#PalHunger | Premier Haneyya visits liberated prisoner Rikhawi

#FreeSamer | Global action to save the life of Hunger striker Samer Issawi [ PIC 23/02/2013 – 07:03 AM ] RAFAH, (PIC)– Palestinian premier in Gaza Ismail Haneyya visited on Friday the liberated prisoner Akram Al-Rikhawi, who was released from Israeli jails after 100 days of hunger strike, in his hometown Rafah. Haneyya said that […]

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VIDEO | #PalHunger | Palestinian prisoners released after 9 years

Published on Feb 11, 2013 In June 7th, 2004, Akram al-Rekhawy, 40 year old, was going home from Gaza to Rafah to support his daughter after her school exams, but Akram never made it home until Feb 7th, 2013. The Israeli forces imprisoned him under administrative detention. In response to the administrative detention, he went […]

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#PalHunger | Rikhawi ‘saw death’ during hunger strike

Featured Music Video | HUNGRY! | by @DocJazzMusic Maan News Agency | Febr 11, 2013 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Freed detainee Akram Rekhawi on Monday said his 100 day hunger strike was the hardest stage of his nine-year prison sentence. “I saw death many times a day and it was very painful and Israeli doctors […]

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#PalHunger | Al-Rikhawi is free after 104 days on hunger strike

[ PIC 08/02/2013 – 05:59 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Israeli occupation authorities released on Thursday evening, prisoner Akram al-Rikhawi from Rafah town in the southern Gaza Strip, after 104 days on hunger strike. The released prisoner said, during a press conference upon his arrival from Beit Hanoun checkpoint in the northern Gaza Strip, that his […]

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PHOTOS | #PalHunger-striker Rikhawi, freed by Israel, returns to Gaza

Maan News Agency | Febr 7, 2013 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A Palestinian prisoner who spent 100 days on hunger strike last year was released to the Gaza Strip on Thursday. Akram Rekhawi crossed through the Erez crossing into Gaza to a public reception of political officials after nine years in Israeli jail. In a […]

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#PalHunger | Israel to release prisoner Rikhawi after long-term hunger strike

Maan News Agency | Febr 6, 2013 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israel will release a prisoner on Thursday who spent 100 days on hunger strike last year, his lawyer said Tuesday. Akram Rekhawi will be released Thursday, four months before completing a 9-year sentence, his daughter Yasmin said, citing an attorney representing the detainee. Rekhawi, […]

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#PalHunger | Rikhawi brothers join hunger strikes after Israel reneges agreement

Note from occpal: Previously by Israel released prisoners received a Presidential Pardon of Peres. Also called Amnesty or Clemency by law to restore ones civil rights and being totally pardoned for the (alleged) crimes if even in the case of Palestinians’ ever charged before at all. Re-arresting pardoned prisoners (also from the Wafa al Ahrar […]

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#PalHunger | Rikhawi returns to hunger strike in Israel jail

Maan News Agency | Jan 31, 2013   RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — A Palestinian prisoner who went on hunger strike for 100 days last year has resumed his action after Israel reneged on a deal to release him, a prisoners’ rights group said. Akram al-Rekhawi re-started his hunger strike on Jan. 24, Addameer’s lawyer Fares Ziad […]

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#Hungry4Freedom | VIDEO | Jerusalemites commemorate #PalHunger striker Samer El-Issawi’s Birthday

LIVE BLOG ▶ DEMAND ISRAEL TO RELEASE #PALHUNGER STRIKERS & ADMINISTRATIVE DETAINEES A journal 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 on presentations that […]

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#Hungry4Freedom | HR organizations call for urgent UN intervention to save prisoners’ lives

[ PIC 16/12/2012 – 07:10 PM ] TUNIS, (PIC)– Arab and Western human rights organizations warned against the serious health deterioration of two Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails for nearly five months, demanding urgent UN action to save their lives. The Executive Office for supporting the Palestinian and Arab prisoners in occupation […]

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Israeli court refuses appeal of Palestinian activist

[ PIC 16/12/2012 – 10:16 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Israeli Ofer military court turned down an appeal submitted by a lawyer for activist Osama Hussein Shahin and decided that he should serve his six months administrative custody. Shahin family said on Saturday that the Ofer military court session was held on December 13 during […]

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#PalHunger | Lebanon camps rally for hunger strikers

Dec 15, 2012 | Maan News Agency BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian refugees in Lebanon on Friday demonstrated in solidarity with prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails. Ayman Sharawneh has been on hunger strike for 167 days and Samer al-Issawi has refused food for 136 days in Israel’s Ramle prison. Both men were rearrested after […]

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#PalHunger | EMOHR calls on PA to prosecute occupation internationally

[ PIC 14/12/2012 – 08:59 PM ] ANKARA/RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Euro-Mediterranean Observatory for Human Rights (EMOHR) called on the Palestinian Authority to prosecute the Israeli occupation for the violating the international law in dealing with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike. EMOHR said, in a press statement from the Turkish capital Ankara on Friday, it is […]

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#PalHunger | Rally held in hunger-strikers’ West Bank hometown

Maan News Agency | Dec 14, 2012   JENIN (Ma’an) — For the second Friday in row, Palestinians held a rally in the northern West Bank town of Arraba to support hunger-strikers in Israeli jails, including residents of the town. Tareq Qaadan and Jaafar Izz Addin from Arraba, near Jenin, both starting refusing food in […]

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120 prisoners to be transferred from Gilboa to Nafha desert prison

[ PIC 12/12/2012 – 09:18 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– A Palestinian human rights source reported that a state of extreme tension prevailed at the Israeli Gilboa prison due to the prison administration’s decision to transfer 120 prisoners in section 1 to the Nafha desert prison in southern occupied Palestine. The Gilboa prison administration claimed that […]

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