Press TV - Israeli authorities have agreed to a deal with the Palestinian prisoners who have been on hunger strike in Israeli jails over the past 40 days. Issa Qaraqe, the head of the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners Affairs, confirmed the deal on Saturday. Other informed sources also said that the hunger strikers had halted their protest action ...

Press TV - Some 220 Palestinian prisoners have joined the "Freedom and Dignity" mass hunger strike which began last month. The mass protest action began on April 17 in response to a call by Marwan Barghouti, a popular Palestinian leader, over inhumane conditions in Israeli prisons. The strikers are demanding basic rights, such as an end to ...

Press TV- Human rights activists have shut down the United Nations office in the West Bank city of Ramallah to denounce the world bodys silence on a mass hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails as the protest action enters its 31 day. In a statement released on Wednesday, the campaigners said the UN has shunned its responsibilities ...

Press TV- Hunger striking Palestinian prisoners have writtento Pope Francis, urging the pontiff to immediately take a stance against the Israeli regime with regard to the ordeals of Palestinian inmates. The appeal was delivered in a letter by Fadwa Barghouti,the wife of imprisoned hunger strike leader Marwan Barghouti, at a meeting withthe heads ...

Press TV - Palestinians have called for a worldwide boycott of the American food franchise, Pizza Hut, after its Israel branch ran an insulting advertisement that mockedMarwan Barghouti, the leader of a weeks-long mass Palestinian hunger strike. The senior jailed figure of the Palestinian Fatah movement started the protest action on April 17 ...

Press TV- The Secretary General of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has leveled sharp criticism against Arab leaders and the Arab League over their inaction and silence onthe plight of hundreds of Palestinians currently on hunger strike in Israeli jails. During a televised speech at a ceremony marking the birthday anniversary of the ...

MNA Hossein Amir-Abdollahian called for international support and human rights organizations to defend the rights of the Palestinian people and release the prisoners who are on mass hunger strike. Touching upon the issue of hunger strike of Palestinian prisoners, Palestine Intifada Conference Secretary GeneralAmir-Abdollahian condemned the repeated ...

Press TV- Scores of Palestinian prisoners have joined a mass hunger strike underway in Israeli prisons in a protest campaign which enteredits eighth day on Monday. The media committee established to support the Freedom and Dignity" strikesaid six Palestinians held in the Israeli prison of Megiddo started refusing food on Thursday, joining their ...

Israeli extremists have made death threats against Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Qiq, who had been on a hunger strike for nearly a hundred days, while he is recuperating in hospital. An Israeli soldier and a settler forced their way into Qiqs room in the al-Afula Hospital while his security guard was away from his post, the Middle East Monitor ...

A rights group says Palestinian detainee Mohammedal-Qiq has now entered uncharted medical territory after 89 days of refusing food in Israeli custody, the longest such hunger strikes in decades. Amani Dayif, a doctor at Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I), said 33-year-old Qiq is in unknown territory medically because of the length of ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- About 20 ailing Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails threatened to launch an open-ended hunger strike to protest their lack of care. Palestinian lawyer Hanan al-Khatib said prisoners receiving treatment in Israels Ramle hospital are witnessing their health conditions worsen due to neglect, Maan reported Monday. The prisoners,...

Palestinian authorities have warned about the deteriorating health conditions of hunger striking prisoners in Israeli jails. The Palestinian Ministry for Prisoner Affairs warned about the worsening health conditions of the Palestinian detainees who have gone on hunger strike in Israeli prisons. The ministry said that the hunger strikers are at ...