Joint Statement On Land Day Civil Society Urge Accountability and End to Israel’s Illegal Closure of Gaza Date: 30 March 2020 For the past two years,[i] Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip have gathered on a near-weekly basis to participate in the Great Return March demonstrations at the Gaza perimeter fence, calling for an end […]
The immediate release of more than 1000 Palestinians, who are among the more than (5000) imprisoned by Israel who are among the groups most at risk of infection with the COVID-19 (Corona) virus. These prisoners include those with underlying diseases and chronic illnesses (700), (41) female prisoners, and (180) child prisoners, as well as at […]
Save us from the Coronavirus so that the Prisons don’t turn into Cemeteries The feeling of imminent threat and danger to our lives in Israeli prisons is growing day by day, even hour by hour. The Coronavirus is spreading and is threatening the region and entire world. We are always hearing new instructions and […]
In a systematic and blunt manner, the Israeli occupation authorities violate the standards of International Humanitarian Law and the Human Rights Law in their way of treating ailing prisoners. The Israeli government deliberately endorses racist laws that undermine the legal status of prisoners, depriving them from their basic rights, and their early release in any […]
A Thank You Letter for Hurryyat Dr. Abdallah Jarrar Orthodontist My name is dr. Abdallah Jarrar and I work as a dentist in the city of Jenin. I began suffering with the prevention of travel in June 2009, one month after I was released from Israeli prisons after a detention period that lasted 19 months. […]
The Center for Defense of Liberties and Civil Rights held three training sessions during July on the Convention against Torture under the title “Responsibility and Obligations of the Duty-Owned Law Enforcement Officials”. Investigating officers, operations, the Executive Force and the legal advisers of the Preventive Security Service in the West Bank governorates all participated in […]
Monthly Report issued by Hurryyat The prisoners in Ramla prison clinic are demanding the release of the ailing prisoner, Sami Abu Diak, to spend the last remaining days of his life with his mother. Center for Defense of Liberties & Civil Rights “Hurryyat” has emphasized in their Monthly Report the impact of the Center’s […]
The Palestinian Human Rights Organization Council holds the Israeli occupation authorities fully responsible for the death of Nasser Taqatqa, 31, who died while being held in Nitzan prison on 16 July 2019. According to the preliminary information available to our organizations, Taqtaqa was arrested from his home in Beit Fajjar on 19 June 2019, a […]
Ramallah | Hurryyat: The Center for Defense of Liberties and Civil Rights “Hurryyat” confirmed that the number of martyrs of the prisoners national movement in the prisons of the Israeli occupation since 1967 rose to 220 today, Tuesday, after the martyrdom of the prisoner Nassar Majed Omar Taqatqa from the town of Beit Fajjar in […]
Ramallah – Hurryyat | After the release of the prisoner Abd al-Rahman Muhammad Khalil Mahmoud, nicknamed “Abed Arefa”, who spent 17 years in the prisons of the Israeli occupation, the occupation authorities prevented him from reaching his hometown of Issawiya, and deported him to the “city of Jericho” for ten days. On his way from […]
Palestine abounds with many stories woven by children, men and women of their struggle over many years in the prisons of the occupation, among them the prisoner Helmy Muhammad Abed Araj, who spent 11 years of his life away from his family and was deprived of completing his studies, without bowing. The fighter Helmy Al-Araj […]
Palestinian prisoners at the prisons of the Occupation called off their open hunger strike, which had lasted for eight days, as they made victory by getting their basic rights, after a series of systematic violations that they are subjected to. The violations had aimed to place the Palestinian prisoners under more constraints in detention especially […]
