Palestinian student leader Omar Kiswani suspended his hunger strike after 14 days, according to Palestinian lawyer Mamoun al-Hashem of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society. The occupation court in the Moskobiya detention center extended his detention for another eight days on 2 April under the pretext of completing his interrogation.
Al-Hashem said that Kiswani, the president of the Bir Zeit University Student Council, suspended his strike due to exhaustion under constant, intensive interrogation. He has been under interrogation since being seized on 7 March by undercover Israeli occupation forces known as “mustaribeen” who invaded and then opened fire in the middle of the Bir Zeit university campus.
The Moskobiya detention center, where Kiswani is held, is notorious for ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian prisoners.
Al-Hashem had his first visit with Kiswani on 2 April after being denied access to an attorney since he was seized by occupation forces. He lost 13 kilograms while conducting his hunger strike. Kiswani told his lawyer that when he was arrested, he was punched and kicked by Israeli occupation soldiers, who also hit him with an electrified baton when they took him to a military camp.
He said that he was forced to sit on a chair for four hours without being allowed to drink water or use the bathroom before being taken to the Moskobiya interrogation center. Once detained in Moskobiya, he was regularly subjected to interrogation lasting for 18 hours a day without a break, forced to sit on an iron chair.
On the ninth day of his arrest, his mother was seized from the family home and brought to Moskobiya detention center. Kiswani was prohibited from talking to her but he was shown his mother from a distance as a means of pressure in an attempt to force him into a “confession.” His mother was later released on the same day.
Kiswani is one of approximately 340 Palestinian university students imprisoned by Israeli occupation forces, including more than 60 from Bir Zeit University alone. Every year in late March and early April, Israeli occupation repression directed at Palestinian students intensifies and grows as annual student council elections approach. The arrests are a form of Israeli intervention in and suppression of Palestinian student politics and organizing.
One such Palestinian student, Ola Marshoud, 21, a student of information sciences at An-Najah National University in Nablus, was brought before the Salem military court on 2 April. the military court then adjourned the hearing until next Wednesday, 11 April. Marshoud was seized by occupation forces on 12 March after being summoned for interrogation; she was held in the Petah Tikva interrogation center under questioning for 21 days before being transferred to a prison with fellow female prisoners.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza defied Israeli terror, gathering at the boundaries of the “dead zone” that the Israeli occupier has imposed on Gaza, asserting the right of Palestinian refugees uprooted by the occupier to return to their homes. Once again the Zionist army did not hesitate in its violent attacks on unarmed protesters. 15 dead and over 1,000 injured are the bitter price in blood paid by Palestinians who continue to seek freedom.
Recently, maritime aid rescued four corpses and at least seven more people are missing in a new boat wreck in the Strait.
Stop the Israeli Crimes in Gaza! AFPS and the Collective of Albertville Organizations are organizing a march on the streets of Albertville
On the occasion of Land Day, a Palestinian national day, we invite you to an open event where we will commemorate the occasion. The event will include folk dance, music, and theatre. Entrance is free and all are welcome.
An act of solidarity to coincide with others around the globe for the victims of Israel’s massacre on Good Friday & subsequently of unarmed non-violent Palestinian protesters. Protesting refugees legal right of return & against the brutal siege
Join us at midday outside 
On March 30, 2018, Israeli military forces callously killed 17 unarmed Palestinian protestors and injured hundreds more in Gaza. The protestors were part of the Great Return March as well as marking Land Day.
Gather at Townsend Square between Central & Henry Johnson.