Prisoners

Crackdowns endorsed by Israeli Cabinet materializing on ground

Monday-2-January-2017

General coordinator of the Kasr al-Kayd International Campaign Ahmad Abu Taha warned Monday that the Israeli occupation started to implement the decisions opted for by the cabinet on Sunday to crack down on Palestinian detainees.

Qaddura: Israeli crackdowns signs of gov’t bankruptcy

Monday-2-January-2017

Head of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) Faris Qaddura dubbed the latest decisions by the Israeli cabinet to withhold the bodies of slain Palestinians as signs of bankruptcy.

Red Cross denies Israeli ban on prisoners’ family visits

Monday-2-January-2017

Spokeswoman for the Red Cross Society Suhair Zaqut denied that the Israeli authorities had banned family visits scheduled for Gaza prisoners on Monday.

3 Prisoners injured in Israeli raid into Nafha prison

Monday-2-January-2017

Israeli Special Forces assigned for quelling prisoners stormed overnight section 1 in Nafha prison and assaulted Palestinian prisoners causing injuries among prisoners and damages in their personal belongings Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs revealed Monday.

Israeli prison guards arrest mother of Jerusalemite detainee

Sunday-1-January-2017

Israeli prison guards arrested on Sunday the mother of a Jerusalemite detainee when she arrived at the Gilboa jail to visit her son.

Palestinian detainee on hunger strike protesting detention

Sunday-1-January-2017

The Palestinian detainee Mohammed Alaqmeh 27 from Barta'a town to the south of Jenin city continued his open hunger strike he started 6 days ago after his administrative detention in Israeli jail was extended last week.

Israeli court extends custody of wounded Jerusalemite woman

Sunday-1-January-2017

The Israeli magistrate court in Occupied Jerusalem on Saturday extended the detention of Jihan Hashima a 35-year-old woman from al-Issawiya district until next Thursday.

Palestinian prisoner from Barta’a goes on hunger strike

Thursday-29-December-2016

Mohamed Alaqmmah 27 from Barta'a village started a hunger strike in Israeli jails three days ago as means to protest his administrative detention.

Palestinian ex-detainee denied medical treatment

Thursday-29-December-2016

Israeli occuaption authorities (IOA) denied the entry of the ex-detainee Asma Abul Haija the prisoner Sheikh Jamal Abul Haija’s wife to occupied Jerusalem for medical treatment.

Warnings of Israeli medical negligence policy in prisons

Tuesday-27-December-2016

The PA committee for prisoners’ affairs warned Monday against Israeli Prison Service’s deliberate medical negligence policy against Palestinian sick prisoners.