By Anees Bargouthi HEBRON, Palestine In an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency, Mohammed al-Qeeq, a 33-year-old Palestinian journalist who waged a 94-day hunger strike while in Israeli custody — and who was finally released last week — called on his fellow prisoners to stand up to Israel’s unjust detention policies. “It’s been a bitter experience, […]

3000 Nights opens on a dark, pouring night where we first see the main character, Layal. The film’s hauntingly beautiful and crisp cinematography shines through its immediate construction of the prison’s cruel atmosphere and the air of hostility between the inmates and the prison guards. Layal is in a nightgown, blindfolded, and barefoot when she […]

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Israeli military says a Palestinian prisoner who ended a 94-day hunger strike in February has been released to his home in the West Bank. It says Mohammed al-Qeq was freed on Thursday. Al-Qeq went on hunger strike in November to win release from administrative detention, a practice that can […]

Muhammad alQeeq , the journalist who went on hunger strike to protest his administrative detention ,reunited with his wife Fayhaa who worked with us on the Prisoners Diaries.  

Hebron, Occupied West Bank –  In al-Fuwwar refugee camp south of Hebron, Palestinians trickled into a tent set up more than 70 days ago by camp residents when Sami al-Janazreh, 43, launched a hunger strike against his detention and mistreatment in Israeli prison. Visitors discussed the [hunger] strike inside the makeshift tent whose walls are […]

As these words were being written, three Palestinian prisoners were on hunger strike in protest against their imprisonment without trial, a practice cloaked by the anodyne sounding term “administrative detention”. Sami Janazra was on his 69th day and his health has sharply deteriorated, Adeeb Mafarja was on his 38th day, and Fuad Assi was on […]

RAMALLAH: Israel’s Supreme Court rejected Tuesday an appeal to free a Palestinian jailed without charge and on hunger strike for more than two months, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said. “The occupation authorities confirmed their decision to keep Sami Janazra, who has been on hunger strike for 69 days to protest against his detention,” said Jawad […]

The situation on the ground for Palestinian children is rapidly deteriorating, so CODEPINK has joined our allies at the American Friends Service Committee, Jewish Voice for Peace, and more for a new campaign called No Way to Treat A Child. At the end of February, there were 440 Palestinian children in Israeli military detention. This is […]

The Palestinian Health Ministry has cautioned about a deterioration in the condition of Sami Janazra, a Palestinian man in administrative detention who has been on a hunger strike for 68 days. Janazra, of Al Fawwar refugee camp, has been at Soroka Hospital in Be’er Sheva for about a week, where he has refused medical treatment […]

AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Palestinian prisoner Sami Janazra, from Fawar refugee camp in al-Khalil, entered on Monday his 68th day of hunger strike in protest against his administrative detention.  Janazra’s family warned of his serious health deterioration as he started suffering frequent fainting and became unable to move or to walk. The family called for activating […]