Palestinian prisoners are entering their 26th day of hunger strike in Israeli jails on Friday, 12 May. 1500 Palestinian prisoners launched the hunger strike, called the Strike for Freedom and Dignity, on 17 April, Palestinian Prisoners’ Day. The strikers have a number of demands that focus on basic human rights, like an end to the […]

Hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners wrote a letter on Tuesday to Pope Francis asking him to intervene with the Israeli government and the international community to help them achieve their demands. The appeal was delivered in a letter by Fadwa Barghouti, the wife of imprisoned hunger strike leader Marwan Barghouti, when she met with the heads of […]

“The prisoners on hunger strike are in direct confrontation with the enemy, but they have only the weapon of the empty stomach,” said Khaled. Icon of revolutionary Palestinian resistance and a member of the Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Leila Khaled, announced Saturday that she will be hunger-striking in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners, […]

The Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, and Alexandria and Jerusalem has reportedly started refusing food in a show of solidarity with hundreds of Palestinians, who have gone on hunger strike in Israeli jails in protest at the administrative detention policy and harsh prison conditions. Gregory III Laham, 83, started the pro-Palestinian measure on Saturday, […]

The Palestinian captive journalist Mohammed al-Qiq, who has been on hunger strike in Israeli jails for 6 days, affirmed on Monday that the prisoners are steadfast in their position despite the hunger and the pain they suffer in order to extract their legitimate rights from the Israel Prison Service (IPS). In a leaked letter which […]

Leaders of a mass hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners have called for a “week of rage” against Israel amid reports that Tel Aviv plans to bring in foreign doctors to force-feed the inmates refusing to eat. “Our people should unleash their anger and clash uninterruptedly with the Israeli occupation at seam zones,” the prisoners’ leadership said in a […]

The Glasgow Celtic football club “ultras” fan group, the Green Brigade, along with Celtic Fans for Palestine, supported the Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike with large banners and Palestinian flags at a football match on Saturday, 6 May. The Celtic fans lifted a huge Palestinian flag as well as massive banners with the slogans “Freedom […]

The Palestinian prisoners’ movement engaged in the Strike of Freedom and Dignity within Israeli prisons issued a new statement on 6 May, the 20th day of open hunger strike. The strike was launched on 17 April, Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, by 1500 Palestinian prisoners and has been joined by a series of prominent leaders of the […]

RAMALLAH — Khalida Jarrar’s neat office and smart appearance offer little indication that this time last year she was serving out a 15-month sentence in an Israeli jail cell. She’s an elected Palestinian parliamentarian, a lawyer, a wife and a mother. She is also, according to Israel, an agitator and a danger to its security. […]

Hunger strikes don’t get any easier with experience. So says the family of Palestinian prisoner Majd Ziada, who has participated in multiple collective strikes since his arrest by Israeli occupation forces in 2002. “It is as if you are carrying the weight of 15 years of imprisonment on your shoulders,” Hurriyah Ziada, Majd’s youngest sister, […]