Interestingly, just a couple of threads away as I post, is a thread about an IRA hunger striker.

I'm not terribly pro-IRA - indeed I'm rather anti-IRA - but it moved me to wonder whether IRA-like tactics including hunger strikes might gain Gazans their freedom from Israel - gain them control of their own borders, their own infrastructure, and permit their economy to sustain them better than it is now permitted to do.