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Palestinian prisoners launch open-ended hunger strike
| April 18, 2017
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Around 1,600 Palestinian political prisoners in Israel initiated an open-ended hunger strike on Prisoners Day. Their demands include increased visitation rights and that Israel comply with international law in its treatment of Palestinian prisoners. The Israeli government has so far refused to negotiate.
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Hunger Strikers Defiant as Administrative Detention Continues
| September 20, 2016
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The condition of three Palestinian hunger strikers, held under Israel‘s administrative detention laws, has become critical, the Palestinian Detainees Affairs Commission has said. In a statement of September 17, reported by WAFA, the Commission‘s lawyers claimed that the three men had reached a “critical stage”.
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- Khader Adnan‘s hunger strike enters 36th day
| June 09, 2015
 | Khader Adnan’s condition is deteriorating as he enters the 36 day of hunger strike in protest against his administrative detention. He is currently being held at Israel’s Ramle prison clinic having been transferred from Israel’s Hadarim prison in central Israel.
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As prison protest escalates, troubling testimony from inside
| June 08, 2014
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For families, activists and observers in Palestine, the passing of time has come to be loaded with a grave significance. Each 24 hours represents another day of hunger for hundreds of prisoners protesting administrative detention in Israeli jails: a new mark in an increasingly morbid tally that takes the situation of inmates closer to the brink.
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In Israeli jails, Palestinian hunger strikers remain steadfast
| May 22, 2014
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Every Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jail is going hungry today, in a mass gesture of support for the ongoing hunger strike of 180 inmates. In a day-long protest, over 5,000 prisoners are refusing food, highlighting the plight of administrative detainees, held without charge or trial, who have been striking since April 24.
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Palestinian hunger strikers secure move to prisons closer to home
| July 02, 2013
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Eight Palestinian prisoners began a collective hunger strike, on Monday 17 June, in response to their transfer to prisons in southern Israel, away from their families. All of the men were put in solitary confinement after launching their strike. Last week Israeli authorities conceded to the hunger strikers demands, allowing the men.....
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Sameer Issawi ends his hunger strike on his own terms
| April 23, 2013
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The long term hunger striking political prisoner Samer Issawi will be finally released by the Israeli authorities after he reached an agreement with the Israeli Prison Service overnight on Monday April 22.
The deal as confirmed by Shireen Issawi, Samer’s sister and lawyer, is that he will spend 8 months in prison starting from April 23 and...
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Ayman Sharawneh ends hunger strike, exiled to Gaza by Israel
| March 25, 2013
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After almost 8 months, former prisoner Ayman Sharawneh ended his hunger strike. On Sunday, March 17 he was transferred on a 10 year deportation deal to the Gaza Strip where he immediately received medical treatment at the Shifa Hospital.
Deportation was the precondition for Sharawneh’s release. He faced just two possibilities: either to sign on...
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Women on hunger strike for the "Old Prisoners"
| March 18, 2013
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Sawsan and Nasim Shaheen are two sisters that began their hunger strike together on February 20 in a tent in front of the United Nations building in Ramallah. They have joined the Palestinian hunger striking prisoners in order to demand the liberation of political prisoners incarcerated by Israel.
The youngest one, Sawsan, is thirty four and...
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Damascus Gate hosts demonstration for hunger strikers
| March 12, 2013
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Around 70 people gathered in front of the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem‘s old city on Tuesday evening to show their support for the Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli jails, including long-term hunger striker Samer Issawi.
Demonstrators chanted in support of the hunger strikers for about an hour before attempting to march east to...
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- Ofer protest breaks into violence again
| February 21, 2013
 | Over one thousand people demonstrated outside Ofer prison on Thursday, near the town of Beitunia in support of Palestinian prisoners imprisoned in Israeli jails. It is the third demonstration at Ofer this past week.
The demonstration was met with countless volleys of tear gas, rubber-coated steel bullets and live ammunition from Israeli...
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Red Cross closes Ramallah office to "pressure" hunger strikers
| February 19, 2013
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On February 11, Sheikh Khader Adnan, who was on hunger strike for 66 days in Israeli jail last year before being released, began a sit-in hunger strike at the Al-Bireh offices of the ICRC. Over the last week, several others have joined Adnan‘s hunger strike in the ICRC office.
