An Israeli professor speaking at Columbia Univ. reported that Israeli authorities have permitted large pharmaceutical firms to experiment on Palestinian prisoners, and have been testing weapons on Palestinian children. Her study was published in a Canadian academic journal.
Israel’s Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan has announced plans to “worsen” conditions for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, including rationing water supplies and reducing the number of family visits.
After handcuffing and beating two brothers, one a teenager, Israeli soldiers took a “selfie” with the injured prisoners, a common practice. Israeli forces conducted 196 search and arrest operations across the West Bank, including nine children, between October 10 and October 23…
May 25 – May 31, 2017: A thousand Palestinians being held in Israeli jails ended their hunger strike after 40 days without food. Palestinians in Gaza only have a few hours of electricity and running water a day and are forced to buy bottled water to meet their daily needs.
Hundreds of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons suspended a 40-day mass hunger strike on Saturday following 20 hours of negotiations. A Committee of Palestinian Prisoners Affairs official said that 80 percent of the strike’s demands were met…
Over 1,500 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails began a hunger strike on April 17. Israel responded by placing Marwan Barghouti, the movement’s leader, in solitary confinement, and said it will not negotiate with the prisoners.
Deadly virus adds to Gaza struggle; more displacement orders; many Board of Peace updates; new B’Tselem report “Living in Hell”; tempting fate on Temple Mount; Israeli draft dodgers
Respiratory virus, indiscriminate Israeli fire in Gaza; Kushner messes with Israel; latest on Gaza Board of Peace; Gavin Newsom trash-talks Netanyahu; Trump wants UK Jews to emigrate to US?
Israel’s never-ending ceasefire violations; latest headlines on Gaza Board of Peace; life as a Palestinian ex-detainee; challenging the IHRA definition of antisemitism
Reconstruction of Gaza has [allegedly] begun; 14-yr-old killed in West Bank; economic collapse in West Bank; House approves $3.3B in military aid to Israel; genocide denial in Germany