Political prisoners on hunger strike in Bahrain have rebuffed government concessions and will extend their protest, raising the stakes in the biggest showdown in recent years between dissidents and the ruling family, Reuters reported. This piece of news was published in most media outlets and was circulated by the world's press.

Gulf Air, the national carrier, dismissed at least 35 Bahraini employees under the pretext of "job abolition" on Wednesday, September 6, 2023.

The detained figures in Jaw Central Prison affirmed their "support to the Palestinian people and their just cause."

Hezbollah denounced the Bahraini regime opening of an Israeli embassy at this critical juncture in the entity's temporary existence.

Iran denounced the visit of the Foreign Minister of the Zionist occupation entity, Eli Cohen, to Bahrain and the opening of the occupation embassy there, stressing that "the normalization measures undertaken by some Islamic countries have nothing to do with the desires of their peoples.

The two researchers Ilan Zalayat and Yoel Guzansky at the Zionist "The Institute for National Security Studies" confirmed that there is "a sharp decline in support for the Abraham Accords (normalization agreements) between Bahrain and Israel," indicating that "the economic aspect of relations lagged behind."

Hamas reiterated its rejection of the normalization of Arab countries with the Zionist occupation entity, the latest of which is Bahrain, which opened the new headquarters of the occupation embassy, expressing its "deep pain and regret over the normalization meetings with it."

Al-Wefaq leader, Sayed Taher Al-Mousawi, confirmed that "the visit of the Foreign Minister of the occupation entity, Eli Cohen, not being announced in the Bahraini media, and the inauguration of the Zionist embassy taking place in an unannounced location, is because the Zionists fear the people of the land who reject them."

Three human rights organizations; Salam for Democracy and Human Rights, Bahrain Forum for Human Rights, and Gulf Institute for Democracy and Humanity, issued a report entitled "Ashura in Bahrain: Intimidation, Security restrictions, and Media Marginalization" on the violations that targeted Ashura commemorations in Bahrain.

The Hebrew "Yedioth Ahronoth" newspaper revealed that Knesset Member Amit Halevi, chairman of the Israel-Bahrain Friendship Association, scolded Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif Al-Zayani for the scarcity of Bahraini tourists in Israel.

"Many of the inmates on hunger strike in Jaw prison are being held after grossly unfair trials and have experienced years of abuse in custody," said Niku Jafarnia, Bahrain and Yemen researcher at Human Rights Watch.

More than 800 political prisoners in Bahrain are entering their fourth week of hunger strike, and for the first time in a long time, the government seems helpless and placed in a narrow corner, facing media and political pressure without its ability to maneuver.

The Bahraini National Initiative against Normalization with the Zionist Enemy, which comprises 25 Bahraini organizations, stressed that the visit of Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen to Bahrain with a trade delegation is "a desperate attempt to normalize in the economic fields."

The sixth edition of the "Bahrain Martyrs Exhibition" was inaugurated on September 1, 2023, in the holy city of Karbala, Iraq.

Human rights activist Sayed Yousif Al-Muhafda published on the "X" platform the names of those responsible for human rights violations against prisoners of conscience in Jaw Central Prison.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his wife Michelle chose to remain silent when they appeared before Federal Police on Thursday to testify in an investigation into jewelry gifts that they received from Arab heads of state, in particular Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, and never declared.

The Bahrain Forum for Human Rights stressed that "responding to the UN's request to assess prison conditions and provide the required technical support is a step that the Bahraini authorities should interact with, instead of its misleading media statements."

Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim stressed that "the people cannot abandon the cause of prisoners because it is their cause, and because their religion, humanity and ardor necessitate them to oppose injustice, support the oppressed, and relieve the distressed."

Political prisoners on hunger strike in Bahrain have rebuffed government concessions and will extend their protest, raising the stakes in the biggest showdown for years between dissidents and the Saudi-backed ruling family.

The London-based director of human rights organization BIRD, Sayed Ahmed Al-Wadaei, revealed the details of the meeting of the head of the National Institute for Human Rights (NIHR), affiliated with the Bahraini authorities, Ali Al-Dirazi, and an accompanying delegation, with representatives of the prisoners on hunger strike.