Israeli activists and African asylum seekers jailed in Holot detention center protest outside Saharonim prison in solidarity with African asylum seekers on hunger strike, January 18, 2014. About 50 African asylum seekers have been on hunger strike for two weeks (Photo: Activestills)

Human rights organizations call on the government to recognize the rights of asylum seekers

Human rights organizations: Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, Hotline for Refugees and Migrants and the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, call on the Israeli government to recognise and protect the needs and rights of asylum seekers in its territory. Israel is home to about 53,000 African asylum seekers. According to the Ministry of Interior (MOI), 49,000 of…

Israeli activists and African refugees protest in the center of Tel Aviv against the forced deportation of Sudanese asylum-seekers. February 28, 2013 (Photo: Activestills)

Israeli human rights organizations against the deportation of asylum-seekers

In response to reports of an agreement to deport asylum-seekers from Israel to Uganda, Israeli human rights organizations said they doubted the likelihood that the agreement will materialize. In a joint statement the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), Hotline for Migrant Workers, Physicians for Human Rights – Israel, A.S.A.F., Amnesty International Israel and Kav…

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…

H. R. organizations: Israel must stop attacks on Palestinian human rights defenders

Early on Tuesday 11 December 2012, members of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) raided three Palestinian NGOs in Ramallah, seizing computers, work files and equipment and ransacking their offices in what Amnesty International says is part of a “pattern of harassment” against campaigners in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. “This Israeli raid against the Addameer Prisoners…

Rightist MKs continued to persecute human rights groups

Israeli organizations which contributed to the Goldstone Report on the deadly last Israeli invasion to Gaza criticized on Sunday a proposal by MK Israel Hasson (Kadima) to revoke their right to use National Service volunteers. Cast Lead operation (photo: Al Ittihad) They claimed a deliberate witch hunt is being held against them. Hasson discovered that…