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Human rights lawyers renew calls for the release of 10,000 Palestinian prisoners

Legal experts and human rights advocates renew their call for solidarity with Palestinian prisoners detained by Israel since October 2023

44% of all Palestinians killed by Israel since October 7 are children

Over 14,000 children have been killed and nearly 17,000 others have lost at least one or both of their parents in the Israeli bombings or ground offensives in the last six months in Gaza

Palestinian prisoner Assef Refae dies after denial of treatment

At least 11 Palestinians have been killed inside Israeli prisons since October 7 after being denied medical care or due to brutal treatment meted out by prison authorities

Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike (1) 14 Palestinian administrative detainees are on hunger strike

The detainees are demanding their immediate release from prison and an end to mistreatment of Palestinian prisoners by the Israeli occupation authorities. Some of them have been on hunger strike for more than two weeks

Palestinian Prisoners Day On Prisoner’s Day, Palestinians stand in solidarity with their 5,000 comrades in Israeli occupation jails  

Over 1,000 of the nearly 5,000 Palestinian prisoners are administrative detainees who are in Israeli jails without charge or trial. Among them is Khader Adnan, who just completed 71 days of indefinite hunger strike against his wrongful detention inside Israel’s Ramla prison and is facing severe health issues.

Palestinian activist Salah Hammouri deported Israel forcibly deports Palestinian human rights activist Salah Hammouri to France 

Israel revoked Salah Hammouri’s residency status in October 2021 and kept him in prison under administrative detention from March 2022 before deporting him on December 18

Israel set to deport Palestinian-French human rights defender Salah Hammouri

Having spent nearly a decade in occupation prisons, Hammouri was most recently placed under administrative detention in March. In 2020, Israel revoked his residency status, an often-used tool of ethnic cleansing deployed against Palestinians in East Jerusalem.

Palestinian administrative detainees on hunger strike Palestinian prisoners go on indefinite hunger strike against Israeli administrative detention policy 

30 Palestinian administrative detainees in Israeli jails started their hunger strike on September 25, with more expected to join in the coming days  

Islah Jad Interview “The killing of a Palestinian is a daily act”

Islah Jad, a women’s rights activist and lecturer at Birzeit University, speaks about the state of the health system in Palestine and why organizations working for the Palestinian people are being targeted by Israel

Palestinian prisoner Hundreds protest across occupied West Bank for release of terminally ill Palestinian prisoner 

Nasser Abu Hmeid (49), a former member of Palestinian resistance group Al-Aqsa Martyers’ Brigade, is serving multiple life sentences and has already spent 30 years inside Israeli prison

Why is Israel targeting Palestinian human rights groups?

Over the past week, Israel has continued and intensified attacks against Palestinian human rights organizations. Who are these organizations and why are they being targeted?

Israel targets Palestinian organizations Israeli forces raid offices of Palestinian civil society organizations 

On the morning of August 18, occupation forces raided the offices of seven leading Palestinian civil society groups, six of which had been declared “terrorist organizations” and banned by the Israeli government in 2021