Two days before starting a hunger strike alongside over 1000 Palestinian prisoners, Marwan Barghouti was in good spirits.
“Marwan would go out for small runs in the jail every morning with other prisoners and he was at his best physically and mentally before going on hunger strike,” his lawyer and longtime friend Elias Sabbagh told Fairfax Media.
The strike, called by Barghouti to protest the conditions in which Palestinians are held and the use of administrative detention by Israeli military courts in the occupied territories, is now entering its fourth week. There are around 6500 Palestinian prisoners, with estimates of over 400 children detained.
Read the article by Farid Farid in The Age.