Hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners

Thousands of Palestinians began a mass hunger strike in Israeli prisons demanding that Israeli prison authorities desist from practising sinister methods of humiliation and torture, including the recurrent beating of inmates, forced stripping, surprise midnight searches, extended solitary confinements which often last for months, as well as protracted handcuffing and leg-fettering.

"Let them starve to death" is the Israeli state's policy toward all Palestinians--those now in prison, and those yet to be put in prison.

Israeli officials call this nonviolent activism "terrorism".