Jalazone refugee camp, occupied West Bank – Abed Abu Sharefa’s hand was on the front door of his home in Jalazone refugee camp as Israeli soldiers worked to break through from the other side and arrest him. The scar under his left eyebrow, where the metal door blew inwards, is still visible seven years on. […]

The family of 12-year-old Shadi Farrah, imprisoned in a detention center in Tamra, called for international attention and support from human rights organizations for the case of their son. Farrah has been imprisoned, along with another Palestinian Jerusalemite child, Ahmad Zaatari, 13, since 30 December 2015. They were arrested by Israeli occupation forces and accused […]

RAMALLAH (Ma’an) – Five Palestinians are currently on a hunger strike in Israeli prisons to protest solitary confinement and Israel’s policy of administrative detention — internment without charge or trial.Amjad al-Najjar, the director of the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society’s office in Hebron, said in a press statement on Saturday that prisoner Sami Janazrah has been on hunger […]

21 March 2016 As Palestinians celebrate the occasion of Mothers’ Day, 13 Palestinian mothers held in Israeli prisons and detention centers are unable to see their families. Palestinian mothers are often denied their right to a fair trial, family visits, and kept for several days or months under interrogation where they are subjected to torture […]

Sixteen-year-old Hamza Hamad from the West Bank village of Silwad was placed in administrative detention last week, making him the youngest administrative detainee in Israeli prison. Hamad was arrested in a raid on his home at the beginning of last week; after a short interrogation the GOC Central Command signed an administrative order that would […]

Halhul, Occupied West Bank – On a hilltop overlooking the town of Halhul from the West, the al-Wawi family home looks unremarkable at first. A row of potted plants sit on a low wall above a plot of barren grape trees out front. A large plastic poster, hanging from the roof, displays a photograph of […]

After nearly four years of a global campaign of boycotts and divestments, including five months of weekly protests in New York, British-Danish security conglomerate G4S said on March 9 that it would sell its Israeli subsidiary “in the next 12 to 24 months.” G4S Israel, which holds contracts to equip Israeli detention centers and prisons, […]

Six Palestinian prisoners are currently on hunger strike inside Israeli jails, demanding their freedom and an end to the policy of administrative detention without charge or trial. Click here to support the strikers and take action to support their struggle. Mahmoud al-Fasfous, 26, from Dura near al-Khalil, launched his hunger strike on 20 February to […]

As of the end of January 2016, Israel held 568 Palestinians in administrative detention, among them two minors, two women, and one clown. Over 6,000 Palestinian “security prisoners” were being held in Israeli prisons as of the beginning of February, according to statistics published by the Israel Prison Services (IPS). This is the highest number […]

G4S, the world’s largest security firm, is selling its entire business in Israel in a move that it said on Thursday was for “commercial reasons.” The global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign has claimed that it was responsible for the decision because of pressure it applied on the British firm. G4S noted in its […]