Campaign Seeks Ahmad Manasra’s Immediate Release From Israeli Prison After 410,000 Petition

The Palestine-Global Mental Health Network (PGMHN) says an international campaign is building for the immediate release of Ahmad Manasra from Israeli prison, after an online public petition collected more than 410,000 signatures as of June 30, 2022.

“Until the end, Israel did not know whether to believe it”

Acrimed

Chronique de Palestine says Manasra, aged 13, was involved in a violent incident and that on-site videos show him lying on the ground with a bleeding head wound, followed by mistreatment by Israeli authorities.

Acrimed

Chronique de Palestine adds that after brain surgery for a subdural hematoma, Ahmad was interrogated and handcuffed while lying in his hospital bed, and that his trial was reportedly postponed until he turned 14 to allow the authorities to judge him by imposing the maximum penalty.

The same source says Ahmad was ultimately sentenced to 12 years in prison, later reduced to 9 years, and that long periods of solitary confinement followed, with Ahmad in isolation for seven months.

Chronique de Palestine reports that the legal team’s report dated June 17 says his psychological state was so severe he was unable to communicate with them, and it notes that Amnesty International published a damning indictment last week on his fate.

Acrimed describes Le Parisien’s editorial approach to the aftermath of a Gaza cease-fire agreement as telling events from the Israeli point of view and leaving Gaza off-screen, citing that between January 16 and February 6, 29 articles filled the pages of the "International" section devoted to the situation in the Middle East.

Acrimed says nearly two-thirds (17) of those articles focused on Israel, Israeli hostages, their families, their suffering or their release, while it claims only 2 articles were dedicated to the Palestinians of Gaza, plus a short focus on "the release of nearly 800 Palestinian prisoners."

Al-Jazeera Net

Acrimed quotes a Le Parisien framing that "A released terrorist will be tomorrow's murderer," describing it as a slogan chanted by demonstrators gathered in Jerusalem to protest ongoing negotiations.

Acrimed also argues that Le Parisien’s coverage invisibilizes Palestinian prisoners by omission, saying that in three weeks there was not even a single photograph of them, while it says Israeli hostages and rallies in support were the subject of 15 photographs.

In the same period, Acrimed says Le Parisien’s most substantive coverage named Ahmed Barghouti and Zakaria Zubaidi, and it notes that the editors wrote that one was released in 2011 and later sent back to prison along with other detainees sentenced to dozens of life terms.

Samidoun Paris Banlieue says Palestinian Prisoners' Day 2026 mobilizations on April 17 invite people to discover unpublished translations of texts written by Palestinian prisoners, including a text by Ibrahim Mar’i Hamed originally published in September 2023.

Samidoun says Ibrahim Mar’i Hamed, from Silwad in the West Bank (Occupied Palestine), is a leading political figure imprisoned in the occupation’s prisons and that he has been sentenced to 54 life terms for having led the armed struggle in the West Bank.

The same source says Hamed has been held in solitary confinement for seven consecutive years after being pursued and hunted for eight years, and it adds that his security dossier is considered the most important in the history of the Zionist state with 11,000 pages of dossiers submitted to the court.

Samidoun also includes a Shin Bet investigator’s reported phrase about Ibrahim Hamed’s action within the Al-Qassam Brigades: 'Ibrahim is the man who ridiculed us for ten years.'

Separately, Al-Jazeera Net says Palestinian journalist Mujahid Beni Mflah shared an image on Instagram after a fourteen-month detention and a medical journey, and it quotes his words: 'Fourteen months in prison and the long treatment that followed were enough to change me forever.'