Seventy-five years have passed since the Palestinian people were ethnically cleansed and forcibly expelled from their homes, lands, and property in their ancestral land during the 1948 Nakba (meaning ‘catastrophe’ in Arabic).
The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) condemns the calculated and cold-blooded slow-killing of 45-year-old Khader Adnan—father, husband, Palestinian activist, and former prisoner—by the Israeli occupying authorities in the early hours of Tuesday, May 2, 2
Walid Daqqa, a Palestinian writer, activist, intellectual, and political prisoner from the city of Baqa Al-Gharbiya in the 1948 occupied Palestinian territories, was diagnosed with a rare form of bone marrow cancer in 2022 and has since then been in dire need of urgent medical attention.
While Palestinians imprisoned by the Israeli authorities have always experienced a wholesale violation of their human rights, Israel’s new extreme-right-wing government has taken numerous steps to implement a particularly hostile, radical agenda to harm Palestinians in prisons, their families, and Palestinian society as a whole.
