More than 1500 Palestinian prisoners start “open-ended hunger strike” today
Over 1500 Palestinian prisoners have launched an open-ended hunger strike to protest administrative detention, solitary confinement, poor prison conditions and human rights abuses. The leader of the strike, Palestinian MP Marwan al-Barghouti told the New York Times “I have been both a witness to and a
Palestine must have independent state says Chinese Foreign Minister
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said that Palestine must be allowed to build an independent state. In a meeting with Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki on April 13, Wang Yi stated that the denial of a Palestinian state for 70 years was “unfair” and that
Life under siege
“The treatment of the Palestinian people is the most graphic illustration of an apartheid system that you can think of” Gaza, also known as the world's largest open-air prison, has been under a brutal siege for over a decade. Israel claims that they stopped their occupation of