A man starves himself to death. Eighty-six days without food. Eighty-six. Day after day, in prison, in solitary confinement. The body withers, the stomach slowly shrinks, the consciousness becomes blurred, the pain takes over. A man with a family refuses to eat, day after day. These are the first things to think about when you […]
Read MoreTruce ends Gaza cross-border fire sparked by prisoner death
An uneasy truce between Israel and Gaza militants was holding Wednesday following a major exchange of cross-border fire sparked by the death in custody of a Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike. Violence flared from Tuesday after the inmate, Khader Adnan, 45, from the Israeli-occupied West Bank, died following an 87-day hunger strike after his arrest […]
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