A high ranking Hamas leader serving life in an Israeli prison---has begun
a hunger strike. Palestinian military leader Ibrahim Hamed is
protesting his move to solitary confinement. He was placed there three
months ago by prison officials for QUOTE suspicion of involvement in
forbidden activity. The Ramallah-based Palestinian Prisoners Club has
said over 200 Palestinians spread across numerous Israeli prisons will
join the fast to some degree. Some 1-thousand-five hundred Palestinian
prisoners ended a successful hunger strike in Israeli prisons in May of
20-12. In that incident, the incarcerated wanted visits from relatives
in Gaza and removal from solitary confinement.