[Pnews] Palestinian prisoner enters 96th day of hunger strike, despite critical health condition

[Prisoner News]

middleeastmonitor.com
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220607-palestinian-prisoner-enters-96th-day-of-hunger-strike-despite-critical-health-condition/>
Palestinian prisoner enters 96th day of hunger strike, despite critical
health condition
June 7, 2022
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Palestinian detainee, Khalil Awawdeh, is suffering from severe health
conditions, as he enters his 96th day of hunger strike to protest his
administrative detention in Israel, without trial or charge.

Khalil, a father of four, was detained on 27 December, 2021, and
placed in administrative
detention
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20171122-administrative-detention-a-legal-lethal-tool-of-israeli-repression/>
– a policy that allows Israeli authorities to detain anyone for six months
without charge or trial, which can be extended indefinitely.

According to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS), the 40-year-old
Palestinian prisoner has been having difficulty speaking and communicating.
He is also suffering from severe pain throughout his body, especially in
his lower limbs and muscles.

Following a visit to the Ramleh prison
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200121-israel-transfers-dozens-of-palestinian-child-detainees-outside-the-west-bank/>in
central Israel, PPS attorney, Jawad Boulos reported, in addition to poor
vision, Khalil was also vomiting blood and finding difficulty in breathing.

He was previously transferred to hospital but then returned to Ramleh
Prison clinic, despite his health condition.

Palestinians staged a rally in the Gaza Strip yesterday,
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220606-gazans-rally-to-show-solidarity-with-palestinian-hunger-strikers-in-israel/>
to show solidarity with Khalil and another hunger-striking detainee, Raed
Rayan, also protesting his administrative detention.

*READ: Gazans rally to show solidarity with Palestinian hunger strikers in
Israel
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220606-gazans-rally-to-show-solidarity-with-palestinian-hunger-strikers-in-israel/>*

Organised by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the
rally was held outside the office of the International Committee of the Red
Cross in Gaza City.

"Israel is fully responsible for the life of the Palestinian hunger
strikers," PFLP member, Awad Al-Sultan, told the rally.

He called on international human rights groups to send medical teams to
examine the health conditions of the Palestinian hunger strikers and "to
shed the light on the suffering of detainees in Israeli jails".

According to the Palestine Prisoner Society NGO, there are around 4,700
Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails, including around 600 held without
charge or trial.

Palestinians hunger-strikers in Israeli jails – Cartoon [CarlosLatuff]
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