Megiddo prisoners appeal to Red Cross (@ICRC) to solve their clothing problem

[ PIC 17/08/2014 – 03:18 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Prisoners in Megiddo jail appealed to the Red Cross to urgently provide them with clothing or pressure their jailers to allow their families to send them clothes. The prisoners explained, in a letter published on Sunday by Al-Ahrar center for human rights, that they are not […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | IRCS says ready to build makeshift hospital in Gaza

People injured during an overnight Israeli assault are treated in Shifa hospital in Gaza City on July 18, 2014.   PressTV | Tue Jul 29, 2014 9:15AM GMT The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) says it is ready to set up a fully equipped makeshift hospital in the Gaza Strip amid deadly Israeli attacks on […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | International Red Cross (@ICRC) abandons residents during al-Shujayeh massacre

Displaced Palestinians from al-Shujayeh neighborhood in the Gaza Strip rest on makeshift beds at the UN school where they and others have taken refuge after fleeing heavy fighting in their area, on July 21, 2014. (Photo: AFP – Marco Longari) By: Orouba Othman | Al Akhbar English |  Monday, July 21, 2014 The Gaza Strip’s […]

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Israel refusing to release sick prisoners

Ma’an News Agency |  23/10/2013 04:29 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Prisoners minister Issa Qaraqe on Tuesday said that the Israeli government refused Palestinian Authority requests to release prisoners facing serious health problems. At a sit-in in solidarity with prisoners at the Red Cross in al-Bireh, Qaraqe said that the PA would continue to pressure Israel into […]

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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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#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: Israeli jailers prevent Red Cross official from visiting Barghouthi

[ PIC 21/07/2013 – 11:32 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Israeli jailers on Saturday barred the Red Cross representative from visiting Jordanian hunger striker Abdullah Barghouthi in Afula hospital. Lawyer Hanan Al-Khatib stated that the Red Cross representative tried several times to enter Afula hospital to visit Barghouthi, but his attempts to see him failed. […]

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Israel deprives prisoner Mohammed Fuqaha of family visits for 12 years

[ PIC 16/06/2013 – 08:00 PM ] JENIN, (PIC)– The family of Palestinian prisoner Mohammed Fuqaha appealed to the Red Cross to pressure the Israeli prison service into allowing them to visit him. Ghufran Fuqaha, his sister, told the Palestinian prisoner’s society on Sunday that she was the only one of their family to live […]

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Prisoner Khozeimeh suffers a serious illness

[ PIC 14/06/2013 – 10:42 AM ] JENIN, (PIC)– The prisoner Yasser Walid Khozeimeh’s family warned of the serious health condition of her son, stressing that he suffers a serious and rare illness. The family said on Thursday that Yasser, 24, suffers the rare “Behcet’s disease” that causes ulceration in the stomach, and rash and […]

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Israel furious over Red Cross (@ICRC) interview with Turkish NGO official

June 14, 2013 | Middle East Monitor Israel has condemned the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for interviewing the deputy chairman of a Turkish welfare organisation. Hussein Oruc’s NGO, known by its acronym IHH, took part in the Freedom Flotilla in 2010 which was intercepted by Israeli commandos in international waters en route […]

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Israeli occupation continues to close Gaza crossings

[ PIC 29/04/2013 – 07:30 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) retained the closure of Gaza crossings on Monday and cancelled visits by relatives of Gaza prisoners for the same reason. Raed Fattuh, the head of the committee supervising the entry of goods into Gaza, told Quds Press that the IOA informed […]

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Israel cancels visits to Gaza prisoners for three weeks

#FreeSamer | Global action to save the life of Hunger striker Samer Issawi [ PIC 18/03/2013 – 01:33 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) informed the Red Cross office in Gaza that visits to Gaza prisoners in IOA jails would be suspended for three weeks. The Red Cross spokeswoman in Gaza Arawa […]

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#PalHunger | 15 Gaza activists launch hunger strike to support prisoners

#FreeSamer | Global action to save the life of Hunger striker Samer Issawi Maan News Agency | Febr 25, 2013 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Fifteen activists in the Gaza Strip started a hunger strike protest this week to show solidarity with Palestinian prisoners, local activists said. Three women and 12 men from different Palestinian political […]

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#PalHunger | Red Cross closes its doors before prisoners’ families

Featured Music Video | HUNGRY! | by @DocJazzMusic [ PIC 13/02/2013 – 09:20 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)–The leader in the Islamic Jihad movement, Sheikh Khader Adnan accused the Red Cross of failing in activating the prisoners’ issue in international forums. Adnan, who declared an open hunger strike in solidarity with the striking prisoners, considered the […]

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#WestBankUnderAttack | Red Crescent attacked during settler raids in Qusra

  1 January 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Qusra, Occupied Palestine While people around the world were celebrating the start of a new year the Palestinian town of Qusra in the West Bank was under attack. Around midnight settlers entered the agricultural outskirts of the town, uprooting approximately 250 trees. Reports from some of the […]

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