Prominent Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan on Tuesday died in an Israeli prison after nearly three months of hunger strike. Adnan, a 44-year-old senior member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, had been on hunger strike in protest against his detention from the moment he was arrested at home, in Arraba town, south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, on 5 February. His health had been in decline over the past few weeks, […]
Ahed Tamimi, the Palestinian girl jailed for slapping an Israeli soldier and an icon of resistance against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, was released on Sunday after eight months. Tamimi, who was 16 at the time of her detention, vowed to continue her struggle against the Israeli occupation. "I will continue my university tuition and I will study law so that I can address the cause of my country […]
Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi will be released from an Israeli prison this Sunday, the Israel Prisons Services confirmed on Thursday. Ahed will be released along with her mother Nariman at the Jabara checkpoint near the Palestinian city of Tulkarem. Ahed has been in an Israeli prison since December for slapping a fully armed Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank town of Nabi Saleeh. After their release, Ahed and her […]
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
