[Pnews] For 77 consecutive days, Palestinian detainee in Israeli prisons continue open-ended hunger strike

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For 77 consecutive days, Palestinian detainee in Israeli prisons continue
open-ended hunger strike
QudsN - May 18 2022
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 Palestinian administrative detainee in Israeli prisons, Khalil Awawdeh,
continue his open-ended hunger strike, protesting Israel’s unfair
administrative detention without a charge or trail.

Occupied Palestine (QNN)- Palestinian administrative detainee in Israeli
prisons, Khalil Awawdeh, continues his open-ended hunger strike for the
77th day in a row amid serious deterioration in his health condition.

The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) confirmed on Wednesday that Awawdeh
suffers from loss of control over his body and severe pain in his head and
limbs.

The PPS added that Awawdeh also has difficulty in talking and suffers from
poor vision and concentration, according to his lawyer.

The detainee suffers from severe fatigue, and he has not been provided with
clothes or even allowed to bathe by the Israel Prison Service (IPS) for 40
days.

According to his lawyer, Awawdeh also complained about the condition in the
Ramleh prison clinic, where ‘Israel’ has moved him to, and described it as
a ‘slaughterhouse’ intended to abuse the detainees.

It has been reported that he suffered from frequent vomiting and an extreme
weight loss of 20kg.

‘Israel’ detained Awawdeh, a 40-year-old resident of the southern occupied
city of Hebron, on December 27, 2021. He has been on an open-ended hunger
strike since March 3.

Awawdeh was held at the Ofer prison, in western Ramallah in the occupied
West Bank.

Last month, he was moved to the Ramleh prison clinic due to deterioration
of his health.

The Israeli Prison Service, however, returned him back to Ramleh prison
clinic again after being transferred to Assaf Harofeh hospital last week
despite his health condition.

Moreover, Awawdeh, who is married and a father of four girl children, has
previously spent a total of 12 years in Israeli prisons for resisting the
occupation, including five years of administrative detention. He was
released on June 30, 2016.

In protest against their administrative detention without charges or trial
by the Israeli occupation authorities, about 600 Palestinian administrative
detainees have been boycotting the Israeli Military Courts since January 1,
2022.

The boycott includes the initial hearings to uphold the administrative
detention order, as well as appeal hearings and later sessions at the
Supreme Court.

Under the banner, “Our decision is freedom … no to administrative
detention,” administrative detainees said in a statement their move comes
as a continuation of longstanding Palestinian efforts “to put an end to the
unjust administrative detention practiced against our people by the
occupation forces”.

They also noted that Israel’s use of the policy has expanded in recent
years to include women, children and elderly people.

“Israeli military courts are an important aspect for the occupation in its
system of oppression,” the detainees said, describing the courts as a
“barbaric, racist tool that has consumed hundreds of years from the lives
of our people under the banner of administrative detention, through nominal
and fictitious courts – the results of which are predetermined by the
military commander of the region”.

Since March 2002, the number of Palestinians in administrative detention
has never fallen below 100.

According to the Palestinian prisoner advocacy groups, there are now 4,700
Palestinians held in Israeli occupation jails, including 32 women, 170
minors, and over 600 administrative detainees held without charge or trial.
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