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 […]

New Yorkers protested on Friday, 29 April, as Palestinian prisoner Sami Janazrah, 43, reached his 58th day of hunger strike, protesting his administrative detention without charge or trial. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network organized its weekly protest outside the offices of British-Danish security corporationG4S, which provides security systems, equipment and control rooms to Israeli prisons, interrogation centers, […]

Over 40 French rights groups have launched a campaign in solidarity with Palestinian children inside Israeli jails, Anadolu news agency reported on Friday. The campaign called for the international community to act for the sake of Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli jails. According to Anadolu, the campaign sent a team to Israeli prisons to meet with […]

RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — One hundred Palestinian minors are being held in Israel’s Megiddo prison, many of whom are facing repeated rights violations by Israel’s prison service, according to a statement released by the Palestinian Prisoners’ Affairs Committee on Wednesday.Some 105 prisoners are currently held in section three of Megiddo prison in northern Israel, only five […]

‘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 […]