Prisoners

Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli Ashkelon Prison announced on Tuesday their intention to go on an open-ended hunger strike in protest against escalating repressive measures by the prison administration. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said 33 prisoners will go on an open-ended hunger strike from Wednesday. According to the Club, the prison administration has carried out a new repressive measure against …

Jordan has called on the Israeli occupation to hand over the body of the Palestinian detainee Sami Abu Diak who died of medical negligence at an Israeli prison on Tuesday. According to Israeli media sources, the Jordanian Embassy in Israel has filed a request asking Israel to hand over Abu Diak’s body to his family in Jordan for burial. The …

The Palestinian presidency has held Israel responsible for the death of Palestinian prisoner and cancer patient Sami Abu Diak yesterday. In a statement published on the Palestinian official news agency Wafa that Abu Diak died because of “deliberate medical negligence” by the Israeli Prison Service (IPS). The Fatah movement also blamed the Israeli government for Abu Diak’s death which it …

The cancer-stricken Palestinian prisoner Sami Ahed Abu Diyak died this morning while in prison in Israel, alone and without being seen off by anyone and away from his mother whom his last wish was to die in her arms. “To every person with conscience, I live my last hours and days. I want to be in my last days and …

Israeli occupation forces detained today 23 Palestinians, including three children, from occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank, said the Palestine Prisoner Society (PPS). It said Israeli occupation forces raided the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiyeh in the dead of the night, breaking into homes and detaining at least 10 Palestinians, including a child. Over the last several months, Issawiyeh, a …

An Israeli court on Sunday convicted Palestinian resistance icon Sheikh Raed Salah for incitement to commit terrorism, as reported by Anadolu Agency.  The Haifa Magistrates Court also convicted Salah of illegal incorporation, citing his role as the leader of the Islamic Movement, which Israel outlawed for allegedly engaging in “anti-Israel activities”, according to Yedioth Aharonoth newspaper. Israeli authorities arrested Salah …

Palestinian prisoner Nael Barghouthi yesterday entered his 40th year in Israeli jails yesterday and was placed in solitary confinement for seven days, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said. Barghouthi, the longest-serving Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jails, had spent 33 years in Israeli jails before being released in the Egypt-brokered prisoner exchange deal between Hamas and Israel in October 2011. The …

The Palestinian health ministry has launched an urgent appeal to the international community and all humanitarian and health organizations to urgently intervene to pressure Israel to release cancer-stricken prisoner Sami Abu Diyak, who may die any moment. “Prisoner Sami Abu Diyak is struggling with death alone in Israeli jails while the occupation state refuses to release him and fulfill his …

The Israeli Occupation Prime Minister, Netanyahu’s office revealed on Monday evening, November 4, 2019, the details of the agreement reached between Jordan and the Israeli occupation on the release of the two Jordanian detainees, Hiba Al-Labadi and Abdulrahman Marei. “Jordan will return its ambassador to Israel in the coming days, after an agreement was reached between the countries for the transferring …

Israel’s negotiations on a prisoners’ exchange deal with Hamas are “progressing,” Israeli government’s coordinator for prisoners and missing persons, Yaron Blum, announced yesterday. “Israeli citizens and Hamas hostages, Avera Mengistu and Hisham Al-Sayed, had crossed the Gaza border and been returned home,” Blum told Reshet Bet. Blum’s remarks came following comments by the mother of a kidnapped soldier, Hadar Goldin, on Israel’s Channel …