Ashkelon prisoners start a hunger strike

Ashkelon prison Al Ray Agencies | Nov 23, 2013 Gaza, ALRAY – Ashkelon Prisoners started an open hunger strike to protest violent raids on their cells and strip searches, which led to clashes and caused injuries among them. The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said on November 20 that the raids took place on Monday, November […]

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9 detainees injured in Ashkelon Prison

Al Ray Agencies | Nov 19, 2013 West Bank, ALRAY – Israel forces broke in 15 and 16 cells in section 3 in Ashkelon Prison and injured nine detainees, Palestine Prisoner club reported. Section 3 is for Palestinian  security prisoners. The club reported that  Israel forces attacked the cells on Monday evening  at 11o’oclock , […]

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Ashkelon prison witnesses tension: Sick prisoners amid deliberate medical neglect increasing | @ICRC @Amnesty

[ PIC 19/06/2013 – 09:38 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Palestinian human rights sources reported that a state of extreme tension is prevailing among the prisoners in the Israeli detention center of Ashkelon, due to the continued abuses against them. Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said in a statement on Wednesday that the Palestinian prisoners in Ashkelon […]

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Israeli army storms, tear gasses and shoots inside Ashkelon prison and impose tough sanctions on prisoners

[ PIC 21/04/2013 – 08:42 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Israeli prisons administration imposed on Sunday extremely strict procedures on all prisoners in Ashkelon Prison; after captive Mahmoud Zahran, aged 32 from the village of Deir Abu Meshal near Ramallah, assaulted an Israeli jailer in the prison. Ashkelon prison prisoner-representative said that three jailers who were […]

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UFree calls for an international investigation about Abu Sisi’s abduction

[ PIC 31/12/2012 – 06:02 PM ] OSLO, (PIC)– The European Network for the Defense of the Palestinian prisoners’ rights (UFree) declared that it follows up the new information released by prisoner Dirar Abu Sisi, the deputy director of the Gaza power plant, which proves the involvement of some security services of a number of […]

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Israel exerts physical and psychological pressure on prisoners to end hunger-strike | #PalHunger

MEMO | May 3, 2012   A human rights organization has reported that the Israeli Prisons’ Administration is deliberately and continuously transporting isolated prisoners on hunger-strike in Ashkelon, from one cell to another several times a day in order to weaken and pressure them psychologically. A press release by the Solidarity Foundation for Human Rights […]

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Rocket lands in Ashkelon as Israel bolsters forces in south

[ 05/10/2011 – 10:58 AM ] NAZARETH, (PIC)– A rocket-propelled grenade landed Tuesday evening in the coastal city of Ashkelon in the 1948-occupied territories as Israel has decided to boost troops in the southern 1948-occupied territories. The grenade was fired from the Gaza Strip, Israeli Radio said. It landed in the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council […]

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Raids in Ashkelon, Nafha prisons as thousands join hunger strike

Related: Palestinian Prisoners – Special Topic | Prisoners – Category [ 04/10/2011 – 09:48 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Special units raided cells in the Israeli Ashkelon and Nafha prisons as thousands of Palestinian prisoners have joined a seven day hunger strike. Waed prisoner rights organization said Metzada and Nahshon forces, specializing in the suppression of […]

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The American ambassador’s Twitter diplomacy

Wednesday, August 10 2011| Noam Sheizaf | +972 Magazine The new American ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, has a Twitter account. What does he tweet? For example, a message on his visit to a missile battery (in both Hebrew and English). @AmbShapiro And here is the video of my visit to see the Iron Dome […]

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IPS isolates eight Palestinian prisoners in Askalan

[ 12/05/2011 – 11:00 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Israeli prison service (IPS) moved eight Palestinian prisoners in Askalan jail to solitary confinement as a punishment for waging a hunger strike late last month, Palestinian sources said on Thursday. The sources said that the IPS imposed a series of punishments against the prisoners in Askalan […]

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ISRAEL: Criminal to the marrow of the bones

Posted by attendingtheworld at PS.HADNEWS.COM on Sunday, April 17, 2011 at 8:34 pm. TheNakedTruthInAConfusedWorld: ISRAEL: Criminal to the marrow of the bones Israeli prison raid footage released Television images shows Israeli Terrorist troops using live ammunition in deadly operation at detention centre. Hundreds of Palestinian have died inside Israeli prisons and now an Israeli television […]

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Palestinian Resistance Fires Shells At Ashkelon

Friday March 25, 2011 04:57 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies The National Resistance brigades, the armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), and the Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, claimed joint responsibility for firing two Grad missiles into Ashkelon on Friday at dawn. […]

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Egypt gas flow to Israel Must Not Resume

Posted by attendingtheworld at PSHADNEWS.com  on Tuesday, March 15, 2011 at 3:03 pm. Huge flames erupt from an explosion at Egyptian gas pipeline supplying Israel and Jordan in El Arish, Egypt, February 05, 2011.   The Egyptian gas supply to Israel that has been disrupted since a February 5 pipeline explosion does not seem to […]

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Administration of Ashkelon punishes detainees for their hunger strike

[ 11/01/2011 – 02:31 PM ]   NABLUS, (PIC)– The international Tadamun (solidarity) foundation for human rights said that the Israeli administration of Ashkelon prison took punitive measures against Palestinian detainees after they went on hunger strike for two days. Official of the foundation Ahmed Al-Beitawi stated that the prisoners in Ashkelon jail a few […]

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