ICRC

Samer al-Barq may have only minutes to live, his father explains in a telephone call with The Electronic Intifada blogger Shahd Abusalama.

Aisha Islieh, a detainee’s mother, died on the bus on her way to see her son Yahya after 5 years of a ban on family visits by Israel.

A notoriously racist rabbi who called on Israel to slaughter a million Palestinian civilians is to head a committee for Magen David Adom (MDA) – Israel’s equivalent of the Red Cross.

Thaer Halahleh has been told he “could die any moment,” by an Israeli prison doctor, as the gravely ill Palestinian who is held without charge or trial by Israel, completed his 73rd day of hunger strike.

My diaries from last Monday and Tuesday. I reflect my feelings on the death of three kids, an event for Palestinian political prisoners, and my meeting with Hana’ Shalabi.

Israel has banned family visits to Gazan prisoners since June 2007. Israel tries to bargain about this right with the Red Cross, according to Palestinian Human Rights organization Addameer. This is unacceptable and Addameer calls for international action to put pressure on the Israeli Government.