Israeli troops fired tear gas fired near Palestinian stone-throwers during clashes next to the Israeli military prison of Ofer, near Beitunia, West Bank, 02 May 2012. The protesters were protesting in solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners jailed in Israeli who had launched an open-ended hunger strike to stress their demands for better living conditions. One of the hundreds of Palestinian prisoners on the mass hunger strike in Israeli jails had been hospitalized in a 'semi-conscious' state on 01 May, the Physicians for Human Rights Israel organization said the same day. Photo by Issam Rimawi