Tag: Prisoner Release
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Photo: A freed detainee joins his mother at the Gaza protest she began 18 years ago
18th October 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Team | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Ibrahim Baroud joined his mother, Ghalia Baroud, or Um Ibrahim, at Gaza’s weekly sit-in for Palestinian prisoners, which she co-founded, on Monday morning. Baroud, a former Palestinian detainee, was captured by Israeli forces on 9 April 1986, at the age of 23.…
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Israeli army invade Bruqin village two days after prisoner release
19th August 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Bruqin, Occupied Palestine On Thursday 15th August, Israeli occupation forces entered the village of Bruqin in the early hours of the morning. Four jeeps full of soldiers made their way first into the valley, and then into the village itself. The Israeli army at first…
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West Bank couple, deported to Gaza, recount difficult years in Israeli prison
by Joe Catron 30 January 2012 | The Electronic Intifada “This is the life of Palestinian people,” Obada Saed Bilal said one recent morning. “If I hadn’t been detained, I would have been wounded or martyred. I was in detention for over nine years, but I still resist. My marriage and university studies are my…
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‘A Needle in the Binding’: The legacy of Palestinian prisoner self-education in Israeli prisons
by Ben Lorber and Khalil Ashour 29 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On the third floor of the Nablus Municipality Library, there sits a room of over 8,000 books set apart from the rest. Many of these books are very old and tattered; many of them, in lieu of a normal face,…
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Political organization, resistance, and education in Israeli prisons
by Alistair George and Ben Lorber 24 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Raed Atrash, 25, is a presenter and journalist working in Hebron; his work focuses on prisoner’s issues. He interviews prisoners, ex-prisoners and their families, and he writes articles and presents programmes on the issue. Issa Amro is the director of…
