in which Palestinians were called on to confront Israeli soldiers at various contact points.The general civilian strike was also called by imprisoned leader Marwan Barghouti, who is serving five life terms for his involvement in the Second Intifada against the Israeli occupation.Further to Palestinian civil society support, several members of the European parliament organized a sit-in in solidarity with hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners on the 11h day of the mas "Freedom and Dignity" hunger strike taking place across Israeli prisons.The sit-in was organized by Chair of Delegation for relations with Palestine Neoklis Syliukiotis, and took place at the European parliament in Brussel, Belgium. Among the participants was MEP Martina Anderson, an Irish politician from Northern Ireland who spent 12 years in British jails as a political prisoner. Martina tweeted a photo from the sit-in, showing parliament members from Sweden, Greece, France, Italy, Spain, Britain, Austria, Denmark and Portugal.On Friday, on the 12th day, as part of a "day of rage" , thousands of Palestinians held protests in at least a dozen locations around the West Bank and East Jerusalem, in solidarity with hunger-striking prisoners who have refused food in Israeli prisons.Israeli military forces shot at least seven protesters with live bullets, four of them, minors. And dozens others were wounded by ruybber-coated bullets, being struck by projectile tear gas canisters, and tear gas inhalation.Protests took place in Nabi Saleh, outside the Ofer miligtary prison, in the city of Silwad, in Sinjil, and the Qalandiya checkpoint, in Bethlehrem, the Nablus-aera town of Beita, al-Naqura, Awarta, al-Arrub, Beit Ummar, At a checkpoint near Qalqilya, Jenin, and in Kafr Qaddum.What is happening now in the West Bank reminds me of the First Intifada, also led by a young Marwan Barghouthi. The Intifada of strikes, civil disobedience, which turned out to be a a total succes that brought back Yasser Arafat to Palestine.O que esta acontecendo na Cisjordania lembra a Primeira Intifada, tambem liderada pelo entao jovem Marwan Barghouthi. Foi a Intifada de greves, desobediencia civil, um sucesso que culminou com o retorno de Yasser Arafat a Palestina junto com a cupula da OLP.And as Palestinian prisoners' 13th day of hunger strike continued, 100 more prisoners joined the hunger strike in Migiddo prison.And 17-year-old girl Malak Salman, from Jerusalem, arrested on 9 February 2016, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. She was transfered between different prisons, but is currently placed in Hasharon.As Palestinian prisoners were entering their day 16 of the mass hunger strike that is spreading daily, Israel obstructed negotiations and severely impeded communication from the strikers to the outside world. On Saturday 30th April, Israel reportedly ordered mobile phone companies to block reception in the western area of the Naqab desert in the south of the country to prevent Palestinians on strike in the Ketziot and Nafha prisons from communicating. Meanwhile, the leaders are still in solitary confinement with no visit by families and lawyers.Typical of repressive regimes, Israel uses its detention facilities and prisons to quash nationalist opposition and break the spirit of resistance against its settler-colonial project. Indeed, mass arrest campaigns