Israeli prison authorities have admitted to reducing food rations for Palestinian detainees in Gaza, a move criticized as pushing them to starvation. Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir defended the policy as a “deterrent,” asserting that detainees will receive minimal rights and food. Earlier, security sources tol...
GENEVA (AA) – The head of UN human rights office in the occupied Palestinian territories has urged Israel to prevent the recurrence of “ill-treatment and humiliation” of Palestinians detained in Gaza, saying he met several released detainees who had been beaten and blindfolded and been held for weeks. “During my time he...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli forces arrested around 60 Palestinians in the West Bank, including five women university students, during a crackdown that lasted from Saturday night to Sunday morning, bringing the total to 3,480 detainees since Oct. 7. According to a joint statement issued by the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP Prison authorities in Israel released 39 Palestinian detainees, they said early Sunday, under an agreement between Israel and Hamas that earlier saw 13 Israeli detainees freed by the resistance group from the Gaza Strip. Television images showed prisoners being welcomed home in annexed east Jerusalem. The most ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army on Friday morning blew up two homes near the West Bank city of Hebron belonging to two Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails. According to an Anadolu reporter, the Israeli army blew up two apartments in a building — they belonged to Mohammad Al-Shantir and Saqer Al-Shantir in the […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A nongovernmental organization said on Wednesday some 1,300 Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails started a one-day hunger strike in solidarity with Palestinian detainee Kayed al-Fasfous. The Palestinian Prisoners Society said in a statement that 1,300 Palestinian detainees held under the notorious Israeli administr...
