400 Arab Inmates on Hunger Strike in Israel
From Reuters
TEL AVIV —
More than 400 Arab prisoners in Israeli jails are on a hunger strike for better conditions, Israel’s spokesman for prison services said Thursday.
The spokesman, Johnnie Tester, said that 250 prisoners began refusing to eat a week ago at the Hebron jail in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Another 180 began a hunger strike Sunday at Kfar Yona jail.
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