Hisham Abu Hawash’s hunger strike will go down in the history of Palestinian resistance as one of the longest and, arguably, most consequential.
Palestinian prisoner Hisham Abu Hawash entered his 140th day on hunger strike on Monday, and according to his family is in such critical condition that he could “die at any moment.”
Canada’s Foreign Affairs minister and its top diplomats in Ramallah and Tel Aviv have all made anti-Palestinian comments in the last month.
An Israeli court formally indicted this week the six recaptured Palestinian prisoners, who last month achieved a historic escape from a maximum security Israeli prison last month that shocked the world. On Monday, the Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission said that one of the prisoners, Mohammed Ardah, had began a hunger strike in protest of the “punitive measures against him and the harsh conditions of his solitary confinement.”
New anthology shares the common experiences, and joint struggle, shared by Palestinian and Irish hunger strikers.
Join Scientists for Palestine for renowned Palestinian astrophysicist Imad Barghouthi’s first interview since being released after nearly a year of Israeli administrative detention.
Ghadanfar Abu Atwan has been on a hunger strike for 62 days in protest of his administrative detention by Israel, and recently began refusing water. “His health situation is dire,” Warda Abu Atwan tells Mondoweiss. “We are scared that he could die at any moment.”
Israel commonly uses administrative detention against Palestinians in the occupied territory. Now, the Israeli government is also indefinitely detaining Palestinian citizens of Israel following the recent uprisings in solidarity with Sheikh Jarrah and Gaza.
Palestinian politician Khalida Jarrar was arrested from her home in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on October 31, 2019, and has since been held in Israeli detention without charge or trial, under Israel’s widely condemned policy of administrative detention.
In a letter that was smuggled out of Israel’s Damon prison to be shared at the Palestine Writes festival, political prisoner Khalida Jarrar shares the essential role literature plays for Palestinian prisoners struggling the retain their humanity and remain connected to the outside world. “Our struggle for liberation inside prisons starts with protecting resistance literature,” Khalida writes.