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Hunger-striking mother of jailed UK-Egyptian activist on glucose drip

An Egyptian-British mother on hunger strike in protest against the detention of her activist son in Cairo has been given a glucose drip after being hospitalised in London, a campaign group said on Friday.Laila Soueif, 68, has been on hunger strike for 152 days and was admitted to London's St Thomas's Hospital late on Monday due to "dangerously new lows" in her blood sugar and sodium levels, as well as her blood pressure.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Hunger-striking mother of jailed UK-Egyptian activist on glucose drip

Released Israeli hostage recounts hunger, chains that 'cut into your flesh'

Eli Sharabi, who was held hostage in Gaza for more than 490 days, has recounted his suffering in captivity in a televised interview, an extract of which was posted on social media by Israel's foreign ministry Friday."For a year and four months my legs were shackled with chains with very, very heavy locks that cut into your flesh," Sharabi said in the interview broadcast late Thursday on Israel's Channel 12.He spoke of intense hunger, food deprivation and the days when the only thing to eat was "this quarter of a pita that you can finish in three bites".
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Released Israeli hostage recounts hunger, chains that 'cut into your flesh'

Trump's Gaza 'riviera' should be for Gazans, says minister

US President Donald Trump's idea to rebuild the Gaza Strip as a swanky riviera is unacceptable unless it is for Gazans themselves to live in, a Palestinian minister said on Friday."It's very good to rebuild Gaza as a riviera -- but with its people in it," said Palestinian minister of state for foreign affairs Varsen Aghabekian.Trump's vision for Gaza involves the United States taking over the occupied Palestinian territory, resettling its Palestinian inhabitants elsewhere and transforming the war-ravaged strip into a riviera for "world people".
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Trump's Gaza 'riviera' should be for Gazans, says minister