SOME 3,000 Palestinians held in Israeli jails were staging a one-day hunger strike overnight in protest at the death of an inmate, an official said, as security forces clashed with demonstrators in the West Bank. "About 3,000 prisoners announced that they would refuse meals," Israel Prisons Service spokeswoman Sivan Weizman, told AFP. "It's just the meals of one day; three meals." Arafat Jaradat, a 30-year-old father of two, from the village of Sair near Hebron in the southern West Bank, died suddenly on Saturday in an Israeli jail from what prison authorities said appeared to have been cardiac arrest. Protesters in his home village and in different parts...
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