Palestinian hunger strike

Palestinian citizens of Israel protest against Israel's genocide in Gaza, in the northern city of Sakhnin, July 25, 2025. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

From Sakhnin to Ramallah, a new wave of Palestinian popular struggle takes root

Amid growing outrage over Gaza, protests and hunger strikes mark a renewed Palestinian movement determined to bridge division and sustain resistance.

By Awad Abdelfattah August 6, 2025

Khader Adnan seen with his family in the West Bank town of Arraba, August 12, 2015. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Why we Palestinians see ourselves in Khader Adnan

Those trying to undermine public anger over the hunger striker's death don't want to talk about the violent carceral regime that he struggled against.

By Amjad Iraqi May 5, 2023

Palestinian Khader Adnan, receiving hospital treatment after concluding a 56-day hunger strike against his administrative detention in Israeli prison, East Jerusalem, July 16, 2015. (Faiz Abu Rmeleh/Activestills)

Palestinian prisoner faces ‘imminent death’ on 75th day of hunger strike

Despite Khader Adnan's deteriorating condition, Israel is refusing to transfer him to a hospital, or to let rights groups visit him.

By Baker Zoubi April 20, 2023

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Illustrative photo of Palestinian prisoners in Damoun Prison. (Doron Horowitz/Flash90)

As crackdown intensifies, Palestinian prisoners gear up for Ramadan protest

Prisoners hope the Palestinian public will join collective actions against Israel's punitive measures, which have harshened under the far-right government.

By Sharona Weiss March 16, 2023

A relative of Khalil Awawdeh next to a poster bearing his face at the family home in the village of Idhna, near Hebron, occupied West Bank, August 25, 2022. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

One hunger striker can bring down the entire system

Khalil Awawdeh's protest epitomizes the apartheid regime's absolute control and its greatest fear: that a dying prisoner will use his own life as a weapon.

By Orly Noy September 1, 2022

Palestinian journalist launches hunger strike to protest administrative detention

Detained by Israel without charges ‘for his journalistic work,’ Alaa al-Rimawi has been on a hunger strike for 17 days.

By Baker Zoubi May 7, 2021

Taghrid al-Akhras, wife of Palestinian administrative detainee Maher al-Akhras, holds up photographs of her husband outside Kaplan Medical Center, on day 73 of his hunger strike. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)

Israel’s top court refuses to release ailing Palestinian hunger striker

High Court insists that Maher al-Akhras, who is hospitalized in grave condition, end his 78-day protest before being released from administrative detention.

By Orly Noy October 12, 2020

Thousands of Israelis attend a left-wing rally calling for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, May 27, 2017. (Flash90)

’50 years of occupation is 50 years too many’

As the Right celebrates 50 years of military rule over the Palestinians, the Left must not be afraid to create alliances between struggles and remind Israelis that ending the occupation is everyone’s task. By Eli Bitan The following is the full text of Local Call blogger and editor Eli Bitan’s speech in front of 10,000 left-wing protesters at Saturday’s anti-occupation…

By +972 Magazine May 28, 2017

Protest in support of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners, Haifa, May 22, 2017. (Maria Zreik/Activestills.org)

Fighting media silence on the Palestinian hunger strike

Trump’s visit to Israel is just the latest thing to keep the Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike — already largely ignored by the media — out of the headlines. By Tanya Rubinstein Donald Trump’s arrival in Israel on Monday filled social media with mockery and resentment, surrounding everything from ministers’ ridiculous statements and road closures to…

By Haokets May 23, 2017

View of a poster welcoming U.S. President Donald Trump in Jerusalem on May 19, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Anti-Trump protests greet U.S. president in Israel

A slew of protests against Donald Trump and American policy await the U.S. president, who visits Israel as the Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike reaches its 36th day. By Yael Marom Donald Trump’s visit to Israel on Monday is already generating the expected smiles, celebrations and tensions, and disputes between Israeli ministers over who gets to…

By +972 Magazine May 22, 2017

A Palestinian demonstrator gestures while lying on the ground during a protest in solidarity with hunger striking Palestinian prisoners, near Huwwara, West Bank, May 18, 2017. (Ahmad al-Bazz/Activestills.org)

Settler shoots and kills Palestinian during West Bank demo

An AP photographer was also wounded by the settler, during a protest in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike. Eyewitnesses say that an altercation between demonstrators and settlers escalated into stone-throwing by the former, after which the settler drew his gun and opened fire. An Israeli settler shot and killed a Palestinian near Huwwara in…

By Natasha Soffer-Roth May 18, 2017

Palestinian and right-wing Israeli students demonstrate at Hebrew University during Operation Protective Edge. (Kobi Gidon/Flash90)

Hebrew U. cancels conference on Palestinian prisoners, following pressure

Hebrew University canceled the conference after a student group associated with Naftali Bennett’s Jewish Home party penned an open letter to the university president. ‘The very existence of this conference lends legitimacy to terror.’ By Eli Bitan Hebrew University announced it is canceling an academic conference on the topic of Palestinian prisoners, which was slated to take place…

By +972 Magazine May 14, 2017

Ramzi Fayyad. (Orly Noy)

‘If this hunger strike succeeds, it could mean revolution’

He entered prison for the first time at the age of 10, was one of the founders of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, and became one of the representatives of Fatah’s security prisoners in Israeli jails. For the last decade, Ramzi Fayyad, who has been working to promote dialogue between representatives of released prisoners, views the the…

By Orly Noy May 13, 2017