The Palestinian Authority says that more than two-thousand Palestinian prisoners are now on hunger strike in Israeli jails.

They are protesting at what they say is Israel's failure to release political prisoners, as agreed in the Wye peace accords signed in America in October.

Israel agreed to free seven-hundred-and-fifty Palestinians, but those released so far have been petty thieves.

The hunger strike began less than a week before President Clinton arrives in Israel and Gaza to discuss the troubled accord.

People in the Palestinian territories are also planning more protests against Israel.

Demonstrations in the West Bank last week turned into violent clashes with Israeli troops.