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Sunday, March 24, 2013

Palestinians who are on a hunger strike were expelled to the Gaza Strip

Gaza City (AFP)-A Palestinian prisoners ' hunger strike in which Israel had expelled to the Gaza Strip.

Ayman Sharawneh (37), who was arrested for firing up Palestinian protest, has signed a deal to stay in Gaza for 10 years, said Qadura Fares, a leader of the Palestinian resistance groups.

As reported in Reuters, Sharawneh is a citizen of Al-Khalil (Hebron) in the occupied territories of the West Bank of Jordan River.

Sharawneh was released from jail Israel as part of Israel's exchange of a soldier detained for more than five years in the Gaza Strip in 2011.

Sharawneh, who was hospitalized during the hunger strike, Israel was taken by using an ambulance to the Gaza Strip through The Erez Crossing.

He was taken to the main hospital in Gaza City, where he received a warm welcome as a hero. Dozens of supporters greeted him with a HAMAS flag.

Association of pro-HAMAS detainee stated Sharawneh treated in the intensive care room.

Ismail Haneyah, Prime Minister of the HAMAS Government, praised Sharawneh as a "hero of the resistance".

He has been imprisoned in 2002, during the intifada (armed resistance) Palestinians in 2002. After being arrested, he was among four prisoners on a hunger strike as Israel does not pull out in protest. comment on the expulsion.

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

3,000 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike Israel

A Palestinian man throwing a rock toward a police vehicle while Israel clashed outside Israel Ofer military prison near Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine, Tuesday (7/2). Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israel prisons declare a hunger strike for one day Tuesday yesterday as an expression of solidarity with four prisoners that their strike action has triggered anti-Israel protest in the West Bank. (REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman)

Jerusalem (Reuters)-around 3,000 Palestinians are languishing in prison hunger strike a day Israel on Sunday to protest the death of a colleague.

"Around 3,000 prisoners announced that they will refuse to eat," said Agency spokesman Kepenjaraan Israel Sivan Wizman told AFP. "Just one day" don't eat three meals. "

Arafat Jaradat, 30 years old, the father of two children from the village of Sair near Al Khalil (Hebron) in the southern part of the West Bank, died suddenly Saturday in one Israel prison. Prison authorities called the cause of his death was heart disease.

The protestors in his home village and in some parts of the town of Al Khalil Sunday threw boulders to Israel security forces who responded by firing tear gas and shock grenades, witnesses said. There was no immediate report on casualties.

The Palestinian Prisoners Association said the number of prisoners who did hunger strike openly rose from four to 11 people.

Jaradat's death occurred a day after nearly 100 Palestinians injured in clashes with Israel's security forces in demonstrations in the West Bank demanding the liberation of the strikers.

A statement from the Office of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyed Saturday said he "expressed great sadness and was appalled at the death of Arafat in prison Israel invaders Jaradat".

The Hamas rulers of The Gsza says that prisoners died because of "inhumane conditions in Israel prisons."

Israel's domestic intelligence agency Shin Bet said Jaradat ditahanan due to his involvement in the incident of November 2012 stoning which injure a soldier Israel.

"After lunch, when he beristrahat in Megindo prison, Arafat Jaradat was sick. The doctors called to mengobat him but were unable to save his life, "he added. Police are investigating the death of Israel now Jaradat.

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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike Israel

Illustration-hunger strike action (INTERMEDIATE/Rev. Putro)

Hunger strike a day it was the last expression of solidarity
Ramallah (Reuters)-about 800 Palestinians, who are languishing in jail, Israel refused food as their solidarity with four other prisoners who have been on a hunger strike.

According to the Prisoners ' Club, a group based in Ramallah, 800 prisoners in three prisons took part in the hunger strike a day, among them there are anggata of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the Democratic Front for the liberation of and Palestine (DFLP).

Sivan, spokesman for the Agency post in Kepenjaraan Israel (IPS) confirm hundreds of detainees refused breakfast but said there were 500 prisoners in two facilities.

"Five hundred Palestinians refused breakfast. They will be refusing to eat day and night, "he told AFP on Tuesday.

Hunger strike a day it was the expression of their solidarity with the last four prisoners who have been doing a long hunger strike and their health caused protests in the West Bank as well as the statements of the anxiety of the group human rights groups and Western Governments.

A fourth man, Samer Issawi (33), Tareq Qaadan (40), Jafar Ezzedine (41), and Ayman Sharawna (36) has been refused food between two to seven months.

The statistics broadcasted by rights groups B'Tselem shows Israel's citizens by the end of 2012, 4,500 Palestinians detained in Israel prisons.
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Friday, October 14, 2011

Shrink: Obama Suffers 'Father Hunger'

AppId is over the quota
AppId is over the quota

The abandonment by his father when he was an infant and by his stepfather at age 10 has left President Obama with a "father hunger" that influences everything from why he distances himself from pushy supporters, to his strong desire to compromise and bring people together, to his aggressive campaign to kill Osama bin Laden, says a psychoanalytic book out next week. In Obama on the Couch, George Washington University professor Justin Frank also reveals that Obama has spent much of his life seeking out father figures, but most, like Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Vice President Biden, have disappointed him. "Obama searched for a father, for someone to relate to who could help him—a strong man who knew what to do," Frank writes.

[Check out photos of Obama behind the scenes.]

This is Frank's second psychoanalytical book about a president. While a sympathetic look at Obama, it follows Bush on the Couch, a sharply critical analysis that suggested then President George W. Bush was disturbed. In that book, he predicted that someone like Obama—"completely different," "someone not ... white"—would succeed Bush. What the nation ended up with, however, is "an almost tragic figure," Frank writes.

The general theme is that Obama has been affected both by being biracial and by the abandonment of his two dads during his childhood. The result is that he is overly protective of his own nuclear family, desires greatly to see national unity, and yet harbors anger that he took out on bin Laden. [Vote now: Will Obama be a one-term president?]

Take for example Obama's earlier willingness to compromise with Republicans, upsetting his liberal base. Here Frank cites the negative influence of his parents, especially his mom, who often pressed him to do better in school. "He hates being pushed by supporters who want him to make good on his promises of universal healthcare and care for the poor, something that represents his mother and how she pushed him to study harder," Frank writes. And when he ignores his base, he is emulating his father, expressing annoyance but not worried they will desert him.

As for bin Laden, Frank writes that Obama's inner anger emerged: "He was able to pursue his action against bin Laden in part because bin Laden offered a displacement figure for Obama's rage toward his own parents." [See a slide show of 10 issues driving Obama's re-election campaign.]

Frank also calls Obama scared of the type of radical change he advocated in 2008. "He wants to be the father who makes change safe, the person he has waited for his entire life."



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