The situation on the ground for Palestinian children is rapidly deteriorating, so CODEPINK has joined our allies at the American Friends Service Committee, Jewish Voice for Peace, and more for a new campaign called No Way to Treat A Child. At the end of February, there were 440 Palestinian children in Israeli military detention. This is […]

The Palestinian Health Ministry has cautioned about a deterioration in the condition of Sami Janazra, a Palestinian man in administrative detention who has been on a hunger strike for 68 days. Janazra, of Al Fawwar refugee camp, has been at Soroka Hospital in Be’er Sheva for about a week, where he has refused medical treatment […]

AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Palestinian prisoner Sami Janazra, from Fawar refugee camp in al-Khalil, entered on Monday his 68th day of hunger strike in protest against his administrative detention.  Janazra’s family warned of his serious health deterioration as he started suffering frequent fainting and became unable to move or to walk. The family called for activating […]

Majd Yousef Atwan, 22, a young Palestinian woman from Al-Khader village, Bethlehem, and a recent beauty school graduate, was sentenced by an Israeli Ofer military court to 45 days imprisonment and a 3,000 NIS ($794) fine for posting on Facebook, which the Israeli military occupation deemed “incitement.” Atwan is one of approximately 150 Palestinians detained […]

Israeli forces stormed the central West Bank town of Birzeit north of Ramallah overnight on Sunday, targeting two female students and detaining at least 24 other Palestinians during raids across the occupied Palestinian territory. Locals told Ma’an that Israeli forces detained a female engineering student, Alaa Assaf, from Birzeit University. Israeli forces stormed the Assaf […]

Palestinian prisoner Sami Janazrah has been on hunger strike for 67 days. Janazrah, 43 and the father of three, is a Palestinian refugee living in Al-Fuwwar refugee camp. He has been held in Israeli administrative detention – imprisonment without charge or trial – since 15 November 2015, and launched his hunger strike to demand his […]

After refusing food for more than nine weeks, Palestinian hunger strike Sami Janazreh has reportedly now stopped drinking water in protest against his ongoing detention without charge and abusive treatment by Israel. After weeks of refusing sustenance, Janazreh has lost 55 pounds and his health has sharply deteriorated. He has had intermittent seizures, and is […]

Palestine organizers in New York City met with Sahar Francis, executive director of Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association and Khaled Quzmar, director of Defence for Children International Palestine, during their visit to New York City on 2 May. At the gathering, organized by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network at the request of the […]

A delegation of former Black Panthers and other U.S. political prisoners marked their return from Palestine last month with a statement released on Palestinian Prisoners Day, while people around the world showed their support for Palestinian prisoners with mass demonstrations. Palestinians refuse to let their captured and abducted friends, comrades, and family members be forgotten […]

As the world marks World Press Freedom Day on 3 May, Palestinian journalist Omar Nazzal, member of the General Secretariat of the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate and president of the Association of Democratic Journalists, was ordered to four months in Israeli administrative detention – imprisonment without charge or trial on the basis of “secret evidence.” Nazzal’s […]