Tag Archives: hunger

#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 […]

Continue reading

#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 […]

Continue reading

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 […]

Continue reading

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 […]

Continue reading

#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 […]

Continue reading

#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, […]

Continue reading

#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 […]

Continue reading

#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 […]

Continue reading

#PalHunger | In solidarity with hunger strikers, activists break Ramadan fast with briny water

  Al Ray Agencies | Aug 7, 2013 Gaza, Alray – A number of young activists staged a sit-in on Tuesday evening before the main office of the International Red Cross in the Gaza Strip in solidarity with the prisoners on hunger strike. The participants decided to break their fast on Ramadan 28th with briny […]

Continue reading

#PalHunger | 12 hunger strikers risk death in Israeli jails

[ PIC 06/08/2013 – 03:58 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Twelve Palestinian and Jordanian detainees are staging a hunger strike in Israeli prisons, including 9 prisoners held in hospitals, the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) said. Administrative detainee Ayman Hamdan, who has gone the longest without food, has refused food for over 100 days, in addition to […]

Continue reading

#PalHunger striker Barghouthi in very serious health condition

[ PIC 06/08/2013 – 12:25 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Lawyer Hanan Al-Khatib said that the health condition of the Jordanian prisoner Abdullah Barghouthi has deteriorated very seriously as a result of his hunger strike for 95 days. Khatib stated on Tuesday following her visit to Barghouthi in Afula hospital that he cannot feel a […]

Continue reading

#PalHunger | Captive Rimawi continues his hunger strike for the 97th day

[ PIC 06/08/2013 – 01:07 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Captive Mohammad Rimawi has continued his open-ended hunger strike for the 97th consecutive day. Rimawi’s family told PIC that Mohammad, held in Ramle prison in the 1948 occupied territories, has continued his hunger strike in rejection of his detention in the Israeli jails and demands to […]

Continue reading

Sheikh Khader Adnan calls for supporting prisoners’ #Palhunger strike

[ PIC 05/08/2013 – 09:01 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The leader in Islamic Jihad movement, Sheikh Khader Adnan, called on Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem, the West Bank, the occupied territories in 1948 and the Diaspora to take part in the battle of dignity, led by prisoners in Israeli jails. Sheikh Adnan strongly condemned the official […]

Continue reading

#PalHunger | Human Rights Center calls for serious moves to save hunger striking prisoners

[ PIC 03/08/2013 – 11:38 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies asked local and international human rights organizations and national and Islamic forces to support the hunger striking prisoners, especially captive Abdullah Barghouti “who risks death at any moment.” The center called in a press statement on Saturday for escalating events held […]

Continue reading

#PalHunger | Al-Barghouthi risks death on his 91st day of hunger strike

[ PIC 02/08/2013 – 01:28 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The health condition of prisoner Abdullah Al-Barghouthi has seriously deteriorated after 91 days of hunger strike along with four other Jordanian captives. Lawyer Mohammed Al Shayeb, who visited Al-Barghouthi yesterday in Afula prison, warned of the serious deterioration of the striker’s health condition due to his […]

Continue reading