In a resolution approved on Thursday, the 22-member pan-Arab body said it "invites the United Nations and its relevant specialized agencies to send an worldwide commission of inquiry to Israeli prisons".
Barghouti, a leader of the second Palestinian uprising, is serving five life terms after being convicted by an Israeli court of directing two shooting attacks and a bombing that killed five people. A minor headline said that several prisoners' societies warned against Israel's plans to seek doctors to force-feed the prisons.
Israel claims to have secretly recorded footage of a hunger-striking Palestinian leader secretly eating from food supplies in the toilet of his cell.
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan holds a press conference in Tel Aviv regarding the hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners on May 7, 2017. The Times later emended the identification to acknowledge that he was convicted of "five counts of murder and membership in a terrorist organization".
Khaled announced her strike at the prisoners' support tent in Amman, Jordan, during an event held by the office of the Democratic People's Unity Party of Jordan. Just like he lied to the world when he wrote in The New York Times that he made a decision to strike in order to protest ill-treatment, he lied to the Palestinian public when he claimed to be striking. They called on the Palestinian media not to publicize it.
For Abbas, the priority appears to be to avoid alienating the US president and preventing more extremist voices in his camp - such as US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman - from winning the internal debate. "The footage is authentic, the dates are accurate, they are from the current hunger strike", Erdan told The Washington Post.
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Al-Quds, al-Ayyam and al-Hayat reported that Fatima Abed el-Rahman Hajiji, 16, from the village of Qarawat Bani Zaid near Ramallah, was shot dead by Israeli police at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, after she allegedly attempted to carry out a stabbing attack on the police.
They claim he was captured eating cookies on 27 April and a candy bar on 5 May. It is led by a jailed leader of the Fatah Movement, Marwan Barghouti.
Israel blames the violence on incitement by the Palestinian leadership and says that at least 164 of the Palestinians killed by had launched stabbing, shooting or auto ramming attacks.
The hunger strike launched three weeks ago with a Barghouti op-ed in the New York Times. Despite spending 15 years behind bars, he is still very popular among Palestinians who see him as their own version of Nelson Mandela. Needless to say, these payments are an incentive to the younger generation of Palestinians to follow in the footsteps of their heroic forebears.
He said he was unsure whether the release of the footage would help break the strike.
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