Israeli prisons

Prisoner Center calls on health organizations to visit sick prisoners

Friday-25-January-2019

The Palestinian Prisoner Center for Studies has appealed to international health organizations to send medical committees to Israeli prisons to visit the Palestinian prisoners with medical problems affirming they suffer from medical neglect.

Palestinian with renal failure struggling for survival in Israeli jail

Friday-25-January-2019

The Center for Defense of Liberties and Civil Rights “Hurryyat” urged Amnesty International the World Health Organization and the International Red Cross to take immediate action in order to pressurize the Israeli occupation authorities to release the sick Palestinian prisoner Mustafa Mootassem Daraghmeh.

Several Palestinian prisoners medically neglected in Israeli jails

Thursday-24-January-2019

The Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs has said that the suffering of Palestinian prisoners with health problems and injuries in Israeli jails is ongoing as a result of their exposure to harsh incarceration conditions and deliberate medical neglect.

Gaza groups protest in solidarity with detainees in Israeli jails

Tuesday-22-January-2019

Islamic and national groups in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday staged a protest at the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.

Tension in three Israeli jails expected to escalate

Tuesday-22-January-2019

Tension flared up on Tuesday in Nafha and Gilboa jails after Israeli forces raided Ofer jail on Monday and assaulted Palestinian detainees injuring 100 of them.

Palestinian on hunger strike over arbitrary detention in Israeli jail

Monday-21-January-2019

Palestinian prisoner Issa Awad aged 21 has been on an open-ended hunger strike for the seventh day running protesting his imprisonment without charge or trial in Israeli occupation jails.

Israeli suppressive units come down heavily on Palestinian detainees

Monday-21-January-2019

Israel’s Metzada unit stormed on Monday section 15 in the Ofer jail where Palestinian prisoners are locked up.

No more than 20 Gazans allowed to visit relatives in Israeli jails

Monday-21-January-2019

A small batch of Gazan families was allowed access out of the besieged Gaza Strip on Monday to visit their relatives held in an Israeli prison.

Israel forces raid cells in Ofer jail maltreat prisoners

Sunday-20-January-2019

Israeli prison forces stormed at dawn Sunday section 7 of the Ofer jail brutalized prisoners and ransacked their cells.

Ashkelon jailers impose new restrictions on Palestinian prisoners

Friday-18-January-2019

The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) said Thursday that the Israeli administration of Ashkelon jail announced its intention to impose new restrictions on the Palestinian prisoners in the facility describing the measures as “arbitrary.”