Dareen Tator, a Palestinian woman who shared her poems on social media, was arrested by Israeli forces on Sunday. The 32-year-old was detained on charges of publishing material, including poetry, on Facebook, said The Palestinian Prisoners’ Association. But Israeli police said she had been arrested due to her alleged role in clashes in Jerusalem and the […]

The Palestinian Authority announced, on Wednesday, the launch of an international campaign aiming to pressure the Israeli government to release Palestinian child detainees, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society said in a statement.   The Ministry of Education is sponsoring the campaign, entitled “Give Them Space to Learn and Play,” which will be launched across the occupied […]

Translated By Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News (www.imemc.org): A statement issued by the head of the Research and Documentation Department at the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee, and a member of its follow-up committee in the Gaza Strip, Abdul-Nasser Ferwana, called on the international community to act in protecting Palestinian children facing ongoing Israeli violations.   In […]

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While Israel increases its use of arbitrary arrest and detention as a tool of political repression against Palestinians, the British corporation G4S is continuing to profit from its contracts with the Israeli prison system. So why is the United Nations one of the firm’s customers? Six Palestinian human rights organizations recently wrote to UN Secretary […]

United Nations agencies hold contracts worth over $22 million annually with G4S, a British-Danish company that is both the world’s largest security firm and its second-biggest private employer. G4S also equips and maintains Israeli detention centers and jails where Palestinians are held and tortured, as well as training facilities that prepare occupation forces for their […]

The human rights activist Ibrahim al-Arej managed on Sunday to meet the child detainees held in Ofer prison. He quoted the minors as saying that they suffer from severe overcrowding following a sudden rise in their number as a result of the recent Israeli mass arrest campaign in the occupied Palestinian lands. 16 of them […]

Ramallah, October 27, 2015—Israeli authorities placed three Palestinian teenagers from East Jerusalem under administrative detention last week, the first time the measure has been used against Palestinian minors in nearly four years. In the early hours of October 19, Israeli forces arrested Fadi Hasan Abassi, 17, and Mohammad Saleh Ghaith, 17, from their homes in […]

Issa Abdel Muti back in HAdassa where he believes his leg will be saved. He told us that after being shot 4 times at the leg he was taken to Ofer military prison and tortured. the torturers poked his wound with an iron pole until he lost too much blood. The other 13 yr old […]

This was the slogan of the final stage of the hunger strike by Nidal Abu Aker a journalist who has been held under administrative detention by Israel for the last one and a half years without charge . Abu Aker has spent 14 years in and out of prison but has not been charged. I […]