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A young Palestinian human rights lawyer has been jailed by Israel for nearly a month without charge or trial after starting a group that trains female attorneys on how to visit the unprecedented number of Palestinians held in an Israeli prison in the illegally occupied West Bank. Diala Ayesh, 28,…

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She helped form a new collective of women lawyers to work on the unprecedented number of Palestinians being jailed in the West Bank & Jerusalem.

Human rights defender Diala Ayesh, 28, has been held in administrative detention since January 17.

In-depth: As Palestinian civil society faces concerted attacks from Israel, the Palestinian Authority is also accused of shrinking civic space.

According to a recent report by David Rose in The Jewish Chronicle: Palestinian thugs who beat a leading critic of Mahmoud Abbas’s regime to death were

According to the JC, Britain has been training and supporting Abbas’s security services since 2011 at a cost of more than £65 million (appr. $7 million).

Demonstrators express frustration with Washington’s support for Israel and the Biden administration’s policies toward Palestinians.