Muhammad al-Qiq in Afula hospital on February 10, 2016

Supreme Court Rejects Palestinian Hunger-Striker’s Request to Be Transferred to Palestinian Hospital

Israel’s Supreme Court turned down a petition on Tuesday, February 16, submitted by Palestinian hunger-striker Mohammed al-Qiq requesting that he be transferred from Haemek Hospital in Afula, Israel to a hospital in Ramallah in the West Bank. Al-Qiq, a journalist, has been on a hunger strike for 84 days to protest his administrative detention without…

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…

Israel punishes Palestinian hunger-strikers

Israel has taken measures against some 1,200 Palestinian prisoners on a hunger strike, denying them family visits and separating them from inmates not taking part in the protest, prison authorities said on Monday. The open-ended strike, dubbed the “battle of empty stomachs” by organizers, began last Tuesday. The prisoners are demanding better jail conditions and…

A demonstration in Ramallah in solidarity with hunger-striking prisoner Bilal al-Kayed

Palestinian Authority: Hunger-Striking Prisoner Near Death

The Palestinian Authority’s Health Ministry warned Tuesday, August 2, that Bilal Kayed, a hunger-striking prisoner held by Israel under administrative detention without charges, has suffered a massive deterioration in his condition which doctors say could bring about his sudden death. In response, a spokesperson for the Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon where Kayed is being…