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Nablus residents rally on Prisoners’ Day

Posted on: April 18, 2009
A woman holds a picture of a jailed family member

16 April 2009

Around 400 residents of Nablus held a demonstration in the city center to mark Prisoners’ Day in recognition of all former and current political prisoners held in Israeli jails.  Leaders of several political parties and prisoner associations gave speeches praising the steadfastness of the approximately 10,000 prisoners currently held in Israeli prisons and detention facilities.  Demonstrators also carried pictures of loved ones in prison and symbolically chained their hands to emphasize the large number of Palestinian detainees.

Demonstrations were held in several cities and villages throughout the West Bank and Gaza commemorating Prisoner’s Day, which falls on the 17th … Continue reading


Updated on April 18, 2009
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Palestinian prisoners families protest at Red Cross

Posted on: April 10, 2009
Gazans protest against incarceration of Palestinians in Israeli jails

ISM Gaza | Palestinian Prisoners

8 April 2009

Every Monday for years the families of the Palestinian prisoners are protesting at the offices of the Red Cross in Gaza City.

These families  have not been allowed to visit their relatives imprisoned in Israeli jails for almost 2 years. According to human rights organizations (including Israeli organizations), Palestinian prisoners are submitted to torture and ill-treatment, permitted by the Israeli High Court of Justice. Israeli Prison Service admits that there are about 8,000 Palestinians in Israeli jails, … Continue reading


Updated on April 11, 2009
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Palestinian, you are on your own!

Posted on: March 26, 2009

Natalie Abou Shakra | Gaza 08

He said, “Your wife is beautiful, I want to sleep with her.” During the interrogation, they would hit us extensively. They prevent us from sleeping, urinating, drinking and eating. During my friend’s interrogation, they brought in his wife. They touched her breasts, her sensitive areas in front of him. They wanted him to admit to their accusations. Imprisonment by the occupation forces is the attempting to murder a resistant spirit… all that we have against their state-of-the-art weaponry .

Gilad Shalit “who turned 22 in captivity, will have been a hostage of Hamas for about … Continue reading


Updated on March 26, 2009
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Prisoner’s Day in Tubas

Posted on: April 18, 2007

Tom Hayes

Today Tubas prisoner’s society held a rally outside the Red Cross building in Tubas to commemorate prisoner’s week.

Students at Al Quds Open University in Tubas also held a vigil for the families of prisoners in the university grounds

At the university vigil students gave prisoners’ families trees to plant. Each tree was the same age as the amount of years the person had been in prison.

Palestinians in Israeli jails are political prisoners, charged under a military apartheid legal system. The detention of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails has no basis in international law.

The prisoner’s club took me to meet … Continue reading


Updated on May 20, 2009
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Women’s Demonstration Unlocks Prisoner’s Day in Jenin

Posted on: April 16, 2007

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JENIN – Tomrrow, in commemoration of Palestinian Prisoner’s Day, prisoner solidarity events will emerge throughout the West Bank. Every year in Jenin, a women’s demonstration initiates the Prisoner’s Day activities. Palestinian mothers and daughters, sisters and friends, will be joined by international and Israeli solidarity activists, demonstrating against Israel’s brutal Occupation and unjust prison system. An estimated 11,000 Palestinian political prisoners are behind bars in Israel jails.

The women of Jenin have invited international and Israeli solidarity activists to join them in their struggle this Prisoner’s Day. The Public Committee for the Freedom of Prisoners, along with 18 other … Continue reading


Updated on May 20, 2009
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Free Palestine’s Political Prisoners! Solidarity week in Tubas

Posted on: April 10, 2007

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In commemoration of Palestinian Prisoner’s Day on April 17th, prisoner solidarity events will emerge in the West Bank region of Tubas. For 8 years, the Prisoner’s Society of Tubas has been organizing such events, emphasizing the plight of Palestinian prisoners within Israel’s unjust legal system. Israel is holding approximately 11,000 Palestinian political prisoners behind bars.

On April 12th, a “Stop Movement” action will bring the whole of Tubas to a halt for 10 minutes. Ziad, from the Prisoner’s Society, says that “everything in Tubas will halt. The traffic, the pedestrians, the shops, even time itself. This action will grab … Continue reading


Updated on May 20, 2009
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