The ICRC responded by shutting the offices, forcing people in need of...
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Two shot at Ofer prison as hunger strike demonstrations grow
| February 16, 2013
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Israeli security forces responded with extreme violence to demonstrations held across the West Bank in solidarity with hunger strikers held in Israeli prisons without charge.
The largest demonstration took place outside Ofer prison in Beitunia where Israeli soldiers shot two people with high-velocity bullets. The use of live ammunition against...
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Ramleh: demonstration in solidarity with hunger strikers
| February 06, 2013
 | Over 150 activists attended a demonstration outside the notorious Ramleh prison hospital in solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners inside, including long-term hunger striker Samer Issawi. Coming from all over the 48 territories & Jerusalem, the activists chanted and sang in support of the prisoners in front of the prison gates........ | | .....Read More |
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- Samer Issawi hunger strike: Israel targets his family
| January 07, 2013
 | As people all over the world participate in today’s global hunger strike in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners, Samer Issawi has become an international figure of determination in his fight against the violations of the occupation. As he nears the end of his 164th day of hunger strike it is clear to Israel that Samer’s strength will continue........ | | .....Read More |
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Eleven men on hunger strike with prisoners
| December 29, 2012
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As the plights of long term hunger strikers Samer Issawi and Ayman Sharawneh became even more critical, on Thursday, December 20th a group of eleven young men began their own hunger strikes in a show of support.
Held without any charge on administrative detention, Issawi and Sharawneh’s strikes have continued with little reaction on the ground...
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Starving in Palestine: the power of empty stomachs
| October 17, 2012
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Ramallah — Presently being held in a prison clinic in Ramle, Samer al-Barq has launched his third hunger strike this year, demanding his immediate release from administrative detention. In September, Israeli and Egyptian negotiators agreed to release al-Barq into Egypt in exchange for ending his hunger strike, but Israel did not honor its end of...
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- Birzeit University students strike against tuition costs | August 08, 2012
 | On Sunday, 22 July 2012, the Birzeit University campus was closed off by students protesting the rise in tuition costs.The strike was due to begin earlier on Thursday, but the student council acknowledged the importance of initiating it after the midterm period for summer classes were over......
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Hunger striking prisoners still set on freedom or death
| July 22, 2012
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Ramallah,Wednesday, July 18th- Akram Rikhawi, the 39 year old father of eight from Gaza has entered his 98th day on hunger strike, becoming the longest prisoner to go without food after Mahmoud Sarsak’s 92 day hunger strike. Rikhawi suffers from multiple ailments that have exacerbated his weak state of health, such as diabetes and asthma...
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Israeli Authorities Breach Last Month’s Prisoner Agreement
| June 24, 2012
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After undergoing 71 days without food, Palestinian prisoner Hasan Safadi is back on hunger strike protesting the renewal of his administrative detention, a breach of the agreement signed between the Israeli authorities and the Palestinian prisoners’ committee on May 14. Safadi’s administrative detention order was renewed Thursday 21 June 2012 ....
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Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strikes continue as Israel violates agreements
| June 07, 2012
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Hours before the 64th anniversary of the Nakba, commemorating the ethnic cleansing of more than half of the Palestinian population in the 1940s by Zionist militias, an historic agreement ending a 28-day mass hunger strike was signed by the Israeli Prison Service and the Higher Committee for Prisoners, in the presence of the Egyptian mediator...
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Until Freedom or Martyrdom: Thaer Halahleh on 60 Days of Hunger Strike
| April 28, 2012
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Kharas, occupied West Bank—Two year old Lamar Halahleh has never met her father outside of a prison cell. In fact, she wasn’t able to lay eyes upon him until she was nearly half a year old. Thaer Halahleh, Lamar’s father, has not only spent the last two years in the Israeli prison system, the 33 year-old has actually been detained for the........
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Khader Adnan: A leader in the struggle for Palestinian prisoner’s dignity
| February 10, 2012
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Khader Adnan has quickly become the focal point and symbolic face of the inherent injustice thousands of Palestinians face on a daily basis within the Israeli penal system. Entering into the 55th day of his hunger strike, Adnan is protesting the Israeli Occupation Authority’s (IOA) illegal application of administrative detention and its inhumane..
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