Hunger strike busted by lack of attention — Palestinian source

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Maybe some of their sympathizers can treat them to breakfast at IHOP. I guess these guys were smart enough to figure out that the important news right now was the three kidnapped boys and how the IDF were searching for them and arresting some of their friends so they might as well start having good meals.

Hunger strike busted by lack of attention — Palestinian source

Official says that prisoners agreed to deal with authorities because their issue had faded from the public agenda

BY AVI ISSACHAROFF AND AFP June 25, 2014

Dozens of Palestinian prisoners struck a deal with Israeli prisons to end their hunger strike because it was clear that it had failed, a senior Palestinian official told The Times of Israel on Wednesday.

While the prisoners were able to negotiate for some improvement in the conditions of their imprisonment, the official said they were primarily motivated by a realization that the issue had faded from the public agenda — presumably because of the kidnapping of three Israeli teens and ensuing IDF crackdown — and that their efforts would not lead to an end to the practice of administrative detention by Israel.

On Tuesday, 63 of 290 Palestinian prisoners suspended th strike, which they have been engaged in since late April, one of their lawyers said.


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Hunger strike busted by lack of attention -- Palestinian source | The Times of Israel
 

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