RAMALLAH, PALESTINE – The president of the legal union of the Palestinian Prisoner Society, lawyer Jawad Boulos, today announced that a session would be held on Thursday March 21 in Ofer Military Court concerning the case of Palestinian political prisoner Samer Issawi, on an uninterrupted hunger strike since 243 days. Boulos explained that the doctors of Kaplan Medical Center had...
The Zionist occupation on occasion offers ‘deportation deals’ to Palestinian political prisoners, enabling them to sign up for temporary or permanent banishment in exchange for their release from prison. Yesterday, such a blackmail offer was accepted – under severe duress – by hunger striker Ayman Sharawneh, which led him to be deported to Gaza and being banished from his home...
Shireen Issawi, the sister of Palestinian detainee Samer Issawi who is on a months-long hunger strike against his imprisonment by the Israeli occupation forces, reported on Wednesday that her brother had successfully thwarted Israeli attempts to coerce him to end his hunger strike. According to Shireen, an intelligence officer of the Occupation forces on Tuesday threatened Samer inside the...
It has been roughly a month since concerned citizens of the world have been gathering on Twitter every day at 3pm EST/7 pm GMT/ 9pm Palestine time, (ed. March 11: please check this website for updates about timing!) to tweet for the cause of Palestinian prisoners in administrative detention. These trending actions are initiated and maintained by activists of the...
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