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People attend a rally at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, October 18, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 25, 2025, 3:23 pm
Families urge public to rally in support of ‘promise to bring home’ final 13 slain hostages
Sister of fallen soldier held in Gaza since 2014 says Hamas ‘playing with us,’ knows where bodies are; anti-government protesters slam prolonged detention of ‘dumpster detainees’
By ToI Staff
A car in flames outside the Elad home of an Israel Prisons Service intelligence officer believed targeted by criminal organizations, November 2018. (Israel Prisons Service)
December 13, 2018, 9:00 am
Bomb goes off outside prison officer’s home amid intimidation campaign
Explosion seen as the latest incident in a spate of attacks by criminal organizations against prison officials
By ToI Staff
View of the Ayalon prison in central Israeli town of Ramle. August 25, 2014. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90
November 24, 2018, 8:04 pm
2 suspects arrested after fleeing to Romania in wake of prison drive-by shooting
Further suspect nabbed in Israel on suspicion of involvement in attack, said to be in response to prison officials’ refusal to allow gang leader leave to attend a funeral
By ToI Staff
The Ayalon Prison complex in Ramle, central Israel. (AP/Ariel Schalit)
November 23, 2018, 8:12 am
Suspects arrested as shots fired at prison for second time this week
2 men apprehended amid suspected intimidation campaign against prison officers involved in crackdown on mobsters
By ToI Staff
The Ayalon Prison complex in Ramle, central Israel. (AP/Ariel Schalit)
November 23, 2018, 2:34 am
Shots fired at central Israeli prison in fourth attack on jailers since August
Guard tower hit at Ayalon Prison in latest drive-by-shooting, amid suspected intimidation campaign against prison officers involved in crackdown on mobsters
By ToI Staff
File: View of the Hadarim prison complex, August 1, 2012. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
November 21, 2018, 9:01 am
Drive-by shooting at maximum-security prison seen as attempt to scare jailers
Officials say third ‘warning’ attack since August part of intimidation campaign against prison officers involved in crackdown against criminal organizations
By ToI Staff
Following a demonstration to show support for Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli prisons, a Palestinian protester jumps near a burning tire during clashes with Israeli security forces in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, April 17, 2017. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)
April 18, 2017, 10:38 pm
UN says watching Palestinian prisoner hunger strike closely
Spokesperson calls for both sides to show restraint, says inmates should be treated in humane manner
By AFP and ToI Staff
Fatah terror chief Marwan Barghouti, serving five life terms for murder during the Second Intifada, appears in a Jerusalem court, January 25, 2012. (Flash90)
April 17, 2017, 8:37 pm
Barghouti put in solitary, moved to new prison over hunger strike
Israel Prisons Service also transfers dozens of other inmates in bid to foil protest, determined not to give in to their demands
By ToI Staff and AFP
Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest against Israeli army conscription, in Jerusalem, on March 28, 2017. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)
April 13, 2017, 9:37 pm
13 ultra-Orthodox protesters arrested after blocking major highway
Route 4 reopened after police intervene in rally outside Hadarim Prison
By ToI Staff
Fatah terror chief Marwan Barghouti, serving five life terms for murder during the Second Intifada, appears in a Jerusalem court, January 25, 2012. (Flash90)
April 4, 2017, 9:12 am
Jailed Fatah terrorist organizes hunger strikes, protests
In attempted power play, influential Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti demands better conditions for security prisoners
By Avi Issacharoff
A member of the al-Qassam Brigades stands guard in front of a prefab made up to look like an Israeli prison during an anti-Israel military parade on August 21, 2016 in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. The sign reads in Hebrew "Prison 4, for prisoners of the enemy." (AFP/ SAID KHATIB)
August 21, 2016, 10:37 pm
Hamas threatens to abuse Israeli hostages, renew fighting
Parading rockets through Rafah and threatening new fighting, Gaza terror group says Israelis held in Strip will receive same treatment as Hamas members in Israeli jails
By Dov Lieber
An undated photo of Nafha and Ramon prisons in southern Israel. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
August 6, 2016, 3:23 pm
Hamas prisoners end hunger strike in southern jail
Hundreds of inmates call off protest, saying understandings reached with management; Prisons Service denies making concessions
By AFP and ToI Staff
Security prisoners in the Ofer Prison facility near Ramallah, August 20, 2008. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
August 4, 2016, 2:04 pm
300 Hamas prisoners declare hunger strike in mass mutiny
Inmates plan series of measures protesting transfer from high-security facility to other jails amid crackdown on illicit communication
By Avi Issacharoff
Israeli pensioner Hazan Peretz, who was jailed over unpaid parking fines, talks to Channel 2 television in an interview aired on April 4, 2016 (screen capture: Channel 2)
April 15, 2016, 12:34 am
Disabled man, 70, jailed over $65 parking ticket
Peretz Hazan says he anticipated the judge would take pity on him when he chose prison rather than pay NIS 250 fine
By Stuart Winer
Palestinian Ameeneh Nazzal, 75, holds a photo of her son, Ahmed, who she says is held in an Israeli jail, during a demonstration in support of Palestinian prisoners on a hunger strike, in the West Bank city of Jenin, June 3, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Mohammed Ballas)
May 10, 2015, 5:07 pm
Palestinian hunger strike leader again refuses food
Khader Adnan was key figure in 2012 hunger strike that won 1,600 followers, in protest of administrative detention
By ToI Staff
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