After 42 days of hunger strike, Palestinian prisoners have suspended their hunger srike and announced that they have achieved victory in their humanitarian demands, following 20 hours of negotiations between the strikers' leadership and Israeli occupation prison administration.All salutes to the courageous, struggling Palestinian political prisoners, on the front lines of the Palestinian struggle for liberation!The strike exposed the bias of Western mainstream media, throwing a spotlight on its silence in the face of one of the most remarkable Palestinian protests in recent years. The same media incessantly wants to discuss Palestinians when hey launch a rocket or initiate a knife attack. It became clearer than ever that Palestinians only appear in the Western media when it involves and concerns Israelis. Furthermore, the media itself constructs a narrative about Palestinians that is selective, inaccurate, and horribly unjust and irresponsible. The media is not documenting the ongoing denial of Palestinian freedom, they are a big part of the problem.The Palestinians' treatment in the hands of the Israeli prison system serves as perhaps the most extreme example of the total control of occupation. Hunger strikes, like boycotts, are an attempt to gain back both some control over one's life and death, and also to achieve a measure of dignity, and Palestinians use both these essential forms of nonviolent protest to draw attention to their situation.Listen! Hunger strikes in the modern age are hardly new. British suffrage activist warned prison officials that they would refuse to eat unless treated as political prisoners in 1909. After 66 days, the Irish nationalist Bobby Sands starved himself to death and nine hunger strikers died after him. South African hunger strikers in 1989 used exactly the same dietary regime as 10 Irish Republican Army members who died in Northern Ireland in 1981 in a protest over demands for political-prisoner status.The conditions that have drove Palestinian political prisoners' demands are not new to the prisoners, it is as long as the occupation. And the main demands of the strike were simply that Israel abide by international law. It can't get simpler than that. So, where are the international judges? It is crucial to understand who, exactly, is languishing in Israel's jails. The majority have been convicted, by Israeli courts, of terrorism, but that term is very loosely and brodely applied to any act of resistance. The category includes those who have been found guilty of throwing stones and those who are engaged in non-violent forms of protest, such as posting statements on social media or given speeches that the courts feel might have "incited" demonstrations - as if Palestinians needed any incitement to revolt against their hardship.The Palestinians in jail are all political prisoners. If they are guilty of a crime, Israel should give them a fair trial.Marwan Barghouti's son Arab, explained that the most crucial demand of the prisoners was to see their family members twice a month. "When you are in prison, there is not much to live for other than your family. If you are not allowed to see your family for years at a time, then