Two Hamas officials who were arrested last month in Jordan have gone on a hunger strike, according to family members. Khaled Mashaal and Ibrahim Ghosheh have been refusing food since Saturday, they said. A day earlier, some 1,000 protesters marched in a Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan, calling for the release of the two.
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