The Palestinian Diaries: Palestinian Hunger Strikers

For years, Palestinian prisoners have gone on hunger strikes, using their bodies as weapons for freedom. They would refuse to eat for days as the last resort to gain their rights. The prisoners’ personal experiences under Israel’s military occupation needed to be heard by the public to raise awareness of their plight. In this episode of The Palestinian Diaries podcast, our guests, author and social activist Puan Sri Norma Hashim and Palestinian author Yousef M Aljamal convey the accounts by former Palestinian prisoners of Israel who have launched hunger strikes in protest of their administrative detention without charge or trial.