Jerusalem 8 September 2014
Nasser Abed Rabbo was one of 51 Palestinians freed as part of Israel’s agreement with Hamas to be rounded up in West Bank raids on 18 June. Read more about Prisoner from Jerusalem deprived of seeing newborn son
23 June 2014
Reneging on deals, Israel has rearrested dozens of prisoners released in prisoner exchanges or agreements. Read more about Israeli forces rearrest hunger striker Samer Issawi
Abeyat 25 April 2013
Samer Issawi has won a pledge to be allowed return to Jerusalem, after refusing Israel’s offers of exile. Read more about Hunger strike marks "turning point" in fight against Israel's deportations, says rights group
Gaza City 25 March 2013
During the last month of his protest, Sharawna’s captors only allowed him use the bathroom twice a day. Read more about Israel “tried to banish me for 28 years,” says hunger striker Ayman Sharawna
6 March 2013
Maher Younis has been in prison for 31 years; in a message from Gilboa jail, his fellow detainees are demanding his release. Read more about Veteran prisoner Maher Younis goes on hunger strike
21 February 2013
Hunger striker sentenced by Jerusalem court for eight months but faces a further twenty years under military court order. Read more about Samer Issawi vows to continue hunger strike following Jerusalem court sentence today
Gaza City 25 January 2013
Dozens of unarmed Palestinians had been slain in the two weeks before Abdel Aziz Salha stabbed an Israeli soldier. Read more about Israel's "most wanted man" finally tells his story
Jerusalem 20 August 2012
Samer Issawi faces essentially a life sentence after his arrest in a Jerusalem-area village, which Israel says is outside the city municipality and therefore violates a prisoner swap agreement that won Isaswi’s release last year. Read more about Jerusalemite faces decades in prison after visiting nearby village
17 May 2012
Hassan Kharajeh, a youth coordinator with Stop the Wall, on the role played by youth in the hunger strike demonstrations, and why they have Israel scared. Read more about "We will not be silenced": Stop the Wall youth activist speaks on repression and resistance
Ramallah 17 April 2012
The Palestinian Authority announced that Palestinian Prisoners’ Day would mark the start of a massive new wave of hunger strikes. But factionalism threatens the success of this movement, says Addameer’s Mourad Jadallah in an interview with The Electronic Intifada. Read more about Interview: "counterrevolution" threatens mass hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners