Jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti was caught on camera eating despite a hunger strike by Palestinian security prisoners in Israel. The Prisons Service released the footage of Barghouti wolfing down a meal in his cell on Wednesday, just as Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat’s government called on all Palestinians to fast in solidarity with the jail protest.
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