Politicians, media mostly ignore Palestinian hunger strike - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Daoud Kuttab

Daoud Kuttab

Jun 9, 2014

A closed shop is seen in the West Bank city of Ramallah June 8, 2014. Shops were shuttered in the Palestinian commercial capital on Sunday in solidarity with nearly 300 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike against Israeli detention without trial. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman (WEST BANK - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) - RTR3SQKE — Shops are shuttered in Ramallah in solidarity with hundreds of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike against Israeli detention without trial, June 8, 2014. — REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman

Marwan Barghouthi (C) waves as he enters Tel Aviv's District court
December 12, 2002. A Tel Aviv District Court on Thursday upheld
Israel's right to arrest and try Palestinian uprising leader Marwan
Barghouthi on charges that he masterminded deadly attacks on Israeli
civilians. REUTERS/Pool/Sven Nackstrand

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Marwan Barghouti joins latest hunger strike

Daoud Kuttab

In Amman, reporting on Palestinian politics

Palestinians hold pictures of prisoners during a demonstration in support of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails, in the West Bank city of Ramallah June 7, 2014. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voiced concerns on Friday about the worsening health of Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli detention and demanded that they either be formally charged or released immediately. Some 120 Palestinians jailed without trial in Israel have been on an open-ended hunger strike, eating only salt and

Palestinian activists reject Israel force-feeding prisoners

Shlomi Eldar

Palestinians hold pictures of prisoners during a demonstration in support of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails, in the West Bank city of Ramallah June 7, 2014. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voiced concerns on Friday about the worsening health of Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli detention and demanded that they either be formally charged or released immediately. Several dozen Palestinians on hunger strike, protesting Israel's use of administrative detention to keep them behin

Kidnapping prompts Palestinian prisoners to end hunger strike

Daoud Kuttab

In Amman, reporting on Palestinian politics

A Palestinian woman holds a picture of a jailed relative during a rally in solidarity with hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, in Gaza City June 11, 2014. Israel's parliament has given initial approval to a law to enable the force-feeding of Palestinian prisoners on a hunger strike, drawing defiance from activists who said on Tuesday it would not deter the inmates. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3T6PC

Israeli doctors against 'force-feeding' Palestinian prisoners

Akiva Eldar