Halahleh’s father calls for his release | @Ufreenetwork @MSF_USA @ICRC @Amnesty @PHR_IL

[ PIC 23/10/2013 – 11:56 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The father of the prisoner Thaer Halahleh, from Kharas village near al-Khalil, appealed on Wednesday to all human rights institutions to intervene to get his son released in light of his sharp health deterioration. Haj Halahleh told the PIC reporter that his son was transferred from […]

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#PalHunger | Halahleh threatens to declare hunger strike against the Israeli deliberate medical negligence

[ PIC 21/09/2013 – 10:41 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Palestinian prisoner Thaer Halahleh, 34, has threatened to go on hunger strike and to stop taking medicines in protest against the Israeli deliberate medical negligence. Halahleh, jailed in Eshel prison, had contracted hepatitis after his arrest in April. The prisoner told the Palestinian prisoner society […]

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#PalHunger | Thaer Halahleh’s letter to his daughter: “My Beloved Lamar…Forgive me” ~ by @LinahAlsaafin

Electronic Intifada –  Linah Alsaafin on Sat, 05/12/2012 The Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs received a letter from hunger striking Palestinian prisoner Thaer Halahleh addressed to his two year old daughter Lamar, most likely passed on by one of Addameer’s lawyers Mona Neddad during her last visit to the Ramle prison hospital on Thursday, May 10. […]

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#PalHunger | Long-term hunger striker not backing down

Maan News Agency | May 8, 2012 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A Palestinian hunger striker who has gone without food for 70 days said Tuesday he had no plans to back down despite suffering severe medical complications. Thaer Halahla, 33, from Hebron, wrote in a letter published by a prisoner rights group that he was […]

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#PalHunger | 3rd letter from Assayed: Health conditions of hunger strikers worsening

[ PIC 08/05/2012 – 02:49 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– In a third letter leaked from his cell, senior Hamas official Abbas Assayed said that some of his fellow hunger strikers in Gilboa jail suffered serious health deterioration. The letter which Assayed sent exclusively to the Palestinian information center (PIC) said that over the past […]

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#PalHunger | Palestinian delegation hands Blair a letter about Prisoners’ Strike

[ PIC 08/05/2012 – 04:59 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– A delegation of prisoners’ families committee, Palestinian Islamic and national forces representatives, and the Palestinian Prisoners Society in Jerusalem handed, on Monday, a letter to the official envoy of the Quartet, Tony Blair about the prisoners’ strike in occupation prisons. The delegation handed Bair’s office […]

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#PalHunger | Halahle refrains from drinking water after 70 days of hunger strike

[ PIC 08/05/2012 – 09:17 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The family of Palestinian detainee Thaer Halahle said that their son had refrained from drinking water and taking medicine after 70 days of his hunger strike. They said that Thaer decided to start this new stage of his hunger strike after the Israeli higher court turned […]

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#PalHunger | Palestinian Prisoner Unity ~ by Stephen Lendman

Unity and sustained resistance the only way to achieve liberation. by Stephen Lendman | OpEd News | May 8, 2012 Commentary is a neoconservative publication. Fronting for Israel is policy. Senior editor Jonathan S. Tobin formerly served as executive editor for the Philadelphia-based Jewish Exponent. At the time, he was called its most right-wing voice. […]

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#PalHunger | Jihad Movement: the Occupation Decides to Execute Diab and Halahleh

[ PIC 07/05/2012 – 09:51 PM ] JININ,(PIC)– The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine has considered the Israeli court refusal of the appeal submitted by the lawyer of the two detainees Bilal Diab and Thaer Halahleh, against their administrative detention as a decision to execute the two prisoners who have been on hunger strike for […]

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#PalHunger | Haneyya calls for sending international fact-finding committee on prisoners

[ PIC 07/05/2012 – 09:57 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Gaza premier has called for sending an international fact-finding committee to probe conditions of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation jails. Haneyya said during a visit to the sit-in tent pitched in Gaza city in solidarity with the Palestinian hunger strikers that the world community must swiftly […]

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#PalHunger | Prisoners: Hunger strike reached point of no return

[ PIC 07/05/2012 – 09:55 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– A delegation of the Israeli prison authority has met with two members of the committee representing Palestinian prisoners, who are on hunger strike, in Ramon and Nafha jails. A message from prisoners reaching the ministry of prisoners in Gaza on Monday said that the prisoners Jamal […]

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#PalHunger | MP Natsheh asks for doctors to visit and examine him

[ PIC 06/05/2012 – 09:38 PM ] GAZA (PIC) — The captive, MP Mohammed Jamal Natsheh, after being on an open hunger strike since 20 days, called for the urgent need to send him specialist doctors to see his deteriorating health condition. MP Natsheh appealed to the Red Cross to organize an urgent visit to […]

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#PalHunger | Detainee Hassan Safadi continues his hunger strike for the 63 days

[ PIC 07/05/2012 – 07:34 PM ] NABLUS,(PIC)– Mahmoud Hassan, the lawyer of Addameer Foundation for Prisoners and Human Rights, met, on Sunday in Ramla prison hospital, the detainee Hassan Safadi who has been on hunger strike for 63 days. Safadi, who came to the visit on a wheelchair because of his deteriorating health, told […]

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#PalHunger | New prisoners join the strike in Negev prison

[ PIC 07/05/2012 – 08:06 PM ] RAMALLAH (PIC) — The prisoners in occupation jails leaked several letters asserting the escalation of the open hunger strike aiming to achieve their demands, revealing that a delegation of the occupation intelligence and the prison administration met two members of the Central Committee of the strike leadership, and […]

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#PalHunger | PFLP leader Saadat refuses to negotiate with Israelis on hunger strike

[ PIC 07/05/2012 – 12:19 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Secretary general of the popular front for the liberation of Palestin (PFLP) Ahmed Saadat refused an Israeli request to negotiate with him regarding the hunger strike. Saadat told a lawyer from Al-Dameer association that a committee from Shabas, the Israeli prison authority, visited him last Tuesday […]

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