Prisoners

Heavy clashes in Friday of Anger in West Bank

WEST BANK, PALESTINOW.COM -- Dozens of Palestinian citizens were injured on Friday afternoon in fierce confrontations with the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in various areas of the West Bank within the activities of Friday of...

Hamas calls for Friday of anger to support hunger strikers

WEST BANK, PALESTINOW.COM -- Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, in the West Bank called on Palestinians to participate in clashes at different Israeli military barriers and flashpoints next Friday which marks the 40th day of the...

Summary of the 37th day of the Freedom and Dignity Strike

RAMALLAH, PALESTINOW.COM -- The Media Committee of the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ society, present the summary of the 37th day of the collective hunger strike, which was embarked by...

Samer Issawi transferred to hospital in critical condition

RAMALLAH, PALESTINOW.COM -- The Israeli Prison Service (IPS) transferred Wednesday evening the hunger-striking prisoner Samer Issawi to Tel HaShomer Hospital after his serious health deterioration. Issawi has joined the Freedom and Dignity Hunger Strike declared on...

Open letter to US President from Palestinian prisoners’ families

PALESTINOW.COM --  The following letter was presented Monday night to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas by a mother of a Palestinian prisoner currently on hunger strike. The mothers who wrote and signed the letter requested that...

Inside Palestine’s first camp for former female prisoners

GAZA CITY, PALESTINOW.COM -- The Women's Association for Development and Empowerment in concluded May 6 the first-of-its-kind camp for former Palestinian female detainees in Jabal Baba in the town of al-Eizariya, southeast of ....