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 […]

Jerusalem – A jabbing pain in his shoulder and thigh roused Obada from his sleep at 3am. In the half-light, the 15-year-old could make out eight masked men surrounding his bed, their rifles pointed at him. “I felt terrified,” he said of the experience of being arrested in February from his home in the village […]

A 12-year-old Palestinian girl, imprisoned by Israel after she confessed to planning a stabbing attack on Israelis in a West Bank settlement, returned home on Sunday when she was freed early after an appeal. Dima al-Wawi was greeted by about 80 relatives at her family’s house in Halhoul, a village near Hebron, a West Bank […]