Prisoners

30 Palestinian hunger strikers in poor conditions inside Israeli prisons

RAMALLAH, PALESTINOW.COM -- Thirty Palestinian detainees held at Israel’s Huwara jail have launched an open-ended hunger strike demanding the end of the ill-treatment and deliberate neglect by the Israel Prison Service. The Palestinian Detainees and...

12 Palestinian journalists imprisoned by Occupation state

RAMALLAH, PALESTINOW.COM -- As the world is marking its Press Freedom Day, the Israeli occupation state continues to detain 12 Palestinian journalists in its jails under harsh incarceration conditions. The longest serving of those journalists...

Palestinian prisoner completes 17 years in Israeli detention

JENIN, PALESTINOW.COM - Palestinian political prisoner in Israeli detention Ahmad Mohammad Jalamneh has completed 17 years behind Israeli prison bars, said the Palestinian Prisoner Society. Jalamneh, who comes from the city of Jenin in the...

Palestinian prisoner died of ‘deliberate medical negligence’ in Israeli jail

JERUSALEM, PALESTINOW.COM - The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) on Monday accused an Israeli prison of deliberately causing the death of a 23-year-old Palestinian detainee. Nour Jaber Al-Barghouthi, a Palestinian from Ramallah, died after fainting on...

Arab Parliament calls for releasing Palestine prisoners in occupation prisons amid spread of coronavirus

RAMALLAH, PALESTINOW.COM - On the occasion of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, which falls on 17 April every year, the Arab Parliament called on the United Nations (UN), international human rights bodies and the International Committee...

Sick Palestinian prisoner completes 18 years in Israeli jails

RAMALLAH, PALESTINOW.COM - A Palestinian prisoner from the Jenin district in the north of the West Bank who is in serious health condition has completed 18 years in Israeli jails for his resistance of...