Some 220 Palestinian prisoners have joined the “Freedom and Dignity” mass hunger strike which began last month. The mass protest action began on April 17 in response to a call by Marwan Barghouti, a popular Palestinian leader, over inhumane conditions in Israeli prisons. The strikers are demanding basic rights, such ...
The United Nations said it is keeping a close eye on the situation of more than a thousand Palestinian prisoners, who have gone on hunger strike honoring a call by a fellow inmate. Unprecedented in scale, the protest action involves a reported number of 1,500 prisoners. It started on Monday ...
