Tag Archives: Gilboa Prison

Hundreds of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons have launched a hunger strike in protest against the regime’s intensified crackdown on detainees. The Palestinian Prisoners Club said in a statement on Wednesday that some of the Islamic Jihad captives were on a hunger strike, demanding an end to repressive measures imposed …

Israeli troops have shot dead at least five Palestinians across the occupied West Bank after intense clashes that erupted in at least four towns following overnight arrest raids. According to official Palestinian news agency Wafa, military forces stormed the northern town of Burqin near al-Quds in the predawn hours of …

Israeli military forces have shot and seriously injured a Palestinian teenage boy in occupied al-Quds over an alleged stabbing attempt, amid tensions in the occupied territories in recent days following the escape of six Palestinian prisoners from high-security Gilboa Prison last week. Israeli media outlets alleged that the 17-year-old Palestinian, …

A major commission of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has denounced as an “act of collective punishment” Israel’s repressive measures against the Palestinian prisoners, in the wake of a daring escape by at least six inmates from a high-security Israeli jail. In a statement on Sunday, the OIC Independent …