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.
Given the infectiousness of Omicron, we can expect a major spike in infection rates, if not rates of severe disease, in the occupied Palestinian territories. Though according to the WHO, 27 Palestinians died of coronavirus in the past week, a downward trend since the most recent rise at the end of December and much lower than earlier peaks.
Hisham Abu Hawash’s hunger strike will go down in the history of Palestinian resistance as one of the longest and, arguably, most consequential.
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.”
Mohammad Sabaaneh’s new book of linocuts uses the conceit of a bird conversing with a prisoner to get out the word on Palestinian conditions. “You bring the pencil, and I will bring the stories,” the bird tells the writer.
The escape of six Palestinian prisoners from Israel’s Gilboa prison opened pathways to new worlds beyond the walls erected by apartheid Israel and its barbaric, inhumane policies.
The final two prisoners who escaped Israel’s maximum security Gilboa prison earlier this month were recaptured over the weekend by Israeli forces, bringing an end to what Palestinians are now remembering as the “great tunnel escape.”
New anthology shares the common experiences, and joint struggle, shared by Palestinian and Irish hunger strikers.
According to his lawyers, Zakaria Zubeidi sustained “extreme beating” on the left side of his face during his detention, and has been hospitalized for treatment, claims being denied by Israeli media.
Mohammed el-Halabi is accused of diverting World Vision aid money in Gaza to Hamas, yet as his trial closes no evidence has emerged that any funds ever went missing. In his first interview since his arrest in 2016, el-Halabi tells Mondoweiss, “the claims that the Israeli prosecutor has issued against me are fabricated and aimed at stopping the humanitarian work I and others are doing for the people of Gaza.”