political prisoners

The father of Mahmoud Sarsak, a member of the Palestinian national football team jailed without charge or trial by Israel for almost three years, has called on the sporting world to speak out for his son who remains on hunger strike. Meanwhile Israel already violating deal that ended mass hunger strike.

Yesterday marked Deported Palestinians’ Day, commemorating the anniversary of the siege of the Church of the Nativity 10 years ago.

Palestinian Authority police once again showed their true colors by repressing a protest of Mahmoud Abbas’s empty gesture toward the families of hunger striking political prisoners.

A 66-year-old hunger striker at Gaza’s sit-in tent used to have three children; two of them were killed and one is locked behind Israel’s bars.

Thaer Halahleh and Bilal Diab, on their 71st day of hunger strike, are at immediate risk of death after Israel’s top court rejects a petition challenging their administrative detention orders.

G4S has been severely criticized for its operations in the occupied Palestinian territories and in prisons and detention centers in Israel. Recently, Palestinian organizations called for action against G4S for its role in Israeli prisons.

An ex-detainee Loai Odeh has taken writing as a way to express himself as one who has had enough of Israel’s brutality. This is my translation of Loai’s diaries of hunger strike that he wrote as Facebook status updates recalling his experience in Israel’s jails.