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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 529

Qadri Abu Bakr

Qadri Abu Bakr, head of the PLO's Prisoners' Affairs Commission in the West Bank city of Ramallah on March 13, 2023. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
July 1, 2023, 6:13 pm
Palestinian prisoners affairs chief killed in West Bank car crash
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas eulogizes Qadri Abu Bakr ‘as a strong freedom fighter,’ after collision in which 2 others also killed
By ToI Staff
Relatives of Palestinians held in Israeli jails hold their portraits during a protest to mark "Prisoners Day" in the West Bank city of Ramallah, April 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
March 4, 2021, 9:38 pm
PLO says $15 million per month being paid in terror stipends
Prisoners’ affairs chief tells ToI as much as $181 million paid in 2020; PA payments to security prisoners, terrorists’ families, has brought international criticism
By Aaron Boxerman
Prison guards wearing protective clothing as a preventive measure against the coronavirus, seen as they transport a prisoner suspected of having the coronavirus at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem on March 30, 2020. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
January 11, 2021, 6:14 pm
Gantz calls for prisoners to be vaccinated, calling ban illegal and unhelpful
Move comes with Public Security Minister Ohana refusing to inoculate inmates age 60-plus despite AG saying decision isn’t his to make
By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff
Hadarim Prison in the Sharon area, central Israel, on July 23, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
January 10, 2021, 12:11 pm
Human rights groups petition High Court to force Israel to vaccinate inmates
Public security minister says prisoners will only be inoculated when more Israelis get vaccinated; Israel Medical Association: Country has an ‘ethical obligation’
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Palestinian prisoners stand in a cell, pending their release from Ketziot prison in southern Israel, on October 1, 2007. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit/File)
December 26, 2020, 7:58 pm
Minister orders prisons: Don’t start vaccinating Palestinian inmates yet
Amir Ohana says prisoners will be inoculated when more Israelis have been vaccinated, after Palestinian official claims they’ll be receiving shots in coming days
By ToI Staff
A photo released by the Israel Defense Forces on December 24, 2020, shows soldiers in the West Bank detaining a suspect in the suspected murder of Israeli woman Esther Horgen. (Israel Defense Forces)
December 24, 2020, 3:46 pm
Palestinian arrested in suspected terrorist killing of Israeli mother of six
TV network says man confesses, gives details on attack; reports indicate he is a released security prisoner; security forces also detain several potential accomplices
By Aaron Boxerman
Palestinians receive their salary in a bank in Ramallah, West Bank, on May 17, 2011. (Issam Rimawi/FLASH90)
July 6, 2020, 6:55 pm
Fearing Israeli sanctions, banks refuse to pay out Palestinian terror stipends
Military decree set to take effect, applying anti-terror law to West Bank and holding banks liable for PA payments to attackers and their families
By ToI Staff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 7, 2020. (Nasser Nasser/Pool/AFP)
June 4, 2020, 1:56 am
In move seen as ‘nearly suicidal,’ Abbas’s PA refuses tax transfers from Israel
Palestinian Authority, which has formally cut security ties to Israel over annexation plans, heavily relies on these funds amid drop in donor aid, economic crisis caused by virus
By Aaron Boxerman and Jacob Magid
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
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