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Prisoners committee: EU backing culprit against victim

The higher national committee for prisoners has described as "sheer hypocrisy" the European Union's demand for the release of Israeli captured soldier Gilad Shalit while ignoring thousands of Palestinian prisoners

Israel prevents prisoners from sitting secondary school exams

The Israeli Prison Service is preventing Palestinian prisoners from sitting the high school exams, known as the tawjihi, for the third year in a row.

IOF soldiers detain 12 Jerusalemites in Silwan

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detained 12 Jerusalemites in Silwan town, south of the Aqsa Mosque, after storming their homes on Sunday, local sources reported.

IOA banishes Palestinian citizen from Beersheba to Gaza

The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) banished a Palestinian citizen from Beersheba in the Negev, occupied since 1948, to the Gaza Strip, the Wa'ed society for prisoners said in a statement

IOF attempts to disrupt the communications of some freedom fleet’s vessels

The “European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza," said that some freed fleet’s vessels are experiencing every now and then Israeli attempts to disrupt the communication process between them,

Palestinian captive at risk of losing eyesight

A Palestinian human rights organisation concerned with the issue of Palestinian captives in Israeli jails said that Majdi Hammad from Jablya refugee camp is at risk of completely losing his

IOA murders prisoners with the policy of medical neglect

Palestinian prisoners said in a message to the Ahrar center for prisoners' studies and human rights that they were suffering from the Israeli occupation authority's (IOA) medical neglect that turned

Palestinian prisoners in Hawara jail on hunger strike

The Palestinian prisoner's committee said that the prisoners in Hawara prison went on hunger strike in protest at the harsh incarceration conditions and harassment from Israeli soldiers.

OCHA: IOA demolished 65 Palestinian homes since start of 2010

The UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian lands said in a report that the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) had demolished 65 Palestinian homes

Egyptian officer: The Palestinian detainees subjected to exceptional torture

An Egyptian state security officer said, on condition of anonymity, that the Palestinian prisoners in Egyptian jails are exposed to unprecedented special torture and are living in harsher incarceration conditions