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Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike (2) Over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike against increased violence by Israeli prison authorities 

Nine Palestinian administrative detainees are on a separate indefinite hunger strike to demand their release and better treatment of fellow prisoners

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

Ahmed Manasra Israeli court extends Ahmed Manasra’s solitary confinement for four more months

Manasra (20) has spent over seven years in prison and has been in solitary confinement for over a year now. It is feared that his mental health is likely to deteriorate further after Thursday’s verdict 

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  

Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawdeh On hunger strike for 162 days, Khalil Awawdeh’s health deteriorates in Israeli prison  

Israel has refused to release Awawdeh despite it being a central condition of the ceasefire agreement that ended the three-day-long Israeli aggression in the besieged Gaza strip last week, in which 47 Palestinians were killed

Israeli raid of Birzeit University met with sharp condemnation

Israeli forces did not specify the reason for storming the university campus apart from saying that its forces shot a “wanted Palestinian”. Three out of five students abducted by the Israeli security forces from the university were later released.

Israel slaps terrorist tag on six major Palestinian human rights organizations  

The decision allows Israel to close the offices, seize the assets and arrest the employees of the six Palestinian organizations. The organizations have been accused of having links with the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)

International Day of Solidarity with Palestinians People’s movements across the world stand in solidarity with Palestinian people

People’s movements across the world expressed solidarity with the people of Palestine and called out governments and global institutions for their complicity and silence in the suffering of the Palestinian people

Protests against annexation plan in Palestine Protests erupt across Palestine against Israeli annexation plan

Protesters gathered in major West Bank cities of Ramallah, Jericho and Bethlehem, as well as in Gaza city in Gaza, to put forth a united Palestinian front against Israel’s illegal, unilateral actions

Palestinian prisoners are on the frontlines of the struggle for liberation

The situation inside Israeli prisons has been growing increasingly worse over the past couple of years and the COVID-19 has exacerbated this situation.

The International Day of Palestinian Prisoners Concerns of COVID-19 loom large on International Day of Palestinian Prisoners

The International Day of Palestinian Prisoners on April 17 is marked annually to remember and express solidarity with the thousands of Palestinians imprisoned in Israeli jails and detention and interrogation centers

Israel’s use of torture to repress Palestinian resistance

Numerous cases of physical and psychological torture perpetrated by the Israeli security forces against Palestinian detainees and prisoners have surfaced in recent times, further exposing the brutal nature of the Israeli occupation