▶ Khader Adnan calls for urgent action as Diab & Halahleh’s health declines | #PalHunger

Samidoun | Apr 30, 2012 Freed prisoner Khader Adnan called out for emergency night marches and rallies in support of Bilal Diab and Thaer Halaleh, following reports that Bilal and Thaer’s health has deteriorated greatly as they enter their 63rd day of hunger strike. Jawad Boulos of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society reported that Bilal Diab [...]

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Khader Adnan to Hunger Strikers: Go Forth and Be Victorious | #PalHunger

Former Palestinian hunger strike prisoner Khader Adnan (L), a senior member of Islamic Jihad who was jailed in Israel, is greeted by members of the crowd in the village of Arraba near the northern city of Jenin, in the Israeli occupied West Bank on 18 April 2012. (Photo: AFP – Saif Dahlah) Fadi Abu Saada [...]

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The Battle of Empty Stomachs: Khader Adnan highlights the consolation of solidarity | #PalHunger

by Sylvia | 24 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On the 17th of April, Palestinian political prisoners launched a mass hunger strike against the Israeli Prison Service’s (IPS) dismissal of the Fourth Geneva Convention and basic international law. The call for action comes on Palestinian Prisoners Day after a wave of high-profile [...]

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‘Hunger strike a signal to world’s oppressed’ | #PalHunger

By Al Jazeera – 21 April 2012 www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/04/20124205447499671.html Khader Adnan recounts his 66-day fast in Israeli jail that has made him a symbol of Palestinian resistance Khader Adnan’s image held by Palestinian scouts When Palestinian hunger striker Khader Adnan called his mother at 11:30pm on Tuesday night, she burst into tears. “He told me, ‘Mother [...]

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Khader Adnan… Finally home – Photography

April 17, 2012 LiveBlog | HANA SHALABI DEPORTED TO GAZA – Photos & Video Hana Shalabi Hana’ Yayha Ash-Shalabi – Action Alert All Related posts about Hana Shalabi Palestinian Hunger Strikers: A History Palestinian Hungerstrikers -List of all names For reliable/latest news about hungerstrikers go to Addameer All related posts about Khader Adnan We will [...]

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Palestine’s Prisoners Day: In the Footsteps of Khader Adnan

Palestinian children take part in a rally in front of the Red Cross headquarters in Gaza City marking Palestinian Prisoners Day 17 April 2012. (Photo: REUTERS – Suhaib Salem) By: Charlotte Silver | Al Akhbar English |  Tuesday, April 17, 2012 Khader Adnan was expected to return to his village of Arrabeh today after waging [...]

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Palestinian prisoners announce their demands before going on hunger strike | #StopAD

[ 10/04/2012 - 08:46 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation jails have announced that they intend to go on hunger strike after one week and defined their demands. They said in a statement on Tuesday that prisoners of all political affiliations have been in constant contact over the past three years to [...]

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#KhaderAdnan to Cairo: Include Palestinian prisoners in exchange deal

[ PIC 31/03/2012 - 07:57 AM ] JENIN, (PIC)– Detained Islamic Jihad leader Khader Adnan urged Cairo to include Palestinian prisoners, especially minors, women, and the sick, in the reported prisoners’ exchange deal with Israel. Lawyer of the Palestinian prisoner’s society quoted Adnan on Friday as saying that the prisoners were following up with concern [...]

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The captive Khader Adnan moved out hospital

[ PIC 21/03/2012 - 06:08 PM ] JININ,(pic)– The Zionist Prisons Service decided to move the captive Khader Adnan from the Zif medical center in Safad to jail because his health improved after weeks of treatment for the effects of his hunger strike which lasted 66 days. The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) affirmed in a [...]

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Palestinian prisoners to launch open hunger strike next month

[ PIC 15/03/2012 - 10:53 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Wa’ed society for detainees and ex-detainees said the Palestinian prisoners coordinated their efforts to start the largest open hunger strike next April in all Israeli jails. “The national prisoner movement in jails agreed on the zero hour for the launch of the hunger strike and make [...]

