Tag: Prisoner

  • Palestinian still detained after he was shot in the head at peaceful demonstration

    5th March 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Hebron, Occupied Palestine 22 year old Ibrahim Saadi is still being held at Ofer Prison in Ramallah after being shot in the head close range by a rubber bullet and arrested during a peaceful demonstration in Hebron on Friday. His brother told us he had recieved a number…

  • “Our prisoners are dying.” Students mobilise in Gaza

    3rd March 2013 | International Action for Palestine, Gaza, Occupied Palestine “Our prisoners are dying.” said Gaza student Khaled Shehab from the Islamic University. “We won’t wait till the death of another prisoner to move in solidarity with all the detainees.” Khaled was joining the thousands attending the growing number of demonstrations in the Gaza…

  • Fierce clashes in Hebron rage after death of Arafat Jaradat in Israeli detention

    24 February 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Hebron, Occupied Palestine Palestinians protesting last night’s death of Arafat Jaradat while in Israeli administrative detention clashed with Israeli Occupation Forces throughout today in Hebron. Israeli officials claim that Jaradat died in an interrogation centre of a heart attack despite having no health conditions prior to his detention.…

  • UPDATED – Arafat Jaradat: Israeli prisons’ latest casualty

    23 February 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Megiddo Prison, Apartheid Israel Arafat Shalish Shahin Jaradat was just martyred in a special section for the Shin Bet in one of the occupation’s interrogation centres. Arafat was born on 14  January 1983 and had just turned 30 years-old and lived in Sa’eer, a village near Hebron. He was married…

  • “We are not terrorists, we are only resisting the occupation”

    Nine on hunger strike in solidarity with prisoners 22 February 2013| International Solidarity Movement, Hebron, Occupied Palestine Nine Palestinians from Hebron, mostly family members of hunger-striking prisoners, are continuing their hunger strike to express support for, and raise awareness of, the plight of Palestinian political prisoners. They began their strike last Saturday, and gained much…