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A Palestinian activist fixes a flag near a newly erected protest encampment on 20 January 2013 in the West Bank village of Beit Iksa. The Israeli army early Monday morning removed the encampment of four tents and a building under construction, military sources said.
Thousands of Palestinian prisoners stage hunger strike
AFP 24 Feb 2013
Some 3,000 Palestinians held in Israeli jails were staging a one-day hunger strike Sunday in protest at the death of an...
Bahraini Shia human rights activist Nabeel Rajab speaks at his home in the village of Bani Jamrah, West of Manama, on 27 June 2012. Rajab has gone on hunger strike, a local rights group said Saturday, just two days after he was briefly released from jail to attend his mother's funeral.
Bahrain Shiite activist Rajab on hunger strike
AFP 06 Oct 2012
Bahraini Shiite rights activist Nabeel Rajab has gone on hunger strike, a local rights group said Saturday, just two...
Hunger-striking Palestinian soccer player released
AP 10 Jul 2012
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel released on Tuesday a member of the Palestinian national soccer team who had...
Bahrainis mourn over the body of twenty-year-old Shiite demonstrator Redha Mohammed after he died from his head wounds obtained during last week's police crackdown on protests in Pearl Roundabout, at a hospital in Manama, February 21, 2011 as the Bahraini Sunni Muslim ruling family came under increased pressure to open in-depth negotiations with the Shiite-led opposition.
Convicted Bahrain doctor starts hunger strike
AP 21 Jun 2012
MANAMA, Bahrain — A doctor sentenced on charges of aiding anti-government protests in Bahrain went on a hunger...
Cabinet building.
Protesters for political isolation law enter sixth day of hunger strike
Al-Masry Al-Youm 11 Jun 2012
Dozens of protesters continued their sit-in outside the Cabinet building on Monday, on their sixth day of a hunger...
Palestinian prisoners threaten to re-launch hunger strike
AFP 03 Jun 2012
Palestinian prisoners in Israel are threatening to re-launch a hunger strike, a Palestinian official said on Sunday,...
Bahraini Shiite demonstrators hold posters of jailed activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja during a protest calling for his release in the village of Jidhafs, west of Manama, on 6 April 2012. Bahrain's highest appeals court has ordered the retrial of Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, a jailed opposition activist who has been on hunger strike since 8 February.
Bahrain's Khawaja well, to continue hunger strike: lawyer
AFP 17 May 2012
Jailed Bahraini dissident Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, on hunger strike for more than three months, is well but still...
Clashes between military forces and protesters in Abbasiya, May 4,2012.Clashes erupted when protesters attempting to exceed barbed wires, which left injuries but no deaths.
Protesters arrested in Abbasseya turmoil to go on hunger strike, group says
Al-Masry Al-Youm 15 May 2012
Protesters arrested during the violence that erupted in late April near the Defense Ministry in Abbasseya are planning...
Palestinians urge UN to take action on hunger strikers
AFP 09 May 2012
Several dozen Palestinians on Wednesday blocked staff from entering UN offices in Ramallah to demand that UN chief Ban...
In prisoners' long plea, empty stomachs raise the case
Nadine Marroushi 09 May 2012
Laila Soueif, a long-time Egyptian activist in her 50s and assistant professor at Cairo University, chuckles softly and...