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Palestinian hunger strikes: growing resistance against growing Israeli crimes

Over 1 million Palestinians have been held in Israeli prisons over the years. Thousands have been held in “administrative detention,” which means imprisonment without a trial or even charges. More & more, Palestinian prisoners are protesting this barely-legal practice through hunger strikes. Frail, emaciated Palestinians make Israel very nervous.

Israeli forces raid, shut down Defense for Children & 5 other agencies in West Bank

As a continuation of its targeting of 6 major Palestinian human rights organizations, Israeli forces ransacked their offices, confiscated materials, and welded shut their office doors…

Israeli apartheid policies are constricting Palestinian rights across the board

Israeli apartheid: the branding of an entire population as a security threat and the withholding of desperately needed medical care is a form of racism that results in a larger disease burden and unnecessary deaths in the restricted Palestinian population, and also collectively punishes entire families and threatens the basic rights, health, and dignity of individuals.

How Israel loyalists keep US officials in line: Ambassador nominee is taken down

A detailed report on how Israel advocates have worked to oppose a distinguished nominee from becoming Ambassador to Brazil because of comments she had made over two decades ago about the Israel lobby…

Israel has no mercy on Palestinian prisoner Ahmad Manasra, whose mental health is worsening

Beginning at age 13, Ahmad Manasra has endured years of harsh interrogations, abuse, & solitary confinement; mental health experts say his life is in danger – but Israel refuses to release him. Ahmad has served 6 years for a crime in which he did not participate.