Hunger striker Muhammad al-Qiq in "struggle against death"
6 February 2016
The Palestinian journalist, who has refused food for 74 days to protest his detention without charge by Israel, is at imminent risk of death.
Rights and Accountability
Saudi Arabia sentences Palestinian poet to torture instead of death
5 February 2016
The US ally originally sentenced Ashraf Fayadh to death by beheading for religious “crimes.”
Mother decries sentence for Israeli who burned her son to death
4 February 2016
Parents of Muhammad Abu Khudair expressed anger that their son’s killers have gotten off lightly.
Israeli court "freezes" dying journalist's detention
4 February 2016
Muhammad al-Qiq, who has been on hunger strike for 72 days, rejects decision.
Israeli dissident ordered to submit Facebook posts to military censor
4 February 2016
Yossi Gurvitz says he will defy order received from military censor.
Palestinian youths slain in deadly attack on Israeli police
4 February 2016
Group armed with guns, knives and improvised explosives were friends with boy slain months earlier.
Hunger-striking Palestinian journalist on verge of death
4 February 2016
Doctors say that after 71 days without food, Muhammad al-Qiq’s organs could fail at any time.
Biggest Israeli demolition in a decade leaves 100 homeless
3 February 2016
Some 1,000 people could be left homeless if Israeli demolitions in Masafer Yatta are not halted.
Hunger-striking Palestinian journalist can no longer speak
2 February 2016
In a written statement from his hospital bed Muhammad al-Qiq says he’s “paying the toll of a racist Israeli policy.”
Palestinian Authority officer turns his gun on Israel
1 February 2016
Israel’s army has relied on PA security forces to suppress resistance.