political prisoners

PODCAST: Marwan Barghouti’s long walk to Palestine’s freedom

Arab Barghouti discusses the agony of not knowing if his father would be freed in the ceasefire or killed in his cell, and why Israel still sees him as such a threat.

By +972 Magazine January 8, 2026

Police officers and prison guards at the scene of a prison escape of six Palestinian prisoners, outside the Gilboa prison, northern Israel, September 6, 2021. (Flash90)

PODCAST: Resisting apartheid behind Israel’s prison walls

Attorney Abeer Baker unpacks the sweeping nature of Israel’s incarceration regime, and how hunger strikes have been the strongest tool to advance Palestinian prisoners' rights.

By Amjad Iraqi October 8, 2021

A prisoner seen making a phone call in Gilboa Prison, northern Israel, February 28, 2013. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Palestinian prisoners left in the dark by Israel’s coronavirus restrictions

With family and lawyer visits canceled due to coronavirus, Palestinians in Israeli prisons, including minors, are now completely cut off from the world.

By Oren Ziv March 22, 2020

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Former Balad MK Basel Ghattas arrives for a court hearing at the Be'er Sheva Magistrate's Court, April 9, 2017. (Yehuda Peretz/POOL)

Palestinian MK released from prison after two-year sentence

Ghattas served a two-year sentence for smuggling cellphones to Palestinian political prisoners. ‘The conditions that Palestinian prisoners face are a central tool the occupation uses to reinforce itself.’ Former Balad MK Basel Ghattas was released from prison Monday morning after serving two years for smuggling cellphones to Palestinian political prisoners in Israel. Although his family…

By Oren Ziv May 27, 2019

Thousands of Israelis attend a left-wing rally calling for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, May 27, 2017. (Flash90)

’50 years of occupation is 50 years too many’

As the Right celebrates 50 years of military rule over the Palestinians, the Left must not be afraid to create alliances between struggles and remind Israelis that ending the occupation is everyone’s task. By Eli Bitan The following is the full text of Local Call blogger and editor Eli Bitan’s speech in front of 10,000 left-wing protesters at Saturday’s anti-occupation…

By +972 Magazine May 28, 2017

Khader Adnan plays with his daughters in the West Bank village of Araba, near Jenin on his first day of freedom from incarceration in an Israeli prison, April 18, 2012. (Photo by Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Palestinian prisoner nears 40th day of hunger strike

Khader Adnan, who became the symbol of Palestinian administrative detainees after refusing food for 66 days in 2011, is once again on hunger strike. Adnan’s wife: ‘He has no other choice. He is very strong and won’t budge until he is free.’ By Yael Marom Khader Adnan, the symbol of Palestinian administrative detainees, is once…

By +972 Magazine June 11, 2015