Category: In the Media

  • Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike

    4 May 2011 | PressTV Palestinian political prisoners in Israel’s Nafha jail have gone on a hunger strike to protest the inhumane treatment of detainees by the Israeli prison administration. Hundreds of Palestinian inmates held in the Israeli military detention center in northern West Bank took part in the one-day event on Tuesday, said Rafat…

  • Settlers set fire to Huwwara prayer hall

    3 May 2011 | Ma’an News Ultra-orthodox Jewish Israeli settlers raided the northern west Bank town of Huwwara in the early hours of Tuesday morning and according to residents set fire a prayer hall in the local school. Ghassan Daghlas, PA official charged with monitoring settler activity in the district, said the prayer hall in…

  • Bassem Tamimi: “Our destiny is to resist”

    2 May 2011 | Electronic Intifada When I met Bassem Tamimi at his home in the occupied West Bank village of Nabi Saleh this January, his eyes were bloodshot and sunken, signs of the innumerable sleepless nights he had spent waiting for Israeli soldiers to take him to prison. As soon as two children were…