Approximately 100 Palestinian prisoners have started to refuse food in support of 25-year-old Malik al-Qadi,who fell into a coma on 10 September after eight weeks on hunger strike. Al-Qadi, a journalism student, began his strike on 16 July in protest of his administrative detention, the Israeli practice of holding people indefinitely without charge or trial. […]

Investigative Report By Ariyana Love How Israel is framing Palestinian youth to suppress ongoing resistance to occupation, cover up settler crimes and continue the denial of Palestinian humanity. CCTV security footage indicating 13-year-old Ahmad Manasrah and 15-year-old Hassan Manasrah running with knives in Occupied East Jerusalem, has been confirmed by experts as doctored and fake, […]

Al-Eizariya, occupied West Bank – This summer, 18-year-old Yara al-Sharabati was allowed to be in the same room as her father, who is serving a life sentence in an Israeli prison, for the first time in 12 years. She was finally allowed to hug him. Ayman al-Sharabati – affiliated with the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Fatah’s […]

G4S is one among several private security companies protecting the pipeline construction, a spokesperson told teleSUR. G4S, a U.K.-based security multinational, admitted to having personnel deployed at “remote sites” where Native Americans are defending their lands from the planned US$3.8-million Dakota Access pipeline that they say would pollute the drinking water of millions. ANALYSIS: 4 […]

The following letter from Bilal Kayed was issued from Ramle prison clinic on Wednesday, 31 August; Kayed ended his strike one week prior after 71 days without food after securing an agreement for his release. Kayed is held under administrative detention without charge or trial after completing his 14.5 year sentence in Israeli prison. He […]

On his 70th day of hunger strike, Palestinian prisoner Bilal Kayed issued the following letter from his hospital bed in Barzilai hospital in Asqelan. Kayed, held under administrative detention without charge or trial following the completion of his 14.5-year sentence in Israeli prison, is conducting a hunger strike for freedom; the Israeli supreme court is […]

On Monday, 22 August, the Israeli Supreme Court convened in the case of Bilal Kayed, Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike for 69 days against his administrative detention without charge or trial. Kayed, 34, was ordered to six months in indefinitely-renewable administrative detention on 13 June after completing his 14.5-year sentence in Israeli prison. He launched […]

All Israeli prisons are in a state of high alert in anticipation of a potential health emergency for Palestinian hunger striker Bilal Kayed, on his 67th day of hunger strike in Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon. Kayed is at risk of a severe health crisis at any time and experiences constant pain, blurred vision and severe […]

Scuffles have broken out between Israeli forces and Palestinians protesting in solidarity with hunger striking prisoners in the occupied West Bank, leaving several demonstrators injured. The confrontations took place on Thursday in the town of Beitunia near the Israeli Ofer military jail, where several Palestinian inmates are on hunger strike. Israeli forces opened fire and […]

Israeli forces have detained 560 children from occupied East Jerusalem since the beginning of 2016, 110 are still being held in Israeli jails, the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs revealed yesterday. Of those still in detention, four are girls and 10 are boys who are being held in juvenile detention centres, committee head Issa Qaraqe […]