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Even eyesight is restricted for Palestinian prisoners in Israel’s tortorous prisons

Post author:Ben Marmarelli
Post published:6 June 2026
Post last modified:7 June 2026

Even eyesight is not taken for granted in the prisons of Israel. I am a human rights lawyer. I have had a client for four years now, and we have become good friends. I try to visit him as often as possible, sometimes without payment, sometimes for a tiny payment from his family. I have filed many petitions on his behalf without charging for them. I love him and he loves me. This client has been in prison since the days of the Second Intifada. Back then, he was a 22-year-old young man who helped his friends buy a pistol –…

European Union has policy of double standards when dealing with the Palestinian cause

Post author:Charlie Jaay
Post published:5 June 2026
Post last modified:7 June 2026

In January 2024, the EU established sanctions against individuals and entities supporting Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. It has now broadened these sanctions to also target members of Hamas’ Political Bureau, known as the ‘Politburo’. EU extends Hamas sanctions to include 10 political members According to the EU, the Politburo is a decision-making body, so its members are “responsible for violent actions carried out by Hamas.” 10 members now find themselves sanctioned. Measures include travel bans and the: freezing of all funds and economic resources belonging to, owned, held or controlled by, members of the Politburo. This decision comes as the Israeli…

Israel arrests two players from Palestinian women’s national team

Post author:Alaa Shamali
Post published:4 June 2026
Post last modified:8 June 2026

Palestinian footballer Natalie Abu Dayeh wasn’t preparing for a match or a training camp this time. She was sitting at her university homework in the town of Birzeit, north of Ramallah, before Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) stormed her home and took her into custody, leaving behind the lecture notes and pen she had been writing with just minutes before the raid. A scene documented by the Palestinian Football Association in an official statement, but it was not the only incident in recent hours. Shortly afterwards, the occupation authorities arrested Palestinian women’s national team player Rand Halawani (20), after summoning her to…

Watch: Netherlands police thug brutally flings pregnant Palestinian woman backwards to floor

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:31 May 2026
Post last modified:8 June 2026

A Netherlands police thug has been caught on camera viciously throwing a visibly pregnant Palestinian asylum-seeker backwards to the floor in an unprovoked attack. Several other officers stood by and did nothing to prevent the attack or to restrain the thug afterward. The attack was perpetrated on 29 May 2026 in an asylum centre in Zeist, near Amsterdam. It is yet another example of European state brutality toward refugees and and anti-genocide activists: https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/nl-thug-asylum.mp4 Netherlands — Early birth The video quickly went viral. The woman had approached police to ask to be allowed to remain with her husband during detention. She…

Palestinian farmer defies eviction threats

Post author:Charlie Jaay
Post published:27 May 2026
Post last modified:8 June 2026

Ayoub Abuhejleh, a 57-year-old Palestinian farmer from the village of Deir Istiya, occupied West Bank, is on a horticultural crusade through his work with the Economic and Social Development Centre of Palestine. Abuhejleh, who is also the village’s former mayor (2011 – 2014) has swapped his suit for farming tools adamant to stay put on his land. Farmer ordered to leave his farmland Since 2023, Abuhejleh has planted 370 olive trees, as well as almonds, figs, and grapes. “I’ve raised these olive trees as my own children,” he tells the Canary. These plants and trees line the agricultural road leading to…

Serious scabies outbreak in Israeli occupation prisons is part of the policy of torture and slow killing used against Palestinian political prisoners

Post author:Charlie Jaay
Post published:24 May 2026
Post last modified:8 June 2026

A dangerous and rapidly escalating outbreak of the skin disease scabies is again sweeping through Israeli occupation prisons. This is causing huge suffering to the many thousands of Palestinian political prisoners who, for the past few years, have intentionally had the worst conditions ever inflicted on them. Abdullah al-Zighari, head of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, told the Canary: The Israeli occupation system is carrying out acts of retaliation against Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, by denying them the necessary medical care, posing a serious threat to their lives. “Intentional health catastrophe” and deliberate deprivation of treatment for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli…

Watch: “think of the 10,000 Palestinian prisoners” — flotilla abductees arrive in Ireland

Post author:Alf
Post published:24 May 2026
Post last modified:8 June 2026

Irish citizens criminally abducted by Israel from the humanitarian Gaza flotilla arrived back in Ireland last night. Israel beat, tortured and in many cases raped or sexually assaulted them and hundreds of volunteers from other countries. But their thoughts and words were for the 10,000+ Palestinians — including 400 children — Israel holds without charge. They are tortured and raped every day, even more brutally. Flotilla vs daily reality The white faces among the flotilla victims has generated a small amount of equivocating western media interest. But for the Palestinians, such abuse is an everyday, horrific reality: View this post on…