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.
A new film about Hind Rajab’s murder points to a deeply sick Israeli society, driven into the darkest of places by a racist ideology that says Jewish lives count, Palestinian lives don’t. Mainstream media helps perpetuate this lie.
Gazans are expendable?; GHF is making a comeback; ceasefire phase two; Ali Shaath; another wall is coming; “antisemitism” in France; more
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Israel’s destruction of refugee camps in Jenin and Tulkarm is severing families from their homes, emptying communities, and accelerating Palestinian erasure. Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people has never been confined to Gaza alone.