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#PalHunger | Protesters condemn UN for ignoring hunger strikers

Maan News Agency | Febr 18, 2013 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Protesters in Ramallah demonstrated outside UNRWA offices on Monday, accusing the UN agency of ignoring the plight of hunger striking prisoners in Israeli jails. Protesters had tried to enter the UN offices but were prevented from doing so by PA police forces. Informed sources told […]

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RT anchor @AbbyMartin breaks the silence on #SamerIssawi (includes transcript) ~ by @docjazzmusic

Monday, 18 February 2013 | by Dr. Tariq Shadid aka Doc Jazz Abby Martin, anchor for news network Russia Today America, surprised both friend and foe on February 15 with a fierce call for the freedom of Samer Issawi, Palestinian prisoner on a hunger strike in protest against his illegal incarceration by the Israeli occupation […]

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#PalHunger | Resheq slams Israel’s manipulation of prisoner swap deal with resistence

Note from occpal: Previously by Israel released prisoners received a Presidential Pardon of Peres. Also called Amnesty or Clemency by law to restore ones civil rights and being totally pardoned for the (alleged) crimes if even in the case of Palestinians’ ever charged before at all. Re-arresting pardoned prisoners (also from the Wafa al Ahrar […]

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#PalHunger | Israel to hold emergency hearing for Samer Issawi

Israeli border police officers scuffle with Palestinian demonstrators blocking a road outside the West Bank town of Bethlehem, during a protest calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails on 18 February 2013. (Photo: Reuters – Ammar Awad) Al Akhbar English | Monday, February 18, 2013 Israel’s Magistrate’s Court decided on Monday to […]

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#PalHunger | Mother of Sharawne goes on hunger strike

[ PIC 18/02/2013 – 01:27 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The mother of detained hunger striker Ayman Sharawne has gone on open-ended hunger strike since Sunday in solidarity with her son. Jihad and Abdulrahman, the two brothers of Ayman, have also gone on hunger strike in addition to two other activists, Ismail Sharawne and Musab Shawar, […]

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#PalHunger | Arab League calls for international intervention to release hunger strikers

[ PIC 18/02/2013 – 11:24 AM ] CAIRO, (PIC)– The general secretariat of the Arab League called on the UN and the UN Higher Commissioner for Human Rights to urgently intervene to secure the release of detained Palestinian hunger strikers. The secretariat, in two messages to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the High Commissioner […]

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#PalHunger | Israel violating hunger strikers’ rights

Palestinians stage a demonstration in solidarity with hunger strikers in Israeli jails, in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, September 13, 2012. PRESSTV | Mon Feb 18, 2013 12:42AM GMT A human rights group has said Israel is violating the rights of Palestinian prisoners who are on an open-ended hunger strike to protest their […]

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Originally posted on Dispatches from the Underclass:
Palestinian prisoner Samer Issawi, 33, embarked on a hunger strike over 203 days ago to protest Israel’s inhumane treatment of detainees, making it one of the longest hunger strikes in human history. If you’re wondering why you haven’t heard of Samer Issawi, it’s probably because western media outlets…

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#PalHunger | Sharawna determined to continue hunger strike despite health deterioration

[ PIC 17/02/2013 – 09:19 PM ] RAMALLAH, AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The hunger striking prisoner Ayman Sharawna, 37 from the city of al-Khalil, said that the Israeli prison administration has been deliberately holding him in solitary confinement and transferring him from one jail to another, in light of his difficult health conditions. Captive Sharawna told the […]

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#PalHunger | Mother of prisoner Ayman Sharawna launches solidarity hunger strike

Maan News Agency | Febr 17, 2013 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The mother of Ayman Sharawna has begun an open-ended hunger strike to show solidarity with her son, a prisoners group said Sunday. Addameer said that Sharawna’s brother has also announced strike action to demonstrate solidarity with Ayman, who was released under the 2011 prisoner swap […]

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#PalHunger | soldiers storm home of Issawi, arrest neighbor

#FreeSamer | Global action to save the life of Hunger striker Samer Issawi [ PIC 17/02/2013 – 10:51 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Heavily-armed Israeli occupation soldiers stormed into the home of detained hunger striker Samer Al-Issawi in Issawiye village, north of occupied Jerusalem, at dawn Sunday. Wadi Hilwa information center said that the Israeli […]

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VIDEO | Israeli Soldiers arrested Samer Issawi’s brother Shadi

#FreeSamer | Join global action for #PalHunger striker Samer Issawi LIVE UPDATED Short Video: Samer Issawi's mom pleads to the world to save her son! أم سامر العيساوي: إبني بموت يا عالم http://t.co/Sp3YPoy7 via @youtube — G.C.P.P.P. (@samerissawi1) February 16, 2013 BREAKING NEWS: Israeli army breaking into Samer Issawi, the hunger striking prisoner's house right […]

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#PalHunger | 40 Injured In Biddo Village Near Jerusalem

#FreeSamer | Join global action for #PalHunger striker Samer Issawi Sunday February 17, 2013 06:53 by IMEMC & Agencies Saturday February 16; Palestinian sources reported that 40 Palestinians have been injured during clashes that took place when the army attacked Palestinians hold a protest in solidarity with hunger striking detainees, in the village of Biddo, […]

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VIDEO | Israel’s detentions violate international law

  Published on Feb 16, 2013 A political analyst says there are currently 178 Palestinians on administrative detention in Israeli jails and this is against international law and international norms to illegally detain people without charge. The comments came after at least 150 people were injured after Israeli troops clashed with Palestinian protesters outside Ofer […]

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VIDEO | ‘Save Samer, he is dying’: Samer Issawi’s Mother

Published on Feb 16, 2013 https://www.facebook.com/Anzarillustr… ‘Save Samer, he is dying’: Samer Issawi and the plight of Palestinian hunger strikers Samer Issawi has lived for 33 years, 1 month, and 27 days. I hope he lives another day. He has been on a hunger strike now for six and a half months. Gandhis’ longest hunger […]

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