Schedule of Global Events Actions around the world for Palestinian Prisoners Day 2017 Week of ActionThe Palestinian hunger strike taking place right now has left me utterly helpless.While the road for Palestinian self-determination and the conflict in its essence can be seen as rather complex, leaving some desinformed people with questions of love and hate, betrayal and false promises; it leaves you above all with questions about humanity.Over the past five decades 800.000 Palestinians (roughly 40% of Palestine male population and 20% of the overall population) have been arrested.Many of those suffered from torture, degrading treatment, and medical negligence.Over 1.500 Palestinian political prisoners are currently on a hunger strike to demand basic human rights. There righst consist of installing a public telephone, reinstating bi-monthly family visits, allowing for adequate medical care, end open-ended solitary confinement, among many others. All of which are rights granted to prisoners worldwide unter international law.Only in 2016, Israel held 25 Palestinian children in solitary confinement. Besides, 800 young Palestinians have been arrested by Israeli and PA security forces as a result of a computerized program that tries to predict "lone-wolf" resistance attacks based on social media posts. How can a supposedly democratic country jail someone for a "crime" they haven't committed?The son of jailed political leader and hunger striker Marwan Barghouti launched a social media challenge on Wednesday to draw attention to the plight of Palestinian prisoners.The campaign, called #SaltWaterChallenge or #__, was initiated by Aarab Marwan Barghouti to show solidarity with now over 1,600 Palestinian prisoners who embarked on a mass hunger strike last week. This simple act of Palestinian solidarity went viral. The challenge involves drinking a glass of water mixed with salt in solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners, and then nominating two other people to do the same, similar to the Ice Bucket Challenge which went viral in 2014."Why salt water? Because the prisoners have been living only on salt water for seven days so far," Aarab says in the video. The clip ends with Marwan Barghouthi's son Aarab nominating 'Arab Idol' winner Mohammed Assaf and others to take part in the challenge. And they did.Assaf helped the campaign go viral (Arabic) which has now seen thousands of people take part in the challenge, including the the 2017 winner of Arab Idol, Yacoub Shaheen.Meanwhile, as Palestinian prisoners entered their 11th day of hunger strike, last Thursday, in the Strike for Freedom and Dignity, they were joined by a mass general strike for commerce, labor, governmental and educational sectors throughout the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.Palestinian streets were almost empty of cars and passers-by, throughout cities, towns, villages and refugee camps, in solidarity with more than 1,500 prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails.Shops, factories, banks, factories, government institutions, universities were all closed; the only exceptions to the strike are high schools and emergency medical services and hospitals.Public transportation came to a halt, and public and private institutions, including universities, were shut for the day. Groups working to support the prisoners in their hunger strike also declared Friday to be a "day of rage,"