hunger strike

"My family is living through hell:" Samer Issawi speaks from jail

Israel has subjected hunger striker’s parents and siblings to arrests and house demolitions.

Pro-Israel blogger attacks Canada First Nation chief, but Palestinians express solidarity with Idle No More

Liberal website The Huffington Post last week published an attack on an indigenous rights activist who is on hunger strike in Canada, labeling her “the hungry chief mugging for the cameras on an island in the Ottawa River.”

Writing on the Canadian edition of the site, anti-Palestinian blogger Yoni Goldstein openly attacked Theresa Spence as a “problem” responsible for indigenous people’s woes in Canada and said he had “no sympathy” for her.

The Month in Pictures: December 2012

4 January 2013

A monthly roundup of photographs documenting Palestine, Palestinian life, politics and culture, and international solidarity with Palestine.

Podcast: Sodastream "part of the occupation," says UK-based boycott activist Tony Greenstein

Activist, blogger and BDS organizer Tony Greenstein in Brighton, UK, discusses the Sodastream boycott and the growing BDS movement.

"Keep your head high:" a comrade's greeting to Samer Issawi

Act now to save our brave hunger striker’s life.

Israel "will never undermine our steadfastness": hunger strikers speak out from prison

Israel arrests sister of hunger striker as rights group warns of prisoners’ deteriorating health.

"My brother is dying": an urgent appeal from family of hunger striker Samer Issawi

Malaka Mohammed
Gaza City
17 December 2012

Shireen Issawi speaks of the shock of seeing her brother in court.

Podcast: Israel wants to criminalize human rights defenders, says head of Palestinian group raided by army

Sahar Francis of Addameer, the Palestinian prisoners’ advocacy organization, says that the Israeli army’s recent raids on human rights groups in the West Bank is because of Palestinian civil society advocacy for human rights and BDS.

Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike "until freedom or death"

Nour Joudah
Ramallah
11 December 2012

Palestinian political prisoners were put back on the agenda in 2012.

Month in Pictures: October 2012

5 November 2012

A monthly roundup of photographs documenting Palestine, Palestinian life, politics and culture, and international solidarity with Palestine.

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