Al Jazeera English
| Apr 4, 2013
Israeli soldiers and Palestinians have been fighting on the streets of Hebron as thousands gather for three funerals in the occupied West Bank.
In Hebron, a prisoner who died from cancer in an Israeli jail was laid to rest. And two Palestinians s...
Al Jazeera English
| Mar 6, 2013
Israel systematically mistreats the hundreds of Palestinian children aged between 12 and 17 it detains every year, according to a report from UNICEF. Al Jazeera reports from the West Bank on abuses during recent protests.
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Mosaic
| Feb 26, 2013
The death of a 30-year-old Palestinian Arafat Jaradat in an Israeli jail last Saturday, which has led to allegations he was tortured, has placed the case of Palestinian prisoners under the spotlight. Dozens of detainees remain on hunger strike in ...
Democracy Now!
| Feb 26, 2013
As protests grow in the West Bank over the death of a Palestinian inside an Israeli prison, we speak to a pair of Israeli and Palestinian fathers who've responded to personal tragedies with activism for peace. Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan united...
Al Jazeera English
| Feb 25, 2013
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are burying a man who died in an Israeli jail. Israel says Arafat Jaradat died of a heart attack, but the Palestinian Authority says the autopsy report showed that he was tortured. His death has sparked days...
Al Jazeera
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Mosaic
| Feb 14, 2013
Dozens of Palestinians gathered in al-Beira and Gaza to hold solidarity events with prisoners in Israeli jails who are on hunger strike, most notably, Samer al-Issawi who has been on hunger strike for 206 days. Al Jazeera Arabic reports.
— Sep 1, 2012 at 04:53 am
...and have been repeatedly beaten up. As many as 4500 Palestinians are currently imprisoned in Israel many of whom are on the so-called administra...
— Apr 2 at 02:05 pm
...have recently been running high as several Palestinian prisoners have been on intermittent hunger strike. As of December 2012, Israel held 4,517...
— Dec 18, 2011 at 05:00 pm
— Apr 30, 2012 at 04:40 pm
...prison officials say that hundreds of Palestinian prisoners who declared a hunger strike two weeks ago are continuing to refuse food as they dem...