Walid Daqqah broke free during his nearly four-decade imprisonment through his writings, his resistance, and the birth of his daughter, Milad. His lifetime of refusing the prison’s walls has brought us all closer to freedom.
Israel punitively added two years to Walid Daqqah’s sentence of 37 years, and he has now been diagnosed with bone marrow cancer. Having completed serving his original sentence, Walid’s family is demanding his release before it is too late.
Israel uses numerous tools to control and abuse Palestinian prisoners. One of the lesser-known instruments of repression is a seemingly innocuous means of transportation: a bus.
Shadi Khoury is just one of the countless Palestinian children to be imprisoned by the Israeli army and put in front of Israel’s colonial military court system, with a conviction rate of 99.8 percent.
An Israeli court postponed a hearing for Ahmad Manasra for the third time on Wednesday, forcing him back into solitary confinement. “The world needs to move urgently, time is not on our side. Every day that passes is a loss,” Manasra’s lawyer Khaled Zabarqa tells Mondoweiss.
Lawyer and researcher Salah Hammouri appeals to French president Emmanuel Macron from inside Israel’s prisons: “Mr. President, what is the reason behind your double standard in the treatment of people living under oppression?”
Manasra’s lawyers and family have stepped up their campaign to demand his freedom, after years of harsh interrogations and abuse coupled with prolonged stints in solitary confinement which led to a severe deterioration of his mental health.
An Israeli court issued an arrest warrant for Israeli anti-apartheid activist Neta Golan, after she refused to appear in court in solidarity with a months-long boycott of Israeli courts by Palestinian administrative detainees. Since January 1st, 500 Palestinian administrative detainees, who are being held in Israeli prison without charge or trial, have engaged in a collective and comprehensive boycott of Israeli military courts.
Palestinian prisoner Hisham Abu Hawash entered his 140th day on hunger strike on Monday, and according to his family is in such critical condition that he could “die at any moment.”
For Palestinians the escape of six prisoners from an Israeli prison Monday has symbolized one of their greatest collective “wins” in a long time, as an estimated 20% of the Palestinian population, and 40% of the Palestinian male population, has been imprisoned by Israel at some point in their lives. Palestinians across the West Bank, Gaza, Jerusalem, and Israel took to the streets to celebrate on Monday, with people passing out sweets to strangers on the street as they held photos of the escaped prisoners.