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22 Palestinians, 3 lawyers, detained by Israeli forces in predawn raids

Israeli forces detained 22 Palestinians, including three lawyers, during predawn raids in the occupied West Bank on Monday. An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an that 22 Palestinians were detained, without providing the specific locations from where they were arrested. The army said in a statement that they found a weapon, two bullet-magazines, and a rifle during search raids in the Thannaba village in eastern Tulkarem in the northern West Bank. […]

5 December 2017

International News

Israel sentences 3 Palestinians to life in prison for 2016 shooting attack

The Israeli central court of Tel Aviv issued four life sentences with an additional 60 years of prison, and a 2,572,000 shekel ($734,563) fine against three Palestinians accused of carrying out a deadly shooting attack in Tel Aviv in June 2016 that left four Israelis dead and several others injured. Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) Khalid Mahajna said in a statement that Khalid Muhammad Makhamreh, 22, Muhammad Ahmad […]

30 November 2017

International News

Israeli forces detain 14 Palestinians, including 3 minors in West Bank raids

Israeli forces detained at least 14 Palestinians, including at least three minors, in predawn military raids across the occupied West Bank on Tuesday. The Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS) reported in a statement that Israeli forces detained six Palestinian from the Jerusalem district, identified as Muhammad Tutanji, Ahmad Mteir, Faisal Shabanah, Uday Hidra, Adnan Hidra, and 18-year-old Anas Basta, also known as Anas Shatara. An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma'an that […]

30 August 2017

International News

NGO: Israel practices ‘systematic torture’ on Palestinian detainees

Palestinian prisoners’ rights group Addameer released a statement on Monday, International Day to Support Victims of Torture, highlighting Israel’s use of “torture and ill-treatment” on Palestinian detainees, which has led to the death of 73 Palestinians since 1967. According to Addameer, Israeli authorities' practice of torture, which it said has been carried out in a “systematic manner,” contravenes numerous international laws and conventions prohibiting the use of torture, and that […]

27 June 2017

International News

IPS meets with strike leaders as female prisoners denounce detention conditions

A meeting was held on Monday between the Israel Prison Service (IPS) administration and Palestinian prisoners representing a mass hunger strike movement which ended more than a week earlier after hundreds went without food for 40 days, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) reported. The meeting, the details of which remained unclear as of Monday evening, took place as reports emerged that some female Palestinian prisoners were planning civil disobedience measures […]

6 June 2017

International News

Israeli forces detained 420 Palestinians in February

Israeli forces detained 420 Palestinians during the month of February, including 70 minors and 22 women and girls, according to a statement released on Saturday by the Palestinian Prisoners’ Center for Studies. The center said in its monthly report that 12 of the detentions were carried out in the besieged Gaza Strip, including five fishermen whose boats were destroyed by Israeli forces before their detention, two who were detained at […]

5 March 2017

International News

Palestinian lawyers file appeal against detention of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner

A lawyer from the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said in a statement Thursday that an appeal has been filed with the Israeli Supreme Court after the court confirmed the administrative detention -- internment without charge or trial -- of Palestinian hunger striker Ammar Ibrahim Hamour, who has gone without food for 24 days in protest of his detention. PPS lawyer Ahmad Safiya said that the organization was still awaiting the […]

16 December 2016

Addameer

22 Palestinians, 3 lawyers, detained by Israeli forces in predawn raids

Israel sentences 3 Palestinians to life in prison for 2016 shooting attack

Israeli forces detain 14 Palestinians, including 3 minors in West Bank raids

NGO: Israel practices ‘systematic torture’ on Palestinian detainees

IPS meets with strike leaders as female prisoners denounce detention conditions

Israeli forces detained 420 Palestinians in February

Palestinian lawyers file appeal against detention of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner

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