Noam Bahat

"I, Noam Bahat, 'a soldier in the army of non-violence', hereby declare:

"On Thursday, 16 January, I began a hunger strike, protesting the occupation of the Palestinian people, the human rights violations in the Palestinian Occupied Territories, the detention of conscientious objectors in military prison, our recurrent sentences and the turning of the State of Israel into a fascist state before our eyes.

"With my hunger strike, I hope to open the eyes of many people to the distress of the Palestinian people, that is so near yet so far from us, Israelis.