Secret deportation of Sudanese migrants

News that Israel has deported secretly more than 1,000 Sudanese migrants and refugees via a third country sparked an outcry Tuesday among human rights activists. MK Dov Khenin (Hadash) calling for them to be halted immediately. MK Khenin also asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to investigate who ordered the repatriation in the first place. Sudan…

Nazareth protest for Palestinian prisoners

Hundreds of Arab activists, community leaders, and locals attended a protest in Nazareth Saturday held to show solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners’ hunger striking in Israeli detention. Saturday’s march was attended by prominent Arab MKs, among them Hadash leading members. The MKs, who belonging to different parties, linked arms in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners despite…

Israel continues to deny hungers strikers’ basic rights

Four Palestinian detainees on hunger strike are being held in Israeli prisons. Two of these detainees, Ayman Sharawna and Samer Issawi, were released during the October 2011 prisoner exchange that freed captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, but were re-arrested by Israeli authorities in accordance with a decision of the Committee on Violations of Terms of…