Tweeps use #hs4palestine to show solidarity and discuss prisoner swaps
2,000 Palestinian security prisoners have joined an ongoing hunger strike against worsening conditions in Israeli prisons. The prisoners are mostly members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Fatah, and other Palestinian factions, except for Islamic Jihad and Hamas, which have not joined the strike at this point. However, several Hamas members under solitary confinement have decided to join the strike.
At the same time, Israel and Hamas have announced that they've reached a prisoner swap deal that would result in the release of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli prisoner in Palestine. The deal will bring home Gilad Schalit, who was captured in a cross-border raid in June 2006 by Palestinian militants who burrowed into Israel and dragged him into Gaza.
Tweeps in Palestine and abroad started using the hashtag #hs4palestine to show solidarity with the striking prisoners (or declare that they too are going on hunger strike). Now in light of the Shalit announcement the hashtag is being used to discuss the prisoner swap.
