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PA Prisoners Affairs' Commission
Illustrative: Inside the Nitzan Prison in Ramle, February 27, 2012. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
July 16, 2019, 1:29 pm
Palestinian security prisoner found dead in his cell
PA health and foreign ministries call for investigation into Nassar Taqataqa’s death; family says he did not suffer from illnesses
By Adam Rasgon
Palestinians take part in a demonstration in support of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, in Gaza City, on April 17, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)
July 11, 2019, 2:56 am
PA official denies Ramallah has raised its payments to security prisoners
Hassan Abd Rabbo says PA preemptively paid June salaries to inmates in May for ‘technical reasons’; Israeli group that tracks Palestinian press questions his claim
By Adam Rasgon
View of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on December 3, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 15, 2019, 2:28 pm
6 East Jerusalemites arrested for violating anti-terrorism laws
Residents alleged to have transferred funds to families of Palestinian security prisoners; police say they also seized a PA security forces uniform
By TOI staff
Illustrative: Palestinian security prisoners in Ofer Prison, north of Jerusalem, August 20, 2008. (Moshe Shai/Flash90/File)
April 15, 2019, 6:49 pm
Palestinian security prisoners end hunger strike over cellphones
After weeks of tension over Prisons Service jamming devices, Hamas inmates to hand in some 300 smuggled phones, get access to public telephones
By TOI staff
Illustrative: Palestinian security prisoners in Ofer Prison, north of Jerusalem, August 20, 2008. (Moshe Shai/Flash90/File)
April 8, 2019, 10:06 pm
Palestinian security prisoners launch hunger strikes after talks said to fail
PLO official says Israel Prisons Service will not negotiate because of political pressure ahead of Election Day
By TOI staff
The mother of 24-year-old Palestinian Muhammad Zaghloul Khatib sits at the family's home in the West Bank village of Bayt Rima, north of Ramallah, on September 18, 2018. (AFP Photo/Abbas Momani)
September 25, 2018, 7:27 pm
Palestinian who died in IDF custody wasn’t beaten to death, autopsy shows
Initial findings show heart condition may have been the cause of Muhammed Khatib’s death, Israeli and Palestinian medical sources say
By Adam Rasgon
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