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Some 1,200 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails began an open-ended hunger strike on 17 April.

They were protesting against what they call ‘humiliating’ measures in Israeli prisons, including strip searches of visiting family members and night searches of prison cells.

On 21 February, Khader Adnan ended a 66-day hunger strike after the Israeli prison authorities agreed that he should be released at the end of his four-month detention.

On 21 March, Hana Shalabi ended her fast after 43 days: she was deported to Gaza where she has to stay for three years (Hana is from the West Bank).

Doctors who saw the two near the ends of their hunger strikes said they were ‘near death’.