#ICRCClosed | Relatives of prisoners protest outside Red Crescent HQ

Maan News Agency | May 10, 2012 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Protesting relatives of prisoners in Israeli jails forced the International Red Crescent headquarters in al-Bireh to temporarily close on Thursday. Family members prevented employees from entering the building, calling on the UN to intervene to protect hunger strikers, a Ma’an correspondent said. Protesters said they […]

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PALESTINE NEWS | May 10, 2012

LIVE BLOG ▶ 3000 PALESTINIANS ON HUNGER STRIKE | #PalHunger continuous updated آخر الأخبار والتحديثات May 10, 2012 | 23371 Days Since Al-Nakba & Gaza has been under siege for 1793 days For news of previous news days | Daily News Overviews Follow on Twitter for more live updates Continuous updates.. #PalHunger – 3000 Palestinians […]

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#PalHunger | Ahrar: The hunger strikers reject partial solutions to their suffering

[ PIC 10/05/2012 – 11:47 AM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Director of Ahrar center Fouad Al-Khafsh said the Israeli offer to end the solitary confinement of only two Palestinian prisoners does not meet the purpose for which the detainees staged their hunger strike. In a press release on Thursday, Khafsh stated that the Israeli prison authority […]

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#PalHunger | Protesters Close Red Cross Headquarter In Ramallah | #ICRCClosed

Thursday May 10, 2012 11:31 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Dozens of residents held, on Thursday, a protest in front of the United Nations – Red Cross headquarters in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, demanding the UN to perform its duties in protecting the rights of Palestinian political prisoners held by […]

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#PalHunger | 9 protesters hurt in clash outside Ofer prison

Maan News Agency | May 10, 2012 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Nine Palestinians were injured, including one seriously, by rubber bullets during clashes that erupted between Palestinians and Israeli forces near the Ofer prison. The demonstration was held near the Ofar prison but the Israeli forces intervened in a sit-in by shooting tear gas and stun […]

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#PalHunger | Confrontations near Ofer jail

[ PIC 10/05/2012 – 11:49 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Palestinian young men clashed with Israeli occupation forces (IOF) near the Ofer jail to the west of Ramallah on Thursday, local sources reported. Eyewitnesses told the PIC that dozens of young activists and relatives of prisoners gathered near the Beitonia military roadblock and raised signs calling […]

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#PalHunger | Groth: Save the lives of the Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike

Al Qassam Website 10-05-2012,09:11Press Release By Annette Groth, Spokesperson For Human Rights Of The Left Party In The German Parliament. Germany – Federal Government must urge Lieberman to save the lives of the Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike! Around 4600 Palestinians are being held in Israeli prisons, 300 of them in administrative detention. Two hundred […]

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IOF soldiers destroy Palestinian crops south of Al-Khalil

[ PIC 10/05/2012 – 11:48 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) destroyed vast areas of Palestinian cultivated land lots south of Al-Khalil on Thursday. Othman Jabarin, the coordinator of the popular committee in Janba to the south east of Yatta town, told Quds Press that IOF soldiers deployed in a large area of […]

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#PalHunger | European petition for international solidarity with the prisoners

[ PIC 10/05/2012 – 07:30 PM ] OCCUPIED PALESTINE, (PIC)– More than one hundred Parliamentary and political personalities in Europe participated in an international petition that aims to activate the European political support, calling on the Israeli occupation to respect international law in treating the Palestinian prisoners in its prisons, titled “international petition in solidarity […]

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#PalHunger | Continuing sit-ins in London in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners

[ PIC 10/05/2012 – 07:16 PM ] LONDON,(PIC)– The Palestinian Forum in Britain organized, on Wednesday, a sit-in outside the Israeli embassy in London as a part of continuing solidarity activities in support of Palestinian prisoners since two weeks where the Forum organized in coordination with number of British organizations solidarity activities outside the British […]

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#PalHunger | Ki-moon to Israel: Put hunger strikers on trial or release them

[PIC 10/05/2012 – 11:05 AM ] NEW YORK, (PIC)– UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has asked Israel to put the Palestinian detainees on hunger strike on trial or release them. Martin Nesirky, spokesman for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, said that the Secretary General has asked all concerned parties to avoid deterioration in those detainees’ […]

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Two hunger strikers Jafar Izzeddin and Mahmoud Sarsak in Ramla hospital in serious health conditions

[ PIC 09/05/2012 – 01:42 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Lawyer of Addameer association for prisoners and human rights Mahmoud Hassan, who visited on Monday the hospital of Ramla prison, said he found hunger strikers Jafar Izzeddin and Mahmoud Sarsak, in very bad shape. Lawyer Hassan stated that prisoner Sarsak has been on hunger strike for […]

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Islamic-Christian body calls for urgent action to deter settlement escalation

[ PIC 09/05/2012 – 09:41 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (PIC) — The Islamic – Christian Commission in Support of Jerusalem and Holy Sites warned of the occupation authorities’ settlement activities that have been escalated recently, especially in Jerusalem as the construction of 1,100 settlement units in “Givat Hamots” in Eastern occupied Jerusalem, and that aim […]

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#PalHunger | UN’s Ban urges Israel to charge prisoners or free them | #UNClosed

Maan News Agency | May 10, 2012 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday urged Israel to either charge or release Palestinian detainees “without delay.” Ban expressed concern for Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in protest over their detention without charge and stressed “the importance of averting any further deterioration in their condition,” […]

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Negev Prison Refuses To Admit Arbitrary Jailed MP Due To Health Condition

Thursday May 10, 2012 01:54 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Detained elected Palestinian Legislator, Mohammad Abu Jheisha, was moved from the Ofer Israeli prison to the Negev detention camp, in the Negev desert, but the administration there refused to admit him due to his bad health condition. Detained Legislator Mohammad Abu Jheisha – […]

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