Hunger Striker: We are fighting for all Palestinians
Source: The Guardian, Comment Is Free
In jail, my fellow hunger strikers and I are doing battle against the Israeli occupation that humiliates our people.
My story is no different from that of many other Palestinian young people who were born and have lived their whole lives under Israeli occupation. At 17, I was arrested for the first time, and jailed for two years. I was arrested again in my early 20s, at the height of the second intifada in Ramallah, during an Israeli invasion of numerous cities in the West Bank – what Israel called Operation Defensive Shield. I was sentenced to 30 years in prison on charges relating to my resistance to the occupation.