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Palestinian women chant slogans during a rally in Gaza City in support of more than a thousand prisoners who are on an open-ended hunger strike in Israeli jails on April 30, 2012.
Friday, May. 04, 2012

Open quoteThere's a sinking-in of the idea that nonviolent resistance gets results. Close quote

  • HANAN ASHRAWI,
  • a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization, on the mass hunger strikes by over 1,500 Palestinian prisoners that have mobilized hundreds of protestors in the West Bank
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