Palestinians protest in front of the offices of the Red Cross in the West Bank city of Nablus, calling for immediate intervention to release prisoners from Israeli prisons, especially women and children, Nablus, West Bank, March 12, 2015.

500% Increase in Palestinians Detained without Trial in 2015

Israeli occupation authorities have issued 319 administrative detention orders for Palestinians since the beginning of 2015, a rights group said Friday, April 3, six times as many as they did the previous year. The statistics, released by the Palestinian Center for Prisoner Studies, suggests a massive increase in Israel’s incarceration of Palestinians without charge or trial…

Khalida Jarrar (left) with a member of the European Parliament, Martina Ardenson (Sinn Fein, Ireland) in Ramallah, September 2014.

Palestinian Factions Condemn Detention of MP Khalida Jarrar

Israeli forces detained Palestinian lawmaker and member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Khalida Jarrar, after raiding her home early Thursday, April 2. Jarrar’s daughter, Yaffa, told Ma’an news agency that Israeli forces surrounded the home in the al-Irsal neighborhood of al-Bireh near Ramallah around 3:00 a.m., and demanded to see her…

African asylum seekers take part in a protest outside the Holot detention center, in Israel's southern Negev desert, February 17, 2014. The protesters called to close the prison and to recognize the refugee rights of the African asylum seekers living in Israel.

Israel to Begin Immediate Deportation of African Refugees – Even without Their Consent

Asylum seekers from Sudan and Eritrea will face either deportation to third countries or unlimited imprisonment in Israel under a new Interior Ministry policy set to be implemented in the coming days. According to a statement released by the ministry’s Population, Immigration and Border Authority on Tuesday, April 1, henceforth Israel will provide asylum seekers with…

The Max Rayne Hand-in-Hand School in Jerusalem.

Arab-Jewish Bilingual School Set Ablaze in Jerusalem

Saturday night, November 30, the only bilingual school in Jerusalem for Arab and Jewish children was torched after, on its walls, were sprayed messages of hate: “Kahane was right!” “Death to Arabs!” “There is no coexistence with cancer!” One classroom, the kindergarten, was totally gutted by the blaze while another was partially consumed, as was…