Shireen Issawi, the sister of legendary hunger striker Samer Issawi, has told Hanan Al Khateeb, attorney of the Council of Prisoner Affairs, that she suffered a brutal beating in Hasharon prison on May 3, 2015. Shireen stated that on that day, prison guards invaded the female prisoners section under the false pretext of one prison guard having been attacked. When...
Dear friends of Palestine, I have been receiving many responses to the skeptical statements I made yesterday about the symbolic efforts of ‘recognition’ of Palestine undertaken by some governments across the globe. Good, since this is exactly why I made them. It means I challenged people’s thoughts, and this was my objective. Someone needs to point out the hypocrisy in...
‘Met honing vang je meer vliegen dan met azijn.’ Ik heb dit altijd al een intrigerend spreekwoord gevonden. Je vraagt je dan soms ook af hoe zo een gezegde tot stand is gekomen. Wie hield zich vroeger zo fervent bezig met het vangen van vliegen (vreemde culinaire interesse, lijkt mij) dat het de moeite waard was er een strategie voor...
RAMALLAH – Il 10 maggio, il tribunale militare israeliano di Ofer carcere di Betunia, Ramallah, ha emesso un verdetto che ripristina la sentenza originaria di Samer Issawi. ssawi, che divenne famoso nel mondo a causa del suo leggendario sciopero della fame durante il suo arresto precedente, era stato originariamente condannato a 30 anni di reclusione sulla base di sue presunte...
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