Mass Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike in 4th week
NOVANEWS
By Richard Becker
The mass “Freedom and Dignity” hunger strike by more than 1,000 Palestinians held illegally in Israeli prisons has entered its 23rd day on May 9 and is growing.
The strike was initiated on April 17, Palestinian Prisoners Day, by a call from Marwan Barghouti, a popular leader of the Fatah party who has been jailed since 2002. On May 4, imprisoned leaders of other Palestinian organizations, including Ahmad Saadat, General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Abbas al-Sayyid, head of the Hamas prisoners’ leadership committee, former hunger striker and journalist Muhammad al-Qiq, and longest-held Palestinian prisoner, Nael Barghouthi, announced that they were joining the strike.
The demands of the strike are focused on terrible pris...