Rights activists close the UN office in Ramallah in protest at the world body’s inaction on the mass hunger strike by inmates in Israeli prisons.

Seventy-six Palestinian hunger strikers have been hospitalized due to critical deterioration of their health conditions.

The former Fatah leader warned against the resumption of the so-called peace talks based on principles that have “proven unsuccessful in the past.”

A political commentator says Israel sees the Palestinian hunger strike movement as potent enough to trigger another intifada.

Fatah calls for all its members in Israeli prisons to join the hunger strike immediately, with 1,000 inmates expected to pitch in as the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club says more than 3,000 prisoners are currently taking part in the movement.

People stage a sit-in in occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds in solidarity with hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners.

Palestinian prisoner families call for the boycott of the upcoming municipal elections in a show of solidarity with a mass hunger strike.