Khader Adnan
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Starving for Freedom: Six Years on the Abduction of Ahmad Sa’adat – One Month on the Hunger Strike of Hana Shalabi
March 14-15, 2012 marks the sixth anniversary of the attack on Jericho prison and the Israeli abduction of Palestinian national leader Ahmad Sa’adat and his comrades, who had been held under U.S. and British guard in a Palestinian Authority prison. Continue reading
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NYT Lets Unnamed Officials Smear Critics as ‘Terrorists’
In two stories this month, New York Times journalists allowed anonymous government officials to smear critics as terrorists and terrorist sympathizers–a shocking violation of the paper’s explicit rules against allowing anonymity to be a cover for attacks. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 23 February 2012: Khader Adnan: A selfless Palestinian hero
23 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Open letter from North American organizationsIMEMC – Batsheva, Take a strong, unequivocal stance against Israel’s treatment of Palestinians New York, NY, February 21 2012 – More than 20 organizations representing human rights activists and artists around the United States and Canada are calling on the Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 22 February 2012: Court gives Israel “licence to pillage” West Bank, say rights groups
22 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Troops kidnap A Former Detainee, His Wife And DaughterIMEMC – Palestinian security sources reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday at night, former political prisoner, Majdi Al-Ajouly, in addition to his wife and underage daughter, in Foqeen village, near the northern West Bank city of Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 21 February 2012:
21 February 2012 — — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 66-day hunger strike ends after Israel agrees to free Khader Adnan IMEMC – Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan agreed to end his 66-day hunger strike on Tuesday after meeting with Israeli officials who pledged to release him in April. Khader had been near death, Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 20 February 2012:
20 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Court To Look Into Adnan’s Appeal Tuesday IMEMC – Lawyer of detainee, Khader Adnan, who has been on hunger strike since 65 days, stated that the Israeli Supreme Court decided to hold a session to look into Adnan’s case on Tuesday. The court also Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 19 February 2012: Palestinians Foil Settlers Attack On Al-Aqsa Mosque
19 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center PCHR Calls upon the International Community to Save the Life of the Detainee Khader Adnan IMEMC – The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) is concerned for the life of Khader Adnan, a detainee in Israeli jails, who has been on hunger strike for Continue reading
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Israeli High Court of Justice Schedules Hearing for 23 February While Khader Adnan Continues to Be in “Immediate Danger of Death”
Despite the elaborate medical report, which confirmed that Khader Adnan “is in immediate danger of death,” and that “a fast in excess of 70 days does not permit survival,” the Israeli High Court appointed the petition session for 23 February with no guarantees that a decision will be made on the same day. By then,… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 18 February 2012: Saving Khader Adnan’s life is saving our own soul
18 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Two Injured After Army Bombarded Gaza IMEMC – Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that two residents were wounded, on Saturday evening, when the Israeli Air Force bombarded a blacksmith workshop in Az-Zeitoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City. … Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 18 February 2012: Millions of Christians Want to Start WWIII
18 February 2012 — Information Clearing House Another March to War? By Matt Taibbi You can just feel it: many of the same newspapers and TV stations we saw leading the charge in the Bush years have gone back to the attic and are dusting off their war pom-poms. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30576.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 17 February 2012: Adnan Still On Hunger-Strike At Galilee Hospital
17 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Detainees In Ramon Punished For Protesting Abuse IMEMC – The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported Friday that Palestinian political detainees held at the Ramon Israeli prison, are being punished for protesting abuse against their families, who are being ordered to undergo humiliation and strip Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 17 February 2012: It's Time We Recognised the Blair Government's Criminality
16 February 2012 — Information Clearing House It’s Time We Recognised the Blair Government’s Criminality By John Pilger In the kabuki theatre of British parliamentary politics, great crimes do not happen and criminals go free. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30558.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 16 February 2012: Standing in solidarity with Khader Adnan
16 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli Extremists On Facebook Celebrate Death of Palestinian Children Killed In Traffic Accident IMEMC – Earlier on Thursday morning, 9 Palestinian children and one adult were killed, and 42 were wounded in a tragic traffic accident between a school bus and a truck, near Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 15 February 2012: Dozens of Palestinians declare Hunger Strike as Fasting prisoner Khader Adnan is on day 60
15 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Despite domestic cuts, US aid to Israel up by $25 million in proposed budget IMEMC – An examination of the proposed US budget submitted by President Barack Obama to the US Congress this week shows that although billions of dollars will be cut from Continue reading
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PCHR Holds Urgent Consultative Meeting Addressing the Case of Palestinian Detainee in Israeli Jails, Khader Adnan, Who Is on Hunger Strike
Adnan, Who Is on Hunger Strike In the context of its efforts to follow up the issue of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, and its interest in the their detention conditions, on Tuesday afternoon, 14 February 2012, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) held an urgent consultative meeting in its Head Office in Gaza… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 14 February 2012: Take Action to Oppose Ever-Greater Amounts of Military Aid to Israel
14 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center UN Envoy Tours Palestinian Territories To Assess Settler Violence IMEMC – After a recent increase in Israeli settler attacks against Palestinian civilians, property and holy sites, the UN envoy Richard Falk arrived in the West Bank this weekend to begin an eleven-day tour of Continue reading
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Khader Adnan’s Life in Grave Danger as He Continues His Struggle Against Israel’s Human Rights Violations
Ramallah, 13 February 2012 – The Israeli Military Appeals Court dismissed the appeal against Khader Adnan’s administrative detention order today, 13 February 2012. The court decision orders Khader to remain detained for the full duration of his four month administrative detention order, to be expired on 8 May. Today’s decision follows the inconclusive Appeals Court… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 13 February 2012: A Death Sentence for Greece
13 February 2012 — Information Clearing House “The Real Opposition in Syria is Not the Syrian National Council or Free Syrian Army,” By Idaf I’m fed up with the simplified, naive views and the manipulative perception management tactics that aim to draw unrealistic picture about the conflict by conveniently framing it simply as idiot proxies and armed Continue reading
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PETITION – Khader Adnan’s life ebbing away, facing day 57 of hunger strike
Please read and sign the emergency petition (below). You are asked to sign as quickly as possible. It is unlikely he can survive many more days – he is desperately thin and ill already. It is our responsibility to act because the International Red Cross & Red Crescent is not taking the necessary steps to… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 10 February 2012: Ethnic Cleansing in a Zionist Fairyland
10 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Two Injured In Beit Lahia Blast IMEMC – Palestinian medical sources reported, on Friday at night, that two Palestinians were wounded in an explosion that took place in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. … Continue reading
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