prisoners | Israel Palestine News

Search Results for: prisoners

Trump pardons brokered by groups tied to Jared Kushner

[email protected] March 23, 2021 alan dershowitz, Aleph Institute, Brett Tolman, Chabad-Lubavitch, Charles Kushner, Jared Kushner, Nick Muzin, Philip Esformes, Rabbi Moshe Margaretten, Sheldon Silver, Sholam Weiss, sholom rubashkin, Tzedek Association

Trump relied heavily on a pro-Israel network that revolved around two influential Jewish organizations connected to Jared Kushner to determine who would get pardons, according to an investigation by the New York Times… The Aleph Institute and Tzedek Association are tied to influential lawyers including Israel partisan Alan Dershowitz… The Aleph Institute is a non-profit organization that was founded at the express direction of the Chabad-Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, an extremist pro-Israel religious leader…

Read the rest of this entry

Report: in 2020, Israeli human rights violations escalated against Palestinians

[email protected] March 13, 2021 Al Haq, home demolition, human rights, Israeli occupation, settler violence

A new report from Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq details the numerous human rights violations that Israel perpetrated against Palestinians in 2020 — in the midst of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Read the rest of this entry

Israel arrests Palestinian politicians ahead of PA elections

[email protected] March 10, 2021 2021 palestinian elections, abbas, administrative detention, hamas, khalida jarrar, pflp, popular front for the liberation of palestine

As Palestinian elections gear up, Israel has been arresting Palestinian politicians in an attempt to suppress Palestinians’ exercise of political sovereignty and self-determination.

Read the rest of this entry

Israel’s military courts for Palestinians make a mockery of justice

[email protected] March 10, 2021 apartheid, international law, military court, occupation, separate unequal

New report from UK charity War on Want shows how integral Israel’s military court system is in controlling Palestinian lives. The system is apartheid in nature and violates international law.

Read the rest of this entry

On Int’l Women’s Day, Israeli police raid “illegal” Palestinian women’s exhibit

[email protected] March 9, 2021 east jerusalem, Israeli Police, palestinian authority, palestinian women, violence against women

Israeli soldiers arrested the Palestinian head of a Jerusalem Women’s Center and a clothes designer in a raid on an exhibition of traditional Palestinian clothes and objects made by women.

Read the rest of this entry

Israel’s ‘secret evidence’ serves as my chains, lock, and key

[email protected] March 5, 2021 Amnesty International, detention, freedom of movement, Laith Abu Zeyad, secret evidence, travel ban

This Amnesty International worker shares his thoughts about clinging to hope while under the brutal, often indiscriminate and frivolous restrictions Israel imposes on Palestinians like himself.

Read the rest of this entry

Meet Sami Huraini, leader of a rising youth protest movement in the West Bank

[email protected] March 4, 2021 annexation, area c, at-tuwani, harun abu aram, israeli settlement, nonviolent protest, occupation, sami huraini, settler violence, sumud, youth of sumud

Activist Sami Huraini, 23, is one of the coordinators of a West Bank youth group engaged in weekly demonstrations. His family history of nonviolent protest has yielded some unlikely victories.

Read the rest of this entry

Israeli interrogator sexually assaults Palestinian child detainee

[email protected] March 1, 2021 child abuse, child detainee, child detention, Defense for Children International, israel torture, rape, sexual assault, sexual violence, torture

In a world where the oppressor always has the upper hand, this 15-year-old Palestinian boy had the courage to tell the story of his torture and rape while in Israeli custody. The practice is well-documented, but Israel has so far escaped accountability.

Read the rest of this entry

Headlines from Israel-Palestine: new week, same old violence

[email protected] February 26, 2021 home demolition, home invasion, occupation, settler violence

Israel’s incessant human rights abuses against Palestinians included last week: abductions, violence, home demolition and invasion, and more. Mainstream media won’t tell these stories.

Read the rest of this entry

This is Mays Abu Ghosh, one of 10,000 Palestinian women arrested by Israel

[email protected] February 15, 2021 collective punishment, detention, occupation, torture, Women

Mays Abu Ghosh and her family have suffered for years at the hands of Israel. Here she tells the story of her baseless arrest, imprisonment, and torture.

Read the rest of this entry