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Arrest and detention
Artistic Director Nabil al-Raee is the latest in a string of people affiliated with the Freedom Theatre in Jenin who have been arrested over the past year. Read more about Israel uses Jenin murder probe as pretext to arrest, harass Freedom Theatre staff
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. Read more about Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strikes continue as Israel violates agreements
Sahar Francis, director of Addameer, analyzes the hunger strike agreement signed by Palestinian political prisoners. Read more about "We must sustain hunger strike solidarity," says leading prisoner rights campaigner
The demands at the heart of the historic hunger strike in Israeli prisons are only the tip of the iceberg. Read more about Israel's prison regime can no longer go unnoticed
More than 1,500 Palestinian prisoners are weeks into an open-ended hunger strike in protest against worsening conditions in Israeli jails. Read more about Israel puts "every possible obstacle" in way of respecting hunger strikers' rights, say doctors
A roundup of images showing widespread solidarity throughout historic Palestine for the approximately 2,000 political prisoners on hunger strike. Read more about In photos: widespread solidarity with hunger striking Palestinian prisoners
“You have three already, leave this one!” pleaded Samira Halabi when Israeli soldiers raided her West Bank home and arrested her remaining free son. Read more about Four brothers jailed by Israel for prisoner solidarity activism
Imprisoned by Israel, footballer Mahmoud Sarsak has never been tried for any recognizable offense, and his detention has been continuously renewed every six months. He is one of many prisoners depriving himself of food to demand liberty and justice. Read more about Palestine football star seriously ill from four-week hunger strike
Surrounded on all sides by an Israeli settlement, a fence, walls and gates, the Gharib family’s situation is one of the most extreme and unsettling cases highlighting the effects of Israel’s illegal settlement building in the West Bank. Gharib died just days after this interview. Read more about "I will never give up our house": Sabri Gharib kept promise to resist Israeli settlement until his final day
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. Read more about Interview: "counterrevolution" threatens mass hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners
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