Palestinian hunger strike comes to an end but the status quo is not sustainable
Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, being held without being charge and without trial by the Israeli government, ended their hunger strike last Monday which was in protest at … [Read More...]
Conference About Palestinian Prisoners’ Situation in Israeli Jails
Since 1967, when Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, more than 700,000 Palestinians have been detained by Israel. This represents approximately 20% of the … [Read More...]
Prisoners representative: Halahla moved to investigations unit
The head of the Palestinian Prisoners Society said a former hunger-striker has been transferred to an investigations unit, in breach of a deal struck to end prisoners’ … [Read More...]
Lawyer: Detainee on 64-day hunger strike in shackles
Israeli prison guards are shackling Bilal Thiab, a Palestinian detainee who has refused food for 64 days, a lawyer said Wednesday. … [Read More...]
Support the Hunger Strikers
Daily protests will be taking place opposite 10 Downing Street from 30 April until 5 May at 18:00 to keep pressure on the British government to intervene and end Israel’s administrative detention, also calling for the release of all the Palestinian political prisoners.
Around 1200 Palestinian prisoners started a mass hunger strike in protest against a range of issues including administrative detention. This has risen to an estimated 2,000 prisoners, according to Addameer. The Israeli Prison Service (IPS) has escalated its punishments of hunger striking prisoners including confiscation of personal belongings, prison transfers and the use of solitary confinement and denial of family and lawyer visits. Addameer lawyers have been denied access to all hunger striking prisoners, who are also being denied salt for their water in Ashkelon and Nafha prisons, raising serious health concerns. Female prisoner Lina Jarbouni also declared an open hunger strike on 19 April and was taken to solitary confinement on the same day. The number of Palestinians held in administrative detention has risen steadily over the last eighteen months with an estimated 322 prisoners held without charge.
Concern grows for prisoners on 63-day hunger-strike
After 63 days on hunger-strike, two Palestinian prisoners face severe health deterioration and are at risk of death, lawyers said Tuesday. … [Read More...]
Why Palestinian prisoners are on hunger strike
FACT SHEET 1.1 – The issue of Palestinian prisoners is one of the worst consequences of the Israeli occupation. Since 1967, over 700,000 Palestinians, 20% of the population of … [Read More...]
Palestinian Hunger Striker Enters 58th Day, Loses Immunity System
34-year-old Palestinian detainee Thaer Halahla, who has been on a hunger strike for 58 days now said that a recent liver and kidney scan revealed that his body was unable to function and that his doctors had informed him that he has lost his immunity system, Palestine Today reported Thursday. … [Read more...]
Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike update
Update on the mass hunger strike launched by Palestinian political prisoners on 17 April 2012. Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons launched a mass hunger strike on 17 April demanding an end to administrative detention, isolation and other punitive measures taken against Palestinian prisoners including the denial of family visits and access to university education. … [Read more...]
Palestinian Hunger Striker Enters 58th Day, Loses Immunity System
34-year-old Palestinian detainee Thaer Halahla, who has been on a hunger strike for 58 days now said that a recent liver and kidney scan revealed that his body was unable to function and that his doctors had informed him that he has lost his immunity system, Palestine Today reported Thursday. … [Read more...]
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Join us at 16:00 outside Downing Street in London on Saturday to protest against administrative detention and to call for all Palestinian political prisoners to be freed!Around 1200 Palestinian prisoners started a mass hunger strike last week in protest against a range of issues including administrative detention. This has risen to an estimated 2,000 prisoners, according to Addameer. … [Read more...]
British women imprisoned by Israel refuse food
On Palestinian Prisoners Day five British women imprisoned by the Israeli government for their part in ‘Welcome to Palestine 2012′ are refusing food in support of the demands of … [Read More...]
March for the Karamah Hunger Strikers
https://www.facebook.com/events/353500491364265/ ASSEMBLE GEORGE SQUARE, GLASGOW TUESDAY 6PM 17/4/2012 to March to BBC HQ Pacific Quay On Palestinian prisoners day, Tuesday … [Read More...]
Hana Shalabi arrives in Gaza
Former hunger-striker Hana Shalabi was escorted Sunday through the Erez crossing between Israel and the northern Gaza Strip, a Ma’an reporter said. … [Read More...]
Take action
This will only stop if the right pressure and influence is exerted and it should be lead by the British Government.
Contact your MP and inform them about the case of Hana Al-Shalabi, and the other 308 prisoners held under a policy of ‘administrative detention’ by Israel. Inform your MP that Israel is breaking international rights under Article 9 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) which says that no person should be “subjected to arbitrary arrest or detention”.
Ask your MP to write to the Foreign Secretary to ask him to formally condemn administrative detention and call for the immediate end of its use by Israel.
You can find your MP’s contact details; Please cc: Alistair Burt MP, Foreign Office Ministerpsministerburtaction@fco.gov.uk
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