PFLP

Bio shows why Leila Khaled remains an icon of resistance

Asa Winstanley
23 May 2012

Leila Khaled, an icon of the Palestinian resistance struggle, is the subject of a recommended new biography.

Four brothers jailed by Israel for prisoner solidarity activism

Asa Winstanley
Kufr Aqab
6 May 2012

“You have three already, leave this one!” pleaded Samira Halabi when Israeli soldiers raided her West Bank home and arrested her remaining free son.

Interview: "counterrevolution" threatens mass hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners

Asa Winstanley
Ramallah
17 April 2012

The Palestinian Authority announced that Palestinian Prisoners’ Day would mark the start of a massive new wave of hunger strikes. But factionalism threatens the success of this movement, says Addameer’s Mourad Jadallah in an interview with The Electronic Intifada.

Amnesty calls for urgent action to protest administrative detention of Palestinian academic

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 02:34

The human rights organization Amnesty International issued an urgent appeal today regarding the renewed administrative detention order against Palestinian writer Ahmad Qatamesh.

Interview with Addameer's Mourad Jadallah: hunger strikes reignite prisoner movement

Asa Winstanley
London
1 March 2012

Mourad Jadallah discusses the case of Khader Adnan, the hunger striking Palestinian political prisoner who made administrative detention an international issue.

On Valentine's Day, a celebration of love and struggle

Submitted by Shahd Abusalama on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 17:00

I write here about my friend Allam Ka’by, one of those released in last year’s prisoner swap deal. Valentine’s Day marks his unity with the woman of his life after over 10 years of separation. Here, you’ll read their inspiring story of love and struggle.

Separated as prisoners, reunited in Gaza on release

Pam Bailey
Gaza Strip
14 December 2011

The story of Samer Abu Seir and Loai Odeh — two men who met in Israeli prison and have remained friends ever since — speaks to the experience of so many others.

Former prisoner, PFLP leader: hunger strike "made revolution in the prisons"

Ben Lorber
Hebron
7 December 2011

Abdel-Alim Da’na, a leader of the PFLP and a professor at Palestine Polytechnic University in Hebron, speaks to Ben Lorber about his experience in Israel’s prisons.

Now Israel indefinitely detains Palestinian activist whose siblings it killed

Submitted by Asa Winstanley on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 12:41

UPDATED: A leading Palestinian activist from Bil’in has become the village’s latest political prisoner. Ashraf Abu Rahmeh was kidnapped by Israeli occupation soldiers last week, and has now been indefinitely detained on the orders of an Israeli captain at Ofer prison.

Hunger strikes will continue until prisoners' demands respected

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Haifa
10 October 2011

Thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails continue to hunger strike and commit other acts of civil disobedience to demand basic human rights. Meanwhile, activists in Palestine and around the world hold hunger strikes in solidarity.

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