Posts Tagged ‘hunger strike’

Hunger strikers suspend protest after Israel yields to demands

Maureen Clare Murphy Rights and Accountability 29 September 2015 Palestinians take part in a weekly protest in Gaza City calling for the release of loved ones in Israeli prison on 28 September. Mohammed Asad APA images A group of Palestinian prisoners agreed to suspend their open-ended hunger strike after the Israeli prison authorities yielded to […]

Listen: Israel’s massacres can’t be erased, says poet Remi Kanazi

Nora Barrows-Friedman The Electronic Intifada Podcast 22 September 2015 In his new book, Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine, Remi Kanazi writes a poem titled “Sumoud” about a young boy named Ahmed. Ahmed’s father is being held by Israeli under administrative detention, a practice of indefinite incarceration without charge or trial. […]

Hunger-striking journalist held in isolation by Israel

Maureen Clare Murphy Rights and Accountability 21 September 2015 Palestinians take part in a weekly sit-in outside of the Gaza City offices of the Red Cross on 21 September. Mohammed Asad APA images Several Palestinian detainees on hunger strike in Israeli prison remain in solitary confinement, the Palestinian Authority committee on prisoners’ affairs announced over […]

Five more Pal prisoners go on hunger strike

Days of Palestine, West Bank –Five more Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli jails announced on Monday going on hunger strike. Israel Prison Services (IPS) said that the five Palestinian prisoners had begun an open-ended hunger strike to protest their continued custody under Israeli “administrative detention” policy. Like our page on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Qadura Fares, head […]

Israeli forces kidnap 6 hunger-strikers from prison

Days of Palestine, West Bank –Israeli occupation forces kidnapped on Monday six Palestinian hunger-strikers from inside their prison in Al-Naqab. In a statement, the Head of the Palestinian Prisoners Committee Issa Qaraqei said that the six prisoners, who entered 13th day of their hunger strike, are under administrative detention. He said that the Israeli Special […]

Khader Adnan escalates hunger strike in Israeli prison

img_5357_0.jpg On his 17th consecutive day of hunger strike, Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan is refusing all supplements and is only consuming water, lawyer Ashraf al-Khatib announced today. The Quds Net News Agency reported today that al-Khatib had visited Adnan in the isolation section of Israel’s Hadarim prison, where Adnan is held without charge or trial, […]

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