Fayha Shalash

Fayha Shalash is a Ramallah-based Palestinian journalist. With a degree in TV journalism from Birzeit University, she has been a key contributor to a local broadcasting channel since 2009 and has also authored articles on various websites.

Articles from author

How Palestinians are smuggling sperm out of Israeli prisons to have babies

Couples separated by long jail terms have no option but to rely on in vitro fertilisation to raise families.

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How Palestinians are smuggling sperm out of Israeli prisons to have babies

How Israel treats Palestinian women prisoners

From enduring strip searches to heavy beating, here are the accounts of three Palestinian women prisoners who were recently released from Israeli prisons in a hostage exchange.

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How Israel treats Palestinian women prisoners

Life in occupied West Bank: Funerals, night raids, and targeting of children

The Israeli army detains children to pressure their parents into surrendering and carries out home raids in the occupied West Bank while media attention is focused on Gaza.

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Life in occupied West Bank: Funerals, night raids, and targeting of children

Israeli hostages of Hamas give a new lease of life to Palestinian prisoners

There are more than 6,000 Palestinians languishing in Israeli prisons. And the only hope for many of them to get out is a prison exchange.

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Israeli hostages of Hamas give a new lease of life to Palestinian prisoners

Despite facing arrests, Palestinian children defy Israel’s war on schools

The Israeli army in collusion with illegal Jewish settlers have employed violent tactics to force Palestinian children to give up their education, but the policy has backfired.

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Despite facing arrests, Palestinian children defy Israel’s war on schools

'I want my eye back': Palestinian children’s eyes in Israeli crosshairs

International observers and NGOs confirm complaints that the Israeli Army practises a policy of shooting Palestinians living in the occupied territories, especially the children, in the upper body.

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'I want my eye back': Palestinian children’s eyes in Israeli crosshairs