News About Prisoners

Why Is Israel Afraid of Khalida Jarrar?

Israel has imprisoned Khalida Jarrar because her intelligence and respect for international law threaten its occupation regime. When Israeli troops stormed the house of Palestinian parliamentarian and lawyer Khalida Jarrar on April 2, 2015, she was engrossed in her research. For months, Jarrar had been leading a Palestinian effort to take Israel to the International Criminal […]

Palestinian leader Khalida Jarrar’s imprisonment without charge or trial extended again

Palestinian parliamentarian, feminist and leftist leader Khalida Jarrar was once more ordered to imprisonment without charge or trial by the Israeli occupation. The renewal came for the fourth time on Thursday, 25 October; Jarrar has already been jailed without charge or trial for 16 months. The new detention order once again renews her imprisonment for four more […]

“Palestinians are protesting for their right to live”: Basman Elashi of Gaza’s El-Wafa hospital on the Great Return March

Today the Great March of Return by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip enters its 30th week. Over the first 29, Israeli military fire into Gaza not only killed 217 Palestinians, but injured 22,897 more, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported this morning. At least 11,913 were hospitalized, including 5,502 shot with live […]

Ahmad Sa’adat: Prisons, the Black Liberation movement and the struggle for Palestine

The following article, by imprisoned Palestinian national liberation movement leader Ahmad Sa’adat – the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – was originally published in French as the preface to the new French-language edition of “Revolutionary Suicide” by Huey Newton. On 15 October – the anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party – […]