Partner Links: Learn Hebrew • Travel to Israel • Live Kotel Camera • Israel Pharmacy • Cellphone Rentals in Israel • Israel Relief Campaign

Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Iyyar 20, 5773
3:46 pm IDT
Site updated 1 minute ago

The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Topic: hunger strikes

April 24, 2013
8:19 am

Ouda Tarabin's Israeli ID card.

Israeli imprisoned in Egypt launches hunger strike

Ouda Tarabin, incarcerated in 2000 on charges of espionage, says authorities failing him

By Stuart Winer

April 23, 2013
9:03 am

Israeli prison service guards surround Palestinian prisoner Samer Issawi, seated in his wheelchair, into a hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on February 21, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Palestinian prisoner agrees to end hunger strike

Samer Issawi will serve eight more months of his sentence

By Asher Zeiger

April 17, 2013
2:13 pm

Palestinian protesters during a demonstration outside Ofer Prison near Ramallah, on May 2, 2012, in solidarity with prisoners held in Israeli jails. (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

3,000 Palestinian inmates refuse meals

Prisoners’ Day: Protesters clash with security forces near Ramallah as detainees launch one-day hunger strike

By Gavriel Fiske

April 13, 2013
11:36 pm

A guard stands duty in a tower over Guantanamo Bay's Detention Camp Delta, in 2007 (photo credit: Army Sgt. Joseph Scozzar/Public Domain)

Guards fire rubber bullets on Guantanamo inmates

Hunger-striking prisoners attack guards when officials try to move them to new cells

By Ben Fox

April 12, 2013
4:17 pm

A support rally for Palestinian prisoners who are held at Israeli jails, Gaza , Thursday, April 11, 2013 (photo credit: AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Israel offers to deport frail Palestinian prisoner

Hunger-striking detainee Samer Issawi would be moved to another country in an effort to reach a compromise over the case

March 5, 2013
4:09 am

A guard stands duty in a tower over Guantanamo Bay's Detention Camp Delta, in 2007 (photo credit: Army Sgt. Joseph Scozzar/Public Domain)

US denies report of mass Guantanamo hunger strike

Prisoners’ lawyers say three-week protest prompted by desecration of Qorans during a series of searches

March 3, 2013
12:29 am

Benjamin Netanyahu, left, meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah II in 2010. (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

Netanyahu met with Abdullah over peace talks, report claims

PM’s visit to Jordan may have coincided with last week’s West Bank flare-ups; leaders last met in December to discuss Syria’s chemical weapons

By Michal Shmulovich

February 28, 2013
2:21 pm

People in Jenin march in support of the Palestinian prisoners, February 26, 2013 (photo credit: Mohammed Ballas/AP)

Two Palestinians end hunger strike

Two other fasting prisoners hospitalized to prevent deterioration in their condition

February 25, 2013
2:08 pm

Palestinian women demonstrate in Jerusalem for the release of hunger-striking prisoners (photo credit: Flash90)

Most Palestinian hunger strikers break fast

Some 1,100 prisoners at Megiddo Prison refused Monday morning meal, but were expected to resume eating later in the day

By Asher Zeiger and Times of Israel staff

February 24, 2013
10:27 am

Want to join them? Maariv reports on a new donation program that allows tourists to visit IDF bases and eat with the soldiers. These soldiers prepare a meal while at an observation post by the Dead Sea in 2012 (photo credit: Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Not-so-quiet riot

Hunger strikes, upheavals, and possible settler violence against Palestinians raise worries of a third intifada starting

By Yossi Nachemi

February 19, 2013
2:14 pm

Palestinians protesting for hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners in Jerusalem on Monday. (Sliman Khader/Flash90)

Hundreds of jailed Palestinians stage one-day hunger strike

Some 800 inmates refusing food Tuesday in solidarity with four long-term hunger strikers

December 20, 2012
1:50 pm

Palestinian men hold a poster of Palestinian prisoners during a protest calling for the release them from Israeli jails and in support of prisoners on hunger strike, in Gaza city on November 26, 2012. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90)

New Palestinian hunger strikers say they are fighting to end administrative detention

From the web Ma’an: As they enter their third week refusing food, protesters in Israeli prison say they want to end policy not just for them, but for everyone

December 4, 2012
10:03 pm

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay (photo credit: CC-BY Antônio Cruz, Wikimedia Commons)

UN human rights chief urges Iran to improve conditions of jailed activist

Navi Pillay expresses concern for life of Nasrin Sotoudeh, who has been on a hunger strike since mid-October

November 1, 2012
1:10 pm

A poster calling for the release from prison of Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh. (photo credit: CC-BY, sabzphoto, flickr)

Nine Iranian female prisoners begin hunger strike

Inmates join human rights activist already fasting in protest of beatings, abuse and snap body searches

August 28, 2012
8:57 pm

Tamir Hajaj makes his way to the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on July 24, 2012. (photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

Hunger striker rushed to hospital after refusing water

Knesset speaker visited Tamir Hajaj in the hospital, told him the earlier promise of a meeting with Netanyahu was a mix-up

By Michal Shmulovich

Page 1 of 3
1
2
3
>