As some 1,600 Palestinian prisoners marked their 23rd day on hunger strike on Tuesday, the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs warned that hunger strikers had entered a dangerous stage, reporting that health conditions were deteriorating considerably. The political prisoners are calling for an end to the denial of family visits,[…]
The National Committee to Support Palestinian Prisoners’ Hunger Strike has called on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to suspend municipal elections scheduled to be held Saturday and to halt its contested security coordination with Israel as some 1,600 Palestinians entered their 22nd day on hunger strike in Israeli prisons on Monday.[…]
A committee supporting the mass Palestinian prisoner hunger strike has denounced footage released Sunday evening by the Israel Prison Service (IPS) purporting to show strike leader Marwan Barghouthi eating in his prison cell, calling the release part of an Israeli “war of lies” to discredit the prisoner movement. The footage[…]
The Al-Quds Foundation plans on holding a picket in support of the Palestinian hunger strike on Wednesday 10th May. The mass hunger strike started last month after an op-ed by Fatah Leader Marwan Barghouti in the New York Times International, detailing the conditions experienced by political prisoners in Israel. “Having[…]
Israeli state’s pattern of arbitrary arrests and detention without trial of Palestinians bears the hallmarks of apartheid South Africa. That was according to the African National Congress (ANC), as it affirmed its solidarity with the Freedom and Dignity hunger strike by 1600 Palestinian prisoners in 200 Israeli jails. The hunger[…]
A social media campaign highlighting the plight of more than 1,500 hunger striking Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails has gone viral, with people from across the world posting videos of themselves on social media drinking salt water in solidarity. Similar to the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge that went viral in[…]
South Africans have been called upon to participate in a 24-hour solidarity hunger strike, starting this evening, in support of Palestinian political prisoners on hunger strike. The 24-hour hunger strike will commence at 6pm on Tuesday, May 2 and end at 6pm on Wednesday, May 3. Participants, like Palestinian hunger[…]
A group of students in the UK have launched a hunger strike in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Activists at the University of Manchester said the strike, which began on Thursday, would last for at least one week. More than 1,500 Palestinian political prisoners, led by senior Fatah[…]
As some 1,500 Palestinian prisoners entered the 11th day of the mass “Freedom and Dignity” hunger strike, Israeli Prison Service (IPS) forces on Thursday attacked two hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners being held in southern Israel’s Ashkelon prison, according to the Media Committee for Palestinian Prisoners’ Hunger Strike — a joint committee[…]
By Najma Bibi Noor Mahomed A hunger strike has been a method of expression and resistance against oppression and injustice for centuries. The likes of the passive resistance icon Mahatma Gandhi, Latino-American labour rights leader Cesar Chavez and even Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein undertook a hunger strike as a show[…]
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