Tag Archives: collective punishment

#PalHunger | IPS still procrastinates in ending Abu Sisi’s solitary confinement

[ PIC 27/08/2013 – 10:21 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) stated that the Israeli Prison Services (IPS) is still procrastinating in dealing with captive Dirar Abu Sisi’s issue, where it kept offering unaccepted solutions. The human rights center condemned the Israeli suggestion to transfer Abu Sisi to another solitary confinement with […]

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#PalHunger | 6 Palestinian prisoners start hunger strike in solidarity with Abu Sisi

Al Qassam Website | 26-08-2013,10:08 Gaza- Six Palestinian prisoners in Eshel jail started an open-ended hunger strike at midnight Sunday in solidarity with hunger striker Dirar Abu Sisi, who is isolated in an Israeli prison, according to Wa’ed society for detainees and ex-detainees. The society stated that all the dialog efforts that had been made […]

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#PalHunger | Palestinian prisoners suspend their hunger strike in solidarity with Abu Sisi

Al Ray Agencies – Aug 25, 2013 Gaza, Alray – The World Gathering to Set the Prisoners Free said on Saturday evening  the Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli jails suspended their hunger strike in solidarity with Dirar Abu Sisi after the Israeli Prison Service(IPS), demanded an interval to end his solitary confinement. Waed Association for […]

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#PalHunger | Waad calls for urgent intervention to save Abu Sisi’s life

[ PIC 24/08/2013 – 10:15 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Waad society for liberated prisoners called on human rights and humanitarian organizations to intervene immediately to save the life of the hunger striker and isolated prisoner in Israeli occupation jails Dirar Abu Sisi. The society warned of Abu Sisi’s serious deterioration after eight days of hunger […]

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#PalHunger | Former hunger striker Ayman Abu Daoud deported to Gaza Strip

Maan News Agency | Aug 22, 2013 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israel on Thursday deported a Palestinian prisoner to the Gaza Strip as part of a deal to end his 40-day hunger strike. Ayman Abu Daoud is from the West Bank city of Hebron, where his wife and children live. He was freed in October […]

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#PalHunger | Palestinian prisoners give IPS 48 hours to end isolation of Abu Sisi

[ PIC 22/08/2013 – 07:59 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation jails have given the Israeli prion service (IPS) 48 hours to end the isolation of Dirar Abu Sisi, a human rights center said on Wednesday. The Ahrar center for studies and human rights said in a statement that Palestinian prisoners in […]

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Hunger-striking student of Bir Zeit University admitted to hospital

Al Ray Agencies | Aug 20, 2013 Gaza, Alray – Member of the Islamic Bloc Omar Qurut was transferred to Ramallah ‎hospital as his health deteriorated due to being on hunger strike for 9 consecutive days to ‎protest the continued political detention of the bloc students at Bir Zeit University.‎ Representative of the Islamic Bloc, […]

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#PalHunger | Abu Sisi launches open hunger strike

Al Ray Agencies | Aug 19, 2013 Jerusalem , Alray – Palestinian detainee Dirar Abu Sisi launched on Friday an open  hunger strike in the Israeli prison of Beersheba to protest being held in solitary confinement since he was kidnapped in Ukraine by the Israeli intelligence two years ago. A detainees’ group said on a […]

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#PalHunger | Prisoner Tha’er Halahila suffers from serious health problem and medical neglect

[ PIC 19/08/2013 – 09:25 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Palestinian prisoners center for studies said that prisoner Tha’er Halahila, 35, is in difficult health situation and exposed to deliberate medical neglect by his jailers in Ofer prison. The center stated on Sunday that Halahila has been afflicted with a type of hepatitis and his […]

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VIDEO | Rights organizations call on Israel to release Palestinian hunger-striking prisoners

GO TO THE LIVE BLOG | Act to free former Hunger striker Samer Issawi! ON TORTURE Report: Published by Adalah, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights | June 26, 2012 “On Torture” is an edited volume of essays by Palestinian, Israeli and international legal and medical experts and practitioners based […]

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Detainees launch protests that will develop into open #Palhunger strike against administrative detention

Al Qassam website -18-08-2013,08:21 Administrative detainees in the Israeli occupation jails announced launching protest steps against policy of administrative detention at the beginning of September that will develop into open hunger strike in October.Fouad Khuffash, director of the Ahrar Center for Prisoners’ Studies and Human Rights, said that after discussions, the prisoners in the Negev […]

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#PalHunger | Red Cross (@ICRC) Concerned About Health Condition Of Striking Detainees

 Sunday August 18, 2013 11:07 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News Saturday evening [August 18, 2013] the International Red Cross issued a statement expressing deep concern regarding the deteriorating health conditions of seven Palestinian political prisoners, held by Israel, and have been on hunger strike for an extended period. Stop Administartive Detention – Ahrar Center […]

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#PalHunger strikers Ayman Atbish and Adel Hureibat in serious health condition

[ PIC 14/08/2013 – 03:39 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– An Israeli doctor at Kaplan medical center warned Palestinian prisoners Ayman Atbish and Adel Hureibat, on hunger strike for about 83 days, that they would go into a coma and then die if they kept refraining from taking vitamins, especially B1. According to Muhjat Al-Quds foundation, […]

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#PalHunger | Qabha unveils some details of Israeli agreement with Jordanian hunger strikers

[ PIC 12/08/2013 – 01:03 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Former Palestinian minister of prisoners’ affairs Wasfi Qabha said that the efforts that had been made lately by senior Hamas officials and some lawyers in addition to leading Hamas detainees led to the agreement that was brokered on Sunday between the Jordanian hunger strikers and Israeli […]

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#PalHunger | Israeli Prison ‘Service’ agrees on demands of Jordanian detainees

Al Ray Agencies | Aug 11, 2013 Gaza, Alray – Israel Prison Services (IPS) reached a compromise with the Jordanian hunger- striking detainees, Ahrar center reported. Fouad Khuffash the director of Ahrar center said on a statement on Sunday that the IPS agreed on ending the solitary confinement, allowing family visits and gathering the prisoners […]

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