Jerusalem Committee for Families of Prisoners

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The East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan is already a place of heightened tension. (AFP/File)

October 12th, 2016 - 10:00 GMT

Israeli forces kill 20 year old Palestinian during clashes in Silwan

The 20-year-old man succumbed to his wounds after minutes, as Israeli police closed off the area to traffic and pedestrians, denying the access of ambulances to arrive to the scene to treat him.

An Israeli soldier scuffles with a Palestinian woman who is trying to film the scene of a reported Palestinian stabbing attack on a soldier near the Jewish settler enclave of Tal Rumeda in the city centre of the West Bank town of Hebron on September 16, 2016. (AFP/Hazem Bader)

September 20th, 2016 - 03:00 GMT

Palestinian journalist released after serving six months for Facebook post

Shireen was detained in March 2014, in a campaign carried out against Palestinian lawyers in Jerusalem. (Facebook)

March 7th, 2016 - 04:30 GMT

Jerusalem Committee for Families of Prisoners latest

Israeli forces kill 20 year old Palestinian during clashes in Silwan

Palestinian journalist released after serving six months for Facebook post

Israel imprisons prominent Palestinian lawyer and her brother for supporting detainees