Abbas fears the Prisoners' Hunger Strike Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 The Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is due to meet Donald Trump to discuss reviving the long-cold corpse of the peace process. Back home, things are heating up. There is anger in the West Bank, both on the streets and within the ranks of Abbas's Fatah movement. The trigger is a hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners.
Israeli activists 'thought it nice' to hold BBQ near Palestinian hunger strikers Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 In the face of increasing human rights abuses being committed towards Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, an Israeli right-wing group mocked the Palestinian mass hunger strike by hosting a BBQ outside a military prison.