18 USF students join hunger strike for Palestine [Video]

TAMPA, Fla. — Eighteen students at the University of South Florida have vowed to take the extreme step of starving themselves during a hunger strike as they demand USF divest from its investments in companies that do business with Israel.

The protestors say they have tried other means over the course of more than a decade to try to get the university’s board of trustees to take such action by demanding meetings and submitting petitions with thousands of signatures.

But they say their demands are never met.

“Honestly, I do not feel that well,” Jaden Patel, one of the students taking part in the hunger strike, said. “But, again, we all knew the risks and we have medical advice. We have vitamins and supplements and things like that. We all know what we’re doing. And we know that by doing this, hopefully, …