Chicago commemorates International Palestinian Prisoners Day ~ by Bill Chambers

We Fight Back | by Bill Chambers | Apr 23, 2013 Chicago, IL – During the week of International Palestinian Prisoners Day, over 20 activists from the Palestine Solidarity Group, United States Palestinian Community Network (USPCN), Students for Justice in Palestine and other organizations braved the bitter cold to stage “Intifada Theater” at the Bean […]

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Al-Taj: Israel released me after being certain of my death

[ PIC 23/04/2013 - 08:52 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The liberated prisoner Mohamed al-Taj stated that his release from Israeli jails came after his serious health deterioration, where the Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) were sure that he may die at any moment. During an exclusive interview with PIC reporter at the medical complex in Ramallah […]

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Sick prisoner Ahmed Damoni refuses to take medication

[ PIC 22/04/2013 - 09:35 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– A Palestinian prisoner in Israeli occupation jails, Ahmed Damoni, has been refusing to take his medication for the past five days in protest at the prison administration’s policy of deliberate medical neglect. Mohammed, Ahmed’s brother, told Quds Press on Monday that the lawyer told them of […]

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Mashaal: We will continue to liberate prisoners from Israel’s jails

[ PIC 18/04/2013 - 10:15 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Head of Hamas’s political bureau Khaled Mashaal said that his Movement would keep working hard to liberate all Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, renewing his Movement vow to uphold the resistance as an option to restore the usurped land and rights. Mashaal made his remarks in […]

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Haniyeh: All options are open for the liberation of prisoners

[ PIC 17/04/2013 - 08:55 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said that all options are open to the resistance and the people for the liberation of the prisoners from the occupation jails. Haniyeh said during a meeting held by the Legislative Council in Gaza on the anniversary of the Palestinian Prisoner’s […]

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1,000 sick prisoners including 25 cancer patients in Israeli jails

[ PIC 16/04/2013 - 07:23 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The head of the Follow up committee of Prisoners’ Affairs, Amin Shauhan, confirmed that more than 1000 Palestinian prisoners suffer different illnesses including 25 cancer patients. The prisoners face deliberate medical neglect by the Israeli prison services aiming to assassinate them as what happened with the […]

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PHR warns of disaster in Israeli jails due to medical neglect

[ PIC 13/04/2013 - 02:44 PM ] NAZARETH, (PIC)– Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) in the occupied Palestinian territories accused the Israeli medical system inside the prisons of abusing the Palestinian hunger striking prisoners and exercising pressures on them to stop their strike. The human rights organization pointed out in a report issued on Friday […]

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Israel medics endanger Palestinian prisoners’ lives: Rights group

Palestinians demonstrate in support of hunger strikers in Israeli prisons on April 09, 2013. PressTV | Thu Apr 11, 2013 9:33PM GMT According to Palestinian sources, over 4,500 Palestinian prisoners are held in Israeli prisons, many of them without charge or trial, and are subject to human rights violations such as the use of torture […]

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More Medical Neglect: Detainee Muhamad Abu Amsha’s health deteriorating in Israeli jail

Maan News Agency | April 11, 2013 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The health of a 49-year-old Palestinian is seriously deteriorating in Israel’s Ashkelon prison, a lawyer for the Ministry of Detainee Affairs said Thursday. Muhamad Abu Amsha has been detained since 2006 and has had several heart attacks since his arrest, the lawyer said in a […]

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Hamas: Israeli crimes will not break the will of Palestinians

[ PIC 07/04/2013 - 04:05 PM ] BEIRUT/ GAZA, (PIC)– Hamas condemned the arbitrary arrests targeting the Palestinian leaders and considered such procedures systematic crime against the Palestinian people. Hamas said in a press statement on Sunday that this Israeli crime will not succeed in dissuading those leaders from continuing to defend their constants and […]

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Calls for saving the lives of Raymond prisoners

[ PIC 07/04/2013 - 11:07 AM ] (PIC)– Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli Gilboa, Megiddo and Shatta prisons appealed to international human rights organizations to save Raymond prisoners’ lives in light of the Israeli prison service’s barbaric campaign against them. The IPS has closed Raymond prison for the past two days and prevented the prisoners […]

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Abu Hamdiyeh: A victim of Israel’s criminal callousness ~ by Khalid Amayreh | #OpIsrael

