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As crackdown intensifies, Palestinian prisoners gear up for Ramadan protest
Prisoners hope the Palestinian public will join collective actions against Israel's punitive measures, which have harshened under the far-right government.
By
Sharona Weiss
March 16, 2023
Israel sends veiled threat to attorneys of outlawed Palestinian NGOs
A letter from the Defense Ministry to the lawyers representing the six groups hints that their legal work may be viewed as violating anti-terror laws.
By
Oren Ziv
July 18, 2022
Israel’s new secret document still fails to tie Palestinian NGOs to ‘terrorism’
+972 and Local Call have obtained a new report sent to foreign diplomats in a fresh attempt to justify outlawing six Palestinian civil society groups. The document, which is full of unsubstantiated claims, has left Europe's leaders unconvinced.
By
Oren Ziv
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Yuval Abraham
January 13, 2022
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Report: 7,000 Palestinians held in Israeli jails
Journalists, scientists, human rights activists and even a clown are among the Palestinians currently sitting in Israeli jails. By Yael Marom The vast majority of Israelis are not interested in Palestinian prisoner statistics. After all, for them, Palestinians are not human beings but “terrorists,” and as such it’s perhaps preferable that as many as possible…
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January 10, 2017
Israel to keep Palestinian clown in prison without trial
Mohammed Abu Sakha, a circus performer, and Hasan Safadi, a prisoner rights advocate, have both had their administrative detention extended by six months. Israeli authorities last week extended the administrative detention of Mohammed Abu Sakha, a Palestinian clown and children’s entertainer, by six months. Abu Sakha, who has been in jail without trial since December 2015,…
By
Natasha Roth-Rowland
December 12, 2016
Why Netanyahu’s offer to visit the Palestinian parliament is pure BS
The Israeli prime minister tells the UN that he will ‘gladly come to speak’ to the Palestinian legislative body, which he conveniently forgets hasn’t convened in nearly a decade. Outstretched hand for peace or PR ploy? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu loves being dramatic at the UN. From his bag of props to awkward moments of silence…
By
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
September 23, 2016
Almost a year later, Israel still refuses to return Palestinian bodies
Palestinian rights groups call decision to hold onto the bodies of 13 Palestinian attackers and alleged attackers a ‘violation of the right to dignity.’ Since beginning of recent wave of violence, over 220 Palestinians have been shot dead by Israeli security forces. For 300 days Israel has been holding onto the frozen body of Tha’er Abu Ghazaleh, one…
By
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
August 2, 2016
Palestinian prisoner placed in admin. detention — after serving 15 years
Bilal Kayed was supposed to be released from Israeli prison after serving a nearly 15-year sentence. Instead, he was placed under indefinite detention without charges or trial. Photos and text by Ahmad al-Bazz/Activestills.org Palestinian prisoner Bilal Kayed was meant to be released from Israeli prison on Monday after serving 14.5 years. Instead Israeli military authorities decided to…
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Activestills
June 14, 2016
Israel puts Palestinian prisoner advocate in administrative detention
Hasan Safadi placed under administrative detention for six months, after being accused of affiliation with an illegal organization and visiting an enemy state. Israeli authorities placed a Palestinian prisoners’ rights activist under administrative detention for six months beginning last Friday, 40 days after he was first detained and taken in for interrogation. Hasan Safadi, who…
By
Edo Konrad
June 13, 2016
Israeli soldiers detain Palestinian lawmaker in overnight raid
Soldiers detain Hamas-linked Abed al-Jaber Fuqaha in his Ramallah home. Fuqaha, who was released from administrative detention a year ago, has spent a total of seven years in prison. He is the seventh Palestinian lawmaker in Israeli custody. By Noam Rotem Israeli forces arrested Palestinian parliamentarian Abed al-Jaber Fuqaha in his home in the al-Masyoun neighborhood of…
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+972 Magazine
May 18, 2016
Addressing the root of the Palestinian refugee problem
Cash shortages at UNRWA distract from the wider issue: it is the lack of a diplomatic solution, not funding, that leaves Palestinian refugees vulnerable. In the end, it was the catastrophe that wasn’t. For a nervy few weeks it seemed a severe funding shortage would delay the school year for half a million children reliant on the…
By
Natasha Roth-Rowland
September 24, 2015
The only way to end Palestinian hunger strikes
We have become so accustomed to the idea that detaining people without charge or trial is fine. So much so that the discussion now revolves around how we should allow them to die, rather than why we have reached this point in the first place. By Yael Marom and Noam Rotem It may be true…
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+972 Magazine
August 11, 2015
Jailed Palestinian lawmaker pleads innocence
Khalida Jarrar, who was arrested for representing the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in the Palestinian legislature, rejects all charges against her as trial opens in West Bank military court. Palestinian lawmaker Khalida Jarrar, who was arrested in March and has been imprisoned ever since, plead innocent Monday as her highly-publicized trial began…
By
Haggai Matar
June 23, 2015
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