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‘Change doesn’t come from the courthouses alone’
Addameer director Sahar Francis talks about the pervasiveness of incarceration in Palestinian society, how she and her organization have been targeted by Israeli forces for their work, and what it means if the international community can’t hold Israel accountable for the occupation. There is one legal case Sahar Francis says she’ll never forget. It was…
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Henriette Chacar
February 21, 2019
The only way to end Palestinian hunger strikes
We have become so accustomed to the idea that detaining people without charge or trial is fine. So much so that the discussion now revolves around how we should allow them to die, rather than why we have reached this point in the first place. By Yael Marom and Noam Rotem It may be true…
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August 11, 2015
Israeli doctors versus the state in showdown over force-feeding
The government hoped that transferring Mohammed Allan to a different hospital would make force-feeding him easier. But a doctors’ protest is gaining ground. A confrontation between the Israeli government and doctors treating hunger-striking prisoners is reaching a fever pitch, testing the medical community’s independence against government efforts to quell a nonviolent protest by Palestinian detainees.…
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Noa Yachot
August 10, 2015
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Israel to start force-feeding Palestinian hunger strikers
One month after administrative detainee Khader Adnan’s successful hunger strike, the Knesset passes a law to allow for the force-feeding of Palestinian prisoners. The Knesset passed a law early Thursday morning that sanctions the force-feeding of hunger-striking prisoners in Israeli jails. The law passed by a small margin, with 46 lawmakers in favor and 40…
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Haggai Matar
July 30, 2015
Post-hunger strike, admin detainee Khader Adnan is re-hospitalized
Adnan, who is to be released in less than a week according to a deal reached with the state, is still being shackled to his hospital bed. By Yael Marom Just over a week after ending his 54-day hunger strike, administrative detainee Khader Adnan was re-hospitalized in recent days following a deterioration in his medical…
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July 7, 2015
Khader Adnan reaches deal to end hunger strike, will be released
Adnan has been on hunger strike for over 50 days in protest of being held without charge, trial or being convicted of a crime. By Yael Marom Palestinian administrative detainee Khader Adnan will end his 50-plus-day hunger strike after reaching a deal with Israeli authorities that will see him released on July 12, according to…
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June 28, 2015
Is Israel negotiating with Palestinian hunger striker Khader Adnan?
As he enters his 50th day of hunger strike, Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan’s health is rapidly deteriorating rapidly. Now it seems like the Israeli government may try to negotiate his release from administrative detention. By Yael Marom and Noam Rotem Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan’s health deteriorated significantly Wednesday as he reached his 49th day of…
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June 24, 2015
Israel seeks force feeding powers as hunger striker enters danger zone
The head of the Israeli Medical Association says he will instruct physicians to ignore the new law if it is passed, saying it contradicts medical ethics. Israeli authorities are currently holding some 400 Palestinians without charge or trial. The Israeli parliament is expected to soon vote on a bill that would permit authorities to force…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
June 16, 2015
Palestinian prisoner nears 40th day of hunger strike
Khader Adnan, who became the symbol of Palestinian administrative detainees after refusing food for 66 days in 2011, is once again on hunger strike. Adnan’s wife: ‘He has no other choice. He is very strong and won’t budge until he is free.’ By Yael Marom Khader Adnan, the symbol of Palestinian administrative detainees, is once…
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June 11, 2015
Israel’s broken promises to curb administrative detention
In response to Palestinian hunger strikes, Israel has made — and subsequently broken — all sorts of promises, both in individual cases and regarding the practice of administrative detention itself. Palestinian administrative detainee Khader Adnan announced last week that he would begin a week-long hunger strike to protest the renewal of his administrative detention. Adnan…
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Haggai Matar
January 14, 2015
Israel takes a page from the Guantanamo playbook
Netanyahu is pushing a new bill to allow the force-feeding of Palestinian hunger strikers. The prime minister is in good company. American practices at the prison at Guantanamo Bay are giving Benjamin Netanyahu ideas. Earlier this week, a draft bill authorizing the force-feeding of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners passed the first of three readings in the…
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Noa Yachot
June 11, 2014
The irony of exporting Israel’s hunger strike ‘expertise’ to the U.S.
Can Israel help the United States treat hunger striking detainees at Guantanamo Bay more humanely? Probably. But one lesson that may be lost on the U.S. is that Palestinian hunger strikes in Israel have – for the most – part been successful. When nearly 200 people were rushed to Boston hospitals after the marathon bombing earlier this…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
July 9, 2013
From price tag attacks to global gay pride: A week in photos – June 20-26
This week: A hunger striker bakes bread, African immigrants celebrate refugee rights, LGBT activists take to the streets around the world, price tag attacks hit Palestinian East Jerusalem, weekly West Bank demonstrations continue, an eviction is avoided, and privatization protests spread to Jerusalem.
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Activestills
June 28, 2013
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