#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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#PalHunger | Hunger striker Issawi can no longer move

[ PIC 09/12/2012 – 11:37 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The sister of hunger striker Samer Al-Issawi has denied reports about martyrdom of her brother who has been on hunger strike for 133 days in Israeli occupation jails. Shireen, a lawyer, said that her brother, who has refrained from drinking water for the past 16 […]

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#PalHunger | Hadarim prisoners on one-day hunger strike in solidarity with Sharawna and Issawi

[ PIC 10/12/2012 – 08:32 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Ahrar Center for the Studies of Prisoners and Human Rights said that the Palestinian captives in the Hadarim prison waged a one-day hunger strike, yesterday, in solidarity with the captives Sharawna and Issawi, on hunger strike since more than five months. Fouad Khuffash, the director of […]

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12 Palestinian prisoners with cancer still held in Israeli jails

[ PIC 09/12/2012 – 11:15 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian Prisoners Studies Center (PPSC) confirmed that the occupation is still detaining in its jails 12 prisoners suffering from cancer, with its different forms. The number of the prisoners with cancer has decreased after the release of the captive Nabil Naim Natsheh, from the city […]

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#PalHunger | Mishaal: exchange deals is the way to liberate the prisoners

[ PIC 09/12/2012 – 10:45 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The head of the political bureau of Hamas, Khaled Mishaal, pledged to release the Palestinian prisoners from Israeli occupation jails through capturing Israeli soldiers and implementing prisoners’ exchange deals. This came in a speech delivered by Mishaal, on Sunday, during his meeting with dozens of families […]

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#PalHunger | Solidarity sit-in with hunger strikers in Jenin

[ 08/12/2012 – 08:04 AM ] JENIN, (PIC)– National and Islamic forces along with relatives of prisoners in Israeli occupation jails organized a solidarity sit-in on Friday in front of the Red Cross office in Jenin. Participants hoisted photos of the hunger strikers Ayman Sharawne and Samer Al-Issawi who have been on hunger strike for […]

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#PalHunger | ACTION ALERT | Save lives of hunger-striking prisoners

AICNEWS | Thursday, 06 December 2012 06:27 Addameer: Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association expresses its deep concern for the health and lives of five Palestinian political prisoners that are on hunger strike to protest their unjust detention in Israeli Occupation’s prisons. Write NOW to Israeli officials and […]

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#PalHunger | Ahrar: Hunger strikers Sharawna and Issawi reached a life-threatening stage

[ PIC 05/12/2012 – 09:37 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Ahrar center for prisoner studies and human rights said the health condition of hunger strikers Ayman Sharawna and Samer Issawi is deteriorating very badly, describing it as extremely serious and delicate. In a press release, director of the center Fouad Al-Khafsh stated that the two prisoners […]

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#ISRAEL ATROCITIES | Wives, Mothers Of Prisoners Subjected To Naked Search

Al Qassam Website 05-12-2012,10:14 Gaza Strip – The Husam Society for Detainees and Ex-detainees reported that Israeli soldiers subjected wives and mothers of Palestinian detainees to illegal strip search before they visited their detained family members on Monday. The society stated that female soldiers of the Israeli army humiliated the visiting female relatives of Palestinian […]

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