Palestinians in Israeli Jails Start Hunger Strike
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Thousands of Palestinian  prisoners in Israeli jails began a hunger strike for better  conditions on Sunday, but Israel's security minister said he  didn't care if they starved to death.
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Israel declared psychological war on  hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners on Monday, saying it  would barbecue meat outside their cells to try to break their  spirit.
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Israel started releasing more than 250 Palestinian prisoners Friday in an attempt to bolster moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in his power struggle with Hamas.
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More than 6,000 inmates at 24 prisons around Romania took part in hunger strikes and other protests Sunday to demand amnesty and better living conditions.Comment
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More Guantanamo Bay detainees have joined a hunger strike, raising the total to 89, and six of them were being force-fed, the U.S. military said Thursday.
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Israel declared psychological war on hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners on Monday, saying it would barbecue meat outside their cells to try to break their will.
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Israel declared psychological war on  hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners on Monday, saying it  would barbecue meat outside their cells to try to break their  will.
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PALESTINIANS being held in Israeli prisons appealed today for international intervention to prevent their hunger strike developing into a &quot;humanitarian disaster&quot; as Israeli rights groups also condemned their treatment.
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Israel began freeing 161 Palestinian  prisoners from its jails Tuesday in the largest mass release in  more than seven months, Israeli security sources said.
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Five death-row inmates waged a hunger strike Thursday, asking to be allowed to interact with one another and calling their years of solitary confinement "inhumane and tantamount to psychological torture."
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- About 800 Palestinian prisoners have suspended their hunger strike after winning concessions from Israeli authorities, a spokesman for the men said yesterday.
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Two asylum seekers sew up their lips and go on hunger strike after being transferred from Dungavel to a prison.
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To mark the occasion in a show of defiance, his lieutenants have staged a hunger strike. They are concerned they could be handed over to the Iraqis following elections in the country next month.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - Some 12,500 Argentine prisoners are staging a hunger strike to demand quicker action in their court cases, government officials said on Tuesday.
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BEERSHEBA, Israel  - Israel began the release of  159 Palestinian prisoners Monday, many of them serving the  final months of their sentences, in a gesture to the new  Palestinian leadership after Yasser Arafat's death.
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Some Palestinian prisoners suspend a hunger strike now in its thirteenth day at other jails in Israel, reports say.
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Israel declared its hospitals  off-limits on Tuesday to the 2,800 Palestinians on hunger  strike in Israeli prisons, saying they could be treated in  makeshift facilities behind bars if taken ill.