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HOW THE SOCIAL MEDIA BRINGS ATTENTION TO THE PALESTINIAN STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM

Reblogged from Desertpeace: The online activism proved “the power of a different kind of media, one that uses corporate media’s silence to create a different kind of noise,” said Peter Hart, the activism director for Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), a media watchdog group. Hart authored a piece for the FAIR blog that chastised the corporate media’s [...]

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Aruri: All Palestinian prisoners to go on hunger strike in April

[ PIC 04/03/2012 - 12:57 PM ] BEIRUT, (PIC)– Political bureau member of Hamas and in charge of the prisoners file in the movement said that Palestinian prisoners were preparing for an open ended hunger strike in April. Aruri said in a TV statement on Saturday evening that Hamas has put five conditions for the [...]

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Interview with Addameer’s Mourad Jadallah: hunger strikes reignite prisoner movement

Asa Winstanley  The Electronic Intifada  London 1 March 2012 Palestinians in Ramallah demonstrate in support of hunger striking administrative detainee Hana al-Shalabi, 27 February 2012. (Issam Rimawi / APA images) Addameer is a Palestinian human rights organization that works to support political prisoners held in Israeli and Palestinian jails. The center offers free legal aid [...]

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IOF troops storm Hamas captives’ ward

[ PIC 01/03/2012 - 09:57 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– IOF troops from the Mitsada unit, on Thursday morning raided and searched ward 12 of Ofer prison which has 120 Hamas prisoners. Well informed sources told PIC that the soldiers raided the ward around ten on the morning and detained prisoners who were in found in [...]

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Islamic Jihad members Bilal Dyab and Thaer Halahla start hunger strike

MAAN NEWS AGENCY MAR 1 2012 JENIN (Ma’an) — Two imprisoned members of Islamic Jihad started a hunger strike on Thursday in support of female detainee Hana Shalabi. Bilal Dyab from Jenin, and Thaer Halahla, from Hebron, said in a letter received by Islamic Jihad that they will not stop their hunger strike until Israel [...]

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Interview: Palestinian rights defender banned from traveling tastes freedom in Geneva

Adri Nieuwhof  The Electronic Intifada Geneva 1 March 2012 Shawan Jabarin (Adri Nieuwhof) For most of the past six years, Israel has forbidden Shawan Jabarin, a prominent human rights advocate and former administrative detainee, from leaving the occupied West Bank. On exception, he was allowed travel to Geneva this week to meet Frank La Rue, [...]

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We Are With Hana Shalabi and Al Aqsa: Demonstration in the No Go Zone in Beit Hanoun – VIDEO

by Nathan Stuckey 29 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Israeli riot police have entered the Al Aqsa Mosque Compound, Palestinians have struggling to protect it for days. After 66 days Khader Adnan has ended his hunger strike, hopefully, soon, he will be home with his family. Even before his hunger strike ended the [...]

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Khader Adnan ‘stable’ after surgery

MAAN NEWS AGENCY FEB 28 2012 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Khader Adnan is in a stable condition after undergoing surgery on his intestine after his 66 day hunger strike, a lawyer for the Palestinian detainees’ center said Tuesday. Raed Mahamid said after visiting Adnan in Zeev hospital in northern Israeli town Safed that his condition is [...]

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Khader to undergo urgent surgery

[ PIC 28/02/2012 - 09:51 AM ] JENIN, (PIC)– Islamic Jihad detained leader Sheikh Khader Adnan is to undergo an urgent surgery in Zif medical center in Safad on Tuesday, his relatives said. They told PIC reporter that doctors in the hospital told them that Khader was suffering intestinal obstruction as a result of his [...]

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Hunger striker Khader Adnan rushed for surgery

Published Monday, February 27, 2012 Al Akhbar Palestinian Khader Adnan was rushed into surgery on Monday evening despite giving up his 66-day hunger strike last week. Prisoners’ rights group Addameer, which has been dealing with Adnan’s case, tweeted on Monday evening that Adnan had been taken into surgery but added that it was not clear [...]

