Palestine Think Tank

Weeks of solitary confinement. Six military hearings. Sleep deprivation. No access to a lawyer. No criminal charge.
Mohammad Othman, a prominent Palestinian activist involved with War on Want partner, Stop the Wall, has been detained without charge by Israeli authorities. His detention is illegal – and he now faces the risk of torture. We need to [...]

Israel continues to imprison Palestinian community activist Mohammad Khatib from Bil’in village in the West Bank.
Mohammad Khatib, along with over twenty other Palestinians from Bil’in, has been arbitrarily arrested during a recent night-time raid carried out by the Israeli army. The agricultural village of Bil’in has gained international attention for its weekly protests against the [...]

The Palestinian Authority and Hamas movements have trespassed all the limits with their continuous arrests and torture of political activists, and then killing many of them them in their jails. The attitude of these two movements is now similar to what the Israeli occupation has done and is still doing against the Palestinians in occupied [...]

(via Uruknet) This picture, of my wife and our little baby I got yesterday evening Aug. 5th 09, a moments before dusk. Today my wife went to visit her brother in the "israeli" jail, and of course she got to take our baby Adam with her.
Adam, our baby, is less than two months, he’s exactly [...]

I received a hateful comment from an Israeli calling himself “Eyal”, which goes far beyond the usual hateful rubbish which these people write. I wonder why “Eyal” from the Systems Security of the Israeli Airport Authority (Ben-Gurion Airport) left a comment on my articles “Names and Photos of the Israeli War criminals”. “Eyal” appears to [...]

Today, July 8, 2009, the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat sent the below letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, demanding that he and the United Nations uphold their responsibilities to protect the rights of Palestinian prisoners and secure their freedom. Well over 400 international organizations and individuals (see below for [...]

ألمناضل ألقائد أبو غسان مستمر في إضرابة عن ألطعام , فهل لنا أن نتضامن معة ومع باقي ألحركة ألاسيرة ألبطلة ؟
ألمناضل ألفذ أحمد سعدات مستمر بإضرابة عن ألطعام دفاعاً عن كرامتنا فرداً فرداً ولكننا نعيش في كوكب آخر ….إلى متى سنبقى غائبين مغيبين يا ترى ؟
هل لنا أن نتضامن معهم بإعلان اضرابنا عن ألطعام يوم [...]

Gaza – Ma’an – Israel released a Hamas member at the end of a 12-year prison term, but sent him into exile in Gaza on Tuesday, isolating him from his home and family in Jenin Refugee Camp in the West Bank.
Speaking on arrival at Gaza’s Erez border crossing, Mahmoud Azzam said he does not see [...]

The Palestinian prisoner Fatima Alziq is a mother of nine children one of them is baby Joseph. Her children are deprived of their right of meeting their mother and their baby brother Joseph who was born fifteen months ago inside the prison. Her children suffer a collective punishment like most Palestinian children. All children need [...]

Every year, on April 17, Palestinians commemorate the Palestinian Political Prisoners Day. On 17.4.1974 the first Palestinian political prisoner, Mahmoud Baker Hijazi, was released from Israeli prisons in the first prisoner exchange deal with Israel. That same year, the Palestinian National Council declared the 17th of April a day of solidarity with Palestinian political prisoners, [...]