The Israeli military continues to act as it did during the Nakba, when it employed torture in a bid to crush the spirit of Palestinian resistance, perceiving the humiliation of Palestinians as an expression of dominance, power, and supremacy.
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While Israelis see their captives, whether civilians or military, held in Gaza in terms of numbers, Palestinians approach the issue from an entirely different perspective.
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Khader Adnan represents a political culture that has come to permeate Palestine for years, a mode of collective resistance that cannot be easily crushed, silenced or killed. Even in death.
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Can Israel be pressured? Or is Tel Aviv the only exception to the global political order in which every country, big or small, is subjected to pressures and subsequent change in attitude and behavior? Several events, in recent days, bring the question of Israel’s legal and moral accountability to the fore. On February 21, Israel’s […]
A scheme is underway to withhold or to reduce payments made by the Palestinian Authority to the families of Palestinian prisoners. According to Israeli media, the Biden Administration has requested that the PA entirely overhauls its support system of Palestinian prisoners. The Palestinian leadership had already expressed willingness to engage the US in a ‘discussion’. […]
Palestinians are stepped on by the heavy boots of a regime that, while it may seem new, is in fact as brutal, cruel and racist as any Zionist government ever was.
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"There's no judicial system to try them fairly. There's no party inside prison that can share their demands. So the sole item that [the Palestinian prisoners] can use to protest and fight for their rights is their bodies." — Addameer spokeswoman Milena Ansari
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“This is all part of the deliberate medical neglect policy that the Israeli occupation uses. They don't feel like they have an obligation toward Palestinian detainees and prisoners regarding their health care.” -- Milena Ansari, Addameer
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For the first time since the Israeli war on Gaza in 2014, the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is signaling its willingness to engage in negotiations regarding the release of the bodies of two Israeli soldiers believed to be held by resistance groups in Gaza. But will another prisoner exchange similar to that of October 2011 follow anytime soon?
April 17 officially marks Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, a day when the Palestinian people collectively remember the more than five thousand prisoners currently incarcerated in Israeli jails, many of them minors and many held without charge or trial.
