Physicians for Human Rights-Israel

Israel arrests Palestinian activists "to finish colonization project"

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Ramallah
1 March 2013

Jamal Juma’ from the group Stop the Wall believes that every Palestinian known as an activist is a target for Israel.

Israeli prisons equipped by notorious security firm G4S hold Palestinian teens in solitary confinement

Since July 2012, Israel has held six Palestinian boys in solitary confinement in G4S equipped Al Jalame prison, reports Defence for Children-Palestine.

“Are they waiting for him to return in a coffin?”: Akram Rikhawi's family urges action from Gaza

Shahd Abusalama meets the hunger striker Akram Rikhawi’s desperately worried family in Rafah, as his hunger strike passes 100 days.

Life of Akram Rikhawi, father of 8, in grave danger after 85 days of hunger strike

The life of Akram Rikhawi is in grave danger 85 days into his hunger strike, human rights groups warned today.

Don't forget him: Akram Rikhawi still at risk of death on day 70 of hunger strike in Israeli jail

Rikhawi remains on hunger strike, as Israel continues to deny visits by family and independent doctors.

Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strikes continue as Israel violates agreements

Linah Alsaafin
Ramallah
5 June 2012
Since the end of the mass hunger strike in the early hours of 15 May, rumors of Israel reneging on the agreement have solidified into facts.

BBC's World Football interviews father of gravely ill hunger-striking Palestinian footballer jailed by Israel

BBC World Service’s World Football interviews Mahmoud Sarsak, father of Mahmoud Sarsak, the Palestinian national football squad member whose life is at grave risk after 75 days hunger strike.

Israel puts "every possible obstacle" in way of respecting hunger strikers' rights, say doctors

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Jerusalem
14 May 2012
More than 1,500 Palestinian prisoners are weeks into an open-ended hunger strike in protest against worsening conditions in Israeli jails.

Thaer Halahleh told he "could die any moment," as hunger strikers' condition increasingly urgent

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.

Video: Palestinian woman "takes over" Israeli military vehicle at Ofer protest for hunger strikers

This video shows a Palestinian woman mounting an Israeli military vehicle amid protests near Ofer Prison in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on 1 May, in solidarity with hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners. The video also shows Israeli occupation forces attacking female protestors with pepper spray directed into their eyes from close range as they lie on the ground.

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