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By Nour Abu Eisha GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA): Israel is holding 17 Palestinian journalists and media workers in prison, according to an Arab journalists rights group on Saturday. In a statement, the Journalists’ Support Committee said seven of those arrested have already been sentenced, five are still under Israel’s administrative detention policy, while five […]

9th Oct 2018

Palestinian women suffer torture, abuses in Israeli jails

RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) Taken away from their children, dozens of Palestinian women are suffering abuse in Israeli prisons, according to Palestinian activists. In a recent report, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association said Israeli authorities are holding 51 women, including nine injured females and two minors. According to the NGO, Israel has detained 516 […]

15th Aug 2018

Palestinian children report abuses in Israeli custody

RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA): Marwan, a 13-year-old Palestinian boy, has been suffering the effects of trauma since being assaulted and arrested by Israeli army troops. “It was almost four months ago when the Israeli army raided our home in the middle of the night, assaulted my father and arrested me,” Marwan Sharabti told Anadolu Agency. Marwan […]

12th Feb 2018

Palestine: Israel tortures 60 pct of detained Palestinian minors

By Amjad al-Nabhan RAMALLAH (AA): Sixty percent of Palestinian children detained at Israeli prisons get subjected to physical and psychological torture, Palestinian Society Prisoners Club said Sunday. In a statement, the nongovernmental organization said minors were being exposed to “physical and psychological torture through several ways, including detention during late hours of the night […]

26th Oct 2017

Palestinian teens mistreated by Israeli police as Israeli rights groups

By Kaamil Ahmed JERUSALEM (AA): Young Palestinian Jerusalemites detained by Israeli police are made vulnerable by late-night arrests, lengthy interrogations and a lack of access to their parents or lawyers, Israeli rights groups said in a statement on Wednesday. Palestinian teens “find themselves in a threatening and bewildering situation” because they often do not […]

24th Oct 2017

Palestine: Gazans demand release of loved ones jailed by Israel

By Mohamed Majid GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Dozens of Palestinians staged a rally outside the Gaza City office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Monday to demand the release of loved ones imprisoned by the Israeli authorities. Meanwhile, Israeli police rounded up 51 Palestinians in an occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood […]

8th Aug 2017

Palestine: Israel detained 880 Palestinians in July: NGOs

By Qais Abu Samra RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli forces rounded up 880 Palestinians last month, according to Palestinian NGOs. In a statement on Tuesday, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said 144 children and 18 women were among those detained in July. “A total of 425 residents of Jerusalem were among those arrested last month,” […]

20th Nov 2016

Palestine: 350 Palestinian minors languishing in Israeli jails

By Anees Barghothi RAMALLAH, (AA): A it least 350 Palestinian children are languishingn Israeli jails, a local Palestinian NGO said Saturday. “Israeli authorities are holding 350 Palestinian children aged between 12 and 18,” the Palestinian Prisoners Society said in a statement on the occasion of the UN Universal Children’s Day. It said twelve females […]

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