In a Joint Submission to the UN Commission of Inquiry, Palestinian Organizations Highlight Israeli Policies to Entrench and Maintain its Settler-Colonial and Apartheid Regime
On 2 February 2023, Al-Haq, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association and Al Mezan Center for Human Rights
Commemorating the International Day of Education by Highlighting the Reality of the Right to Education for Palestinian Political Prisoners
As the world commemorates the International Day of Education, 24th January, Palestinian students are subjected to a systematic and ongoing targeting campaign, whether by the Israeli occupation or the Palestinian Authority.
Palestinian Students under Suspended Detention
The Israeli occupation authorities systematically and persistently target Palestinian university students for arbitrary arrest and detention. This practice, amounting to a form of collective punishment, violates Palestinian students’ rights to education and freedom of association, assembly, and expression, all protected under international legal standards. Each year, the Israeli occupation authorities viciously arrest and detain dozens of Palestinian students, often under the pretext of involvement with student groups deemed “illegal” under Israeli military orders.
Palestinian Political Prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid Passes Away while Incarcerated, Bringing the Total Number of Deaths in the Palestinian Prisoners Movement to 233
Today, on Tuesday, 20 December 2022, Palestinian political prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid passed away at age 50 from advanced lung cancer while held captive in Ramleh Prison Clinic—a carceral clinic known for its systemic human rights abuses