Tag: Hunger strike

  • What Thaer Halahleh’s family told me about his release brings joy, but raises troubling questions

    by Lina Al Saafin 15 May 2012 | Electronic Intifada At around 1:30am Palestine local time I was lying on my side in my bed trying to sleep and doing my best to ignore the queasy feeling in the pit of my stomach as I thought about how the 64th commemoration of Nakba Day would…

  • Palestinian prisoners agree to end hunger strike

    by Haitham Hamad 14 May 2012 | Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners agreed Monday to end a weekslong hunger strike after winning concessions from Israel to improve their conditions, the two sides announced. The deal ended a strike in which prisoners had gone without food for up to 77…

  • Statement No. 7 of the Strike leadership

    Statement No. 7 of the Strike leadership

    by The Central Committee of the Leadership of the Strike 13 May 2012 | Samidoun We have only two options: to achieve all of our demands, or to die Free Palestinian people, masses of our nation, free people of the world…. We have entered a stage of legendary and draining human struggle, where we face…