Kayed was released today, Monday, 12 December, after 15 years in Israeli prisons to the cheers and salutes of his family, friends and comrades in his home village of Asira al-Shamaliyeh, throughout Palestine and internationally. Kayed, 35, conducted a 71-day hunger strike in […]

The Palestinian prisoners’ and Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movements celebrated a landmark victory on Dec. 2 as British-Danish conglomerate G4S, the world’s biggest security company and second-largest private employer, announced the sale of its Israeli unit. “This experience with G4S proves that international campaigns, working with the Palestinian prisoners’ movement, can exert real pressure […]

Protesters in New York City gathered outside the offices of G4S, the massive British-Danish security corporation, on Friday 9 December. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network gathered to protest its ongoing involvement in Policity, an Israeli occupation police training center, and to mark its sale of its Israeli subsidiary, which contracts with the Israeli prison administration. […]

Friday, 16 December 4:00 pm Best Buy Union Square – 52 E 14th St New York City Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1449156061780541/ On Friday, Anas Shadid and Ahmad Abu Fara will reach their 84th day on hunger strike against their “administrative detention” without charge or trial by Israel. The two Palestinian political prisoners issued an urgent appeal on […]

After almost one year since Israeli authorities detained Palestinian circus performer Muhammad Faisal Abu Sakha, 23, and placed him under administrative detention, a petition to release him was rejected by the Israeli High Court, according to a Saturday statement from the Palestinian Circus School in Ramallah. The statement said that after only 15 minutes of […]

A nine-year-old Palestinian child speaks about how Israeli occupation soldiers kidnapped him, beat him, interrogated and tortured him. I was playing with my friends in an area near the Israeli Apartheid Wall at around 4pm when an Israeli patrol suddenly appeared. Two soldiers opened a gate in the Wall and started to chase us. We […]

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian Prisoners’ rights groups accused Israeli authorities of “deliberately” attempting to kill Palestinian hunger strikers, while simultaneously employing several tactics to convince hunger strikers to break their strikes, according to statements released on Thursday.The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said in a statement that Palestinian hunger striker Ammar Ibrahim Hamour, 28, who has […]

Statement from the Rasmea Defense Committee Media Contact: Hatem Abudayyeh, 773-301-4108, hatem85@yahoo.com Rasmea Odeh’s new trial set for January 10th; Continue to demand that McQuade Drop the Charges Now! Continue to call U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade at 313-226-9100, and demand that she stop wasting taxpayer money, that she stop persecuting a woman who has given […]

British security giant G4S has sold its Israeli operations for over $110 million, according to a Telegraph report on Friday. After negotiations that have been ongoing at least since August, the report said that FIMI Opportunity Funds, an Israeli private equity fund, had agreed to purchase the company’s Israel branch and that the deal would […]