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Apr 13, 2024 | 
peoplesdispatch.org | Basil Farraj
On 26 March 2011, the first day of his twenty-sixth year in captivity, Walid Daqqah penned a letter that was smuggled from his prison. “I write to a child, yet unborn” was for Milad, his (then) unborn child. He tells the child of his dreams, and he describes the reality of imprisonment. “Today, I finish my twenty-fifth year in prison: 9131 days. This is a number that does not end. This is my prison age that has not stopped.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
sapiens.org | Basil Farraj |Bridget Alex |Sophia Goodfriend |M. Cruz
In December 2023, as Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza entered its third month, the Israeli occupying forces (IOF) released photos and videos of military trucks crammed with Palestinian captives: stripped to their underwear, kneeling, blindfolded, and with hands bound behind their backs. While Israeli media boasted the images depict “Hamas terrorists surrendering in Gaza,” Palestinian and international organizations reacted with horror over the flagrant human rights abuses.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
vientosur.info | Basil Farraj |Fathi Nimer |Abdaljawad Omar |Samia Botmeh
Desde que comenzó el ataque contra Gaza en octubre de 2023, decenas de miles de palestinos y palestinas han muerto, han resultado heridos o han desaparecido seguramente sepultados bajo los escombros de sus casas o refugios. Cerca de dos millones de gazatíes han sido desplazados y el frío, la sed y el hambre asolan a toda la población.
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Feb 25, 2024 | 
al-shabaka.org | Samia al-Botmeh |Basil Farraj |Fathi Nimer |Abdaljawad Omar
Since the assault on Gaza began in October, 2023, tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed, injured, or missing, likely buried under the rubble of their homes or shelters. Nearly two million Palestinians in Gaza have been displaced, with cold, thirst, and hunger ravaging the entire population. While the world deliberates on the technicalities of genocide, Israeli colonization of the West Bank and disruption to Palestinian life there has only accelerated.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
english.alaraby.co.uk | Basil Farraj
'We don't want to receive them as martyrs': The Red Cross is failing in its duty to Palestinian prisoners As Palestinian prisoners face heightened abuse in Israeli detention, the international organisations supposed to protect them are silent, writes Basil Farraj. In Gaza and the West Bank, there has been no end to the unabating violence that the Israeli settler-colonial regime continues to inflict across Palestine.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
newarab.com | Basil Farraj
In Gaza and the West Bank, there has been no end to the unabating violence that the Israeli settler-colonial regime continues to inflict across Palestine. On the 1st of January, as the world celebrated the new year, the Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs announced the assassination of 23-year-old Palestinian prisoner Abdul Rahman Al-Bahsh in Megiddo prison.
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
english.alaraby.co.uk | Basil Farraj
Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons are hostages, too The release of Palestinian detainees reignites hopes for the liberation of all those unjustly imprisoned under Israel's regime of control, writes Basil Farraj. On 7 December 2023, images circulated of dozens of Palestinians, blindfolded, stripped of their clothes, and forced to kneel, as they were being detained and transported to an undisclosed location by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in the Gaza Strip.
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
newarab.com | Basil Farraj
On 7 December 2023, images circulated of dozens of Palestinians, blindfolded, stripped of their clothes, and forced to kneel, as they were being detained and transported to an undisclosed location by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in the Gaza Strip. The arrested men were abducted from schools affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East ( UNRWA) inside which they were seeking shelter from Israel's continuous bombardment.
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Nov 22, 2023 | 
znetwork.org | Basil Farraj |Justice Palestine
Since October 7, Israel doubled the number of Palestinians held hostage in Israeli jails to 10,000, including 170 children. Basil Farraj, Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies, Birzeit University, Palestine, and whose father is a political prisoner in Israel, explains how Palestinian political prisoners have had their rights further eroded as the Israeli Prison Authorities carry out a campaign of collective punishment.
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Nov 20, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Basil Farraj
World / The number of Palestinians in detention has soared since October 7. It’s a part of Israel’s strategy of control that cannot be ignored. Ad PolicyI haven’t heard from my father since October 7, when Israel intensified its violence against Palestinians, particularly in Gaza, following the Hamas attacks inside Israel.
