Palestinian Prisoners Hunger Strike Continues

One thousand five hundred Palestinian prisoners have been on a hunger strike for almost a week now. They are refusing sustenance in an effort to improve the deplorable conditions faced by the nearly 6,500 Palestinians who are currently imprisoned in Israel. On the day before the strike began, the action’s leader, Marwan Barghouti, published an op-ed in the “International New York Times.” It was an elegantly-written piece in which Barghouti laid out the conditions in Israel’s prisons and ...