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Naim warns of imminent danger threatening Palestinians in Israeli captivity

Support Prisoners of Palestine – Worldwide Event | Pictures | Topic | Category [ 09/10/2011 – 05:44 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Dr. Basem Naim, the health minister in Gaza, has warned of imminent danger threatening the lives of Palestinian captives in Israeli occupation jails as a result of the deliberate medical neglect of their health […]

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Health minister says prisoners’ lives at risk amid sanctions over hunger strike

Support Prisoners of Palestine – Worldwide Event | Pictures | Topic | Category [ 09/10/2011 – 06:51 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Health Minister Bassam Na’im warned the Palestinian captives are in grave danger because of medical neglect inside the Israeli prisons, as the prison administrations have imposed tighter restrictions on the 13th day of hunger […]

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Thousands rally for prisoners in Israeli jails

Related: Palestinian Prisoners – Special Topic | Prisoners – Category Maan News Agency | October 3, 2011 NABLUS (AFP) — Thousands of people in the West Bank and Gaza staged demonstrations on Monday in solidarity with Palestinian detainees on hunger strike in Israeli jails. The rallies were held as inmates saw through the seventh consecutive […]

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Israel plans to evacuate criminals from prisons to make room for Palestinians

[ 14/09/2011 – 10:41 AM ] NAZARETH, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authorities are planning on allowing the criminal population of the Israeli prisons to serve their sentences in their homes to make room for Palestinians in anticipation of riots after UN Palestinian state decisions, Israel’s Maariv newspaper said. A list of more than 5,000 criminal […]

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Palestinians call for investigation into high incidence of illness in Israeli jails

Related: Special Topic Palestinian Prisoners Tuesday, 30 August 2011 01:50| MEMO PCDD: Israeli prisons lack specialist doctors and Palestinian detainees are given nothing but pain killers. A Palestinian rights centre has called for an investigation into the high incidence of illness and disease among Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails. A significant number die very soon […]

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Israel cuts electricity to the Negev desert prison as temperatures soar

  Monday, 01 August 2011 15:15| MEMO The Ahrar Centre stressed that the Israeli government’s actions violate international law and conventions. The Ahrar Centre for Prisoners’ Studies and Human Rights has stated that the Israeli Prisons Service has cut power to the tents and cement rooms of the Negev desert prison. The Centre considered the […]

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Children of Gaza captives send message to fathers via flying bottles

[ 15/07/2011 – 11:17 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Hundreds of children in Gaza Strip have gathered Thursday at Gaza Sea to send  a letter of love to their fathers who are incarcerated in Israeli jails for years now, alarming the entire world that they also have the right to live in peace with their fathers […]

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#Airflotilla | European Pro-Palestinian Activists Held in Israeli Jails

12:30 2011/07/10 Tel Aviv, July 10 (QNA) -Some 118 pro-Palestinian activists, mostly French nationals, were being held in Israeli jails on Sunday after being refused entry into the country following their arrival at Tel Aviv”s Ben-Gurion International Airport. The activists were taking part in a Welcome to Palestine “flightilla” initiative. Organized by Palestinian groups, they […]

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Palestinian prisoner’s life threatened because of medical neglect

[ 04/07/2011 – 09:57 PM ] JENIN, (PIC)– A Palestinian man held in the Israeli Eshel prison is having episodes of loss of consciousness where his brain and heart stop functioning after a long illness in jail and  medical neglect by the prison. Riyadh al-Amur from Jenin has yet to receive treatment after suffering from […]

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Palestinian prisoners plan hunger strike

Sun Jul 3, 2011 3:48AM More than 7,000 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails plan to go on a hunger strike on Sunday to protest harsh and inhuman conditions in Israeli prisons.   In a statement issued on Saturday, the Palestinian prisoners described the strike as the beginning of a fight to defend prisoner rights […]

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Growing concerns over fate of 17 parliamentarians in Israeli prisons

Friday, 17 June 2011 16:15 | MEMO A human rights center concerned with prisoners’ issues stated that the Israeli Occupation Authorities are currently detaining 17 members of the Palestinian Legislative Council. The center noted that the Israelis, yesterday, arrested and detained MP Samir El Qadi, from the Hebron town of Surif, in the Occupied West […]

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How Europe bankrolls Israel’s jails

Author: David Cronin 12 June 2011 – Issue : 939|  – New Europe Salam Fayyad (R), Palestinian Prime Minister, looks at a map of the Israeli separation wall as he meets with the European Union High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton (L).| EPA/ATEF SAFADI In these times of austerity, the idea […]

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Waed urges human rights groups to visit Israeli jails

[ 09/06/2011 – 11:26 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Waed society catering for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails has called on human rights groups to visit those jails especially the Ramle prison hospital to see for themselves the medical neglect and the conditions of those who are permanently held there. Waed said in a statement […]

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Haneyya: We are committed to freeing all captives

[ 26/05/2011 – 09:56 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Prime Minster of the Palestinian government in Gaza said that his government is committed to the freedom of all Palestinian captives in Zionist occupation jails. During a visit to the recently freed captive Atef Hassan in the village of Mighraqa in the central Gaza Strip to […]

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Hadarim and Gilboa prisons join wide-ranging hunger strike

[ 18/05/2011 – 10:14 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinians held in the Hadarim and Gilboa prison have joined four more Israeli prisons in a wide-ranging hunger strike that has progressed intermittently for the past five days, the Gaza prisoner affairs ministry has declared. The actual number of prisoners that joined is 620. The prisoners are […]

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