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The Prisoners' Diaries

The Prisoners' Diaries

Palestinian Voices from the Israeli Gulag

Norma Hashim (author)

Publisher: Good Tree Press

This is a compilation of 22 Palestinian prisoners' experiences in Israeli jails . 1,027 prisoners were released in 2011 as part of the exchange with Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and 22 of them were interviewed by journalists. Their commentaries were translated by CPDS and edited. The book is dedicated to Samer Issawi and all Palestinian prisoners, past, present and future, and was released on 17 April 2013, in conjunction with Palestinian Prisoners' Day.
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This is a compilation of 22 Palestinian prisoners' experiences in Israeli jails . 1,027 prisoners were released in 2011 as part of the exchange with Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and 22 of them were interviewed by journalists. Their commentaries were translated by CPDS and edited. The book is dedicated to Samer Issawi and all Palestinian prisoners, past, present and future, and was released on 17 April 2013, in conjunction with Palestinian Prisoners' Day.

" This book is so valuable as it combines the witnessing by prisoners with just enough information about the magnitude of the Israeli prison system to give readers a true understanding of this most agonizing dimension of the Palestinian ordeal.”

− Richard Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law Emeritus, Princeton University and UN Special Rapporteur for occupied Palestinian Territories

“ I defy you to read these stories and not weep for Jews and Palestinians. Now dry your eyes and work for justice, peace and reconciliation.”

− Stephen Robert Sizer, Anglican vicar of Christ Church, Virginia Water, Surrey, England, writer, peace activist and freelance photographer

“ A humane, beautiful, valuable yet painful book. I ask all people of conscience to read it to learn more about the suffering of the Palestinian detainees in Israeli Occupation prisons.”

− Hana Shalabi, former hunger striker, Hasharon prison, Tel Aviv

Editorial Reviews

"It is difficult not to feel the pain that they suffer as one reads their writings."

Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad,

Prime Minister of Malaysia

" The Prisoners' Diaries provides a deeply moving series of first-person commentaries on what Palestinian prisoners have been enduring for decades in the dark recesses of Israel's unlawful and inhumane network of prisons. Somehow these texts make us feel and understand the reality of Palestinian suffering that is associated with living under such a long and abusive occupation in vivid ways that statistics, however necessary, can never manage. This book combines the witnessing by prisoners with just enough information about the magnitude of the Israeli prison system to give readers a true understanding of this most agonizing dimension of the Palestinian ordeal. Reading this book, makes one doubt whether such individuals who have resisted the occupation of their country should be treated as criminals at all rather than brave warriors in a ceaseless and legitimate war waged against great odds to recover control of their homeland."

Richard Falk

Albert G Milbank Professor of International Law Emeritus, Princeton University and UN Special Rapporteur for occupied Palestinian Territories

"I defy you to read these stories and not weep for Jews and Palestinians. Now dry your eves' and work for justice, peace and reconciliation."

Stephen Robert Sizer

Anglican vicar of Christ Church, Virginia water; Surrey, England, writer, peace activist and freelance photographer

"A humane, beautiful, valuable yet painful book. I ask all people of conscience to read it to learn more about the suffering of the Palestinian detainees in Israeli Occupation prisons."

Hana Shalabi

former hunger striker, Hasharon prison, Tel Aviv

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