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What Thaer Halahleh’s family told me about his release brings joy, but raises troubling questions

Posted on: May 15, 2012

by Lina Al Saafin

15 May 2012 | Electronic Intifada

At around 1:30am Palestine local time I was lying on my side in my bed trying to sleep and doing my best to ignore the queasy feeling in the pit of my stomach as I thought about how the 64th commemoration of Nakba Day would pan out.

My phone suddenly vibrated jarringly. I grabbed it and the name of the last person I expected to call me was flashing on the screen: Abu Thaer Halahleh, the father of Palestinian hunger striker Thaer Halahleh. I immediately answered.

What I learned in the conversation was a … Continue reading


Updated on May 15, 2012
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Statement No. 7 of the Strike leadership

Posted on: May 14, 2012
Statement No. 7 of the Strike leadership

by The Central Committee of the Leadership of the Strike

13 May 2012 | Samidoun

We have only two options: to achieve all of our demands, or to die

Free Palestinian people, masses of our nation, free people of the world….

We have entered a stage of legendary and draining human struggle, where we face real danger which threatens our lives. We are now very close to martyrdom, which is more precious and one of the best options for us.

We are now at the state of a great test of wills … Continue reading


Updated on May 14, 2012
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Thaer Halahleh: “My Beloved Lamar…Forgive me”

Posted on: May 13, 2012

13 May 2012 

“My Beloved Lamar, forgive me because the occupation took me away from you, and took away from me the pleasure of witnessing my firstborn child that I have always prayed to God to see, to kiss, to be happy with. It is not your fault; this is our destiny as Palestinian people to have our lives and the lives of our children taken away from us, to be apart from each other and to have a miserable life. Nothing is complete in our lives because of this unjust occupation that is lurking on every corner of our lives … Continue reading


Updated on May 13, 2012
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Balata Refugee Camp: The toll of human rights violations and imprisonment

Posted on: May 10, 2012

by Alex

9 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

The 9th May marks the 22nd day of the Palestinian prisoners mass hunger strike. Today as with every day, the prisoners’ families and friends met at Nablus Prisoners’ tent in a show of solidarity, paying respect to their sons, brothers, daughters and sisters suffering in Israeli prisons in conditions which constantly violate international laws.

Said al Kabi, 54, is just one father whose anguish is worn on his worried face. He has suffered greatly, lost many family members and both of his legs to the illegal Israeli occupation. His son, Jawad al … Continue reading


Updated on May 11, 2012
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The price of intellectual resistance

Posted on: April 14, 2012
Shayma, the daughter of Dr. Yousef, poses next to her father's portrait

by Sylvia
14 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank
“Our souls are not devastated, we are hanging on”


On the 7th November 2011, founder of the Palestinian Cultural Enlightenment (Tanwer) and lecturer at the An- Najah University, Dr. Yousef Abdul Haq, was arrested from his home at two o’clock in the morning. Dr. Yousef is in his 70’s and his health has suffered from mental strain and poor prison conditions. Well known for his calm and peaceful nature, Dr. … Continue reading


Updated on April 14, 2012
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42 days of hunger strike: Take action to save Hassan Safady from dying in administrative detention

Posted on: April 13, 2012
42 days of hunger strike: Take action to save Hassan Safady from dying in administrative detention

by  Silvia and Andreas

13 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank
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Today Hasan Safady entered into his 42nd day of hunger strike. Ten months ago, he was brutally arrested from his home in the old city of Nablus and has since then been kept in administrative detention. Hassan’s older brother Fouad Safady explains that their family have been denied any communication or visits to Hassan, so any information gained has … Continue reading


Updated on April 13, 2012
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Extension of administrative detention of Dr. Yousef Abdul Haq for the second time

Posted on: April 1, 2012
Extension of administrative detention of Dr. Yousef Abdul Haq for the second time

31 March 2012 | Tanwer

Human beings are born free, but we are surrounded by restrictions everywhere  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Today on the thirty-sixth anniversary of the Palestinian Land Day, which confirms for our people the unity and integrity of our case, the unity of its land, and the right of return and self-determination, the Israeli military court has extended administrative detention for two more months and for the second time of the human rights lawyer Dr. Yousef Abdul Haq, 70, a lecturer at An-Najah National University and the Cultural … Continue reading


Updated on April 2, 2012
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Palestinian female detainee Hana’a Shalabi on tenth day of hunger strike

Posted on: February 25, 2012
Palestinian female detainee Hana’a Shalabi on tenth day of hunger strike

25 February 2012 | Palestine Information Center

Detained young woman Hana’a Shalabi has entered her tenth day of hunger strike protesting her administrative detention despite being released late last year in the prisoners’ exchange deal between Hamas and Israel.

Attallah Abulsabh, the minister of prisoners in the Haneyya government, said that Hana’a, 28, is the first freed captive to be re-arrested and sentenced.

The minister said that Hana’a is following the path of Khader Adnan who went on hunger strike for 66 days before the Israeli occupation authority finally submitted and … Continue reading


Updated on February 25, 2012
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Despite the announcement of a deal limiting Khader Adnan’s detention, Addameer reiterates its urgent concern for his health

Posted on: February 21, 2012
Photo Courtesy of Carlos Latuff, 2012

21 February 2012 | Addameer

*At approximately 7:50 PM local time, it was confirmed by Ran Cohen, Executive Director of Physicans for Human Rights-Israel, that Khader Adnan has ended his hunger strike.

 


Khader Adnan’s hearing at the Israeli High Court was cancelled today, 21 February 2012, only minutes before the hearing was to take place. On Khader’s 66th day of hunger strike in protest of his administrative detention and inhuman and degrading treatment by the Israeli authorities, one of Khader’s lawyers negotiated a deal with the … Continue reading


Updated on February 21, 2012
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Dying to live: A hunger striker speaks in Gaza

Posted on: February 14, 2012
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by Joe Catron

14 February 2012 | Mondoweiss

As hundreds of Palestinians rallied in Gaza today to demand that Israel release Palestinian administrative detainee Khader Adnan, Yassar Salah, a 17-year veteran of Israel’s prison system, spoke about Adnan’s 60-day hunger strike and his own reasons for joining it.

“We are on hunger strike to show our sympathy and solidarity with Sheikh Khader Adnan, who is battling to overcome Israel’s system of administrative detention,” he told me in the protest tent outside Gaza’s International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) compound.

“Khader … Continue reading


Updated on March 20, 2012
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