http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Fri, 24 May 2013 02:00:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/14/nearly-three-months-without-food-as-israel-looks-away/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/14/nearly-three-months-without-food-as-israel-looks-away/#comments Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:17:02 +0000 Richard Sudan http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25294 Akram Rikhawi, one of many Palestinian political prisoners said to be held by the Israeli government, without charge and without seeing a trial, today will enter his 64th day on hunger strike. 64 days without food. As he does, 25 year old former Palestinian national team footballer Mahmoud Sarsak enters his 88th day on hunger strike, the longest any detainee has gone through such an ordeal in an Israeli jail. That's nearly 3 months without food. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/14/nearly-three-months-without-food-as-israel-looks-away/feed/ 117