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Palestinians seek Pizza Hut boycott for 'mocking hunger strike'
https://www.yahoo.com/news/palestinians-seek-pizza-hut-boycott-mocking-hunger-strike-181030033.htmlsnip
"Pizza Hut's mockery of leaders of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike for freedom and dignity adds insult to deep injury," said the BDS's Mahmoud Nawajaa.
"We support grassroots Palestinian calls for a worldwide boycott of Pizza Hut, especially in the Arab world," he wrote in an email to AFP.
Pizza Hut has an outlet in the Palestinian city of Ramallah, as well as dozens across the Middle East.
It has many inside Israel, as well as one in the settlement of Maale Adumim in the occupied West Bank.
Barghouti, a senior member of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party and a highly popular figure among Palestinians, is serving five life sentences over his role in the second Palestinian intifada, or uprising.
Israeli authorities say 894 Palestinian prisoners have kept up the strike, though Palestinian officials say it is more than 1,000.
Some 850,000 Palestinians have been incarcerated since the Israel's occupation of their territories 50 years ago, Palestinian leaders say.
