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Palestinians celebrate after Palestinian prisoners ended a hunger strike over their conditions in Israeli jails, in the West Bank city of Ramallah May 27, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman

Palestinian Prisoners Committee: 80 % of Hunger Strike Demands Met

by Kifah Ziboun | May 29, 2017 | Middle East

Ramallah – Issa Qaraqe, the head of the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs, said 80 percent of demands put forth by Palestinian prisoners who had went on a mass hunger strike have been accomplished. Most of those requests involved family visitation and...

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Maazouze, the mother of Mohammed Allaan, a Palestinian prisoner who is on a long-term hunger strike, holds a portrait of her son during a rally calling for his release in the southern Israeli city of Beersheva. (Getty Images)

Palestine: Negotiations to End Prisoners’ Hunger Strike before Trump’s Visit

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 15, 2017 | Middle East

Ramallah – Following reports of a mass health collapse and successive fainting, the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs demanded that Palestinian prisoners who entered their 28th day on hunger strike in Israeli prisons on Sunday be hospitalized, as their...

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Jailed Fatah official Marwan Barghouti. (Reuters)

Israeli Official: Barghouti Should Have Been Served a Death Penalty

by Kifah Ziboun and Nazir Majli | Apr 19, 2017 | Middle East

Ramallah, Tel Aviv – On the second day of hunger strikes in Israeli prisons, officials attacked strike leader Marwan Barghouti, saying that Israel should have executed the head of the central Fatah committee a long time ago. Hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli...