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Settler leaders agree to a deal with the government to end their protest outside the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on November 10, 2017. From left to right: David Bitan, Beit Aryeh Mayor Avi Naim, MK Oren Hazan, Shomron Regional Council head Yossi Dagan, Itzhak Abutbul, Hadas Mizrahi, Kiryat Arba-Hebron Mayor Melachi Levinger. (Courtesy: Samaria Regional Council)
November 10, 2017, 1:53 pm
Settler leaders, bereaved families end protest for upping West Bank security
Despite signing agreement with virtually same terms PM had promised Yesha Council last month, Samaria Council chairman touts 5-day hunger strike as a success
By Jacob Magid
Adva Biton, mother of Adele Biton, who was injured at a terror attack and died later from her wounds, reacts during a Likud party faction meeting at the Knesset on November 6, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
November 6, 2017, 7:34 pm
Bereaved families berate PM as NIS 200m earmarked for settler bypass roads
Hunger-strikers put little stock in Netanyahu pledge of deal with Treasury to fund West Bank routes around Palestinian towns, a major security demand
By Jacob Magid
Likud MK Oren Hazan (C) announces on November 5, 2017 that he will be joining a hunger strike led by settler leaders demanding the prime minister transfer funds for security improvements in the West Bank. (Screen capture/Samaria Regional Council)
November 5, 2017, 9:15 pm
Likud backbencher joins settler hunger strike for security funds
Oren Hazan endorses settler leaders' demand that Netanyahu immediately transfer funds for security and infrastructure development
By Jacob Magid
Members of the Jewish Home party sit at a protest tent with Samaria Regional Council chairman Yossi Dagan (3rd from R) outside the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on October 25, 2017. (Courtesy: Samaria Regional Council)
November 5, 2017, 2:59 am
Settler leaders, bereaved families launch hunger strike over security funds
Protesters take drastic measure after Netanyahu fails to convene cabinet to approve NIS 800 million for infrastructure projects
By Jacob Magid
Asma Jahangir, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran, in 2008 (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
September 1, 2017, 1:07 am
UN expert sounds alarm over hunger striking inmates in Iran
More than a dozen political prisoners have been fasting to protest their transfer to a new maximum security facility
By AFP
Mehdi Karroubi lecturing in Zanjan University in Iran, 2009. (Wikipedia/Mardetanha/CC BY-SA 3.0)
August 18, 2017, 10:55 am
Iran opposition leader ends hunger strike after day
Ailing Mehdi Karroubi, 79, quits fast after regime agrees to remove intelligence agents from home, but demand to face trial remains unmet
By AFP
Mehdi Karroubi lecturing in Zanjan University in Iran, 2009. (Wikipedia/Mardetanha/CC BY-SA 3.0)
August 17, 2017, 11:43 am
Iran opposition leader hospitalized after going on hunger strike
Mehdi Karroubi, candidate in disputed 2009 election, protesting being held under house arrest for last six years
By AFP
Shlomo Ben Dor (R) and Pazit Ben Israel sit at the protest tent of the Hadassah Hospital hemato-ontology department in Sacher Park, Jerusalem, wearing signs which say 'I'm on hunger strike,' June 25, 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 26, 2017, 12:23 pm
Ex-Hadassah cancer doctors beg parents to halt hunger strike
Request comes hours before High Court due to debate parents' petition to open new child's cancer unit at rival hospital
By Sue Surkes
Dr. Michael Weintraub, former head of the Hadassah's Pediatric Hemato-Oncology Department speaks with Israeli kids at the Hema-ontology protest tent in Sacher Park, Jerusalem, June 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 25, 2017, 2:42 pm
Parents threaten hunger strike as PM urges quick end to cancer ward crisis
Parents of Hadassah pediatric cancer patients set up field hospital protest tent in Jerusalem park; state adamant it won't open another treatment center in Jerusalem
By Stuart Winer
Demonstrators gather in support of Palestinian hunger-striker Mohammad Allaan, in front of the Barzilai Medical Center in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on August 16, 2015. (Hadas Parush)
June 8, 2017, 7:24 pm
Israel rearrests Palestinian former hunger striker for incitement
Israeli authorities say Mohammad Allaan suspected of 'calling for acts of terror and resistance to the Zionist enemy'
By AFP
Israeli security forces clash with Palestinian demonstrators during a violent protest in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners outside Nablus on May 26, 2017. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)
May 26, 2017, 7:02 pm
Clashes as hundreds of Palestinian protest across West Bank, Gaza
Masked teens throw rocks, roll burning tires at IDF troops, who respond with rubber bullets, tear gas; one soldier lightly wounded
By Judah Ari Gross
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (R) meets with Jason Greenblatt, Donald Trump's special representative for international negotiations, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on March 14, 2017. (AFP Photo/Abbas Momani)
May 25, 2017, 8:42 pm
Abbas asks Trump envoy to mediate over Palestinian hunger strike
Jason Greenblatt meets Palestinian leader in Ramallah to follow up on US president's visit
By Dov Lieber and AFP
Turkish primary school teacher Semih Ozakca (4thL) and academic Nuriye Gulmen (5thL) demonstrate with fellow protestors during a hunger strike in Ankara, May 15, 2017 / AFP PHOTO / ADEM ALTAN
May 24, 2017, 11:23 am
Turkish court arrests hunger strikers on terror charges
Teacher and academic surviving on water alone in protest of Erdogan's post-coup state of emergency dismissals
By AFP
Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov and her mother Sylva Zalmanson at the airport from which the filmmakers parents tried to make their escape. (Courtesy/Franz Koch/ Israel Broadcasting Authority)
May 19, 2017, 8:15 pm
Israeli filmmaker chronicles parents’ failed attempt to hijack a Soviet plane
Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov's new documentary 'Operation Wedding' uncovers overlooked chapter in Soviet Jews' fight for freedom
By Julie Masis
Protesters hold Palestinian flags in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners who are on a hunger strike in Israeli jails, near the West Bank city of Nablus, May 16, 2017. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)
May 18, 2017, 7:08 pm
UN envoy calls for urgent end to Palestinian prisoner strike
Nickolay Mladenov urges both sides to exercise restraint, says bringing protest to an end vital for attempts to revive peace process
By Sue Surkes
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