[ PIC 06/04/2013 - 05:37 AM ] Comment by Khalid Amayreh As widely expected, Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh succumbed to his untreated illness in an Israeli jail earlier this week. The Israeli prison authorities, who callously ignored widespread calls coming from many quarters, for his release on humanitarian grounds, had been fully aware of his terminal […]

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Families of prisoners create memorial grave near PA HQ

[ PIC 07/04/2013 - 07:14 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Some families of prisoners and ex-detainees on Saturday afternoon rallied outside the headquarters of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah city to urge it to immediately act to save the lives of patients and hunger strikers in Israeli jails. During the rally, the protestors established a symbolic […]

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Sayed: Abu Hamdiya was executed and prisoners won’t remain silent

[ PIC 06/04/2013 - 04:40 PM ] TULKAREM, (PIC)– Abbas Sayed, head of the senior leadership committee of Hamas prisoners, revealed that the doctors in the Israeli jails had been giving captive Maysara Abu Hamdiya medicines that had exacerbated his health condition. Sayed confirmed that “the prisoners will not remain silent regarding the murder policy […]

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Palestinians in Netherlands call on the world to support prisoners

[ PIC 06/04/2013 - 04:22 PM ] AMSTERDAM, (PIC)– Palestinians in the Netherlands denounced the EU countries’ silence at the Israeli abuses against the Palestinian prisoners and the policy of medical neglect inside the occupation jails. The Palestinian House in the Netherlands described the Israeli abuses against the Palestinian prisoners as war crimes, crimes against […]

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Health ministry: Israeli jail doctors cannot be trusted to treat the patients

[ PIC 06/04/2013 - 07:55 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian health ministry in Gaza expressed its deep concern over the lives of more than 1,000 Palestinian patients in Israeli jails due to the reported medical neglect they are being exposed to. On his facebook page, spokesman for the health ministry Ashraf Al-Qudra stated on […]

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Mishaal asserts prisoners’ issue on top priorities of Hamas

[ PIC 04/04/2013 - 09:50 PM ] CAIRO, (PIC)– Khaled Mashaal, head of Hamas’s political bureau stressed that the issue of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails is on the top of his movement’s national priorities. Meshaal said at a conference in Cairo on Thursday that the coming period will witness a great victory for the […]

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Palestinian prisoners in the Naqab refuse to take medication

[ PIC 04/04/2013 - 09:31 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian Center for Prisoners’ Studies confirmed that the patient prisoners in the Negev desert prison announced to stop taking their medicines on Wednesday evening. Kaher Abu Kamal, spokesman for the center in the West Bank, said in a statement on Thursday that the prisoners took […]

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Resistance in Hebron threatens to avenge Abu Hamdiyeh

Maan News Agency | April 4, 2013 HEBRON (Ma’an) – A military wing affiliated to Fatah in Hebron in the southern West Bank on Thursday threatened to retaliate to the death of Palestinian prisoner Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh in Israeli custody. A representative of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Hebron said during Abu Hamdiyeh’s funeral that […]

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Huwwara checkpoint closed due to clashes, Women and baby hospitalized due to Israeli tear gas inhalation

Maan News Agency | April 4, 2013   NABLUS (Ma’an) – Israeli forces shut down Huwwara checkpoint south of Nablus on Thursday afternoon due to clashes between young Palestinians and Israeli troops stationed at the checkpoint. Local sources told a Ma’an reporter that several demonstrators were hurt as Israeli soldiers showered them with tear-gas canisters. […]

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Haneyya condoles family of Hamdiya, hails his struggle

BREAKING: Israel kills 2 teenagers at checkpoint east of Tulkarem | Live Blog [ PIC 04/04/2013 - 09:34 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Gaza premier Ismail Haneyya reached the son of Maysara Abu Hamdiya, who died of cancer in Israeli jails, on the phone on Wednesday evening. Haneyya extended condolences over the death of the father […]

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Autopsy shows Israel neglected prisoner Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh

BREAKING: Israel kills 2 teenagers at checkpoint east of Tulkarem | Live Blog Maan News Agency | April 4, 2013 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The results of an autopsy on the body of a Palestinian prisoner who died in Israeli custody show his death was caused by medical negligence, a Palestinian official said. The results show […]

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