Gilad Shalit

The EU's shameful silence on Khader Adnan

Catherine Ashton, the Union’s foreign policy chief, hasn’t said one word about the plight of Palestinian hunger striker Khader Adnan.

Despite their release, their freedom remains incomplete

Loai Odeh is a former prisoner who is forced to accept their fate to be deported far away from their land and families. It’s true that those former prisoners, including Loai, are now out of Israeli prisons, but still their freedom is conditional and incomplete.

EU Parliament chief refuses to protest at illegal arrests by Israel

Jerzy Buzek, the European Parliament’s president, waits several days before asking Israel to release a fellow MEP.

Why is an Israeli soldier worth more than a Palestinian child?

Dana Halawa
8 November 2011

While the world focused on one freed Israeli soldier, no one considered the suffering of more than 160 Palestinian children who remain in Israeli detention.

Palestinian ex-prisoners harassed by Jewish extremists

Not one day did the two liberated Palestinian prisoners Khuweiled and Nizar Ramadan enjoy being out of Prison. A Jewish Settler family from the illegal settlement Yitzahar has declared that it will reward $100,000 to whoever murders Khuweiled or Nizar. The ad for this ugly bounty has appeared on the Hebrew daily Maariv.

"I was one day old when my father was jailed"

Shahd Abusalama
Gaza City
18 October 2011

As many families celebrate in Gaza and the West Bank, let us remember those Palestinians still being held in Israeli jails.

Gaza families wait for release of prisoners in Hamas-Israel deal

Rami Almeghari
Gaza City
14 October 2011

Families in Gaza wait to hear if their loved ones, imprisoned in Israeli jail cells, will be on the list as part of a prisoner swap deal that includes the release of more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners.

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