‘Sunday I will be released! Next Sunday, Mama,” Dima cried. Those were the words I replayed each agonising night after her arrest. At the age of 12, my child had been locked up in a small cell in Israel’s Hasharon prison. Her innocent voice informed me of her impending release. On the morning of February […]

Jerusalem – A jabbing pain in his shoulder and thigh roused Obada from his sleep at 3am. In the half-light, the 15-year-old could make out eight masked men surrounding his bed, their rifles pointed at him. “I felt terrified,” he said of the experience of being arrested in February from his home in the village […]

A 12-year-old Palestinian girl, imprisoned by Israel after she confessed to planning a stabbing attack on Israelis in a West Bank settlement, returned home on Sunday when she was freed early after an appeal. Dima al-Wawi was greeted by about 80 relatives at her family’s house in Halhoul, a village near Hebron, a West Bank […]

The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign marked Palestinian Prisoners’ Day with information stalls and street theater in several locations in Ireland, as well as a speaking tour by Palestinian lawyer Aouda Zbidat. IPSC branches in Dublin and Portadown organized outdoor information stalls on Saturday, 16 April, where they presented information and leaflets about Palestinian prisoners and […]

This week, just as a 12-year-old’s term was reduced, a 13-year-old girl was sentenced and told to pay an unimaginable fine – and if not, her mother will be sent to jail for up to seven months By Gideon Levy April 18, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – “Haaretz“- They’re not even sure of the exact […]

Palestinian prisoners Lena Jarbouni, the longest serving woman prisoner, who has entered her fifteenth year in Israeli prisons, and Khalida Jarrar, Palestinian parliamentarian feminist, leftist and prisoner advocate, issued messages to the Palestinian people on the occasion of Prisoners’ Day, 17 April. Palestinian lawyer Hanan al-Khatib delivered the messages following her visits with Jarbouni and […]

BDS Austria and the Palästinensischen Jugend Österreich (Palestinian Youth in Austria) organized a demonstration on Sunday, 17 April marking Palestinian Prisoners’ Day at Stephansplatz in Vienna. Participants distributed information and posted art displays, large signs and banners highlighting thestruggles of Palestinian prisoners, and calling for the boycott of Israel. A long panel of displays highlighted various […]

Deportation of protected persons from occupied territory into the occupying state constitutes an unlawful deportation as per Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention – as well as constituting a grave breach of the same Convention under Article 147 – and is also recognized as a war crime under Article 8 of the Rome Statute […]

Twitterstorm to mark April 17, Palestinian Detainees Day April 17 of each year marks Palestinian Detainees Day which is celebrated across Palestine and the world. This year, more than 6000 Palestinians are in Israeli jails. The number of child detainees has more than doubled since October 2015. Palestinians Detainees , thus, deserve our support. A […]

On 17 April, Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes the struggle of 7,000 Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli jails: struggling for not only their own freedom, but for the freedom of the land and people of Palestine. Palestinian prisoners struggle through torture, solitary confinement, abuse, repression, denial of family visits, arbitrary imprisonment and […]