Ahmad Abu Raida was only 16 when Israeli soldiers repeatedly used him as a human shield for five days in Khuza’a, southern Gaza. Defence for Children -Ramallah, August 21, 2014 Israeli soldiers repeatedly used Ahmad Abu Raida, 17, as a human shield for five days while he was held hostage during Israel’s ground invasion of […]
Continue readingIsraeli demolition process in Tubas
[ PIC 20/08/2014 – 02:55 PM ] TUBAS, (PIC)– The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) stormed on Wednesday morning Aqaba town east of Tubas in the Jordan Valley and started demolishing a number of homes and notifying several others with demolition. Head of the village council Sami Sadeq told a PIC reporter that the IOF demolished […]
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Fifty international organizations call for an end to the blockade on Gaza
[ PIC 3/06/2012 – 11:37 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Fifty international charities and United Nations Agencies on Thursday unanimously called for the lifting of the blockade of Gaza. The organizations published a statement to mark the fifth anniversary of the tightening of the blockade of the Strip. It reads: For over five years in Gaza, […]
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Israeli judge renews solitary confinement of Barghouthi for six months | #PalHunger #StopAD
#5MayPPSolidarity ▶ May 5: Mobilize in support of Palestinian political prisoners [ PIC 02/05/2012 – 01:57 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– An Israeli military court in occupied Jerusalem on Wednesday extended the solitary confinement of Hamas leader Abdullah Al-Barghouthi for six months. Director of Ahrar center for prisoners’ studies and human rights Fuad Al-Khafsh quoted […]
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Israeli Occupation punishes captives for going on hunger strike | #PalHunger
[ PIC 27/04/2012 – 09:58 PM ] A reconstruction of an assault on Palestinian captives GAZA, (PIC)– The PFLP’s Palestinian Prisoners Committee said that a number of its captives at Megiddo prison were punished for going on hunger strike. The committee said in a statement on Friday that occupation forces launched a vicious attack on […]
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Palestinian prisoner Zakariya Isa in critical condition
Thursday, 18 August 2011 14:00 | MEMO Israel has refused to release Zakaria Isa to allow him to see his family and say his last farewells. It insists that he remains a prisoner despite his condition. The 43 year old prisoner, Zakaria Daoud Hassan Isa, from the town of al-Khader in Bethlehem who is currently […]
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Medical crisis in the Gaza strip
Surgeries have been cancelled or delayed, and medicine supplies have run out By Nasser Najjar, Correspondent | Published June 20, 2011 Image Credit: Nasser Najjar/Gulf News Abdul Samee Morshid, 52, waits in his wheelchair after his dialysis session. Morshid was told that medicines that had been prescribed to him would not be available owing […]
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Families of political prisoners in PA jails protest in al-Khalil
[ 17/06/2011 – 06:57 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Families of political prisoners in PA jails on Thursday afternoon held a sit in in the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil at the city centre. A large number of protesters participated in the protest and said they are determined to continue with their protests until all […]
Continue readingIsrael broke international law by firing at unarmed protesters
Tuesday, 17 May 2011 13:30| MEMO A legal expert in Israel has said that the country’s soldiers “broke international law” by firing at unarmed protesters at the weekend. A large number of Palestinians crossed the borders between Syria and Israel, and Lebanon and Israel, to commemorate the Nakba, the catastrophe of the creation of the […]
Continue readingEnd CRH complicity with Israeli Human Rights abuses – video
Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign | May 4, 2011 On the morning of Wednesday 4th May 2011, over 50 human rights activists supporting the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign formed a ‘human wall’ outside the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Irish multinational CRH, while concerned shareholders inside asked serious questions about the role of the cement company in […]
Continue readingSuffering From Cancer, Child Detainee Released From Israeli Prison
Tuesday April 05, 2011 00:09 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Palestinian sources reported Monday that detainee Mustafa Shihab Abdul-Wahab, 16, from a village near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, was released from an Israeli detention facility due to a sharp deterioration of his health conditions as he suffers from Cancer. File […]
Continue readingIsraeli court to indict Abu Sisi
[ 04/04/2011 – 12:01 PM ] BEER SHEBA, (PIC)– The central court in Beer Sheba is slated on Monday to table an indictment list against Palestinian engineer Dirar Abu Sisi, 42, who was kidnapped from the Ukraine and brought against his will to Israel. Abu Sisi, a father of six children and married to a […]
Continue readingHRW: New laws marginalize Palestinian Arab citizens
1 April 2011 By Human Rights Watch, http://www.HRW.org – 30 March 2011 Measures Threaten Discrimination; Chill Freedom of Expression Two new Israeli laws affecting Israel’s Palestinian Arab residents would promote discrimination and stifle free expression, Human Rights Watch said today. One would authorize rural, Jewish-majority communities to reject Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel and other […]
Continue readingThis is Israel: Paralyzed detainee 22 years in prison
March 29, 2011 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A Palestinian detainee who has been paralyzed for three years entered his 22nd year in Israeli detention on Tuesday, Gaza’s Detainees’ Ministry said. Israeli forces detained Ibrahim Mash’al, 47, in 1990. He was accused of possessing arms and developing weapons for Palestinian resistance fighters. Masha’al is from Jerusalem […]
Continue readingIOF detains 7 Palestinians including crippled man, 90 in Al-Khalil in February
[ 03/03/2011 – 10:12 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detained seven Palestinian citizens in pre dawn incursions in West Bank cities on Thursday, the Israeli radio said. The broadcast quoted an IOF spokesman as saying that the arrests were made in Bethlehem and Al-Khalil districts. Meanwhile, locals said that an IOF […]
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