Posted on May 15th, 2012 by Marian Houk
Ahmad Nimer’s photos from Ramallah on 14 May 2012 as prisoner deal announced. [An album of his recent photos is posted here]: Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Organization reported some details of the agreement here, today: “The details of the agreement signed last night by the prisoners’ committee representing the hunger strikers was recounted [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on May 14th, 2012 by Marian Houk
Reports came from Egypt last night, from Gaza this morning, from Ramallah this evening, and Israel tonight that some kind of deal had been agreed by Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike to end their action in exchange for Israeli concessions on their demands. The news came as 4 of 8 Palestinian prisoners protesting their Administrative [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on May 12th, 2012 by Marian Houk
This is the Israeli weekend, and the Jewish Shabbat [Sabbath], and there is no news about two Palestinian Administrative Detainees in Israeli jail, Thaer Halahleh and Bilal Diab, on what is Day 75 [or is it Day 74? or is it possibly even Day 76?] of their open-ended hunger strike, a very critical day to [...]
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Posted on May 11th, 2012 by Marian Houk
According to Anat Litvak of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel [PHR=Israel], Palestinian prisoner Thaer Halahleh, now on Day 74 [or 75 or 73?] of an open-ended hunger strike protesting his extended Administrative Detention in Israeli jails, has given Do Not Resuscitate orders. According to the PHR-IL official, recorded on video by the Daily Telegraph, Thaer Halahleh [...]
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Posted on May 10th, 2012 by Marian Houk
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas visited the Ramallah / Al-Bireh solidarity tents on Thursday afternoon. It was a rare public outing for a man who travels around Ramallah in a 14-car convoy [including an ambulance] on streets where all traffic has to be stopped, and where armed men stand watch at regular intervals all along the [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, UN Secretary-General
Posted on May 10th, 2012 by Marian Houk
This morning, solidarity protesters showed up at the International Committee of the Red Cross [ICRC] in Ramallah, in support of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails on hunger strike: Photo by Radio Ajyal, posted on Facebook here
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Filed under: Human Rights, International Committee of the Red Cross - ICRC, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on May 9th, 2012 by Marian Houk
Posted on May 8th, 2012 by Marian Houk
Photo by Ahmad Nimer via Twitter here
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Posted on May 7th, 2012 by Marian Houk
Today is Day 70 [or is it Day 69?] of a historic hunger strike by two Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, Bilal Diab and Thaer Halahleh. The two men are protesting the Israeli military orders of Administrative Detention under which they have been seized and kept prisoner without their [or their lawyers] knowing the details [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on April 17th, 2012 by Marian Houk
Palestinian Authority [P.A.] Prime Minister Salam Fayyad did not accompany the P.L.O.’s Chief Negotiator Sa’eb Erekat today to see Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, as previously announced [ten days ago]. The meeting was held in the Israeli Prime Minister’s Official Residence in Jerusalem. Photo posted on YNet here and also on the website of the [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet