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#KhaderAdnan – Dignity Triumphs over Tyranny

DISSIDENT VOICE FEB 27 2012 by Jamal Kanj / February 27th, 2012 On February 21, Sheikh Khader Adnan broke his 66-day hunger strike following a promise by Israeli authorities not to renew his administrative detention and to release him on April 17. The 33-year-old Master’s student in economics who works as a baker in the [...]

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Four political detainees on hunger strike for one week

[ PIC 26/02/2012 - 06:03 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Four detainees in the PA jails have been on hunger strike in Nablus jails for the past week demanding their release, relatives said on Sunday. They said that the four, all from Nablus, have been on hunger strike since Monday and are adamant on continuing in [...]

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#KhaderAdnan – Adnan driven by higher logic

My husband has helped expose the plight of Palestinians held under administrative detention by Israel By Randa Musa, Guardian News & Media Ltd Published: 00:00 February 27, 2012   Image Credit: Illustration: Dana A. Shams ©Gulf News Khader Adnan has been an activist for many years. He is no shadowy figure but an outspoken local [...]

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Khader Adnan Begins His Slow Recovery While Israeli Court Issues a Decision to Remove His Shackles

  Addameer February 25 2012 Joint Press Release, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel Ramallah, 23 February 2012—Following the cessation of his 66-day hunger strike on the evening of 21 February 2012, a Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-Israel)-affiliated doctor and Addameer lawyer Samer Sam’an visited Khader Adnan today, 23 [...]

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Egyptian intelligence brokered deal to release Khader Adnan, says Israeli paper

Egypt Independent Sat, 25/02/2012 – 14:13 Photographed by AFP Egypt’s intelligence service brokered the deal with Israel for the release of Khader Adnan, whose 67-day hunger strike due to being detained without charge ended four days ago, the English website of the Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Friday. On Tuesday, the Israeli Justice Ministry said [...]

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Palestinian woman in Israeli jail continues hunger strike for ninth day

A Palestinian prisoner looks out of the jail truck, set to be released as part of the first stage of an Israeli-Palestinian prisoner exchange, as it arrives at Ketzion jail, October 16, 2011. PRESS TV Sat Feb 25, 2012 7:36AM GMT A Palestinian female prisoner protesting her illegal detention by Israeli forces continues her hunger [...]

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Female Detainee Hana’ Yahia Ash-Shalaby Declares Hunger Strike

Friday February 24, 2012 04:21 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Palestinian Researcher, specialized in Detainees Affairs, Riyadh Al-Ashqar, stated that female detainee Hana’ Yahia Ash-Shalaby, 28, declared hunger strike after Israel transferred her into Administrative Detention without charges for six months. Image By Arabs48 Hana’ was kidnapped by the army one week ago [...]

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What Adnan’s release tells us about the occupation

Thursday, February 23 2012|Yossi Gurvitz | 972 magazine The Khader ‘Adnan affair showed the true face of all of the Israelis involved in the occupation, from its enablers in the courts to the Israeli mob Khader ‘Adnan became a Palestinian national hero two days ago, and rightly so. He brought the Netanyahu government, as well [...]

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#KhaderAdnan: A selfless Palestinian hero – by Daoud Kuttab

by Daoud Kuttab PNN FEBR 23 2012 It might have been a small gesture, but it spoke volumes. After Khader Adnan, the Palestinian administrative detainee in his 66th day of hunger strike, agreed to end his strike he refused to eat until all fellow hunger striking Palestinians are informed about such decision. Speaking on Voice [...]

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Inmates decide to boycott Israel courts | #KhaderAdnan

Adnan Musa, the father of Palestinian prisoner, Khader Adnan, attends a press conference in the north of Israel-occupied West Bank on February 21, 2012 after the conclusion of an agreement between his son and Tel Aviv over the former’s release. PRESS TV Thu Feb 23, 2012 3:29AM GMT Hundreds of Palestinian detainees, imprisoned in Israeli [...]

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