Israeli Jails

‘Battle of empty stomachs’: a timeline of key Palestinian hunger strikes

Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have resorted to hunger strikes as a form of protest to win collective or individual rights.

Palestinian prisoner ends 140-day hunger strike after deal with Israel

Palestinians have protested across the occupied West Bank and Gaza in support of Palestinian prisoner Abu Hawash after Islamic Jihad threatened military action against Israel if he were to die in custody.

Palestinian prisoners hold strike to protest Israeli abuses

Israeli prison authorities have taken punitive measures against Hamas prisoners, including depriving them of visits and confiscating all electronic devices from their cells, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society.

Israel violates Paris protocol by refusing to transfer taxes to the PA

Tel Aviv gets its claws into the tax revenues of the Palestinian Authority, violating the 1994 protocol.

Palestinians demonstrate in support of hunger strike prisoners

Teenagers in a village of Nabi Saleh near the city of Ramallah protest Israeli forces as around 1,500 Palestinian political prisoners have been on hunger strike for more than one month.

West Bank and Gaza shutdown in support of Palestinian prisoners

Palestinians held a general strike in solidarity with hundreds of prisoners in Israeli jails on hunger strike for 11 days, with some officials calling it the largest in years.