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It's quite exhausting, but it's also quite revealing when you go through a hunger strike,

because at the beginning you are very weak and you can't even imagine that you will go a day or two or three without it.

And then a week or a bit more into the process, something biologically shifts in your body.

This is Munah Safe, describing what it feels like to voluntarily refuse food for days and then weeks.

And your body kind of turns on a different switch and it starts depending on the reserve you have of fats.

And suddenly it doesn't feel the same and it feels like a completely different process

until your body is consumed and then you start deteriorating.

So it's a whole process.

Munah has launched two hunger strikes over the past few years.

It's a desperate tactic that her family knows too well.

Her mother, Leila, is on one right now.

I'm taking just water and sugarless drinks and dehydration sweets. Layla El Swaf, 69 years old, hasn't eaten anything for over 250 days.

Doctors say she could die anytime.

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