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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 […]

today6 June 2017

International News

Hunger strike a ‘race against time’ group warns, as 60 prisoners join strike

As some 1,300 Palestinian entered the 32nd day of a mass hunger strike in Israeli prisons on Thursday, Palestinian officials have expressed concern over the deteriorating health conditions of the hunger strikers, saying that the situation for Palestinian prisoners and their families has become “unbearable.” The media committee formed to support the hunger strikers reported that 60 Palestinian detainees joined the hunger strike at Israel’s Gilboa prison and have confirmed […]

today19 May 2017

International News

Committee: IPS moves all hunger strikers to prisons with field hospitals

Head of Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs Issa Qaraqe released a statement Wednesday evening, saying that all hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners, whose numbers are estimated to be around 1,300, have been transferred to three Israeli prisons "due to their proximity to Israeli hospitals." Qaraqe said that all prisoners participating in the mass “Freedom and Dignity” hunger strike, which entered its 31st day on Wednesday, were transferred from across dozens of Israel’s […]

today18 May 2017

International News

IPS forces assault, transfer hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners

As some 1,500 Palestinian prisoners entered the 11th day of the mass “Freedom and Dignity” hunger strike, Israeli Prison Service (IPS) forces on Thursday attacked two hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners being held in southern Israel’s Ashkelon prison, according to the Media Committee for Palestinian Prisoners’ Hunger Strike -- a joint committee formed by the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) and Palestinian Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs. A lawyer from the Palestinian Committee for […]

today28 April 2017

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